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Originally published March 11, 2019
An explanation of the various submission statuses in the Product Idea Exchange (PIE).
In Review
- While In Review, your idea is being reviewed by D2L against out What Makes an Idea Great guideline. During this time, D2L may have questions or clarification, or could redirect you to a similar idea, to put in a helpdesk ticket, or to speak to your LMS admin.
Submitted
Submitted is the first status you might see, and the status will be changed to New after the idea has been initially reviewed by a team member here at D2L.
New
While in New status, the Community can now start to vote and comment on your idea.
Gathering feedback
Ideas in this status are ideas about which we are seeking feedback from the Community, Product, and Leadership before committing to a status These ideas are not committed to being developed and may move into any downstream status depending on the outcome of the research by the Product Manager. We’d like to hear more comments and elaboration from our clients. Internal investigations may still need to be done.
In Planning
The D2L team is defining the solution in detail, how to build it, who will build it, and when it will be built. Ideas In Planning have been prioritized and placed on the roadmap, but are not yet in development. There is no commitment to release the feature. Ideas In Planning may be removed from planning if priorities have changed or a roadblock is discovered. In such cases, a Product Manager will provide a comment.
In Development
The D2L Product Development teams are actively working on a solution. Ideas In Development are on our near term roadmap. An idea may be In Development over several releases depending on the scope of the feature.
Released / Partial Release / Partner Solution
Ideas in any of these statuses are now available to the intended audience in our current product. Ideas in any of these statuses will be kept in PIE for a minimum of 2 years, after which they will be moved to the Community in an offline list.
- Partial Release will have an accompanying statement indicating the nature of the partial release.
- A Released status indicates that a solution has been implemented in an upcoming version of the software or a solution was previously implemented and is already available in the product.
- A Partner Solution indicates that there is a third party solution available in place of D2L development.
Not Planned
- Ideas that are Not Planned are not currently under consideration by a Product Manager as part of an upcoming roadmap initiative.
- Not Planned ideas may enter the D2L Product Roadmap at any time depending on priorities; voting and commenting on them is still important and helps determine our priorities
Under Consideration
- Ideas may be placed in Under Consideration when a Product Manager is actively tracking the idea for an established product roadmap, but has not yet prioritized the idea in their backlog.
- Ideas that are placed in Under Consideration have no commitment to being planned/developed.
Closed
- Not a product idea; some common reasons for closing an idea is that the idea is a support ticket, service suggestion, and so on.
- Something we would not be considering for our product roadmap. Ideas may be Closed if it is for a tool or feature that no longer exists in D2L or functions in a way relevant to the request.
- Work-around was provided
- No longer relevant in our current product version
- Insufficient number of customers have indicated interest. Ideas may be Closed if they are older than 5 years and have less than 7 votes.
Duplicate
Ideas that are Closed may be archived off the Product Idea Exchange within 6 months and moved to the Community in an offline list for review.
Duplicates
Ideas that are duplicates of ideas already in the system.
Visual of the Product Idea Exchange workflow
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Upcoming Changes to the Product Idea Exchange
PIE: What Makes an Idea Great
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