<p>Chamilo 1.8.8 is a major stable version. Altough it doesn't come with a strong redesign, it provides a large number of small improvements to the teacher's toolset and the user's using pleasure. Audio recording, schema drawing, certification generating, better administration features, plugin for videoconference with BigBlueButton and e-commerce with PrestaShop are only a few of the improvements that you will find in this version.</p>
<h3>New Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>New application of a drop-down menu to select where to save new documents created (Feature #1758)</li>
<li>Added possibility to chose target in links even when not on homepage (Feature #1879)</li>
<li>Now showing teachers results in exercises results list (was confusing for most teachers)</li>
<li>Also showing teachers results in exercises results list (was confusing for most teachers)</li>
<li>Updated Google Maps plugin to 1.98 (Feature #1925)</li>
<li>Added a personal portfolio to Social Network. All users can easy copy some files from several courses in his/her personal portfolio (Feature #1853)</li>
<li>Students can edit, move and delete documents and drawings; create, move and delete subfolders, create user templates and make personal backups into a course inside his user shared folder (Features #2076, #2484)</li>
<li>Learning Path: New LP exercises reports added for teachers and admins (Feature BT#1634)</li>
<li>Support for displaying vector graphics files (SVG) and multimedia OGG files, facilitating the inclusion of videos and audios in HTML 5 (Feature #2244)</li>
<li>Admin tool to compare and move scores and tracking from a course to a session course BT#1786</li>
<li>An optional "Course (training) validation" feature has been implemented. When it is activated, teachers loose ability to create coursers. Teachers fill course requests instead. Then, after approval, the requested courses are created by the platform administrator. (Feature # 2099)</li>
<li>A new UI option "Fill with exemplary content" have been added to the forms about training/course creation. Now teachers and platform administrators are able to choose whether exemplary content should be put or not in the trainings/courses they are going to create. When a training/course is not created directly by a user, then the platform setting "Example material on training creation" is taken into account. (Feature # 539)</li>
<li>An optional "Course (training) validation" feature has been implemented. When it is activated, teachers loose ability to create coursers. Teachers fill course requests instead. After approval by admins, the requested courses are created by the platform administrator. (Feature # 2099)</li>
<li>A new UI option "Fill with exemplary content" has been added to the course creation form. Now teachers and platform administrators are able to choose whether example content should be put or not in the courses they are going to create. When a course is not created directly by a user, then the platform setting "Example material on training creation" is taken into account. (Feature # 539)</li>
<li>Added install/uninstall script possibilities for plugins (BT#1752)</li>
<li>New drawing tool. Integrate svg-edit. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can create, edit and import SVG vector graphics online and export to PNG (Feature #2044, #2101,)</li>
<li>A new plugin for making ASCIIsvg-based mathematical graphics has been created for the online editor (enable it from administrator's section). For using it, browsers should support SVG-technology. See a demo, implemented on TinyMCE: <ahref="http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html"target="_blank">http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html</a>; for syntax and additional information see <ahref="http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/svg/asciisvg.html"target="_blank">http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/svg/asciisvg.html</a>. This plugin uses the library file chamilo/main/inc/lib/asciimath/ASCIIMathML.js which has combined functionality ASCIIMathML + ASCIIsvg (Feature #2132)</li>
<li>New SVG-Edit drawing tool. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can create, edit and import SVG vector graphics online and export to PNG (Features #2044, #2101)</li>
<li>A new plugin for making ASCIIsvg-based mathematical graphics has been created for the online editor (enable it from administrator's section). To use it, browsers should support SVG-technology. See a demo, implemented on TinyMCE: <ahref="http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html"target="_blank">http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html</a>; for syntax and additional information see <ahref="http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/svg/asciisvg.html"target="_blank">http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/svg/asciisvg.html</a>. This plugin uses the library file chamilo/main/inc/lib/asciimath/ASCIIMathML.js which has combined functionality ASCIIMathML + ASCIIsvg (Feature #2132)</li>
<li>Feature #2132: In the administrator's section "Administration > Configuration settings > Editor" some settings are to be used as follows:
<ul>
<li>"ASCIIMathML mathematical editor" - activates the plugin for inserting mathematical formulas;</li>
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<li>"Load the file ASCIIMathML.js in all the system's pages" - activates the possibility for inserting/showing formulas and graphics outside the "Documents" tool, elsewhere in the system.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>A new plugin for insert Widgets into your web pages</li>
<li>Users can use online service to convert your text vozMe in mp3 audio files (Feature #2497)</li>
<li>Students also can export documents to pdf</li>
<li>Easy enabled for spellcheck button on web editor (Feature #2207)</li>
<li>A new plugin to insert Widgets into your web pages</li>
<li>Users can use vozMe online services to convert text in mp3 audio files (Feature #2497)</li>
<li>New voice generator tool. Mp3 audio files generation from a text. Mp3 audio files generation from a text. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can create and save mp3 audio files from a text through external service support speech synthesis of Google (build and save), Pediaphon (build and save) and vozMe (build and download)(Feature #2497)</li>
<li>Spellcheck button on web editor can be enabled (Feature #2207)</li>
<li>Increased control by platform administrator on the visibility of the folders in the documents tool (Feature #2164,#2484)</li>
<li>Added admin feature to hide tools from all courses - BT#1942</li>
<li>New voice generator tool. Mp3 audio files generation from a text. Mp3 audio files generation from a text. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can create and save mp3 audio files from a text through external service support speech synthesis of Google (build and save), Pediaphon (build and save) and vozMe (build and download)(Feature #2497)</li>
<li>jqgrid library added (Feature #340)</li>
<li>Careers and promotions funcionality added see #2706</li>
<li>Session start date can be left in blank as well as the end date see BT#1911 </li>
<li>Exercises: Question list interface was changed, new drag and drop behaviour added</li>
<li>New Session page added when clicking in the session name in the Course list</li>
<li>Social notifications added in the Social tab</li>
<li>Support for Hindi language has been added (Feature #2746)</li>
<li>Added jqgrid library for better data tables interactivity (Feature #340)</li>
<li>Added careers and promotions funcionality (see #2706)</li>
<li>Session start and end date can be left blank (see BT#1911)</li>
<li>Exercises: Questions list improved through new drag and drop behaviour</li>
<li>New Session page added when clicking the session name in the Course list</li>
<li>Added support for Hindi language (Feature #2746)</li>
<li>Added sessions, promotions and careers cloning features (Feature BT#1916)</li>
<li>Integration of Pixlr image editing services and photo retouching (Feature #2712)</li>
<li>Added experimental MySQLi driver. Requires manual replacement of database.lib.php to enable it</li>
<li>Added experimental MySQLi driver. Requires manual replacement of database.lib.php to enable</li>
<li>Added font resize capabilities for accessibility (Feature #2237)</li>
<li>Added management of favicon.ico by multi-url (Feature #1739) - just add the favicon.ico file inside the home/url/ directory</li>
<li>Added notification by e-mail on social network events (Feature #2189)</li>
<li>Added Excel questions import</li>
<li>Exercises: Hotspot Delineation and Hotspot Direct Feedback option added see #2974</li>
<li>Documents: Allow multiple uploads #2784 </li>
<li>Exercises: Hotspot Delineation and Hotspot Direct Feedback option added see #2974</li>
<li>Documents: Added multiple uploads and drag&drop upload features #2784 </li>
<li>Webservices: Added new functions in order to sell Chamilo courses using a Prestashop plugin see BT#2325 </li>
<li>Learning Path: Adding a toogle button in order to hide the navigation menu see #3116 added by Alberto Torreblanca</li>
<li>Learning path: Adding a toogle button in order to hide the navigation menu see #3116 added by Alberto Torreblanca</li>
<li>Document: Export an html file into a PDF document #1909</li>
<li>Access details: Now we can filter the access details of a user by date 3258# First version developved by Jorge Frisancho Jibaja - USIL</li>
<li>New record my voice tool. Integrate Nanogong. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups
<divid="gt-res-content">
<divdir="ltr"><spanid="result_box"lang="en"xml:lang="en"><spantitle="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones"closure_uid_o5wa47="216">can</span><spantitle="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones"closure_uid_o5wa47="217">record</span><spantitle="Haz clic para obtener otras posibles traducciones"closure_uid_o5wa47="218">their voice</span> and send to document tool </span>(Feature #3257)</div></div></li>
<li>Integrated Nanogong voice recording tool. Teachers, students (into his/her user folder) and groups can record their voice and send to document tool(Feature #3257)</li>
<li>Added text-justify icon in online editor (#2928)</li>
<li>Upgraded to HTMPurifier 4.2.0 for better security protection (#2972)</li>
<li>Added "available space" message at the bottom of the documents tool (#3056)</li>
<li>Created a base.css stylesheet to improve cascading character of the stylesheets (#3163)</li>
<li>Now deleted SCORM resources are removed from the filesystem when emptying course (#875)</li>
<li>Added the possibility to have longer questions (#1538)</li>
<li>Improved presentation of documents window (#1807)</li>
<li>Added floating helpers on the right side (#1839)</li>
<li>Added report for inactive users (#1929)</li>
<li>Improved export of wiki to PDF (#2357)</li>
<li>Added improved support for multi-disks installations (#2511)</li>
<li>Added new dashboard report</li>
<li>Added support for course image</li>
<li>Improved courses catalog display</li>
<li>Grouped tools in course settings page (#2563)</li>
<li>Improved icons quality - redesigned the icons system</li>
<li>Added new course homepage display mode for mobile devices</li>
<li>Agenda: UI improvements</li>
<li>Announcements: UI improvements</li>
<li>Attendance: Adding sticky header for the attendance sheet</li>
<li>Exercises: UI improvements</li>
<li>Exercises: Now we show the firstname and lastname of the students in different columns see BT#1263</li>
<li>Exercises: Support UTC dates for time control and Exercise time limits see #2075</li>
<li>Exercises: Allowing duplication of exercise within a session BT#1647</li>
<li>Exercises: Improving pagination when browsing exercise results (private task BT#1901)</li>
<li>Exercises: Question Pool improvements: now we can copy a question from other courses see BT#1917</li>
<li>Learning Path: Minor UI improvements</li>
<li>Profile: UI improvements</li>
<li>Installation: Tracking is always enabled from now on #2066</li>
<li>Social network now works with 1024x768 resolution #1958</li>
<li>Highlighted questions titles in test tool (#2037)</li>
<li>Added option to not show right answer (but show score) at end of test (#2739)</li>
<li>Added max score 100 to learning paths options (#2907 & other)</li>
<li>Added full-text search integration (requires php5-xapian module) (linked to #3250)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Debugging</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added more quality at the icons</li>
<li>Fixed gradebook flat view (#3239)</li>
<li>Fixed bad conversion of course title after upgrade (#3231)</li>
<li>Fixed missing files missing from copy when in unregistered directory (#3059)</li>
<li>Fixed deprecated assignments (PHP 5.3) in wiki (#2902)</li>
<li>Fixed HotPotatoes import (#2560)</li>
<li>Fixed warning for mktime() expecting parameter 6 to be long integer (#2559)</li>
<li>Fixed Flash FLV movies display (#2541)</li>
<li>Fixed FCKEditor when using sub-languages (#2492)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in open questions creation (#2193)</li>
<li>Fixed order of questions on results page for random exercises (#2073)</li>
<li>Fixed exe_weighting in track_e_exercices (#1932)</li>
<li>Fixed items visibility or multi-url HRMs (#1911 & #1912)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in CSS for documents creation templates (#1885)</li>
<li>Fixed XLS export encoding issue (#1775)</li>
<li>Administration: Fixed an encoding problem about database connection which is specific to Chinese language. The initial solution has been proposed by Oliver Corre (Bug #1802)</li>
<li>Administration: Fixing links "Add a page (CMS)" when using multple urls see BT#1805</li>
<li>Agenda: UI improvements</li>
<li>Announcements: UI improvements</li>
<li>Attendance: Adding sticky header for the attendance sheet BT#</li>
<li>Multiple URL feature: Fixed Course user list (BT#1547) </li>
<li>Multiple URL feature: Fixed User List options when adding courses, users, sessions see BT#1470 </li>
<li>Multiple URL feature: System Announcements and Global agenda now are filtered by URL see BT#1441</li>
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<li>Student publication: Fixed bug when editing an item see BT#1377</li>
<li>Student publication: Fixed bug when deleting an item see BT#1556</li>
<li>Student publication: Fixed bug when deleting all items including session items see #3283</li>
<li>Exercises: UI improvements</li>
<li>Exercises: Fixed bug in QTI import (private task BT#1368)</li>
<li>Exercises: Now we show the firstname and lastname of the students in different columns see BT#1263</li>
<li>Exercises: Support UTC dates for time control and Exercise time limits see #2075</li>
<li>Exercises: Time control bugs fixed #2069</li>
<li>Exercises: Question order in results fixed #2073</li>
<li>Exercises: Fixing question list order #2075</li>
<li>Exercises: Allowing duplicate an exercise within a session BT#1647</li>
<li>Exercises: Improving pagination when browsing exercise results (private task BT#1901)</li>
<li>Exercises: Question Pool improvements: now we can copy a question from other courses see BT#1917</li>
<li>Documents: Fixing coach and students in a session permissions BT#1652</li>
<li>Learning Path: Minor UI improvements</li>
<li>Learning Path: Teachers can reset LP results see #2024</li>
<li>Learning Path: Fixing bug when deleting a LP item that have prerequisites in other itels see #1756</li>
<li>Learning Path: Fixing bug when deleting a LP item that have prerequisites in other items see #1756</li>
<li>Learning Path: Fixing empty document names after migration when adding documents in a LP see BT#1803</li>
<li>Profile: Deleting production user's files fixed see #1682</li>
<li>Profile: UI improvements</li>
<li>Installation: Tracking will be always enabled #2066</li>
<li>Thickbox does not work well in the Social Tool #1995</li>
<li>Fixed Chamilo social-content-right #2010</li>
<li>Fixed screen when you try to access a protected course through the url #2026</li>
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<li>Wiki: Fixed sessions #1659</li>
<li>Wiki: Fixed behaviour of plugin wikilink #2217</li>
<li>Wiki: Fixed links with accents and special characters do not work well in utf-8 #2286</li>
<li>A student can edit a file through url into documents tool after visit his/her group #2485</li>
<li>Social network to run from 1024x768 #1958</li>
<li>A student can edit a file through an url into the documents tool after he/she visits his/her group #2485</li>
<li>Irrelevant check has been removed, it prevented the page "Administration > Setting the registration page" to be accessed
in the case of assigned value "No" to the setting "Administration > Configuration settings > Portal > Registration".
This bug has been reported by Wolfgang in the forum and by Oliver Corre in the Chamilo support site (Bug #1846)</li>
<li>Until now, when a training was emptied, only as database records related to SCORM learning paths were removed.
Now the correspondent folders containing the unzipped SCORM packages are removed from the file system too (Bug #875)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in plugin display areas (Bug #741)</li>
<li>Fixed items reordering in profiling tool (Bug #1153)</li>
<li>Fixed confusing interface in "Forgot my password" screen (Bug #1754)</li>
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<li>Fixed bug with unregistered directories in documents when copying course to other course (Bug #3059)</li>
<li>Fixed positionning on last element of subsection in learnpath building (BT#2333)</li>
<li>Fixed bug by which tracking in courses could only be exported up to 50 rows at a time as for the HTML page limit (BT#2342)</li>
<li>Reviewed coding conventions and applied fixed to undefined variables to avoid notice-level messages</li>
<li>Removed a series of "File not found" errors caused by mistaken references</li>
<li>Fixed files count in assignment/work tool (#2242)</li>
<li>Fixed error message on first entrance to a special course (#2240)</li>
<li>Fixed visibility problem for documents-embedded media files (#2198)</li>
<li>Fixed duplicate course appearing when special course registered more than once (#2194)</li>
<li>Fixed removal of lp_items when removing lp (#2038)</li>
<li>Fixed double image appearing in social tool (#2036)</li>
<li>Fixed deadlock in fields required for password change (#1956)</li>
<li>Fixed bug displaying list of files for HotPotatoes included in learning paths (#1891)</li>
<li>Fixed several dates localizations (#1851)</li>
<li>Fixed remnants of UTF-8 migration problems (#1805)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in attendances for users added after the registration of attendances (#1800)</li>
<li>Fixed QTI2 export problem (#1787)</li>
<li>Fixed deletion of all tasks when deleting all tasks from one specific session (#)</li>
<li>Fixed user image resizing algorithm (#1414)</li>
<li>Fixed footer in IE (#1305)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in sessions categories (#1300)</li>
<li>Fixed missing options in gradebook settings (#1223)</li>
<li>Fixed MP3 player in forum (#1200)</li>
<li>Fixed "what's new" icons to show even when never logged in before (#1132)</li>
<li>Fixed lost images in SCORM export (#1039)</li>
<li>Fixed missing areas for plugins display and added "plugin as course tool" feature (#741)</li>
<li>Fixed problem in saving real numbers in gradebook (#653)</li>
<li>Fixed survey language translation (#526)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Security</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed potential low-impact security issues in wiki</li>
<li>Fixed more than 10 potential low-impact security issues in wiki</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>Groups (admin only): When a user is subscribed in a Course through a Group and he's also subscribed in the same Course (tradional way), when removing the user from the Group, the user will be also removed from the Course in both levels.</li>
<li>Changed "givenname" for "cn" in LDAP queries. This might break some of the previous implementations of this plugin</li>
<li>If you used split users directories before v1.8.8 in combination with the "My files" feature (if it existed at all at that point), you will probably have a problem now, as the code in the previous version was wrong and was saving the personal portfolio file in another directory than the user's. Sorry about that. If you need professional assistance, see the http://www.chamilo.org/ website under support -> professional support for official providers who could help you. And don't forget to keep a backup. If you don't understand a thing about what I'm talking about, you are probable not concerned by this bug, so don't worry too much.</li>
<li>If you used split users directories before v1.8.8 in combination with the "My files" feature (if it existed at all at that point), you will probably have a problem now, as the code in the previous version was wrong and was saving the personal portfolio file in another directory than the user's. Sorry about that. If you need professional assistance, see the http://www.chamilo.org/ website under support -> professional support for official providers who could help you. And don't forget to keep a backup. If you don't understand a thing about what I'm talking about, you are probable not concerned by this bug, so don't worry too much.</li>
<li>For some reason, we have been reported unsuccessful migrations from 1.8.7 to 1.8.7.1 whereby the course_rel_user table was not integrally copied. We recommend keeping your database backup until you're sure every student/course relationship was copied (comparing the lines in the table before and after migration might help you)</li>
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