Chamilo 1.8.7 - ? ?
Release notes - summary
Chamilo 1.8.7 is a intermediate release including a lot of new features, mostly focused on social network, the handling of sessions (which will help many educational institutions, public or private, to manage their contents in a more flexible way) and visual style, and a few important bugfixes. It lays the first stable stone in the Chamilo software project.
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+New Features
- New tool: class attendance (usable in gradebook) -
- Thematic advance option added in course description (shown on course homepage) -
Debugging
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- PHP short tags deleted see http://www.chamilo.org/node/114 reported and fixed by Sicabol
- Student publications deleted when an user is unsubscribed of a course. Reported and fixed by André Boivin -
- Fixed bug reported by Carlosbrolotobar in http://www.chamilo.org/node/135 whereby normal students don't can't see their social profile section in the right menu if they can't see the courses catalog. +
- Fixed bug reported by Carlosbrolotobar in http://www.chamilo.org/node/135 whereby normal students don't can't see their social profile section in the right menu if they can't see the courses catalog. +
- Corrected mailing functions, now they load the file mail.conf.php. Previously the file mail.conf.dist.php was to be loaded by mistake. (Feature #272) +
- Online editor: A new configuration option about editor's background has been proposed by Wofganag Schneider and it has been implemented. See http://www.chamilo.org/node/107 (Feature #347) +
- Some PHP short tags have been fixed, the problem was reported by Sicabol. See http://www.chamilo.org/node/114 (Feature #347)
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- Online editor: The plugins "Flash" (obsolete) and "placeholder" (non-relevant to the finished product) have been removed. (Feature #347)
- Implemented by-session content creation tools updates
- Added tabs editor (from admin)
- Added course catalogue -
- Added a link to export courses in the "platform administrator > courses list" entry (DT#4257) +
- Added a link to export courses in the "platform administrator > courses list" entry (DT#4257)
- Added sessions history (optional access to previous sessions in read-only or read-write, for students)
- Added advanced search in sessions: you can also search by session name, session category, tutor and visibility. (DT#5541)
- Added an option to configure courses as "auto-registered" (every user has it in his courses list and is automatically subscribed) @@ -72,7 +77,7 @@
- Reporting: notification of users who have never been active yet
- Reporting: the additional user profile fields (defined by the platform administrator through platform administration > profiling) can now be shown in the reporting screens
- Subscribing users in a course: you can now filter on addtional user profile fields when subscribing a user in a course (through user/subscribe_user.php) -
- Definition of wiki pages as tasks for students is now possible +
- Definition of wiki pages as tasks for students is now possible
- Added feedback to student wiki pages, synchronized with their progress in the task
- Added posibility to establish a time limit for each wiki page
- Added posibility to establish a max number of words into each wiki page @@ -85,8 +90,8 @@
- Added option to export the training list to CSV in Administration > Training - DT#4256
- Added user tags in social network - DT#5508
- Revamped "Who is online" look - DT#5490 -
- Added new search tool - DT#5610 -
- Added user groups at platform level (social network) with posibility to send group messages, add moderators, readers, etc - DT#5611 +
- Added new search tool - DT#5610 +
- Added user groups at platform level (social network) with posibility to send group messages, add moderators, readers, etc - DT#5611
- Made construction of presentations with the images of document tool easier
- Upgraded from FCKEditor 2.6.4.1 to FCKEditor 2.6.5, Build 23959 - DT#2867
- Added settings for WYSIWYG editor into the Platform Admin Area (instead of files) @@ -95,7 +100,7 @@
- Rebuilt social network menu interface
- Improved messages tool: Easier to use, no annoying ajax menun makes it faster and more reliable
- Added multiple attachments to messages sending -
- Added possibility to send emails to multiple users +
- Added possibility to send emails to multiple users
- Improved user portal page when Social Network is enabled: User image, and subscriptions links are shown
- Added inc/ajax library folder to structurer AJAX calls - see CT#431. All new jQuery + AJAX reponses should be located there
- RSS Feed added by default to the extra fields, as well as the user tag. Still requires manual visibility change to be enabled @@ -103,9 +108,9 @@
- Added list of students who have not submitted an assignment yet, and the possibility to send them a reminder by email - BT#487 BT#489
- Added new question type in exercise tool: Multiple answer combination a.k.a "Exact answer" - CT#402
- Added e-mail notifications when a student answers an exercise -
- Added extensible footer style, allowing for much more information to be shown there +
- Added extensible footer style, allowing for much more information to be shown there
- List of course improved when using Course categories in user_portal.php -
CSS changes
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Known issues
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Chamilo 1.8.6.2 Salto - January 2010
Release notes - summary
Chamilo 1.8.6.2 is a intermediate release including a lot of new features, mostly focused on social network, the handling of sessions (which will help many educational institutions, public or private, to manage their contents in a more flexible way) and visual style, and a few important bugfixes. It lays the first stable stone in the Chamilo software project.
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