<h1>Dokeos 1.8.6 <spanstyle="font-style: italic;">Svalbard</span> - June 2009</h1>
<h3>Release notes - summary</h3>
<p>Dokeos 1.8.6 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well. </p>
<p>Dokeos 1.8.6 Svalbard is a major release including new features. </p>
<h3>New Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>FCKEditor 2.6.4, build 21629 added (FS#2528 and FS#2867)</li>
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<li>Added Removed buggy audio recorder and added new MP3 player with easy upload (FS#3515)</li>
<li>Improved Survey export (SVN#17927)</li>
<li>Students can now view their uploaded works in Work tool (FS#3486)</li>
<li>Implemented add to calendar an assignment with the date when it is completely closed, also when you remove it from assignment tool, it's removed into calendar too, the same case when it's edited, for that I had to change the value of add_calendar field into student_publication_assignment table, now when it's sent to calendar this value is the id into calendar_event table, instead this value is 0.</li>
<li>Implemented
add to calendar an assignment with the date when it is completely
closed, also when you remove it from assignment tool, it's removed into
calendar too, the same case when it's edited, for that I had to change
the value of add_calendar field into student_publication_assignment
table, now when it's sent to calendar this value is the id into
calendar_event table, instead this value is 0.</li>
<li>Added Social tool + friend list (FS#3383)</li>
<li>Added introduction section to blog and course description (FS#3165)</li>
<li>Added import/export (CSV/XML) of extra user fields</li>
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<li>Fixed bug preventing the activation of plugins (FS#2771)</li>
<li>Fixed bug adding double comments in dropbox tool in IE only (FS#2757)</li>
<li>Fixed IMS/QTI2 little export problem (FS#2634)</li>
<li>The learners can't send files anymore to other learners if "Do not allow students to send documents to other students within a course" is false (FS#2780)</li>
<li>The learners can't send files anymore to other learners if "Do not allow
students to send documents to other students within a course" is false
(FS#2780)</li>
<li>The mails sent in exercises tool are sent from the address defined in admin (FS#2712)</li>
<li>"Next" and "Previous" page now works when searching a session (FS#2721)</li>
<li>Fixed bug when launching a quiz with one question per page (FS#2738)</li>
<li>Fixed javascript bug with swap menu in ie6 (FS#2815)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in surveys when we want to display answers of an invited person (FS#2731)</li>
<li>Fixed bug when copying a course with surveys. There is now a check for existing surveys with the same code and language (FS#2734)</li>
<li>Fixed
bug when copying a course with surveys. There is now a check for
existing surveys with the same code and language (FS#2734)</li>
<li>Fixed bug when seeing matching results in quiz tool (SVN#15987)</li>
<li>Added filtering of SCORM objectives when writing to DB (SVN#16437)</li>
<li>Removed duplication of database write operations for SCORM objectives (SVN#16438)</li>
<li>Fixed HTTP_REFERER bug in ical_export (FS#3041)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in SQL queries for new installs, preventing the creation of the course_module table (FS#3040)</li>
<li>Fixed the fact that the password was never sent by e-mail when encrypted, even when it had just been changed for a user, causing a useless e-mail to be sent (SVN#16673)</li>
<li>Fixed
the fact that the password was never sent by e-mail when encrypted,
even when it had just been changed for a user, causing a useless e-mail
to be sent (SVN#16673)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in users pictures display when using the tuning setting of splitting users dirs (SVN#16673)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in documents picture gallery preventing uppercase image extensions to be seen (SVN#16755)</li>
<li>Fixed bug whereby the repeated agenda items in groups were visible to all (FS#3095)</li>
<li>Fixed bug whereby e-mails sent did not have the standard syntax (SVN#16708)</li>
<li>Fixed bug whereby an empty institution name gave a useless output in the header (SVN#16710)</li>
<li>Fixed bug whereby questions ordering was broken when deleting one question in the middle (SVN#16879)</li>
<li>Fixed bug in user fields, not displayed the default value in profile and add user, and you could modify this values(see FS#3307)
<li>Fixed bug in link (see FS#3306)</li>
<li>Fixed
bug in user fields, not displayed the default value in profile and add
user, and you could modify this values(see FS#3307) </li><li>Fixed bug in link (see FS#3306)</li>
<li>Improved display of human resource manager option (see FS#3304)</li>
<li>Documents tool, folder selector: Fixed a bug that prevented Home (root) folder to be shown (FS#3089)</li>
<li>Users tool: Fixed a bug preventing detailed information about a user to be shown or edited (FS#3009)</li>
<li>Fixed a bug causing various problems due to improper priority order of loading PEAR packages (FS#3237)</li>
<li>The PclZip library has been upgraded to version 2.6. Additionally, a known bug has been fixed - improper processing of the option PCLZIP_OPT_REMOVE_PATH on Windows (FS#3243)</li>
<li>The
PclZip library has been upgraded to version 2.6. Additionally, a known
bug has been fixed - improper processing of the option
PCLZIP_OPT_REMOVE_PATH on Windows (FS#3243)</li>
<li>Fixed a bug causing improper numeric sorting of data displayed in various tables (FS#3282)</li>
<li>Agenda tool: Fixed a wrong range for hour selection. The bug has been reported and solved in a forum by TL (FS#3324)</li>
<li>Agenda tool: style changes - Align drop-down lists in date and time when you add a new calendar event and modify it</li>
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<li>Fixed XML user import for single courses import (related to FS#3552)</li>
<li>Fixed bug with user image not showing in upgrade from previous versions</li>
<li>Fixed bugs causing wrong attempts to translate some icons on course homepage when the server is in testing mode (FS#3285)</li>
<li>A fix for the Oogie converter to work on Windows OS has been applied. Initial code has been proposed in the Dokeos forums by Øyvind Johansen (oyvind) and wilbrod - see FS#3969</li>
<li>Fixed Windows-related bugs preventing creation of SCORM packages from presentations, see FS#3972. The problem has been reported in the Dokeos forums by irvienhooi</li>
<li>A
fix for the Oogie converter to work on Windows OS has been applied.
Initial code has been proposed in the Dokeos forums by Øyvind Johansen
(oyvind) and wilbrod - see FS#3969</li>
<li>Fixed Windows-related
bugs preventing creation of SCORM packages from presentations, see
FS#3972. The problem has been reported in the Dokeos forums by
irvienhooi</li>
<li>Some minor bugs have been fixed in "Document Metadata" form (FS#4030)</li>
<li>Fixed a bug preventing updating dates of group documents after edition. Many thanks to Ludwig Theunis, nickname: TL (FS#4072)</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Added classes glossary-term, glossary-term-title, glossary-term-desc, glossary-term-action-links for the glossary tool</li>
<li>Added personal-notes tool-related styles</li>
<li>Changed many things in the public-admin style (Dokeos default) to improve design - will probably affect other styles a little despite efforts not to</li>
<li>Changed many things in the public-admin style (Dokeos default) to improve
design - will probably affect other styles a little despite efforts not to</li>
<li>Added new styles</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>Important language changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Changed "courses" to "trainings" in English and "Cours" to "Formations" in French. This change is likely to be very confusing to most users! Please either update your language files or warn your users if you are willing to keep that change.</li>
<li>Changed "courses" to "trainings" in English and "Cours" to
"Formations" in French. This change is likely to be very confusing to
most users! Please either update your language files or warn your users
if you are willing to keep that change.</li>
<li>Changed "Learning Path" link to "Course" in English and French</li>
<li>Changed and unified work/assignment/student publications tool as "assignments"</li>
<li>Changed "Dropbox" tool to "Documents sharing" (or "Documents sharing space" when referring to one's own space in the tool)</li>
<li>Changed "Student View" link to "Teacher view" and vice-versa</li>
<li>Many buttons now have more defined action names</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>Inserting the same exercise twice in one learning path may generate score inconsistencies</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>Deprecated files</h3>
<ul>
<li>The whole main/inc/lib/xajax/tests/ should be removed</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h1>Dokeos 1.8.5 - May 2008</h1>
<h1>Dokeos 1.8.5 <spanstyle="font-style: italic;">Valparaiso</span>, June 2008</h1>
<h3>Release notes - summary</h3>
<p>Dokeos 1.8.5 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well. </p>
<h3>New Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Considerable security improvements - 2 major and 1 minor security patches have been applied since the latest stable version</li>
<li>SCORM export improvement (now generates SCORM 1.2 compliant packages and transforms Dokeos quizzes into SCO items, using interactions as a bonus)</li>
<li>SCORM
export improvement (now generates SCORM 1.2 compliant packages and
transforms Dokeos quizzes into SCO items, using interactions as a bonus)</li>
<li>Possibility to filter extension of submitted files all around Dokeos</li>
<li>OpenID authentication support</li>
<li>Possibility to import Word documents</li>
<li>Possibility to import docx and pptx documents (new MS-Office format)</li>
<li>Grades, evaluations and success certificates available thanks to the integration of the gradebook extension. Activating this module will clash with a gradebook extension installation made previously</li>
<li>Grades,
evaluations and success certificates available thanks to the
integration of the gradebook extension. Activating this module will
clash with a gradebook extension installation made previously</li>
<li>Coloured icons added to courses list in administration panel to show access permissions</li>
<li>Logout button now shows the username of the current user</li>
<li>Student view re-activated and fully-functional</li>
<li>Searching the forum is now possible so you can use the forum as a knowledge base. The search results are highlighted throughout the forum and you can search on multiple words also. </li>
<li>Searching
the forum is now possible so you can use the forum as a knowledge base.
The search results are highlighted throughout the forum and you can
search on multiple words also. </li>
<li>Group members are now displayed in a sortable table</li>
<li>Possibility to export survey results in XLS format</li>
<li>Documents, Works and Dropbox tools usability has been improved in many ways</li>
<li>In the agenda, you can display the X upcoming events (can be configured by the platform admin)</li>
<li>The course agenda now has a month view like the my agenda</li>
<li>In the user list of the platform administration you can now quickly see for what courses the user is subscribed by hovering over the courses icon</li>
<li>In
the user list of the platform administration you can now quickly see
for what courses the user is subscribed by hovering over the courses
icon</li>
<li>The platform system announcements can now be sent through email also</li>
<li>User fields have been added globally, allowing you to add user data like birthdate, mother tongue, city or whatever data you want to ask your users</li>
<li>User
fields have been added globally, allowing you to add user data like
birthdate, mother tongue, city or whatever data you want to ask your
users</li>
<li>LDAP
<ul>
<li>The LDAP code has changed. If you had some customisations there, you might want to save them and re-apply them after the upgrade</li>
<li>Functions renamed to respect coding conventions and use ldap_ namespace</li>
<li>Most parameters moved to the administration panel. You will need to configure the administration panel with the settings that were previously in ldap_var.inc.php</li>
<li>Most
parameters moved to the administration panel. You will need to
configure the administration panel with the settings that were
previously in ldap_var.inc.php</li>
<li>Added non-anonymous mode (just add a login and a password in the configuration panel)</li>
<li>Added search domain configuration through panel</li>
<li>Added customizable field-check for student-teacher switch</li>
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</ul>
</li>
<li>New stylesheets can be added through the platform administration interface</li>
<li>Notification by email has been improved in the forum. You can now indicate that you want to be informed of messages on the forum level or on the thread level, even if you did not participate in the discussion yet. </li>
<li>The platform administrator can decide to display the courses that are not open on the login page. When these courses are displayed on the campus startpage then the user that is logged in can quickly subscribe to this course.</li>
<li>When creating a new group you can decide to create a public or private forum or no forum at all. These are group category settings.</li>
<li>Notification
by email has been improved in the forum. You can now indicate that you
want to be informed of messages on the forum level or on the thread
level, even if you did not participate in the discussion yet. </li>
<li>The
platform administrator can decide to display the courses that are not
open on the login page. When these courses are displayed on the campus
startpage then the user that is logged in can quickly subscribe to this
course.</li>
<li>When creating a new group you can decide to create
a public or private forum or no forum at all. These are group category
settings.</li>
<li>Group forum is also displayed in the group space</li>
<li>Surveys that are not based on invitation but open to all (or certain) members of the course are now available</li>
<li>Agenda
<ul>
<li>iCal import and export of course events, with a choice of public, private or confidential markers</li>
<li>Repetitive course events can be created (and exported to iCal). Repetitions types supported are: daily, weekly, monthly by date (e.g. the 5th of each month) and yearly by date</li>
<li>Repetitive
course events can be created (and exported to iCal). Repetitions types
supported are: daily, weekly, monthly by date (e.g. the 5th of each
month) and yearly by date</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Document templates have been greatly improved to speed-up custom course content creation</li>
<li>Audiorecorder (depending on streaming server) now records sounds in the document/audio directory, making them easily reusable by the course admin</li>
<li>Audiorecorder
(depending on streaming server) now records sounds in the
document/audio directory, making them easily reusable by the course
admin</li>
<li>Audiorecorder is not loaded by default (took too long) and you can load it with a simple click</li>
<li>W3C - Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional has been improved</li>
<li>Tracking - A new page to display access details by user is available under the Reporting tab, in the user details in a course</li>
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<li>Fixes to the announcement tool (access by students)</li>
<li>Fixes to the group tool (default group settings)</li>
<li>Bugfix: complete export in survey tool displayed the question of all the surveys and not only those of the selected survey</li>
<li>Bugfix: registering a new user resulted in the language field of the user being empty which resulted in an english profile by default. This has now been changed to the platform language. </li>
<li>Bugfix:
registering a new user resulted in the language field of the user being
empty which resulted in an english profile by default. This has now
been changed to the platform language. </li>
<li>Performance improvement in the user list of the platform administration </li>
<li>Bugfix: group tutors were not migrated from 1.6 to 1.8</li>
<li>SCORM export: fixes in export method</li>
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<br/>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>Audiorecorder takes a few seconds to write the audio file back to the document directory, so the page shouldn't be changed too quickly after recording a sound track</li>
<li>Audiorecorder takes a few seconds to write the audio file
back to the document directory, so the page shouldn't be changed too
quickly after recording a sound track</li>
<li>When migrating from 1.6 to 1.8, some SCORM learning paths might need to be re-imported, which means their tracking is lost</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li> Ms-PowerPoint® to Learning Path conversion</li>
<li> Ms-PowerPoint® to Learning Path conversion</li>
<li>Integrated Live Conferencing </li>
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<li>Independent
<ul>
<li> Juan Carlos Raña Trabado - considerable work on the wiki integration and improvements, and the FCKEditor/Mimetex extension as well as *many* FCKEditor's file manager and other modules improvements, as well as a continuous stream of recommendations that helped shape 1.8.5 and 1.8.6</li>
<li> Ivan Tcholakov - various bugfixes in 1.8.6, very accurate bug reporting contributions and a considerable work in the integration of a new version of FCKEditor, along with a bunch of useful plugins</li>
<li>
Juan Carlos Raña Trabado - considerable work on the wiki integration
and improvements, and the FCKEditor/Mimetex extension as well as *many*
FCKEditor's file manager and other modules improvements, as well as a
continuous stream of recommendations that helped shape 1.8.5 and 1.8.6</li>
<li>
Ivan Tcholakov - various bugfixes in 1.8.6, very accurate bug reporting
contributions and a considerable work in the integration of a new
version of FCKEditor, along with a bunch of useful plugins</li>
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<li> Mustapha Alouani for his work on dynamic LDAP import tool</li>
<li> Simon Zalar for a patch to FCKeditor 2.2 allowing linking in FF3</li>
<li> Daniel Enrique Perales Gomez, for various bugfixes in various tools</li>
<li> Arthur Jonathan Portugal Guerrero, for his patient work on the technical documentation and his thorough testing of 1.8.6 features</li>
<li> Michela Karina Mosquera Guardamino, for helping improve the visibility of Dokeos in the Latin American area, patiently answering crazy amounts of information requests and organizing great community events</li>
<li> Jhon Rhoos Hinojosa Portuguez, for various (minor) bugfixes</li>
<li> Christian Fasanando, for a huge amount of bugfixes and new features in 1.8.6, including important improvements in the web services tool, and the development of the notebook and glossary tools</li>
<li> Arthur Jonathan Portugal Guerrero, for his patient work on the
technical documentation and his thorough testing of 1.8.6 features and implementing the first browser-based tests set</li>
<li> Michela Karina Mosquera Guardamino, for helping improve the visibility
of Dokeos in the Latin American area, patiently answering crazy amounts
of information requests and organizing great community events</li>
<li> Jhon Rhoos Hinojosa Portuguez, for various bugfixes in 1.8.6</li>
<li> Christian Fasanando, for a huge amount of bugfixes and new features in
1.8.6, including important improvements in the web services tool, and
the development of the notebook and glossary tools</li>
<li> Carlos Vargas, for a huge amount of bugfixes in 1.8.6</li>
<li> Isaac Flores, for a huge amount of bugfixes in 1.8.6 and the development of the social tool and revision of the messaging tool</li>
<li> Jan Derriks, for various bugfixes and suggestions</li>
<li> Ronny Velasquez, for a series of bugfixes and improvements in 1.8.6</li>
<li> Ricardo Rodriguez, for implementing the first set of unit tests in 1.8.6, and manual testing and reporting</li>
<li> Franco Cedillo, for minor bugfixes in 1.8.6</li>
</ul>
<h1>Removed developments</h1>
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<p> Are you interested in translating the installation guide to your own language? The best way to proceed is to ask us on the <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/forum/">Dokeos forum</a>
for the latest version – there may be updates to the guide since
this version was released – and send new translations off to the <ahref="mailto:translation@dokeos.com">translation@dokeos.com</a> email address. </p>
for the latest version – there may be updates to the guide since
this version was released – and send new translations off to the <ahref="mailto:translation@dokeos.com">translation@dokeos.com</a> email address. </p>
<h1>License</h1>
<ahref="license.html">GNU General Public License Version 2</a>
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<p>Thank you for downloading Dokeos, the open source learning suite.</p>
<p>Thank you for downloading Dokeos Svalbard FREE.</p>
<ul>
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</ul>
<p>This guide explains how to install Dokeos Learning
Management. It explains how to install Dokeos Oogie
PowerPoint conversion and Dokeos Videoconferencing although these
packages are not required to use Dokeos LMS. Please read this fully before proceeding with the installation. You can also find a Spanish translation of this guide <ahref="./installation_guide_es_ES.html">here</a>.</p>
If you want to save time, trouble and money, you can alternatively have your Dokeos portal <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/en/node/6">deployed</a> or <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/en/node/32">installed</a> by the Dokeos compant or one of its partners.<br/>
<p>This guide explains how to install Dokeos FREE. Please read this fully before proceeding with the installation.</p>Check <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/en/buy.php">Dokeos PRO</a> and <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/en/buy.php">Dokeos MEDICAL</a> for a complete learning suite with a Service Level Agreement. <br/>
<h2><b>Contents</b></h2>
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Dokeos is mainly a LMS running <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Apache</span>, <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">MySQL</span> and <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">PHP5</span> (the so called <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">AMP</span> trilogy). <br/>
<br/>
It can be enriched with PowerPoint conversion (feature called Dokeos
Oogie) using <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">OpenOffice</span> + Java. You may also want to add the Dokeos Videoconferencing plugin using the <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">RED5</span> Open
Source Flash server. <br/>
<br/>
@ -133,37 +118,7 @@ at least one database. By default, Dokeos will create a new database
for each course created. It means your host should allow you to create
and administrate several databases. You can also install Dokeos using
only one database, in that case you have to select this option during
the installation.
<br/>
<br/>
To take advantage of <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Oogie</span> PowerPoint / Impress conversion, you need : <br/>
Yannick Warnier
17 years ago