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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. This version is the first one to require PHP 5.2 or superior.
+Chamilo 1.8.7 is a major 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. This version is the first one to highly recommend PHP 5.2 or superior, and require PHP 5.1 or higher.
Also, this version of Chamilo will automatically convert all your data to UTF-8, which will make it more difficult to migrate from Dokeos versions higher than 1.8.6.1
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New Features
- Full UTF-8 support has been implemented (Feature #272)
- UTF-8 becomes recommended system encoding to be used. It is also recommended that HTML-documents created with external tools be UTF-8 encoded.
- For newly installed systems: UTF-8 is the default value of the administrator's setting "Character set". Database tables will now be storing UTF-8 encoded text.
- - For upgraded systems: The upgrade procedure does not change to UTF-8 the administrator's setting "Character set". This may be done later, on administrator's decision. During upgrade database tables are converted to UTF-8. Conversion to UTF-8 of stored in the file system html-documents is not performed, this is not mandatory.
+ - For upgraded systems: The upgrade procedure automatically changes the character set to UTF-8. During upgrade database tables are converted to UTF-8 and the corresponding changes to text fields are applied. Conversion to UTF-8 of HTML documents stored in the file system is not performed, this is not mandatory.
- Note about integration with external systems: Keep in mind that since version 1.8.7, pieces of text kept in the database are UTF-8 encoded. If an external system accesses database records directly, some corrections to contents of the external database might be necessary.
- Class attendance (usable in Gradebook), which allows b-learning teachers to keep attendance registers
- - Student certificate, which allows teachers to define certificates in their own format, building the templates online
+ - Student certificates allow teachers to build certificates in their own format, using online-built HTML templates
- Thematic/Academic progress (shown on course homepage), which allows teachers to show how their courses is progressing following a pre-established schedule
- Timezone management at user and platform level (Feature #599)
- - HR dashboard: New page with statistical reporting blocks about followed students, courses or sessions, available to platform administrator, session administrator or human resource manager
+ - HR dashboard: statistical reporting page (by blocks) about students, courses or sessions, available to platform administrator, session administrator or human resources manager
- Exercise tool: Teachers can delete students results of an exercise (NOT LP results)
- Exercice tool: Shuffle answers
- - Exercice tool: Copy exercises (Feature #651)
+ - Exercice tool: Copy exercises, copy questions (Feature #651)
- robots.txt file added (Feature #837)
- Upgraded PclZip library to version 2.8.2 (Feature #553)
- Upgraded PHPMailer library to version 5.1 (Feature #272)
- pChart Horizontal bars library added thanks to gferri see (Feature #790)
+ - Added setting to remove permission for teachers to subscribe students in their course
+ - Added setting to show "report bug" link in header
+ - Added new visualization mode for courses: vertical activity
+ - Improved presentation of courses + sessions in courses list (bigger icons, clearer boxes)
Debugging
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Fixed minor bug in online mail editor in order to show the sender's name and e-mail
Fixed bug that prevented importing SCORM resource from course archives (Bug #872)
Fixed bug that prevented proper tests importing from course zip-archives created on systems prior to Chamilo 1.8.6.2 (Bug #879)
- Fixed graphical bug preventing the use of matching-type exercises (thanks to USIL team - BT#914)
+ Quiz tool: fixed graphical bug preventing the use of matching-type exercises (thanks to USIL team - BT#914)
Added hidden debugging feature that marks all right answers (for matching, multiple and single choice questions) (private BT#914)
Adding javascript library for the Pear HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect class (see CT#883)
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+ Assignment tool: Fixed problem with work/assignment tool whereby a moved work lost the ability to be scored
CSS changes
Known issues
- - Timezone functionality is not available in the most recent versions of PHP available for CentOS/RHEL ( 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 ) (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.timezone-identifiers-list.php). Chamilo now requires PHP 5.2 or superior.
- - When the user published an event as announcement, this same announce can be repeat many times
- - Main page (user_portal.php) UI improved bigger icons
+ - Timezone functionality is not available in the most recent versions of PHP available for CentOS/RHEL ( 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 ) (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.timezone-identifiers-list.php). Chamilo now requires PHP 5.1 or superior and highly recommends PHP 5.2.
+ - When the user publishes an event as announcement, this same announce can be repeat many times
Deprecated files