Dokeos 1.8.6 - December 2008
Release notes - summary
Dokeos 1.8.6 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well.
New Features
- FCKEditor 2.6.4 SVN, build 21065 added (FS#2528 and FS#2867)
- Improvements to the profiling tool (previously called "User fields") to improve presentation and flexibility, and allow edition
- Added new authorized charsets for learning path tool
- Official code available in My Reporting (FS#2640)
- Added possibility to switch fill-in-the-blanks answers (FS#2683)
- Added more answers by default to multiple-answers type questions creation (FS#2676)
- Now hiding database password field with *** in install/upgrade procedure (FS#2680)
- Added attempts limit to tests
- Hide language form if only one language available
- Added possibility for the course teacher and tutor to delete quiz attempts by users
- Added new survey conditional/personality test type
- Added possibility for session coaches to register external users directly to their session (FS#2700)
- Added possibility to allow coach to access a defined number of days before and after a session (FS#2724)
- Activates unique (ajax) and multiple (multiple select) inscriptions for courses and users in sessions (FS#2719)
- Handling of sessions in tools has been improved : for example we can't see anymore an annoucment of another session (FS#2743)
- Tests : In students results page, set the question comment in red when the student's answer is wrong. Set in green when the answer id good
- New audio recorder in learning path
- New mp3 player (FS#2977)
- New glossary tool (FS#3248)
- Integrated the gradebook at course level (FS#3173)
- New wiki tool (considerably improved, built on CoolWiki plugin) (FS#2873)
- Remove possibility to delete system directories in documents tool (FS#1522)
- Options to order glossary terms (FS#3293)
- Database server: There is no more need special SQL modes for MySQL 5.0 to be turned off through the "sql_mode" setting. The Dokeos system does it internally (FS#2787)
- Some low-level functions that intensively use the language translation sub-system have been optimized for speed (FS#3260)
- Documents tool: The document-type icons have been made clickable (FS#3296)
- Allow ZIP export of assignments for teacher and tutor
- Added attach documents to Agenda
- Implemented options dropdown to show attachment file and repeated event in calendar see(FS#3332)
Debugging
- Improved security in exercises module
- Fixed issue in dropbox documents zipping feature - see related forum post
- Increased size of php_session data field to allow for reasonable-sized session to be kept in the database (FS#2657)
- Fixed a few issues in mailing and codes for survey tool (FS#2662)
- Considerably improved migration of SCORM learning paths from Dokeos 1.6.x to 1.8.x
- Added student-view link for platform admin
- Fixed bug about last access reporting in dropbox tool (FS#2458)
- Saving survey invitation's mail subject (FS#2662)
- Various improvements in clone cleanliness - avoiding many notice-level error reports
- Fixed user picture problems in admin pages
- Mysql error fixed in Reporting in a single DB installation (FS#2638)
- Fixed phone number field missing during registration (FS#2639)
- Fixed breadcrumb in portal administration (FS#2642)
- Fixed issues in FCKeditor edition of documents with video, flash and mp3 included (FS#2679)
- Fixed security issue affecting Windows servers with system file inclusion on homepage (FS#2692)
- Fixed one-question-per-page view in Quiz tool (FS#2678)
- Removed possible risk of having a database code too large for the course.db_name field (FS#2426)
- Added missing online help for blogs (FS#811)
- Fixed bug showing whole article as link in blog (FS#811)
- Fixed bug whereby the course permissions were not updated when using the multiple-action mode in course users list
- Fixed bug preventing opening of a learning path item following a failed prerequisite condition (SVN#15853)
- Fixed bug preventing the activation of plugins (FS#2771)
- Fixed bug adding double comments in dropbox tool in IE only (FS#2757)
- Fixed IMS/QTI2 little export problem (FS#2634)
- 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)
- The mails sent in exercises tool are sent from the address defined in admin (FS#2712)
- "Next" and "Previous" page now works when searching a session (FS#2721)
- Fixed bug when launching a quiz with one question per page (FS#2738)
- Fixed javascript bug with swap menu in ie6 (FS#2815)
- Fixed bug in surveys when we want to display answers of an invited person (FS#2731)
- Fixed bug when copying a course with surveys. There is now a check for existing surveys with the same code and language (FS#2734)
- Fixed bug when seeing matching results in quiz tool (SVN#15987)
- Added filtering of SCORM objectives when writing to DB (SVN#16437)
- Removed duplication of database write operations for SCORM objectives (SVN#16438)
- Fixed HTTP_REFERER bug in ical_export (FS#3041)
- Fixed bug in SQL queries for new installs, preventing the creation of the course_module table (FS#3040)
- 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)
- Fixed bug in users pictures display when using the tuning setting of splitting users dirs (SVN#16673)
- Fixed bug in documents picture gallery preventing uppercase image extensions to be seen (SVN#16755)
- Fixed bug whereby the repeated agenda items in groups were visible to all (FS#3095)
- Fixed bug whereby e-mails sent did not have the standard syntax (SVN#16708)
- Fixed bug whereby an empty institution name gave a useless output in the header (SVN#16710)
- Fixed bug whereby questions ordering was broken when deleting one question in the middle (SVN#16879)
- Fixed bug in user fields, not displayed the default value in profile and add user, and you could modify this values(see FS#3307)
- Fixed bug in link (see FS#3306)
- Improved display of human resource manager option (see FS#3304)
- Documents tool, folder selector: Fixed a bug that prevented Home (root) folder to be shown (FS#3089)
- Users tool: Fixed a bug preventing detailed information about a user to be shown or edited (FS#3009)
- Fixed a bug causing various problems due to improper priority order of loading PEAR packages (FS#3237)
- 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)
- Fixed a bug causing improper numeric sorting of data displayed in various tables (FS#3282)
- Agenda tool: Fixed a wrong range for hour selection. The bug has been reported and solved in a forum by TL (FS#3324)
- Agenda tool: style changes - Align drop-down lists in date and time when you add a new calendar event and modify it
- Fixed Date Validation when you add a new exercises and modify it (FS#3249)
- Tests tool: Fixed broken filter on orphan questions in questions pool, reported and solved in the forums by mark111 (FS#3329)
CSS changes
- Added classes glossary-term, glossary-term-title, glossary-term-desc, glossary-term-action-links for the glossary tool
Known issues
Dokeos 1.8.5 - May 2008
Release notes - summary
Dokeos 1.8.5 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well.
New Features
- Considerable security improvements - 2 major and 1 minor security patches have been applied since the latest stable version
- SCORM export improvement (now generates SCORM 1.2 compliant packages and transforms Dokeos quizzes into SCO items, using interactions as a bonus)
- Possibility to filter extension of submitted files all around Dokeos
- OpenID authentication support
- Possibility to import Word documents
- Possibility to import docx and pptx documents (new MS-Office format)
- 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
- Coloured icons added to courses list in administration panel to show access permissions
- Logout button now shows the username of the current user
- Student view re-activated and fully-functional
- 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.
- Group members are now displayed in a sortable table
- Possibility to export survey results in XLS format
- Documents, Works and Dropbox tools usability has been improved in many ways
- In the agenda, you can display the X upcoming events (can be configured by the platform admin)
- The course agenda now has a month view like the my agenda
- 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
- The platform system announcements can now be sent through email also
- 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
- LDAP
- The LDAP code has changed. If you had some customisations there, you might want to save them and re-apply them after the upgrade
- Functions renamed to respect coding conventions and use ldap_ namespace
- 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
- Added non-anonymous mode (just add a login and a password in the configuration panel)
- Added search domain configuration through panel
- Added customizable field-check for student-teacher switch
- The installation guide has been updated to help you find your way through the new LDAP configuration panel
- You still need to activate LDAP by uncommenting two lines in configuration.php
- New stylesheets can be added through the platform administration interface
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Group forum is also displayed in the group space
- Surveys that are not based on invitation but open to all (or certain) members of the course are now available
- Agenda
- iCal import and export of course events, with a choice of public, private or confidential markers
- 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
- Document templates have been greatly improved to speed-up custom course content creation
- Audiorecorder (depending on streaming server) now records sounds in the document/audio directory, making them easily reusable by the course admin
- Audiorecorder is not loaded by default (took too long) and you can load it with a simple click
- W3C - Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional has been improved
- Tracking - A new page to display access details by user is available under the Reporting tab, in the user details in a course
- Removed header from learning path tool. It was taking too much space and was not flexible enough for CSS styling
- Improved speed of 1.6 to 1.8 migration by adding indexes
Debugging
- Prerequisites management in learning paths fixed (includes quizzes, hotpotatoes and SCORM)
- Various minor bugs fixed in the learning path tool (scoring, copy, re-ordering)
- Various minor bugs fixed in the session handling
- Fixes to the survey tool (date management, questions order in export)
- Fixes to the calendar tool (access by students)
- Fixes to the announcement tool (access by students)
- Fixes to the group tool (default group settings)
- Bugfix: complete export in survey tool displayed the question of all the surveys and not only those of the selected survey
- 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.
- Performance improvement in the user list of the platform administration
- Bugfix: group tutors were not migrated from 1.6 to 1.8
- SCORM export: fixes in export method
- Documentation is now fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant
- Fix FCKeditor Flash upload lack of usability and problems with IE
Known issues
- 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
- When migrating from 1.6 to 1.8, some SCORM learning paths might need to be re-imported, which means their tracking is lost
Dokeos 1.8.4 - September 2007
Release notes - summary
Dokeos 1.8.4 is both a features and debuggingmajor release.
New Features
- Templates. See http://www.dokeos.com/templates.php
- Wide Hotspots tests to allow real-life situations simulation
- Flash video import and streaming
- Installation guide renewed. See http://www.dokeos.com/doc/installation_guide.html
- Added animated Mr Dokeos character : http://www.dokeos.com/mrdokeos.php
- English and Dutch teacher manual added
- Assignments form now fills automatically with document title and user name
- Document authoring space now bigger
- IMS/QTI export of tests
- Export of media (images, Flash, Audio) and tests in SCORM export
- Agenda default time management for an event improved
- Oogie PowerPoint converter setup simplified
- Improved support for other character sets (enabling better support for UTF-8 and russian and asian fonts)
Debugging
- Upgrade script improved : now possible to upgrade direct from 1.6 to 1.8.4.
- Blogs user rights
- FCK Editor image import
- Videoconferencing slides now include Documents directory of course
- SCORM content can be displayed Full Screen
- SCORM interactions now properly running
- Hotspots tests redesigned and bigger hotspots zone
- Alphabetical sorting of lists fixed
- Excel export in reporting now removes HTML tags
- My profile page display layout
- Import HotPotatoes tests scoring
- Images gallery in Documents bad display
- Agenda default date now more relevant
- Tests random questions order option clarified
- Templates editing and media removal now easier
- Apostrophe bug in Learning path Build mode
- Table of contents wider in Learning path
- Audio player now autostarts
- Spelling mistakes in French and English
- Group features now related to group, not generic
- Blogs SQL errors fixed
- Introduction images were missing in tests reporting
- SCORM export now working
- My agenda Personal events editor bug fixed
- Oogie PowerPoint import installation easier
- Time spent on platform tracking improved
- Course Backup/restore bugs fixed
- Course copy bugs fixed
- Default visibility status of learning paths fixed
- Images gallery display reordering
- Agenda default time management for an event improved
- Groups display alphabetical sorting fixed
Dokeos 1.8 - May 2007
Release notes - summary
Dokeos 1.8 is a major release. The software becomes a complete suite including not only a learning management system and a learners administration dashboard, but also an easy-to-use authoring system and a simple videoconferencing interface.
New Features
- Ms-PowerPoint® to Learning Path conversion
- Integrated Live Conferencing
- Templates and styles for rapid online authoring
- Search engine
- New question types: hotspots and open answers
- Reporting dashboard with export to Ms-Excel
- Surveys
- Educational blogs
- Learning Path: better import and export of SCORM, IMS and AICC
- Documents tool: PowerPoint and Word into HTML file type conversion
- Tests tool: less sequential and more user-friendly
- Forum : better admin and content management
- code cleanup
- new nice looking icons
- new layout for the course homepage
- Version check: be informed when a new Dokeos release is available.
- Platform Statistics so you can boast with your campus.
Dokeos 1.6.5 - July 2006
Release notes - summary
Security Release. 1 bug has been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.5_release_notes_and_changelog
Dokeos 1.6.4 April 2006
Release notes - summary
Bugfix release. 2 bugs have been fixed. One security hole has been fixed
Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.4_release_notes_and_changelog
Dokeos 1.6.3 February 2006
Release notes - summary
Bugfix release. 44 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.3_release_notes_and_changelog
Dokeos 1.6.2 - September 2005
Release notes - summary
Bugfix release. 14 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.2_release_notes_and_changelog
Dokeos 1.6.1 - August 2005
Release notes - summary
Bugfix release. 31 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.1_release_notes_and_changelog
Dokeos 1.6 - July 2005
Release notes - summary
In Dokeos 1.6, security and interoperability have been improved. Protection
for documents has improved, and courses have more accessibility options.
Password encryption is enabled by default. The php.ini setting
"register globals" does not have be on anymore.
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6_release_notes
New Features
- Campus home page can be edited online
- Improved translations, made with the new Dokeos translation tool
- Language switch - when you enter the portal, you can choose your language.
- Who is online: a list of users who are logged in, you can click to see their pictures and portfolio, or click to talk to them through our built-in web chat tool.
- Learning path - import and export of SCORM packages, improved layout, prerequisites based on score in tests
- Agenda - many new options, e.g. every user can add personal agenda items.
- Document tool - many new options, improved layout, improved HtmlArea
- Security - PHP register globals setting don't need to be on anymore
- Administration section - all functions are easier to access, you can configure many options through the web interface instead of by digging through the code.
- Improved course management - completely rewritten course import/export functions, easily copy content from one course to another
- Plugins and modularity - new system to add plugins to Dokeos more easily
- API libraries - our function libraries have been expanded and improved
- Interoperability: support for SCORM import/export, XML import/export for some features, IEEE LOM Metadata support in documents and groups, import of Hotpotatoes, connection with QuestionMark (this last one will be available as plugin).
Roadmap
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Roadmap_1.6
Dokeos 1.5.5
- Learning path : Scorm content import tool
- WYSIWYG editor : create content on the fly
- Table of contents : structure content on the fly
- Dropbox : peer2peer content sharing management
- Links categories : structure links catalogue
- New navigation : one click to tool
- Events since my last visit : be informed of what has changed since your last login
- My agenda : synthetic weekly view of all the events related to you
- Add a picture to my profile : see who is who
- Security : privacy and anti-cracking protection
- 5 more languages : russian, catalan, vietnamese, brazilian, thai and a revised chinese
- New chat tool : real-time textual discussion
- Audio & video conference : real-time live broadcasting of events + textual interaction with ore than 200 people.
- Announcements to some users or some groups only
- Time-based learning management : add resources to time line in Agenda
- Audio & video in Tests tool : create listening comprehensions, situation-based questions on the fly
- Forum thread/flat view : see discussions in more detail
- Forum email notification : get an email when your forum topic is active
- language revision : dokeos vocabulary has been generalised to be adapted to different types of organisations and not only universities
