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.
New Features
- New tool: class attendance (usable in gradebook)
- Thematic advance option added in course description (shown on course homepage)
- Timezone management at user and platform level (Feature #599)
- Upgraded PclZip library to version 2.8.2 (Feature #553)
- Upgraded PHPMailer library to version 5.1 (Feature #272)
- Exercise tool: Copy exercise feature added
- Exercise tool: Teachers can delete students results of an exercise (NOT LP results)
Debugging
- Fixed major course copy drawback by which exercise contents were keeping links to the old course (thanks to Ludovic Gasc and SANTEXCEL - BT#658)
- Some PHP short tags fixed. Reported by Sicabol, see http://www.chamilo.org/node/114 (Feature #347)
- 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.
- 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)
- Online editor: IE proprietary commenting tags are desactivated before loading the edited text. This fix has been proposed by Hubert Borderiou. (Bug #573)
- Online editor: Upgraded from FCKEditor 2.6.5 to FCKEditor 2.6.6, Build 25427 - Feature #626
- Fixed bugs caused by the undefined constant REL_SYS_PATH and by the declared twice constant TABLE_MAIN_GROUP. Problems have been reporded by krikrizzz and Knightly. See the related forum topics http://www.chamilo.org/en/node/190 and http://www.chamilo.org/en/node/154 (Feature #347)
- Fixed course copy table lp_item audio not copied. Reported by Henri Hedman (Bug #575)
- Fixed Added an option to cancel prerequisites in a course (Learning path). Fixed by aboivin in http://www.chamilo.org/node/146
- Empty extra user fields are now deleted from the database
- Quiz tool: Answer list fixed when using "matching" question type (BT#801). Reported by Noa Orizales
- Quiz tool + LP : Fixed bug when adding a exercise twice in the same LP with multiple attempts or not.
- Quiz tool + LP + Multiple attempts : Pre requisites will work the first time a student pass the LP. If an student finished all steps correctly he will view all steps, prerequisites will not work here.
- Learning Path (Courses): PHP sessions of a LP are destroyed when visiting the main course page.
- Assignment tool: Work.php deletes all homeworks bugs fixed. Reported and fixed by carlosbrolotobar http://www.chamilo.org/node/143
CSS changes
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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)
Deprecated files
- Online editor: The plugins "Flash" (obsolete) and "placeholder" (non-relevant to the finished product) have been removed. (Feature #347)
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.
New Features
- 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 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)
- Added chat tool to the groups(DT#3318)
- Allowed password to be recovered using username *or* e-mail
- Added editable section to the registration form
- Added option to send a email to a portal administrator upon course creation (DT#3489)
- Added privacy for the chat tool in a sessions or groups context (DT#5558)
- Added possibility to view glossary terms in exercises and learning paths (courses)
- 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
- 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
- Added posibility to establish a max number of versions for each wiki page
- Improved control of concurrent users in wiki
- Improved the use of wiki pages such as student's portfolios (individual task)
- Added an immediate redirection to the course after login when a user is enrolled only in one course (defined by the platform administrator through platform administration > configuration settings > training)- DT#3466
- Added user's photo into users list interface - DT#5496
- Disabled trainer/tutor name field in create course form, set to current user's name by default. Can be modified into course settings - DT#5496
- 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
- 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)
- Upgraded html2pdf libray to 3.26
- Upgraded mimetex to 1.71
- 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
- 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
- Improved reporting tab performance tenfolds (main/mySpace/courseLog.php file)
- 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
- List of course improved when using Course categories in user_portal.php
Debugging
- Simplified SCORM engine, making it more reliable but supporting less SCORM messages (interactions and objectives disabled for now)
- Fixed a bug in course homepage always showing a box even when no tools were shown (r8747:3ad59f6aed1f)
- Score result in reporting is expressed as a percentage
- CSV export of reporting no longer contains html code in the last column
- The course list is now sorted like you have defined on the course management page
- Display order in LP fixed (Organize view) #5668
- Automatic deletion of a link in gradebook fixed - DT#5229
CSS changes
- New Chamilo themes added
- Fixed older styles support
- Added iepngfix hack to support png images in IE6
- Changed footer to allow for extensible height
- Added many CSS elements to support new tools (social network, glossary, etc)
Known issues
- In Hotspot under Windows® (server-side), uploading a PNG file results in an unstable exercise
- Scorm: Objectives and interactions are not supported
- Scorm: Hotspot and Exact type of questions can't be exported in a SCORM package
- Course backup: When trying to generate a backup the image/video paths are not update with the new course code see CT#521
- If the "Show glossary terms" option is selected for the lessons tool (SCORM) and exercises, the description of the exercise might contain the answers to the question. Need human intelligence to avoid this.
Deprecated files
- main/btf_functions.php file deleted. All functions are in the new class inc/lib/course_home.lib.php
- main/messages/message.class.php moved to inc/lib/message.lib.php in messages tool
- main/messages/message.css is now useless
- main/messages/cookies.js is now useless
- message_for_group_form_inc.php in social tool moved to the inc/ajax library
- main/social/select_options.php moved to inc/ajax library
Dokeos 1.8.6.1 - August 2009
Release notes - summary
Dokeos 1.8.6.1 is a minor release including just a few new features, mostly focused on internationalization, and several bugfixes.
New Features
- Implemented new sub-language feature by which language terms redefinition becomes possible through the admin section (FS#4321)
- Admin: Terms and conditions added DT#4320
- Improvements in document tool, allow seeing glossary terms (FS#4337)
- Small improvements in SCORM export(FS#4300)
- At the beginning of the installation script, added an imperative check for PHP 5 has been added. (FS#4296)
- When the system Dokeos is switched into "Test server" mode, a clickable indicator appears in the footer. This indicator is visible by platform administrators only. (FS#4341)
- A transliteration function has been added. Currently, it is used in uploading files. Files with non-English names get names that contain ASCII letters only, remaining readable in the corresponding language. Rationale: The PHP5 run-time environment does not manage file name encodings, adding such a non-native feature involves too much work. For avoiding character encoding problems, transliteration of file names is the possible solution. (FS#306)
- An internationalization option has been added for improving sorting in arbitrary language. When the intl php-extension has been installed, various sorting routines exploit it for better sorting. Rationale: The PHP5 run-time environment does not provide native and reliable way of sorting UTF-8 strings. (FS#306)
- Installation script: The page about system requilements has been updated. Also, at the very beginning, a check has been added whether the mbstring php-extension is installed - see the related forum topic. (FS#306)
- A new php-based configuration for the online editor has been implemented, see dokeos/main/inc/lib/fckeditor/myconfig.php. Also, toolbar definitions have been split in separate php-files within the directory dokeos/main/inc/lib/fckeditor/toolbars/ . Customization of the editor is more convenient and flexible now. (FS#2867)
- Online editor: A upgrade from FCKEditor 2.6.4 to FCKEditor 2.6.4.1 has been implemented. (FS#4383)
- Online editor: Blocking copy/paste for trainees has been added. The feature is configurable through editing the toolbar definition files within the directory dokeos/main/inc/lib/fckeditor/toolbars/ . (FS#2867)
- Online editor: Preview tabs have been added to the dialogs for inserting video, flv-video, and YouTube video. (FS#2867)
- Online editor: The audio plugin has been activated by default as an implementation of the "Insert audio / Audio properties" dialog. This new plugin is intended to replace the "MP3" plugin. (FS#2867)
- Online editor: The simple file manager, the advanced file manager and the image manager have been integrated by default with the editor's dialog system. Thus, they work faster and in a more secure way. (FS#2867)
- Online editor: Configuration of the mimetex plugin has been reworked to gain simplicity. The procedure for configuration has been updated, see the related forum topic. (FS#2867)
- Online editor: A new asciimath plugin for inserting mathematical formulas has been added. It is based on the ASCIIMathML.js library. (FS#2867)
- Social: Added possibility to define RSS feeds inside personal page of social network (need to define an 'rssfeeds' extra user text field)
Debugging
- Online editor: Several known bug-fixes from FCKEditor 2.6.5 SVN have been implemented, tickets #1537, #2156, #2689, #2821, #2856, #2874, #2915, #3120, #3181, #3427, #3429, #3439, #3446, #3481, #3677, #3818, #3880, #3925. (FS#2867)
- Online editor: The toolbar icons have been upgraded to those from FCKEditor 3.0. (FS#2867)
- A solution has been implemented for fixing the "__flash__removeCallback" bug, which affects the media player on Internet Explorer browser. (FS#4378 and FS#2867)
- Quiz: fixed bug in multiple-choice/single-answer questions results (whereby the wrong answer was saved)
- Admin: Added courses from sessions inside AJAX popup of courses list in users list (SVN#22398)
- Admin: Showing full-length course titles in list of courses while adding to sessions(SVN#22399)
- Admin: Added session name in title of session edition pages(SVN#22400)
CSS changes
- Sticky footer now available in all Dokeos stylesheets. If you own a custom stylesheet you will need to update it, see DT#3549 for further details.
Known issues
Deprecated files
- The whole main/inc/lib/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/ directory should be removed for security reasons
Dokeos 1.8.6 Svalbard - June 2009
Release notes - summary
Dokeos 1.8.6 Svalbard is a major release including new features.
New Features
- FCKEditor 2.6.4, build 21629 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)
- 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 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)
- Database server: no more need for 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)
- Documents tool: Online editor has been disabled for HotPotatoes tests in order their functionality to be preserved (FS#3345)
- Allow ZIP export of assignments for teacher and tutor
- Added attach documents to Agenda
- Added Web Services Interface (SOAP)
- Added Google Maps support
- Added Imagemap editor
- Online editor: Inserting links to YouTube streaming service has been added (FS#2867)
- Improved chat (open in new window option, smileys, teacher/learner difference and time indication for each message, user picture showing directly, possibility to hold several conversations in several courses at the same time)
- Option to hide/show e-mail addresses to all users (FS#3244)
- Added an introduction section for each group area (FS#3200)
- New Global Agenda (FS#3391)
- New Notebook tool in courses
- Added reporting on the last connections of a user in the chat
- Added link create course message to go directly to the course(SVN#17497)
- Added ability to take partial surveys and finish them later (FS#2510)
- New Survey Feature: Surveys without invitation mail (FS#3403)
- Added Booking system (a.k.a Reservation 2 Extension) (FS#821)
- Added user profiling fields in auto-registration page (FS#2666)
- Added check for writeable status of session save path in installation directory (FS#2970)
- Allow forum threads to be moved (FS#3460)
- Minor - Added update information for quizzes (FS#3417)
- Sending e-mails to all admin on user account creation confirmation (FS#3475)
- Changed user profile setting defaults to make phone field disabled and picture enabled (FS#3474)
- Added intermediary buttons in platform settings pages to avoid scrolling too much to apply atomic changes (FS#3473)
- Simplify default platform language choice by adding quick icon (FS#3472)
- Session admins can now add users to the portal (FS#3476)
- Added Advanced File Manager (FCKEditor plugin) to improve flexibility in files upload (FS#2970)
- Added New Message Tool (a.k.a Message 2 Plugin) (FS#3503)
- Added Question difficulty level in Exercises (FS#3515)
- Added Removed buggy audio recorder and added new MP3 player with easy upload (FS#3515)
- Improved Survey export (SVN#17927)
- Students can now view their uploaded works in Work tool (FS#3486)
- 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.
- Added Social tool + friend list (FS#3383)
- Added introduction section to blog and course description (FS#3165)
- Added import/export (CSV/XML) of extra user fields
- Added ability to import users in XML and subscribe to visual code (FS#3552)
- Added pChart v1.1.2 library to manage charts in Gradebook tool(FS#3718) and the Access details of a user
- Added SHA1 as a possibility to encrypt user passwords (FS#3798)
- Added global templates to use between courses (SVN#18955)
- Added To change your password, you must enter your current password (SVN#19225)
- Added New Dokeos stylesheets
- Improvements to the User profile
- Improvements to the Learning path display view (no more frames)
- Added HTML Purifier
- Added tracking/logging of admin activity FS#842
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)
- Fixed security flaw allowing anonymous user to enter "open to the platform" courses (FS#3359 - SVN#17499)
- Fixed forum visibility bug for private groups forum (FS#3327)
- Fixed many links bugs when using a forum inside a learning path (FS#3256)
- Fixed: dropbox changed notification icon appears while dropbox inaccessable (FS#3395)
- Fixed: access to a hidden document was possible (FS#2835)
- Dropbox fix: move multiple selected files to category feature is back. (FS#3005)
- Fixed: Long lines in Announcements did not show up in email (FS#2988)
- Fixed: the productions users aren't saved in the the correct directory (FS#3456)
- Fixed error in install/htaccess.dist whereby the url-append was not set correctly (SVN#17791)
- Fixed missing check on cDir in local.inc.php (SVN#17793)
- Removed possibility to create sub-directories in the dropbox tool - wasn't working anyway for various versions (FS#3434)
- Improved access control for group tool (FS#3209)
- Fixed profiling date field popup bug (FS#2985)
- Added check on max members in group before subscribing new people (FS#3453)
- Changed usage of mail functions to use api_mail() everywhere and fix mail headers problems (FS#2445)
- Fixed bug changing the language to false in platform settings (FS#3472)
- Fixed various HTTPS + IE related bugs, related to caching in general (SVN#17795)
- Fixed 31 bugs in file/image/sounds/flash uploads/delete/permissions in profile/homepage/agenda edition pages
- Fixed a bug in migration for several versions at once whereby new course tools were repeated several times (SVN#17935)
- Fixed security issue allowing users to upload php files on the server through FCKEditor (FS#2970)
- Fixed folders by default into document tool must not be removed - see FS#3611
- Fixed qualification of themes into forum tool - see FS#3609
- allow show results with floating point,in exercice tool - (partial FS#3630) - SVN#18367
- Fixed event into agenda when it's sent from assignment and Improved display form when you create an assignment - see FS#3583
- Fixed difficulty of the question lost - see FS#3659
- Fixed XML user import for single courses import (related to FS#3552)
- Fixed bug with user image not showing in upgrade from previous versions
- Fixed bugs causing wrong attempts to translate some icons on course homepage when the server is in testing mode (FS#3285)
- 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
- 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
- Some minor bugs have been fixed in "Document Metadata" form (FS#4030)
- Fixed a bug preventing updating dates of group documents after edition. Many thanks to Ludwig Theunis, nickname: TL (FS#4072)
CSS changes
- Added classes glossary-term, glossary-term-title, glossary-term-desc, glossary-term-action-links for the glossary tool
- Added personal-notes tool-related styles
- Changed many things in the public-admin style (Dokeos default) to improve design - will probably affect other styles a little despite efforts not to
- Added new styles
Important language changes
- 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.
- Changed "Learning Path" link to "Course" in English and French
- Changed and unified work/assignment/student publications tool as "assignments"
- Changed "Dropbox" tool to "Documents sharing" (or "Documents sharing space" when referring to one's own space in the tool)
- Changed "Student View" link to "Teacher view" and vice-versa
- Many buttons now have more defined action names
Known issues
- Inserting the same exercise twice in one learning path may generate score inconsistencies
Deprecated files
- The whole main/inc/lib/xajax/tests/ should be removed
Dokeos 1.8.5 Valparaiso, June 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
