Open eClass 3.1
Open eClass 3.0
Open eClass 2.11
Open eClass 2.10
Open eClass 2.9
Open eClass 2.8
Open eClass 2.7
Open eClass 2.6
Open eClass 2.5
Open eClass 2.4.1
Open eClass 2.4
Open eClass 2.3
Open eClass 2.2
Open eClass 2.1.3
Open eClass 2.1.2
Open eClass 2.1.1
Open eClass 2.1

Open eClass Platform - CHANGES

List of changes

Open eClass 3.1

Course's completion certification support.
Supporting actions completion bonus (badges).
Improvements in “Attendance” and “Gradebook”.
Improvements in “Exercises” and “Assignments”.
Improvements in “Ebook”.
Improvements in “Questionnaire”.
User Blog.
Improvements in administration tool.
Improvements in accessibility. (confront with WCAG 2.0).
New and enhanced themes.

Open eClass 3.0

Redesign Portfolio user
Redesign user interfaces
New “Gradebook” subsystem
New “attendance form” subsystem
New “Course Blog” subsystem
Functional interface with the Contemporary eLearning platform Big Blue Button (BBB)
Redesign Portfolio user
Redesign user interfaces
Incorporating Web 2.0 tools
Support Protocol OAI-PMH
Integrating new search engine
Tour Classes at new hierarchical structure
Support metadata courses according to the standard ECTS-CDS
Upgrade assessment tools
Upgrade communication and collaboration tools

Open eClass 2.11

Improvements to Questionnaires (Anonymous Questionnaire, Cloning, Initialisation and Results CSV export)
Enhancements to Multimedia (Multimedia resource categories)
Course citation support
Improvements to Exercises (add Student ID and support of original text formatting into exercise questions)
Improvements in User Groups Tool (add Student ID)
Upgrade PHP cash library
Improvements in mobile applications Android & iOS
Improvements in platform's mobile API
General UI and MainLib improvements

Open eClass 2.10

Added option for linked files in subsystem “Documents”
Added to create a new HTML documents inside the Course
Added paging and search option for all mailing lists, announcements, courses and users of the platform
Support of the IMS and CP specification
Improvement in subsystem “Course Information”
Improvements in subsystem “Messaging”
Improvements in subsystem “Exercises”
Improvements in subsystem “Questionnaires”
Improvements in subsystem “Tasks”
Improvements in Course metadata import form
Improvements / corrections Mobile API
Mobile application for Android mobile devices
Improvements in Mobile App for iOS devices

Open eClass 2.9

Improvements in “Dropbox”.
Improvements in “Exercises”.
Improvements in course registration.
Improvements in “Learning Path”.
Improvements in user authentication via external database.
Changes in directories structure.
Improvements in mobile API.

Open eClass 2.8

Improvements in Dropbox. Added support for message exchange between users.
Add “Bulk User Accout Deletion” in Admin Tools.
Add “Multiple Course Creation” in Admin Tools.
Improvements in “Multimedia”.
Add course metadataς CDM - ECTS.
Support for course license registration.
Support for viewing a document resource only in registered course (even it is an open course).
Support for optional password in open course.
Support for GUnet Open Courses.
Add new user role (Open Course Reviewer).

Open eClass 2.7

New subsystem ”Common Docs“ – Funcionality added to Admin tools and Documents.
Add “Bulk User Accout Creation” in Admin Tools.
Support for second email address in student accounts.
Improvements in “Assignments”.
Improvements in “Exercises”.

Open eClass 2.6

Improved course registration functionality.
Various security enhancements.
Added check on file uploading through a list of accepted File Types (global whitelist).
Added a list of accepted File Types for uploading per user (per user whitelist).
Added administrator tool for merging user accounts
Added new multi user deletion tool with criteria.
Configuration settings for user account registration / request (student / teacher).
'Search' module can be enabled / disabled.
Teachers and Course administrators can preview all course files within 'Dropbox' module.
'phpMyAdmin' tool has been removed.
Italian language support has been added.
French language support has been added.

Open eClass 2.5

New administrator user roles. Course and user administrator role. Users administrator role.
New course user role. Assistant professor role.
User can choose to not receive mails from a course.
It is possible to require from user, to verify his email address during registration.
In “Assignments” teacher can define assignment with time and date deadlines.
Fix some bugs in “Exercises” and “Assignments”.
In “Exercises” teacher can create exercises with existing random questions.
In “Video”, videos can appear in pop up window inside the browser.
New theme added (ocean).
Added German translation.
Improved online help.

Open eClass 2.4.1

Code reorganization and bug fixes for alternative authentication methods
Add setting to select automatic registration or going through a request for students logging-in via alternative methods when registration is closed
Option for the admin to change auth method for a user
Minor bug fixes for the glossary and video modules

Open eClass 2.4

Changed in Template and creation of new themes.
New module “E Book”
New module “Glossary”.
Add new login page.
RSS feed in module “Announcements” and in “Admin Announcements”.
Replace xinha html editor with tinymce.
Various changes in modules “Documents”, “Groups” and “Forums”.
Users can now participate in multiple groups.
Course units can display ebooks .
Changes in module “Search”.
Add user public profile.
Changes in Advances user profile.
Security changes.
Changes in Admin Tool.
Users can now download directories (in .zip format) in module “Document”.
Changes in installation wizard.
Changes in online help.
Added support for CAS authentication.
Better support for Shibboleth authentication.
Add theme 'modern' and theme administration.
Works with PHP version 5.3.
Works without enabling PHP options register_globals and short_open_tags.
Works in Mysql Strict Mode.

Open eClass 2.3

Support for user authentication via Shibboleth
Add “Student view” in Course Home module.
Add message notification in Forums.
Support for math symbols in “Exercises” and “Forums”.
Various changes and bug fixing in Administration Tool.
Define optional course password while creating a course.

Open eClass 2.2

Creation of subsystem “Course units”. The trainer may organize his course according to learning resources.
Various corrections in “Learning Path”.
Added decimal rating in questions exercises. Bug corrected in changing of order of exercises questions. Added option of displaying (or no) corrected answers after finish of exercise.
Add statistics in users group.
Add statistics about time consuming in course in user profile
Added support for Spanish Language

Open eClass 2.1.3

Fix bug in “Learning Path”
In “Announcements” mails are submitted per 50 users. Also in config.php if variable $emailAnnounce has been defined all the announcements are carbon copied (cc) there.
Fix bug in “Users” while sagin users list in encoding windows-1253
Template engine fixes.
Add pagination in “Forums”.
Don't logout user if he/she tries to access a closed course.
Changes in “Dropbox”. User files are encoded.
In “Docuements” document title is displayed if it has been defined.
Various fixes in admin tool.
Fix bug in user portfolio during language selection.
Add field visibility in “Agenda”.
Creation of table config in main database. Open eClass version being stored there.
Bug fix in uploading group assignment in “Assignments”. Preserve extension .tar.gz in assignment submission.

Open eClass 2.1.2

Fix bug in user authentication
HTML editor added in “Create Course” and “Course Admin”
Fix in upgrade process.
Various fixes

Open eClass 2.1.1

Fix bug in “Show old statistics”.
Fix bug in “Search” inside a course.
Fix bug in authentication users via LDAP.
Fix a compatibility bug in versions Mysql 4.x in “Forgot your password”.
Add subsystem “Login as a different user” in administration tool.
Various fixes in upgrade process.

Open eClass 2.1

New Graphical User Interface
New “Learning Path” module compatible with SCORM 1.2 and 2004
New “Questionnaire”module
New “Wiki” module
Improved “Assingments” and “Exercises” modules
Personalized user portfolio
Multilanguage support (UTF-8 encoding)
Math symbols support
New embedded HTML editor
Alternative user authentication through LDAP, POP3, IMAP and external MySQL DB
New wizard for courses creating.
User auditing and user statistics functionalities
Enhanced “search” facility
Improved security and new Password enryption
New platform's web portal (http://www.openeclass.org)

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Open eClass Platform - CHANGES

List of changes

Open eClass 3.1

Open eClass 3.0

Open eClass 2.11

Open eClass 2.10

Open eClass 2.9

Open eClass 2.8

Open eClass 2.7

Open eClass 2.6

Open eClass 2.5

Open eClass 2.4.1

Open eClass 2.4

Open eClass 2.3

Open eClass 2.2

Open eClass 2.1.3

Open eClass 2.1.2

Open eClass 2.1.1

Open eClass 2.1