Open eClass Platform - CHANGES
List of changes
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)