Open eClass Platform - CHANGES

List of changes

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

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

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

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).

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”.

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.

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.

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

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

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.