• Exercises: New question types: Ordering, Drag'n'Drop text, Drag'n'Drop Image, Calculated, Oral.
• H5P: Students can create H5P also.
• AI service: Use of AI in Exercises (question creation, “free text” type questions grading) and in Course Creation.
• Course Units: UI Improvements.
• ** Assignments: UI Improvements. * **Learning Path: Improvements in displaying SCORM packages.
• ** Course Administration**: Assign specific permissions to users.
• Security fixes.

• Support for LTI version 1.3
• Courses List: Improvements in UI.
• User Portfolio: Improvements regarding calculation and caching of notifications.
• Questionnaire: New question type (table format). Corrections in UI.
• Attendance: Register user presence via QR code.
• Course Units: Course admin can assign course units in specific users or specific groups.
• Course Settings: New setting regarding users access.
• Learning Path: Improvements in UI. Improvements in calculation of duration time.
• Assignments Rubric: Bug fix in creation and editing.
• Wall: Fix in displaying posts.
• Admin Statistics: Improvements regarding monthly reports. Improvements in caching.

• New User Interface.
• New themes added.
• Accessibility standard WCAG 2.1 AA supported
• Customizatios of Home Page.
• Redesigned User Portfolio.
• Redesigned Courses List.
• Announcements: Bulk Actions (move, delete, visibilit y/ invisibility).
• Documents:
  • Bulk actions (move, delete, visibility / invisibility).
  • Uploading files via drag 'n' drop.
  • Setting for download preventing.
• Ενότητες μαθήματος: UI Improvements.
• Exercises: Exam Exercise.
• H5P: Support newest H5P libraries.
• Support of predefined Widgets
• Εργαλεία Διαχείρισης: Αναδιοργάνωση λειτουργιών.

• Teleconference: Integration with Zoom via API.
• Documents: Bulk actions (show / hide, move, delete).
• Exercises:
  • New 'forbid copy / paste' option.
  • Check for questions with no grade and / or answers set.
• Learning Path: Improved progress calculation for SCORM learning packages.
• User Authentication:
  • Support the OAuth2 protocol.
  • For institutions using the GUnet Single Sign-On / Identity service, it is now possible to assign platform categories to users depending on their shool / faculty.
• New activities for the 'Flipped Classroom' course type.

• Introduce user with rights Reviewer in course: User Reviewer has read - only access in course resources.
• Exercises:
  • Import exercises from Aiken format.
  • Import / Export from / to QTI format.
• User Administration: User registration via mail invitation.
• Questionaires: Add Quick Poll.
• Documents: Sound and / or Video Recording.
• Certification - Badges:
  • Update percentage from existing course activities.
  • New criteria: Assignment Participation, Learning Path Duration.

• Teleconference: Support for Microsoft Teams.
• Announcements: Bulk actions (delete, change visibility).
• Learning Path: Improvements in percentage calculation in SCORM packages.
• Admin Tools:
  • Create users from Excel format file.
  • Maintenance mode.
  • Add course registration right in user.

• Learning Path: User tracking improvements in SCORM packages.
• Teleconference: Connect with teleconference systems Jitsi, Google Meet, Zoom, WebEx. Report improvements regarding user participation.
• Gradebook: Improvements in grading reporting. Now you can import grades from Excel file.
• Exercises: Add question and exercise feedback.
• Questionnaire: Various improvements. Also, improvements while connecting with LimeSurvey service (if needed).
• Statistics: Improvements concerning user statistics reporting. Improvements in admin statistics.
• User Profile: Improvements in user profile.
• Now reports are exported in Excel file (.xlsx).
• Compatibility with PHP versions 8.1, 8.2

• Fix bugs in “Learning Path”.
• Fix bugs in H5p.
• Update External Libraries

• Change database encoding from utf8 to utf8mb4.
• Course Units: Make a unit as a prerequisite.
• Exercises: New question type “Fill in from predefined answers”.
• User profile: Mark a course as `favorite` (favorite courses have a precedence in ordering).
• H5p content. Course admin can export / import h5p content from one course to another.
• Blog. Course admin can hide a blog post.
• Assignments: Various improvements.
• Questionnaires: Various improvements.
• Connect with UserWay service (if needed)
• Update jQuery library

** Support for H5P **

• Add H5P content (https://h5p.org/) in courses.
• Support import and editing.

** User Registration **

• Improvements and various fixes in user registration via social networks (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Google etc)

** User Rights **

• Various fixes in user department admin rights.

** Course Units **

• Add H5P Content, Blog in course units.

** Refresh Course **

• Option 'Hiding assignments'.

** User Groups **

• Fixes

** Learning Path **

• Fixes

** Other **

• Support for PHP 8.0

Qustionnaire

New options added:

1. Activate multiple user submissions. If it's activated user can submit again.
2. Activate answer 'don't know / don't answer'. Option 'don't know / don't answer' is displayed (multiple choice questions with unique or multiple answers) or no.
3. Cloning: Platform admin can clone questionnaires in all courses.

Exercises

• Improvements in csv format user results in exercises.
• Add new display type in exercises. (one question per page without navigation).
• Change of calculating score algorithm in questions with negative score.
• Fix cloning in question bank.

Assignments

• Display assignments per page. Add `search button`.
• Fix bug (in some cases) in case of using rubriq for grading.

Course units

• Improvements while adding exercises / assignments.

Learning Path

• Fix bugs while inserting links.
• Fix bugs in importing / exporing SCORM / IMSCP.

Assignments

  Rubriq fixes.

Chat

  Fix bug (in some cases user chat text was not displayed)

Exercises

  Dynamic selection of questions with criteria (with difficulty or/and from category)
  Questions shuffle (better handling).
  Exercise Preview.
  Better administration in exercise questions.

** Teleconferences **

 Better handling of teleconferences (distribution algorithms)
 More administration options.

** Statistics **

 Better user statistics reports      

** User Authentication **

 Fix small bugs

General

 New course format (`wall` format)
 Update TinyMCE to version 4.9
 

• Forums:
  • Organize messages per threads or per date.
  • File Attachment.
• Assignments: Support for peer review assignment type.
• Learning Analytics
• Exercises: Improvements in exercise execution.
• Imrpovements in Questionnaire.
• Improvements in Gradebook.
• Improvements in Course Completion.
• Improvements in User Portfolio.
• New Themes

• Support for Turnitin software Plagiarism.
• Download course for 'offline' viewing.
• Improvements and bug fixes in “Exercises”.
• Improvements in “Progress”.
• Changes in “Weekly Course View” format.
• Add 'forward' in “Messages”.
• Support for User Consent Message / Privacy Policy.
• Support for course prerequisites in a course.
• Course admin can add LTI tool in a course.
• Improvements in translation of english messages.

• New module 'Gamification'. Course admins can create certifications - badges and course completion criteria.
• New module 'Mindmap'.
• New module 'e-portfolio'.
• New course type called 'activity'.
• Support for user attendance in 'Teleconference'.
• Support for plagiarism tools.
• Support for electronic 'toolbox'.
• Improvements in 'Assignments' - Support for rubric / criteria during assignment submission grading.
• Improvements in 'Exercises'.
• Improvements in 'Grade Book'.
• Improvements in 'Calendar'.
• Improvements in logging.
• Improvements in 'Search'.
• Improvements in online theme editor.
• Parameterized course home messages.
• Improvements in install / upgrade process.
• Improvements in Administration Tools - Course Hierarchy Administration Tool.
• Security fixes.

• Support of Open Meetings and WebConf.
• Teleconference assignment in specific courses.
• Support of multiple chat rooms in 'Chat'.

• Upgrading the recording mechanism of user actions.
• Upgrading statistical reporting platform.
• Upgrading of user authentication mechanisms through CAS, LDAP, Shibboleth.
• Add new functionality to the user groups.
• Add users automatic recording mechanism on the platform using rules.
• Improvements Assessment subsystems “Tasks”, “Exercises” and “Questionnaires”.
• Enhancements to the management tools of the platform.
• Improvements in accessibility (Accessibility - WCAG 2.0 AA).

• Suport for External Tools e.g. Google Analytics, Antivirus, Firewall, Auto Judge, Google Drive, DropBox, OneDrive etc.
• New methods of user authentication (using Hybrid Auth Library).
• Add custom profile fields during user registration.
• Multiple improvements in users groups. Group settings are now group-wide (and not course-wide).
• Add support for abuse report.
• Multiple improvements during user request in a closed course.
• Improvements in course home layout.
• Improvements in Gradebook and Attendance Book.
• Improvements in “Assignments”, “Exercises” and “Polls”.
• Improvements in Admin tools.
• Improvements in mail messages format.
• Improvements in accessibility.

• 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.

• 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

• 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”.
• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 saving 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 “Documents” 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.

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

• 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.

• New Graphical User Interface
• New “Learning Path” module compatible with SCORM 1.2 and 2004
• New “Questionnaire”module
• New “Wiki” module
• Improved “Assignments” and “Exercises” modules
• Personalized user portfolio
• Multilingual 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 encryption
• New platform's web portal (http://www.openeclass.org)