2.4 Changes

04-Mar-2007

• Added support for show/hide for consistency with other tools; expands on and replaces previous draft functionality

09-Mar-2007

• SAK-8398 - Show more event info (attachments, link to schedule event)
• SAK-8399 - Add week/month view option
• SAK-5073 - Use colors for event types based on user-defined priority
• Small I18N issue (SAK-8541)

27-Feb-2007

• Support multiple concurrent chat rooms.
• Normalize chat's schema into relational tables (coversion from XML storage).
• Rewrite UI in JSF.
• Refactor manager class for easier plug in of other messaging platforms like XMPP.

18-Mar-2007

• Ran out of time, just bug fixes.

02-Apr-2007

• Content Handlers to mount external resources in CHS and navigate into packaged resources (details)
• Resource "Type" Registry
• Move implementation of "Form Items" out of "content" project and use type registry to maintain their presence in Resource tool
• Add support for Citations and/or Citation Lists in Resources tool (as a new type registered in the registry)
• UI changes to action links in Resources listing

• Port View technology to VTL
• complete i18n
• add Preview, ajax based
• redesign Edit UI
• Make comments and notification non experimental
• re-implement auto save functionality without cookies
• fix as many bugs as possible

4-Apr-07 Update help content for new functionality in 2.4. Additional help content for newer tools. Ability to redirect to an external help webapp (SAK-7619).

28-Feb-2007

• Addition of Message Notification synoptic view
• support for importing Forums & topics from other sites added
• Group aware Discussion Forums
• Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.
• Quote feature (Insert original text in forum messages)
• Split Message Center (renamed) into two tools - 1) Messages and 2) Forums.
• Display statistics for user's postings and read messages in Discussion Forums
• Ability to expand all discussion forum posts to include body text, not just subject heads
• Revamped UI of Forums
• Ability to moderated topics

1-Mar-2007 Bug fixes for 2.4

1-Mar-2007

• Add group/section support to tool.
• Add new print friendly view.
• Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.
• Bug fixes
• Performance enhancements

07-April-2007

The 2.4 release of Section Info will introduce major changes facilitated by the new Course Management API:

• The automatic creation and representation of SIS-provisioned course structures, metadata and memberships (aka Sections).
• Support for multiple meeting places and times per Section
• Configurability to ensure that the application functionality and UI match local institutional needs and SIS data

01-Mar-2007 Adding Print friendly view and bug fixes

02-Apr-2007

• Updated course creation process.
• Integration with new CourseManagementService.
• Ability to search for a course.

21-Nov-2006 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

• Update dependencies to remove as many digester bugs are possible. (POI)
• Rewrite XML digester to remove object creation as far as possible.
• Rewrite mergeing strategy to eliminate proliferation of small segments.
• Test in clustered environment
• Remove as many bugs as possible.

16-Mar-2006

new features in 2.4:

• Added email functionality to allow instructors to email invididual sudents from 'Scores' screens, SAK-7094

• Allow instructors to give individual students permission to re-take the assessment SAK-7093

• A disable/enable toggle of all FCK Editors in Authoring screen. SAK-5904. Based on Dave Ross's contributed patch.

• Random questions and multiple attempts: added flavor of randomization selection for random parts. SAK-7696

• Allow Samigo contents to be imported from other Sakai Sites using the Site Info tool's 'Import From Site' link. SAK-7378

• Allow instructors to change feedback settings for after assessments are published. SAK-3943

• Change the 'copy' function in question pool to be a deep copy, rather than a link. SAK-3526

• Implemented IMS content packaging to allow import/export of assessments with attachments SAK-5419

• Allow importing of Samigo assessments to Question Pool. SAK-6993. Contributor: Lisa Wilson from UC Davis.

• Importing simple text formatted assessments to Samigo using Word-2-QTI converter. SAK-8642. Contributor: James Renfro from UC Davis, based on code from Claremont McKenna College.

• i18n Internationalization/localization support implemented. SAK-8643. Contributor: Diego del Blanco Orobitg from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

• performance enhancements / bug fixes

1-March-2007 2.4 will include bug fixes for IU Podcasting tool

26-Sep-2006 Awaiting update from Project Lead(s).

12-Jan-2007 Re-design for group-awareness, and refactoring. Some methods to be moved to Sakai's EmailService, where appropriate.

28-Feb-2007

• Become Provisional
• Address a few key Jira tickets

15-Mar-2007

• Added Site Term info (UMEM-13).
• Changing license in java files
• Adding tool context help
• Minor UI change

4-Apr-2007 New provisional tool in 2.4.

 
2-Apr-2007 See here for details

 Development Areas for OSP 2.4

• Improved the user experience (e.g. improved form  rendering)
• Integrated reports ; users can now create customized report templates for institutional needs;
• Integrated the Goal Management Tool into OSP matrices and wizards
• Improved authoring flexibility - can now preview matrices, wizards, and portfolios
• Integrating a form builder - XSD Weaver is now available from the Sakai Contrib space at https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/ucf/Xsdweaver/
• Documentation to support campus implementation efforts (e.g. for authors, end users, faculty, and implementation teams)