Transcript Are you ready for the next steps? Here comes 4.2!

Are you ready for the next steps?
Here comes 4.2!
Alexander Killing & Matthias Kunkel
ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.
ILIAS 4.2
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a new version with a lot of new and improved features
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but also a version „in transit“
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New
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Extended
Features
Accept terms and conditions within the purchasing process • Add questions from test-pools or survey-pools • Add user field
should accept also e-mail-adress • Additional editable login-screen for purchasing process • Autocomplete in member searches •
Automatic table of contents in wikis • Blocking of single wiki pages • Blogs • Bread-crumb to navigate wiki within "last visited" •
Buyable upload/download of exercises • Configurable course notification • Connection between sessions and calendars • Copy
learning modules • Copy template permissions • Course offline notification for course admin/tutor inside courses • Creation of
courses from ECS • Daily report for group / course members • Date of last change in learning progress • Deactivation of Page
History • Deactivation of system messages • Delete/redesign buttons in survey • Didactic templates • e-Portfolio
skills/competencies • Editable billing confirmation mail • Editable login screen • Embed questions from pools in learning modules
• Enable/disable shop information tab • Explorer • Export IDs for learning module pages • Export of wikis • Extension of inactive
account • Extension of the personal website • Forced new post titel • Info page revision for survey and test • Instance link areas •
Labeling of sticky posts in forums • LDAP as data source • Links to other ILIAS resources in wikis • Make objects-icons clickable
• Manual sorting in groups: All in one block and manual sorting within this block • Mark buyable objects as "Special" • Migration
of value field in table settings • Multiple ECS configurations • Name blocks in survey • New placeholders in SCORM certificate •
Online/offline in tests • Option random selection of questions - user interaction • Optional preconditions • Oracle 11g support •
Page last modified information on wiki pages • Personal resources • Portfolio excercise • Potential performance improvements •
Purchasing and accessability information of bought objects • Quick import for media objects • Redesign for comments,
annotations and tags • Redesign of survey diagrams • Reduce number of versions in usage tab • Rename wiki pages •
Replacement of the chat system • Reporting object statistics • Revision and extension of wiki navigation • Revision of automatic
question feedback in learning modules • Revision of „Last visited“ feature • Revision of repository object creation forms •
Revision of the main menu • Revision of the personal desktop • Save question-changes in a question-pool to surveys • SCORM
1.2 interface without JAVA • SCORM 2004 RTE: 4th Edition Support • SCORM 2004 RTE: improvements • SCORM 2004 RTE:
performance • SCORM debugger for SCORM data • SCORM editor: assets, entry and completion page • SCORM editor:
extended support for question types • SCORM editor: HTML export • SCORM editor: Import/export for page templates • SCORM
editor: Interactive images, image type limitation • SCORM editor: Keep sequencing and metadata information on import •
SCORM editor: Optional learning objectives, bullet lists • SCORM editor: Styles for RTE navigation • Session screen
improvement • Set layout for multiple pages in learning modules • Show local role in member tab • Show only current usage of
snippets/media objects • Sorting in sessions • Standardization the user interaction in the objects: preconditions, startobject,
membership limit., ... • Streamline learning progress views • Survey: Express mode • Survey: Preview • System/course admin
search for users: Show also e-mail • Terms and conditdions • Test: Express mode • Tree navigation in forums • Usability
Date of last change in learning progress
Replacement of the chat system
SCORM 2004 4th edition support
Some features
especially
selected for you!
Revision of the Main Menu
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Re-organisation of main menu entries
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Personal Desktop, Repository, Administration as entries
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Search as input form
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Mail as icon top left (and menu entry in PD)
Revision of the Main Menu
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Drop-down menues for
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Personal Desktop
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Repository (incl. „Last Visited“)
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Administration (no more frameset)
New Creation Forms for Repository Objects
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Unified creation screens for all repository objects
Accordeons with only one open form / option
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New
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Import
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Copy
No settings
Comments, Notes and Tagging
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New presentation for comments, notes and tags
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Layer at right side offers direct access
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Notification about number of notes and comments on
content page
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Action menu
entries for
adding
comments,
notes and tags
My Workspace
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A personal space on each
Personal Desktop to upload
and share
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Files
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Weblinks
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Blogs
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Certificates
My Workspace
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Access control lists - no RBAC
Sharing of content
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Single user
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Group or course
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All registered users in platform
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WWW (with/without password)
Re-use in portfolios
Files can be copied in
repository
Blog
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User can create their personal blogs
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No repository object
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Access via My Workspace
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Can be shared with
others
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Can be included in
portfolio
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„Writing a blog“
as exercise type
Portfolio
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Users can present themselves on a portfolio
Portfolios are created on Personal Desktop
Different portfolios for different target groups
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Access for external visitors via URL plus „password“
Former „Public Profile“ is now a portfolio
Skill Management
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Create skills for specific subjects
Define and describe skills and add trigger
Re-use of skills in portfolio
Didactic Templates
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Specific use of an object realised with one click
Didactic templates consists of
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Permission settings / role templates
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Actions for specific permission changes
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Creation of new objects
Examples:
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Category as internal authoring area
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Folder as dropbox
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Open and closed groups
A New Chat
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New implementation of chat object
Better performance
Chatroom as repository object
SCORM
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Javascript-based RTE for SCORM 1.2
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JAVA support on client side no longer required
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Runs now also on browsers that haven‘t supported former
JAVA RTE, e.g. Chrome 10
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Better performance
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New start options
SCORM Editor Improvements
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Assets, Interactive Images, New Question Types
ILIAS Page Editor Revision
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Page editor has become more WYSIWYG
Inline editing on page (no more extra screen)
Remove formatting easily
Option to use bold-italic-underline (instead of str-emp-imp)
Save & stay or save & return
Wiki Improvements
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Anchor in a page
Automatic table of contents
Bread-crumb
Links to other ILIAS resources
Locking of single wiki pages
Popular pages and rating
Rename wiki pages
Side bar and navigation
Reporting Objects Statistics
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Statistic information about selected objects or object
types concerning
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Usage intensity – ‘Time spent‘ or ‘Access number‘
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Daily usage – total or per ‘2 hours time slot‘
Number of existing objects of one type
4.2 Lifecycle
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March 2010
Start of collecting requirements
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31 March 2011
Feature freeze
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May 2011
Testing started
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05 August 2011
Beta1 published
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Mid-september 2011 4.2.0 stable
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November 2011
4.2 branch
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September 2013
End of maintenance
More Information
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Visit www.ilias.de
or contact
[email protected]
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You can try out
ILIAS 4.2 at
www.ilias.de/test42