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- Scheduled release (i.e. a future posting date) and retract dates for announcements SAK-8777
- Added support for show/hide similar to Resources tool; expands on and replaces previous draft functionality. SAK-8637
Assignments:
These enhancements were postponed for a post-release version of the 2.4 Assignments tool
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- Add week/month view option (SAK-8399)
- Use color-coding for event types (SAK-5073) (requires sakai.properties settings)
- Small I18N issue (SAK-8541)
- Show more event info (attachments, link to schedule event)
- Quartz job to add the Calendar Summary to existing sites.
Chat Room:
Do not test until we verify if we're using this new version. 5/23/07
- refactoring which fixed significant stability and performance problems.
- Support multiple concurrent chat rooms.
- Normalize chat's schema into relational tables (conversion from XML storage). (SAK-8508)
- Rewrite UI in JSF. (SAK-8508)
- Refactor manager class for easier plug in of other messaging platforms like XMPP.
- Now will import any rooms created as well as the synoptic view options. (SAK-5917)
Gradebook:
These changes are specific to the Sakai 2.4 release.
- A per-installation configurable spreadsheet download (SAK-7713)
- Section/Group specific spreadsheet downloads based on the user's filter options
- Support for course grades indepedent of grade calculation scheme
- Simplification/clean up of student view (SAK-7036)
- Participation in Sakai migration/archiving service (SAK-7583)
- Participation in Sakai Event tracking (SAK-6207)
- Allow comments for each assigned grade (SAK-7031)
- Expanded services for client tool integration
- Fix to critical grade data contention issue (SAK-7407)
Messages/Forums (formerly Message Center):
- Split former "Message Center" into two tools, namely Messages and Forums.
- Addition of Message Notification synoptic view
- Support for importing Forums & topics from other sites added
- Group awareness added
- Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.
- "Quote" feature (Insert original text in forum messages)
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- 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 moderate topics
News:
- News feed settings will now import. (SAK-5920)
- News events (read, update feed) will be logged. (SAK-6212)
Page Order Helper:
- Allow Page Order Helper to override toolOrder.xml rather than conflicting with it. (SAK-7341)
Resources:
- Content Handlers to mount external resources in CHS and navigate into packaged resources (SAK-4602)
- Fix to issue where uploading files take up their entire size in system memory. Now streamed.
- Resource "Type" registry for identifying new content types
- Move implementation of "Form Items" out of "content" project and use type registry to maintain their presence in Resources 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
- Allow a new root level folder in ContentHosting for private application collections (SAK-7700)
Roster:
- Add group/section support to tool. (SAK-6231)
- Add new print friendly view. (SAK-7340)
- Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.
Search:
- The ability to set a single app server for search indexing, while other nodes connect to it via webservices. For performance concerns in larger installations. See sakai.properties settings above. (SAK-7494)
- Multi-site search. (SAK-8717)
Section Info:
- The automatic creation and representation of SIS-provisioned course structures, metadata and memberships (aka Sections).
- Support for multiple meeting places and times per Section.
- UI refinements for filtering view.
- Configurability to ensure that the application functionality and UI match local institutional needs and SIS data.
Syllabus:
- Print-friendly view. (SAK-8548)
Tests & Quizzes:
- Added email functionality to allow instructors to email invididual sudents from 'Scores' screens, SAK-7094
- Create and release a quiz with another tester as the student. After the 'student' has taken your quiz, send him/her and email from the Scores screen.
- Allow instructors to give individual students permission to re-take the assessment SAK-7093
- Create and release a quiz with only 1 submission allowed. After the 'student' has taken your quiz, go to the Scores/Submission Status screen and allow the user to retake the quiz.
- A disable/enable toggle of all FCK Editors in Authoring screen. SAK-5904
- Author a quiz and try toggling the editors off and on.
- Random questions and multiple attempts: added flavor of randomization selection for random parts. SAK-7696 - see specific test above.
- Allow Samigo contents to be imported from other Sakai Sites using the Site Info tool's 'Import From Site' link. SAK-7378
- Requires Instructor access to 2 or more sites. Create quizzes in one site. Log into a second site and select Site Info -> Import from Site -> and select 1 or more sites. Check Tests & Quizzes. Verify that your quizzes were copied successfully to the second site.
- Allow instructors to change feedback settings after assessments are published. SAK-3943
- Create a quiz and publish it with a specific feedback. Take the quiz as a student and verify the feedback setting. Now, as Instructor, change the feedback setting. Take the quiz as a different student and verify the new feedback setting.
- Change the 'copy' function in question pool to be a deep copy, rather than a link. SAK-3526
- Create a simple question pool. Copy the question pool. Edit a question in the copied pool. Verify that the original question in the first pool is unchanged - i.e., the second pool of questions are truely copies not linked to the originals.
- Implemented IMS content packaging to allow import/export of assessments with attachments SAK-5419
- Create a simple quiz and include 1-3 questions with attachments. Export the quiz using the "Content Packaging" choice. Import the quiz AS AN ASSESSMENT (note - does not work for question pools). Import the quiz into another site and verify that the attachments are imported.
- Allow importing of Samigo assessments to Question Pool. SAK-6993
- Run through the import of a single-section assessment as a question pool one more time to verify that it works in the public release.
- Importing simple text formatted assessments to Samigo using Word-2-QTI converter. SAK-8642
- When we implement this tool, you will see a Quick Create button next to the Create option in Samigo. Try out this feature as if you were an instructor.