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- Changes to the way in which assignments are entered into the Gradebook to make it easier to edit Gradebook entries that came from the assignment tool API change
- Provide a setting on the Assignment to allow all students to resubmit (as opposed to having to visit each submission to allow resubmission) Assignment level resubmit Not available until 2.5
- Allow instructors to enter a grade for students who haven't posted a submission Grade non-submitted
- Provide an additional assginment type which doesn't require an electronic submission Non-electronic submission option
- Send an email to the student to confirm their submission Submission confirmation
- Add the ability to upload a zip file containing submissions Upload all
- UCT is adding an optional interface to TurnItIn
Authz
- Some ease-of-use (for developers) enhancements
- New "provider only" for roles
- Improved transaction handling
Blog
No changes listed for Blog tool in version 2.4
Calendar Summary
- Show more event info (attachments, link to schedule event)
- Add week/month view option
- Use colors for event types based on user-defined priority
- Small I18N issue (SAK-8541)
Chat Room
- 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.
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- A per Sakai installation configurable spreadsheet download via a plug in
- 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
- Participation in Sakai site re-use
- Participation in nascent Sakai migration/archiving service
- Participation in Sakai Event tracking
- A grade comments feature
- Expanded services for client tool integration
- Reduce data contention in Gradebook SAK-7407, e.g., "the ONLY time data contention should occur is when two graders are trying to change the same score for the same student at around the same time."
Help
- 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).
Internationalization
- Complete localization of all core tools
- Updates to existing translations (Catalan, French, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish)
- Additional translation in Arabic (requires RTL skin)
- Internationalized date/time input widgets available to tools
- Internationalized Tool Titles & Descriptions
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- 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
- Sorting by column fixed (per SAK-9103)
Roster
- Add group/section support to tool.
- Add new print friendly view.
- Enforce enhanced privacy management settings.
- Bug fixes
- Performance enhancements
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- Adding Print friendly view
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Tests & Quizzes (Samigo) - not in original email from Peter
- 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
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