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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-3526http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-3526
  • Implemented IMS content packaging to allow import/export of assessments with attachments SAK-5419http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/ 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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