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Sakai 2.4 Tool Preview

Email Original text from email from Peter Knoop 4/5/07 - additional text added from various tools

The following list is a preview of some of the new and updated functionality the project teams are expecting to deliver in Sakai 2.4, in addition to bug fixes. Links to more detailed information on most projects can be found in the Management/Project Coordination space in Confluence: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/MGT

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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

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

WYSIWYG

  • Upgraded to FCK Editor 2.4.1 to address a variety of issues, such as IE7 compatibility.

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