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Date: 2009-01-12 18:06:43
eFront Newsletter #1
Dear [NAME],
Today is a big day for our growing community! eFront got a new web-site with more info on every aspect of the system. We also provide for first time access to our SVN repository for "hardcore" users. Finally, today a new version of eFront is released which provides dozens of enchancements proposed from the community.
New website
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We have rebuild our web-site from ground-up to better support our growing community and to facilitate our vision to build the best eLearning System in the world.
Feel free to check it out and make comments at http://www.efrontlearning.net
SVN access:
----------
As of January 2009, eFront provides anonymous (read-only) access to its public SVN repository.
This repository is synchronized with our internal SVN repository (which is not publicly available) several times a day.
For SVN access info check the followin page:
http://www.efrontlearning.net/download/svn.html
efront 3.5.2 update
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This update for version 3.5.2 of eFront includes many new features, as well as several bug fixes. In a glance, the most important new features on eFront 3.5.2 build 3335 are:
- Added "hot swap" functionality, for directly switching among different accounts
- Added import/export course functionality
- Added system lock down functionality
- Added copy glossary among lessons functionality
- Added support for conditional login based on license agreement
- Added automatic pre-installation version check for PHP 5
- Added minimum password length attribute in system configuration
- Added conditional concurrent logins functionality
- Enhanced lesson initialization functionality
- Added lesson initialization options to lesson import
- Added additional lesson options and applied options/modules categorization
- Added possibility of creating textarea fields in user profile
In addition to these, there are many bug fixes and updates, the most important being:
- Minor reporting fixes (completed lesson score appearing in list, low/high question types appearing correctly)
- Fixed bug with reporting projects progress for students in "user progress"
- User reports information page displays not-completed tests as well
- Fixed not displaying registration link when LDAP-only registration is enabled
- Fixed paypal redirection issue
- Fixed bug with lesson periods not working
- Lessons in course order are no longer clickable (linked to the index
page)
- Fixed issue with SCORM tests not beeing reported correctly in statistics, when there are no other tests in the lesson.
- Fixed issue with flash SCORM content overlaying above popups
- Fixed bug with SCORM export option, when scorm_data directory is absent
- Fixed issue with SCORM tests score not being canonicalized correctly, thus preventing lessons from auto completing
- Lesson progress and content status is now dynamically depicted even for SCORM content
- Fixed bug with not displaying filesystem contents in editor's media/link/image etc selection, under specific server configurations
- Fixed issue with glossary not handling specific words, depending on the characters lying before or after the word.
- Fixed IE issue with non-clickable units
- Fixed z-indexing issue in statistics' autompleted list.
- Lesson modules and options display is now separated
- Fixed issue with redirection after creating lesson that is set to "course-only" mode
- Reordered enterprise/educational versions files
- Fixed issue with SSL https:// support
- The selected unit is now remembered across calls when editing tests or questions.
- Grouped course settings icon under a single option in administrator's courses list
- When a test includes free text questions, its results may also appear as "pending" instead of just "success" or "failed"
- Added missing navigation handles in student's solved test review
- Fixed wrong link in tests search results
- Fixed unable to search without logging into a lesson
- Embedded Right-to-left option for corresponding languages
- Changed ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE to ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE for PHP 5.2.8+ compatibility
- Fixed calendar bug, where a professor could delete other lessons' events when in "show all" mode
- Fixed certificate preview error in Internet Explorer
- Fixed node reordering bug
Use the following url to download this version:
http://www.efrontlearning.net/download/download-efront.html
Enjoy!
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Today is a big day for our growing community! eFront got a new web-site with more info on every aspect of the system. We also provide for first time access to our SVN repository for "hardcore" users. Finally, today a new version of eFront is released which provides dozens of enchancements proposed from the community.
New website
-----------
We have rebuild our web-site from ground-up to better support our growing community and to facilitate our vision to build the best eLearning System in the world.
Feel free to check it out and make comments at http://www.efrontlearning.net
SVN access:
----------
As of January 2009, eFront provides anonymous (read-only) access to its public SVN repository.
This repository is synchronized with our internal SVN repository (which is not publicly available) several times a day.
For SVN access info check the followin page:
http://www.efrontlearning.net/download/svn.html
efront 3.5.2 update
-----------
This update for version 3.5.2 of eFront includes many new features, as well as several bug fixes. In a glance, the most important new features on eFront 3.5.2 build 3335 are:
- Added "hot swap" functionality, for directly switching among different accounts
- Added import/export course functionality
- Added system lock down functionality
- Added copy glossary among lessons functionality
- Added support for conditional login based on license agreement
- Added automatic pre-installation version check for PHP 5
- Added minimum password length attribute in system configuration
- Added conditional concurrent logins functionality
- Enhanced lesson initialization functionality
- Added lesson initialization options to lesson import
- Added additional lesson options and applied options/modules categorization
- Added possibility of creating textarea fields in user profile
In addition to these, there are many bug fixes and updates, the most important being:
- Minor reporting fixes (completed lesson score appearing in list, low/high question types appearing correctly)
- Fixed bug with reporting projects progress for students in "user progress"
- User reports information page displays not-completed tests as well
- Fixed not displaying registration link when LDAP-only registration is enabled
- Fixed paypal redirection issue
- Fixed bug with lesson periods not working
- Lessons in course order are no longer clickable (linked to the index
page)
- Fixed issue with SCORM tests not beeing reported correctly in statistics, when there are no other tests in the lesson.
- Fixed issue with flash SCORM content overlaying above popups
- Fixed bug with SCORM export option, when scorm_data directory is absent
- Fixed issue with SCORM tests score not being canonicalized correctly, thus preventing lessons from auto completing
- Lesson progress and content status is now dynamically depicted even for SCORM content
- Fixed bug with not displaying filesystem contents in editor's media/link/image etc selection, under specific server configurations
- Fixed issue with glossary not handling specific words, depending on the characters lying before or after the word.
- Fixed IE issue with non-clickable units
- Fixed z-indexing issue in statistics' autompleted list.
- Lesson modules and options display is now separated
- Fixed issue with redirection after creating lesson that is set to "course-only" mode
- Reordered enterprise/educational versions files
- Fixed issue with SSL https:// support
- The selected unit is now remembered across calls when editing tests or questions.
- Grouped course settings icon under a single option in administrator's courses list
- When a test includes free text questions, its results may also appear as "pending" instead of just "success" or "failed"
- Added missing navigation handles in student's solved test review
- Fixed wrong link in tests search results
- Fixed unable to search without logging into a lesson
- Embedded Right-to-left option for corresponding languages
- Changed ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE to ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE for PHP 5.2.8+ compatibility
- Fixed calendar bug, where a professor could delete other lessons' events when in "show all" mode
- Fixed certificate preview error in Internet Explorer
- Fixed node reordering bug
Use the following url to download this version:
http://www.efrontlearning.net/download/download-efront.html
Enjoy!
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