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Sakai 2.5 Release Highlights

Cross-Project Activities

Accessibility WG

  • Outcomes from 2.4 accessibility review influenced many changes and improvements for 2.5.

Internationalization WG

  • Currently Available
    • Arabic
    • English/UK (new)
    • Catalan
    • Simplified Chinese (updated)
    • Dutch (updated)
    • French/Canadian (updated)
    • Japanese (updated)
    • Korean (updated)
    • Portuguese/Brazilian (new)
    • Portuguese/Portuguese (updated)
    • Russian (new)
    • Spanish (updated)
    • Swedish
  • Translation Underway (will be merged to maintenance branch when ready)
    • Traditional Chinese
    • Danish
    • French/France
    • German
    • Hebrew
    • Mongolian
    • Slovakian
    • Turkish
    • Vietnamese

/wiki/spaces/UI/overview

  • "More Tab" improvements from FLUID project.
  • Support for Tool icons.
  • iFrame-less Accessible portal (PDA Portal).

Tools

Account

  • Option to sync user data between Account and Profile tools.

Assignments

  • Allow grading for students that have not posted any submissions.
  • Non-electronic submission type.
  • Notifications for new submissions.
  • Upload all.
  • Reordering of assignments (like Resources).
  • Improved Assignments-Gradebook integration.

Attachment Widget

  • Changed default security setting for viewing attachments from secuirty-by-obscurity to forcing a user to login first.

Chat Room

  • Ability to delete all chat history for a given room.

Citations Helper

  • Import citations in RIS format from other tools such as RefWorks and Endnote.
  • Sort citation lists by author, title, or date.
  • Search for and embed citations from within the WYSIWYG Editor (FCKeditor); similar to Twin Peaks.

Forums

  • Ability to delete forum messages.
  • Added synoptic views for Home.
  • (Separated out from MessageCenter previously in 2.4.)

Help

  • Support for help content in multiple languages.
  • Added sakai.properties setting to hide help collections.
  • Added tool registration property to register additional help collections.
  • Updates to help content from Indiana University (IU) Knowledge Base for 2.5 functionality (as provided by project leads and IU KB team).

Gradebook

  • Support for categories and weighted categories.
  • New grade entry types: percentages and letter grades.
  • Import grades using a downloaded spreadsheet template.
  • Individual student grade reports for instructors.
  • Enable an instructor to "see what a student sees".
  • Allow export course grades in addition to export gradebook.
  • Blank grades now treated as null (rather than previous treatment as 0).
  • Introduction of grader permissions (ie grading by group and/or section)
  • Usability enhancements in workflow and layout.

Messages

  • Ability to bulk Move and Delete Message.
  • Ability to forward Messages.
  • Added synoptic views for Home.
  • (Separated out from MessageCenter previously in 2.4.)

Portfolio (OSP)

  • Promoted from Provisional to Cores status.
  • New XSLT portal.
  • Aggregated View of Matrix and Portfolios.
  • Expanded sharing capabilities for Portfolios.
  • Many user interface bug fixes and improvements.
  • Group-aware matrices.
  • Assignment references within Matrix/Wizards.

Profile

  • Option to sync user data between Account and Profile tools.

Resources

  • Replaced dropdown widget for Add and Action menus with an accessible one.
  • Dropboxes
    • Students and Instructors can now choose to email each other when they upload to a Dropbox.
    • Instructors can now see a visual indication of which folders contain recently updated content.
    • Removal of inappropriate options from Dropbox interface.
  • (See also |#Content below.)

Roster

  • New UI with a separate tabular view for profile and official institutional photos.
  • Integration with Course Management API to display enrollment status information.
  • Expanded permission scheme to retain the Roster's general use purpose while incorporating course-specific features.
  • Significant performance improvements.

Schedule

  • Performance improvements to reduce memory load of schedules with a large number of items.
  • iCal subscription export service and import; reoccurring events are not yet supported. (ical.experimental=true)

Section Info

  • Download or print a roster list that provides each student's section memberships.
  • Better enforcement of the maximum section size.

Tests & Quizzes, a.k.a. Samigo

  • Promoted from Provisional to Core status.
  • Allow ability to move/copy/remove multiple questions to other pools.
  • Allow ability to adjust score in edit assessment screen.
  • Allow ability to remove published assessments.
  • Add event logging for user operations.
  • Allow copying of all questions in a part to a selected pool.
  • Allow students' responses to be exported to Excel.
  • Allow point values of questions to be reset when a random draw from pool part is created; all questions from the pool are copied to the part.

Framework/Kernel Services

Content Hosting Service

  • Improved performance by rewriting underlying Storage of entities to reduce memory usage and CPU load,
  • Refactoring of database to eliminate bottlenecks in the underlying content hosting service.
  • Preliminary support for the integration of JSR-170 repositories
  • (See also |#Resources above.)

Content Review

  • Minor changes in APIs and to integration with Assignments; only applicable to sites running a content review implementation (e.g., Turnitin).

Database

  • Addition of a faster lower memory footprint entity parser based on SAX.
  • Addition of an optimized binary entity serialization.

Email

  • Added bulk header to email notifications.
  • Improved handling of long URLs in emails.

Memory

  • Centralized management of Hibernate Cache provision.
  • Replacement of MemoryService cache with ehcache in preparation for cluster wide cache optimizations.
  • Upgrade to ecache 1.3 to enable JMX capabilities.

Portal

  • Addition of site categorization.
  • Addition of tool categorization.
  • Improved experimental iFrame-less tool presentation (a.k.a. PDA portal)

User Directory Service

  • Improved performance when retrieving provided users.
  • Support for login IDs (for Kerberos authentication, for example) which differ from user EIDs.
  • Optional short-term authentication caching to greatly improve DAV performance.
  • Can now enable or disable User Directory Provider implementations via the sakai.properties file.
  • Reduced number of required methods in the User Directory Provider interface.

Provisional Tools

Blogger

  • Internationalization improvements.
  • Switch to using same WYSIWYG editor as other tools in Sakai (FCK editor).

Data Warehouse

  • Separated from OSP to realize its general usefulness for reporting functionality.

Linktool

  • Updated documentation.
  • Now deploy SakaiSigning.jws to webservices by default.
  • Added placement id to list of parameters passed.
  • Support for specifying additional parameters in the tool setup or URL.
  • Cleaned up tool formatting and validation.
  • Added new default verification script.

Page Order Helper

  • Improved keyboard accessibility.

Podcasts

  • Permissions now a reflection of permissions in Resources.

Polls

  • Minor UI improvements:
    • rich text editor
    • date picker widget
  • Improved data validation.

Reset Password

  • Added to release as a Provisional tool.
  • Addressed critical indexing errors for clusters with a journaled indexer.
  • Reduced memory usage in indexers.

Jira Details

There are a number of pre-configured filters in Jira, which provide an entry point for information on Sakai 2.5:

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