New Features (2.7)

I. New features

Global (2.7)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-12071 - Getting issue details... STATUS

skin/markup changes for 2.7

Admin Site Management (2.7)

Aliases (2.7)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-14685 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add Navigation features to Alias list in Admin Workspace

Assignments (2.7)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-13843 - Getting issue details... STATUS

assignment-information display on triggers

SAK-14461 - Getting issue details... STATUS

provide assignment download options similar to upload options

SAK-14869 - Getting issue details... STATUS

adjust Assignment upload all choices according to Assignment submission type

SAK-17368 - Getting issue details... STATUS

send email notification when assignment grading is released

BasicLTI (1.1)

Calendar Summary and Widget(2.7)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-14880 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Ability to specify whether externally subscribed events in other sites are displayed in My Workspace calendar

Chat (2.7)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-16523 - Getting issue details... STATUS

add long description of permissions to chat language bundles

Common (1.0)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-11068 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Log events for meaningful user actions - Profile

Conditional Release (2.7)

Dropbox (2.7)

Ticket

New Features

SAK-13193 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add preference for dropbox notifications, allow instructor control over whether they are permitted by students

SAK-17288 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add "new" marker to "newness" navigator

edu-services (1.0)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-17428 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Patch to allow edu-services gradebook data model to support Gradebook 2

Emailtemplateservice (0.4)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-17679 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Ability to update an email template

EntityBroker (1.3)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-14216 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add entity support to Polls tool

SAK-14618 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add "roles" list to EntitySite for use through JSON

SAK-15915 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Set default view to request header 'Accept' value

SAK-16014 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Site feed should have an option to get groups as well

SAK-16757 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add support for JSONP callbacks on entity data feeds

SAK-17471 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add group manipulation abilites to the Entity Broker

SAK-18103 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add a custom action to the site provider, enabling the retrieval of user permissions

SAK-18131 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add ability to retrieve the roles and permissions for those roles within a specified site

SAK-18248 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add way of setting the permissions for a worksite via REST

Gradebook (2.7)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-11605 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Number conversions in gradebook (internationalization)

SAK-14173 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Gradebook Import Grades should also browse Resources for spreadsheet file

SAK-14520 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Display Class Avg with decimals instead of whole numbers

SAK-14590 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add gradebook item name as a parameter for the "Create a new gradebook item" helper

SAK-14641 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add methods to GradebookService to help answer permission questions for a given user, not just current user

SAK-14705 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add Gradebook Item Helper / Gradebook item relative weight displayed for points-based gradebook

SAK-16395 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Widget on individual grade screen should save grades when clicking Next & Previous student

SAK-16401 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add due date as a parameter to the "Add a Gradebook Item" helper

SAK-17937 - Getting issue details... STATUS

gradebook needs to fire a per-item event for conditional release to work

Linktool (2.7)

Ticket

New feature

SAK-14868 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add ability for linktool to get url from sakai.properties

SAK-14900 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Add verification code for getsession method

Messages and Forums (2.7)

UI makeover, performance improvements

Ticket

New feature

MSGCNTR-9 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Forums posts marked as 'read' after displaying all messages (optional / enabled by property)

MSGCNTR-169 - Getting issue details... STATUS

New and empty tool pre-populated with default forum and topic (optional / enabled by property)

MSGCNTR-179 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Display last activity time and sort by recent activity (optional / enabled by property)

MSGCNTR-195 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Ability to link directly to forum messages

MSGCNTR-200 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Ability for specified roles to email author if messages/threads

MSGCNTR-200 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Ability for site participants to receive notification

MSGCNTR-255 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Addition of a Synoptic View of Messages & Forums for all sites

MSGCNTR-256 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Count of how many people have read a message will now be displayed

MSGCNTR-257 - Getting issue details... STATUS

View of all postings by an individual

Polls (1.3)

Portfolios (2.7)

Profile (2.7)

The profile tool has been deprecated in favor of profile2.

Profile2 (1.3)

Search (1.2)

rwiki (2.7)

UI tweeks.

Issue

New features

SAK-16798 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Ability to hide comments in wiki

SAK-16866 - Getting issue details... STATUS

rwiki interface tweeks

SiteStats (2.1)

Now, 2.0 --> 2.1 changes doesn't include any "big feature" or, in other words, a "visible" feature to the end-user:
Lots of bugfixes
Code clean up
Dependencies upgrades
Static code review
Meet Sakai 2.7.0 requirements: pom changes, licensing, assembly, mvn release plugin, etc
Compression of css/js
EntityBroker event aggregator metrics
Review of wordings on labels (Overview page)
Review of minor incompatibilities with Sakai Style Guide (links)
Disable report exporting from sakai.properties

Tests & Quizzes (Samigo)

Ticket

New feature

SAM-623 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Students can now view all submissions/scores.

SAM-727 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Published assignments parts are now editable.

SAM-676 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Instructors can add attachment to score/feedback page.

SAM-679 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Samigo assessment main page usability improvements.

SAM-674 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Auto-save enabled.

SAM-721 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Question bank printing.

SAM-638 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Email notification when publishing/republishing assessments.

SAM-818 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Partial Credit for Multiple Choice Assessments.

II. No feature changes

Announcements
Archive
Attachment Widget
Blogger (deprecated and stealthed)
Config
Courier
Data Warehouse (deprecated)
Email Archive
Help Tool

III. Internationalization

Catalan updates
Japanese updates
Portuguese updates
Spanish updates
Swedish updates
Russian updates

Ticket

New feature

SAK-2601 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Use human readable (and translatable) language for end users in permission matrixes

SAK-8908 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Tool titles and Page titles should be displayed in user's prefered language/locale

SAK-15479 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Unable to export Roster with UTF-8 character names

SAK-15480 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Unable to export Gradebook with UTF-8 character names

SAK-16422 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Tools sorting incorrectly international characters

SAK-16919 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Optional properties don't change language-dependent displayed text

SAK-17558 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Automatic file encoding detection

SAK-17563 - Getting issue details... STATUS

User Preferences Tool doesn't display language/locale/variant defined in sakai.properties locales

SAK-18165 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Tool names doesn't change when setting language preferences to English