# Dokeos Changelog

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# Dokeos 1.8.5 - May 2008

### Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.5 is a major debugging release but includes interesting new features as well.

### New Features

- Considerable security improvements - 2 major and 1 minor security patches have been applied since the latest stable version
- SCORM export improvement (now generates SCORM 1.2 compliant packages and transforms Dokeos quizzes into SCO items, using interactions as a bonus)
- Possibility to filter extension of submitted files all around Dokeos
- OpenID authentication support
- Possibility to import Word documents
- Possibility to import docx and pptx documents (new MS-Office format)
- Grades, evaluations and success certificates available thanks to the integration of the gradebook extension. Activating this module will clash with a gradebook extension installation made previously
- Coloured icons added to courses list in administration panel to show access permissions
- Logout button now shows the username of the current user
- Student view re-activated and fully-functional
- Searching the forum is now possible so you can use the forum as a knowledge base. The search results are highlighted throughout the forum and you can search on multiple words also.
- Group members are now displayed in a sortable table
- Possibility to export survey results in XLS format
- Documents, Works and Dropbox tools usability has been improved in many ways
- In the agenda, you can display the X upcoming events (can be configured by the platform admin)
- The course agenda now has a month view like the my agenda
- In the user list of the platform administration you can now quickly see for what courses the user is subscribed by hovering over the courses icon
- The platform system announcements can now be sent through email also
- User fields have been added globally, allowing you to add user data like birthdate, mother tongue, city or whatever data you want to ask your users
- LDAP
  - The LDAP code has changed. If you had some customisations there, you might want to save them and re-apply them after the upgrade
  - Functions renamed to respect coding conventions and use ldap_ namespace
  - Most parameters moved to the administration panel. You will need to configure the administration panel with the settings that were previously in ldap_var.inc.php
  - Added non-anonymous mode (just add a login and a password in the configuration panel)
  - Added search domain configuration through panel
  - Added customizable field-check for student-teacher switch
  - The installation guide has been updated to help you find your way through the new LDAP configuration panel
  - You still need to activate LDAP by uncommenting two lines in configuration.php
- New stylesheets can be added through the platform administration interface
- Notification by email has been improved in the forum. You can now indicate that you want to be informed of messages on the forum level or on the thread level, even if you did not participate in the discussion yet.
- The platform administrator can decide to display the courses that are not open on the login page. When these courses are displayed on the campus startpage then the user that is logged in can quickly subscribe to this course.
- When creating a new group you can decide to create a public or private forum or no forum at all. These are group category settings.
- Group forum is also displayed in the group space
- Surveys that are not based on invitation but open to all (or certain) members of the course are now available
- Agenda
  - iCal import and export of course events, with a choice of public, private or confidential markers
  - Repetitive course events can be created (and exported to iCal). Repetitions types supported are: daily, weekly, monthly by date (e.g. the 5th of each month) and yearly by date
- Document templates have been greatly improved to speed-up custom course content creation
- Audiorecorder (depending on streaming server) now records sounds in the document/audio directory, making them easily reusable by the course admin
- Audiorecorder is not loaded by default (took too long) and you can load it with a simple click
- W3C - Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional has been improved
- Tracking - A new page to display access details by user is available under the Reporting tab, in the user details in a course
- Removed header from learning path tool. It was taking too much space and was not flexible enough for CSS styling
- Improved speed of 1.6 to 1.8 migration by adding indexes

### Debugging

- Prerequisites management in learning paths fixed (includes quizzes, hotpotatoes and SCORM)
- Various minor bugs fixed in the learning path tool (scoring, copy, re-ordering)
- Various minor bugs fixed in the session handling
- Fixes to the survey tool (date management, questions order in export)
- Fixes to the calendar tool (access by students)
- Fixes to the announcement tool (access by students)
- Fixes to the group tool (default group settings)
- Bugfix: complete export in survey tool displayed the question of all the surveys and not only those of the selected survey
- Bugfix: registering a new user resulted in the language field of the user being empty which resulted in an english profile by default. This has now been changed to the platform language.
- Performance improvement in the user list of the platform administration
- Bugfix: group tutors were not migrated from 1.6 to 1.8
- SCORM export: fixes in export method
- Documentation is now fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant
- Fix FCKeditor Flash upload lack of usability and problems with IE

### Known issues

- Audiorecorder takes a few seconds to write the audio file back to the document directory, so the page shouldn't be changed too quickly after recording a sound track
- When migrating from 1.6 to 1.8, some SCORM learning paths might need to be re-imported, which means their tracking is lost

# Dokeos 1.8.4 - September 2007

### Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8.4 is both a features and debuggingmajor release.

### New Features

- Templates. See http://www.dokeos.com/templates.php
- Wide Hotspots tests to allow real-life situations simulation
- Flash video import and streaming
- Installation guide renewed. See http://www.dokeos.com/doc/installation_guide.html
- Added animated Mr Dokeos character : http://www.dokeos.com/mrdokeos.php
- English and Dutch teacher manual added
- Assignments form now fills automatically with document title and user name
- Document authoring space now bigger
- IMS/QTI export of tests
- Export of media (images, Flash, Audio) and tests in SCORM export
- Agenda default time management for an event improved
- Oogie PowerPoint converter setup simplified
- Improved support for other character sets (enabling better support for UTF-8 and russian and asian fonts)

### Debugging

- Upgrade script improved : now possible to upgrade direct from 1.6 to 1.8.4.
- Blogs user rights
- FCK Editor image import
- Videoconferencing slides now include Documents directory of course
- SCORM content can be displayed Full Screen
- SCORM interactions now properly running
- Hotspots tests redesigned and bigger hotspots zone
- Alphabetical sorting of lists fixed
- Excel export in reporting now removes HTML tags
- My profile page display layout
- Import HotPotatoes tests scoring
- Images gallery in Documents bad display
- Agenda default date now more relevant
- Tests random questions order option clarified
- Templates editing and media removal now easier
- Apostrophe bug in Learning path Build mode
- Table of contents wider in Learning path
- Audio player now autostarts
- Spelling mistakes in French and English
- Group features now related to group, not generic
- Blogs SQL errors fixed
- Introduction images were missing in tests reporting
- SCORM export now working
- My agenda Personal events editor bug fixed
- Oogie PowerPoint import installation easier
- Time spent on platform tracking improved
- Course Backup/restore bugs fixed
- Course copy bugs fixed
- Default visibility status of learning paths fixed
- Images gallery display reordering
- Agenda default time management for an event improved
- Groups display alphabetical sorting fixed

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# Dokeos 1.8 - May 2007

### Release notes - summary

Dokeos 1.8 is a major release. The software becomes a complete suite including not only a learning management system and a learners administration dashboard, but also an easy-to-use authoring system and a simple videoconferencing interface.

### New Features

- Ms-PowerPoint® to Learning Path conversion
- Integrated Live Conferencing
- Templates and styles for rapid online authoring
- Search engine
- New question types: hotspots and open answers
- Reporting dashboard with export to Ms-Excel
- Surveys
- Educational blogs
- Learning Path: better import and export of SCORM, IMS and AICC
- Documents tool: PowerPoint and Word into HTML file type conversion
- Tests tool: less sequential and more user-friendly
- Forum : better admin and content management
- code cleanup
- new nice looking icons
- new layout for the course homepage
- Version check: be informed when a new Dokeos release is available.
- Platform Statistics so you can boast with your campus.

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# Dokeos 1.6.5 - July 2006

### Release notes - summary

Security Release. 1 bug has been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.5_release_notes_and_changelog

# Dokeos 1.6.4 April 2006

### Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 2 bugs have been fixed. One security hole has been fixed
Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.4_release_notes_and_changelog

# Dokeos 1.6.3 February 2006

### Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 44 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.3_release_notes_and_changelog

# Dokeos 1.6.2 - September 2005

### Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 14 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.2_release_notes_and_changelog

# Dokeos 1.6.1 - August 2005

### Release notes - summary

Bugfix release. 31 bugs have been fixed. Click the link below to see the complete list of bugfixes
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6.1_release_notes_and_changelog

# Dokeos 1.6 - July 2005

### Release notes - summary

In Dokeos 1.6, security and interoperability have been improved. Protection
for documents has improved, and courses have more accessibility options.
Password encryption is enabled by default. The php.ini setting
"register globals" does not have be on anymore.
http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.6_release_notes

### New Features

- Campus home page can be edited online
- Improved translations, made with the new Dokeos translation tool
- Language switch - when you enter the portal, you can choose your language.
- Who is online: a list of users who are logged in, you can click to see their pictures and portfolio, or click to talk to them through our built-in web chat tool.
- Learning path - import and export of SCORM packages, improved layout, prerequisites based on score in tests
- Agenda - many new options, e.g. every user can add personal agenda items.
- Document tool - many new options, improved layout, improved HtmlArea
- Security - PHP register globals setting don't need to be on anymore
- Administration section - all functions are easier to access, you can configure many options through the web interface instead of by digging through the code.
- Improved course management - completely rewritten course import/export functions, easily copy content from one course to another
- Plugins and modularity - new system to add plugins to Dokeos more easily
- API libraries - our function libraries have been expanded and improved
- Interoperability: support for SCORM import/export, XML import/export for some features, IEEE LOM Metadata support in documents and groups, import of Hotpotatoes, connection with QuestionMark (this last one will be available as plugin).

### Roadmap

http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Roadmap_1.6

# Dokeos 1.5.5

- Learning path : Scorm content import tool
- WYSIWYG editor : create content on the fly
- Table of contents : structure content on the fly
- Dropbox : peer2peer content sharing management
- Links categories : structure links catalogue
- New navigation : one click to tool
- Events since my last visit : be informed of what has changed since your last login
- My agenda : synthetic weekly view of all the events related to you
- Add a picture to my profile : see who is who
- Security : privacy and anti-cracking protection
- 5 more languages : russian, catalan, vietnamese, brazilian, thai and a revised chinese
- New chat tool : real-time textual discussion
- Audio & video conference : real-time live broadcasting of events + textual interaction with ore than 200 people.
- Announcements to some users or some groups only
- Time-based learning management : add resources to time line in Agenda
- Audio & video in Tests tool : create listening comprehensions, situation-based questions on the fly
- Forum thread/flat view : see discussions in more detail
- Forum email notification : get an email when your forum topic is active
- language revision : dokeos vocabulary has been generalised to be adapted to different types of organisations and not only universities