LMS Updates: October-December 2014

December 18, 2014 Dr Martin S Dulberg

We have performed a wide array of updates, additions and fixes to the LMS systems in October, November and December. Here is a quick rundown of the work done by our staff to enhance and maintain our various LMS tools and infrastructure.

Collaborate.WolfWare (12/5)

Resolved issues that were preventing users from accessing password protected recording conversions (MP3/MP4)
No longer requires a password for a session’s pre-approved users (the listed moderators and participants) when joining a session or watching a recording

WolfWare Website (12/19)

Moved Spring 2015 to current tab,
Updated Moodle icon rollover text to reflect student access dates (hopefully cutting down on student confusion)

WolfWare Classic (12/19)

Spring rollover

Moodle

*[FR] denotes work done in response to a faculty, student or staff feature request completed

Grader Report Fix: Fixed row heights in Chrome and student links in IE (deployed 10/9)
Updated responsive themes (deployed 10/9)
Updated Gamification alpha module (deployed 10/9)
FR- Enabled forum timed posts (deployed 10/9)
FR- Installed Respondus WS module (deployed 10/25)
Fixed an error for instructors not being able to access grading view in certain conditions. (deployed 11/8)
Added a site level setting to control whether on not a course uses the WolfWare Toolbox settings (deployed 11/22)
Small fix to front page theme (deployed 11/22)
Added Bulleting Mobile block for pilot test (deployed 11/22)
Fixed context.path to resolve performance issues on home page (deployed 12/06)
Updated to version 2.6.6(deployed 12/19)
Patched course copier to detect manual grades as user data (deployed 12/19)
Synchronized courses, projects and outreach to all use same code base (deployed 12/06)

Equella

Added Shiboleth authentication (deployed 10/09)
Updated existing university user id’s and imported other user id’s (deployed 10/09)
10/25 Upgraded to version 6.3 (deployed 10/25)