{"id":150,"date":"2009-11-20T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=150"},"modified":"2010-05-21T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T13:42:41","slug":"major-weblearn-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2009\/11\/major-weblearn-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Major WebLearn upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WebLearn was upgraded on 3rd November 2009 to version 2.6-ox1. This was a major release and incorporates the new version of Sakai 2.6 (the software upon which WebLearn is based).<\/p>\n<h3>New Facilities &#8211; The Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrade to Sakai 2.6 (see below)<\/li>\n<li>Addition of &#8216;Make Web Content Link&#8217; to every item in Resources via the &#8216;Actions&#8217; menu &#8211; this is an easy way to add a &#8216;Web Content&#8217; link to a file or folder in Resources to the left-hand side tools menu<\/li>\n<li>Addition of interactive participant group browser &#8211; this makes finding groups much easier<\/li>\n<li>Office 2007 documents are now searched<\/li>\n<li>Oxford term dates subscription now works; easier method of term dates display<\/li>\n<li>New much improved &#8216;Site Stats&#8217; tool (version 2)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Switch role&#8217; facility for &#8216;contribute&#8217; and &#8216;access&#8217; roles in published sites, (&#8216;view site as a student&#8217; facility)<\/li>\n<li>Addition of &#8216;Podcasts&#8217; tool<\/li>\n<li>Notifications now user email account (instead of postmaster@weblearn.ox.ac.uk) users can now reply to notifications.<\/li>\n<li>Addition of &#8216;Nexus&#8217; link on every page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sakai 2.6 Fixes &#8211; Highlights<\/h3>\n<p>For the full list of fixes please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/DOC\/Release+Notes+%282.6%29\">http:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/DOC\/Release+Notes+%282.6%29<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Tools<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/ASN\/Home\">Assignments<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved integration with Schedule and Announcement; when an assignment opens, expose link to the assignment from schedule and announcement items.<a title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/BLOG\/Home\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Calendar Summary\n<ul>\n<li>Added indicator with number of events to each calendar day.<\/li>\n<li>Correct icons now display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/RES\/Home\">Resources<\/a><del><br \/>\n<\/del><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jira.sakaiproject.org\/browse\/SAK-7670\">SAK-7670<\/a>: Notification of items with release dates now made at release time<a title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/UMEM\/Home\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/confluence.sakaiproject.org\/display\/WSSI\/Home\">Worksite Setup\/Site Info<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Add option to import and replace content from another site (<a href=\"http:\/\/jira.sakaiproject.org\/browse\/SAK-12433\">SAK-12433<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Create sites from templates (<a href=\"http:\/\/jira.sakaiproject.org\/browse\/SAK-12868\">SAK-12868<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>More configurable control over adding tools (e.g., Chat) multiple times to a site (<a href=\"http:\/\/jira.sakaiproject.org\/browse\/SAK-7209\">SAK-7209<\/a>)..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>WYSIWYG HTML Editor\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrade to version 2.6.2, which brings in bug fixes and Safari and Opera support (<a href=\"http:\/\/jira.sakaiproject.org\/browse\/SAK-13844\">SAK-13844<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>More Information<\/h3>\n<p>There is <a href=\"https:\/\/weblearn.ox.ac.uk\/access\/content\/public\/System%20notices\/release-notes-upgrade-to-v2p6-ox1p0.html\">a separate document containing a more detailed list of changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WebLearn was upgraded on 3rd November 2009 to version 2.6-ox1. This was a major release and incorporates the new version of Sakai 2.6 (the software upon which WebLearn is based). New Facilities &#8211; The Highlights Upgrade to Sakai 2.6 (see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2009\/11\/major-weblearn-upgrade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[375,376],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblearn","tag-new-features","tag-system-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}