[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA Version 2.8.0
Lars Jensen
ljensen at tmcc.edu
Fri Jan 16 11:58:14 EST 2009
Hi Stuart,
We're running opensuse 10.2, which is not being updated anymore. The
version we have installed of perl-Datetime is
perl-DateTime-0.41-1.0.suse10.2.lc. I assume this won't work with
loncapa 2.8. Do you know where I can find a perl-Datetime rpm for suse
10.2? Or do I have to build the module? If so, are there any
dependencies that must be satisfied?
Lars.
Stuart Raeburn wrote:
> New Version 2.8.0 Released
>
> Notable Changes from 2.7.1:
>
> Authoring Resources
>
> - Publication is possible for problems that do not include any response
> items, but include imported libraries.
>
> - When viewed in "Show Answer" status, Organic Material Response items
> display a "Show Your Last Answer" button if a JME string for display as
> the computer's answer was omitted. (In 2.7.0, but eliminated in 2.7.1
> when the pencil icon replaced the "Draw Molecule" button).
>
>
> Student Interface
>
> - Users with a single role/course no longer have this role selected
> automatically.
> Instead the courses/roles page will be displayed for all users after
> log-in.
>
> - A "Re-initialize/Re-select" course button is shown on the
> roles/courses screen for all course users when in course context.
>
> - The WYSIWYG editor used for composing HTML in text areas has been updated
>
> - The mimeTeX utility used to create bitmap images for display of
> mathematical typesetting has been updated. Inline images now display in
> vertical alignment with any surrounding text.
>
> - For inline navigation (set to icons or icons/text) the annotations to
> a resource icon will change if a user has already annotated the resource.
>
> - The starting day of the week used in the calendar is determined by
> Locale.
>
> - Files uploaded by students for submission to assignments (e.g., via a
> Drop Box) are subject to a size restriction.
>
> - The assigned quota and the amount of disk space currently in use for
> the user's Portfolio are displayed.
>
>
> Communications
>
> - System-generated text in a notification e-mail is localized according
> to the recipient's language preference (or course language preference,
> if message sent in course context).
>
> - Each recipient receives a single notification e-mail if notification
> e-mail and permanent e-mail addresses are the same, and e-mail should go
> to both.
>
> - The sender's e-mail address is omitted from notification e-mail
> headers if the original LON-CAPA message did not permit replies. The
> text of the e-mail also warns that replies will not be received by the
> sender.
>
> - The recipient type - either To: or Cc: - is preserved when displaying
> a message.
> Selections from both To: or Cc: recipients can be made when replying.
>
> - A pop-up window can be launched to show a list of recipients when
> displaying a message broadcast to multiple course participants.
>
> - Group members sending a broadcast message to active group members can
> elect to designate recipients as either Cc: or Bcc:.
>
> - Ccs set in the "Contact Helpdesk" web form only apply if the form is
> accessed by a logged-in user.
>
>
> Course Management
>
> - The default maximum for the cumulative size of files a user can submit
> to a particular question is 10 MB. Max. file size is a parameter which
> can be set at a course, folder or resource level for all users or
> specific users.
>
> - Storage of information about file uploads in a course's activity log
> has been streamlined.
>
> - A file uploaded to a Drop Box is not overwritten by later submission
> of a similarly named file by the same user to a different assignment.
>
> - The naming scheme for page/sequence files which record
> folder/composite page contents is more succinct where the folder/page is
> a copy of an existing course item.
>
> - If a course timezone has been defined, this will be applied to all
> dates/times shown when using the "Student Activity" utility to display
> recent activity in a course.
>
>
> Grading
>
> - Formularesponse items will not accept a comma in an individual
> submission - either as a scalar answer or within a single component in
> a vector answer (vector answers still use a comma as separator between
> components).
>
> - If timeouts or internal errors prevent grading of a submission, a
> student will not be charged a try, and will be able to submit the same
> answer again.
>
> - When grading bubble sheet exams, an optional verification can check
> for inconsistencies between bubbled letters/numbers and stored
> submissions. A scan line with anomalies receives a second grading pass,
> and a warning is displayed if they persist.
>
> - The zip file which can be generated of all files submitted by selected
> students to a particular assignment now includes files uploaded directly
> as well as files selected from students' portfolios.
>
>
> Domain Coordination/Domain Settings
>
> - Default Locale can be set for a domain or for a course.
>
> - User Tools (Personal Home Page, Blogs and User Portfolio) can be
> enabled/disabled for users in a domain based on affiliation (e.g.,
> Faculty, Staff, Student etc.). Any domain-wide access controls can be
> overridden for individual users by a Domain Coordinator. The default is
> for all three tools to be enabled for all users.
>
> - The lightweight webserver run on port 8080 (lonhttpd) formerly used to
> serve icons has been eliminated because of issues with institutional
> firewalls. The standard web server on port 80 (or 443 for SSL) is now
> used.
>
> - Display of a banner and/or main logo on the log-in page (either custom
> or default) can be disabled.
>
> _ A Domain Coordinator's Main Menu includes a "Domain Status" item which
> links to a number of utilities which provide server status information.
>
> _ Access to server status pages can be configured for specific users, or
> from specific IP addresses. Domain Coordinators automatically have
> access for servers in their domain. This replaces the previously used
> Apache Basic Auth access control.
>
>
> Printing
>
> - Generation of printouts is faster (and postscript files are smaller)
> as a result of minimizing the incidence of missing fonts (which must be
> generated).
>
> - The HTML paragraph tag is disabled when printing tables to prevent
> hung print jobs.
>
>
> Localization
>
> - New translations and improvements were made for the German interface.
>
>
> Appearance
>
> - More interface standardization using the following display elements:
> - Data tables with rows of alternating light/dark background colors,
> and a colored header.
> - Two column data tables with a colored left column, and light gray
> right column.
> - Boxes with a thin border used to group similar items together.
>
>
> Installation Notes:
>
> To use this release you need to have version 1-12 of LONCAPA-prerequisites
> installed (this is the same version as used with LON-CAPA 2.7). You will
> need to update the version of perl-DateTime installed on your server to
> perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.
>
> To install this update:
>
> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, 8, or 9, RHEL (AS|ES) 4
> or 5, SUSE 10.1 10.2 or 10.3, SLES 9 or 10, CentOS 5, Scientific Linux 5
> .(Fedora Core 5 should continue to work but is deprecated.)
>
> 2) Update perl-DateTime to 0.4304.
>
> (a) Fedora
> yum update
>
> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
>
> up2date -u perl-DateTime
>
> (c) Red Hat 5/Centos 5/Scientific Linux 5
>
> yum update
>
> (d) SuSE/SLES
>
> Use yast-> Installation Source to refresh the LON-CAPA repository
> Use yast->Software Management->Search to update perl-DateTime
>
> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have
> the correct versions of LONCAPA-prerequisites and perl-DateTime
> installed before proceeding.
>
> rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> should report:
> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-12.X
>
> rpm -q perl-DateTime
>
> should report:
> perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.X
>
> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc7.lc)
>
> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.8.0.tar.gz
>
> and untar it
>
> tar xzvf loncapa-2.8.0.tar.gz
>
> 4) stop the LON-CAPA system services
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
>
> 5) stop the webserver:
>
> Fedora/RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
>
> SLES 9:
> /etc/init.d/apache stop
>
> SUSE 10.1,2,3/SLES 10:
> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
>
>
> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
> cd loncapa-2.8.0
> su
> ./UPDATE
>
>
>
> 7) restart the LON-CAPA system services
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
>
>
> 8) restart the webserver:
>
> Fedora/RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
>
> SLES 9:
> /etc/init.d/apache start
>
> SUSE 10.1,2,3/SLES 10:
> /etc/init.d/apache2 start
>
>
>
> ----NOTES
> 1) Many questions are answered at http://help.lon-capa.org
> 2) Defects reports, and enhancements requests can be entered at
> http://bugs.lon-capa.org
> 3) Mailing lists can be joined and left at http://mail.lon-capa.org
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
>
>
>
>
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