[LON-CAPA-dev] 2.0 email draft

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

Hi Guy, 

Step 1: 

Typos: 

New Role 'Assitant Author' _change to_ New Role 'Assistant Author' 

use of a specfic display mechanism _change to_ use of a specific display 
mechanism 

Suggested changes: 

 - IMS export enabled (We have done WebCT 4.0 -> Lon-CAPA -> WebCT 4.0) 

_change to_ 

 - IMS export enabled 

[note of explanation: IMS export does not currently re-convert .problem 
files back into QTI-like XML used by WebCT 4, although we do export course 
structure and static files (html, pdf etc.) in IMS format which will 
re-import into WebCT]. 

Suggested addition: (nice, but not necessarily big or important change): 

 - Upload of HTML files to DOCS prompts for embedded images, objects etc. 


Step 2: 

Suggested changes: 

2) If running Fedora, use yum to update your machine and then install the
      LONCAPA-prerequisites.
  If running SuSe, use you to update your machine.
  if running RHEL, use up2date to update your machine. 


Step 5: 

5) restart the Lon-CAPA system services
/etc/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/init.d/loncontrol start 

6) restart the web server: 

Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise:
/etc/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/init.d/httpd start 

SuSe:
/etc/init.d/apache stop
/etc/init.d/apache start 

Stuart 

P.S. One thing that I know is still missing from v 2.0.0 ....
A CHECKRPMS.rhel is needed that calls up2date via CLI (I know the long term 
plan is a unified CHECKRPMS). 

Guy Albertelli II writes: 

> Hi All, 
> 
> 2.0 announce email let me know if I mucked anything up, or forgot to
> mention any big/nice/important features/changes. 
> 
> ---- 
> 
> New Version 2.0.0 Released 
> 
> 
> Notable Changes:
> - things should be faster
> - lots of documentation updates
> - /etc/init.d/loncontrol reload (tells lonc & lond to reread hosts.tab)
> - internal caching updates faster 
> - bridge tasks
> - What's New page for Course Coordinators
> - SPRS is faster
> - Cut, Copy, and Paste items in DOCS
> - new tags <chem> <num> <parse> <algebra> ease display of data
> - score upload allows more formats and upload by ID
> - IMS import of WebCT 4
> - New Role 'Assitant Author' for authors that shouldn't have access to 
>     anything outside of CSTR
> - PARM screens has been reorganized and made easier to use
> - DOCS has ability to recover from accidental resource removal
> - ability to automate course creation
> - format a number to n significant figures 
> - scantron support of number and letter formats
> - scantron support of numerical CODES and of lengths other than 6
> - <m> tag output configurable and authors can optionally force the
>    use of a specfic display mechanism
> - display partially correct problems improved
> - trackstudent can now show full student history
> - public browsing users can now interact with all types of problems
> - IMS export enabled (We have done WebCT 4.0 -> Lon-CAPA -> WebCT 4.0)
> - lots of bugfixes 
> 
> 
> To install this update: 
> 
> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 2 or 3 or 4, RHEL ES 4, Suse 9.2
>    (SuSE 9.3, and SLES 9 support is coming soon.) 
> 
> 
> 2) Use yum to update your machine and then install the
>       LONCAPA-prerequisites 
> 
> yum update
> yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites 
> 
>  
> 
> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.0.0.tar.gz 
> 
> and untar it 
> 
> tar xzvf loncapa-2.0.0.tar.gz 
> 
>  
> 
> 4) Run the UPDATE script as root
> cd loncapa-2.0.0
> su
> ./UPDATE 
> 
>  
> 
> 5) restart the system services
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd 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 
> 
> -- 
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