[DG: Teaching & Learning] Stanford successfully upgraded to Sakai CLE 2.9 June 16

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hello all--we were going to wait until the newsletter next week to announce this but have been encouraged to spam the lists with this news--I assume this advice applies to anyone upgrading to 2.9.

On Sunday June 16, 2013, Stanford University upgraded CourseWork, its local instance of Sakai CLE, from 2.6 to 2.9. The new look and feel has been well-received, as well as the enhancements of the CKEditor, and expanded support of modern browsers. More importantly, it lays the groundwork for additional local enhancements to be added over the next year, including further revisions to the skin and support of equation editing. 

Due to the number of local customizations to CourseWork, this upgrade represents 7 months of development on the part of Stanford University Libraries and Unicon. The system was down for about 14 hours on graduation day and back up later that same afternoon.

You may refer technical questions to Lydia Li, lydial at stanford.edu.

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University