[DG: Teaching & Learning] some news on the Lessons tool

[Ward, Lynn E.]

Hi all,

IU's QA specialist, Andrea Schmidt, has been in touch with Charles Hedrick regarding changes in the Lessons tool for Sakai 10.   Chuck shared with her following list of enhancements that will be available in Sakai 10:


*         Toolbar has been redesigned to have "add content" with all content items.

*         Support for embedded Audio/video has been redone to support HTML5, to use joembed to support many video sharing sites. Embed codes can be entered.

*         Tables of contents lets instructors view the list of items on a page

*         Multimedia and text items can have prerequisites

*         Redesign of CSS by University of Michigan

*         Project keitai: support for /direct to get contents of lessons

*         Inline questions, can be used as polls

*         Student pages can be owned by a group as well as individuals

Several of items above relate directly to entries in the T&L group's wish list for Lessons.  You can see and try out these features by creating an account and course site on http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082.  At a future meeting we may want to consider how these changes might impact our capability review of LB.

Lynn

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Lynn Ward, Principal Systems Analyst
Instructional Technology Systems and Services
University Information Technology Services<http://uits.iu.edu/>
Indiana University
Information Technology and Communications Complex (IT 342K)
535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: 317-278-5713  E-mail: leward at iu.edu<mailto:leward at iu.edu>

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