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What’s New in WebLearn 2.8-ox1, 2 & 3?

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New in 2.8-ox1

2.8-ox1

• Signup tool enhancements– Categories, groups sync, change organiser, lock signups

• Site templates– Content, tutors, lecturers

• External account workflow• Forums improvements• Short URLs• Better Email Sender tool• Permissions in plain English

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Short URLs

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New in 2.8-ox2

New in 2.8-ox2

• Rolling updates• ‘All logged in users’ group removed• ‘Arrange site’ now can actually delete site• Contribute role reduced slightly• Can copy between drop boxes on different sites• External users messages now have a sender• Sign-up can send ics (ical) files – needs improving• iPad can now access sites

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New in 2.8-ox3

New in 2.8-ox3

• OXAM• Short URL search and replace during site copy• Resources web service API – will be improved• Web Content – open in new window now without iframe (for access)

• Assignment tool better Turnitin support• Assignments 2 pilot• Some early SES 3 / Oxcap improvements• Mailsender bug fix

Coming Soon

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New in 2.8-ox3.1

Search – 2.8-ox3.1?

• Have inserted Apache SOLR in front of Lucene• SOLR has query parser. Can specify:– Title / description search– Which tool to search– Wildcard characters: ‘?’ or ‘*’– Fuzzy search– Proximity search– Boosting a term– Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT

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New in 2.8-ox4?

2.8-ox4?

• All graduate training in SES tool (OxCAP)• Better reading lists– Reorder lists– Add instructions at top– Better import

• More Mobile Oxford integration• More bug fixes