Notes:
We are very pleased to announce a new release of Library a la Carte. The new release involves major under-the-hood changes, new features and some improvements to existing features. There are also some design and layout changes to the tool and the public pages.
New Modules
YouTube Videos
Search for and embed Youtube videos into your guides. This module will make it easier to find and add videos from YouTube.
Images
This new module offers multiple ways to enhance your guides with images. You can add an URL to an image or upload images from your computer. Or search for and embed Flickr images into your guides. Adding Flickr images includes the required link back to the site and the description of the image.
Catalog Search
Search for and embed book information from a III catalog. This module will let you build a list of recommended books from the catalog or add URLs to books elsewhere. A book cover jacket will be included if one can be found and a link to the full or partial text on Goggle if it exists.
Web Links
This module will let you build a list of links.
Quizzes
Create multiple-choice, True/False or Free Write questions and add them to a guide or tutorial. The quizzes can be graded or not and can have points assigned to them or not. Note: Graded quizzes can only be added to tutorials.
Module Changes
Image Manager
Added image manager to WYSIWYG text editor. The text editor image button now lets you link to an image, or upload images from your computer. This will also let you share images that you have uploaded with other authors.
Attachments
Removed image embed. The attachment module is now only for linking to attachments that you have uploaded. If you upload an image the image will be linked to and not embedded.
New Functionality
Tabs on Course Pages
You can now build course pages with tabs. This will let you add more content to your pages and spread that content out into their own grouping under a tab.
New Copy Options
Choose between copying the modules or reusing the originals when making copies of your guides and pages
Copy Guides
You can now make copies of your guides.
Removing Shared User
When you remove a shared user from a guide you are also removing the user from the guide's modules. This will ensure that content is not accidentally altered.
List of Pages/Guides/Tutorials a Module is used in.
You can do view with guides and tutorials a module is used on. This will let you get a birds eye view of where and how a module is being used.
Tags on Modules
You can now tag your modules.
Tutorials
Tutorials are for teaching concepts through steps and quizzes. The tutorials include a graded option for assigning tutorials as assignments and a way to export grades, as well as an instructor's view of the quizzes.
Note: Tutorials are still experimental and would be considered as in Alpha (pre-Beta development)
New Look and Feel
The tool has a new look and feel. We've made some changes to the color scheme and the layout of the tool.
The course guides and subject guides have a new look too. The guide's templates and portal pages have been reworked to meet CSS, XHTML Strict and Section 508 compliance.
New Admin Features
Edit subjects and database subscriptions.
You can now edit the course subjects, guide master subjects and database subscription from the admin interface. This will enable admins to manage some of the database tables through a web form.
Enable/Disable Content Types
You can now enable the types of guides and module types authors can use through the admin interface. This will enable admins to select the guide types (Course pages, subject guides, tutorials) authors can create and the modules they can use.
Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions. If you experience any issues with the new features please let us know.
The Library a la Carte Team
Changes:
Bug Fix
app/controller/guide-controller - replacement.
app/view/quiz/edit_question - replacement.
app/view/quiz/edit_answer - replacement.
****Release 1.4.5*******
Rails upgrade to 2.2.3
Ruby upgrade to 1.8.7
Gems upgrade to 1.3.1
Phusion support
New database tables
links and url_resources
videos and video_resources
questions, quiz_resources, answers, students, results
authorships, tutorials, units, unitizations, resourcables
images and image_resources
image_managers
Altered Tables
librarian table to add image uploads
tab table to add page_id
local table to add tutorial fields
New Gems:
hpricot:
gem install hpricot-0.8.2
fastercsv:
gem install fastercsv-1.5.0
active_youtube:
gem install active_youtube-1.0.0
flickr-fu:
gem install flickr-fu-0.1.4
minme-type:
gem install mime-types-1.16
Major code refactoring
-fat models skinny controllers
-moved special modules into own folders
-moved methods into models
-refactored application code
Major UI changes
-changed sidebar
-- action names
-- changed look and feel
-- moved preview / publish actions into title bar
Modules
-added tags
-- add_tags method to all models
-added list of pages/guides/tutorials module is on
--added method to all models
- changed sidebar links
-- removed add to...
-- added links to list of guides/pages/tutorials mod is on
---added add to button to list
---added breadcrumbs to add to guides/pages
New Modules
- web links
- image - includes flickr search
- youtube video
- catlog links - searcg III catalog, add book cover images
- guizzes - includes graded option for tutorials
- image manager - adds image upload from WYSIWYG, librarian profile,
Altered Modules
-libraian profile
--removed upload
--added image manager
-attachments
--removed image embed
--altered logo method
-course reserves module
--altered to use hpricot
Image Manager
-added image manager option to tinymce
TinyMce
-choose between image manager or not
-custom editors for module types
-fixed spellcheck
Guides
-added copy
--copies tabs
--choose between copying mods or reusing mods
-altered share
--removing editor from guide also removes them from the modules on that guide
Pages
-added tabs
-altered copy
--copies tabs
--choose between copying mods or reusing mods
-altered share
--removing editor from page also removes them from the modules on that guide
Tutorials
-new tutorial tab
-- branching tutorials with units
-- graded or not graded
- quizzes
-- graded or not graded
- copy tutorials
- share original or copy of tutorial
- archive tutorials
- tag tutorials, units
- search tutorials
Bugs
-RSS
-contact module (share)
-admin register user accounts
-share page and guides
-copy page
Admin
- Added edit subjects, master, and dods
- Added user tutorial admin actions (edit, delete, assign)
- added edit tutorial locals
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