Download & Releases

ILIAS 4.2 Features

Timeline

  • 4.2.0 stable: 04 October 2011
  • 4.2.0_beta1: 05 August 2011
  • Feature freeze: 31 March 2011

Download

See chapter « Current Releases » for download links

Features are assigned to the following categories:See also: Abandoned Features

Features

Your find more information about new and extended features that have been implemented for ILIAS 4.2 at the 4.2 feature wiki page.

ILIAS core

  • Copy template permissions
  • Date of last change in learning progress
  • Migration of value field in table settings
  • Optional Preconditions
  • Oracle 11g support
  • Potential performance improvements
  • User Interface Plugin Slot Extension

User Interface, Usability and Accessibility

  • Make objects-icons clickable
  • Didactical Templates
  • Redesign for comments, annotations and tags
  • Revision of Last Visited Feature
  • Revision of the Main Menu
  • Revision of Repository Object Creation Forms
  • Streamline Learning Progress Views

Personal Desktop and General Services

  • Blogs
  • e-Portfolio Skills/Competencies
  • Personal Resources
  • Extension of the Personal Website
  • Portfolio Excercise
  • Revision of the Personal Desktop

Groupware and Course Management

  • Add user field should accept also E-Mail-adress
  • Configurable course notification
  • Connection between sessions and calendars
  • Course offline notification for course admin/tutor inside courses
  • Deactivation of system messages for new memberships
  • Mail Notification for groups in ILIAS to send a daily report to group / course members. See also Activation of mail notifications for groups
  • Manual sorting in groups: All in one block and manual sorting within this block
  • Session Screen Improvement
  • Show local role in member tab
  • Sorting in Sessions
  • Standardization the user interaction in the objects: preconditions, startobject, membership limit., ...

Communication and Syndication

  • Forced new post titel
  • Labeling of Sticky-Posts in forums
  • Replacement of the Chat System
  • Tree navigation in forums
  • Usability improvements for forums

Learning and Content Management

Learning Module ILIAS:
  • Copy Learning Modules
  • Deactivation of Page History
  • Embed Questions from Pools in Learning Modules
  • Export IDs for Learning Module Pages
  • Question Type Drop Down
  • Revision of Automatic Question Feedback in learning modules
  • Set layout for multiple pages in Learning Modules
  • Usability improvements for LM editor

Learning Module SCORM:
  • New placeholders in SCORM-Certificate
  • SCORM 1.2 Interface without JAVA
  • SCORM 2004 RTE: Improvements
  • SCORM 2004 RTE: 4th Edition Support
  • SCORM 2004 RTE: Performance
  • SCORM Debugger for SCORM data
  • SCORM Editor: Assets, Entry and Completion Page
  • SCORM Editor: Extended Support for Question Types
  • SCORM Editor: HTML Export
  • SCORM Editor: Import/Export for Page Templates
  • SCORM Editor: Interactive images, image type limitation
  • SCORM Editor: Keep sequencing and metadata information on import, Expert mode for sequencing editing
  • SCORM Editor: Optional learning objectives, bullet lists
  • SCORM Editor: Styles for RTE navigation

Media Pools:
  • Quick Import for Media Objects
  • Reduce Number of Versions in Usage Tab
  • Show only current usage of Snippets/Media Objects

Wiki:
  • Automatic Table of Contents in wikis
  • Blocking of single wiki pages
  • Bread-crumb to navigate wiki within "last visited"
  • Export of wikis (HTML)
  • Instance Link Areas
  • Links to other ILIAS resources in wikis
  • Page last modified information on wiki pages
  • Rename wiki pages
  • Revision and extension of Wiki Navigation
  • Wiki Editor - Set an anchor in a page
  • Wiki-Editor / Submit-Buttons
  • WYSIWYG and chapter-wise editing in wikis
  • Reorganising Editor Administration

Test, Survey and Exercises

Survey:
  • Add questions from survey-pools
  • Delete/Redesign buttons in survey (list view of questions)
  • Info-Page Revision for survey and test
  • Redesign of survey diagrams
  • Save question-changes in a question-pool to surveys
  • Survey: Express mode
  • Survey: Preview

Test:
  • Option Random Selection of Questions - user interaction
  • Online/Offline in tests (Status:implemented)
  • Test: Express-mode

Administration

  • Autocomplete in member searches
  • Editable Login Screen
  • Extension of inactive account
  • LDAP as data source
  • Multiple ECS Configurations
  • Reporting Object Statistics
  • System/Course admin search for users: Show also E-Mail (or other fields)

Payment

  • Buyable Upload/Download of Exercises
  • Accept Terms and Conditions within the Purchasing Process
  • Additional editable login-screen for Purchasing process
  • Editable Billing Confirmation Mail
  • Enable/Disable Shop-Information-Tab
  • Explorer
  • Mark Buyable Objects as "Special"
  • Purchasing and accessability information of bought objects
  • Terms and Conditdions

Abandoned features

  • Former chat implementation (v. 4.1) - replaced by a new chat system. Please note that all old chat objects are incompatible with the new chat server implementation.
  • Digilib Books (first step: creation deacitvated; feature will be abandoned in 4.3)