Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: LAMS 2.0 Update

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Fellas,

Well today October 31st and LAMS 2.0 is not ready as stable release. Yesterday James spent the whole day reviewing the system again and added lots of small/trivial/medium changes that we need to attend before final release. It's looking good, but since he's after inconsistencies across tools and we have several people doing most of the tools, there seems to be quite a few of them. They won't take a long time to fix, but we will have to test them again and that will take at least another two weeks, if everything goes alright.

So what we'll do is to prepare in the next few days a new release candidate: RC2. This release has a lot of improvements in admin/sysadmin section as well as the IMS LD Export from Author.

Also there's a new feature in 2.0 that will allow people that need a 'dirty integration' with other systems. LAMS will provide you a URL that then you can add to your other system and when the students click on it, they will have to login into LAMS (no single-sign-on here) first and the they will go directly into the sequence. Also your users will have to be created, on a LAMS course, and on the lesson you are trying to run. So, now you can see why it's dirty

James has also reviewed lots of labels in English, so we'll add a new feature in the i18n site so translators can update the labels that have been changed in English as well.

No one but us want to get 2.0 out... (we've been working on this for years!) However, it's important to get it right and make it look all pretty.

We are getting there... now it's just a matter of weeks.

Thanks for your patience.

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione