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

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day everyone,

We have allocated a server for the translators so they can test their translations in a real LAMS2.0 server. That is aim to give them a bit more context of the translating phrases/words.

A comment general comment we've been getting from the translators is that some of the buttons in the Flash interfaces are not wide enough to display the word in a particular language (see here or here for examples.

We are aware of this problem and we are fixing this by automatically resizing the buttons according to the length of the label. However, this is quite a time consuming task as we need to review every button. This will be sorted out for the final 2.0 release though.

If the translators have more feedback, please post it in this thread so everyone can follow the comments and we avoid repetition.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Fellow translators,

Some of you have been asking why once you completely translated a module, usually the next day when you come back, the same module shows that are some labels still missing translation.

Well, that's because we have added new labels to the module that require translation.

I know, I know, it ain't fair that it said you were finished and now you are not. But it is usually in the later stages of development that we find that new tags/label/phrases have to be added to show more info or help about a particular feature and therefore we add them.

Once the modules get up in the internationalization site, they are pretty final. So we only add a handful if we need to.

At any rate, our apologies in advance and thank you for your patience

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

As mentioned earlier, today Friday, we have updated all the translations to the latest LAMS 2.0 beta1 release.

We have also changed the layout/design to the latest 2.0 beta1 for most of the Authoring and Monitor pages so next time you login to the translation server, you will have a chance to see the new design (much much nicer if you ask me!)

Hats off to the Greek translators that managed to translate *all* modules in just a matter of days!! Also to Prof. Jong-Dae Park for his complete translation to Korean

All feedback and comments regarding the translations please post them her.

Next Friday July 7th, we'll update the translation with the latests again.

Thank you all fellows for your great work on this. Really appreciate it

Ernie

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By: Eleni Rossiou

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Problems with the greek characters appearance in:
1. The URL http://translations.lamscommunity.org/ appears a lot of questionmarks!!
2. The Menu file in Greek, has some missing choices and insead choices there are ???

Posted by Eleni Rossiou

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Elani,

> 1. The URL http://translations.lamscommunity.org/ appears
> a lot of questionmarks!!

Yes, we are aware of it and are trying to figure out a way to fix it. It seems this occurs when your browser is set up to a default locale other that English or the encoding is other that English. We are looking into it.

The way we would like to fix this is by preseting the login page as per the default language set for the system.


This *only* happens with the login page. But once you login, notice that you see everything as the appropriate language you have been set to see/have.

> 2. The Menu file in Greek, has some missing choices and
> insead choices there are ???

These are missing labels that we haven't added to the translating site by mistake. We'll make sure our labels are syncronize shortly.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day translators,

Just to let you know that I have updated the latest translations to the latest LAMS 2.0 on Friday. Also for Greek all the ? in Author should now be gone.

Another interesting thing we have realized last week while testing the languages is that we need to have all the Flash interfaces translated first in order for you to test *all* lams-core modules.

So if you are translating modules, my suggestion would be to translate the Flash Modules first:

* Author
* Add Lesson Wizard
* LAMS Monitor
* Learner (Flash)

Once these are translated, then you can use most of the LAMS core interfaces without a problem.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Ooopps... forgot to mention that next translation update will be on Friday July 14th 1PM Australia Time.

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day Translating fellas,

I have added all the latest translations to the transalations site. Now we have a full Norwegian translation. Thanks Erik for that.

Also, this morning I have added a new labels for Authoring, Monitor, Learner and MCQ. Most of them are for the tooltips (little anotation that come when you rollover a button or a function to provide contextual help).

Two tools coming probably towards the end of the week or early next week: Voting and Notebook.

After these two... only one more tool to go!! (Scribe).

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Fellow Translators,

The new translations have now been added to CVS and the translation site has been upgraded as well.

Many thanks to Lily for her translation to Chinese!

Thank you,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi guys,

Just uploaded your latest translations into the translation site. Also, we have added a new language now Dutch! Thanks to Rob for his work on this.

Cheers,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Fellow translators,

Just to let you know, we have added the Voting and Notebook tools for translations. One more tool (scribe) to go and we are done with tool! Woohoo! (finally).

Again, the next update will be on Friday at 1PM Sydney time.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear Translators,

I have now upgraded the translation server with the latest translations for the past week week. We had 2300+ words/phrases translated!

Once again, thanks very much to all of you who took the time to do so, and here's the report:

Translations Report

from 04-Aug-2006
to 11-Aug-2006

LAMS Authoring

Korean 8 translations
Spanish 4 translations
Dutch 5 translations
English AU 4 translations
Norwegian 4 translations
German 159 translations
Portuguese BR 3 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 187

 

Forum

Korean 14 translations
Spanish 14 translations
Dutch 12 translations
English AU 19 translations
Norwegian 148 translations
German 148 translations

Total Forum: 355

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Dutch 236 translations
Spanish 5 translations
Korean 5 translations
English AU 5 translations
Norwegian 5 translations
German 35 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 291

 

Noticeboard

Dutch 52 translations
German 52 translations

Total Noticeboard: 104

 

Q&A

Dutch 116 translations
Korean 1 translations
Spanish 1 translations
Norwegian 1 translations
English AU 1 translations

Total Q&A: 120

 

ShareResources

Spanish 89 translations
Dutch 139 translations

Total ShareResources: 228

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Dutch 46 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 46

 

LAMS Central

Korean 3 translations
Norwegian 3 translations
Spanish 3 translations
English AU 116 translations

Total LAMS Central: 125

 

LAMS Common

Korean 2 translations
Norwegian 2 translations
German 2 translations
English AU 25 translations

Total LAMS Common: 31

 

Learner (Flash)

Korean 8 translations
Spanish 1 translations
Dutch 23 translations
English AU 1 translations
Norwegian 1 translations
German 23 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 57

 

Voting

Spanish 81 translations
Norwegian 130 translations
Korean 130 translations
English AU 130 translations

Total Voting: 471

 

Notebook

Spanish 74 translations
Norwegian 74 translations
Korean 74 translations
English AU 74 translations

Total Notebook: 296

 

Total Translations: 2311

Thank you,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi there translators,

We have realized that we are missing the actual names of the languages and locales we use in the translation site in their original form. For instance, we've been calling Español in its English form: Spanish.

Therefore we would like to get your help to get the names right. So here's the questions:

Can you please confirm if the language name in your original language is correct according to the list below?

German: Deutsch
Spanish: Español
French: Français
Italian: Italiano
Korean: 한국어
Maori: Māori
Dutch: Nederlands
Portuguese: Português - Brasil
Bulgarian: Български
Chinese: 简体中文
Norwegian: Norsk
Swedish: Svenska
Polish: Polski
Hungarian: Magyar
Greek: Ελληνικά

We don't have any translation for:

Welsh
Thai


If your language is not properly written, could you please post the proper language name in this thread?

Thanks very much in advance

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

We have now updated the Translations website with the latest translations for the week.

This week we have added Arabic thanks to Dr. Abdel-Elah Al-Ayyoub from Jordan. This is our first right to left language and therefore a learning experience for us all. Thanks Dr. Al-Ayyoub for your help and effort.


Here's our translations report:

Translations Report

from 12-Aug-2006
to 19-Aug-2006

LAMS Authoring

Italian 163 translations
Spanish 4 translations
Korean 4 translations
Hungarian 89 translations
Chinese 4 translations
English AU 5 translations
Arabic 163 translations
Norwegian 4 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 436

 

Forum

Italian 14 translations
Arabic 10 translations

Total Forum: 24

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Italian 21 translations
French 1 translations
Bulgarian 1 translations
Greek 1 translations
Swedish 1 translations
English AU 12 translations
Norwegian 251 translations
Arabic 5 translations
Spanish 11 translations
Korean 11 translations
Dutch 1 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 316

 

Noticeboard

Arabic 52 translations

Total Noticeboard: 52

 

Q&A

Italian 15 translations
Spanish 2 translations
Korean 2 translations
English AU 2 translations
Arabic 2 translations
Norwegian 2 translations

Total Q&A: 25

 

Submit Files

English AU 4 translations
Italian 12 translations
Arabic 6 translations

Total Submit Files: 22

 

ShareResources

English AU 1 translations
Arabic 83 translations

Total ShareResources: 84

 

LAMS Monitor

Italian 104 translations
Arabic 104 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 208

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Arabic 46 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 46

 

Learner (Java)

English AU 1 translations
Arabic 5 translations

Total Learner (Java): 6

 

LAMS Central

Maori NZ 1 translations
Spanish 26 translations
Korean 26 translations
English AU 28 translations
Greek 1 translations
Norwegian 141 translations
Arabic 20 translations

Total LAMS Central: 243

 

Monitor (Java)

Arabic 4 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 4

 

LAMS Common

Spanish 2 translations
Arabic 9 translations

Total LAMS Common: 11

 

Resources and Forum

Arabic 3 translations

Total Resources and Forum: 3

 

Learner (Flash)

Chinese 6 translations
Arabic 23 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 29

 

Voting

Norwegian 1 translations
Arabic 1 translations
Korean 1 translations
English AU 1 translations

Total Voting: 4

 

Notebook

Arabic 1 translations

Total Notebook: 1

 

Total Translations: 1514


Thank you,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

As part of the work in internationalizing LAMS, we have now added localization (or i10n in short).

For the past few months, you've been translating all the labels on each screen on LAMS to all 19 languages. These labels you translate are the actual words or phrases in the screen.

However, i10n is concern with data formats. For instance, in different countries the dates are presented very differently: in Chinese a date is usually presented as 2006-08-21, in Spain: 21/08/2006. Another example the numeral expression in certain countries like India or Japan.

i18n takes care of all this for us.

However, if we want to get the data formated in a particular localization, we need to provide a country.

Therefore, in our internationalization site, we have now added a country to all our 19 translations. So when a person using the English translation but with Australia as country code, it will get dates formated as "21 August 2006" and another one using English (American) will get "August 21, 2006".

But you might be wondering "...and how does this affect my translation work?". The good news is: it doesn't at all So just keep doing your translation work as usual, but be aware of the country label now next to the language.

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask here.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

We have just updated the latest translations for the week to our translations site, so you are welcome to continue the testing. This week alone we have had more than 6700+ labels translated!

As I mentioned last week, Dr. Abdel-Elah Al-Ayyoub has translated almost all LAMS to Arabic. I have attached a few pictures for you to see. It looks really really nice! Thanks Dr Al-Ayyoub for your efforts.

Another important announcement for this week regarding translations was the implementation of localization (i10n) in LAMS. Now all languages also have a country that will be used to present date and numbers according to the usage on those countries. So now LAMS does support both internationalization and localization!

Here's the translation report for the week:

Translations Report

from 18-Aug-2006
to 25-Aug-2006

LAMS Authoring

Italian IT 163 translations
English AU 2 translations
Hungarian HU 99 translations
Chinese CN 5 translations
Swedish SE 164 translations
German DE 4 translations
Arabic JO 1 translations
Norwegian NO 7 translations
Korean KR 5 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 451

 

Forum

Polish PL 148 translations
French FR 148 translations
Chinese CN 14 translations
Swedish SE 148 translations
Arabic JO 148 translations
Norwegian NO 148 translations

Total Forum: 754

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Italian IT 251 translations
Korean KR 10 translations
Hungarian HU 107 translations
Swedish SE 251 translations
Norwegian NO 251 translations
Arabic JO 197 translations
German DE 251 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 1318

 

Noticeboard

Korean KR 1 translations
French FR 2 translations
Hungarian HU 41 translations
Swedish SE 52 translations
Arabic JO 52 translations
Norwegian NO 52 translations

Total Noticeboard: 200

 

Q&A

Korean KR 5 translations
Spanish ES 3 translations
French FR 176 translations
English AU 4 translations
Swedish SE 177 translations
Arabic JO 149 translations
German DE 174 translations
Norwegian NO 177 translations

Total Q&A: 865

 

Submit Files

French FR 101 translations
English AU 1 translations
Hungarian HU 62 translations
Swedish SE 101 translations
German DE 64 translations
Norwegian NO 101 translations
Arabic JO 101 translations

Total Submit Files: 531

 

ShareResources

Arabic JO 141 translations
Norwegian NO 141 translations
English AU 2 translations
Hungarian HU 73 translations

Total ShareResources: 357

 

LAMS Monitor

Italian IT 104 translations
Korean KR 1 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Hungarian HU 62 translations
English AU 2 translations
Arabic JO 106 translations
Norwegian NO 106 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 383

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Italian IT 46 translations
Polish PL 39 translations
Korean KR 1 translations
Hungarian HU 33 translations
Arabic JO 46 translations
Norwegian NO 46 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 211

 

Learner (Java)

Arabic JO 39 translations
Norwegian NO 39 translations
English AU 1 translations
Hungarian HU 8 translations

Total Learner (Java): 87

 

LAMS Central

Spanish ES 9 translations
Korean KR 1 translations
English AU 10 translations
Hungarian HU 73 translations
Greek GR 1 translations
Arabic JO 104 translations
Norwegian NO 148 translations
Maori NZ 1 translations

Total LAMS Central: 347

 

Monitor (Java)

Hungarian HU 13 translations
Arabic JO 49 translations
Norwegian NO 49 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 111

 

LAMS Common

German DE 25 translations
French FR 25 translations
Arabic JO 25 translations
Norwegian NO 25 translations

Total LAMS Common: 100

 

Chat

Arabic JO 78 translations
Norwegian NO 78 translations

Total Chat: 156

 

Resources and Forum

Swedish SE 3 translations
Arabic JO 3 translations
French FR 3 translations

Total Resources and Forum: 9

 

Learner (Flash)

Arabic JO 23 translations
French FR 23 translations
Norwegian NO 23 translations
Swedish SE 23 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 92

 

Voting

Maori NZ 34 translations
Korean KR 4 translations
Spanish ES 35 translations
English AU 3 translations
Swedish SE 102 translations
Arabic JO 109 translations
Norwegian NO 134 translations

Total Voting: 421

 

Notebook

Maori NZ 23 translations
Polish PL 29 translations
Hungarian HU 48 translations
Swedish SE 74 translations
German DE 74 translations
Arabic JO 74 translations
Norwegian NO 74 translations

Total Notebook: 396

 

Total Translations: 6789

Thank you,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

I forgot to mention a new feature in that we have added to the translation site in my last update, so here we go:

Additionally to the Bulk Translate option, now you can Bulk translate only the missing labels. So instead of having to click each label one by one, you get a list of all the labels that are missing translation and just translate those (see attached picture

This will prevent teams of translators to step in eachothers translations and hopefully make the process a bit easier now.

Comments and suggestions to improve this welcome.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day Translators,

Now we have upgraded the latest translations to the translation server so you should be able to check it out there.

Some of you have been emailing me about getting automatic notifications when a new label gets added, so we'll be implementing a daily notification email service, that once you sign up, you'll get a daily email if new labels get added so you can translate them straight away. This will make it easier for you, because you don't have to come back to the i18n site every now and then to check for new labels.

Given that we are doing this, I was wondering if you would be interested to get another type of notifications regarding the translations. For instance, would it be useful to get a summary of the latest translations for your language as well? (I guess this will be handy when you and others are working on the translation as a team). Any other suggestions?

Ok, for this week, this is the summary:

Translations Report

from 25-Aug-2006
to 01-Sep-2006

LAMS Authoring

Italian IT 1 translations
French FR 166 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 7 translations
English AU 2 translations
Hungarian HU 109 translations
Portuguese BR 47 translations
Norwegian NO 3 translations
Arabic JO 2 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 339

 

Forum

Italian IT 2 translations
Portuguese BR 18 translations

Total Forum: 20

 

Multiple Choice Questions

French FR 25 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 2 translations
English AU 2 translations
Portuguese BR 60 translations
Arabic JO 16 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 109

 

Noticeboard

Korean KR 1 translations
Portuguese BR 52 translations

Total Noticeboard: 53

 

Q&A

Italian IT 2 translations
Spanish ES 5 translations
Korean KR 5 translations
Hungarian HU 103 translations
English AU 6 translations
Swedish SE 178 translations
Portuguese BR 88 translations
Arabic JO 30 translations
Norwegian NO 5 translations

Total Q&A: 422

 

Submit Files

Hungarian HU 67 translations
Korean KR 1 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations

Total Submit Files: 69

 

ShareResources

Hungarian HU 103 translations
Swedish SE 141 translations

Total ShareResources: 244

 

LAMS Monitor

Italian IT 3 translations
Korean KR 4 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
Swedish SE 107 translations
Hungarian HU 76 translations
English AU 1 translations
Portuguese BR 106 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
Arabic JO 1 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 300

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Korean KR 2 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
Hungarian HU 34 translations
English AU 1 translations
Swedish SE 47 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
Arabic JO 1 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 87

 

Learner (Java)

Hungarian HU 15 translations
Portuguese BR 32 translations

Total Learner (Java): 47

 

LAMS Central

Korean KR 8 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Arabic JO 44 translations
English AU 2 translations
Hungarian HU 83 translations

Total LAMS Central: 139

 

Monitor (Java)

Hungarian HU 14 translations
Portuguese BR 49 translations
French FR 47 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 110

 

LAMS Common

Hungarian HU 3 translations
Portuguese BR 25 translations

Total LAMS Common: 28

 

Chat

Hungarian HU 59 translations
Korean KR 1 translations

Total Chat: 60

 

Resources and Forum

Portuguese BR 3 translations

Total Resources and Forum: 3

 

Learner (Flash)

Korean KR 1 translations
Portuguese BR 23 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
Hungarian HU 6 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 31

 

Voting

Spanish ES 27 translations
Korean KR 2 translations
Hungarian HU 88 translations
English AU 2 translations
Portuguese BR 70 translations
Arabic JO 25 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations

Total Voting: 216

 

Notebook

Hungarian HU 8 translations
Portuguese BR 74 translations
Korean KR 1 translations

Total Notebook: 83

 

Total Translations: 2360

Thank you,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ralf Hilgenstock

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Hi ernie,

a notification email service will be a good idea, but a weekly service is enough for me.

Ralf

Posted by Ralf Hilgenstock

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G'Day Translators,

We have a few new features added to LAMS 2.0 this week. There's new Authoring layouts for all tools (except MCQ, Q&A and Vote -we'll have those done in the following weeks). As you can see in the translators website, these new changes make the interface more intuitive and less confusing. In addition, note that you can add files, pictures, movies, etc using the HTML editor by uploading them directly into it. All the content you upload as part of your sequence, *will* go with your sequence when you export it, so this will make the sequence sharing and reusability much easier!

Now you will also see that most Activities have a "Reflective" option in the Advanced Tab (while Authoring). If selected, this option allows the teacher to ask the learners to reflect about about the activity they have completed. These reflections by all the learners can be viewed by the teacher in Monitor. This is quite a powerful feature for certain pedagogical approaches.

Also you'll be able to note a new addition to the internationalization site (see attached picture). Once you login, you'll see the over all progress of your translation language as well as a link that will show you the latest added labels (if any). Hopefully this will make your work easier. If you have comments or suggestion on how to improve this, let me know.

We are now less than a month for release! Woohoo, this feels good!! So take this into account for your translations as well!

A really cool thing to mention regarding the translations this week is that Adam Stecyk from Poland has come to work at Macquarie University for another project (not LAMS) but he'll be working with us in the Polish translations as well as exploring ways of LAMS usage in Poland. Adam and I met this week (he's even in the same building!). So, Adam, welcome to Australia, mate!

Ok, now let's go to the translation report for the week:

Translations Report

from 01-Sep-2006
to 08-Sep-2006

LAMS Authoring

Italian IT 2 translations
Polish PL 166 translations
Dutch BE 4 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
Swedish SE 166 translations
English AU 1 translations
German DE 3 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 343

 

Forum

Polish PL 148 translations

Total Forum: 148

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Italian IT 2 translations
Spanish ES 4 translations
Korean KR 5 translations
English AU 4 translations
Swedish SE 2 translations
Arabic JO 2 translations
German DE 2 translations
Norwegian NO 4 translations
Polish PL 206 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 231

 

Noticeboard

Polish PL 52 translations

Total Noticeboard: 52

 

Q&A

Italian IT 8 translations
Korean KR 7 translations
Spanish ES 5 translations
English AU 5 translations
Swedish SE 138 translations
Arabic JO 3 translations
German DE 8 translations
Norwegian NO 5 translations
Polish PL 140 translations

Total Q&A: 319

 

Submit Files

Polish PL 101 translations
German DE 37 translations

Total Submit Files: 138

 

ShareResources

Polish PL 141 translations
German DE 141 translations

Total ShareResources: 282

 

LAMS Monitor

Polish PL 107 translations
Portuguese BR 1 translations
German DE 107 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 215

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Italian IT 3 translations
English AU 3 translations
Swedish SE 2 translations
Portuguese BR 49 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations
Arabic JO 2 translations
German DE 49 translations
Polish PL 49 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 2 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 163

 

Learner (Java)

Polish PL 42 translations
Korean KR 3 translations
Spanish ES 3 translations
English AU 4 translations
German DE 39 translations
Norwegian NO 3 translations

Total Learner (Java): 94

 

LAMS Central

Polish PL 148 translations
Portuguese BR 80 translations
German DE 148 translations
English AU 1 translations

Total LAMS Central: 377

 

Monitor (Java)

Polish PL 49 translations
German DE 49 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 98

 

LAMS Common

Polish PL 25 translations

Total LAMS Common: 25

 

Chat

Swedish SE 77 translations
Polish PL 78 translations
German DE 78 translations

Total Chat: 233

 

Resources and Forum

Polish PL 3 translations

Total Resources and Forum: 3

 

Learner (Flash)

Polish PL 23 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 23

 

Voting

Polish PL 130 translations
Spanish ES 16 translations
Korean KR 5 translations
English AU 5 translations
Arabic JO 2 translations
German DE 125 translations
Norwegian NO 5 translations

Total Voting: 288

 

Notebook

Polish PL 74 translations

Total Notebook: 74

 

Total Translations: 3106


Thank you,

Ernie

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By: Sebastian Komorowski

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Where are my polish translations? Is there any backup of that data?
greetings
Sebastian Komorowski

Posted by Sebastian Komorowski

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Oooppss.. they might have been rewritten by Adam by accident. Although, note that your actual translations have not been los t only now they show as translated by another person.

I would strongly suggest when more than one person is translating that you coordinate with the other members of your translating team how you go about your work so this overwritten mistakes don't take place. You can use the forums to discuss this if you like.

To avoid this problem we have now a "Translate only missing labels" button, which won't overwrite existing translations but just show you the ones that are missing.

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day fellow translators,

We have updated LAMS for the week now. We had more than 3000 translations this week with French, Hungarian, Swedish, Chinese and German doing some really good progress. We have also updated the translators server now, so you can have a look.

One thing you will notice is that the Survey tool is shown in Author. It is still in development, so we can't put it up for translation yet, but we aim to have it up for translation in one or two weeks. Scribe (the other missing activity) is on the pipe as well, but it isn't an activity on its own as it is used in conjunction with chat (remember Chat&Scribe from 1.0.x). Hopefully we'll have that ready by next week.

More info on the release will be posted in this Forum shortly as well.

OK, without further due, here's the report for the week:

Translations Report

from 08-Sep-2006
to 15-Sep-2006

LAMS Authoring

Italian IT 1 translations
French FR 2 translations
Swedish SE 168 translations
English AU 3 translations
Hungarian HU 119 translations
Chinese CN 4 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations
German DE 1 translations
Polish PL 168 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 2 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 472

 

Forum

Hungarian HU 91 translations
Polish PL 148 translations

Total Forum: 239

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Polish PL 204 translations
Italian IT 4 translations
German DE 4 translations
French FR 6 translations
Swedish SE 4 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 222

 

Noticeboard

Hungarian HU 43 translations
Polish PL 52 translations

Total Noticeboard: 95

 

Q&A

Italian IT 5 translations
French FR 13 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 2 translations
Swedish SE 138 translations
English AU 2 translations
German DE 5 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations
Polish PL 140 translations

Total Q&A: 309

 

Submit Files

Hungarian HU 69 translations
Polish PL 101 translations

Total Submit Files: 170

 

ShareResources

Polish PL 141 translations
French FR 105 translations

Total ShareResources: 246

 

LAMS Monitor

Chinese CN 3 translations
Polish PL 107 translations
French FR 107 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 217

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Polish PL 49 translations
French FR 49 translations
Hungarian HU 37 translations
Chinese CN 3 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 138

 

Learner (Java)

Polish PL 42 translations
German DE 3 translations
French FR 42 translations
Hungarian HU 17 translations
Swedish SE 42 translations

Total Learner (Java): 146

 

LAMS Central

Hungarian HU 5 translations
Polish PL 148 translations

Total LAMS Central: 153

 

Monitor (Java)

French FR 2 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 2

 

LAMS Common

Polish PL 25 translations

Total LAMS Common: 25

 

Chat

Polish PL 78 translations
Swedish SE 1 translations

Total Chat: 79

 

Learner (Flash)

Polish PL 23 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 23

 

Voting

Polish PL 128 translations
German DE 5 translations
French FR 128 translations
Hungarian HU 90 translations

Total Voting: 351

 

Notebook

Hungarian HU 56 translations
Polish PL 74 translations

Total Notebook: 130

 

Total Translations: 3017


Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day Fellas,

We have now updated the translators' server with the latest translations of this week. We have had more than 2000 translations this week.

In addition, we have added now Danish to the list of languages and would like to thank Jens Bruum Kofoed for his work on this.

If you haven't read it already, I posted an update on the next LAMS 2.0 RC1 release as we are getting closer to release LAMS 2.0 stable . Have a read and please let us know if you have any suggestions, comments or question.

Here's the translation report for this week:

Translations Report

from 15-Sep-2006
to 22-Sep-2006

LAMS Authoring

Polish PL 6 translations
Spanish ES 7 translations
Korean KR 6 translations
Danish DK 174 translations
English AU 6 translations
German DE 3 translations
Norwegian NO 6 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 208

 

Forum

Polish PL 148 translations
Danish DK 148 translations

Total Forum: 296

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Danish DK 204 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 204

 

Noticeboard

Polish PL 6 translations
Spanish ES 6 translations
Korean KR 6 translations
English AU 6 translations
Danish DK 58 translations
Norwegian NO 58 translations
German DE 6 translations

Total Noticeboard: 146

 

Q&A

Polish PL 14 translations
Korean KR 14 translations
Spanish ES 14 translations
English AU 14 translations
Danish DK 154 translations
German DE 2 translations
Norwegian NO 14 translations

Total Q&A: 226

 

Submit Files

Danish DK 101 translations

Total Submit Files: 101

 

ShareResources

Danish DK 98 translations
French FR 36 translations

Total ShareResources: 134

 

LAMS Monitor

Spanish ES 4 translations
Korean KR 3 translations
French FR 1 translations
English AU 4 translations
Danish DK 110 translations
German DE 108 translations
Norwegian NO 3 translations
Polish PL 3 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 236

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Danish DK 49 translations
English AU 2 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 51

 

Learner (Java)

Danish DK 42 translations

Total Learner (Java): 42

 

LAMS Central

Polish PL 6 translations
Spanish ES 6 translations
Korean KR 2 translations
French FR 113 translations
English AU 6 translations
Norwegian NO 6 translations
German DE 2 translations

Total LAMS Central: 141

 

Monitor (Java)

Danish DK 49 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 49

 

LAMS Common

Danish DK 25 translations

Total LAMS Common: 25

 

Chat

Polish PL 2 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 2 translations
French FR 80 translations
English AU 2 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations
German DE 2 translations

Total Chat: 92

 

Learner (Flash)

Danish DK 23 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 23

 

Notebook

French FR 74 translations

Total Notebook: 74

 

Total Translations: 2048


Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Fellas,

If everything goes according to plan (cross fingers), we should have a LAMS v2.0 Release Candidate 1 by next week It'll come with a Windows installer, so you'll be able to download and get going straight away.

However, if you want to have your translation to work out of the box in the installer, we need to have *all* translations for your language completed by then as well.

Ok, if you can't make it within a week, don't panic . We'll keep updating the installer to bundle new translations as you keep adding them (probably once a week). Also, we'll be testing a Language Pack installer/updater, which in principle will update your language without having to re-install LAMS, etc.

This week we must have added about 80+ labels to the i18n site and there are more to come as we finalize the Scribe and Survey tools and update some others. Chat & Scribe is now available for translation as a module as well.

So plenty to translate!

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Fellow translators,

We are in the final steps to get LAMS 2.0 Release Candidate 1 out there!

This week as you will have seen in the translations site, there have been significant changes in look and feel for the welcome page and all activity authoring pages. Also we have added the Survey tool to be translated as well.

We have added a new language this week: Russian! Thanks to Anton Vychegzhanin for his work on this.

This week, we have had more than 4400+ translations. We also have added lots of new labels as well, so thanks to everyone for being so responsive on this.

Ok, here's the report for the week:

Translations Report

from 22-Sep-2006
to 29-Sep-2006

LAMS Authoring

French FR 6 translations
Russian RU 108 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
Korean KR 3 translations
Danish DK 7 translations
English AU 1 translations
Norwegian NO 174 translations
Polish PL 5 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 305

 

Forum

Spanish ES 10 translations
Korean KR 10 translations
Russian RU 90 translations
French FR 10 translations
Danish DK 18 translations
English AU 10 translations
Norwegian NO 158 translations
Polish PL 158 translations

Total Forum: 464

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Danish DK 3 translations
Norwegian NO 204 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 207

 

Noticeboard

French FR 6 translations
Norwegian NO 58 translations

Total Noticeboard: 64

 

Q&A

Polish PL 14 translations
French FR 14 translations
Norwegian NO 154 translations
Danish DK 4 translations

Total Q&A: 186

 

Submit Files

Spanish ES 13 translations
Korean KR 13 translations
Russian RU 83 translations
French FR 13 translations
English AU 13 translations
Danish DK 13 translations
Norwegian NO 114 translations
Polish PL 114 translations

Total Submit Files: 376

 

ShareResources

Polish PL 150 translations
Spanish ES 9 translations
Korean KR 9 translations
French FR 9 translations
Danish DK 150 translations
English AU 9 translations
Norwegian NO 150 translations

Total ShareResources: 486

 

LAMS Monitor

Polish PL 2 translations
Norwegian NO 110 translations
French FR 2 translations
Korean KR 5 translations
Danish DK 8 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 127

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Danish DK 49 translations
Norwegian NO 49 translations
Russian RU 49 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 147

 

Learner (Java)

Spanish ES 7 translations
Korean KR 7 translations
Russian RU 3 translations
French FR 7 translations
Danish DK 49 translations
English AU 7 translations
Norwegian NO 49 translations
Polish PL 47 translations

Total Learner (Java): 176

 

LAMS Central

French FR 42 translations
Spanish ES 7 translations
Korean KR 14 translations
Russian RU 95 translations
English AU 7 translations
Danish DK 155 translations
Norwegian NO 155 translations
Polish PL 5 translations

Total LAMS Central: 480

 

Monitor (Java)

Danish DK 49 translations
Norwegian NO 49 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 98

 

LAMS Common

Danish DK 25 translations
Norwegian NO 25 translations

Total LAMS Common: 50

 

Chat

Danish DK 80 translations
Norwegian NO 80 translations
Russian RU 59 translations

Total Chat: 219

 

Resources and Forum

Danish DK 3 translations
Russian RU 3 translations

Total Resources and Forum: 6

 

Learner (Flash)

Danish DK 23 translations
Norwegian NO 23 translations
Russian RU 16 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 62

 

Voting

Spanish ES 14 translations
Korean KR 14 translations
Russian RU 53 translations
French FR 14 translations
Danish DK 142 translations
English AU 14 translations
Norwegian NO 142 translations
Polish PL 142 translations

Total Voting: 535

 

Notebook

Danish DK 74 translations
Norwegian NO 74 translations
Russian RU 53 translations

Total Notebook: 201

 

Chat & Scribe

Russian RU 3 translations
Spanish ES 3 translations
Korean KR 3 translations
French FR 3 translations
English AU 3 translations
Danish DK 3 translations

Total Chat & Scribe: 18

 

Survey

English AU 149 translations
Spanish ES 83 translations

Total Survey: 232

 

Total Translations: 4439

Thanks and have a good weekend,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Oh! One more thing, in the new Welcome page you might see that the Tab size does not accomodate quite well for your language... that'll be fixed, so no worries.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day Fellas,

This is the current translation status of all languages as of today:

English (Australia)	100.0 % Completed
Spanish (Spain)	100.0 % Completed
French (France)	99.89 % Completed
Norwegian (Norway)	99.89 % Completed
Korean (South Korea)	99.89 % Completed
Danish (Denmark)	99.89 % Completed
Polish (Poland)	92.59 % Completed
German (Germany)	87.57 % Completed
Arabic (Jordan)	85.86 % Completed
Swedish (Sweden)	73.65 % Completed
Greek (Greece)	67.80 % Completed
Hungarian (Hungary)	55.59 % Completed
Italian (Italy)	50.0 % Completed
Dutch (Belgium)	49.12 % Completed
Portuguese (Brazil)	45.60 % Completed
Bulgarian (Bulgaria)	34.42 % Completed
Russian (Russia)	31.83 % Completed
Chinese (China)	29.29 % Completed
Maori (New Zealand)	24.17 % Completed
Thai (Thailand)	8.747 % Completed
Welsh (United Kingdom)	6.107 % Completed

Tomorrow for the 2.0 RC1 release, we'll bundle all languages that have all Flash interfaces completely translated (note that LAMS does not work properly -the Flash screens get stuck, if these Flash translations are missing).

So to clarify which ones are the Flash modules, they are:

* LAMS Authoring
* LAMS Monitor
* Learner (Flash)and
* Add Lesson Wizard


Of course, if the your translation is not 100% completed, it means that some parts/module/tools will still show in English, but LAMS still will be functional.

If you can't finish all the modules by tomorrow, no worries, we'll rebundle them in the installer each Friday as we've been doing it before.

Thank you,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

As you might have seen here, Jong-Dae from Korea has been having problem using LAMS Authoring to draw transitions between activities. For some reason when he presses the transition button (or uses the CTRL Key) the transition pen appears for about a second but then it returns to the normal state (back to the arrow).

When Jong-Dae first shown this to us we thought it could be some problem with his keyboard or mouse but that seems not to be the case. So it might be that this could be with the language settings in the computer (Jong-Dae uses Windows XP in Korean).

Therefore here's the question for all of you guys that might have your operating systems running in different languages:

Have you guys experience a similar problem or limitations when trying to draw transitions in Authoring?

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: James Phillips

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No, nothing like that (Japanese System).

Posted by James Phillips

By: Jens Bruun Kofoed

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No problems here either (Danish/IE/Win XP)

/Jens

Posted by Jens Bruun Kofoed

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

OK, the translators site has now been updated. Note that we have added quite some new labels this week.

We have repackaged the Windows installer with the latest build. As we said before, this is not an upgrader, so you will need to uninstall your previous version of LAMS (with the uninstaller provided) and reinstall this new version.

NOTE: if you have been designing sequence in your server, make sure you export them before you uninstall/re-install LAMS. Once you reinstall, you can reimport your sequences again.

The feedback we've been getting after the LAMS 2.0 RC1 release has been quite positive but we are eager to hear about any bugs, features you don't like, or functionality you might want to add. If you have something to share, please let us know soon.

Here's the report of the week:

Translations Report

from 06-Oct-2006
to 13-Oct-2006

LAMS Authoring

Spanish ES 1 translations
French FR 1 translations
Korean KR 1 translations
Hungarian HU 124 translations
English AU 1 translations
Danish DK 1 translations
Arabic JO 9 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
Polish PL 1 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 140

 

Forum

Arabic JO 10 translations

Total Forum: 10

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Spanish ES 20 translations
Korean KR 20 translations
French FR 20 translations
English AU 22 translations
Danish DK 20 translations
Norwegian NO 20 translations
Arabic JO 15 translations
Polish PL 225 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 362

 

Noticeboard

Arabic JO 6 translations

Total Noticeboard: 6

 

Q&A

Korean KR 5 translations
Spanish ES 5 translations
French FR 5 translations
Danish DK 5 translations
English AU 6 translations
Norwegian NO 5 translations
Arabic JO 21 translations
Polish PL 159 translations

Total Q&A: 211

 

Submit Files

Spanish ES 1 translations
French FR 1 translations
Korean KR 1 translations
English AU 1 translations
Danish DK 1 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
Arabic JO 14 translations
Polish PL 1 translations

Total Submit Files: 21

 

ShareResources

Polish PL 1 translations
Arabic JO 10 translations
Korean KR 1 translations
Danish DK 1 translations

Total ShareResources: 13

 

LAMS Monitor

Hungarian HU 80 translations
Arabic JO 5 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 85

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Hungarian HU 37 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 37

 

Learner (Java)

Korean KR 2 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
French FR 1 translations
Danish DK 2 translations
English AU 1 translations
Arabic JO 28 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
Polish PL 2 translations

Total Learner (Java): 38

 

LAMS Central

Hungarian HU 100 translations
Maori NZ 25 translations
Arabic JO 8 translations

Total LAMS Central: 133

 

Chat

Arabic JO 2 translations

Total Chat: 2

 

Voting

Arabic JO 19 translations

Total Voting: 19

 

Chat & Scribe

Arabic JO 3 translations

Total Chat & Scribe: 3

 

Survey

Hungarian HU 41 translations
Arabic JO 141 translations

Total Survey: 182

 

Total Translations: 1262

Thanks very much and have a great weekend everyone!

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

Just to let you know that the Scribe module now is up for translation.

The Scribe module is part of the Chat&Scribe module which is quite a unique syncronous tool. If you haven't use this tool before, it will be a good idea for you to look at this animation on how Chat&Scribe works before you get to translate it. The animation covers the tool in LAMS1.0.x, however, there are only a few improvements in 2.0 but the concept of the tool remains the same.

Thanks,

Ernie

PS: Admin coming up by the end of this week!

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Fiona Malikoff

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Hi translators,

I've just added a new module "Forum and Scribe" to the website.

This is very similar to Chat and Scribe but instead of having Chat at the top, you have a Forum.

This module has only 3 entries, so once you have translated Scribe, this one should be very easy.

Regards,

Fiona Malikoff

Posted by Fiona Malikoff

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

As you might have seen in this posting, some few labels have been updated in English as a result of a review. This review aims to make the language we use in LAMS better at describing what they mean.

Since these labels have changed, some translations might be affected.

So now when you click on a module to translate, you might see the English label starts with "*** UPDATED: ...." and the action column has a button in red that says: "Update Translation".

If you see this, it means that the English translations has been updated *after* you have translated the original English word/phrase.

If you believe the meaning has changed significantly, then I would suggest you consider re-editing your translation as well.

Additionally, in near future, I would like to have another button so you can see all of the re-edited English labels all at once, so that will make the translation easier. So I'll get on my skates on that one and get it done in the next few weeks.

If there's any question, please let me know. Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Fellow translators,

I didn't post the weekly update for the past two weeks as we were busy attempting to release 2.0 stable this week but we couldn't do this

However, it has been quite active in the translators front. This week we have introduce a new LAMS Community feature that will allow you to see if any label has been updated in its original language (English in this case) and you (as a translator) can update your language according to the new meaning. Hopefully this will make it easier for users to understand what features do within LAMS, specially in Author and Learner.

At anyrate, here's the report for this week:

Translations Report

from 27-Oct-2006
to 03-Nov-2006

LAMS Authoring

Spanish ES 7 translations
Korean KR 23 translations
Greek GR 147 translations
English AU 5 translations
Danish DK 6 translations
Norwegian NO 6 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 194

 

Forum

Korean KR 9 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations
Greek GR 160 translations
English AU 2 translations
Danish DK 2 translations

Total Forum: 175

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Norwegian NO 10 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 10 translations
English AU 6 translations
Danish DK 8 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 36

 

Noticeboard

Norwegian NO 1 translations
Korean KR 4 translations
English AU 1 translations
Danish DK 1 translations

Total Noticeboard: 7

 

Q&A

Norwegian NO 11 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
Korean KR 14 translations
Danish DK 11 translations
English AU 8 translations

Total Q&A: 46

 

Submit Files

Norwegian NO 1 translations
Korean KR 6 translations
English AU 1 translations
Danish DK 1 translations

Total Submit Files: 9

 

ShareResources

Norwegian NO 5 translations
Korean KR 7 translations
English AU 5 translations
Danish DK 5 translations

Total ShareResources: 22

 

LAMS Monitor

Norwegian NO 3 translations
Korean KR 3 translations
English AU 3 translations
Danish DK 6 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 15

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Spanish ES 1 translations
Korean KR 10 translations
English AU 9 translations
Greek GR 49 translations
Danish DK 9 translations
Norwegian NO 9 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 87

 

Learner (Java)

Korean KR 2 translations

Total Learner (Java): 2

 

LAMS Central

Spanish ES 5 translations
Korean KR 5 translations
Danish DK 9 translations
Swedish SE 161 translations
English AU 6 translations
Norwegian NO 9 translations

Total LAMS Central: 195

 

Monitor (Java)

Swedish SE 49 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 49

 

LAMS Common

Korean KR 11 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations
English AU 2 translations
Swedish SE 29 translations
Danish DK 2 translations

Total LAMS Common: 46

 

Chat

Spanish ES 1 translations
Korean KR 5 translations
English AU 2 translations
Swedish SE 81 translations
Danish DK 2 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations

Total Chat: 93

 

Voting

Korean KR 5 translations
Norwegian NO 5 translations
English AU 4 translations
Danish DK 5 translations

Total Voting: 19

 

Survey

Norwegian NO 2 translations
Korean KR 2 translations
English AU 2 translations
Swedish SE 141 translations
Danish DK 3 translations

Total Survey: 150

 

Scribe

Korean KR 6 translations
Swedish SE 98 translations
Greek GR 13 translations
English AU 5 translations
Danish DK 5 translations
Norwegian NO 6 translations

Total Scribe: 133

 

Forum & Scribe

Greek GR 3 translations

Total Forum & Scribe: 3

 

Total Translations: 1281





Thanks,

ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Everyone,

We have now added LAMS Admin for translation as well. The LAMS admin module is quite a large module which covers:

* All user, course and group management
* Cache Management
* Edit Configuration Settings
* Edit Default Tool Content
* Find Users
* Import Users
* List Disabled Users
* Maintain login page
* Maintain integrated servers
* Register Server


Before you start translating this, I would encourage you to use the translators site, so you get acquainted with the administration screens first. The system admin user and password for this site is: sysadmin/sysadmin.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi there translators,

Just to let you know that we have done some changes to the MCQ tool that will affect some labels as these changes affect the way it behave.

Originally, we intended MCQ to have a multiple correct answers, so if you have a question for instance:

"Which of the following characteristics are true about LAMS?"

and the possible answers were:

[ ] LAMS is about workflow of activities (correct)
[ ] LAMS is written in PHP (incorrect)
[ ] LAMS is open source (correct)
[ ] Blackboard is better than LAMS (incorrect, of course


Then students would have to select option 1 and 3 to get the credit for this question.

However, the feedback we got from James and some of the educational ladies suggested that we should make one and only one correct answer available instead of many as it seems that not too many people use this type of questions.

So we have done the change accordingly now and modify the labels on the screen accordingly.

In order to avoid confusion, can you please ensure that you revisit the MCQ translations in your language and update the changed labels according to the new meanings please?

Note that the updated labels will show an "*** UPDATED: " sign before the English label as well as a read font button saying "Update Translation". It shouldn't be more than probably 10 entries.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ralf Hilgenstock

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Hi Ernie,

The use of MCQ with one or with more correct answers is a feature that is used in a very different manner. Its a cultural difference I think. In germany the Multi-Correct-Answer (MCA) type is more often used than the One-Correct-Answer type.

In the moodle Quiz Module was the same problem. The option there was a decision of the quiz creator, if the question is a MCA or a OCA-Question-Type when starting to create a new question. Moodle creates a difference in the type of bullet points for answering between the types.

Ralf.

Posted by Ralf Hilgenstock

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Ralf,

I cannot agree more with you about this.

Hopefully we can get this back on shortly in near future.

After 2.0, I hope we do a lot more consulting with the broader community about these changes before they take place.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

I might have dreamt that I posted a message here telling you that the translators server was updated, but it seems that I didn't. It must be the jetlag from moving from Sydney to Buenos Aires

So, yes, the latest translations from last week are now on the latest code. The most important event regarding translations last week has been the addition of the LAMS Admin module for translation, so that is the last module we needed to add!

Also another thing to notice is that since now I'm in Buenos Aires for the next few months, the updates to the translations servers will occur on Fridays at 1PM Argentina time (GMT +3). So for all of you living in Europe, that's probably in the late afternoon and for some of you fellows in Asia-Pacific, this is about late night/early Saturday morning your time.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

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G'day translators,

We just updated the translator's server with the latest from the week. It has been quite an active week in terms of translations with over 3000 translations and updates.

Also, we have added Vietnamese as a new language making the available languages 23! We salute our Vietnamese translators.

Here's the weekly report:

Translations Report

from 10-Nov-2006
to 17-Nov-2006

LAMS Authoring

Italian IT 7 translations
Welsh GB 6 translations
Vietnamese VN 177 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
French FR 1 translations
English AU 1 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
Maori NZ 126 translations

Total LAMS Authoring: 320

 

Forum

Maori NZ 151 translations
Italian IT 4 translations

Total Forum: 155

 

Multiple Choice Questions

Vietnamese VN 144 translations
Welsh GB 230 translations
Korean KR 6 translations
Spanish ES 6 translations
French FR 6 translations
Swedish SE 1 translations
English AU 8 translations
Norwegian NO 6 translations
Maori NZ 213 translations

Total Multiple Choice Questions: 620

 

Noticeboard

Maori NZ 52 translations
Welsh GB 53 translations
Vietnamese VN 53 translations

Total Noticeboard: 158

 

Q&A

Maori NZ 159 translations
Spanish ES 3 translations
Korean KR 3 translations
French FR 3 translations
English AU 3 translations
Norwegian NO 3 translations

Total Q&A: 174

 

Submit Files

Maori NZ 109 translations
Norwegian NO 3 translations
Spanish ES 3 translations
French FR 2 translations
English AU 2 translations

Total Submit Files: 119

 

ShareResources

Maori NZ 150 translations
English AU 1 translations

Total ShareResources: 151

 

LAMS Monitor

Maori NZ 113 translations
Spanish ES 3 translations
French FR 3 translations
Swedish SE 113 translations
English AU 3 translations
Norwegian NO 3 translations

Total LAMS Monitor: 238

 

Add Lesson Wizard

Maori NZ 50 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
Norwegian NO 1 translations
French FR 1 translations
English AU 1 translations

Total Add Lesson Wizard: 54

 

Learner (Java)

Welsh GB 67 translations
Maori NZ 62 translations

Total Learner (Java): 129

 

LAMS Central

Maori NZ 1 translations
Spanish ES 1 translations
Swedish SE 167 translations
English AU 1 translations

Total LAMS Central: 170

 

Monitor (Java)

Maori NZ 42 translations
Norwegian NO 2 translations
French FR 2 translations
Spanish ES 2 translations
English AU 2 translations

Total Monitor (Java): 50

 

LAMS Common

Maori NZ 29 translations

Total LAMS Common: 29

 

Chat

Maori NZ 80 translations

Total Chat: 80

 

Resources and Forum

Maori NZ 2 translations
Vietnamese VN 3 translations

Total Resources and Forum: 5

 

Learner (Flash)

Maori NZ 20 translations

Total Learner (Flash): 20

 

Voting

Maori NZ 105 translations

Total Voting: 105

 

Notebook

Maori NZ 51 translations

Total Notebook: 51

 

Chat & Scribe

Maori NZ 3 translations

Total Chat & Scribe: 3

 

Survey

Maori NZ 100 translations

Total Survey: 100

 

Scribe

Maori NZ 66 translations

Total Scribe: 66

 

Forum & Scribe

Maori NZ 3 translations
Vietnamese VN 3 translations

Total Forum & Scribe: 6

 

LAMS Administration

Maori NZ 117 translations
Spanish ES 188 translations
French FR 65 translations
Swedish SE 40 translations

Total LAMS Administration: 410

 

Total Translations: 3213



Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

The translator's server has now been updated with the latest translations of the week.

I want to highlight the effort of the Vietnamese translators that along with the Italian team have progressed a lot this week. So kudos to all of them!

We just added a new feature to the i18n site. This translator's report shows you the translating progress we've been making.

Also, it makes things forum thread a bit shorter as with every weekly report this page is getting longer and longer.

You can access this feature directly in the i18n site front page.

So, here's the report for last week

Thank you,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

The translator's server has now been updated with the latest from the week.

A few highlights this week: we have added Chinese from Taiwan to our lists of languages. Thanks to Eric Hsin for initiating this work and our 24th language!

Also the Italian and Vietnamese translations are now completed in just a matter of weeks. So congratulations to both translating teams on this.

We'll be releasing LAMS 2.0 (finally!) by Wednesday next week as part of the 1st International LAMS Conference. All languages that have completed their translations 100% for these modules: LAMS Author, LAMS Monitoring, Add Learner Wizard and Learner (Flash) will be included in the installer. (Note that if these are not translated completely some parts of LAMS won't function).

But no worry if you can't make it until then, we'll release language packs that will include all the latest updates to the translations soon after 2.0 is out.

Once again, thanks very much and next week we'll have a good reason to celebrate!!

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Of course and I forgot to add the translation progress for this week.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

As you might know by now LAMS 2.0 is out now. We have included on the installer all the updated translations until Dec 5, 2006.

I have updated now the translators server with the translations up to Dec 11, 2006. Here's the report since last week.

Also, we will be testing the first language pack this week, so we can use it hopefully next week to update all the translations in the future.

Thank you,

Ernie

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G'day Translators,

Just updated that translator's site now.

Note that now you will be using LAMS version 2.0.1 which is the next release coming up next. So be aware of small little changes you might encounter. If you want to have a look what the new features/fixes are, have a look at the bug tracker here.

Also we fixed (or are about to actually) a critical problem when LAMS is installed in a non-English OS system but LAMS is set to run in English. Here are all the details for this.

The 1st Language Pack should be coming out next week, so if you want to have your translations included, you might want to add your translations before Thursday next week.

Finally, here's the translator's report for this past week.

Thanks,

Ernie

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G'day fellow translators,

We've been testing the language pack for windows and it's looking quite promising for a Friday afternoon release.

So here's the plan, if you can fit as many label translations before Friday 1PM Sydney time, we will include them all in the first LAMS Language Pack by the afternoon (Sydney time as well).

If you can't, no worries... we'll release the second language pack short after (short after the new year).

So one final push before the end of the year and you can have a full LAMS in your language for Christmas!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

Just in case you didn't see it, the 1st windows language pack is now available.

Thank you all for your work on the translations!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Happy New Year! :) I hope y'all have a great year!

We have added the all the translations done from 22/12/2006 until today in the code. Even thru the Christmas and NY celebrations, the fellas from Taiwan have been working hard to get it all translated. Congratulations to all of them. Here's the report for this period.

In other translating related news, Fiona has announced the release of the Non-Windows language pack. If anyone encounters a problem with this or the Windows language pack, please post them in this thread.

In the next few weeks, we'll release a newer version of the language pack.. so stay tuned!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translating fellas,

The latests translations are now updated in the code and the translator's site.

The report of the week is available here.

Next update will be on Friday 19 of January.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hello translating fellas,

The latests translations are now updated in the code and the translator's site.

The report of the week is available here.

Next update will be on Friday 26 of January.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

We have updated the translators site now with the latest from this week.

Good news is that Maori and Portuguese languages are 100% completed. Thanks Kris Besley and his translating team and to Marcio Soares

On Friday February 2nd, we will be releasing the next Language Pack.

So if you update your translation until then, we can make sure they are added to it.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Oh, I almost forgot, a very big round of applause to Robin Ohia for the Maori translation that now is at 100%! Thanks very much Robin, and once again to the Ministry of Education of New Zealand who has paid for LAMS to be internationalized

Ernie

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It seems that my holidays have affected me more than I thought (Thanks Fiona to point this out)

The next Language Pack release will be released on February 9th.

So you guys can have until then to add/check/modify all the translations you want.

Thanks and sorry for the misunderstanding.

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear Translators,

The Translator's site is now updated with the latest from this week.

Next Friday (February 9th), we will be releasing the second Language Pack, so *all* translations until that day will be included in it.

Just to give a general update on where all our languages are, here is the overall completion:

Welsh (United Kingdom) 100.0 % Completed
Vietnamese (Viet Nam) 100.0 % Completed
Spanish (Spain) 100.0 % Completed
Portuguese (Brazil) 100.0 % Completed
Norwegian (Norway) 100.0 % Completed
Maori (New Zealand) 100.0 % Completed
Korean (South Korea) 100.0 % Completed
Greek (Greece) 100.0 % Completed
English (Australia) 100.0 % Completed
Swedish (Sweden) 99.78 % Completed
Italian (Italy) 99.78 % Completed
Danish (Denmark) 99.61 % Completed
Polish (Poland) 99.31 % Completed
French (France) 98.67 % Completed
Arabic (Jordan) 82.99 % Completed
German (Germany) 75.43 % Completed
Hungarian (Hungary) 50.83 % Completed
Dutch (Belgium) 40.02 % Completed
Chinese (Taiwan) 35.79 % Completed
Russian (Russia) 28.53 % Completed
Bulgarian (Bulgaria) 27.93 % Completed
Chinese (China) 24.13 % Completed
Thai (Thailand) 7.219 % Completed


It'll be great if we can have 100% completed for the next Language Pack

Thanks,

Ernie

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Folks,

Just in case you didn't see the other message, the 2nd language pack is now available.

Thanks for all your efforts, particularly to Kris and the folks from Coleg Abertawe who must have been going cross-eyed testing and fixing the Welsh translation this week!

Fiona

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Hi Translators,

We are all back at work now and getting ready for the LAMS 2.0.1 release in about three weeks. As you might have seen in the translator server, there are quite a few new features and bugs fixes in this upcoming release.

Some of the new labels we've been adding in the past few months are already for 2.0.1. If you are not so sure how to translate them, login into the translator's site to find out or post here any questions you might have about them.

Fiona announced last week the release of the second Language Pack. Thanks a lot to all of you once again for working on the translations.

Here's the translations report for this week.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Our translators site has been rebuilt with the latest translations of the week.

At the beginning of March we are intending to release LAMS 2.0.1. So that will give us with only next Friday (March 2nd) to do all translations for this release.

Note that if you have done all your translations already, we aren't going to add any new ones any time next week. So you are done already

Thank you,

Ernie

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Dear translating fellas,

We are gearing up to release LAMS 2.0.3 by the end of this month

Aside from the bug fixes and small additional features, the new 2.0.3 release will include a new feature called Live Edit. Live Edit includes quite a few new labels that will need to be translated and have now been added to the internationalization site.

However, before you begin translating those, I would ask you to wait for a few more days until we include Live Edit to your translators server.

This is because I believe it would be easier for you to see how this whole feature works in English first so you have better context for your translations.

As soon as we have the Live Edit feature in the translators server I'll let you know.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The translators server now has the new feature Live Edit so you can now have a look on how it works and then choose the words for your translations appropriately.

All the words for Live Edit are now in the internationalization site.

You can either login in to the translators server with your language login and then change your language to English to see all the words in English, or you can login with these set of users:

u: test1 p: test1
u: test2 p: test2
u: test3 p: test3

If you have any problems, please let us know.

Thank you,

Ernie

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As reference, here's an animation on how LIVE EDIT functions.

Thank you,

Dolly the LAMbS

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Dear translators,

Just to remind you that given that we are aiming to release LAMS 2.0.3 in the next two weeks, you might want to have a look at the missing translations words/phrases in the internationalization site.

Most of the new words/phrases added are to cover the new Live Edit feature introduced in 2.0.3.

If you want to play with this new feature, you can use the translators site, as that one is running the latest code.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Hi Fellow translators,

We are done with the tasks for 2.0.3 release, so all next week we'll be doing testing aiming to release the installer/upgrader next Friday June 1st.

As mentioned before, there are a few extra new labels added to 2.0.3, so if you want your language to look complete, please take the time before next Thursday night (European time) to update these labels.

So far the list of completed language is looking like this:

Thai (Thailand) 6.966 % Completed
Chinese (China) 23.28 % Completed
Bulgarian (Bulgaria) 26.95 % Completed
Russian (Russia) 27.53 % Completed
Chinese (Taiwan) 34.54 % Completed
Dutch (Belgium) 38.62 % Completed
Hungarian (Hungary) 49.05 % Completed
German (Germany) 72.79 % Completed
Arabic (Jordan) 80.09 % Completed
Welsh (United Kingdom) 96.70 % Completed
Vietnamese (Viet Nam) 97.15 % Completed
Portuguese (Brazil) 97.23 % Completed
Maori (New Zealand) 97.27 % Completed
French (France) 97.27 % Completed
Swedish (Sweden) 97.27 % Completed
Korean (South Korea) 97.27 % Completed
Danish (Denmark) 97.32 % Completed
Italian (Italy) 97.60 % Completed
Polish (Poland) 97.60 % Completed
Norwegian (Norway) 99.95 % Completed
English (Australia) 100.0 % Completed
Spanish (Spain) 100.0 % Completed
Greek (Greece) 100.0 % Completed


As you can tell not too many new labels either, so probably won't take you long.

As always, you can test these labels in the just updated Translator's site.

Thank you and let us know if you need any help.

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

I just updated all the translations as of today. The next update will take place on September 28th, 2007.

The translations server also have been updated with your latest contributions.

Since the translations server uses the latest LAMS code, you will be able to have a sneak preview at branching. Once again, it's still heavily in development, but it's getting there.

Thanks very much once again for your help with the translations

Ernie

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Dear translators,

I have updated the Translator's server this weekend as we have had lots of translations activity this past week.

Thanks for the people from HuaZhong Normal University, the simplified Chinese is almost completed. Special thanks to Lily and Wei Guo for their work on this.

Lots of progress with Branching in the past few weeks, so if you want to check that out, please gave a look. Again, it isn't fully finished yet, so you might see some bugs or incomplete parts.

Thanks,

Ernie

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I've just added three new labels - one to Forum and two to Multiple Choice.

One of the choices in branching is tool output based branching. This will allow the author to set up which branch of activities a user does, based on what the user does in a preceeding activity.

To do this, the tools have "tool outputs", and in authoring you get to pick which "tool output" you want to use. So we need a nice little text description for each tool output (e.g. "Learner's number of postings in the forum") so that the author knows what they are picking!

The three new labels that I have added are descriptions for tool conditions:

Learner's number of postings in the forum

Learner's total mark

Learner has all answers correct

These descriptions will appear as a drop down list in the "Create Tool Output Conditions" dialogue box in authoring. Have a look at the attached picture. The drop down list will go where it currently says "undefined (long)".

So at the moment, you won't be able to see the text for these three labels anywhere but as soon as we get a few more bugs sorted out in authoring then you will be able to see them. There will be more descriptions coming in future versions of LAMS, as we add more tool outputs to other tools.

I've made up a temporary page on the wiki which explains what these three new labels mean, and how they are used for branching.

Fiona

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Dear Ernie:

I used LAMS integrated with Sakai.
But I have problems with learner.
The attachment have a image with author, but I have a possibility if work with learning ou monitor.
Why It is?

Thanks, very much
Luisa
University of São Paulo Brazil
e-mail: lagg64@hotmail.com

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This is just the first step in using LAMS in Sakai, so only Author is available at this point. To get to the Learner and Monitor screens you have to start the lesson.

Go into Author and create a learning design, then save the design and come back to this screen. Click "Refresh Workspace" and the design you created should appear under your name. Select the design and click Next.

Then you will the "Add/Update Item" screen. Here you need to enter a title for the lesson and click the "Add/Update Item" button.

Then you will get a list of all your lessons. If you click on the title of the lesson, it will start Learner. If you click "Monitor" then it will start Monitor. See the attached screenshot.

Fiona

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Dear translators,

Just a reminder that tomorrow Friday September 28th, we'll be updating all the translations and adding these to the latest code. In addition, we'll also update the translator's website so you can verify your changes.

The next update will be on October 12th, 2007.

Thank you,

ernie

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Dear translators,

I just updated all the new labels to the LAMS code and rebuilt the Translator's site.

There has been lots of translations in the past two weeks, with the addition of Malay to the list of translations . Many thanks to Mohammad Fahmi Adam for his work on it.

The next update will be on October 12th, 2007. I'll let you know a few days in advanced.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

Just a short reminder that on Friday (1PM Sydney time GMT +10) we'll be updating the translations server. So every new or modified labels will be added to the LAMS code.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Fellow translators,

The Translator's server is not updated with the latests translations and code from the 2.1-Development branch.

Gotta run home now, but I promise the full report over the weekend.

Thanks!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Here's the translation report since the last time we update them (29-Sept). As you can see, lots of translations from our Japanese translator, Mr Taira San. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks, we'll have a complete Japanese translation.

We also added Mr. Benjamin Gay as a French translator. Bienvenue Benjamin!

In addition, thanks to all other translators for completing most of the branching labels (Chinese (China), German, Maori, Spanish, English, Japanese, Greek, Norwegian, French)

Next update will be on Friday November 2nd, 2007 1PM Sydney Time. I'll let you know a few days before.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

The translator's server has now been updated with the latest translations from the past few weeks.

We welcome now Japanese and Malay as two new languages in LAMS as the Flash interfaces are now fully translated!

Thank you very much to Mr Taira San and Mohammad Fahmi Adam for their work on in the Japanese and Malay translations respectively.

New update Friday November 23, but this time GMT -3 (Buenos Aires time).

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The translators server now has been updated with the latest translations.

As you might have noticed, the LAMS Community was down due to a massive hardware failure. Luckily all data was preserved so we suffer no lost.

Also, LAMS 2.1 is coming out shortly as Beta and then Release Candidate(s). The Beta release will come with an installer that won't upgrade your existing LAMS 2.0.4 but as a standalone installer so you can use it for your testing. Later release candidates will include all appropriate upgrades.

We'll aim to update the translations again in about two weeks. I'm currently in Argentina and getting married tomorrow So we'll update the translations as soon as I get back from the honey moon.

Once again, thanks everyone for their work on the translations!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

All translations have now been added to the 2.1 Beta release and are included in the installers.

Additionally, the translator's server has been updated as usual.

We are getting closer to the final stable LAMS 2.1 release... the more feedback we get the fastest we'll be able to release it, so if you have a chance have a play with the branching features and have some comments, please let us know in this forum.

Once again, thank you all for such a great work this year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for all!

Ernie on behalf of the LAMS crowd

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Dear Translators,

The translator's site has been updated with all the translations for the past two weeks. We had almost 3000 translations in this period! Thanks to you all!

In the translation site, you'll find that you can embed video and audio using the new flvPlayer plug-in. I haven't tested in other languages, so if anyone finds a problem, please let us know.

Next translation update will take place in two week: January 25th!

Thank you!

Ernie

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Hello Translators,

We have now updated the latest translations you have added in the past two weeks to the LAMS code. Additionally, we also have updated your translator's server.

Just in case you aren't aware yet, there will be a LAMS European/Iberoamerican conference in June in Spain this year. Some of you have mentioned that will be attending so it will be great if we can have a session or round table about the LAMS translations as well. Let me know if any of you is interested in taking part of it.

Thanks very much and the next update will be on Friday February 8th.

Ernie

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Dear translators,

As you might notice the LAMS Documentation Wiki, which is the teachers and users documentation for LAMS has always being in English.

Also while using LAMS, you will see that there are buttons that have a ? (question mark) in them that when pressed a new window pops-up pointing to a specific LAMS Documentation page in this Wiki that explains how the LAMS feature/tool you are in works.

But the problem is that for non-English teachers/users, it doesn't quite help to have this documentation in English. So following lots of people request, we have now configure this Wiki (and LAMS) to jump to a specific are where documentation in the same language as the LAMS user uses will be displayed.

For this, we have created new Wiki Spaces that have the same information as the main English Wiki but this pages can be translated to each of the languages used in LAMS.

So for instance, users utilizing LAMS in Spanish whenever they request help, they will be redirected to the LAMS Documentation Wiki in Spanish.

As you can see in the Spanish Wiki (which is not fully translated yet) we have "copied" the English Wiki that will be translated into Spanish overtime.

The main advantage of doing this (additionally to the users get help on their own language) is that since each language can have their independent Wiki space, the editors for each language can decide the best way to structure their help content, provide additional examples, etc.

So far, we have two new spaces for Spanish and Japanese. However, if you are interested to help us translate the help to your own language, we will create a new space for it and give you the basic English "content" structure so you have a head start.

Additionally, we have put instructions on how to use the Wiki for translations that you might find helpful.

Also since this is a wiki, multiple persons can collaboratively work on the same pages without deleting each others' contribution but building on top of each other instead.

You don't need special skills to edit this pages as our Wiki has a very nice and intuitive interface.

So let us know if you want to start the pages in your own language and we'll help you with all that.

Thanks and have a great weekend,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

We have now updated the translations server with your latests translations (as of Friday February 15th 2008).

You will notice that the help pages for the translations server now jump directly to the LAMS Documentation wiki in your own language. You can test this by login in and when pressing on the round question mark buttons in any authoring or monitor page, you'll jump to the LAMS Documentation wiki in your language. If the page in your language has not being translated, then it will jump to the LAMS Documentation in English as an alternative.

Also, we are a few bugs from releasing 2.1 Release Candidate 1. So it'll be a good idea to start checking out the branching and optional sequences documentation to learn about the latest.

Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

I have just updated the translator's server with your latest translations.

Also many thanks to Peter Gogh for his work on the Hungarian translation. Hungarian will now be included as a supported language in the 2.1 release! Thanks Peter

Since we are waiting for the boss to do his quality control, we have started adding a few small 2.1+ features into the list of 2.1 final release. Therefore, you might have noticed that we have added a few new labels for them.


Some of these features that require new labels are:

* Forgotten password (see new labels in LAMS Central)
* Insert/Merge new sequences in Authoring (See Authoring)
* Controls for managing the size of the popup windows (see Admin labels)


Forgotten password now is a link in the LAMS login page that allows users to change their password by entering either their username or their email address. If the entered criteria matches, then an email is sent to the person with a link. The user can click on the link and now update his/her password.

Insert/Merge is a really cool feature that allows teachers to import sequences within sequences. So if you had a sequence that has some activities that you really like, now you can import these activities into another sequence you are working on. Here's an animation.

Popup-size windows. In the past some of you have mentioned that the size of the LAMS popup windows (learner, author, monitor, admin, etc) are rather small (800x600 px by default). Now the size of these popups are configurable from the Admin interface.

These features are on addition to the large number of tasks/bugs/improvements we've been working on the past few weeks. One to emphasize is the new display for branching activities that looks very very cool.

Anyway, as we are getting closer to release I will update your translations next Friday April 25th.

Let me know if you have any questions or need any help with anything...

Thanks,

Ernie

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Today I finally implemented a new translating feature that will make things a lot easier to ensure quality translations across all tools (many things to Spyros Papadakis and Daniel Schneider to suggest this).

When you go to the translation page and you are logged in as a translator, you will see a new feature:

"Search and Translate Labels across modules"

This feature will allow you to search for words/phrases in *all* your language translations across modules.

Practically this means that if you think you are using two different words (for example "student" and "learner") and you want to ensure that you are consistent, this feature will allow you to find these labels and change them accordingly in a bulk translation update.

Of course, you might want to talk to your fellow language translators so that you all use the consistent words/phrases as you won't want to keep overwriting each other's labels

Let me know what you think about this and if you can think of any other ways to improve this.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hey Translators,

Your server has now been updated with the latest labels as of today.

We have added only a few new labels this week in Monitor mainly. These are so teachers can view how the conditions (or groups) are assigned to the branches. You can test this by clicking on a Branching activity in Monitor and then right-click on it and select the option to "View Conditions to Branches".

We have also developed a new Task List tool that will be included in LAMS 2.1! This new Task tool allows the teacher to set a number of task that he/she wants the students to do. You can think of it as a checklist for the students.

It has some cool advanced features, such as the tasks can have hierarchies so future tasks are not displayed until the previous (parent) one is done. Also the teacher can specify required tasks that the student must do to continue with the rest of the sequence.

But the most important is that this tool can also be used in branching, so the teacher can set write "conditions for branching" ie: "if the student did task 2 and 3, then send him to X branch... if he's done 1 and 3, then send him to Y Branch".

You can have a look at the requirements for the Task List tool.

We will add the Talk List tool to the translators site so you can have a play with this tool as well and -of course, we'll add the labels to be translated so you can use it in LAMS 2.1 in your own language.

Remember that next Friday, we'll update your translations again.... so until then, you guys have all a good weekend!

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Dear translators,

Just to let you know that the latest translations have now been updated in your server.

This week we have added a few labels in several tools. One that is important to mention is the "locked when finished" warning for users. These new labels are to notify or warn users that after the complete this activity, if they come back to it, they won't be able to continue adding stuff to the activity.

So you get a bit of context on where these labels are displayed, here's a picture on how they look like.

The boss has done some quality control last weekend so we have added lots of new fixes and bugs to LAMS 2.1. And there's more to come... but we'll be working on them in the next few weeks.

If you found anything that you want to suggest a fix for or want a new feature added, just post them in the Tech Forum.

Next update: Friday May 9th!

Thanks and have a great weekend

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Your server has now been updated.

Additionally, you will be able to play with new Task List tool! We don't have documentation for this tool as yet (only tech documentation) but you can think of this tool as a check list for students.

The labels for this new tools have not been added yet for translations as it will be best for you to have a play with this tool before getting into translations (probably it gives you a better idea on how it works).

Also with Spyros Papakis, we have been talking about a feature in the Q&A tool that assist teachers in formulating good questions to encourage participation and critical thinking in learners.

This new "Questions Wizard" walks you thru the process of asking questions in the context of cognitive skills (Spyros, feel free to add any other comments as well).

I have include the mockup of our work in the Q&A tool. Once you are in authoring and you click on "Create Question", you'll see a "Questions Wizard" option on the right-hand corner. Have a look at it and let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

Good News! LAMS 2.1 is schedule for release during the first week of June!

So that means that we have two weeks to get all the translations happening...

We have rebuilt the translator's server today, so you can check out your latest translations.

I'll be rebuilding the translations *every-day* this week so in case you want to check your translations.

Here's the break out for languages and current translations:

Thai (Thailand) 6.113 % Completed
Bulgarian (Bulgaria) 23.38 % Completed
Russian (Russia) 23.88 % Completed
Chinese (Taiwan) 29.99 % Completed
Malay (Malaysia) 53.73 % Completed
Hungarian (Hungary) 64.46 % Completed
Arabic (Jordan) 69.53 % Completed
Welsh (United Kingdom) 83.91 % Completed
Swedish (Sweden) 84.41 % Completed
Portuguese (Brazil) 84.44 % Completed
Vietnamese (Viet Nam) 85.69 % Completed
Danish (Denmark) 89.59 % Completed
German (Germany) 90.59 % Completed
Maori (New Zealand) 92.13 % Completed
Dutch (Belgium) 95.13 % Completed
Korean (South Korea) 95.99 % Completed
Chinese (China) 96.31 % Completed
Polish (Poland) 97.31 % Completed
Japanese (Japan) 97.46 % Completed
Italian (Italy) 97.92 % Completed
French (France) 99.67 % Completed
English (Australia) 100.0 % Completed
Spanish (Spain) 100.0 % Completed
Norwegian (Norway) 100.0 % Completed
Greek (Greece) 100.0 % Completed

So for those missing lots of labels, we have two weeks!

If you need any help, please don't hesitate to post here.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

Your server has now been updated with the latest.

We'll do the same tomorrow if new labels are being translated.

Remember, two weeks to crunch time!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The translations server has now been upgraded. About 150 changes in the past 24 hrs.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Translations server's just been updated with the latest (Ernie's on holiday!) Have a good weekend everybody :)

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http://translations.lamscommunity.org has just been updated with the latest translations (and the latest code).

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Server updated with latest translations - note that only modules which are complete are checked in, so some translations that are part of incomplete modules won't show up...

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Server updated!

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Server updated!

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Dear Translators,

The translations server has now been updated with the latest.

Final testing is underway so we should expect 2.1 to be out within a week or so. Hopefully before we go to the LAMS 2008 Conference.

Also Erik Engh (Norwegian translator) has suggested and improvement to the translation site, so each translator can see every translation for all modules in one page (very long page!).

Erik says it makes it easier to compare translations across modules in the same page. Erik is also testing this page today, so if it all works, then we'll add it to the site permanently tomorrow.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

We have been experiencing some problems with our server in the UK (LAMS Community and others). The email gateway for the LAMS Community was down so you were not getting messages until yesterday. This has now been fixed.

We have updated the translations server to the latest.

The code for LAMS 2.1 is now all ready for release (yes! Finally!) and we are putting together the installers and upgraders! So now we need to make sure that all translations are final.

Additionally, I have added the new translating feature permanently as the options for translation. Once you go to the i18n site, you will see an option that says "All modules translations in one page". It might take a while to load as it's pulling *all* translating labels in one single page. This is page is good if you want to compare the words that you use across different modules. As we mentioned before, with the search and translate feature, you are able to search words in you own language and see how they are translated across modules. With this new feature you can still see all your translations but also compare them to the English version as well.

Moreover, we have included the new Task List tool. You can have a look at the tool in the Translations site. I'll put together some basic information about how it works shortly so you can understand what it is meant be be used for.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

The Translations server has been updated. Thanks to Taira San for updating the Japanese labels yesterday (over 2000!)

Thank you,

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

LAMS 2.1 testing and installers are finalized now, so now we are waiting for the final translations to occur.

We would like to release LAMS 2.1 installers with all the translations in it, so we will have until next Wednesday 18th of June to get all you can translate in the installers and upgraders.

So ensure that your translations make it before the deadline if you can. Otherwise, we will release language packs later, but you must realized that it might be a bit annoying to have to install and then apply language packs rather than install it and get all your language there

If you need any help or we can help with the process of translation, please do post here!

Thank you and happy tranlating!

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

The translation's server has been upgraded with your latest.

The final date and time for adding translations to LAMS 2.1 installers is on Wednesday June 18th at 11.59PM GMT.

Installers and upgraders will be available on June 19th! Three more days to go!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The translations server now has the latest.

Here's a general view on how translations are as of now:

Thai (Thailand) 5.767 % Completed
Bulgarian (Bulgaria) 22.05 % Completed
Chinese (Taiwan) 28.29 % Completed
Russian (Russia) 34.13 % Completed
Malay (Malaysia) 50.69 % Completed
Hungarian (Hungary) 60.80 % Completed
Arabic (Jordan) 65.59 % Completed
Welsh (United Kingdom) 79.15 % Completed
Swedish (Sweden) 79.62 % Completed
Portuguese (Brazil) 79.66 % Completed
Vietnamese (Viet Nam) 80.84 % Completed
Danish (Denmark) 84.51 % Completed
German (Germany) 85.46 % Completed
Dutch (Belgium) 89.74 % Completed
Korean (South Korea) 90.55 % Completed
Chinese (China) 90.86 % Completed
Maori (New Zealand) 91.53 % Completed
Polish (Poland) 91.93 % Completed
Japanese (Japan) 92.84 % Completed
Italian (Italy) 93.32 % Completed
Greek (Greece) 99.52 % Completed
English (Australia) 100.0 % Completed
Spanish (Spain) 100.0 % Completed
French (France) 100.0 % Completed
Norwegian (Norway) 100.0 % Completed

Only a matter of hours to the final cut: Wednesday June 18th at 11.59PM GMT

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

The translations server has been updated.

Thanks to our French, Maori and Italian colleagues for finishing up the translations

Only one more day to go!

Cheers,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

Thanks for your efforts in the past couple of days. We have not added all your latest translations to the LAMS v2.1 Installers and upgraders. They should be up on the Wiki as soon as the announcement is done in this forum.

Once again, thanks very much for your work on this and we hope you enjoy LAMS 2.1 in your own language!

As usual, Internationalization site will be available for translations for all languages and we will update the translations site every two week. The next update will take place on Friday July 4th, 2008.

If by then there's a need, we will look into have a language pack with the most updated labels for 2.1.

Once again thanks a lot and we hope you have a great time with LAMS 2.1!

Ernie

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Ok, after over 11 years of speaking/writing English every day (add about 15 years before learning it at school), I still can't either speak it or write it properly

On my previews message, where it reads "We have not added all your latest translations to LAMSv2.1"... it should read instead:

"We have NOW added all your latest translations to LAMSv2.1"

My apologize for my poor English and thanks to Fiona for pointing this out.

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

As we have now incorporated a new language: Turkish, I have rebuilt the translations server. Many thanks to Gonca Kızılkaya for this efforts in this translation

Additionally, since the release of LAMS 2.1 and the LAMS Conference in Spain, there has been new developments in LAMS tools that you will be able to test in the translations server, specially with two new tools:

1.- Google Maps tool

This tool allows teachers to use Google maps in there sequences. Teachers are able to show maps to students and get the students to contribute markers (little flags on top of the maps) and stories for each of these markers. I'm sure you can imagine a lot of good pedagogical uses for this, like field excursions, teaching geography, arts, etc, etc. Or even asking students where they go on holidays


2.- Online Spreadsheet

This one is an online spreadsheet that can be used in two ways:

A- The teacher can present a formula for the students to play with (Say for instance the effect of interest rates in mortgages)

B- The teacher can give the students a problem and want the students to submit the resolutions in formulas by using the spreadsheet.

We use an open source javascript spreadsheet that is getting better everyday but would like to hear your comments on usability.


We'll see what you think about this before we add these tool as part of the LAMS installer or we should leave them as optional tools to install only if you want.

Anyway, have a play and let us know what you think.

Have a great weekend,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

We'll be updating the LAMS dictionary in the next upcoming LAMS 2.1.1 release, due on Friday September 5th. So this would be a chance to update the translations for your language.

For 2.1.1, we'll release an upgrader with the latest translations up to Aug 5th. The translators server has been updated with the latest labels if you want to check them out.

LAMS 2.1.1 fixes a problem with Chat and Firefox 3. So it would be important to upgrade.


New labels added

You will see now that there are a few (5 in average) new labels for all tools. These labels are:

label name	English
label.on	On
label.off	Off
monitor.summary.th.advancedSettings	Advanced Settings
monitor.summary.td.addNotebook	Add Notebook at the end of Forum
monitor.summary.td.notebookInstructions	Notebook instructions

These labels now show in the Monitor page for each tool, and they tell you the advanced options the author set at authoring time. So it will show you something like:

Advanced Settings

• Add Notebook at the end of Forum: On
• Setting XYZ: Off
• Blah blah: On

New Tool: Data Collection

Also, you will see an new tool: Data Collection tool. This tool allows teachers to set up a "database" so the students can add records into it.

The typical use case is say a teacher that once the students to enter records of everything they have collected in a school trip. So the teacher can set up a database that includes a name (text field), description (text area), number (numeric value), position (latitude, longitude), picture (file upload), date (date field), etc...

So when the students get to this activity, then they can add records to this database with the objects/stuff they have found.

We'll add a new Wiki page for this tool explaining all its functionality shortly.


Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

As mentioned last week, we'll be releasing an upgrader for 2.1 to 2.1.1, which included an important fix for the Chat tool in Firefox 3.x this Friday, September 5th (Australian Time).

In this upgrader, we will also include new translations you can do until Friday morning. So please try to do all the changes and additions until then, so we can include all them in!

Also here's documentation for the new Data Collection Tool. This tool will be included in the 2.2 release.

You can test and play with this tool in the translator's server.

Thank you,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The upgraders for LAMS 2.1.1 are now available for download. These upgraders also include the latest translations as of today.

The translators website has also been updated.

In this LAMS 2.1.1 release we have now included Turkish as a language. Many thanks to Gonca Kızılkaya for his work on this!

Once again, thanks very much to all of you for your translating efforts and the next update will be on October 3rd, 2008.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

We have now added all your latest translations in to the translations server.

There are three new tools that we have added to the internationalization site:

* Data collection
* Google Maps
* Online Spreadsheet


Also, we have included a new tool called Dimdim, which is an integration tool that allows to use the Dimdim conferencing (desktop sharing) application within LAMS! Jeremy has created an animation explaining how it works.

So give it a go and let us know what you think!

The next update for translations will be on November 7th.

Thank you!

Ernie

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Hola Translators,

Just to let you know that today we have added a whole bunch of new labels to the i18n site.

These new labels I have added are for "Text search conditions" for Q&A, Forum, Survey, Chat and Notebook.

So for all these tools you now are able to create complex text based conditions. For example: If the student in Questions # 2 said the word "blue whale" and didn't said "elephant" then you can create a condition and use this condition for branching.

You will find that a lot of these labels are the same across all tools, so try to be consistent as it will make it easier for teachers.

Here are the latest labels added so you can compare them and see the similarities.

Also to remind you that next big update will take place on November 7th.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Your server is now upgraded to the latest translations as of today.

There are a good bunch of new labels in almost every project. So please check out your translations for completion.

Given that we are releasing LAMS 2.2 in just about a bit less than a month, we'll keep updating the translations every Friday until December 5th. So you can get a chance to update, test and complete the missing labels.

If you have any questions about any of these labels, please let me know.

Additionally, I would like to welcome Laurence Vignolette as French translator! Thanks Laurence

Thank you very much!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Just a friendly reminder, we'll be updating all languages on Friday (Nov 14th).

If you can't complete all your labels, there will be a further two updates on Wednesday Nov 19 and then on Saturday Nov 22nd.

So far, everything seems to be OK for a release on schedule (December 5th for the Sydney LAMS Conference).

From Monday Nov 24th until Friday 28th, I'll be updating your labels daily in case you need to make final adjustments. The final update to include in LAMS 2.2 will take place on Monday December 1st. On this date, we'll be updating the latest labels and adding them to the installer/upgraders.

So please take this timing into account for planning your translations.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

The translations server has now been updated with all the latest translations.

We had a functional test for LAMS 2.2 yesterday for 5 hours straight with 10 people in the team and we were happy to find that no significant bug or issue was found. So it seems that the LAMS 2.2 is still on schedule for release on December 5th.

As for your translations, there will be again updates on Wednesday Nov 19 and then on Saturday Nov 22nd. The following week (Monday Nov 24th until Friday 28th), we'll do daily updates in case you want to check any issues or problems.

Once again, the last day for updating your translations before release will be December 1st. So please be aware of these date.

Thanks very much and speak to you soon,

Ernie

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Hey Translators,

I just realized that the Wiki tool wasn't up for translation, so I have not included in the internationalization site. You can test the wiki tool in the translator's site. In addition, the Wiki documentation is available as well.

There's a new feature in the Translations across feature that will make translations easier. You can search labels across all modules in your native language or English. Before you could only search in your native language, but as Spyros has pointed out at times it is easier to find this in English.

Click on the link in the "Search and Translate Labels across module" in the internationalization site and give it a go for yourself!

If you encounter any problems, please let me know.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

The translators' site is up to the latest now. The next update will take place this Friday Nov 21 (my bday!)

Thank you and happy translations,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The translator's server is now up to date with the latest translations.

In addition to the normal tools, this time I have added two tools:

* Dimdim tool
* Image Gallery tool

The Dimdim tool is an integration tool with Dimdim, a web conferencing facility that allows you to do online collaborative whiteboards, share desktop, video and voice. Before you use this though, I will suggest you to read the instructions on how the Dimdim tool works (see tutorial).

The Image Gallery tool is a new tool that we will add in the near future (post 2.2) that allows a teacher to share images with students. Students can rate, select favorites and comment on pictures as well as sharing their own (if allowed by the teacher).

If you have any comments on any of these tools, please don't hesitate to share it with us.

The next update will take place on Tuesday Nov 25th instead of Monday. My apologies for this but I'll be flight back to Sydney on Monday.

Thanks very much and have a great weekend!

Ernie

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Translators,

All your translations are now in the translator's server.

We will update it tomorrow around this same time so you have a quick chance to check your translations. We will do the same for *every* day this week.

Remember that the FINAL chance to update your translations is Monday December 1st!

Thanks,

Ernie

PS: I'm back in Sydney now

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Hi Ernie,

Did you update all the modules?

I could not see some of the changes on the first screen (Home Page)

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Hi Spyros,

Good catch!

The LAMS Help tab won't change though because that is a setting in the configuration settings that allows you to add an extra tab on the main page that can link to anything you like. In this case, I have added one to link to Help, but in the case of a school/university it can go to their main uni page or so.

For the "My Profile" tab, see (attached picture) that on the latest translations to greek on LAMS Central, it still reads the old label (I think?)

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Your latest translations are now updated in your server.

Next update, tomorrow November 27th and then every day this week.

Final update before release Monday December 1st

Thank you,

Ernie

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Hi translators,

The latest labels updated yesterday are now updated in the translations server.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Translators,

The server has now been updated with the latest translations.

Next Monday December first is the final day for adding/updating labels for the LAMS 2.2 version to be realized on Friday December 5th!

We are on countdown mode now!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

We have now updated all the labels that will go into the LAMS 2.2 release.

If you have missed a few labels and given that the packaging will start tomorrow morning (Sydney time), we might be able to add any extra one then. So if you need/want to change something, you have a few extra hours but after that, your labels would not be added.

The latest labels can be checked in the translations site.

The installers and upgraders for LAMS 2.2 will be available on Friday for the 3rd International LAMS conference. All the features have been tested and the installers and upgraders are being tested as well, so it's just a matter of days.

We will also upgrade the demo servers so you would be able to use them as well.

Once again, a BIG thank you for all your hard work! I'll post here again before the release once more.

Enjoy!

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

I hope you have started a wonderful New Year!

The translator's server is now updated with your latests translations. Kudos for the Maori and Turkish translators as they have been the most active during the holiday season

Apart from the usual things, you will also find a new tool... it's called Pixlr.

Pixlr is a powerful online flash-based image editor that can be included as a LAMS activity. The editor has powerful image creation and editing features, and the interface will be familiar to anyone who has used Paint, or more advanced editors like Photoshop or GIMP.

Jeremy has created the documentation page as well as an animation for it:

http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/x/R4CI


As you can see there, Pixlr is a tool that lives in the Internet and it is not "bundled" with LAMS... but it has a powerful API that allows us to treat it as a normal LAMS tool.

I'm looking forward to hear what you have to say...

Thanks,

ernie

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Dear Translators,

The translations server has now been updated with the latest labels you have translated over the past month.

As the translations server shows the latest developments in LAMS, you can have a sneak preview into a whole bunch of cool new things:

* Pedagogical planner (not yet finished, but you can get a sense of how it will work now - specially the simplified authoring editor)
* New equation editor in all HTML editors (for all activities!)
* Google maps for all activities (also as part of the HTML editors
* Enhance communicationadding your skype status in all LAMS Activities.
* Pixlr tool... the excellent drawing online tool is now finished and ready to be used.
* Image gallery is also ready to go.

and a whole bunch of fixes and improvements...

In addition, the Pixlr and Image Gallery tools can now be translated. No rush on this translation but you can start anytime.

Thanks and any comments and/or question on any of the new features, please don't hesitate to let me know. Have a wonderful weekend!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Just to remind you that the next translation update will be this Friday (Feb 20th).

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

The translator's server is now update with the latest labels.

There's a bucket of new features included now... but let me see if I can give you a list of the most important ones:


Improved Layout

For a long time, LAMS has been constricted to very very narrow windows (800x600 resolution) now you will be able to see that we take advantage of space a lot better with stretchable screens so you can have more room for images, text and content in general. That goes for the main course page as well as all author and monitor pages.

Video Recording tool coming shortly

The video recording tool is coming along very very nicely. I have added it to the translator's server but haven't managed to get a streaming server installed, so you will be able to see the video example I put in there, but not to record your own yet (give me a week to get some server space).

Please check out the lesson called "Video Recording Test" that I created with the Video Recording plugin and leave comments on how it works for you.


Pixlr is now finished!

Thanks for your feedback on the pixlr tool. All of it has now been added to the Pixlr tool that works incredibly nicely. (Also our thanks to Ola Sevandersson for his awesome work on Pixlr).


A preview on the upcoming Assessment tool

For a long long time we've been longing for a better assessment tool in LAMS (at the moment MCQ is just to basic). So we embarked in creating a whole new powerful assessment tool based on these requirements. The Authoring parts of it are now working, so you can play with them and let us know what you think.

Pedagogical planner is almost done!

The Pedagogical Planner will be a really new twist to LAMS. Instead of starting from a blank Authoring page, the Planner will assist you in creating quick and educationally sound designs that you can do in a matter of minutes. James and Leanne have been creating the initial steps and in the next month we should be able to show you some examples.


Import sequences in LAMS directly from the LAMS Community

We are about to finish a new feature that directly from your LAMS server, you'll be able to browse/search all the available sequences in the LAMS Community and once you select one that you like, add it to your LAMS server by pressing a button. This is all finished on the LAMS side, we are just waiting for me to get a chance to do "hooks" on the LAMS Community -so we should be done shortly.


Public Folder

Now you can share sequences with all the authors system-wide. Just drop your sequence into the Public Folder and everyone can get access to it. Note that this is a *real* public folder, therefore others can modify your sequence.. so keep a copy on your own folder if you don't want your sequence to be changed/modified/deleted.

Math Formulae

I think I mentioned this before, but you can use any math formulae in LAMS now... see the Fx button in the online HTML editors.


Regarding the translations, many thanks to Horng-Ji Lai that has been working really hard on the Chinese (Taiwan) translations. Same for Robin Ohia> (Maori) and a two new translators:

* Ruslan Kazakov (Russian)
* Leffe Eriksson


The next update is label update will be on March 13th. But I'll update the server so you can play with the video recorder and the assessment tool.

Many thanks and keep up the awesome work!

Ernie

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uh! I forgot one thing...

Upload any video/audio file into a LAMS activity

When we introduced last year an option for FLV videos into LAMS, that was good but some of your comments have been that only having the option to use one type of video files (FLV: Flash video) is very restrictive.

Sp included in the translations server you will find a new feature in the FCKEditor that allows you to upload video and audio files of the following formats:

• .avi Audio Video Interleave
• .flv Flash Video
• .mov Quicktime Movie
• .mp3 Audio
• .mp4 MPEG-4
• .mpv iPod video file
• .wma Windows Media Audio
• .wmv Windows Media Video
• Youtube URLs

here are instructions on how to use this:

http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/fckEditor+Media+Player

Play with it and if you have any comments, just post it on the forums.

Thanks,

Ernie

PS: does anyone use realplayer?

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Hi Translators!!

Great news: now you can check out the new VideoRecording tool as well as the VideoRecording Plugin!

The VideoRecording Plugin allows you to record video in any LAMS activity... so instead of typing your instructions for example, you can just video-record them

Additionally, the Video Recording Tool is a full LAMS Activity that allows you to create video-forum discussions in a YouTube-like style. It's quite wicked...

I have updated your server so you can have a look.

Check out the two lesson I created in there and if you have a spare webcam around, record some video introducing yourselves! Finally, we'll be meeting in in cyberspace!

If you have any problems or comments, please post them here.

Thanks and enjoy the full media LAMS!!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The translator's server has now being updated with all the latest.

Some cool exciting stuff:

Time graphs and charts

Ever wanted to see how much time each student spent in each activity? Well, we have now introduced a completely cool new way to add the time dimension into LAMS Monitoring. The new time graphs and charts will give you precise information about the amount of time your students are taking in a lesson.


Assessment tool is almost complete

The new assessment tool is 80% completed. You can now create tests and then run them with learners, but we are still working in the monitoring views. We should be completed by the next internationalization update.


Video Recording tool

The new video recording tool has been tested and new improvements have been added... you can test it directly in your server. That's in addition to the HTML online editor video recording plugin.

We also tested the video recording in tiny little devices like the OLPC XO and the Intel Classmates (1st and 2nd generation) and they work great!


More things to come by the next update:

Gradebook

A simple yet fully functional gradebook that will let you see all the marks that your students get in their lessons


Instant messaging

The coolest instant messaging that will allow teachers and students to communicate with each other whenever they are online.


And hopefully a whole lot more... The next upgrade will be on April 3rd!

Ok, I gotta run home now. Thanks and enjoy the weekend!

Ernie

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By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Translators,

Just to let you know that tomorrow we'll do an update of all your labels!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hey Ernie
just so you know, the image gallery didn't update (for Māori) in the translation update....

Cheers Rob

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No worries Robin. I'll make sure it gets updated tomorrow.

Thanks

ernie

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Hi Translators,

Your server is now up and running with the latest updated labels.

As you might have seen, we have brought forward the release of LAMS v2.3!

There are a whole pack of features in version 2.3... all the latest is in your server and you can test it now.

Apart from the tools you've been playing with there are two important new things:

* A simplified Wizard to add lessons
* A new mindmaping tool

The Wizard for adding lessons is a new interface that now works as part of the Monitor module (you will see that I added a whole bunch of labels to Monitor and removed the old "Add Lesson Wizard"). Give it a go.. you can create lessons with just two clicks (and we'll reduce this to two! -if we can shortly).

Sorry we don't have a wiki page for the mindmap tool yet... it's just today fresh out of the oven, so it might have some bugs in browsers that we haven't tested.

Any questions, as always... send them my way. Thanks!

Ernie

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Ooppss... forgot to mention that the next update will be on April 10th followed by April 17th. After that we'll do quicker updates before the v2.3 release just as we did with previous releases.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

Ernie

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Fellow translators,

I have updated the code with your latest translations and you can test these in your server now.

Next update Friday April 17th!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

Just to let you know that we have added a new module to the internationalization site: Gradebook.

Finally, LAMS gets a gradebook where you can track the progress from learners in a single page, put marks and view times taken in each activity for each user.

Unfortunately, we don't have a wiki page for it yet, but you can test this already in your server (which I just updated today again).

Any comments suggestions on gradebook, as usual, very much welcome!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Your server is now ready with the latest translations from the week.

Next update: Wednesday 22.

A whole pile of fixes included in this version as well. So enjoy!

Ernie

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Dear translators,

Just a quick reminder, I'll be upgrading the translations tomorrow Wednesday (Thursday morning for me here in Australia)... so please have a look as there are a few new labels.

On Thursday after the upgrade, I'll be adding two new tools for translations: Mindmap (documentation coming soon) and Assessment. Both of these tools you can play with in your server.

Thanks,

Ernie

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Hi Translators,

The update for the translations has taken place now.

However, I'm very sorry to say that today (Thursday), the translator's server will incomplete. Only the four tools will show -all the new ones though: Assessment, Mindmap, Pixlr and VideoRecorder

Unfortunately, we were doing some development today and we managed to change something accidentally that prevents the other tools to get created. We will fix this first thing in the morning tomorrow.

Very sorry about this. I'll let you know tomorrow morning as soon as this is fixed.

Thanks for your patience.

Ernie

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Dear translators,

The problem from yesterday has been fixed now. So all tools are displaying properly.

In this update, you can see quite a few cool things:

1.- The Gradebook
2.- Mindmap tool (now it hs zoom controls)
3.- Video Recorder (try export portfolio)
4.- Assessment (if you have a test that you always do, give t a go and see how you can do it with this new tool)

Any feedback, as usual is welcome.

Next update to be completed on Monday!

Thanks,

Ernie

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Dear Translators,

The translations server has now been updated with the latest labels.

Some really cool things these week:

* Drawing board: a new plugin for the FCKeditor that will allow you to paint/draw/sketch anything you like in all activities!
* Gradebook should be pretty much finished. Have a look at its documentation for further information
* Try Instant Messaging. It is just very very cool

As usual, you can do and undo as much as you like and tell us what you think.

We are now heading for a final release probably in two weeks as we are doing some really really heavy testing in a lot more platforms, documenting all installation processes and doing functional testing in each of them... This is a *lot* of work as you can see, but all for getting a very solid and robust release

LAMS 2.3 has a *lot* to test so if you want to give us a hand, use the translations test site and go thru this testing list.

Once again, thanks for your work and hopefully we get 2.3 out in two weeks!

Ernie

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