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

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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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

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione