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Open Apereo 2020 Vision September 4, 2019   After community consultation and feedback on Open Apereo 2019, we’re planning big changes for Open Apereo 2020. Save the dates: June 15-19, 2020

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While there are some improvements to accessibility and some on-going tweaks to improve color contrast issues, the upgrade to Sakai will not affect the overall appearance that much.  For mobile users - the difference in course navigation will be ... [More] much-improved. Desktop/Laptop view: Sakai 11 Following Upgrade: Mobile view (Sakai 11/Post-Upgrade):    More detail will be … Continue reading Will Sakai look different following the upgrade? [Less]

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(This message came from Wilma Hodges – the Sakai Community Coordinator) I’m pleased to announce that Sakai 19.2 is released and available for downloading [1]! Sakai 19.2 has 125 improvements [2] including 23 fixes in Tests & Quizzes (Samigo) 22 fixes in Gradebook 17 fixes in Assignments 16 fixes in Lessons 12 fixes in Forums […]

Open Apereo 2019 Presentation Spotlight: A Model for Successful Faculty Training July 29, 2019 By: Clea Mahoney from New York University

LTI 2.0 has been removed from Sakai in anticipation of Sakai-20 (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-41789) It is up in master on github and the Sakai-20 nightly server. It took most of one day (Last Thursday at LAMP Camp) and the rest was testing and making sure. I removed over 20% of the LTI code in Sakai (>7000 lines […]

openEQUELLA 2019.1 Released - Features Cloud Provider August 5, 2019 openEQUELLA 2019.1 represents an important re-positioning of the platform, with the introduction of a Cloud Provider framework that enables the dynamic creation ... [More] of new services into openEQUELLA.  The addition of Cloud Providers ensures openEQUELLA is more accessible to the open source developer community, decreases time-to-market for new features, and increases the ability to leverage new cloud technologies. [Less]

Presentation Spotlight - Opencast for Everything: Consultation Skills August 5, 2019 By: Andrew Wilson from The University of Manchester