CourseForum 6.5b1 - Collaborative education software. (Demo)

CourseForum... Take Discussions to the Next Level! Interactive Learning support designed specifically for today's online and face-to-face courses. Why restrict student interaction by using just a discussion tool? Help students learn by creating, sharing and talking about ideas, Q&A, course notes, research, student portfolios, project work, and more. CourseForum delivers the ease of use, flexibility and accountability needed for today's courses. CourseForum Standard Edition is $899, CourseForum Single Class is $199, and CourseForum Lite is $99

WHAT'S NEW

Version 6.5b1:

Content Management Additions:

• new [page:] link type, which allows you to link to pages but have the link display a different name, e.g. [page:"Original Page" Other Name]
• when including pages from another forum into a page, attached images on the other page will appear correctly
• allow a main group page to include a page from a project within the group, provided the project is set to 'use same passwords as main group'
• virtual host based webviews can now optionally specify a path, so you can have several different web views sharing the same hostname, e.g. articles.foo.com/measurement and articles.foo.com/processes

User Interface Improvements:

• popup menus on attachment icons are now activated by a right click, rather than automatically coming up on mouseover
• new table widget, replacing the existing one used on the attachments, versions, user activity and pages administration screens; new widget allows fast paging and search
• reworked sitewide user accounts, web views and custom links administration pages to use the new table widget
• many additional layout and cosmetic changes in all administration screens

New Administrator Features:

• new command line option -dbutil added to allow various inspection and manipulation tasks to be performed on the underlying database files; see the database HOWTO for more information
• allow changing the name on the 'From' line that is used to send out notification emails

Additional Changes:

• various changes to improve web standards compliance; most significantly, all pages now have an explicit DOCTYPE header, which may have an impact on any user-developed custom themes
• upgrade internal editor library to use TinyMCE 3.2.7
• upgrade to Prototype 1.6.1, new accordion widget used for editor page help several refactorings, cleanup and simplification of HTML files, Javascript and CSS; minor changes to HTML generated for page content

Bug Fixes:

• fix style sheet so that editor window is shown full width in Firefox
• fix editor glitch with safari when two attachments are immediately next to each other on the same line
• images uploaded to a page, when displayed in a web view, were being logged in the activity log (if enabled) as downloads when the web view page was viewed; they no longer are logged
• additional quoting of ampersands in page names in various locations in generated HTML
• leading zeros on page numbers in URL's could be misinterpreted as octal

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.1 or later.

PRICE

$89.00

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