Bodington

The Bodington project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.8.0, now under the OSI certified Apache 2 license.Bodington is a free, institutional scale VLE, implemented and supported by a wide group of educational institutions, led by Oxford, UHI and Leeds. More information can be found at http://bodington.org. (0 comments)

The Bodington project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.8.0, now under the OSI certified Apache 2 license. Bodington is a free, institutional scale VLE, implemented and supported by a wide group of educational institutions, led by ... [More] Oxford, UHI and Leeds. More information can be found at http://bodington.org. New features: ------------- * Support for MySQL database added. * Newsfeed display: RSS and Atom newsfeeds can be rendered in a variety of ways. * Peer Marker Tool: Although originally developed for student peer marking, it is equally applicable to any summative marking task (e.g. tutor marking). It allows marks to be moderated or disallowed and will collate marks across multiple groups of students. * QuickLinks: provide links to external sites or to locations within Bodington (in which case the link will be automatically updated if the target location is moved). Improvements to existing tools: ------------------------------- * Questionnaires: improved user interaction, additional question and paper types, and the ability to export results to a CSV file. * Pigeon Holes: all contents can now be downloaded as a zip file suitable for submission to a plagiarism detection service, additional blind marking and peer marking facilities. * Log Books: can now accept QTI 2.0 'questions', and can have multiple sub-sections. * Messaging Rooms: individual messages can be moderated. Other: ------ * Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) capability, compatible with Shibboleth and Guanxi IdPs. * New 'Evaluate' permission added to simplify granting access to external evaluators. * Improvements to IMS Content Package import and export (v1.1.4). * Search box now available at the top of each page. * The file upload code has been re-written to improve locking and concurrency problems. * Tracking user accesses to a resource is now possible. Obtaining and Using Bodington: ------------------------------ File releases are available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bodington/ There are two options: 1. bodington_war: This is main Bodington application. To use this, you should copy bodington.war to your servlet container's webapp root (you may need to either restart or reload it, depending on your container's instructions). You must then create and configure a supported database before you can use the Bodington application. 2. bodington-quickstart_war: This is a preconfigured version of bodington.war which uses the lightweight HSQLDB database. It's designed to get you up and running with Bodington with the least possible effort. To use this, you should copy bodington-quickstart.war to your servlet container's webapp root (you may need to either restart or reload it, depending on your container's instructions). You can then login directly to Bodington using the sysadmin user account with no further configuration. This version is not recommended for production use. [Less]

The Bodington project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.8.0, now under the OSI certified Apache 2 license.Bodington is a free, institutional scale VLE, implemented and supported by a wide group of educational institutions, led by Oxford, UHI and Leeds. More information can be found at http://bodington.org. (0 comments)

The Bodington project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.8.0, now under the OSI certified Apache 2 license. Bodington is a free, institutional scale VLE, implemented and supported by a wide group of educational institutions, led by ... [More] Oxford, UHI and Leeds. More information can be found at http://bodington.org. New features: ------------- * Support for MySQL database added. * Newsfeed display: RSS and Atom newsfeeds can be rendered in a variety of ways. * Peer Marker Tool: Although originally developed for student peer marking, it is equally applicable to any summative marking task (e.g. tutor marking). It allows marks to be moderated or disallowed and will collate marks across multiple groups of students. * QuickLinks: provide links to external sites or to locations within Bodington (in which case the link will be automatically updated if the target location is moved). Improvements to existing tools: ------------------------------- * Questionnaires: improved user interaction, additional question and paper types, and the ability to export results to a CSV file. * Pigeon Holes: all contents can now be downloaded as a zip file suitable for submission to a plagiarism detection service, additional blind marking and peer marking facilities. * Log Books: can now accept QTI 2.0 'questions', and can have multiple sub-sections. * Messaging Rooms: individual messages can be moderated. Other: ------ * Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) capability, compatible with Shibboleth and Guanxi IdPs. * New 'Evaluate' permission added to simplify granting access to external evaluators. * Improvements to IMS Content Package import and export (v1.1.4). * Search box now available at the top of each page. * The file upload code has been re-written to improve locking and concurrency problems. * Tracking user accesses to a resource is now possible. Obtaining and Using Bodington: ------------------------------ File releases are available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bodington/ There are two options: 1. bodington_war: This is main Bodington application. To use this, you should copy bodington.war to your servlet container's webapp root (you may need to either restart or reload it, depending on your container's instructions). You must then create and configure a supported database before you can use the Bodington application. 2. bodington-quickstart_war: This is a preconfigured version of bodington.war which uses the lightweight HSQLDB database. It's designed to get you up and running with Bodington with the least possible effort. To use this, you should copy bodington-quickstart.war to your servlet container's webapp root (you may need to either restart or reload it, depending on your container's instructions). You can then login directly to Bodington using the sysadmin user account with no further configuration. This version is not recommended for production use. [Less]

This meeting will be held in Exeter. Details to follow. (0 comments)

This meeting will be held in Exeter. Details to follow. (0 comments)

This meeting will be held in Exeter. Details to follow.

This meeting will be held in Exeter. Details to follow.

The biggest ever Bodington devlopers meeting has just been held in Leeds. There were 12 developers persent. The notes can be foound at: http://bodington.org/wiki/index.php?title=DevMeet1Jun06 (0 comments)

The biggest ever Bodington devlopers meeting has just been held in Leeds. There were 12 developers persent. The notes can be foound at: http://bodington.org/wiki/index.php?title=DevMeet1Jun06 (0 comments)