Editing UVLe 2.5 Release Notes

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Release Date: 01 June 2013

== Server Requirements ==
* UVLe upgrade: UVLe 2.2.3
* PHP version: PHP 5.3.3
* PHP extension: GD

=== Database Requirements ===
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! Database !! Minimum version !! Recommended
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| MySQL || 5.1.33 || Latest
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== Client Requirements ==

=== Browser Support ===
UVLe is best used with the following web browsers:
* Firefox 4
* Google Chrome 11

== Major Features ==

=== Navigation ===
* Collapsed Topics - enables one to toggle between topic and week views of a course, especially when one feels there's "too many" topics to see in one glance
* Tab Topics Course Format enables the teacher to display course topics or sections in tabs

=== Resource Uploading and Sharing ===
* Embed Editable Google Document
* UPDox Repository - enables a UPDox user to share his files via UVLe

=== Special Activities ===
* A classroom teacher can now take attendance and record it directly in UVLe
* Activities Using Learning Tools
* Progress Bar is a block to be added on UVLe to be able to visually track the progress of students' activities
* Complementing the Progress Bar is the Engagement Analytics block that the teacher can add so that the students themselves can see their own level of engagements in the course
* A checklist of items can be created and ticked off by the teacher or the students
* Enables teachers and students to create mind maps
* The game activity makes use of glossaries, quizzes and questions to create a variety of interactive games within the course: Hangman, Crossword, Cryptex, Millionaire, Sudoku, and Snakes and Ladders
* The UVLe teacher has 2 technology choices in conducting a video conference: BigBlueButton and Google Hangouts
* Pantasa enables UVLe users to integrate bibliographic information into an UVLe page

=== New on Quiz Activity ===
* Acknowledgment of anti-plagiarism statement
* Safe Quiz Browser
* Drag and drop into text or image - missing words can be dragged into gaps in a paragraph of text; images onto a part of background image
* Drag and drop markers - markers can be dragged to parts to indicate key features on an image
* Correct Writing - aids in learning the grammar of a new language
* Multinumerical - allows items like "Please enter X, Y, and Z, such as : X + Y + Z > 12"
* Variable numeric is a calculated numeric question type with variable and expression evaluation
* Algebra - requires the student to answer by typing an algebraic formula
* Music Interval prompts the student, who's given a note, to enter a second note at a given interval
* Music Scale prompts the student, who's given a key and tonic, to enter a scale
* Music Key Signature prompts the student, who's given a tonality, to enter the corresponding key signature
* Java Molecular Editor - enables the student to draw a molecule as a response to a question using the editor

=== New on Assignment Activity ===
* PDF Upload enables the instructor to annotate student's work within the browser and return assignment as a PDF

=== Rewards ===
* Certificate - enables the teacher to dynamically generate certificates to students upon completion of certain course requirements
* Badges - are "little rewards" for students' accomplishments in a course

=== Organizational Tools ===
* Chairman (formerly Committee Manager) - an administration module that enables one to manage committees, upload public and private files, create events (meetings), plan meetings, manage agenda, minutes, business arising from previous meetings

== See Also ==
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.5_release_notes Moodle 2.5 Release Notes]

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