What is new in UVLe
Dec-Nov 2013
❧ Real-time, interactive sharing of slides, whiteboard, desktops; live audio, video, chat by using UVLe's BigBlueButton. Less functional alternative would be Google Hangouts on UVLe
❧ Pantasa enables one to build and annotate bibliography
❧ UVLe Games include Hangman, Crossword, Cryptex, Millionaire, Sudoku, Snakes and Ladders
❧ options in dealing with large video files
Older Updates
❧ UVLe Mobile on Google Play and App Store
❧ addition of LTI packages
❧ more UVLe Activities
❧ more options for quizzes and assignments
❧ UVLe connects to UPDox, a document management system of UP Diliman
❧ UVLe now connects to your Dropbox account via UVLe Dropbox Repository
❧ friendlier user interface featuring a dock for a customizable dashboard, shortcuts to "my courses", "my files," blogs, messages, and a course request form as well as a pull-down menu for course administration and profile settings
❧ files are shared from a database, allowing teachers to share a file in several courses without re-uploading it
❧ enhanced Forum that enables students to post and reply
❧ direct feedback to student assignments
❧ direct way of sharing files with students
❧ user-level customization of individual profiles and home pages
❧ set-up of groups of students depending on their answers in another activity
❧ enhanced wiki to encourage collaboration among students
❧ creation of areas accessible only to colleagues in your department
❧ https login and security fixes here and there
❧ more efficient and robust database
❧ UVLe Mobile
❧ engines for mathematical expressions and molecule visualization (see UVLe Tutorials)
❧ "mind mapping" tools
❧ autosaving contents