OpenOlat 18.0 released

[Florian Gnägi]

Dear OpenOlat community

Some weeks ago we released OpenOlat 18.0. The OpenOlat 18.0 release is an iterative evolution of the 17.x release series. You can download it from here: https://www.openolat.org/downloads.html

The most important highlights are: 

• New project tool for documentation and collaboration
  
  • With documents, files, appointments, milesones and task management  
  • Don't miss any change in the project timeline
  • Different project roles with different rights
  • Suited for personal projects, study projects, research project, portfolio project...
• New course element "page"
  • Based on our block based page editor
  • Intuitive editing and layout features
• New media center
  • For sharing of media elements in the page and eportfolio
  • Automatic media versioning
  • Sharing with users, groups, courses or the entire organization
• Course recertification
  • Reset the course when the certification expires
  • Previous "run" results are kept for comparison and transparency
• Actions in quality module to action on bad reviews that require action
• New To-Do infrastructure
  • Create, assign and delegate to-dos
  • Use by project tool and quality module
  • Stay tuned for new scenarios in the course with future updates
• New Badges infrastructure
  • Based on OpenBadges standard
  • Comprehensive global badges
  • Course badges manual and automatic issuing based on course results
  • Cool visual badge designer
• New course element "JupyterHub"
• Custom email signature 
• UX redesign of course element "file dialog"
• Conversion of scoring information into grades on course level for traditional courses
• Advanced forum reporting tool in course
• Scheduling of course and group info messages and great usability improvements
• Export quiz questions from video editor to question pool
• Security and maintenance updates
• ...

There are many more new features, improvements and bugfixes, please read the full release notes for OpenOlat 18.0 at https://docs.openolat.org/release_notes/Release_notes_18.0/

OpenOlat 18.0 is the best and most secure OpenOlat release yet and we recommend installing it as soon as possible for all OpenOlat users.

OpenOlat 18.0 can be downloaded from there: https://github.com/OpenOLAT/OpenOLAT/tags

If you rather prefer cloning from the repository, make sure you clone from the 18.0 maintenance branch and not from master: 

https://github.com/OpenOLAT/OpenOLAT/tree/OpenOLAT_18.0

See  https://docs.openolat.org/manual_user/ for the OpenOlat manual.

Thanks for the bugreports and code contributions made by the community, we appreciate those inputs a lot! 

Enjoy the new release and send us your feedback!

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