OpenOlat 19.0 released

[Florian Gnägi]

Dear OpenOlat community

Some weeks ago we released OpenOlat 19.0. The OpenOlat 19.0 release is an iterative evolution of the 18.x release series. It includes also several important security improvements, thus we recommend updating to the newest 19.0.x release as soon as possible. 

Note that we also released OpenOlat 18.2.13 yesterday that includes important security updates. If you want to stay on this older release series make sure that you update to this version. Other release series than 19.0.x and 18.2.x are not maintained anymore and should not be used anymore. 

You can download it from here: https://www.openolat.org/downloads.html

The most important highlights are: 

• FileHub
  • From the ground up redesigned folder component
  • Image preview, lightbox search
  • New trash concept with automatic delete after 30 days
  • Drag&drop files from desktop or within folder
  • Integration of SharePoint / OneDrive 
• Content Creator
  • New content block "Image comparison"
  • New content block "Image gallery"
  • New content block "Quizz" with reuse of all your question items from the question pool
  • Many usability improvement in the editor and the inspector window
• Task course element
  • Peer review feature that uses the form resource as the questionnaire
  • Review analysis using box-plot and spider visualizations
  • All new task workflow view for coaches
  • Rubric assessment
• New course element "topic broker"
  • Topics with images, videos and custom fields to adapt to your personal use cases
  • Fair enrollment algorithm that tries to select topics based on user priorities
  • Downloads, imports, waiting list management and much more
• Redesign of Blog and Podcast resource
  • Modern redesign using table and card view
  • Bulk actions to manag large blogs / podcast, specially when used as user generated content element
  • Added tags for better structuring and search
  • Redesign of comment components for better usability
• Redesign of portfolio task course element
  • Improved visual attractiveness
  • Adding context relevant access to portfolio structure and access management
  • New coaching view in the course with direct access to the students portfolios
• Redesign of course archive
  • All new structure in the archive tool
  • New archive generator too
  • One-click archive for entire course
  • Automatic deletion of old course archives
  • Bulk actions to crate archive of multiple courses from within the authoring environment
  • REST API to trigger course archive generation
• Course badges
  • New course element based badge rules
  • Badges for course element progress, scoring and more
  • Dependent badges to implement stacked badge concepts
• AI generated question items (beta)
  • Create question items based on your learning content using GPT infrastructure
• Many usability and accessibility improvements all over the place
• Many security improvements
• ...

There are many more new features, improvements and bugfixes, please read the full release notes for OpenOlat 19.0 at https://docs.openolat.org/release_notes/Release_notes_19.0/

OpenOlat 19.0 is the best and most secure OpenOlat release yet and we recommend installing it as soon as possible for all OpenOlat users.

OpenOlat 19.0 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 19.0 maintenance branch and not from master: 

https://github.com/OpenOLAT/OpenOLAT/tree/OpenOLAT_19.0

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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