[Announcement] Sugarizer Server v1.2 is available
Lionel Laské
Hi all,
I'm proud to announce the version 1.2 of Sugarizer Server [1] the server side of Sugarizer application [2].
Thanks to our recent participation to Google Summer of Code and to feedbacks from our users and from our Sugarizer Deployment in Saint-Ouen [3], this new Sugarizer Server version integrate major features and improvements.
Specifically, new features in this version are:
- Teacher profile: teachers are now able to connect with a specific account and handle their classrooms and students without a global view of the deployment.
- Customizable Stats: Statistics view in dashboard is now fully customizable with more than 15 charts to understand all aspects of Sugarizer usage in your school.
- Tutorial: The dashboard contains now a full tutorial to explain all features for all screens to admins and teachers.
- Import/Export: The dashboard integrate import/export features to populate easily your database with new teachers and students accounts.
- Improved UI: Columns sorting, more user friendly error messages, improved classroom view, more responsive IO, … the dashboard UI has been reviewed to be more usable by teachers/admins.
- QRCode connection: Connect your Sugarizer application to your server in in few seconds by using the QR Code integrated within the dahsboard,
- Unlimited storage: Database now support unlimited Journal size and Journal item up to 256mb,
- Improved command line options: activate/desactivate logs, detect and show node.js version, … new options and features allow you to have more control on your server.
- Optimization: ESLint and Grunt minimizer are now integrated to improve code quality and performance. A new aggregate API has also been created to optimize stats generation.
Find a detailed change log on [4].
Sugarizer Server 1.2 is available for any computer using Docker or could be directly installed on Linux, MacOS or Windows. A specific documentation explain how to deploy on a RaspberryPI, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Service. See here for more [5].
Note that since Sugarizer v1.0, Sugarizer Application and Sugarizer Server are split and are updated separately. So Sugarizer Server v1.2 could be use by Sugarizer Application v1.0, v1.1 or v1.2.
Lionel.
P.S.: Special thanks for their contribution on this version to Nikhil Mehra, Tarun K. Singhal, Ashish Aggarwal and to all GSoC contributors.