WISE 5.5 is now available!

[Hiroki Terashima]

Hi guys,

WISE 5.5 is now available for download from http://wise5.org! 

A lot of new features have been added since the 5.4 release. In this release, the Authoring Tool got a makeover and now looks and behaves similar to the Student and Teacher tools. Many UI/UX improvements were made to the Grade-by-Workgroup and Student Progress views based on user feedback. We added an "Achievement Framework" which will allow creation and tracking of milestones and other achievements and "Rubrics and Teaching Tips" for teachers. We also updated the primary theme colors for the Classroom Monitor and Authoring Tool so that colorblind users can better distinguish between the Classroom Monitor, Authoring Tool, and Student VLE colors. Lastly, we started removing unused database tables and simplifying the backend codebase. Thanks to all of you who helped make this release happen!

Release notes for v5.5 and instructions for upgrading from WISE5.4 can be found here:

https://github.com/WISE-Community/WISE/wiki/WISE-v5.5-Release-Notes

https://github.com/WISE-Community/WISE/wiki/How-to-Setup-WISE-on-a-Server

Please report any issues you find on this mailing list or on GitHub: https://github.com/WISE-Community/WISE.  Also, we started using Gitter (https://gitter.im/WISE-Community/WISE), so please come chat with us there as well.

We have lots of exciting new features planned for WISE5.6, so stay tuned!

Thanks!

WISE Team@Berkeley