WISE 5.8.0 is now available

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Hiroki Terashima

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Sep 30, 2019, 5:28:48 PM9/30/19

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Hi everyone,

WISE 5.8.0 is now available for download from http://wise5.org. Check out the release notes and instructions for upgrading.

This release includes an entirely new portal front-end application written in Angular, as well as support for load-balancing and a backend re-written with Spring-Boot.

Some major features of the new portal site are:

Updated page aesthetics, design, and structure
New WISE unit library, including search and filtering by Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Redesigned teacher and student classroom schedules
Google Classroom integration (sign up with Google + add WISE units as Google Classroom assignments)

Other selected new features:

Milestones and Teacher Action Reports: Notifies teachers when the class has completed a certain checkpoint, can provide summary data and suggest potential teacher interventions
Teacher Notebook: A persistent space for teachers to take notes during a classroom run
Summary component: This allows teachers and students to view a bar graph of the aggregate student responses or scores. You can read more about it here.

Closed Issues for This Release (Caveat: we culled 100+ issues to clean up our workspace. Many of these will make their way into the applications that we write in the future.)

Following the portal rewrite, we are now in the process of upgrading the other WISE applications (Student Learning Environment, Teacher Classroom Monitor, Authoring Tool) from AngularJS to Angular.

We have been running this version of WISE on the WISE@Berkeley production server (https://wise.berkeley.edu) since November 2018. The new portal and features have been very well received by our users.

Thanks to all the people that made this release possible! Please report any issues you find on this mailing list or on GitHub and come join our Slack channel!