 | Current Stable Release: LAMS v 2.3
The Current release is: LAMS v2.3 - May 25th, 2009
LAMS v2.4 is Under Development.
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LAMS v2.0
Released December 6, 2006.
- Internationalization
- Rich text editor
- Workspaces and folders
- Content Repository
- Runs activities online and offline
- New groupings
- Lesson Wizard
- New Authoring Property Inspector
- New look and feel
- Skins and styles
- Scheduling
See LAMS 2.0 Feature List
See Release Notes
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LAMS V2.0.1
Released: March 9, 2007
- Bug Fixes
- Internationalization improvements
- Integrations additions
- Import users and courses from LAMS 1.0.x servers
- Survey export raw data as Excel files
- Improvements for skins
- and more
See Release Notes
LAMS V2.0.2
Released: March 23, 2007
- Fix critical internationalization issues 1 2
- Remove yellow as a colour in chat
- Fix export portfolio
- Fix internationalization issues with Greek, Korean and Arabic
- Improve installer/upgrader to work with XAMPP
See Release Notes
LAMS V2.0.4
Released: June 04, 2007
- Live Edit (Ability to modify LAMS lessons while they are running i.e.: change an activity, add a new ones, etc. Previously known as Edit On The Fly)
- Fixes for Moodle and Sakai Integrations
- 50+ Bug fixes
Integrations
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LAMS v2.1
Released: June 19, 2008
- Conditionality and branching
- Teacher selected branching
(i.e.: once a student gets to the branching activity, the teacher decides which branch the learner will take)
- Group based branching
(i.e.: members of Group1 go to Branch A, Group2 goes to Branch B, etc)
- Tool output branching
(i.e.: learners that got more than 8 in the MCQ, then go to Branch A; learners with less than 8 go to Branch B)
- Better help and support
- Grouping Teacher now can set the group names in Author
- Sequenced activities within Optionals
- Collapsible Course page
- Tool Conditions
- LDAP support
- Task list tool (new tool!)
- Insert sequence into other sequences (merge)
- Online media player
Integrations
Do you have a wishlist of your own for LAMS? please let us know
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LAMS 2.1.1
Released: September 05, 2008
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LAMS v2.2
Released: May 25, 2009
- Gates
- Gates are open for individuals
- Gates can open on learner's output (ie: if the student got 5 or more in the quiz, let him thru)
- Grouping - Student selected branching.
A new type of grouping where students get to select which group they want to join.
- Presence
While doing a lesson, students and teachers can view who else is doing the activities with them.
- Learning Objectives (Competence) editor
Teacher can setup learning objectives in sequences
- Conditions and branching based on Tool's text output
Q&A, Forum, Survey, Notebook and Chat now can be used in branching and the teacher can specify conditions based on students' text ouputs (ie: if the student said these keywords then it goes to this branch).
- Notifications (automatic notification emails when events occur)
- External tool wrappers: Use LMS tools (Moodle, .LRN, Sakai) as native LAMS tools!
Tools
LAMS v2.3
Tools
LAMS v2.4
| LAMS 2.4 is under development. |
- Multiple conditions for branching
- Tools inputs and outputs (ability for tools to communicate and exchange data)
Tools
Q &A - Add Question | Cognitive Skills - Wizard improvement author allowing Authors to select a Taxonomy and to create questions or other statements (e.g. Objectives) based on it on a) Q&A activities b) Assessment and c) on FCKEditor for each tool (e.g Noticeboard)
Activity Tool | Instructions Tab - Recommendations/Instructions per Role (Teacher, Facilitator, Student, ...)
Author's Recommendations about Teacher/Tutor and Student/Leaner roles (e.g.What does the Teacher do to facilitate learning in this activity per session and What we expected Learner does)