Roadmap

Current Stable Release: LAMS v 2.3 The Current release is: LAMS v2.3 - May 25th, 2009 LAMS v2.4 is Under Development.

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

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 Moodle Sakai .LRN

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LAMS v2.1

Released: June 19, 2008

• Download it!
• Feature List
• Release Notes

• 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

• Blackboard 7.3
• WebCT Vista Powerlink
• Sharepoint

Do you have a wishlist of your own for LAMS? please let us know

LAMS 2.1.1 Released: September 05, 2008 Fixes problem with Chat tool in Firefox 3 Updates translations up to Sept 5th, 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

• Online Spreadsheets
• Google Maps
• Data collection
• Wiki
• Dimdim a Whiteboard, share desktop and conference tool (Dimdim integration)

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LAMS v2.3

Current Release LAMS 2.3 was released May 25th, 2009. Click here for Downloads Test LAMS 2.3

• Massive performance increase. Now LAMS 2.3 uses a quarter of RAM memory and runs 375% faster in comparison to previous versions (further info)
• New simplified "adding lesson wizard". Only three clicks to create a lesson.
• A drawing board in all activities (FCKeditor plugin)
• Integration with the LAMS Community
  • Import sequences directly into LAMS Author from the LAMS Community
  • Share your best sequence with everyone in the LAMS Community
• Public shared folder (all authors system wide can share with each other their designs)
• Instant Messaging in sequences
• Added browser support for Google's Chrome and Safari 4
• A neat new Gradebook!
• Export activity results to other Gradebooks (Moodle, Sakai, .LRN and other integrations)
• Evaluation (Evalcomix)
• Support Activities
• Equation Editor based on LaTeX
• Upgrade to fastest HTML online editor
• Graphs and charts to monitor learner's time in activities
• Dates localization. All dates and times are displayed according to the user's profile time zone

Tools

• Video Audio Recording!
• Pixlr Tool
• Image gallery
• New Assessment tool with gradebook integration
• Mindmap tool!

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LAMS v2.4

LAMS 2.4 is under development.

• General statistics (see LDEV-2075
• Tools inputs and outputs (ability for tools to communicate and exchange data)
• Themes. Each user can select their own skins and themes

Tools

• Wookie widgets tool. Based on Wookie server integration
• SCORM player

Technical

• Migrate to JBoss5
• Upgrade to Hibernate 3.3

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