LAMS 2.4 Feature list
New features
For teachers
Conditional lesson release
When creating a lesson teachers can specify if another previous lesson must be completed before the lesson is available for students. Once the learners complete the pre-requisite lesson(s), then the lesson becomes available.
Scheduled and instant notifications
A very powerful new feature that enhance LAMS tracking and communication capabilities.
Date restrictions for lessons
Specify restrictions to finish lessons by certain deadlines.
Mobile devices support for learners
When a learner uses a mobile device (like iPhone, iPad, mobile phone) to access a lesson, LAMS automatically detects it and switches to a non-flash interface. Additionally for the most frequently used tools, it will display a mobile friendly interface.
Lesson introductions
Create an introductory page for lessons and include an image of the design.
Faster Gradebook excel exports
Now teachers can download gradebooks for an entire course or specifically for a subgroup.
Date restrictions on activities
For each activity teachers can specify a date for completion. Past this deadline, students cannot longer view or participate in the activity (although they can complete it).
Ratings for Q&A and Forum
Learners can now rate each other answers and postings.
Assessment now implements Question bank
A much needed feature that provides flexibility to create exams. Now teachers can export and import their questions into any assessment activity and specifically select which questions to be used.
Webcam profile picture upload
Directly from a webcam upload your profile picture.
Newer, faster online HTML Editor
A new and quicker version of Online HTML Editor with tons of improvements and easier to use.
For admins
New Moodle2 integration module
As Moodle2 has become stable, we have rewritten our integration to use all of the features of this new version of Moodle. Demo site available.
Overall server statistics
General and course specific statistics about a LAMS server.
Clone courses
Want to move all the lessons to a new semester course automatically? Just use this feature in the sysadmin menu and it makes it in just a few clicks.
And over 400 fixes and improvements, see LAMS 2.4 Release Notes for full details.
New Tools
- IMS Common Cartridge / IMS Basic LTI
- Web conferencing using BigBlueButton
- Kaltura video integration
- Wookie widget engine
- Adobe Captivate and Articulate tool
Improvements
- Integration improvements (images, bulk user creation, etc)
- Improvements for faster forum, assessment and Q&A
- New optional signup module
- New fonts in online HTML editors
- New formulae editor
- Better timezone support
Technical improvement
- Newer application server JBoss 5
- New and faster clustering setups
- Fixed issues with UTF8 Characters
- Support for SMTP Authentication
- Improved LDAP support
- SAML2 authentication/integration support
- Upgrade testharness