Forums | E-portfolio at Athabasca University

04 April 2014, 4:03 PM

We are scheduling an upgrade for the e-portfolio site for Tuesday, April 29, 2014 between 9:00am and 12:00pm Mountain Standard Time.The e-portfolio system may be unavailable during this time.

This will be a significant upgrade to the system, with an improved UI and many notable new features, including the following highlights

• A fresh new responsive look and feel that works with mobile devices!
• An improved portfolio editing screen that works better with longer pages
• Collapsible blocks in your portfolios
• More intuitive sharing of portfolios and collections
• An embedded PDF viewer block, so PDF files can be displayed within your portfolio
• Folder blocks can now offer a downloadable ZIP file of all folder contents
• Drag & Drop file uploads
• Automatic image resizing on upload for images larger than 1024x1024
• A new "Shared with me" page that lists all pages/collections shared with you
• Easier to read URLs
• Collections can be submitted to course groups

The following is an exhaustive list of all the new features in the upgraded software:

• Accessibility! W3C WCAG 2.0 level AA (except for some admin pages)
• Profile completion progress bar
• Institutions can customise static pages (Dashboard, Terms & Conditions, etc)
• Institutions can customise their default language
• Support for reCAPTCHA on self-registration page
• "New user probation" system to discourage spam
• "Cookie Consent" system for compliance with the EU cookie law
• "Post now" option for forum posts, to bypass post delay
• Support for Creative Commons 4.0 licenses
• New "Feedback" block, allows placing feedback as a block intead of at the bottom of the page
• Can now show image descriptions in "Image Gallery" block
• Can specify the sort order of files in a "Folder" block
• "Folder" block can now have "Download all as zip" link
• Improvements to watchlist notifications
• Notification sent to admins when an institution reaches its allowed member limit
• "New group page" notification
• Turned the block chooser vertical and scrolling, to accomodate longer Pages
• The Image block and Text Box block are now conveniently at the top of the block chooser
• Users can now select more complex layouts and create their own layouts
• Users can import leap2a files into their existing Mahara account
• PDF block allows PDFs to be viewed inline in a Page
• Resume elements can have attachments
• Notes (and text box blocks) can have attachments
• Users are notified when they try to navigate away from a page with unsaved changes
• Many more types of user content can have tags
• Resume entries for electronic publications can now be hotlinks
• Drag-and-drop to upload files
• "Additional HTML" config option for things such as Google Analytics
• A cron job in the LDAP auth plugin to synchronize Mahara accounts with LDAP
• Default registration expiry lifetime
• Display up to 10 collections
• Display up to 100 members in the Group members block
• Filter by login date in "User search"
• License metadata
• License metadata: Add license information to a journal
• License metadata: Add license information to a journal entry
• License metadata: Add license information to a note
• License metadata: Add license information to a plan
• License metadata: Add license information to a plan's task
• License metadata: Add license information to files
• License metadata: Add license information to your résumé
• License metadata: Configure licenses
• License metadata: Institution settings
• License metadata: Set default license
• Logging settings
• Masquerading: Logging settings
• Masquerading: Masquerading notification
• Masquerading: Notify user
• Masquerading: Provide reason
• Masquerading: Report
• Masquerading: Require reason
• Rectractable blocks
• Relocating and renaming of "Shared pages" to "Shared with me"
• Renaming of "Share" to "Shared by me" in personal portfolio
• Search only for groups you can join
• "Edit this tag" button on "My tags"
• "Read" notification icon for user messages,
• Add new journal post directly from a page,
• Choose only from tags used in journal entries
• Clean URLs
• Custom URL for group pages
• Custom URL for portfolio pages
• Custom group URL
• Custom profile URL
• Device detection,
• Disable bounced email addresses automatically
• Display tagged journal entries in full
• Download basic page statistics for institutions
• Download basic page statistics on the site level
• Download daily user statistics for institutions
• Download daily user statistics on the site level
• Download group statistics on the site level
• Editability of group content
• Enhanced site statistics
• External media iframe filters
• Flexibility in number of portfolio pages shown on overview page
• Flexibility in number of users shown per page
• Group collections
• Group information to include number of forums, topics and posts
• Link profile picture and name to user profile in "User search"
• Local customisation of "Edit site pages" list
• Mahara logo that can be picked up by Facebook
• Multiple mobile upload tokens
• Pagination of posts in a forum topic
• Participation report
• Register with a Persona account
• Resize images on upload
• Resize images on upload - per file upload
• Resize images on upload - user default setting
• Responsive design,
• Show if institutions require approval
• Site collections
• Small page header is visible at all times
• Sort group members
• Staff statistics access setting
• Statics about forum content in a group
• Submit a collection for assessment
• Submit collections to a group
• Unpublish a journal entry per the "Unpublish" button
• User can choose institution theme when in multiple institutions
• User can choose theme for browsing the site
• Weekly statistics about content for institutions
• Weekly statistics about content on the site level
• A new "responsive theme", designed to work fluidly on many screen sizes; especially mobile devices
• Members of multiple institutions can decide which theme to use
• Basic support for theming logged-out users
• Option for images to be resized at upload time
• Ability to add journal entries directly from a page
• Tagged journal entries block can show full entries
• Collections can be submitted to groups
• Mobile uploads support multiple devices
• Mobile API support for journal entries and attaching files to journal entries
• Mobile API support for syncing messages, tags, files, and journals
• Breadcrumbs in small headers are visible at all times
• New "Unpublish" button for journal entries
• Optional "Clean URLs" for user profiles, portfolio page, groups and group pages with support for subdomains
• More sorting options on member's listing in a group
• Collections are available for groups, institutions and on the site level
• Group information expanded to include number of forums, topics and posts
• Group admins can enable and view participation reports within groups
• Editability of group content can be limited with a start and end time
• Pagination for forum topics
• Statistics for institutions and more statistics at the site level
• Cron error message appears red for visibility
• Option to add institution staff rights during registration approval
• Configurable SafeIframe site list
• Option to allow self registration process for users authenticating via Persona
• Cron can poll an imap inbox for mail bounces
• Option to allow local customisation of "Edit site pages" list
• "User search" in the admin area links to profile pages