This is a note from Wilma Hodges – the Sakai PMC member and Community Coordinator announcing Sakai 20 general availability.
Dear Community,
Congratulations to our amazing worldwide community!
I’m pleased to announce that Sakai 20.0 is now available!
A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to everyone involved with developing, testing, and documenting the latest release. Even during a pandemic, our world-wide community has kept the momentum going and produced another Sakai release packed with exciting new features and enhancements. That is a tremendous accomplishment during these unprecedented times!
Our community wiki has both functional [1] and technical [2] release notes.
Download instructions are also available of course [3] .
New in Sakai 20
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In Assignments: New Sakai Grader UI with document preview in the browser for student file submissions, as well as a progress bar for student submissions
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OneDrive and Google Drive integration in the Sakai file picker
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In Site Info: the Date Manager allows instructors to update all due dates in a single page, and Auto-Groups enhancements simplify the process of creating groups in a site
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Several Gradebook enhancements, including: equally weighted items within a weighted category, full screen mode, resizable columns, a new Section column, and the ability to Message Students directly from the Gradebook
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User Activity tab in Statistics provides detailed user data for instructors, and students also get a view of their own activity
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In Tests & Quizzes: ability to restore deleted assessments, flag individual questions as extra credit, and schedule assessment feedback display start/end dates
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New CK Editor templates available throughout Sakai in the rich text editor
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Student name pronunciation feature in Profile
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“To the top” button to jump back up to the top of the page
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Updated UI in Podcast tool
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And more! [4]
[1] Functional release notes – https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+20+Release+Notes
[2] Technical Release notes – https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+20+Technical+Release+Notes
[3] Download instructions – http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/20.0/
[4] Complete Feature Summary – https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+20.0+Complete+Feature+Summary