Apereo Board & Officers Election

I am pleased to announce that the following were elected to the Board of Directors of the Apereo Foundation at the Foundation AGM

• Thierry Koscielniak - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Paris, France)
• Laura McCord - Rice University (representing and elected by individual members)
• Salvador Pelicer - Entornos de Formación (Valencia, Spain)
• Matthew Rascoff - Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation Duke University (North Carolina, USA)

• Chair - Anne-Marie Scott - University of Edinburgh
• Vice Chair - Lucy Appert - New York University
• Treasurer - Tim Carroll - Rogue Wave Software
• Secretary - Francois Campbell - OpenCollab

• Douglas Johnson - University of Florida
• Shoji Kajita - Kyoto University
• Cheryl Brown - University of Canterbury, New Zealand

 Project Updates

Opencast 7.0 Release

Opencast 7.0 is scheduled for release on June 13th.  Major new features include an overhaul of the permissions management system, as well as improvements to multi-tenancy operation and storage cleanup.  Full release notes can be found at https://docs.opencast.org/r/7.x/admin/releasenotes/.

North American Workshop - finding a date for Boston

We’re (still) trying to fix a date for the workshop we will organize at Harvard DCE. We would appreciate responses by the end of June at https://forms.gle/tD1owFvmDUYRYbJVA.

We are planning on covering everything from running Opencast in a production context to Opencast system architecture and development.  Our intention is to tailor the final content based on the interests of those planning on attending.

Save the date: Meeting of the German-speaking Community

This year’s meeting is being hosted by the Münster University , Germany. It takes place on September 12 and 13 and is free to attend. More details in the July newsletter.

Tsugi Tool Development at U of Dayton

I wanted to send everyone in the community an update on some of the Tsugi-related projects that we are working on at the University of Dayton.

The first tool that's getting a redesign is Quick Write (https://github.com/tsugitools/quickwrite). One of the things you’ll notice is that we’ve moved away from the UD specific branding and images and moved to a more generic menu that will be consistent in all of our tools. The screenshots below will help you get a feel for the new look. Our partnership will continue in the Fall semester when we plan to take on the UI/UX of the Tsugi app store itself.

Image 1: Instructor Tool Menu


Image 2: Student View




Image 3: Quick Write Help

• Pre/Post Reflection: Students answer a question before and after an activity or module and then reflect on what they’ve learned.
• Quick Quiz: A very simple quizzing app for formative assessments.
• Topic Selector: The instructor sets up topics or groups that students can sign up for.
• Photo Gallery: Users collaborate to build a collection of pictures available to everyone in the class. 
• Study Questions: Students add questions and answers that other students can use to study. Questions can be voted up or down and instructors can provide additional detail to the answers.
• Interactive Video Quiz: An instructor can add questions to a YouTube or Warpwire video that will pop up as a student watches. Students must answer the question before the video can proceed further.

• Online MID
• Interactive Video Feedback
• Class Notes
• Learning Journal
• Class Profiles
• Flashcards
• Emoji Ratings
• Simple Certificate
• Interactive Video Remarks
• Interactive Video Discussion
• Interactive Video Understanding
• Randomly

-- David P. Bauer
Team Lead, eLearning Systems & Support Services

 
Karuta Open Source Portfolio Version 2.4 Released

The Karuta project, under the umbrella of the Apereo Foundation, is pleased to
announce the release of version 2.4 of the Karuta Open Source Portfolio. Adopted by an increasing number of institutions, Karuta offers a simple and flexible way for portfolio designers to customize portfolio workflows for learning, assessment, reporting, and showcasing. This seventh release of Karuta has undergone extensive testing and incorporates many new features to streamline admin capabilities including improvements to user creation and reports.

Karuta is currently in production at more than ten institutions. Karuta benefits include:

• Karuta is Simple. Teaching and learning (T&L) designers can quickly build portfolio workflows by creating pages, adding different resources (text, documents, comments, rubrics, embed resources, bubble-maps, email, etc.), and assigning their use to various roles (student, instructor, evaluator, etc.).
• Karuta is Flexible. Karuta has no a priori structure. The T&L designer has full control and can build sophisticated portfolio workflows and reports with a minimum of training. No code development is required. All types of portfolios are supported (learning,assessment, showcase, presentation, etc.).
• Karuta is Iterative. Karuta is built for quick review and revision. Design a portfolio, test it in faculty meetings, make changes, run a small pilot with students, check the data in reports.
• Karuta is Powerful. Karuta has advanced features for creating rubrics, user menus, summary pages, forms, help, reports, sharing, and peer evaluation.
• Karuta is Mobile Device Ready. Karuta is responsive design-ready and can be displayed on computers, tablets, or smartphones.
• Karuta is Multilingual. Karuta can support many languages and has already been set up for English, French, and Japanese. Language customization can be accomplished quickly. A special version of Karuta supports portfolios with multilingual interface commands and forms, images, and/or documents made available in a chosen language.

Karuta Technology:  jQuery javascript front end, Twitter Bootstrap, MySQL, Oracle, REST API.

Try Karuta: http://eportfolium.com/karuta
Get the source code: https://github.com/karutaproject
Get the running code:  https://www.eportfolium.com/site/karuta_download_en.htm
Get documentation for installation: https://github.com/karutaproject/karutaproject/wiki
Get in touch: karuta@apereo.org

Sakai 19.1 Released

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