Feature 130

New features in Claroline 1.3.0 (September 2002)

Language. New languages added. Claroline is now in 12 languages : Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish and Thaï.
Groups. A new comprehensive group tool has been added. It allows to easily organise student groups, attribute them a tutor and create private forum and document area for each of them.
Announcements. New annoucements can be sent by mail to students registered to the course.
Documents. You can now upload several files in one go by compressing them in a single zip file. Once uploaded the file is automatically uncompressed and the files structure accurately reproduced.
Course Info Section. An archive function has been added. It allows teacher to keep an archive copy of its course (useful when one needs to modify the course for a new session but wants to keep tracks of the previous session).
Web install. New functions allowing to upgrade from 1.2 and 1.1 versions to 1.3 has been added.
Admin section. The new PHPMyAdmin 2.3 has been included and admin tools completely rewritten.