Download & Releases
4.2.0 (stable) ILIAS 4.1 Features
The features below are part of ILIAS release 4.1. The first stable release 4.1.0 has been published at September 10, 2010. With ILIAS 4.1 we will stop supporting Microsoft's outdated Internet Explorer Version 6. | Features are assigned to the following categories:
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ILIAS core
- Certificate-based Single-Sign On (Funding: Bundesagentur für Arbeit; Implementation: Databay; Status: implemented)
- Date of last change in learning progress (Funding: ISN ETH Zürich; Implementation: Leifos; Status: implemented)
- Encoding Selection for Excel Lists (Funding: FH Köln; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- General Export Guidelines that define how repository resource objects must implement import/export routines, how xml should be generated, how DTD/Schema files should be provided, how files are zipped and which common components must be used. (Funding: HSU, LEIFOS, PH Zürich; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Non-Container Items in Repository Tree: show all resource items of the repository in the repository tree. Additionally the current position should be highlighted and expanded, like in learning modules. Within courses the repository should be limited to the subtree in the course only and the upper parent item. (Funding: Universität Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Permission Screen Revision: new presentation of object permissions and actions, incl. easy way to cut permissions of a role (Funding: ILIAS open source; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented (Usability/Beta))
- Reporting Concept, implementation step 1 (Funding: ISN Zürich; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status:implemented)
- Role Permission Screen Revision: Using new table class, always one table for each object, consitent use of permission names in role and object permission screens (Funding: ILIAS open source; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented (Usability/Beta))
- WebAccessChecker improvements (Funding: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Implementation: Fred Neumann; Status: implemented (Usability/Beta))
User Interface, Usability and Accessibility
- Action-Menu User Interaction (Funding: Required; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Adapting Table Content (Partly funded; Implementation: LEIFOS, Aurealis; Status: implemented (Usability/Beta))
- Additional permanent links to improve navigation (Funding: ILIAS open source; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented):
- Go to Mail Inbox
- Go to Members (of a course or group)
- Go to User Administration
- Customizing the main menu by adding specific / important pages to a drop-down menu (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Overwriting Hits per Page Settings (Funding: FH Köln; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Presentation of files and folders that use special characters and can therefore not be displayed in WebDAV; There should be a possibility to administrate alternative names for the presentation in WebDAV clients (Funding: Universität Bern; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented (Usability/Beta))
- Tabs Guideline to make the order / sorting of tabs consistent for all repository objects (Funding and Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
Personal Desktop and General Services
- Additional URL field for calendar appointments (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Billing History: users are now able to download bills for already bought objects (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: Databay; Status: implemented)
- Booking tool: shall handle the booking of objects like consultation hours, themes of seminar papers or even hardware resources or rooms. (Funding: Uni Marburg and FH Dortmund; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Buying files and courses without login (Funding: Universität Münster; Implementation: Databay; Status: Implemented)
- Internal links for repository pages (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Notification of involved users about new/changed course/group appointments (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Open-ID as additional authentication mechanism (Funding: ISN Zürich; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Personal appointments inside of course/group calendars (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Personal website: extend the Personal Profile of a user as a public website that is accessible in kiosk mode. (Funding: Universität Bern et. al.; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Registration with access codes that offers possibility to limit the registration to users with valid access codes only. (Funding: Universität Stuttgart; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Search for file list entries in learning modules (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
Learning and Content Management
- Alphabetical list for navigation in glossaries (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Content alignment in table cells (Funding: HSU; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Content styles: Copy style classes (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Download HTML module as ZIP file: A complete "HTML Learning Module" should be downloadable as a single ZIP-File. (Funding and Implementation: PH Zürich / Pascal Schmitt; Status: implemented)
- Embed questions in learning modules: Like in the SCORM editor it should be possible to embed questions for self assessment into learning modules. The feature will need Javascript support. (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität and PH Thurgau; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Export of wikis: Supporting XML import and export of ILIAS wikis (Funding: HSU; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Glossaries: Full content view (Funding: Uni Stuttgart; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Highlight search terms in learning modules, glossaries and wikis to find search terms on a page easier (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Import/Export of Repository Resources: support for import/export the following objects: Weblinks, Sessions, Folder, Mediapools, Wiki, Mediacasts, Webfeeds (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Improving export GUI of Learning Modules (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität, PH Zürich; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Insert media object - choose from media pool (No funding required; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- News for learning modules pages (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Notification Feature for Wiki Pages (Funding: ILIAS open source; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Permanent link for learning module page to improve usability and consistency of link syntax. (Funding: ILIAS open source; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Print View for Wiki, similar to Learning Module (Funding: FH Dortmund; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Printing Glossaries (Funding: Uni Stuttgart; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- SCORM Editor: File Download Link (Funding ISN, Implementation LEIFOS, Status: implemented in SCORM branch)
- SCORM Editor: Glossary Links (Funding ISN, Implementation LEIFOS, Status: implemented in SCORM branch)
- Search filter in edit mode of glossaries (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Simple linking of images without defining areas in the image map editor (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
Test, Survey and Exercises
- Hyperlinks in Exercises: linking to internal and external resources within the assignment text. (Funded by ILIAS open source; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Multiple Assignments per Exercise: allows to put multiple assignments into one exercise; includes also several usability improvements of the exercise tool. (Funded by Uni Stuttgart; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Notification for tutors: ILIAS sends a notification alerting the lecturer when someone handed in his/her submission. (Funded by tecteam and Qualitus; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Survey improvements: New question type and extensions of survey functionality (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität, PH Thurgau, Universität Bern; Implementation: Helmut Schottmüller; Status: implemented)
Communication and Syndication
- Course forum notification: Members of a course (and group) should be notified automatically about new postings in a course/group forum. They do not need to activate the forum notification manually. It is already set for all members. (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: Databay; Status: implemented)
- Restrict Mail for Learners to prevent learners from sending mails to global roles (Funding: Universität zu Köln; Implementation: Nadia Ahmad / Databay AG; Status: implemented)
- Suppression of SMTP mails to avoid mail delivery for test installations (Funding: Bundesagentur für Arbeit; Implementation: Nadia Ahmad / Databay AG; Status: implemented)
Groupware and Course Management
- Configurable table columns in member lists: tutors / administrators should have the possibility to (de-)activte certain table columns in the member list (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS / Stefan Meyer; Status: implemented)
- Course Group Improvements: Including user profile data export in groups, user fields in groups, showing user's group memberships in course member list, signature for course/group mails (Funding: FH Köln; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Course and Group Registration Links: This feature will allow to activate special links to groups and courses, that already register a user to the respective course or group. (Funding: Universität Bern; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Edit all course news on course level (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Excel Export of Participants: supporting not only .csv but .xls format, too. (Funding: FH Köln; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Mail from Members-tab, Return after sending Mail: Users won't stay in the mail menu after completing a course/group mail but return to the course/group. (Funding: ILIAS open source; Implementation: Databay; Status: implemented)
- Manual sorting in groups: Offering possibility to select the manual sorting in groups deliberately and independently from the course above. (Funding: PH Zürich and HSU; Implementation: LEIFOS / Stefan Meyer; Status: implemented)
- Notification of involved users about new/changed course/group appointments: Course/group members should get a notification mail, when a new appointment is added, an existing appointment is changed or an appointment is deleted. (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: LEIFOS / Stefan Meyer; Status: implemented)
- Session Revision: improvement of session presentation in courses (Funding: ILIAS open source; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented (Usability/Beta))
Administration
- Administration of search result's content snippet length (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Administration of title format in RSS feeds (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Administration Page for Plugins: new section in ILIAS administration that offers possibility to configure a plugin. (Funding: Uni Münster; Implementation: LEIFOS / Alex Killing; Status: implemented)
- Deletion of inactive users via cron (Funding: Bundesagentur für Arbeit; Implementation: Databay; Status: implemented)
- History of RBAC changes: ILIAS may store RBAC settings changes and the users who made them (Funding: Universität zu Köln; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
- Improvement of extended Language Maintenance: merging back local changes, saving comments in export file and filtering and deleting of variables that exists only locally (Funding and implementation: Fred Neumann, FIM; Status: implemented)
- Proxy Server Administration Revision: Streamlining of administration for proxy server settings, e.g. web link checker and news (Funding: Helmut Schmidt Universität; Implementation: Databay; Status: implemented)
- Session Control that takes care of the total number of simultaniously existing php sessions. (Funding: Bundesagentur für Arbeit; Implementation: Databay; Status: implemented)
- Streamlining local user account (Funding: Qualitus; Implementation: LEIFOS; Status: implemented)
Abandoned Features
With ILIAS 4.1 the following features will no longer be supported:
- Feature that allows users to start the tasks of a cron job via a HTTP request
- Import of ILIAS 2 forums into ILIAS 4
- Course archives (obsolete due to new export feature)