[Atutor-devel] ACollab 1.2 Released

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ACollab 1.2 Released
March 30, 2005

ACollab is a fully accessible, open source, multi-group, Web-based collaborative work environment. ACollab is available as a work-groups addon for ATutor 1.4+, and as a standalone collaborative work environment that will run on its own.

This release includes a variety of feature enhancements and a few bug fixes. Current users may wish to upgrade to take advantage of the added functionality.

ACollab Home
http://www.atutor.ca/acollab/index.php


*New in ACollab 1.2*

*Upload and Attach files to Events*: Upload and attach files directly while adding or editing events.

*Upload files Directly to the Library*: Add new files to the library from the drafting room or upload them directly from your computer.

*Enable or Disable Personal Folders*: Group Admins can enable or disable personal folders for users in their group.

*Notifications*: Enable or disable notification emails for forum posts, events, library files and drafting room files from the notification settings page in your personal options.

*View chat participants before logging in*: View group members currently using the chat before entering a chat session, and communicate with group members currently logged in.

*Sort Group Member Lists*: Sort member lists alphabetically.

*Control Chat Timouts*: Group Admins can set Chat Session Timeout, Message Life Span and Chat ID Life Span to custom values from the chat settings menu.

*Upgrade Utility*: Administrators can easily upgrade from ACollab version 1.1 to ACollab 1.2, while maintaining previous records.


*ACollab Translator Call*
There is a little new language in this release of ACollab that will need translating before the updated language packs are made available. Translators are encouraged to login to the ACollab translation site and translate the new and updated language.

ACollab Translator Login
http://www.atutor.ca/my/

ACollab Demo
http://www.atutor.ca/acollab/demo.php

ACollab Download
http://www.atutor.ca/acollab/download.php

ACollab Documentation
http://www.atutor.ca/acollab/docs/howto.php