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Campus Pack (Blackboard 7-8)

Edited by Hal Herzog on 12/14/2010 at 3:32 PM, EST.

Campus Pack Release Notes

Release 3.0.14
March 14, 2010

·        Important Compatibility Notices

.        Enhancements

·        Fixed Issues

 

Planned Future Enhancements

 

Previous Releases

.       3.0.13

.       3.0.12

·        3.0.10

·        3.0.8

·        3.0.6

·        3.0.5

·            3.0.1

·        2.9.13

·        2.9.11

·        2.9.9

·        2.9.5

·        2.9.3

·        2.9.1

·        2.8.24

·        2.8.21

·        2.8.20

·        2.8.19

·        2.8.17

·        2.8.16 BETA

 


RELEASE 3.0.14

This release includes minor improvements and fixes to bugs reported by users or discovered by Learning Objects after the release of Campus Pack v3.0.13. We thank everyone who gave us feedback and encourage you to keep sending your requests and suggestions to innovation@learningobjects.com.

 

Important Compatibility Notices

·      Campus Pack 3.0 and higher is compatible with Blackboard 7.0 - 9.0.  Blackboard 9.0 users should download the 9.0 specific version from the download page.  Blackboard 9.1 users should contact Learning Objects Support.

·      The inline player in Podcast LX requires the Flash 9 player to be installed on Windows XP and Windows Vista or the Flash 7 player to be installed on Windows 95 and Windows 2000.


Enhancements

IDComponentsDescription
CP-2688

Teams LX

Journal LX

Change notification emails include name of course/organization that include the changed site and a direct link to the site.

 


Fixed Issues

IDComponentsDescription
CP-2709Search LXFilters specific in Course Patterns were not being applied to select courses/organizations to be indexed.
CP-2726

Teams LX

Journal LX

Print view for blogs and wikis did not display site content.
CP-2747Search LXClicking "Go Back" on search results page of search done from Search LX course tool link redirects to Course Tools page.
CP-2750

Teams LX

Journal LX

Some unnecessary warnings were logged in the catalina log files.
CP-2757

Teams LX

Journal LX

Search results were not returned for content inside newly created blog or wiki tools.
CP-2773Search LXThe search string was not displayed correctly on the results page in certain cases.

 

 

PLANNED FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS

The following is the current list of planned enhancements. Please let us know if there are changes to Campus Pack that are most important to you by emailing innovation@learningobjects.com, so that we may prioritize our work accordingly. 


ID

Components

Description

CP-322

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Individualizing the appearance of blogs and wikis.

CP-1110

 

Teams LX

Journal LX

Podcast LX

Expo LX

Campus Pack usage statistics

CP-2554

 

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Adding English (UK) Dictionary to spell-checker.

CP-930

Teams LX

Journal LX

Podcast LX

Expo LX

Task-focused tutorial videos for Teams, Journal LX, Podcast LX and Expo LX.

 

PREVIOUS RELEASES

 

Release 3.0.13

Fixed Issues

 

ID

Components

Description

CP-2752

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Sometimes the rich text editor did not open correctly in Internet Explorer on a large site.

 



Release 3.0.12

Fixed Issues

 

ID

Components

Description

CP-2740

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

The equation editor was displaying a certificate expiration message.

CP-2737

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Fixed issue with the editor rendering the text box without the text box editing controls.


Release 3.0.10


 

Fixed Issues

 

ID

Components

Description

CP-2703

Teams LX

Journal LX

In Firefox browser sometimes a site does not load and instead displays a blank page.

CP-2723

Expo LX

Invitation URLs were incorrectly formatted and did not redirect to the site as expected.

CP-2545

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Replaced dictionary in spell-checker with new one that included a longer word-list.

CP-2705

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

The spell-checker in the editor ignored misspelled words that were followed by any non-space word separator.

CP-2717

Search LX

Fixed Search LX indexer access-control inconsistencies.

 

Release 3.0.8

Fixed Issues

ID

Components

Description

CP-2672

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Emoticons created by versions prior to Campus Pack 3.0 are broken after upgrade. 0

CP-2685

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Fix for issue with editor that resulted in white space being added at the beginning of blog posts and wiki pages on saving the page.

CP-2692

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

In Internet Explorer when editing a wiki or a blog a user is unable to link to an existing wiki page or a blog entry.

CP-2694

Expo LX

In Campus Pack v3.0.x clicking OK to finish creating a wiki or a blog does nothing.

CP-2700

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Blog and wiki related performance fixes.

 

Release 3.0.6

Fixed Issues

ID

Components

Description

CP-2663

Teams LX

Journal LX

 

Modifying an existing equation in Internet Explorer 8 deletes the equation.

CP-2689

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

 

The equation editor was displaying a license expiration message.

 

Release 3.0.5

Fixed Issues

ID

Components

Description

CP-2636

Teams LX

Email notifications were not being generated on Blackboard 7.1 and earlier

CP-2653

Teams LX

Journal LX

When a content area is accessed from the course control panel and blog/wiki settings are modified, clicking OK on the receipt page opens up the content area in a new window.

CP-2662

Expo LX

Link sent to the user for a shared site did not work as expected; the fix was to remove port 80 in the generated URL

CP-2670

Teams LX

Journal LX

Clicking on a QuickLink resulted in the Blackboard course menu and top-frame not being displayed with the target page.

CP-2673

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Paste from MS Word function in text editor did not allow the user to paste copied text.

CP-2681

Teams LX

Journal LX

Editing a wiki/blog shared with a course group generates an error if notifications are turned on for the site.

CP-2682

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

The text editor upload function replaced text selected to be the display link name with the actual file name

 

Release 3.0.1

New Features

 

ID

Components

Description

CP-140

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Spell-check tool added to the rich text editor in blogs and wikis.

CP-427

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Users can subscribe to receive email notifications of new content added to blogs and wikis.

CP-591

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

MathFlow equation editor is available in the Campus Pack rich text editor.

CP-2542

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

An administrator is provided the ability to disable cross-site scripting (XSS) controls at a site level.

CP-2607

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Enable users to upload a video file using the insert media feature in the editor.

 

Enhancements

ID

Components

Description

CP-1037

Teams LX

Expo LX

Allow users to enable RSS feeds for Expo sites and for Teams wikis.

CP-2444

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Added native support for flv and mp4 files so that embedding a video does not require HTML editing.

CP-2536

Search LX

Enable an authenticated/logged in user enrolled as a Guest in a course or organization to find content within the course/org that is accessible by Guest user.

CP-2541

Podcast LX

Expo LX

Changed the colors in podcast feeds to improve the contrast for better viewing.

CP-2550

Journal LX

Added next and previous links to the top of the page so that user does not have to scroll to the bottom of the page to go forward or back in the blog.

 

Fixed Issues

ID

Components

Description

 

CP-2523

Teams LX

Journal LX

Fixed the bug that resulted in the content being stored in the incorrect directory after an upgrade. This was released as a hot fix to 2.9.13 and the fix has also been included in Campus Pack 3.0.

 

CP-1786

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Fixed bug that set auto-play on for media files embedded in a blog or wiki using the Embed Media function.

 

CP-1962

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Fixed bug in rich text editor to enable single line-spacing when pressing Shift + Enter on Windows and Command + Enter on Mac OS.

 

CP-2008

Teams LX

Journal LX

Expo LX

Hyperlinks with paragraph tags inside the link text were not visible in the page editor.

 

CP-2026

Expo LX

Fixed the bug that resulted in the "Students I'am Teaching" module in Expo directory to not always include all students and all courses, when listed "By Users" or "By Course or Organization".

 

CP-2327

Podcast LX

Flash player is now displayed when a podcast episode is linked to an audio file in the content collection.

 

CP-2404

Journal LX

Fixed bug that prevented a user with guest access to a course from accessing a blog tool using RSS.

 

CP-2436

Expo LX

Searching for a user by last name in the Expo LX directory now sorts the result list by the first name if users have the same last name.

 

CP-2522

Teams LX

Journal LX

Fixed bug that resulted in OK and Cancel buttons to not be displayed in Manage Settings page when Expo LX was installed but not available.

 

CP-2528

Expo LX

Fixed bug that prevented a user from accessing a podcast using a permalink.

 

CP-2534

Teams LX

Journal LX

Fixed bug to allow a user to share a site with an organization.

 

CP-2547

Expo LX

Special characters such as æ, ø, and å now display properly on Expo LX sites.

 

CP-2551

Search LX

Fixed indexer to prevent it from scheduling a second run after it executes.

CP-2574

Expo LX

Fixed issue that resulted in an error when user tries to share an expo site with an individual and the user name contained special characters.

 

CP-2577

Podcast LX

Added a receipt/OK page for podcast episodes to prevent the double navigation bars from being displayed (applies to Blackboard 9 only).

 

CP-2033

Expo LX

Journal TX

Teams LX

Fixed issue where highlighted text disappeared when adding an anchor (Internet Explorer 7 only).

 

CP-2328

Podcast LX

Fixed issue to correctly encode audio file names that contained special characters.

 

CP-2393

Podcast LX

Fixed bug that caused a failure to play Podcast media files linked from Blackboard content collection.

 

Known Issues

ID

Components

Description

CP-2572

Teams LX

Journal LX

Podcast LX

Course menu is not displayed when viewing a blog, wiki or podcast feed in Blackboard 9.

 

Release 2.9.13

This release includes updates to make Campus Pack building blocks compatible with Blackboard 9 and several bug fixes for issues reported by users.

Enhancements

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2365

Expo

Journal

Teams

Search

Podcast

Blackboard 9 Compatibility

CP-2450

Expo

Journal

Teams

Provide administrative option to link/unlink user names in Teams and Journal to Expo sites.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2516

Expo

Fixed bug that resulted in Expo access errors when a user deleted a default Expo site.

CP-2377

Expo

Journal

Teams

Fixed issue related to user names with non-alphanumeric characters that caused a problem with viewing Teams history pages and Expo sites.

CP-2274

Search

Fixed Search issue that impacted blog tool content searchability.

CP-2332

Search

Fixed issue in Search that resulted in incorrect links to Blackboard Content System.

CP-2482

Expo

Journal

Teams

Make Campus Pack icons display properly when viewed in Internet Explorer 6.

CP-2438

Journal

Added navigation links in Journal LX blogs when there are more entries than number of entries displayed per page.

CP-1833

Podcast

Media files with special characters in their file names will cause an error when uploaded as a podcast episode.

CP-2487

Podcast

Fixed RSS feed in Podcast LX to display the episodes in reverse chronological order.

CP-2038

Expo

Save maximum upload size when specified in Manage Settings on Expo administrative page.

CP-2474

Teams

Fixed authentication issue with accessing a private blog through a permalink.

CP-2476

Teams

Journal

Add administrative option to disable recycle wikis/blogs.

CP-2475

Podcast

Fixed issue where new podcast episodes "display until" set to current creation date/time making the episode unavailable.

CP-2449

Search

Fixed issue that resulted in an error being generated when user clicked back button on Search results page in Blackboard 8.

CP-2430

Expo

Fixed the issue that prevented using URLs with "?" in podcasts.

CP-2459

Expo

Fixed issue that resulted in incorrect port number being added to Expo sharing links making the URL unusable with SSL.

 

Release 2.9.11

New Features

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2453

Teams

Journal

Provide system level option to disable linking user names in Teams LX and Journal LX to Expo Site pages.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2461

Expo

Fixed issue that resulted in deletion of content on changing a site’s position using Manage Sites.

 

Release 2.9.9

New Features

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2371

Search

Institutions have the option to index either all Blackboard content or only Campus Pack content.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2376

Podcast

Podcast LX can now handle external URLs that contain "?".

CP-2364

Journal

Allow instructors and administrators to edit a student’s private journal entry.

CP-2407

Search

Search LX lists only active and available courses in the portal module and on the Advanced Search screen.

 

Release 2.9.5

Feature Enhancements

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2349

Expo

Teams

Performance of Expo and Teams pages was improved through internal optimization.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2340

Journal

Clean up internal files at the time of blog deletion. The issue was that at the time of blog delete the associated properties file was not deleted.

CP-2345

Expo

Journal

Teams

Fixed the issue that resulted in a course home page getting updated as a result of a Campus Pack upgrade.

 

Release 2.9.3

New Features

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-1115

Expo

Allow all users to create and share podcasts!

Feature Enhancements

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-282

Search

Index files saved in Word's fast-saved format.

CP-1021

Search

Upgrade Apache POI to version 3.1.

CP-2288

Podcast

Allow for more advanced SFTP options, including optional use of the "-p" flag, and different paths for mkdir and upload.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-2155

Teams
Journal
Expo

Encode username in revision file names

CP-2266

Expo

Prevent RSS feeds in blogs from being accessed when the feed is turned off.

CP-2279

Expo
Podcast

Fix the Javascript validator on the file upload box from returning errors on Firefox 3.

CP-2289

Search

The indexer did not always finish, and returned errors relating to nodes-to-delete in the log file.

CP-2309

Podcast

The external storage option did not correctly handle content.pk_string, resulting in files stored in the wrong directory.

CP-2313

Podcast

Prevent the UpdateCourseDocSummary task from running at startup. It is now a manual task, and only necessary when moving from Oscelot Podcaster or Podcast LX 1.x.

CP-2314

Journal
Teams

The back button on the Recycle page doesn't work the first time it is clicked.

CP-2315

Teams

The Manage Settings page returned an error on Bb 6.3 - 7.1.

CP-2322

Journal
Teams

The date pickers provided while creating a Blog Tool blog or Wiki Tool wiki were not able to set dates out past the year 2008.

CP-2331

Journal

In Journal 2.9.1, students could edit other people's blog entries, if they were allowed to see them.

Release 2.9.1

New Features

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-608

Expo
Journal
Teams

Give instructors a way of "recycling" Journal and Teams content so that the settings for an assignment can be reused when copied between courses while deleted all content and user information from the site. New links for "Recycle Blogs" and "Recycle Wikis" were added to the course / organization control panel.

CP-1115

Expo

In previous versions, only instructors were able to create podcasts. Students (and any type of user) can now create multiple podcast feeds from within Expo LX.

Feature Enhancements

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-1570

Expo

Add a "permalink" link next to each Expo site on users' Expo homepages.

CP-1716

Expo
Journal
Podcast
Search
Teams

Campus Pack needs full round of WAI and Section 508 testing and fixes.

CP-1986

Expo

Allow administrators to control template availability by a user's role. In the same way that we allow administrators to control how default sites are deployed, templates can now be made available to select audiences such as to all faculty, everyone in the English department, or all Sophomores.

CP-2000

Expo
Journal
Podcast
Search
Teams

Add a nightly process to auto-archive tool links. This will help alleviating problems with missed steps in the upgrade process leading to the tool links having to be re-created by instructors.

CP-2010

Expo

Add option to exclude courses from my classmates relationship. This can be used to exclude problematic courses that have very large enrollments.

CP-2027

Expo
Journal
Teams

Prompt the user for confirmation when user clicks the "Cancel" button in the html source editor to prevent accidental loss of content.

CP-2072

Teams

Display the user's full name in addition to the username on the Assess Wiki pages.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-846

Journal
Teams

Users will receive an error message when editing a course wiki or blog page when another user has the "Configure Wiki Tool" or "Configure Blog Tool" page open at the same time.

CP-994

Journal

In private journals, the number of entries statistic were not displayed correctly to students.

CP-1234

Expo
Journal
Teams

In the rich text editor, when a user selects the "Background Color" tab in the CSS window, the user receives an error and the CSS window closes even when pop-up blockers are disabled.

CP-1244

Expo

Administrators should be allowed to limit availability of Expo templates to specific institution and/or system roles in Blackboard.

CP-2008

Teams

Hyperlinks with paragraph tags inside the link text were not visible in the page editor.

CP-2012

Expo

Adding a listing of all members of a specific organization didn't work on the Expo directory page.

CP-2041

Teams

Home page with no content does not show up in a wiki's Page List.

CP-2111

Expo

Remove partially-implemented bookmarks module from sidebar in Expo for now. Bookmarks and tagging will be included in the upcoming new edition of Campus Pack.

CP-2117

Expo
Journal
Teams

On some systems, images could not be uploaded because the Java image libraries are misconfigured and throw an unexpected error. This is now handled without disrupting the functionality.

CP-2145

Podcast

Restore tools task did not work in Podcast LX.

CP-2146

Journal

When you do a full copy of a course, where blog tool and wiki tool are copied too, the path labels were broken.

CP-2156

Journal
Teams

Long user names were truncated in the box for selecting member on the create wiki/blog screens.

CP-2165

Journal

Sometimes after commenting on a blog post in a blog with multiple entries, the user was redirected back to the wrong screen.

CP-2223

Journal
Expo

A performance problem with the component that displays lists of user names was identified and fixed.

CP-2229

Teams

When editing a blog or wiki settings, the system didn't show an error message when it should if the user selected a valid time and invalid date.

CP-2231

Teams

When creating or configuring a wiki, the 'Display Until' should be enabled only after 'Display After' is enabled.

CP-2245

Journal
Teams

The date pickers provided while creating a blog or wiki were not able to set dates out past the year 2008.

CP-2254

Journal Teams

Student can still add comment even it is disabled by the instructor. The comment configuration options are now correctly enforced.

CP-2268

Search

The course patterns used by the indexer fail if a non-wildcard follows a wildcard.

Release 2.8.24

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-266

Search

Users cannot search for numbers.

CP-283

Search

RTF files are not indexed correctly

CP-435

Expo
Journal
Teams
Search

The "OK", "Cancel", and "Go Back" buttons are not always reliable.

CP-1033

Expo

When users visit an Expo blog via an RSS link, the Quick links options are not relevant to the current user. Instead, they direct the user to the blog owner's sites, resulting in an "Access Denied" message.

CP-1469

Expo
Teams

The Revision History pages in wikis and blogs need to provide users with easier ways to return to the main revision history page and to return to the page or entry being reviewed.

CP-1649

Expo
Journal
Teams

A "permalink" link has been added next to the title of Expo sites on users' Expo homepages.

CP-1705

Search

Search LX was not indexing blog and wiki attachments.

CP-1785

Expo
Journal
Teams

Users were unable to embed .wmv files in their blogs and wikis.

CP-1802

Expo
Journal
Teams

When exporting a blog or wiki, if the user selected to open the exported package rather than save the package, the links on the index page were broken. The workaround was to save the package when exporting, unzip the package, and then open the index.htm page from the unzipped package.

CP-1828

Journal
Teams

Allow instructors to prevent students from deleting their comments.

CP-1850

Teams

When an instructor changes the name of a wiki in a course, the original title of the wiki is displayed in the "My Wikis" module instead of the new title.

CP-1887

Journal

The export site feature in Journal LX has been modified so that students can export a private journal, and when they do so the exported site will only contain the student's entries.

CP-1889

Journal

The statistics in the Journal LX sidebar included entries that have been deleted.

CP-1895

Expo

When a Powerpoint file was uploaded into a blog or wiki and a user attempted to open the file in Internet Explorer, the file was opened but the correct contents of the Powerpoint file were not displayed.

CP-1897

Expo
Journal
Teams

Files that contain a single quote in their filename were causing an error when the file is uploaded to a blog or wiki.

CP-1898

Podcast

The "Play" link in a podcast episode was being displayed on the same line as the description. This link has been moved to its own line to improve readability.

CP-1903

Teams

Students are not able to export the content from the course wiki tool even when the instructor has enabled export for that wiki. Note that this same setting does work for wikis created in course content areas.

CP-1922

Expo
Journal
Teams

In some browsers, the "delete" link for comments was covered by the right sidebar. The "delete" link has been moved to the left side of the comments block to ensure that the link is always accessible even when there are display issues.

CP-1923

Expo
Journal
Teams

Nested lists, either numbered or bulleted, created in the rich text editor were not displayed correctly in the blog or wiki.

CP-1924

Expo
Journal
Teams

The correct amount of space was not being added when a user hit the "Enter" key when adding a comment to a blog or wiki.

CP-1928

Expo

If a user created a page in an Expo wiki by linking to a new page and exported the Expo site, the links to that new page were broken.

CP-1941

Expo

New Expo sites created in Expo 2.8.19 were automatically shared with "Everyone in the World" by default. Users who created sites on the 2.8.19 version of Expo should check sharing settings for those sites to ensure that they are not shared with people who should not access the site. Sites created in this release and future releases will not be shared with anyone after creation, unless the site owner enabled RSS for the site or explicitly shares the site with a user or group. If RSS is enabled for an Expo site, the site will be shared with Everyone in the World.

CP-1943

Podcast

The MIME types for Office 2007 files were added to Podcast LX so users can attached files created in the Office 2007 applications.

CP-1944

Teams

When a user added a comment to a page in a wiki, the user was returned to the wiki homepage, instead of the current page, after submitting the new comment.

CP-1952

Journal
Teams

In Internet Explorer, the date pickers on the Create Blog and Create Wiki forms were always grayed out and not modifiable.

CP-1953

Journal
Teams

If an instructor used the calendar pop-up on the Create Blog or Create Wiki forms and subsequently clicked any links in the course menu, the course menu would open new browser tabs and windows.

CP-1959

Journal

In Internet Explorer, the "Allow blog members to view Instructor's entries" field is always grayed out and cannot be selected.

CP-1974

Journal
Teams

On the Create Blog and Create Wiki forms, the date and time restriction fields for editing were grayed out and not editable in Internet Explorer 7.

CP-1975

Expo
Journal
Teams

In 2.8 releases, when users hit "shift-enter" in the rich text editor, a double line break was being added instead of a single line break.

CP-1977

Expo
Journal
Teams

In Internet Explorer, using the color picker in the rich text editor to apply a border color to a table was causing an error.

CP-1991

Search

The "Search Google" option has been removed from Search LX.

CP-1999

Podcast

Podcast content items created in Blackboard 8.0 were not being downloaded to users' subscriptions in iTunes.

CP-2001

Search

If the Search LX indexer failed to parse a document during an index run, it would attempt to parse the document in each subsequent index run, causing out of memory and other issues. This has been changed, so that unparseable files are marked as unparseable and no longer included in future index runs.

CP-2005

Expo
Journal

The author filter in Journal LX was sorting users by username rather than users' last names.

CP-2006

Expo
Journal
Teams

Changes made to file locking in Campus Pack 2.8.x resulted in file locking errors even when NFS locks were configured correctly on the institution's servers.

CP-2009

Journal
Teams

When the "Private Journal" option is selected on the Create Blog form, checkboxes are disabled elsewhere on the form for options that are not selectable for private journals. When these checkboxes were disabled in previous releases, the checkbox still appeared to be checked even though it was actually disabled and not selected.

CP-2011

Expo
Journal

When a blog entry was edited, the entry creator was always listed as the last editor even when someone else subsequently edited the entry.

CP-2015

Expo

If an Expo site was shared with a course or group and a user was removed from that course or group, the user was still able to access the Expo site via its permalink after they were removed.

CP-2028

Expo

If the institution had links to Campus Pack tools in the Tool Panel that appears in the left column on Blackboard tabs, the icons associated with those tool links appeared very large in Blackboard 8.0.

Release 2.8.21

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-1926

Podcast

In Campus Pack 2.8.19, an error was sometimes received when creating a new episode if external storage was enabled or if the episode was linked to an externally-stored file.

CP-1946

Search

In 2.8.x releases of Search LX, the indexer is not indexing any courses when ".*" is specified as a course pattern in the Configure Courses to Index admin page.

CP-1956

Podcast

When external storage was enabled in Podcast 2.8.19, files that were uploaded to episodes sometimes were not copied to the designated folder on the external server.

CP-1960

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast
Search

Campus Pack was tested for compatibility with Blackboard 8.0 and changes were made to allow installation on that Blackboard release.

Release 2.8.20

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-1934

Expo

Re-ordering Expo sites on the Manage My Sites page deleted contents of that site from the file system.

Release 2.8.19

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-1795

Expo

Previously, administrators could only create a link to the Expo Directory in the Tools module that appears on the My Institution tab. Administrators can now also add a link to the Expo homepage, so users can easily access their Expo homepage with one click.

CP-1811

Journal
Teams

If the administrator set the logging level to FINE or FINEST, instructors were receiving an error message when attempting to create a new blog in their course.

CP-1815

Journal

When creating a blog in a course, the "Allow blog members to view Instructor's entries" field was functioning incorrectly in Internet Explorer.

CP-1816

Journal

In a blog with multiple authors, when a user commented on a post in the blog, the blog was filtered by the author of the post on which the user commented after the comment was submitted.

CP-1818

Expo
Journal
Teams

Users were receiving error messages when attempting to access wikis that were created in on a Blackboard 7.1 server with Campus Pack 2.7 installed and archived and restored to a Blackboard 7.3 server with Campus Pack 2.8 installed.

CP-1824

Expo

The Manage Default Directory Layout administrator tool in Expo was not working.

CP-1825

Expo

Links to attachments in Expo site exports were broken.

CP-1831

Podcast

If a user linked to an external media file to create a podcast episode and set the URL to the URL of the course podcast feed, a connection timeout would result.

CP-1832

Expo

When enabling RSS for a blog in Expo, it is necessary for users to share their blog with everyone. Previously, users were required to modify the sharing setting and enable RSS -- making this a two-step process. This has been changed so that enabling an RSS feed for a blog in Expo will automatically create a new share with everyone.

CP-1835

Podcast

The inline podcast episode player was not working on the Podcast Tool page when URL encoding was enabled for Podcast LX.

CP-1839

Podcast

Podcast episodes that were linked to media files in the Content Collection were not showing up in the Podcast feed.

CP-1843

Expo

Orphaned Expo sites caused errors in Expo when it was upgraded to Expo 2.8.17.

CP-1846

Journal
Teams

When a gradebook item was created at the same time as creating a blog or wiki, the selected gradebook category was duplicated in the gradebook. It is not possible to assign a new blog or wiki to an existing Blackboard gradebook category without creating a duplicate. A workaround was implemented so that gradebook entries created for new blogs and wikis are assigned to the Blog Project or Wiki Project categories. If the instructor wishes to categorize the gradebook item differently, this must be done in the gradebook.

CP-1864

Journal
Teams

Instructors were receiving Javascript errors when they modified the properties of a blog or wiki in which at least one group and/or one individual course member had previously been selected as a member of the blog or wiki. These errors were preventing the instructor from modifying membership of the blog or wiki.

CP-1867

Journal

An error message was received when blog members created a link in one blog entry to another entry in the same blog.

CP-1873

Expo
Journal
Teams

Some UNIX users were receiving error messages when attempting to upload images to wikis or blogs if they did not have the X11 libraries installed on their server. These libraries were being used to add the size to images that were uploaded when width and height were not specified, in order to improve performance and to meet accessibility guidelines. This has been resolved so that users who upload images in this case will not receive an error message, and the image will be added without the size being automatically specified.

CP-1875

Journal LX

When a blog member permanently deleted an entry in a blog and another member of the blog immediately thereafter created a new entry, the new entry created by the second member was attributed to the blog member who previously deleted their entry.

CP-1882

Teams

If non-members were given permissions to view and add comments to a course wiki and a wiki member shared the link to the wiki with a user who does not have a login to the course, that guest user was able to view the wiki and view and add comments to the wiki, even if guest access was disabled for the course. This has been fixed so that course wikis cannot be viewed by anyone without a course login unless guest access is enabled for the course and the wiki is viewable by non-members.

Release 2.8.17

Feature Enhancements

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-1713

Podcast

The Podcast LX external storage feature now supports a more generic implementation for the Windows environment.

CP-1780

Podcast

For Podcast episodes where the media file was an mp3, the "Play" link was removed in the 2.8.16 release and replaced with a Flash-based mp3 player. For these types of episodes, the "Play" link was added back to allow users to either play the episode with the player or to download the episode using the "Play" link.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-1484

Journal

The creation date for user comments in blogs and wikis is being displayed as the current date rather than the date the comment was posted.

CP-1644

Expo
Journal
Teams

Links to users' Expo sites from Journal LX and Teams LX would result in an error message if Journal LX and Teams LX were upgraded to a 2.8 release, but Expo LX remained on a 2.7 release. This has been resolved so that the links to Expo sites only appear in Journal LX and Teams LX if Expo LX has also been upgraded to 2.8.

CP-1665

Expo

In an earlier version of the 2.8 beta release, instructor users received an error when attempting to delete the "My Students" module from their Expo Directory.

CP-1672

Journal

In an earlier version of the 2.8 beta, exporting wikis and blogs resulted in some broken links in the exported files. Specifically, links to pages that were recently added after upgrading to that beta release would be broken.

CP-1698

Journal

In the 2.8 beta release, the blog filters were not working in Internet Explorer 7.

CP-1709

Podcast

In an earlier 2.8 beta release, the "Check URL" button on the Add Podcast Episode form always indicated that the URL was invalid, even when a valid URL was entered when linking to an externally-hosted media file.

CP-1731

Expo
Journal
Teams

In the 2.8.16 beta release, the "Revert" button was missing from the Revision Details page in Expo wikis. As a result, Expo users were unable to revert to previous versions of a wiki page or to restore deleted pages.

CP-1743

Expo

In the 2.8.16 beta release, the "Revert" button was missing from the Revision Details page in Expo wikis. As a result, Expo users were unable to revert to previous versions of a wiki page or to restore deleted pages.

CP-1744

Expo

On the Share with Course and Share with Organization forms, the permission checkboxes were inactive, so users were unable to assign any permissions other than "View."

CP-1746

Expo

In Internet Explorer, the "Share with Everyone" form could not be submitted. When attempting to submit, users would previously get a pop-up message indicating that they must select a group, even though a group was selected.

CP-1747

Expo

List sorting was not working on the Manage Default User Sites admin page in Internet Explorer in the 2.8 beta releases. This has been fixed and is now working in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

CP-1755

Expo

In the 2.8.16 beta release, when an Expo user selected the sharing link on the "Send an Email Invitation" form prior to submitting the form and actually creating the invitation, the user would receive an Access Denied message. The link has been removed and replaced with the URL for the sharing invitation. Users can copy this URL and share it with others to give access to their Expo site.

CP-1761

Journal
Teams

On the Create Wiki and Create Blog forms in a course, the course members were not listed in alpha order. This has been fixed so that course members are listed in alpha order by their last name.

CP-1784

Expo

Expo was ignoring Blackboard users' privacy options set in their personal information area. This has been fixed so that users' personal information is not displayed if a user has not selected in the Blackboard "Set Privacy Options" to display their name in the User Directory.

 

Release 2.8.16

 

New Features

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-130

Expo

Expo users can grant permissions to their Expo sites to non-Blackboard users. This is done by sending an invitation containing permissions to a site via email to external users. The invitation includes a link that allows the invited user to access the site with the assigned permissions.

CP-168

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast

Administrators can assign quotas to Expo, Teams, Journal, and Podcast. In Expo, administrators are able to set a size limit on Expo sites, and they can specify users who should be allowed unlimited space for their Expo sites. In Teams, Journal, and Podcast, administrators are able to enforce course quotas for the Campus Pack course applications, and they can specify courses in which the quotas should not be enforced.

CP-407

Expo
Journal
Teams

URLs for Teams wikis, Journal blogs, and Expo sites and directories no longer include query strings, long IDs, or any other strings that are not user-friendly.

CP-582

Expo
Journal
Teams

Users are able to create links within wikis and blogs in Expo, Teams, and Journal to other wikis and blogs.

CP-595

Expo

Administrators can now create templates for Expo sites. When Expo users create a new Expo site they can create a blog or wiki from scratch, or they can create the site from a template created by the administrator. Sites created from a template will include all formatting and pre-populated content in the template.

CP-683

Expo
Journal
Teams

Anywhere a user's name is listed in course blogs and wikis, clicking on the name now directs the user back to that user's Expo homepage, if available.

CP-830

Expo
Journal
Teams

Permalinks are generated for each blog post or wiki page, so users can link directly to a specific entry.

CP-1031

Expo

Expo users can share their sites with other users based on their course or organization enrollment.

CP-1117

Podcast

A Flash-based mp3 player has been added to Podcast LX, allowing users to play Podcast episodes directly in the browser if the episode is an mp3 file. Previously, Podcast episodes were launched in the user's external mp3 player.

CP-1385

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast
Search

New tools have been added for administrators to give them an easier way to upload and download Campus Pack files from the file system for support purposes.

CP-1614

Expo

Site creation is disabled in Expo for users who have exceeded their quota.

CP-1632

Expo

After a user added a site from their Expo homepage, they were directed to the Manage Sites page. This has been changed so that users are returned to the page from which they initiated the site creation.

CP-1661

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast

When installing a 2.8.x version of Campus Pack, file quotas will now default to 1024 MB. This value should be changed by the administrator if file quotas should not be enforced.

Feature Enhancements

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-417

Expo
Journal
Teams

The user interface on the delete confirmation page has been improved. The term "purge" has been replaced with "permanent deletion", and the links have been replaced with a form that provides more details about the deletion options.

CP-768

Journal
Teams

The Create Blog and Create Wiki forms have been improved so it is easier for instructors to navigate and to assign permissions to members and non-members. As part of these improvements, additional permissions can now be assigned, including more granular permissions for commenting and exporting.

CP-783

Journal

The setting for creating private journals on the Create Blog form was not clear. This has been improved so that instructors can select to create either a private journal or a group blog when creating a blog in a course content area.

CP-920

Expo
Journal
Teams

It was difficult to distinguish different items in the Recent Posts and Site Navigation lists in blogs and wikis, especially when entries in the list were longer than one line. To improve readability of these lists, all lines other than the first line are indented for each list item, if the item is longer than two lines of text.

CP-970

Expo

The profile image can now be made optional in the same manner as other profile fields. The administrator can also choose the caption for the profile image, and can configure the path to or URL of an existing source of user images.

CP-1010

Expo
Journal
Teams

The rich text editor is enhanced to include an easy way for users to link to anchors without requiring knowledge of HTML.

CP-1038

Expo
Journal
Teams

Change the navigational elements in Campus Pack to respect the case of the text entered by the user rather than displaying in all lowercase.

CP-1044

Expo
Journal
Teams

When users upload images, the height and width of the image is now automatically detected and inserted into the image tag. This improves page rendering performance on blog and wiki pages that contain images.

CP-1081

Expo

Variable expansion can now be used in course and organization identifiers when defining relationships. This allows administrator to set up faculty advisor groups as blackboard organizations and then define expo relationships for the organization id ADVS-@X@user.user_id@X@. Advisors can then see their advisees in a directory relationship.

CP-1137

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast
Search

Logging granularity is now configurable so that the level of detail recorded in logs can be defined by the administrator. This allows the administrator to decrease the size of logs by reducing granularity. Additionally, the size and total number of log files stored on the system have been reduced, so that logs are a more manageable size.

CP-1191

Search

Search results now include summaries from all text-based documents including HTML, PDF, DOC, etc. In addition, the document titles are retrieved from PDF and HTML files, and HTML entities are unescaped in search summaries and contents.

CP-1205

Expo
Journal
Teams
Search

Upgrade tasks, such as filename migration, should occur automatically upon upgrading Campus Pack.

CP-1302

Expo
Journal
Teams
Search

Instructors should be allowed to configure blogs and wikis to display users' first names only.

CP-1316

Journal

In private journals, students were unable to view entries added by the instructor. Students are now able to view entries added by instructors, as well as their own entries.

CP-1353

Journal
Teams

The permissions for Comments in course blogs and wikis are more granular so that instructors can enable or disable write and read permissions separately, as well as permissions for blog and wiki members versus non-members.

CP-1354

Journal
Teams

Instructors can enable or disable the Export Sites feature in course wikis and blogs.

CP-1430

Journal
Teams

On the Create Wiki and Create Blog forms, the gradebook entry fields are now disabled unless the "Create Gradebook Entry" checkbox is selected.

CP-1438

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast
Search

The "Adjust Logging Granularity", "Migrate Backpacks", and "Migrate Filenames" tasks that existed in the Campus Pack admin pages have been moved to a new "Upgrade Tasks" area, and these tasks now occur automatically upon upgrade so the administrator no longer is required to manually initiate them. Additionally, an "Archive/Restore Links" function has been added to this area so that links to Campus Pack tools can be preserved during the upgrade process.

CP-1460

Expo
Journal
Teams

The printer icon is removed from the print preview page when the page has actually been printed.

CP-1461

Expo
Journal
Teams

A "Close Window" link has be added to the print preview page in wikis and blogs.

CP-1541

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast
Search

When administrators activated a Campus Pack Building Block, there was a delay of several minutes as the application's pages are pre-compiled. This delay has been eliminated. Instead, the application now pre-compiles in the background, and the status of this process can be viewed in the Upgrade Tasks area in the application's Management area in the Administrator Panel.

Fixed Issues

ID

Component(s)

Description

CP-94

Expo
Journal
Teams

The rich text editor cannot be used in the Safari browser. A workaround was to use Firefox or Netscape 7.1 or higher. The rich text editor will now work with Safari 3.0 and future releases of the Safari browser.

CP-334

Journal
Teams
Search

Tool links created to Building Block tools will be broken after removing and reinstalling the Building Block. In Campus Pack 2.8.14, a mechanism was added to archive tool links prior to upgrading and to restore tool links after upgrading. This feature can be used for all upgrades subsequent to upgrading to 2.8.14.

CP-416

Expo
Teams

When a link is created to a new page in a wiki, the new page does not appear in the page list until the user clicks through to the new page. This was fixed in this release so the page is automatically added to the page list.

CP-482

Teams

When creating a new Teams site, if the "Allow Edits Until" field is set to a date before the date in the "Allow Edits After" field, the user receives a success receipt even though the site is not created.

CP-721

Search

The Monitor Status page will always display "Dec 31, 1969 7:00:00 PM" as the last index date after rebooting Tomcat on the server where indexing is run.

CP-750

Journal
Teams

In course wikis and blogs, non-group members who are enrolled in the course are always able to comment.

CP-751

Teams

If HTML special characters are entered in the Institution Name on the Manage Settings page, the Configure Portal Module page will not display correctly.

CP-758

Journal

Links to blogs that contain special characters in their names will sometimes display a RuntimeException error when clicking on the link.

CP-859

Expo

When a default wiki site is created in Expo and the home page name is modified, the modified name will not display in users' copies of the wiki.

CP-874

Expo
Journal
Teams

The Comments field is partially covered by the sidebar in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.

CP-927

Expo

The page title for the home page on new Expo wikis has a title of "blank" instead of "Home."

CP-932

Expo
Journal

When a user attempts to view a blog feed in the Internet Explorer or Firefox aggregators, the user is prompted to login to Blackboard if they haven't already been authenticated. Other aggregators allow the user to view blog entries without authentication, as expected.

CP-940

Teams

The date restrictions setting for non-group members in Teams LX are working inconsistently. Occasionally, when the specified date for this setting has expired, group members are not able to access the wiki.

CP-1025

Search

Links to some Journal or Teams items returned in search results are broken.

CP-1030

Journal

When viewing a Journal RSS feed in IE7, images in entries will appear as broken links. The workaround is to view the feed in another feedreader.

CP-1035

Expo

System administrators receive a Null Pointer Exception when they attempt to access another user's Manage Profile page.

CP-1055

Expo
Journal

The index page in an exported blog displays posts in chronological order instead of reverse chronological order as the posts appear in the blog itself.

CP-1427

Podcast

The "Play All" link on the Podcast tool page redirects users to the Blackboard home page.

CP-1431

Expo
Journal
Teams
Podcast
Search

Transparent PNGs are not supported in Internet Explorer 6.

CP-1443

Podcast

When a podcast episode content item is made unavailable, users who had previously subscribed to the feed are still able to access the now unavailable content item via the feed.

CP-1450

Teams
Journal

On the "Create Wiki" and "Create Blog" forms, users are unable to tab between the Name and Description fields.

CP-1476

Expo

The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons on the Manage Sites and Sharing pages in Expo do not behave consistently or as expected.

CP-1514

Expo
Teams
Journal

Changes made to prevent cross-site scripting prevent embedded videos from appearing in blogs and wikis. YouTube videos have been explicitly allowed in this release, but embedding other media will continue to be disallowed until further development is completed.

CP-1548

Search

Search returns results from unavailable courses and organizations.

 

 

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