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Major upgrade of Blackboard Collaborate

Written by Tapio Janasik | 16 May 2013

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming upgrade of the Elluminate Live 10 tool to the brand new Blackboard Collaborate 12. The new version has a different look-and-feel and contains a number of both backend and frontend improvements. The highlights include:

  • A completely redesigned user experience, with a modernised look and feel
  • Echo cancellation
  • Improved classroom management (chat tabs, toggle alerts, improved permission management)

This upgrade will take place in the evening of Wednesday, May 29th. During the upgrade there will be a downtime for this service, but not effecting anything else in Fronter. The downtime will start at 22:00 CET and is estimated to take up to 4 hours. The upgrade of this tool will apply to all customers regardless of Fronter version or hosting center.

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June monthly maintenance

Written by Tapio Janasik | 15 May 2013

The June monthly maintenance window on Wednesday June 5th will consist of maintenance on the SCORM service. Starting from 19:00 CET, a number of customer databases storing SCORM data are upgraded. During this upgrade, the SCORM service is not available. Please liaise with your local Fronter team to check if your service is effected.

Once the upgrade operation is completed, a few hours later, all SCORM servers will be restarted. The restart will involve a few minutes downtime for the SCORM service for all customers.

Please note this maintenance is still under the old schedule of the first Wednesday each month. As previously announced, starting in August, the monthly maintenance window will occur on the second Wednesday each month.

Change of monthly maintenance window

Written by Tapio Janasik | 10 May 2013

 

In co-operation with our hosting partner, starting from August 2013, the monthly maintenance window will be moved from the first Wednesday to the second Wednesday each month.

As so far, however, we will not be using more than every third or fourth maintenance window. And as previously, each monthly maintenance to be performed will be separately announced prior to the maintenance taking place.

 

New design available

Written by Tapio Janasik | 10 May 2013

We are pleased to announce the release of a brand new design called Play Mini. This new design is based on the current Play design, but it is optimised to better fit smaller screens and tablet devices.

The main changes in the Play Mini design are:

  • The top menu contains smaller icons, and the width of the left hand side menu is reduced
  • You are able to completely hide the room tool left hand side menu

The Play Mini design will be released to all Y12 customers on Thursday, May 16th. Note that this new design is deactivated by default, so that a top level administrator will need to activate the design before anyone can use it. Please contact your local Fronter team in case of any help needed.

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New room added: Viral Contagion

Written by Nuno Mendonca | 26 April 2013

Room description: This Fronter room uses some of the materials available from the London Grid for Learning resource Viral Contagion – a Maths resource for Key Stage 3 & 4.

It has a variety of activities suitable for students to do via Fronter, making use of the unique videos featuring the dramatization of an outbreak of a fictitious biological outbreak in South London.

The Room Includes:

- Unique video footage

- Online forums

- SCORM (Auto-marking) resources

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To see free rooms to download please click here.
To see a video guide on how to import these rooms to a Fronter installation please click here.

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