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News Item added by Ernie Ghiglione LAMS 2.3 is on it final stages and getting closed to be released! It comes with a ton of very cool features and fixes that will make ... [More] your LAMS experience a lot better. But in order to get this release out to you quicker, we need your help! You can be part of the release by helping Test LAMS v2.3. All it takes is for you to sign up for a testing account and have a play with the latest LAMS. If you find any errors or have comments on how to improve some features, post them in the LAMS Community. For more instructions on what/how to test, read this posting. Thanks! Ernie Ghiglione View Online [Less]

News Item added by Ernie Ghiglione LAMS 2.3 is on it final stages and getting closed to be released! It comes with a ton of very cool features and fixes that will make ... [More] your LAMS experience a lot better. But in order to get this release out to you quicker, we need your help! You can be part of the release by helping Test LAMS v2.3. All it takes is for you to sign up for a testing account and have a play with the latest LAMS. If you find any errors or have comments on how to improve some features, post them in the LAMS Community. For more instructions on what/how to test, read this posting. Thanks! Ernie Ghiglione View Online [Less]

News Item added by Ernie Ghiglione We've been working on a new Video Recording Tool that works in a similar fashion as a Forum but with video and voice! As teacher ... [More] , you can record a "starting point" video for to kick off the conversation. Then the students can share their videos, add comments and ratings to each other's videos. We also implemented this as a video plugin for the Online HTML Editor, so in any LAMS Activity, you can embed your video recording! Very cool new tool! View Online [Less]

News Item added by Ernie Ghiglione We've been working on a new Video Recording Tool that works in a similar fashion as a Forum but with video and voice! As teacher ... [More] , you can record a "starting point" video for to kick off the conversation. Then the students can share their videos, add comments and ratings to each other's videos. We also implemented this as a video plugin for the Online HTML Editor, so in any LAMS Activity, you can embed your video recording! Very cool new tool! View Online [Less]

News Item added by Jeremy Page Just released are two brand new tools for LAMS: The Pixlr Image Editing Activity Allows authors and monitors to upload an image ... [More] that can then be edited by learners and saved back to LAMS - all in the browser, without any software to download! The Image Gallery Activity Allows authors and learners to upload a whole bunch of images to LAMS that can then be commented and rated. The tool looks beautiful! View Online [Less]

News Item edited by Jeremy Page Just released are two brand new tools for LAMS: The Pixlr Image Editing Activity Allows authors and monitors to upload an image that ... [More] can then be edited by learners and saved back to LAMS - all in the browser, without any software to download! The Image Gallery Activity Allows authors and learners to upload a whole bunch of images to LAMS that can then be commented and rated. View Online [Less]

News Item added by Ernie Ghiglione We are proud to release LAMS 2.2 as the latest stable version. This new release has lots of new features and improvements including ... [More] Text-based Branching, so teachers can create branching conditions based on text output from tools. LAMS 2.2 includes improvements like: Learner's selection for groups, Opening gates based on conditions, Learning Outcomes/Competencies editor, Email Notifications, Presence, External tool wrappers Also, there are four new tools: Wiki, Data collection, Google Maps, Online spreadsheet There is also optional integration with Dimdim for whiteboard, desktop sharing, audio-video conferencing. LAMS v2.2 is available in 27 languages thanks to our great group of translation volunteers! Check out here for more information, downloads, documentation, etc. View Online [Less]

News Item edited by Jeremy Page LAMS now features text-based conditions for activities where Learners enter a response. This means that you can automatically search ... [More] Q&A, Chat and Forum for specific words or phrases and use these to stream Learners into Branches. The Text-Based conditions functionality is only available on the Q&A activity but more is coming soon! These tools will also support text-based conditions in the future. Notebook (See LDEV-1926 on bugs.lamsfoundation.org) Forum (See LDEV-1944 on bugs.lamsfoundation.org) Chat (See LDEV-1945 on bugs.lamsfoundation.org) View Online [Less]

News Item added by Jeremy Page A new activity for LAMS is currently in the works - Using the dimdim conference system, the Dimdim activity allows authors to create ... [More] real-time collaborative web conferences from within a LAMS sequence. For the moment, there's an animation showing how the Dimdim application works. Technical and User Documentation is coming soon. Click here to view the animation. View Online [Less]

News Item edited by Jeremy Page We've just created an animation demonstrating how Authors can include Google Gadgets (external link) as part of LAMS Sequences. ... [More] Click here to view the animation There are also some demonstration sequences which have been added to LAMS Central for viewing. View Online [Less]