CLIxOER V2.0.1 Bug fixes

What's Changed

The new version has been enhanced in terms of technical stack as the existing versions have been deprecated.

• Bug fixes:
  • Home page or E-Library has multiple URLs #56.
  • In Contact form there is no mail triggered to mail list #162
  • Spelling mistake in Tiss-Cool page #140.
  • COOL-OER: Change the metadata attribute names according to the resource language #41.
  • Update Footer page Links with clixoer's template - Contact, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy, etc #119.
  • The youtube link redirection issue for tiss-cool page #146.

Contributors

• @DurgaSwetha

CLIxOER V2.0.0 Technical stack upgrade

What's Changed

The new version has been enhanced in terms of technical stack as the existing versions have been deprecated.

New Enhancements:

• Entire technical stack of the platform has been moved to latest LTS(Long term security) version so that we get the security updates for a longer period.

  • Django 1.6 and Python 2.7 is now Django 2.2LTS and python 3.6.9.
  • Postgres database is now running on a different container and also has been upgraded to version 10.0.0.
  • The Operating system version of the docker image is now Ubuntu 18.04 from 14.04.
  • The underlying django packages have been removed.
    • django-mongokit==0.2.6
    • django-registration==1.0
    • django-pagination==1.0.7
    • django-notification==1.2.0
    • django-memcache-admin
    • django-simple-captcha==0.4.5
    • django-celery==3.1.16
    • django-mailbox==4.4.1
    • django-registration-email
    • dlkit==0.7.0
  • The python drivers used to communicate with the database have been changed to mongoengine +pymongo 3.11.2 as the new versions of django+python doesnt support the exiting ones.
  • Following packages have been upgraded to the versions which are compatible with the django+python versions.
    • django-json-rpc==0.7.2
    • Fabric3==1.14.post1
    • Sphinx==3.0.0
    • python-memcached==1.59
    • Pillow==8.1.0
  • Since the django-memcache-admin is deprecated hence caching based on memcache.

• Bug fixes:

  • Based on the feedback from the testing some of the issues have been addressed. The issues are listed in the projectboard (https://github.com/orgs/CLIxIndia-Dev/projects/5).
  • Dowloadables of the epubs are now through nginx.
  • Responsiveness has been improved.

• Comprehensive Home/Landing Page: The Home/Landing page of website with elegant Footer with partner logos, license details and links to About/Credits/Privacy/Terms/GitHub pages.

New Contributors

• @DurgaSwetha made their first contribution in #1
• @yogeshu made their first contribution in #2

CLIxOER V1.1.0

CLIxOER reponse to COVID-19

• The Connected Open and Online Learning (COOL) is our response to COVID-19 through which we hope to reach out to teachers, teacher educators and students. If you are a teacher in a school or teacher educator or a student teacher in a Teacher Education Institute (B.Ed./M.Ed.) you will find useful resources for your class and for your own professional development. These resources are available in English and a few modern Indian languages. COOL initiative is seeded by Tata Trusts and supported by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Missions for teachers and teaching (PMMMNMTT).

• New Features:

  • Two new tabs 'TISS-COOL' and 'COOL-OER' are added in the main sitewide nav bar.

  • In the TISS-COOL tab, list the initiatives taken under the COOL:

    • 1. Resources for Teacher Education
    • 2. Ground Assessment- Research
      • a. Edtech Weekly Podcast: Voices from the ground
      • b. Ground Assessment Study
    • 3. Multilingual Webinars for school teachers and students by ITE & CLIx
    • 4. Content Curation and creation- OER Repository
    • 5. Online Course on ‘Technology for Connected Learning’ for teachers and educators
    • 6. COOL Newsletters
    • 7. Carousel for various teams and their members involved
    • 8. Contact us

  • COOL-OER

    • Connect Open Online Learning - Open Educational Resources (COOL-OER) is a repository of curated OER.
    • The repository has following components:
      1. Two layer page design L1 - main page -> L2 - individual OER curations
         • Each OER curation appears as a card with some metatdata and three clickable buttons Preview, Explore Online and Share. These clickable actions will be captured in the database.
         • OER resources are organised within sections on the single page.
         • Translations of a resources will also appear as a distinct card but will have a relationship in the backend.
         • Inside OER detailed view page there will be,
         • metadata
         • description
         • hover effect for affordances
         • help material listing YouTube view preview and/or external URLs
           *Print button which triggers (Ctrl + P) action on browser window and help users save PDF copy of a page.
      2. Filter menu: to filter resources based on various parameters.
      3. Table of Content, which lists repository pages sections and on click scrolls to the specific section
      4. Slider
      5. Contact Us form to give feedback
      6. Distinct header and footer
    • OER curations can be submitted through a google form and then uploaded using a CSV file.
    • The repository main page and the individual OER pages are designed to be mobile responsive.

• Change Requests (CRs) in existing CLIxOER components(only high priority CRs to be added):
  • Improve website font readability on desktop: after recent slider update sitewide readability has been affected - fonts are too small to read
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: 300;
  • Make copyright year © 2019-2020
  • Change e-library icon from eBook to Home icon because as in the breadcrumb is it home icon it is creating confusion.
  • In the tab E-Library
    • Interactives
      • Download tool tip:
        AS IS: Play Offline
        TO BE: Download to play offline
      • Tool download overlay instructions need modification (to run interactives offline individually)
    • Module card
      • Help video icon is confusing with video call, replace with this icon
    • In Interactives the card flip sometime explore and download icons get hidden. Both desktop/mobile. Increase the spacing between cards.
    • Meta tags have been added for URLs to give preview when shared on social media.

New Contributors

• @DurgaSwetha
• @yogeshu

CLIxOER V1.0.0

The objective of CLIxOER website is to make available all the CLIx offerings - modules, interactive and artefacts as OERs for anyone to download, use, remix and repurpose.

• Main Features:
  • E-Library (will be the landing/home page of website)
    This will list out all the Modules, interactives and Handbooks(Teacher and Student) avaliable and also the corresponding downloadables. These can be filtered based on the Subject filter in the TOC.
    • Each Module card will give the
      • Count of preview, downloads and explore online which will redirect to specific module on clixplatform.tiss.edu in next tab of browser.
      • 'Share' to various social platforms.
      • Download the respective unplatform (epub package) as an .exe file
      • Preview to get to know more about the module, its Units and the tools included in it.
    • Each interactive card has below action icons:
      • 'Play online' will redirect to specific interactive on clixplatform.tiss.edu in next tab of browser.
      • 'Download to play offline' to download the zip package of the interactive
    • On click of Handbook card the PDF file can open in next tab of browser.
  • Domain page
    Each domain page speaks about itself in the following sections
    • About (CLIxEnglish/CLIxMath/CLIxScience) : This section will have mostly textual content introducing about the domain and its offerings
    • Modules which are part of it
    • How to use
    • Testimonials
    • Design and development process
    • Team
    • Connect with us
  • About
    Talks about the CLIx, CLIxOER and its integration in the classroom
  • Help
    Lists the help videos related to CLIxOER fetched from YouTube.
  • Language Selection
    The site is available in three languages - English, Hindi and Telugu

New Contributors

• @DurgaSwetha
• @yogeshu