ActiveMath - Release Notes

ActiveMath 1.0.1

This is a bug-fix release. The following issues have been corrected:

Tutorial Component / Planner

now displays a user friendly error page when no course could be generated
improved handling for randomized exercises

Learner Model SLM

model storage now with backup
improved performance

Extasy Authoring Tool:

graph applet now supports one-button mouse (Mac)
fixed encoding error in text element
improved name check for new exercise

Other Improvements:

Fixed display error with Firefox 3
Line breaks in Omdoc titles no longer lead to errors
Fixes for MBase remote interface

Detailed list of issues fixed for this Release

[AMATH-1161] - Toc loading unusually slow (caused by satellite mastery calculation)?

[AMATH-1166] - Sporadic failures with DateFormat in metadata

[AMATH-1167] - Header bar broken in book view with Firefox 3

[AMATH-1180] - Make storing SLM model with XStream more robust

[AMATH-1184] - Randomized exercises should appear in generated courses more than once

[AMATH-1189] - iCMap exercises still show up in planner

[AMATH-1193] - Extasy text element doesn't accept umlauts

[AMATH-1194] - Distribution zip file should have executable bits set for scripts

[AMATH-1195] - XmlRpc Manager does not provide SlumB interface

[AMATH-1196] - Slumb xmlrpc service returns wrong targed id

[AMATH-1197] - Improve extasy name check for new exercise

[AMATH-1198] - symbols's presentation controller suddenly ugly

[AMATH-1204] - Secondary Click on macs does not work in Extasy's exercise graph

[AMATH-1207] - Line Breaks in Titles cause transformation to fail

[AMATH-1214] - Planner creates a book with empty pages

[AMATH-1215] - Course Generation yields confusing error message when empty books are created

ActiveMath 1.0 (2008-01-31)

What's New

New learner model SLM (Simple Learner Model)

highly efficient learner model

Slumb is now the default MBase

supports content reloading
improved error reporting for authors

New languages for the user interface:
- Français (French)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
Extended user help system
Improved overall performance and stabilty
Now licencsed under the d-fsl (German Free Software License)

Known Issues

Currently, you cannot run the Maxima CAS on Windows, you need to install it on a Linux/Unix machine (AMATH-1126).
Mathplayer for Internet Explorer 7 is currently broken, so we had to disable MathML support for IE in this release (AMATH-1112).
The iCMap tool is not yet ready for prime time, so we disabled it for this release.
The optional confidence slider in exercises does not work with Firefox Adblock extension (AMATH-952)

New Features

[AMATH-434] - Authentication Tickets

[AMATH-605] - Exercise composer should accept old MCQs

[AMATH-804] - Mediator needs to provide a method getMetadata

[AMATH-842] - Events notification missing in Assembly Tool

[AMATH-844] - Integration of Dynamic Items missing from Assembly Tool

[AMATH-878] - Add events for item menu

[AMATH-896] - Add a description of how the adaptive features of LeAM are to be used.

[AMATH-950] - Include proper dynamic items into the AssemblyTool

[AMATH-951] - Allow dynamic tasks in prerecorded books

[AMATH-1024] - Open Exercises should have a Finish button (re-implement)

Tasks

[AMATH-540] - Improve documentation of third-party licenses

[AMATH-867] - Remove Maxwell skin

[AMATH-966] - Disable some LeAM features for AM 1.0 release

[AMATH-968] - Make sure MathML output works for 1.0

Improvements

[AMATH-354] - imports should be grouped

[AMATH-387] - $true$ and $false$ are not presented

[AMATH-545] - dc:Date should be automatically filled

[AMATH-614] - Presentation for log without parentheses

[AMATH-648] - Security module must die, die, die...

[AMATH-670] - Programmers of applets should be encoded explicitly

[AMATH-671] - Enhanced information boxes and copyright statements

[AMATH-688] - listItems(collections,type) in MBaseRef

[AMATH-711] - MBaseRef has to be extended

[AMATH-728] - make drag & drop / context menu IE - compatible

[AMATH-775] - Composite notations

[AMATH-834] - Metadata entries should display OMDoc (eg. Copyright)

[AMATH-845] - OMDocElementTransferable needs a complete textual item description

[AMATH-879] - Enhance events for course generation requests

[AMATH-884] - Scenario selection for "Train competency"

[AMATH-888] - ExerciseStepEvent needs competency metadata from surrounding exercise

[AMATH-898] - Removed unused Thirdparty modules

[AMATH-909] - TOC in Help

[AMATH-910] - syntax not reachable

[AMATH-911] - integration of help-islands into common help system

[AMATH-912] - Serach phrases not parsed

[AMATH-923] - Exercise sequencer should publish events.

[AMATH-938] - streamed MBase

[AMATH-946] - SLM help section needs translations

[AMATH-954] - Domain Reasoner Text need to be in phrases

[AMATH-959] - Translate current help texts and TOC to German

[AMATH-1052] - OMGroups created by course generator should contain task information

[AMATH-1068] - New Help Section for Personal Books

Bugs fixed

[AMATH-305] - Creator role="aut" is not overwritten properly

[AMATH-508] - Displaystyle math needed

[AMATH-517] - Apache mod_proxy should be supported

[AMATH-525] - dictionary/ presenting examples

[AMATH-651] - DC Metadata is brocken

[AMATH-677] - Wrong links in Search

[AMATH-678] - Parameters for course generation are not forgotten.

[AMATH-682] - User data is never deleted from DB

[AMATH-702] - Tooltips need to be fixed for math titles

[AMATH-732] - User Deletion does not work reliably

[AMATH-746] - XLM slows down application over time

[AMATH-757] - extasy output theory should be plain

[AMATH-782] - Tooltips in wrong language

[AMATH-793] - Scenario selection for rehearse

[AMATH-795] - plugin and refinement exercise sequencer

[AMATH-796] - I18n and translation of all tutorial component components

[AMATH-824] - CAS resp., Randomizer not working properly

[AMATH-830] - matheprisma applets broken

[AMATH-846] - No suppoprt for multi-language

[AMATH-851] - Action menu: searching for additinal content in prerecorded books ignores elements in the book.

[AMATH-857] - Assembly Tool is not aware of auto-logout

[AMATH-860] - Advanced search usability enhancements

[AMATH-861] - input-editor generated domain conflicts

[AMATH-863] - XLM can hang for a very long time

[AMATH-866] - Tooltip for grey knowledge boxes in first chapter sometime reads "-1%"

[AMATH-876] - CAS-Exercise "diffquot/exer1_def_average_slope" is not working any more

[AMATH-877] - iCMap causes problems when using Java 1.5 and Linux

[AMATH-880] - Double Sum and log presented wrong

[AMATH-881] - LearnerProperty caching fails during course generation from item menu because JShop2Planner is not in a new thread

[AMATH-882] - Calling buildIndex in the shell keeps "tail" and "grep" processes alive

[AMATH-885] - Color of mastery bullets is not updated on some pages that only contain satellite elements

[AMATH-886] - Color of mastery bullets is not updated on some pages that only contain satellite elements

[AMATH-891] - Concept selection should hide sections that do not contain any concepts of the adequate learning context

[AMATH-893] - Assessment strategy does not work with all exercises and breaks exam simulation scenario

[AMATH-894] - Mediator needs access to Exercise Repository

[AMATH-899] - Remove x_0 from help description of Input Syntax (or implement it)

[AMATH-900] - Error on loading an omdoc which does not contain a recbook (i.e. an omgroup)

[AMATH-901] - Loading an omdoc causes an NPE

[AMATH-902] - DnD of exercise terms not-subtermed

[AMATH-903] - Dynamic Items need to use phrases

[AMATH-904] - Enable Dragn-and-drop from the CAS console

[AMATH-906] - Complete the help system

[AMATH-907] - search syntax help missing phrases

[AMATH-918] - Buildindex fails on Windows

[AMATH-920] - Duplicate fors should be avoided in relations display

[AMATH-921] - plain search view displays URL

[AMATH-924] - Dynamic Items are instantiated over and over again.

[AMATH-925] - XLM reports error on SituationFactorChanged event from Situational Model

[AMATH-926] - No mastery values from XLM

[AMATH-928] - error report needs login !

[AMATH-930] - AT cannot resolve relative mbase identifiers in recbooks

[AMATH-931] - iCMap does not support java 1.5

[AMATH-932] - Post-Logout questionnaire doesn't load

[AMATH-933] - Confidence slider disappears

[AMATH-934] - Render description part (CMP) of Dynamic Item is missing.

[AMATH-935] - Changed notations should regenerate stylesheet

[AMATH-936] - Feedback-area requested for exercises.

[AMATH-944] - Planner does not respect user's learner model

[AMATH-945] - SLM-GUI needs internationalisation

[AMATH-947] - Missing spaces in toc titles that contain formulae

[AMATH-952] - Confidence slider does not work with Firefox Adblock extension

[AMATH-953] - Solving an exercise found using the item menu does not reload the main window

[AMATH-955] - Scrollbar in book view does not work in IE

[AMATH-957] - Fraction stroke disappears in answers

[AMATH-958] - Drag&Drop does not work on the same page twice

[AMATH-960] - Need translation update for Russian

[AMATH-961] - Need translation update for Chinese

[AMATH-964] - Missing Spanish internationalization of Assembly Tool

[AMATH-965] - Score display broken for SLM

[AMATH-967] - Switching InputEditor on/off during an exercise still causes problems

[AMATH-969] - Mastery bullets show negative values when SLM is used

[AMATH-970] - Mastery explanations contains weird text.

[AMATH-971] - Giving up an exercise should send exercise-step-event

[AMATH-972] - Indirect evidence is not overwritten

[AMATH-981] - SLM GUI doesn't show math in item titles

[AMATH-982] - SLM uses only one Hibernate session

[AMATH-983] - MathML mild bugs in search

[AMATH-985] - Listener Threads for AppSessions are never terminated

[AMATH-986] - Confidence slider messed up in Internet Explorer

[AMATH-987] - Search results are too short!

[AMATH-989] - LearnerModelListener subscribes twice for events

[AMATH-990] - Instantiating dynamic tasks does not take newly added items into account.

[AMATH-991] - Windows stay on the back with Firefox 2.0

[AMATH-992] - CAS is not working with logical symbols

[AMATH-995] - Hibernate exception for SLM: Unexpected row count

[AMATH-996] - Hibernate exception for SLM: LazyInitializationException

[AMATH-997] - Hibernate exception for SLM: ConstraintViolationException: & NPE

[AMATH-998] - Prevent HTML injection attacks

[AMATH-1004] - MathML presentation full of blue links

[AMATH-1005] - Math search broken

[AMATH-1006] - "Generator not available" in assessment exercise

[AMATH-1007] - Sliding of Help TOC broken on Internet Explorer

[AMATH-1008] - DefaultGenerator throws NPE with MCQ

[AMATH-1015] - tooltips' text have disappeared

[AMATH-1018] - Exercises never finished

[AMATH-1019] - Search Unfolding doesn't work in MathML

[AMATH-1021] - Misconceptions should not be searchable

[AMATH-1022] - Missing chinese translations for context menu and feedback

[AMATH-1023] - Opening item menu broken in IE

[AMATH-1036] - Random languageS chosen

[AMATH-1039] - ContentManager not thread-safe

[AMATH-1041] - SLuMB gets blurred by modification dates

[AMATH-1042] - Search misses x-all

[AMATH-1045] - TC Component proposes the same suggestions

[AMATH-1046] - Dynamic Items external obkects cause a multiple rendering of "Open Link"

[AMATH-1047] - Nullpointer when selecting some groupings

[AMATH-1049] - Busy waiting loop in book progress

[AMATH-1057] - SLuMB should report duplicate theories and items

[AMATH-1059] - Big memory leak in CourseGenerator with TutorialInteraction objects

[AMATH-1069] - Exceptions when printing

[AMATH-1070] - NPE from ViewBook controller when sending events

[AMATH-1073] - searching for symbol fails when author

[AMATH-1074] - Incomplete notation element breaks formula presentation fully

[AMATH-1076] - HTML output still contains debugging bloat

[AMATH-1077] - Planning sometimes fails with NPE in JShop (browser race condition)

[AMATH-1079] - Last button of planner wizard should be "Create Book"

[AMATH-1088] - Collection of a file is not known

[AMATH-1091] - Make self-report questions configurable

[AMATH-1092] - StackOverflow at planning

[AMATH-1093] - NullpointerException at train-compentencies

[AMATH-1097] - MathML clip-output not MathPlayer compatible

[AMATH-1100] - Initialisation errors should fail early, avoid semi-initialized application

[AMATH-1106] - Item menu empty in MSIE 6 ?

[AMATH-1107] - PDF documents should contain author and title information

[AMATH-1108] - Can't start ActiveMath without Maf� ??

[AMATH-1109] - Dynamic Books throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException under load

[AMATH-1112] - MathML broken in IE7 and MathPlayer

[AMATH-1114] - Escaping errors, especially for French tooltips

[AMATH-1115] - Redirect views must be declared a null views in maverick.xml

[AMATH-1116] - Window with additional item doesn't open in IE

[AMATH-1117] - Applets in Schulmathe don't honour advertizedURL

[AMATH-1118] - Must not escape quotes inside HTML tags of phrases

[AMATH-1122] - SLMGui does not display the evidences for mastery estimation correctly

[AMATH-1123] - Input Editor Domains don't change language

[AMATH-1124] - Escaping issues with item titles containing math in SLMGui

[AMATH-1131] - Input Editor fails to load on proxied installations

[AMATH-1128] - MCQs displayed broken on several LeAM exercises

Release Notes

ActiveMath 1.0.1

Detailed list of issues fixed for this Release

ActiveMath 1.0 (2008-01-31)

What's New

Known Issues

Detailed list of issues fixed for this Release

New Features

Tasks

Improvements

Bugs fixed

Older Releases