ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS), designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Interoperable content packaging for creating and reusing learning objects.

ATutor 1.4.3 has been released. Current ATutor users are encouraged to upgrade their systems to take advantage of the many new features that have been added to this release.


Visit the ATutor site for full details:
http://www.atutor.ca

**New in ATutor 1.4.3**

*Forum Upgrades:* System wide and shared forums for communication across courses. Create communities around groups of course forums, or around an entire ATutor course server. Alumni participation in course forums. Subscribe to general forums or course forums, or subscribe to specific topic threads to receive messages by email. Quickly access current forum messages through the Forum Posts menu module.

*File Manager Upgrades:* Create new text or html files online, move individual files or batches of files, and use the file manager while editing ATutor content pages or test items.

*Enrollment Manager Overhaul:* Create, import, and export course enrollment lists, and manage enrolled students and alumni. New tabbed display for managing student information, managing course lists, managing roles and privileges, as well as creating and managing groups.

*Language Overhaul:* Language management has been completely re-designed. Translate, import, and export language from within your own ATutor installation. Support for the UTF-8 character set. ATutor is available in more than 30 languages.



*Backup Manager:* Administrator and Instructor Backup Manager. Create master copies of courses. Manage multiple backups per course and restore only material you specify into existing and newly created courses.

*Question Database:* Create tests by adding questions to, and retrieving questions from, a test item repository.

*Test/Survey Manager Upgrade:* Create image based test items, arrange multiple choice questions vertically or horizontally, assign tests to a class, to groups, or to individual students, analyse test data and generate statistics.

*Theme Manager:* Easily copy, import, and export ATutor themes.

*RSS Feeds:* Syndicate ATutor course announcements to display them on remote Web sites.

*New Feedback and Error Handling:* Redesigned, modular, user feedback system. Improved logging, tracking, and presentation of system errors for debugging and troubleshooting ATutor installations.

*Embed ACollab:* Embed ACollab into ATutor, or open it in a new window to participate in course group activities.

*System Announcements:* Administrators can send email announcements to all instructors and/or students registered on an ATutor system.

*Easy Enrollment:* Students can now enroll in courses through the Browse Courses screen.

ATutor 1.4.3 Demo
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/demo.php

ATutor 1.4.3 Download
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/download.php

ATutor HowTo 1.4.3 (Documentation)
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/docs/howto.php


**Translator Call**
ATutor translators are encouraged to login to the ATutor Translation site and update any new or updated language for the 1.4.3 release. Translators may choose to download partial language packs and translate on their own ATutor installation if they prefer. After translating on a local ATutor system, please export a language pack and send it to atutor.ca to include in the central language database.

ATutor Translator Login
http://www.atutor.ca/my/

ATutor 1.5 Released
July 12, 2005

ATutor 1.5 has been released with many new features and enhancements. Some features to look for: modular Student Tools, a SCORM Run-Time Environment, extended theme capabilities, and the ATutor Handbook, among many others. Users are encouraged to upgrade their current systems.

Visit the ATutor site for a full list of features, a demo, and a download.
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor

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New Features in ATutor 1.5

*Bundled Help*: Student, Instructor, and Administrator documentation is now bundled with each installation of ATutor. Context sensitive help within ATutor links directly to the appropriate page in the Handbook. In the coming weeks expect an interactive documentation site with user tips and comments.

*Extended Themes* : Themes are now simpler to create and allow for more flexibility than before. The default look and feel of ATutor has been improved. Themes now inherit from the default, so it is possible to modify just a single theme file, such as a stylesheet or header file, to create a whole new theme.

*SCORM Run-Time Environment & SCO Manager* : Thanks to Matthai Kurian and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich for contributing an ATutor SCORM run-time environment (RTE) and SCO package manager. Add prepackaged, interactive, interoperable content to your courses. Initial support for SCORM 1.2 LMS-RTE3, with additional SCORM 2004 support coming.

*Course Tool Preferences* : Instructors can choose from the available student tools and menu modules, selecting only those tools and modules that are used in a particular course. Display tools in the main navigation, or link them from the course home page for quick access. Select tools that match different pedagogical approaches to teaching online.

*Multiple Administrators* : Create multiple administrator accounts, assigning specific privileges to each. Have one administrator manage users, have another manage courses, and have another manage the system configuration.

*System Preferences* : Edit the system configuration options (i.e. the config.inc.php file) from within ATutor.

*Require Email Confirmation* : Optionally require all newly created accounts to validate their email address before logging in.

*Directory* : Courses now provide a way for all students and instructors to find each other.

*Content Usage* : The Course Tracker has been replaced with the Content Usage tool, allowing instructors and students to track their usage.

*Master Student List* : Require newly created student accounts to be authenticated against a custom imported student ID/PIN paired list imported from a central registration database or directory service.

*Test/Survey Manager Upgrade* : When creating randomized tests from a larger pool of questions, choose to make some of those questions required.


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Visit the ATutor Support forums for help.
http://www.atutor.ca/forums/index.php

ATutor 1.5 Download
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/download.php

ATutor 1.5 Demo
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/demo.php

ATutor Documentation
http://atutor.ca/atutor/docs/index.php

Translators login to translate ATutor 1.5
http://www.atutor.ca/my/

See the Translator Documentation
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/docs/translate.php