Adapt Learning Community: Authoring Tool Mega Update

Hi all,

We have launched a (rather large) Pull Request into the Adapt authoring tool github repository. Once merged, this will add lots of great new functionality to the tool, including a more robust installer, the ability to link assets to components from within the editor interface, numerous user interface and stability improvements, and a more extensible frontend architecture.

The following issues are also fixed in this Pull Request:

ABU-218 - copy and paste moved to server
ABU-237 - tidy up editor screens
ABU-239 - reset forgotten password
ABU-240 - first and last login for users
ABU-337 - prefer environment configuration
ABU-215 - tags don't autocomplete
ABU-179 - remove hardcoded version from bower plugins
ABU-231 - course visibility
ABU-234 - insecure passport session data

This Pull Request requires approval from the community of contributors before merging into the current develop branch, and hopefully this will happen over the next few days, and I'll post an update on this thread.

This PR also brings the tool to a state where it is fit to open up to a larger community of contributors, which is great, because it's going to take a lot of work delivering some of the exciting functionality that we've got planned. Some of the high priority items are:

Custom hero images for projects on the dashboard
Extensible UI for components (e.g. drag and drop interface for hotgraphic)
Improved publish/preview process (to make it lightning quick)
Loading bar for publish/preview status
Amazon S3 storage compatibility (for assets)
Ability to add comments to previews
Copy/Paste between two different courses
Ability to export a project's source files from the tool
Favourites/Archive labels on the dashboard
Better contextual help system
Built in image editor

There is presently an issue in the spoor extension that causes an error when previewing courses without that extension enabled. This should be resolved before this PR is approved and merged, but you can track progress on this issue here: https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt-contrib-spoor/issues/53

Great stuff, look forward to it being merged into the Develop branch.

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Any update on when the merge will be complete? I tried out the LearningPool branch just to see how it has progressed and can't get previewing to work.. :-/ Very keen to get the latest version up and running :)

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Hi all,

With all the excitement, I've neglected to update this thread as promised - apologies for that!

From posts to the forum, I see that many of you are already aware that the PR referenced above has be merged into the develop branch, and the tool should now be stable enough to allow beta testers to start creating courses and providing feedback.

For those that have bravely tried installing and using the tool prior to this update, I highly recommend re-installing the tool based on the new develop branch, and using the "node install" command, as the current develop branch differs in many ways from earlier versions of the tool.

Those of you who'd like to try the tool, but are reluctant to go through the install process, please see this post from Sven inviting beta testers to try out the tool and to feed back on the experience.

Thanks!

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Hi Dennis,

If I am running an older branch, is there any "easy" way to update my copy with a particular branch?

Cheers

Greg

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