Dokeos 1.8.5 released... kind of!

It's still a bit premature because we'd like to try it out a few times more before officially announcing it on the website, so if you want to help, feel free to download your version from here: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.5.zip In a few hours from now we will make the official announcement, so the official release date will be the 12th of June anyway. If you happen to witness some wierd thing in the install or upgrade procedure, please, let me know as soon as possible! Otherwise, just enj

Added documentation for Red5 server installation

Frédéric Burlet, the guy behind the Red5 server mods for the Dokeos videoconference, has recently added a short documentation to explain the process of installing the Red5 server on a... server. I'm adding it as is here, and I already added the file inside the documentation/ folder in Dokeos 1.8.5 stable (to come within a few days).
Dokeos Red5 applications ======================== Table of contents ----------------- 1. Installation 1.1. Red5 1.2. Dokeos Red5 Application 2. Configuration 2.1. How does it work ? 2.2. Recorder 2.3. VideoConference 3.

What's left before 1.8.5 stable...

Not that I've been too busy on Dokeos lately (I tend to take my mind off Dokeos for a couple of days after a release), but it's going to come back very fast now as we are warming up for the last run to Dokeos 1.8.5 stable. So, what's on the menu? Well, apparently there are still *some* bugs about the course copy and SCORM export somehow. Thomas filed a bug for me about this.

New features in Dokeos 1.8.5 - part 1

I've already touched the topic slightly earlier, and there is a nice Dokeos 1.8.5 page in the tabs above that give a global idea, but Dokeos 1.8.5 comes packed with a lot of tiny but practical new features, and tiny but practical improvements. Some of the things we are working on at the moment are listed below

Regional Managers and Human Resources Managers

It's been a repeated complaint among our users that the flexibility of Dokeos roles was not complete enough for medium to large-size companies.