Fall 2015 Midterm Release

tag: 2015.fall.1.1

###Features

#####Chrome Bookmark Extension & Bookmarklet Upgrade We're anticipating that a new web standard called Content Security Policy will affect the stability of Mediathread's bookmarklet. This security concept allows websites and web browsers to prevent our bookmarklet's code from being loaded. This has necessitated us to come up with an alternative to the bookmarklet via browser extensions. This release of Mediathread includes links to our Chrome extension, which is also available from the Chrome Web Store.

In addition, this release includes a new version of our bookmarklet that is aware of Content-Security-Policy. The new bookmarklet provides appropriate steps to users when our code gets blocked by CSP.

#####Scalar Export

#####LTI Integration Hooks (beta) Mediathread now can be launched via LTI from three major LMS systems (EdX, Canvas and Moodle). Users are found or created automagically via email address or hashed username (consumer key + lms username). Users are placed into a Mediathread course via a custom_group parameter configured in the LMS that maps to a course's primary group name.

In EdX, Mediathread also supports editor button integration to allow item and selection embedding in LMS assignments and discussions.

###Infrastructure

#####Django Django library upgraded to 1.8.

#####Mustache 2 The client-side templating engine has been upgraded to Mustache 2. All pages are now converted.