Spring 2015 Release

tag: v2015_Spring

###Spring 2014 Release

###Features

• Self-registration. Visitors to http://mediathread.info can now register for and immediately access a Mediathread Guest Sandbox. Once in the sandbox, guests can experiment with features on the 'student' level. This new self-registration was designed to ease the on-ramp for potential Mediathread users.

• Change password. Guest users can now recover and change their passwords.

• Item Visibility toggles. By default, students in a class are able to see each other's items and selections. Instructors can now choose to disallow the ability of students in a class to see each other's items in the Collections interface, as well as selections made by other students on individual items.

• Flowplayer upgrade for HTML5 browser compatibility.

• Instructors many new configure the "From Your Instructor" title via the Manage / Settings menu item.

• TinyMCE upgrade to resolve compatibility bugs with IE.

• TinyMCE word count feature turned on in the project, feedback and discussion spaces.

###Infrastructure

• Django 1.6 upgrade.

###Upgrading

• Complete a fresh source pull or merge the new code directly into a branched version of your source base.

• ./bootstrap.py

• ./manage.py migrate --settings=mediathread.settings_

• ./manage.py jenkins # full unit test run