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You can now download a prerelease of the upcoming AFELO 11.10 version. This gives us an opportunity to collect feedback about potential bugs, crashes or other issues before announcing the release inside AFELO itself and offering the download officially on www.afelo.com.

With the OLEFA 11.9 update, a week view has been introduced in the calendar module, allowing to display more than 3 entries per day.

A new groupmanager module is introduced, replacing the old schoolmanager and teamworker applications that were located inside OLEFAdesk. Features:

• Intuitive new interface.
• Possibility to reactivate old user accounts, that have been put to 'inactive' inside a new group. You can search by the users' first or last names, by their former group membership and/or by their period of activity. This is particularly interesting in a school context, since it avoids deleting and recreating the accounts every school year and thus offers more continuity e.g. long time portfolios of a user's contributions).
• Possibility to reactivate several users at once, for example all the former users of a group.
• Groupmasters can reset their members' passwords, edit usernames and nicknames and print password lists.
• Better handling of special characters when creating completely new users.
• Generating more representative usernames: When several persons in a group share the same first name, the first character of the last name is added instead of a number.

Read the howto currently only available in German

The last update brought quite a few improvements and changes to the OLEFA-Wiki. We attacked a lot of usability problems and generally modernized the look and feel of the user-interface. We also improved the communication infrastructure on the backside, which allowed us to introduce common, but missed, features like automatic recovery, parallel edit protection and auto element-refresh.

The form-element was seriously outdated and could not be upgraded to become what we had in mind. So we removed the form-element, but promised a successor to take its place.

Today, we will keep the promise and announce the brand-new quiz-element. It is developed from ground up to fit right into OLEFA-Wiki, both in function and esthetics. It can do everything and even more than the form-element was capable of, all while retaining the same simplicity all the other elements share. You can see the quiz-element in action on Youtube.

The quiz-element will be released with the next update, but will be made open for testing on our prerelease-site starting this week. So stay tuned for further updates!