openEQUELLA, a digital repository for housing teaching/learning, research, media, and library content in one platform, is currently in use at a wide range of schools, universities, colleges, TAFEs, departments of education, government agencies, and corporations worldwide.
openEQUELLA 2019.2 continues the process of redeveloping the platform’s user interface to ensure increased usability and appeal to end users. 2019.2 introduces a new default UI style sheet that matches the legacy UI to the new UI, providing a seamless look and feel. This will provide a transitional step for users as new UI technologies are applied across openEQUELLA throughout 2020.
“openEQUELLA 2019.2 continues the overhaul of the openEQUELLA user interface, designed to further modernize and enhance the usability of the platform,” said Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation. “Furthermore, it reinforces the community engagement advantages of the open source model through the addition of various client-requested features.”
Other highlights of openEQUELLA 2019.2 include:
- Attachment duplicate checking, including files and URLs
- Attachment health enhancements, including an enhanced audit log trail for files
- Persistent storage of item ownership enabling deleted owner information to be viewed
- Ability to alphabetically sort taxonomy terms in the Admin Console
- Updating of a wide range of platform dependencies
Version 2019.2 is available now. For more information about implementing or upgrading to openEQUELLA 2019.2, please navigate to openEQUELLA.github.io or contact a services provider in your region.
Read the full Apereo Foundation press release here.
About Edalex
Powering your single source of truth for skills and learning data
Edalex is an EdTech company powering your single source of truth for skills and learning data. Founded in 2016, Edalex develops technology solutions that extract hidden value from educational data to make it accessible and more meaningful. Edalex brings together the team behind the CODiE award-winning openEQUELLA open source platform that centrally houses teaching and learning, research, media and library content.
In 2019, Edalex launched Credentialate, the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform, that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills. Credentialate creates order from chaotic data, provides meaningful insight through framework alignment and equips each learner with unique, rich, industry-aligned evidence of their skills and competencies. Credentialate has continued to evolve at an accelerated pace, informed in partnership with educators and industry leaders from around the world.
openRSD was released by Edalex in 2022 to help create, store and share rich skill descriptors (RSDs) and RSD collections. openRSD uses Edalex’s open source technology stack to create locally- and globally-relevant libraries of RSDs that are open to all contributors and consumers. RSDs are the building blocks of a skills-driven labour market. They structure skills data, add context around a particular skill and are both human and machine readable. RSDs bring equity to the learner and the skills ecosystem and provide an even playing field for skills recognition.
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