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As of August 1st, 2008, the Edutech web site will no longer be updated. Edutech was funded by the Swiss Virtual Campus programme, which ended on July 31st, 2008. Some activities will be taken over by the e-Learning Services group at the SWITCH foundation.

Vista Requests

List of most important feature requests and unsolved bugs.

General wishes

High priority

• Enhance reaction times with support requests. We expect a substancial answers within 48 hours after a request was submitted.
• Enhance times with fixing bugs. We expect simple or critical bugs to be fixed 1 month after their submission. For complex bugs a fixing time of a few months is acceptable.
• Better communication of issues and bugs. We need to know, which service packs cause which new issues.
• Better communication of roadmap.

Generally speaking, we expect a service quality that is comparable to open source products like Moodle, Sakai or Olat.

Feature Requests

High priority

• Be more tolerant with browser settings. Users must be able to use Vista with common default browser settings [Feb 05].
• Make Vista less dependent from Java VM in the browser. Do not complain in the browser checker if JavaVM is not installed. Tools like the html-editor and the file manager work, but have limited functionality without Java VM. Alert the user that the full potential of these tools is only available with Java VM [Feb 05].
  And yes, why not replace the Applets by Ajax-based applications?
• Allow export of courses in an un-encrypted format [Nov 06]
• RQST00000276124 allow selftests with immediate feedback [Jan 05]
• Glossary (this feature request is open since almost 3 years) [Feb 04]:
  • import/export glossary of a section at once
  • change properties of many glossary items at once
  • allow multi-word glossary items
• Students must be able to change their interface language (this feature request is open since almost 3 years) [Feb 04].

Normal priority

• see featuretracker

Bugs

High priority

• Service packs and upgrade should not take away important functions or introduce severe bugs.
• All versions of Vista (after installing service packs, hotfixes and upgrades) should always support the most common and current browsers on WinXP and MacOS-X. Commonly used browsers in switzerland are:
  • IE 6/7 and later
  • FireFox 1.5 - 2.0 and later
  • Safari 1.2 - 1.3 and later
• RQST00000295831 Browser freezes since SP4

Normal priority

• see bugtracker