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Diploma 6 (Mac) Release Notes

6.6.4 (10/13/09)
Enhancements
  • Added Moodle export support.
  • Added explicit support for Blackboard 8 and 9 (no changes were necessary).
Bug Fixes
  • Corrected problems with text following tables.
  • Updated support addresses.
  • Changed "Diploma" to "Wimba Diploma".
  • Added support for non JPEG/PNG images to CMS exports.
  • Multiple Choice and Multiple Selection answer choices were not being set to locked on Blackboard (6.3 and higher) and Desire2Learn exports unless all answers were locked.
  • Removed the redundant "Answer:" text for questions exported to Blackboard 6.3+ as essay.
  • Added answer labels for Multiple Selection questions when exported to Blackboard 6.3+.
  • The presence of some low characters in the text (character codes less than 32) caused problems with some of the exports.
  • Added detection of answer letters in parenthesis for auto answer locking.

6.6.1 (8/11/2008)
Enhancements
  • The record editor can now be opened by double-clicking any preview pane.
Bug Fixes
  • Improved double-underline support.
  • Improved handling of events that can reorder items in question banks.
  • Updated User Guide. Added Getting Started Guide.
  • Corrected reference copying and moving problems.
  • Improved chapter naming experience.
  • Mapped Enter key to Return key functionality.
  • Improved speed of paste operations.
  • Corrected undo behavior in tables and the undo menu text generally.
  • Diploma no longer hangs if the close icon in the Export format dialog is clicked.
  • Corrected table generation for Windows compatibility.
  • Corrected font drawing problems on Mac OS 10.5

6.5.6 (3/31/2007)
Enhancements
  • Updated copyrights and contact information.
  • Added Blackboard 6.0-6.2 exporter.
Bug Fixes
  • Adapted export list for smaller screens.
  • Randomly copy... no longer hangs Diploma under Mac OS 10.5.
  • Superscript / subscript rendered properly when exported to RTF.
  • Color and font in tables rendered properly when exported to RTF.
  • Double underlines rendered properly when exported to RTF.
  • Record editor font dialog has multiple issues resolved.
  • Font foreground and background colors rendered correctly everywhere.
  • Printing short answer, fill-in-the-blank questions after using page setup is now possible.
  • Flush record editor before exporting.

6.5.5 (11/16/2007)
Enhancements
  • Added Desire 2 Learn export support.
  • Added multiple selection question type support to BlackBoard 6 and 7 export.
Bug Fixes
  • Reduced number of answers created by default in new short answer and fill-in-the-blank questions.
  • Support typing of accented characters in question editor and display of accented characters in question list.
  • Questions retain correct references (if any) on second and subsequent pastes to the same exam.

6.5.3 (8/1/2007)
Enhancements
  • Added "More" panel to the bottom of the record editor.
  • Added reference grouping capablities in the "More" panel for references.
  • The state and size of split panes and toolbars are now remembered between runs.
  • Updated corporate contact information to Wimba, Inc.
  • A new chapter is created automatically for new question banks.
  • Added a preference for automatically adding a new standard instruction to new exams.
  • Modernised Export list offerings.
Bug Fixes
  • Corrected various parse errors that could occur with the data.ini install file.
  • Copying questions that use a reference no longer dirties the source chapter or exam.
  • Deleting a matching question distractor no longer leaves a blank distractor in the question.
  • Pasting or dragging duplicate items is now prevented unless the preference to allow it is set.
  • The installers for 6.5.0 or higher can now be used to install over Diploma 6.5.3 or higher.
  • Multiple items can now be selected using only a mouse-click with dragging.
  • Export will no longer crash when exporting a chapter or exam with no fields.
  • Newly created instructions will be opened in the Record Editor instead of the last unused reference.

6.5.1 (3/29/2007)
Enhancements
  • Added licensing support.
  • Enabled direct to CMS export to WebCT CE 4 and WebCT Vista.
  • Added long and Unicode filename support.
  • Installation support files mirror Windows files.
  • Universal binary -runs natively on PowerPC and Intel processors.
Bug Fixes
  • Files on read-only volumes can be opened.
  • DHTML exported exams can be graded.
  • Intel machines correctly identified in About Box.
  • Revert operations can be canceled now.
  • Changing question's reference in record editor no longer causes occasional crash later on.
  • Application can now be renamed.
  • Mac OS Page Setup options are honored.
  • Preview Pane defaults to "on" on first run.

6.5.0 (12/5/2006)
Enhancements
  • Table borders are now honored.
  • Replaced proprietary list browsers with Apple sanctioned browsers.
  • Improved rendering of fonts in both tables and questions.
  • Improved rendering of control elements.
  • Added scroll wheel support throughout.
  • Updated icons.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed drag and drop and clipboard handling bugs.
  • Fixed column width and column visibility problems.
  • Fixed print answer scrambling bug.
  • Improved standard font handling.
  • Fixed auto-save problems with new exam files.
  • Fixed item-movement bugs.
  • Fixed Open Recent dialog interface issues.
  • Prevent certain MathML images from being dropped during export to CMSs.
  • Improved image placement inside table cells.
  • Fixed many other table related bugs.
  • Fixed multi-column print problems with embedded carriage returns.


 
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