New room added: Viral Contagion

Written by Nuno Mendonca | 26 April 2013

Room description: This Fronter room uses some of the materials available from the London Grid for Learning resource Viral Contagion – a Maths resource for Key Stage 3 & 4.

It has a variety of activities suitable for students to do via Fronter, making use of the unique videos featuring the dramatization of an outbreak of a fictitious biological outbreak in South London.

The Room Includes:

- Unique video footage

- Online forums

- SCORM (Auto-marking) resources

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To see free rooms to download please click here.
To see a video guide on how to import these rooms to a Fronter installation please click here.

Today page subscription on e-mail

Written by Tapio Janasik | 26 April 2013

The e-mail subscription of the Today page has not been delivering for some installations.

This issue is resolved as of Friday, April 26th, so this e-mail will now run based on your selection in the subscription settings. If you wish to change or deactivate this subscription, please see here for how to.

New room tool Hand-in Beta

Written by Tapio Janasik | 12 April 2013

We are pleased to announce the beta release of the brand new Hand-in module to all customers on Fronter Y12 from Thursday the 25th of April 2013.

This tool has already been used by a small number of customers for some months, and we are now making this new room tool available for all customers running Fronter Y12. The new Hand-in tool is released as BETA, meaning that the tool is still in a phase of continuous development and we will release extended functionality incrementally during the spring and summer. We invite all our customers to try out the new tool and give us feedback, which you can do through a button available inside this tool.

Among the top improvements to the new Hand-in tool are:

  • Improved integration with Ephorus (third party plagiarism control tool)
  • Easier assignment of hand-ins
  • Better overview of the assignments and their status

The help files for this new tool will also be published shortly. Please read more also here.

The existing Hand-in tool in Fronter will still be available and not be changed as part of the introduction of the new Hand-in Beta tool.

Change in room archiving

Written by Tapio Janasik | 24 April 2013

Being a request from many customers, as of Monday, May 6th, on Fronter Y12 the room archiving functionality is only available to administrators, and no longer for room owners. For administrators, there is no change in functionality.

We are expanding - new IP ranges

Written by Tapio Janasik | 21 March 2013

We are in the process of introducing new infrastructure to our main hosting site in Oslo during this spring. A practical result of this is introducing new IP ranges. This may have an effect on your institution's firewall, and is especially important to change at your earliest convenience if your institution uses LDAP or AD authentication to Fronter.

Please refer to the FAQ article on IP range and port details.

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