With almost a delay of one year, as time has been spent in many other tasks, I can finally announce the new release of ControlAula, almost ready for its massive update.
The new version has been rewritten from scratch to be more maintainable and make adding contributions an easier task.
It’s also easier to set up and the network doesn’t need to fulfill so many conditions as in previous versions. Anyway, most important changes are on the user side.
These are some news:
- Every user (now including the students) now has an interface to share documents, send messages, and even work together modifying documents in real time.
- Teachers can now also close applications automatically from their computer. Previously only launching them was possible.
- Video broadcasting is now in full screen mode.
- Teachers can block the students’ keyboard and mouse. Sysadmins can also set up the computers to start in this state until the teacher enables it at the students’ computers.
- Improved and better user interface, with new flags, but keeping the same simple use it previously had.
- The application does not depend any more on the computers’ IP. The leases file is not needed either.
- The same application executable runs as a native Qt application in KDE and as a native GTK application in Gnome (magic from gambas)
- Updated documentation (in English too)
Debian package and sources are available at the forge from Extremadura.
Help, documentation, install guide, etc are available at this site.
Translations are welcome. It would also be great if any native English speaker wants to fix my spanglish documentation texts.