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Grapefruit 0.5.8 has been released!

This version includes the following new features, fixes and updates:

New: Grapefruit now supports basic school and organization support! Students and instructors can choose their school from the Grapefruit registration page when creating an account. This feature will improve more in future releases.

Updated: Style fixes and improvements across the site

Updated: Assignments now have improved tooltips for students

Developer: Grapefruit’s front end has been updated to use Foundation 5

Version 0.5.8 is available in code at the project GitHub and has been pushed to Grapefruit Orchard. Please submit bugs or feature requests to the GitHub issues page, send all other questions or concerns to [email protected].

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Grapefruit 0.5.7 has been released!

This version includes the following new features, fixes and updates:

New: Grapefruit now has its own production 404 page!

Updated: Site-wide typefaces, font weights, and minor styling

Updated: Login and join page design for mobile devices

Updated: File management has better visual indicators in the course manager

Fixed: Issue where assignments creation might cause an error with certain text lengths

Fixed: Issue where assignment creation, announcement creation, and other course-wide emails would only send to certain members of a course

Fixed: Problem that caused announcement body text to lose newlines

Fixed: Bug where links from course emails might be blank

Version 0.5.7 is available in code at the project GitHub and has been pushed to Grapefruit Orchard. Please submit bugs or feature requests to the GitHub issues page, send all other questions or concerns to [email protected].

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Grapefruit at SIGCSE!

Grapefruit will be on display at SIGCSE 2015! We'll be at the Red Hat booth from 2-3pm on Thursday March 5th and from 11am-12pm and 2-3pm on Friday March 6th.

If you miss us, give us a holler! You can email us at rensselaergrapefruit at gmail dot com.

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Grapefruit 0.5.6 has been released!

Updated: The new course form has been slimmed down and given helpful descriptions.

Updated: The Grapefruit dashboard has been cleaned up and made nicer for both instructors and students.

Updated: The course sidebar has been redesigned and is now very clear about the relevant information being displayed.

Fixed: Issue where the administration panel would crash when viewing lists of students.

Fixed: Issue where assets might not display correctly on HTTPS websites.

Removed: Confusing references to WebWork, the old system were are no longer integrating with.

And lots more! This update is available on dev branch now, and will soon be available on master branch and the production site at https://grapefruit.cs.rpi.edu.

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Grapefruit 0.5.5 has been released!

Sorry about the extra time taken in this release, Graham was sick - but we've got some awesome new features for you!

New: Files can now be attached inline to submission grades.

New: Students can now clearly see their color-coded grades for each assignment.

Update: The buttons for course management have been simplified.

Update: Toggle lecture live is now done via the student lecture view page.

Update: A message now shows for instructors on certain pages that makes it clearer where content should be edited.

Update: By default, all new courses have one default assignment type, "Assignment".

Fixed: Issue where creating or deleting documents could cause 404 errors.

Fixed: Issue where documents would not show for assignment grades.

Grapefruit 0.5.5 is currently available in the dev branch on Github, and will be available in master branch soon.

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Grapefruit 0.5.4 has been released!

This new version includes the following updates and fixes:

Assignments now have reveal and due dates! These are easily configurable for creating and updating assignments by the course instructor.

Submission view designs have been partially updated to account for due date information.

The assignment list view design for both instructors & students has been updated.

There were new landing pages added: an introduction to Grapefruit for "students", "instructors", and "admins"!

Fixed issue where grade points for submissions would display incorrectly for instructors.

The old identifier for submission IDs, a hex digest, was replaced with a simple numeric "10" + the submission ID.

Grapefruit 0.5.4 is currently available in the dev branch on Github, and will be available in master branch soon.

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Grapefruit 0.5.2 has been released!

This new version includes the following updates and fixes:

Coursewide emails can now be easily sent from the announcements module!

By default, all new announcements are sent via email to students in the course. This can be unchecked if needed.

Fixed issue where the default point value for assignments might not show.

Technical: the Grapefruit platform has been upgraded from Rails 4.0.1 to 4.2.0: a faster, more stable version of Rails.

Grapefruit 0.5.2 is currently available in the dev branch on Github, and will be available in master branch soon.

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Grapefruit 0.5.1 has been released!

This new version includes the following updates and fixes:

Brand new vector logo for the Grapefruit project!

Redesigned guest, register, and login pages

Moved changelog here (to the project blog)

Fixed display issues for guest pages on mobile

Updated contact information

New template pages for educators, students, and admins

Grapefruit 0.5.1 is currently available in the dev branch on Github, and will be available in master branch soon.

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Welcome and GitHub Link

Hello everyone,

Thanks for following the official blog of the Grapefruit project for education! We're all super excited to be working on something that has huge potential to improve the lives of many people around the world.

Check out our open source code at https://github.com/grapefruitdotlink/grapefruit.

- Graham