Dodona 6.3 released

[jorg-vr]

Dodona 6.3 brings two big new UI changes!

Exercise filters

Teachers can add their own exercises to Dodona for everyone to use. This way, we have collected over 11k exercises. The downside of this is that it became hard to find high quality exercises. Instead of limiting who could create exercises, Dodona 6.3 adds a few powerful filters.

First of all, the long list of exercises is split into multiple tabs:

• a tab containing all exercises from repositories you added yourself or where you received special access
• a tab containing all exercises from you or your colleagues
• a tab containing "featured exercises", these are exercises of which we think they are of high quality
• a tab containing all exercises

In addition, we added a popularity indicator and filter to the table. The idea is that highly popular exercises have a higher chance of being of good quality. This way, we hope to strike a balance between surfacing quality content and allowing everyone to experiment with their own exercises.

Home page rework

In addition, Dodona 6.3 contains a first step in a bigger project to make the home page more useful by surfacing actionable information that might otherwise stay hidden.

The first step is the addition of "action cards" to the top of the home page. The first card is always "jump back in". Depending on your recent activity, this card will guide you back to an unfinished exercise, the next exercise in the series you last worked in or even the next series.

Next to "jump back in", we show your progress towards up to two upcoming deadlines. Both the color and a progress bar indicate the current status.

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What's Changed

🚀 New Features

• Add scoping tabs to activity list pages to improve usability by @jorg-vr in Add scoping tabs to activity list pages to improve usability #4203
• Show and sort by popularity in activities table by @jorg-vr in Show and sort by popularity in activities table #4222
• Home page redesign: put most important content on top by @jorg-vr in Home page redesign: put most important content on top #4185

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Ignore invalid mime types by responding with bad request by @chvp in Ignore invalid mime types by responding with bad request #4205

🧰 Maintenance

• drag_and_drop.js: remove jquery and convert to typescript by @freyavs in drag_and_drop.js: remove jquery and convert to typescript #4209
• Add alt host dodona.be to config hosts by @jorg-vr in Add alt host dodona.be to config hosts #4233

Full Changelog: 6.2.2...6.3.0

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This discussion was created from the release 6.3.0.