Kolibri v0.12 is here!
We are thrilled to announce the arrival of Kolibri v0.12, the Coach Dashboard release!
Available in Windows, Ubuntu/Debian, and Linux/Mac. Download the installer here.
0.12.0 marks the next step in Kolibri’s evolution towards a platform that supports coaches in real time; offering seamless updates of current user progress, and a notification stream to keep the coach aware of learner progress, and of when learners need help to continue in their learning, allowing the coach to intervene ‘just in time’.
This release also starts Kolibri on the journey of supporting a much broader range of content, by allowing HTML5 applications to store data between sessions, allowing learners to pick up where they left off in complex, immersive HTML5 learning applications.
Last but not least, we are also proud of the ever-expanding input of the broader community to this release, from code contributions on our Kolibri Github repo, to heroic efforts in translation. An example is the work done by a local community in Cameroon, who not only localized the Kolibri platform and Khan Academy content into Fulfulde Mbororoore, but also worked with us to test as we brought the translated content into Kolibri. If you want to help, you can test a new version of Kolibri, translate Kolibri into a new language, or help out with issues on our Github!
New features in Kolibri v0.12, include:
- Actionable coach notifications: See real-time updates on learner progress and activity
- Completely new coach report information architecture: Separate ‘Class Home’, ‘Reports’, and ‘Plan’ tabs to support formative assessment and differentiated lesson planning
- Multiple-group functionality for learners: Learners can now be placed in multiple groups at once. This allows grouping by different relevant factors in the classroom, making differentiated instruction easier.
- Improved quiz creation and previewing: a better previewing experience that lets you see more easily what learners will see in a quiz
Languages
Kolibri v0.12 is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chewa, Farsi, French, Fulfulde, Hindi, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swahili, Telugu, Urdu, Vietnamese and Yoruba.
What’s next
Keep an eye out for our future releases, as they'll include some exciting new features:
- QTI Exercise formats to support questions imported from a range of LMS platforms
- Local content import, to allow users to bring new content into Kolibri without any Internet access required
- Improved content exploration experience
- Improved content import and management experience
Our thanks
We’d like to thank our partners and the open-source community for testing and reporting bugs, and our Kolibri interns who contributed important bug fixes to the v0.12 release to ensure a stable platform!
We also want to thank Chris Jackson and his team in Cameroon for localizing Kolibri into Fulfulde, and for alerting us to two bugs we have fixed in 0.12.1; Ashley Takami, Pyae Sone, and May Thet Khine Nyein for teaming up to make Kolibri available in Burmese; Manuel Locria, Dace Krutaine, and their team at Translators Without Borders for making Kolibri v0.12 available in Bengali, Chewa, Hindi, Swahili, Vietnamese, and Yoruba. Our gratitude also to the translators from Natakallam for their work on Farsi and Urdu, and to Devaki Kunte and her team at the Language Services Bureau for their work on Marathi and Telugu.
A special shout out goes to our volunteers Hiba Ibrahim and Stéphane Moutier for making Kolibri available in Arabic and French, respectively, and to the team at Education without Backpacks for localizing Kolibri into Bulgarian. Thank you, guys.
Thank you also to Anna Berns for her continued support of our work.
Additional support
Learning Equality has created the Kolibri Edtech Toolkit, a customizable and adaptable set of resources to support understanding of use in a diverse set of contexts, including pedagogical and technical guidance for incorporating Kolibri into an educational program and creating effective learning environments.
Please note that the resources in our toolkit have not been updated to reflect v0.12 features yet.
Our previous Kolibri releases contain a variety of new and improved features, such as easy-to-use content import, support for right-to-left languages, and coach reporting tools. Please refer to our Release Notes for more details.
Contribute to the community!
See a bug? Don’t hesitate to file an issue on Github or send us feedback via the Community Forum.
Want to see Kolibri available in your language? Please contact us at i18nteam@learningequality.org.
Already using Kolibri? Share your story with us via the Community Forums or send us an email at info@learningequality.org.
