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Latest News & Updates

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Welcome to LAMS 2.1!

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This new release is packed with new features and improvements including Branching, so teachers can create powerful learning designs to support many different educational approaches.
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LAMS 2.1 can use video and audio in every single activity to make the learner's experience richer and more interactive. LAMS has new support for Mobile Devices so learning can be taken anywhere.
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Have a look at the full list of features, and if you are new to LAMS, see the LAMS Documentation for quick tutorials, animations and full details.
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Welcome to LAMS 2.2!

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This new release has lots of new features and improvements including Text-based Branching, so teachers can create branching conditions based on text output from tools.
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LAMS 2.2 includes improvements like Learner's selection for groups, Opening gates based on conditions so learners can select which group they want to take part of, teachers can add learning outcomes to their sequences using the new Learning Outcomes/Competencies editor, get informed when certain events occur with Email Notifications, find out who is doing a lesson at the same time with Presence, use external LMS/VLE tools within LAMS via the External tool wrappers, and a lot more. + +
There are four new tools in LAMS 2.2: a +wiki to create collaborative documents, a +data collection tool, a +Google Maps tool, and an +online spreadsheet tool. There is also optional integration with +Dimdim for +whiteboard, desktop sharing, audio-video conferencing (it might require fee).
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We recommend you to join the LAMS Community where teachers and developers share their experiences of using LAMS, including a large repository of LAMS sequences shared from all around the world - a great place to start for good teaching ideas!
You can provide feedback on LAMS here, and view the LAMS Roadmap for upcoming features.
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LAMS is translated to 25 languages by more than 50 volunteers. Want to help out?
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LAMS is translated to 27 languages by more than 55 volunteers. Want to help out?