Version History for Brainbank Learning

Version	Relased
Version 3.5	August 1st 2007
Version 3.4	October 6th 2006
Version 3.3	September 6th 2006
Version 3.2	February 20th 2006
Version 3.1	October 19th 2005
Version 3.0	August 19th 2005
Version 2.5	January 14th 2005
Version 2.4	December 14th 2004
Version 2.3	October 5th 2004
Version 2.2	January 23rd 2004
Version 2.1	November 7th 2003
Version 2.0	September 16th 2003
Version 1.0	April 9th 2002

New in version 3.5 (August 1st 2007)

Services for integration with external systems
Creation of keyring for authentication from external systems
Course independent creation of information
Topics can be theme and perspective for any other topic.

New in version 3.4 (October 6th 2006)

BrainBank Learning now works a lot faster
Extended and more powerful brainstorming functionality
Simple statistics for administrators

New in version 3.3 (September 6th 2006)

Extended functionality regarding association types
Improved workflow regarding associations, types and resources
Improved usability: several smaller improvements
Remote access to BrainBank Learning from external learning environments (e.g. Moodle)

New in version 3.2 (February 20th 2006)

Topicmaps: creating topicmaps and use them as scope for topics
Improved reports: all topics in course, all topics in subject or all topics, sorted alphabetically, or chronologically
Improved usability: several smaller improvements
Bugfixing: several minor bugs are fixed

New in version 3.1 (October 19th 2005)

Brainstorming
Improved merging

New in version 3.0 (August 19th 2005)

Themes
Topic types
Better usability
Better publishing for teachers
Thumbnails for topics
New menu icons

New in version 2.5 (January 14th 2005)

New and better visualization
New languages : Dutch
SLATE searc

New in version 2.4 (December 14th 2004)

Localization support
New Languages: English
Increased stability
User manual

New in version 2.3 (October 5th 2004)

Graphical visualisation (map) of topics and associations
New graphical theme
Manual and help function
Login via FEIDE
Improved usability
Better security

New in version 2.2 (January 23rd 2004)

Simplified handling of associations and categories
Better security
Extended administration functionality
Handling of duplicate topics
Association types can now be edited
Standard subjects introduced
More consistent use of icons
A single user can have more than one role (administrator, teacher, pupil)
A single user can belong to several schools
Export of the learners' BrainBanks to XTM 1.0

New in version 2.1 (November 7th 2003)

Comments (messages between learner and teacher)
One can now upload resources (text, pictures, sound clips, vidoe clips)
Teachers can publish topics (with descriptions and attached resources) to learners
Improved usability and stability

New in version 2.0 (September 16th 2003)

Supporting the Topic Maps standard (incl. XTM 1.0)
Administration of schools, subjects, courses, teachers and learners
Categorising of topics
Categorising of associations (associations types)

New in version 1.0 (April 9th 2002)

Enter topics (keywords) with descriptions
Relations between keywords (associations), with descriptions
Attaching resources (URLs to web sites, etc.) to keywords
Searching for keywords and associations