LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline Network with CAPA) is a learning content and course management system. It offers an underlying shared content pool from which instructors across departmental and institutional boundaries can assemble granular learning content for their courses. It has strong assessment capabilities, both formative (homework and in-class using wireless PDAs) and summative (online and bubblesheet exams), with a one-source multiple-target strategy for the content. It offers students portfolio space in which they can stage materials for submission to projects, and provides a number of tools for synchronous and asynchronous student-student and student-faculty communication. LON-CAPA scales well with number of students, as load-balancing is possible across the whole network of servers at participating institutions. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This is the first release candidate for version 2.6 with a focus on better institutional adaptability. Rules for usernames (e.g., allowed characters and length) and student IDs can now be set on an institutional base, as well as allowed authentication types, addresses for helpdesks, and rules for the usage of the institutional directory. The time zone can now be set on a course-by-course base. New tags <translated> and <lang> to support multilingual pages and problems have been implemented. The release also includes several other feature enhancements and bugfixes.

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