A New File Uploader for the Online Library
Over the past few months, we've noticed sporadic instnances where uploading multiple files at the same time to a course Online Library would randomly fail. There was no clear indication why the file uploads would fail, and there was no clear pattern to the problem. It would most often manifest itself when people uploaded multiple files with Firefox, but we also saw the problem in Chrome and Safari.
Along the way, we discovered that the Flash-based uploader for files in the Online Library was the culprit. To address this problem, we replaced the Flash-based uploader with a standards-compliant set of code that does not require the Flash plug-in to work. This is one more dependency on the Flash plug-in that we have removed, and makes CoursePlus more accessible across mobile devices.
You should not notice much difference with the new, non-Flash file uploader in the Online Library. One additional benefit this uploader brings is that you can now upload individual files up to 200MB in size to your course Online Library, up from the rather paltry 30MB that was the previous limit.