Release v1.6

[rschlaefli]

The latest release of the KlickerUZH marks the start of our P-8 project on Digital Skills supported by Swissuniversities and the University of Zurich. As part of this project, we will design, develop, and evaluate different functionalities and concepts that support interaction and collaboration in the classroom. We will regularly interact with users of the KlickerUZH to evaluate the concepts in real-world use cases, and to come up with best practice recommendations for publication. More information on the project can be found on https://www.klicker.uzh.ch/roadmap.

This release includes the following large changes (among many smaller ones):

• Reimagined feedback channel (Q&A) that allows lecturers to interact with and respond to student feedbacks. This work was partially sponsored by our faculty, which made possible many of the additional features like pinning and exporting feedbacks. For documentation, see https://uzh-bf.github.io/klicker-uzh/docs/basics/audience_interaction.
• Updated application architecture for deployment to a cloud like Microsoft Azure. The KlickerUZH is hosted on Microsoft Azure in collaboration with the informatics department of UZH starting in September 2021.
• Easier automated deployment with a configurable Helm chart that we will continuously improve to be more flexible. Extended documentation on the new deployment approach will follow.
• Restructuring of the KlickerUZH code base to a single source repository for simplified maintenance (https://github.com/uzh-bf/klicker-uzh) including all relevant artifacts, discussions, and a detailed changelog.

More information on the progress of our project is available on our evolving Roadmap.

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This discussion was created from the release Release v1.6 ("Fall 2021").