In order to perform server maintenance, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time on the week of December 11th, 2023.
It is anticipated that cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for a duration of seven full days: Monday December 11th, 2023, Tuesday December 12th, 2023, Wednesday December 13th, 2023, Thursday December 14th, 2023, Friday December 15th, 2023, Saturday December 16th, 2023, and Sunday December 17th, 2023. It is anticipated that it will be back online on Monday December 18th, 2023 by noon eastern time.
We plan to notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use via a News item on gifttutoring.org.
-Your GIFT Team
Hello to the GIFT User Community! It's been a busy year and we are excited to post our latest public-facing version of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT). And just in time for Thanksgiving!!
Download GIFT 2023-1 and dependencies directly from this link: https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/files.
A GIFT account is required to download the software, and is available at no cost. Also check out the forums for Frequently Asked Questions from the community and to contact the GIFT development team if any issues are experienced, or if new features are requested. Also check out the Documents Tab to see the latest publications from the broader GIFT team across the last year.
This release features:
- Linux and Docker support for server deployments
- Keycloak and Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication
- Validated version of our first eXperience Training Support Package (XTSP) data model and schema
- External Strategy Providers with an example course in the domain of Gunnery Engagement
- Improvements to the Course Editor user experience
- Enhancements and extensions to the GIFT Game Master
- Improvements to GIFT's domain and pedagogical modules
- GIFT's Log4J Library has been updated with 2.20.0
- ActiveMQ library has been updated to 5.18.3
- And MUCH MUCH More!!
GIFT Cloud updates will still be deployed regularly, so keep track of GIFT news items for announcements on new functionality.
For a full breakdown of all new functions and services, visit this link to the GIFT2022-1 release notes:
https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/wiki/Release_Notes_2023-1
The extended GIFT Cloud server maintenance for Friday, November 10th, 2023 has been successfully completed. Thank you to the GIFT community for your patience during this downtime, and users can login to cloud.gifttutoring.org and resume normal activities.
In order to perform server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time on Friday, November 10th, 2023.
We plan to notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use via a News item on gifttutoring.org
The extended GIFT Cloud server maintenance for Tuesday, October 3 through Thursday, October 5, 2023 has been successfully completed. Thank you to the GIFT community for your patience during this downtime, and users can login to cloud.gifttutoring.org and resume normal activities.
-Your GIFT Team
As a reminder: In order to perform server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time this week.
It is anticipated that cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for a duration of three full days this week: Tuesday, October 3rd, Wednesday, October 4th, and Thursday, October 5th, 2023.
We plan to notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use via a News item on gifttutoring.org.
Additionally, there may be occasional downtime of the main gifttutoring.org website this week.
-Your GIFT Team
The Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 11 – Professional Career Education Book is now published and available for download! The book is free, and is available in the documents tab of gifttutoring.org or through this link: https://gifttutoring.org/documents/167
The Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) series explores the impact of ITS design on education and training. Specifically, this book volume includes discussion of applications for Professional Career Education. The types of training that occurs in professional education tend to be more applied, and experiential than in traditional ITSs. This book highlights general approaches and techniques that can be beneficial to developing ITSs for professional career education. Additionally, the book includes chapters with specific use cases where ITSs have been implemented in diverse domains including medical, teaching, commercial pilot, and manufacturing training.
Citation: Sinatra, A.M., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Townsend, L.N. and Rus, V. (Eds.). (2023). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 11 - Professional Career Education. Orlando, FL: US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Soldier Center. ISBN 978-0-9977258-5-8. Available at: https://gifttutoring.org/documents/167
In order to perform server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time on the week of October 2nd, 2023.
It is anticipated that cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for a duration of three full days: Tuesday, October 3rd, Wednesday, October 4th, and Thursday, October 5th, 2023.
We plan to notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use via a News item on gifttutoring.org.
Additionally, there may be occasional downtime of the main gifttutoring.org website the week of October 2nd.
-Your GIFT Team
The extended GIFT Cloud server maintenance for Friday, July 14 2023 has been successfully completed. Thank you to the GIFT community for your patience during this downtime, and users can login to cloud.gifttutoring.org and resume normal activities.
In order to perform additional server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time tomorrow morning (Friday, July 14th, 2023) during regularly scheduled maintenance. The current estimated downtime is from 8:00 AM EST - 11:00 AM EST, and we will notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use.
-Your GIFT Team