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A total of 140 new features have been added to the functional scope of ILIAS 9. In addition to the new features, updates often require a certain amount of spring-cleaning. 31 functions have therefore been removed - mostly to streamline the code and minimise the maintenance effort.

With ILIAS 9, the new modernised user interface, which was gradually introduced with ILIAS 7 and 8, can be discovered in many other places. Changes can be seen, for example, in exercises, competences and taxonomies. The major project ‘Removing Legacy-UI’ has contributed to this. Obsolete objects were also revised with ILIAS 9. These include the hamburger menu in the mobile view, various outdated buttons and much more.

Some important changes for all fans of the tile view are the changed format of the tiles. The previously square tile images are now displayed in a 3:2 ratio. Existing tile images are automatically adapted to the new format with the update to ILIAS 9. Since the new version, high-resolution image files are also automatically reduced in size when uploaded as tiles and provided in the appropriate format depending on the tile size. This means that pages with many tiles load much faster.

On the technical side, ILIAS users also benefit from the Resource Storage Service, which was introduced with ILIAS 7 and greatly expanded with ILIAS 9. The aim of this project was to store all user-generated files in ILIAS using a centralised service. This makes it possible to implement new file-related features more quickly. Any problems with files then only need to be resolved in one place in the system. And the service also helps to avoid security problems.

From the end user's point of view, there are also some particularly exciting features in ILIAS 9:

• The new WOPI editor now allows text, spreadsheet and presentation files to be edited directly in ILIAS. The editor is available for all common file formats and can be accessed via the Info tab and the file's Actions menu.
• There are also some changes in the ILIAS page editor. For example, object blocks are now displayed directly in the editor and can be moved using drag & drop. In addition, the creation and editing process has been improved for many page contents, such as the accordion, the data table and the interactive images.
• User guidance has also been improved in the test: the detailed test results have been visually revised and are now far more user-friendly than before.
• Another practical feature can be found in the glossary: the flashcards can be used to practise terms as if they were in a flashcard index.
• Exercise users are not neglected either. In addition to other new features, proofreaders now have the option of ‘bulk downloads’, which means that several submissions can now be downloaded as a package.

Would you like to get an idea of ILIAS 9? You can find more features and test ILIAS 9 yourself in our demo.

A complete list of all new and discontinued functions can be found in the feature wiki.