April 12, 2024

Release 101

Overview

In Release 101, we've introduced the following new feature:

• Optional and mandatory activities in courses

Additionally, we have implemented several fixes and improvements to enhance user experience, and worked on various tasks for the Licensing and Communication hub support in LMS.

What's new

Optional and mandatory activities in courses

Course authors and instructors now have the ability to differentiate between optional and mandatory activities of a course. To mark an activity as optional, they enable the corresponding flag in the Content flow settings of the course composition. Optional items are not necessary for completing the course, which gives learners the flexibility to choose whether to complete or skip them while still receiving credit.

At the same time, optional activities can be included into the total score calculation. Successfully completing these activities allows learners to earn additional points beyond the minimum required.

Authors can also define whether these optional activities should be included in the calculation of the overall course progress.

Improvements and fixes

Improvements

• The "Cannot finish the course" and "You can improve your result" pop-ups have been updated to provide more information about the mandatory and optional activities in the course.
• A course can be automatically completed once the maximum score is achieved and there are no remaining optional activities. If any optional activities remain unfinished, the "Maximum score achieved" pop-up appears after clicking the Finish button, prompting the user to confirm course completion and closure.
• A new table editor is now available for content authors in the Media Block editor. The editor allows the following actions:
  • Modifying row and column size (height and width)
  • Setting alignment and padding inside cells
  • Improved copying and pasting of tables from other documents
  • Inputting LaTeX formulas
  • Styling text and cells
• If learners cannot access certain course activities due to time constraints set in the objective settings, the system now clearly indicates when these items become available.

Fixes

We've fixed the following issues:

• Problem with saving the setting for minimizing and maximizing the window for SCORMs in Interactive component activities.
• Inability to preview SCORM items or add a cover image to an Interactive component activity.
• Now users without assigned roles receive an error message upon signing in.
• Issue with showing the Instructor info block on the About the course page of an objective.
• Issue with showing revoked attempts on the About the course page.
• Unrelated records are no longer shown in Primary reports.
• Issue with search and sorting saving in Custom reports.
• Issue with retaking quizzes after the attempt was revoked.
• Users with the Author and Team Contributer roles can no longer edit content belonging to a different team.
• The Close button is no longer shown in quizzes when opened in the Review mode.
• Issue with some courses showing "Grading in progress" instead of "Completed".
• Issue preventing some users from accessing quizzes.
• Issue with new attempt results not being shown when a course record is imported from an external system and the course being retaken.
• Learners can no longer access restricted content after changing the computer's local time.

Known issues

• Filtering and sorting reports by any column in the Certificates section of the Custom reports builder is not available.
• A new toggle cannot be created within a toggle.
• New members cannot be added to a newly created team without refreshing the screen.
• The date and time selector sometimes does not fit on the screen in Reports.
• When signing out from Avatar, a user is not signed out from LMS.
• External links to cover images cannot be edited.
• SCORMs cannot be archived.
• Error 401 occurs after an upload of a SCORM package is canceled and the second upload attempt is initiated. The page refresh is necessary to initiate the upload.
• Settings applied for a specific SCORM version are not appropriately distinguished.
• The “Not found” text is displayed when a learner attempts to start a quiz with a due date in the past.
• The Customize Default View setting does not apply to the Collections filter.