04/25/2019 (v4.5.20)

Enhancements

• Updated the faculty feature request form on the avatar menu to point to http://lmsideas.rmcad.edu
• Updated the embed whitelist to include: ISSUU, Adobe and Calendly

03/07/2019 (v4.5.18)

Enhancements

• Omission of assignment / test name in the body of the faculty batch download emails.
• Problem displaying an event in which a staff member submitted a test on behalf of the user in the faculty module or profile activity feeds.
• Issue with grade and feedback display temporarily going out of sync while assigning feedback / grades to multiple students in adjacent student assignment / test detail views under extremely poor network conditions.

09/05/2018 (v4.5.10)

Enhancements

Streaming video control -You can now choose if you want video in a video content block to use streaming video as it currently does,or to use the original source videofile instead.

• Use streaming video:Choose this option to ensure a video loads quickly and to reduce the amount of bandwidth required. This option automatically scales the video quality based on the user’s Wi-Fior mobile data network performance.
• Use original source video: Choose this option to ensure maximumvideo quality regardless of the user’s bandwidth or network performance. This option ensures that all information in the original file is delivered to the user, and that no quality scaling occurs. This option will result in increased buffer times for users with poor network performance, and may significantly impact the user’s data consumption on mobile data networks.

Higher streaming quality - videos set to streaming in the content block load in higher quality

Support for .epub files - You can now upload files in the .epub format to assignments

07/31/2018 (v4.5.8)

Enhancements

Disable Automatic Buffering for Streaming Video - There is a new setting in video content blocks that makes the streaming of video optional to improve the loading performance if there are multiple videos on the assignment.

Audit Enhancements - We added a “Hide failures” option in the audit list views to filter out failed API calls, and a corresponding new “Request Successful” row in the audit detail.

05/15/2018 (v4.5.6) 

Fixes 

Email Reminders Sent Incorrectly - Disabled Assignments and Tests will no longer send their respective email reminders. 

Notification Sent Incorrectly - When publish or due dates change for a disabled assignment or test, the system will no longer send an email notification to students in that section. 

Enhancements 

Changes to Email Reminders - We have updated the copy and sending of email reminders so that the delivery time shows up in hours instead of number of days, and as such, it is more accurate.

02/08/2018 (v4.5)

Enhancements

Enhanced login experience - The login page has been updated to provide integration with the latest University-wide authentication measures.

Classes sorting - In the classes list, when you filter by PAST classes, you will see your most recent classes first. 
Background fetching -  Fetching of messages, notifications, and announcements will now only occur when a browser tab / window is visible, in order to improve performance.
Auto-dismissal of errors - When there are intermittent connection failures, unread announcements errors will now auto-dismiss after five seconds.
Audit Enhancements - Additional audit tracking of student logins to assist with MIA reporting.

Fixes

Feedback area anchoring - When you click on email feedback notifications, links take you to the respective assignment or test's feedback area instead of the detail page inside Messages.
Images in Response questions - Response questions where only an image was added as the response were being marked as incomplete and, when applicable, were auto-graded zero.

10/24/2017 (v4.4.3)

Fixes

Deleting questions -  Faculty were unable to delete a question from a test after a student was removed from that section.

Blocked Feedback - Some students were unable to post feedback in assignments that were closed and allowed late submissions.

Email Notifications - Instructors with Messages and Feedback email notifications turned off still received feedback email notifications.

Enhancements

Disabled Assignments - The platform now shows feedback to students in disabled assignments.

10/19/2017 (v4.4.2)

Fixes

Time change - Fixes a November time change error where an extra day was added to due dates.

10/17/2017 (v4.4.0)

Enhancements

Test essay feedback - We now show the grade input under the text editor in test essay feedback instead of next to it, to be consistent with where it shows up when grading an assignment. 

Test essay student response redesign - You will now see more contrast between the style of test essay questions and each student’s responses.

Student name - The student name is more prominently displayed on their individual grading pages.

Viewing prerequisite content - Students will now be able to preview the instructional content of assignments inside modules with prerequisites before those assignments become open and available for completion.

Section Contributor emails - We added new controls within the Account page to allow Section Contributors to specify which email notifications to receive across all their sections where they have the Section Contributor role. 

Section Contributor notifications -We added new controls within the Account page to allow Section Contributors to specify which in-app notifications to view across all their sections where they have the Section Contributor role.

Footer navigation looping - When you are grading by student, the app will now loop through the full student list in the footer navigation and no longer show you the "You reached the end" message.

Footer navigation previous student - When you are grading by student, the app will now let you go back to the previous student in the footer navigation instead of only forward to the next student.

Student Late Adds and Removals - You will now see a visual indicator and receive a notification if a student is added to or removed from your section roster after the class has started.

Feedback input - The feedback input will now show up at the bottom of a conversation, instead of at the top, to reduce the amount of scrolling when providing feedback in a long conversation.

Feedback input placeholder -  You will now see the student’s name you are writing to as the placeholder text inside the feedback inputs, so that you know you’re providing feedback to the correct student.

“Enter” key shortcut - By popular demand, you can now just press the “Enter” key while on the grade input to send the grade and feedback.

Term code metadata - We added the Term code to all notifications in the side panel as well as in the class switcher of the main menu when in a section.

Faster image insertion - Images uploaded via the text editor will be inserted automatically when you upload them instead of having to click on an “insert” button.

Notification status rules - Email notifications will no longer be sent to students whose class accessibility status is set to false.

Announcement pagination - Whenever there are too many announcements in the sidepanel, you’ll be able to paginate between them, so that its easier to view them all.

Activity Feed view counts- You will now see all the student views of an assignment or test in its activity feed, instead of just the first time the student viewed it.

Order of classes - Classes will now be ordered ascending by section start date and then by course code, so that sections of the same course can show up together.

09/28/2017 (v4.3.1) 

Fixes

Pasting from Word Online - When text with pictures was copied from Word Online to a discussion, it caused posts to infinitely load and issues with accessing the discussion.

09/05/2017 (v4.3)

Fixes

Feedback access - There was an issue that caused certain instructors of sections they did not have access to before, to not see feedback that existed on an assignment or test.

Text Editor pasting - Pasting text into the editor removed cursor focus and this caused macro-text programs such as Text Expander to not work correctly.

Enhancements

Text Editor with Drag and Drop - the new text editor had done away with the ability to drag and drop attachment of files, but now its back. You can now expand and collapse the files area too.

Text Editor images uploader - The uploader dropzone when adding an image is now bigger.

Text Editor images tab order - The default tab when adding an image shows the uploader instead of the “Enter a URL” input.

Terminology changes - By popular demand, we changed “Content” to “Preview”, where “Preview” is referring to the student’s view when you’re in a section. We also renamed “Content” to “Sandbox” and “My Content” to “My Sandbox” therein.

Popovers - In certain places, you will now see a popover when you click on a student or instructors photo, showing more information and handy shortcuts. Students will also have this functionality.

Instructor badge - Instructors in a discussion board will now show an “Instructor Badge” next to their name.

Page titles - Your browser’s tabs and history will now show more complete page titles.

Fixed navigation - When scrolling a long page, we now hide the top navigation when there is a fixed bar there already, in order to show more things on a page.

Submitting on behalf of a student - You can now submit tests on behalf of a student if the student did not submit it and the deadline has passed. This will allow students to be able to view the feedback you provided to the essay question.

Discussion setting constraints - Before, a discussion that required 0 replies could be created but now the minimum number of required replies is 1. 

08/14/2017 (v4.2.1)

Fixes

Sent Feedback - The message sent wasn’t being shown in the message thread until the page was refreshed.

Text spacing - Text Editor did not show correct paragraph spacing in Feedback and Message areas.

Unread feedback - Feedback that was not marked as unread after selecting it from the sidepanel.

08/08/2017 (v4.2)

Fixes

Inactive status - Students will no longer see announcements or receive notifications for sections they have an inactive status in.

Batch downloading - The page no longer freezes when attempting to batch download from a module detail page.

Collapsed announcements - The Announcements area of the Notifications side panel takes up less space now when there are no announcements.

Lists formatting - Numbered and bullet lists now show correct padding and line heights.

Mark All As Read - The notifications sidepanel no longer shows the "Mark All As Read" link if there are no unread items.

Enhancements

New Text Editor - A new text editor has been implemented throughout the platform. The editor has new features including inline media embedding, word counts, additional text styles and more. See the Faculty Manual for more details.

Batch grading - We now support expand/collapsing of all cards when in batch grading mode in order to better accommodate the new text editor.

Publish dates - You can now choose a publish date that is after the due date without having to also change that due date again . The due date will automatically be adjusted based on the duration of the assignment.

Copy To - We updated the titles of the "Copy To" windows and buttons so that they are consistent throughout.

Save Changes Button - We removed the "Save Changes" button from the Account page since changes were being saved automatically and the button served no purpose.

Course code in builders - We now show the course code in the top left of the navigation bar when you are building content.

Block styles - Subtle style tweaks to the Edit Math block and the Edit Image Question block have been implemented.

Back to top button - When in a long discussion, there is a new button that will appear on the bottom right that takes you back to the top of the page.

Sandbox status circles - We removed the status circles from Sandbox Content because they were a fragment of Lessons and were redundant in showing weights.

Activity sort order - We changed the sort order of Activity Feeds in an assignment to display newest events first.

Feedback area anchoring - When you click on a side panel or email feedback notification, we take you to the respective assignment or test's feedback area instead of the detail page inside Messages.

Yellow global alerts - You can now dismiss yellow global alerts so that they're out of your way if you've already acknowledged them.

Class switcher - When in a class page, you can now switch to another class in the current term using the left menu side panel.

File downloading - You can now download files in Completion areas by clicking the icon and not just the filename.

Discussion shortcut - Discussion detail pages can be accessed faster by using the options button on the discussion card in the main grading and preview list pages.

Discussion posts - We added the ability to create a post from the discussion detail page.

Text formatting - We updated the spacing of headings, paragraphs and lines of text, so that text is easier to read.

Sent messages - We no longer show messages and feedback that you have sent in the messages side panel. It will only notify you of messages and feedback you have received, but you can always go to the Messages main page to get to everything you’ve sent.

Emailing advisors - You can now click on a student's advisor from the people detail to send the advisor an email.

Messaging current term - When creating a new message from the messages side panel, we now default sending to a classes in the current term.

Setting due dates - We removed the restriction of having to set due dates before the section end date. This applies to exceptions too.

Test Essay Questions - Less than (<), greater than (>) symbols now render properly with the new editor when grading a students essay question.

Relative timestamps - If you hover over a timestamp in a grading list page, you’ll see the relative time showing when a student completed an assignment or how late they are ie. “Completed 2 days before the deadline or Completed 2 hours after the deadline”.

06/28/2017 (v4.1.1)

Fixes

Default grading message - when entering a grade without attachment and text feedback, we no longer show the "See feedback attachment" auto message.
Test question choices - The boxes next to choice answers were appearing blank.
Auto zero options - The auto zero incompletions checkbox did not stay checked after saving.
Profile photos - Missing profile photos caused inability able to access the account page.

06/22/2017 (v4.1.0)

Fixes

Test Essay Question formatting - Less than (<), greater than (>) will now render properly when grading a students essay question.
Sandbox durations - When creating new content, the default duration was 0w1d instead of 4w0d.
Discussion reply sorting - There was an issue that inverted the sorting of discussion replies when the user refreshed the page.
Critiques send date - Critiques going forward will now correctly send based on the original term end date.

Enhancements

Term code - You will now see the Term code under the Course code on the left sidepanel menu.
Discussion performance - The discussion detail pages for very large classes perform better.
Disabled assignment messaging - The system will now show you a friendly message letting you know why you can't interact with an assigment that has recently been disabled.
Impersonation - When a student is impersonated by support, the app will no longer update the activity feeds for that student if they interact with a class. The interactions will still be captured in the admin audits.
Grade export - Student numbers in grade export will now show the leading zeroes.
Batch grade filter - You can now filter a list of students by more options in Grading.
Student content filter - You can now filter a student's list of content by more options in Grading. The "Incomplete" filter will also include partially completed discussions.
Feedback attachment - Sending an attachment with no textual feedback will show a default message to students "Please see the attached feedback".
Autograding notification - A new notification will be seen for autograded items that reads "[test/assignment_title] was graded by the system".
Module Collapsing - All modules will now show collapsed by default and will not auto-expand when you use the search on the page. You can expand them to view your search results. Also, the grade calculator will no longer have expand/collapse functionality.
Completion containers - All upload, discussion and response completion containers will show all the submitted content now instead of appearing collapsed.
Incomplete Tests - You now have the option to disable auto-grading of tests that have not been completed.
Deadline confirmation - New users will see a deadline/timezone confirmation window.
Filtering by due date - Students will be able to filter by “due this week” and "due next week" on the Content page. You can see this in the Content (Preview) page.
Countdown Tooltip - Students will now see a countdown timer tooltip when they hover or tap on a publish or due date. You can see this in the Content (Preview) page.
Prerequisites - Students will now see a badge titled "Prerequisite" on all Prerequisite modules. You can go to Content (Student View) to see what it looks like.
Incomplete Section Setup - When you access a section, you will now see a red warning message on the Grading page if your section does not equal 100% weight.
Manage section link - You will now see a link in the sidepanel menu of a section that you can use as a shortcut to managing that section.
Due times - You will now see that the due time (based on your timezone) will be shown on all assignments on the Content list and the Module detail page.
Fixed menu - The left sidepanel menu will now always show when the browser is in fullscreen mode on a desktop.

05/19/2017 (v4.0.8)

Fixes

Disabled Prerequisite Content - Students can now access enabled prerequisite assignments or tests after it was temporarily disabled.
Grade Export - Exporting a student’s grade now displays the export window.
Answered Questions - When students answer a test question, its circle no longer automatically shows a zero (0).

Enhancements

Open in new tabs - You can now open cards and links in new tabs by right clicking and selecting the option to "Open Link in New Tab".
Support for NPR - NPR is now on the approved list of embeddable media in the Embed Block.
Uploads in New Tab - New uploaded assets will open in a new tab. Enhancement is pending for all previously uploaded assets.
Copying into live sections - When a section is live, any content you copy to it from the Sandbox will be disabled by default.
Durations default - When creating new content, the default duration will be 4 weeks and 0 days (4w0d).
Impersonation sanitizing - When a student is impersonated by Support, the “last accessed” audit will not be updated.
Calendar design - Today’s date will now be shown highlighted in all calendar pickers.
Section number - When in a section, we now show its section number to the right of the Course Code in the top navigation.
Disabled content auto-grading - Disabled assignments and tests will no longer be auto-graded.
Activity Feed - Auto-graded activity item has been reworded to:
"[Test/Assignment Title] was graded by the system."
Prerequisite Grading - Next prerequsite item will unlock for a student when the previous one has been graded.

05/12/2017 (v4.0.7)

Fixes

Upload Timeouts - Students with slower upload speeds no longer see connection time out errors when uploading large files.
Word Online Sanitizing - When you paste content from Word Online in HTML feedback, the code will no longer renders with errors.
Notifications Filtering - When viewing all notifications, the "filter by classes" now shows the list of classes you are a part of.
Completions Sorting - When viewing discussion submissions, you will now see posts and replies listed chronologically.
Phone Numbers in Export - When you export the roster from the People page, the primary and secondary student numbers now show up.
Batch Grading with Zeroes - Assigning a zero in batch grading now successfully posts the grade and no longer results in an error.
Exception Confirmations - When you apply an exception form a grading list of students, the success message now goes away when you navigate away from that page.
Dollar Sign Parsing - Single Dollar signs used in Feedback and Text Block inputs no longer cause the text to be rendered in italics. Existing mathjax delimiters will now be \(....\) for inline math and \[....\] and $$....$$ for text blocks.
Batch Downloads - You will no longer see "###span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z958z80zz67zz83zz72zbsz89zz83zz88zz79z4wz78zz83zz86zz78zz90zz90z2na3z84z6ktz70zz70z"
>span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z958z80zz67zz83zz72zbsz89zz83zz88zz79z4wz78zz83zz86zz78zz90zz90z2na3z84z6ktz70zz70z"###Breadcrumb History - When you are viewing a student in Grading, going up a level via the breadcrumb will now drop you in the correct place, which is the STUDENTS toggle instead of CONTENT.
Numbered Lists - Numbered lists will no longer show up partially hidden in the text input.

Improvements

Preferred Name - Preferred Names entered in Workday will now come in as your First Name in the LMS. Preferred names entered into Workday will need to be approved by HR. Once approved, they will display in the platform the next day.
Content Live Disabling - When students are viewing an assignment or test and the due date elapses, the app will disable interface elements.

05/10/2017 (v4.0.6)

Fixes

Batch Downloads - Batch downloading no longer fails in classes with large upload files. Note: Batch downloads go into an email queue, so the process can still take 5 minutes or longer depending on the file size.
Safari users may receive errors using the batch download tool. A fix coming soon and in the meantime, please use Chrome or Firefox to generate downloads.

Batch Downloads - The naming convention of folders generated by the batch download is now: LastName_FirstName_StudentNumber

Uploads - Students trying to upload a large files were experiencing timeouts.