March 2019

Activity Feed - Daylight changes to attachment icons | Updated

The icons used to attach content to Activity Feed posts have been updated.

Figure: Previous attachment icons in Activity Feed
 

Figure: Updated attachment icons in Activity Feed
 

Assignments - Annotate learner submissions | New

Instructors can now use the built-in annotation toolbar in Assignments to provide contextual feedback with highlighting, free hand drawing, shapes, and associated commenting. This allows instructors to complete all their evaluation and feedback work directly in Assignments, without the need to use any external tools or applications. Annotations remain editable until the feedback is published by the instructor. If instructors want to add additional feedback after publishing, they can update the annotations and re-publish them.

This feature implements PIE items D838, D4591, D205, D3304, D2936, D4134, D4958, D5028, D3772, D1217, D2183, D1940, D4056, and D352.
 

Figure: Document viewer toolbar
 

Figure: Annotation tools when grading assignment submissions
 

Assignments - Improvements in Assignments | Updated

This feature includes the following improvements:

• Learners can now submit .cs file types as assignment submissions.
• The Publish All Feedback on Anonymized Assignment Submission permission has been renamed to Publish All Feedback on Assignments. When the permission is turned on for the instructor role, instructors can publish draft assignment feedback in bulk by clicking Publish All Feedback.

This feature implements PIE items D4935 and D4835.
 

Figure: Publish All Feedback
 

Content - ReadSpeaker icon removal | Updated

The ReadSpeaker integration now displays the ReadSpeaker controls when interacting with applicable content. Previously, users needed to click a speaker icon in order to display the ReadSpeaker controls.

This feature implements PIE item D5132.
 

Figure: The ReadSpeaker controls replace the speaker icon, requiring fewer steps to access ReadSpeaker controls
 

Content - SCORM content report updates | Updated

The new SCORM engine now includes Interactions and Objectives reports, and can be accessed by navigating to SCORM Reports from a course's reports page (Content > Table of Contents >Related Tools > View Reports > SCORM Reports). In addition, three new buttons appear on the screen to access reports for selected topics and users:

• Summary : Displays a summary of the attempts a user has made at completing quizzes.
• Interactions : Displays a list of the interactions corresponding to submitted answers to questions
• Objectives : Shows a list of the objectives defined within the SCORM package, and the user's progress toward attaining them

Report data can be exported in CSV format by clicking Export Statistics on the page you wish to export. SCORM reports may not contain any data, as SCORM objects are not required to report interaction or objective data. Note that users of the old SCORM engine already have access to these reports.
 

Figure: The Summary, Interactions, and Objectives buttons as they appear on the SCORM report page
 

Course Conversion - QTI 2.1 Package Support | New

Course Import now supports the import of packages defined in the IMS QTI 2.1 standard. Packages in this format are handled and processed by the Course Conversion Service and imported into Quizzes.
 

Lessons - Enhanced Content experience for learners | New

To offer a more streamlined and intuitive interface, the new Content experience (Lessons) has been significantly updated for learners. It includes the following:

• Enhanced table of contents
  The new table of contents allows the learner to explore all available content within the course. At any time, the learner can choose an available module to view, and isn't forced to view modules in a specific sequence. The table of contents also provides details on the learner's progress in course modules, helping them see the completion status of topics in each module and easily identify which modules they haven't started. The table of contents page also includes a Continue tile, allowing the learner to quickly resume from where they last finished viewing content.
• Full screen viewer for content
  When a learner decides what they want to view, clicking a module or topic displays the item in a full screen viewer, allowing them to focus exclusively on the content, free from distractions in the interface. At any time, the learner can easily return to the table of contents view or display a panel to navigate within the module.
• Completion tracking
  New to the Content experience for learners, completion tracking allows a learner to see their overall completion of each module in the course, as well as completion of individual topics. Completion tracking information is visible from the table of contents view and navigation panel in the full screen view.
• End of module experience
  When a learner reaches the end of each module, a dynamic page congratulates them on their achievement or reminds them about incomplete content topics, providing the option to return to the table of contents.

Figure: Completion tracking in the new Content experience for learners
 

Figure: Viewing content in the new Content experience for learners

Manage Extensibility - Ability to edit OAuth 2.0 apps | New

A new interface is available in Manage Extensibility to edit OAuth 2.0 apps. Prior to this release, changing the permission scope for an OAuth 2.0 app required the creation of an entirely new app (which required developers to update their code/tokens). Now, administrators can make modifications directly to existing OAuth 2.0 apps from within the Manage Extensibility interface.

This feature implements PIE item D3751.
 

Figure: The new Edit form for OAuth 2.0 apps in Manage Extensibility
 

Quizzes - Set the default state of imported or copied quizzes | New

By setting a new org-level configuration variable, administrators can now specify the default state of imported or copied quizzes as active or inactive. To avoid potential disruption, imported or copied quizzes remain active by default. After importing or copying quizzes, instructors can change the state of each quiz from the Quizzes tool, if necessary. For example, if an administrator sets the new configuration variable to inactive, an instructor can import and review a quiz before releasing it to learners, ensuring that learners do not see the quiz early. Once the instructor is satisfied, they set the quiz to active, releasing it to learners.

This feature implements PIE item D3482.
 

Rubrics - Rubric icon criteria changed | Updated

The checked rubric icon now displays only when a rubric has been fully scored by the instructor. Previously, the checked rubric icon displayed for partially or fully scored rubrics. The unchecked rubric icon displays when a rubric is unscored, or partially scored to provide instructors and learners with more visual information about the status of the rubric.
 

Figure: Unscored rubric icon
 

Figure: Partially scored rubric with additional information
 

Figure: Scored rubric icon with check mark
 

Rubrics - Override criteria scores before selecting a level | Updated

Instructors can now enter a score for a criterion on a points-based rubric before clicking on a level within the rubric. Previously, an instructor could only manually enter a score after selecting a level.