Detailed Release Notes - WebLearn - Version 2.8-ox9 - 13 January 2014

WebLearn was upgraded on Monday 13th January 2014 to version 2.8-ox9. Highlights include a new version of the Tests tool and more improvements to the Sign-up tool (especially concerning integration with Nexus calendaring) plus the usual collection of general improvements. If you want more details them please contact the WebLearn Team.

If you would like to suggest further improvements then please do some by contributing to the WebLearn User Voice feedback service.

Improvement to Tests Tool

A brand new version of the Tests (Mneme) Tool has been released and offers the following improvements over the previous version:

• Question pools are now copied during site duplication
• Inform user about duplicate or faulty questions which make an assessment invalid  
• Many improvements to the UI (user interface)
• Add ability to "shuffle choices" via test settings
• Send emails ONLY for published assessments
• Add ability to publish one or many assessments at once      
• Highlight or show in red when an assessment has 0 points        
• Added ability to view all questions in a pool
• Sort questions by creation date
• Add ability to shuffle parts
• Add ability to move one or more questions (in bulk) from one part to another
• Add ability to change question type

For more information please see: http://etudes.org/mneme/past-releases.html, note that we have moved from v1.2 to v2.1.  

Improvement to Sign-up Tool

• ICAL (ics) attachments which are sent out when a student signs up for a meeting can now be used with OWA (MS Outlook web access) and Gmail (via web browser)
• Better performance on sites with a large number of events
• The meeting location drop down list no longer loses values
• Improvement to email notification wording in sign-up tool
• Improvement to the notifications section of 'Add new sign-up' page
• Two signups with the same name will now generate auto-signup groups with unique names
• Wording of notification options on 'Assign Participants' page has been corrected

General Improvements

• IMS Basic LTI now works with anonymous logins
• Graduate Training Tool:
  • Module administrators can now confirm individual module components separately
  • The tree of departments now has less levels when a department does not contain sub-subunits
  • 'Teaching and academic skills'  no longer appears as 'Teaching Skills'
• On the submissions page of the Assignment tool, inform students of the types of files that are accepted by Turnitin
• Given a better explanation and link to admin sites list as part of site creation process when the user doesn't have permission to create a new site
• Site templates can no longer be accidentally created and added to the site template list as part of site creation process
• HTML pages in Resources can be forced to contain an HTML 4 <!DOCTYPE> declaration so that browsers are obliged to render the page in 'standards mode' (as opposed to 'quirks mode'). Please note that in the next major release (at Easter 2014) we hope to add this declaration to all HTML pages if it is not already present
• Problems with changing access to a Resource which had been made available to 'All Oxford Users' has been fixed
• To avoid confusion the 'Forms' option has been removed from the drop down 'Add' menu in the Resources tool