Release Notes

New Releases

• Student View 
  • We have added a Model Answer Link to the student view banner in the lesson environment for ease of checking the correct answer
• LTI
  • LTI integration no longer requires students to accept an email invitation to access Lt through their LTI lesson link. Staff can now access the grading interface and student accounts card from the LTI integration
  • Improved error handling in LTI integration when generating student scores for grades
  • Fixed an issue where a user with multiple student accounts in the same course may be prevented from SSO login with LTI
• Accessibility
  • The OK button on the Check Answer modal is now accessible via keyboard and takes the user back to the question when Enter or Space is pressed
  • Previously, tabbing continued behind the modal instead of focus shifting to the modal when Check Answer was 'clicked'
  • Pressing the Esc key will now close the modal

Fixes

• PDF links now persist when copied and pasted between lessons
• Fixed bug where setting due date with sections was clearing availability in the Schedule
• Student Pays Mode - NA Only
  • Educators can activate Student Pays courses without needing to publish content or add students first
  • We have updated the lesson/module publishing dialogue for preactivated and scheduled student pays courses Improvements in the schedule view for Student Pays courses 
  • Unpublish lesson menu is enabled for the non-activated course 
  • The toggle will be in the On position and available from the date displays “When course starts” or the course start date for the non-activated or scheduled course 
  • Updated the information text for the Toggle button to reflect this behavior

New Releases

• Schedule view
  • We have added a  Publish Badge  in the Schedule tab nav to prompt users to set availability in the Schedule after publishing content 
  • Student Progress bar is now selectable to GET NAMES and EMAILS of students within each progress state for ease of direct communication with your students

• The label Image panel is now keyboard-accessible
• All of our Drag and Drop panels are now accessible with the following: 
  • More Styling and annotation options are screen-readable for editing on selected labels
  • Pressing Space/Enter on a label in its location will enter the label to the list
• Fixed unexpected behavior for our drag and drop panels while using a screen reader by adding screen reader (NVDA) support

• LMS setup guides with LTI 
  • We have added a link to our LTI Setup Guide to the Admin card
  • Setup translations are now auto-populated in Lt for French, German, and Portuguese, based on user's browser settings for default language

• LGPD 
  • We have added a biological data acceptance checkbox to our student's Terms of Service agreement in Brazil. Selecting the check box means the Student accepts their institution's policy on biological data handling

Improvements

• Student View button and banner have been updated and have also been added to the Schedule and Lesson views.
• Availability functionality has been removed from the Student Work card, setting availability is selected in the Schedule view
• LMS integration 
  • We have added a direct link to the LTI setup guide in the Admin card. We officially support the following four systems:
    1. Moodle
    2. Canvas
    3. Brightspace D2L
    4. Blackboard
• Copy course workflow
  • Copy course workflow improvements:
    • when copying a course [Copy] is now added to the short name of the course for ease of identification
    • Instance admins can now select Course admins from a drop-down list that will show when copying a course so a course admin can be easily selected for the newly copied course
    • Student contact will persist for the copied course

Fixes

• Timezone in the Schedule calendar now shows the selected date's time zone correctly e.g., NZST is shown as NZDT
• Student Pays course activation has been updated to show the correct start date for pods in the  different NA timezones
• Group Lesson  start modal is now scrollable for large groups
• Language Select dialog in the lesson environment now has a cancel button and dismisses correctly

English removed from videos, screenshots, and text panels in the following German labs:

• Blutdruck – Praktikum v1.3.7 (Humanphysiologie)
• Blutdruck – Praktikum v1.3.7 (Humanphysiologie Lt Sensoren)
• Herz und periphere Durchblutung – Praktikum v1.3.5 (Humanphysiologie)
• Herz und periphere Durchblutung – Praktikum v1.3.5 (Humanphysiologie Lt Sensoren)
• Muskel und EMG – Praktikum v1.3.5 (Humanphysiologie)
• Muskel und EMG – Praktikum v1.3.5 (Humanphysiologie Lt Sensoren)

New releases

• The Schedule view is now available to all staff including authors and graders, with relevant permissions 
• The Grading environment can now be accessed from the Schedule view 
• 'Grade Lesson' and 'Grade Section' has been added to the lesson menu in the Schedule view
• The grading progress dialog modal appears if a lesson is committed and grading is selected immediately after but students are still being processed

Improvements

• We have updated wording in the Edit Roles card to include setting the availability of content 
• Staff Role Information in the Invite Staff Card and Staff Account Card cards now show the permissions for the selected role
• Localization
  • Buttons and dialog for a student submitting a lesson report via email are now translated.
  • The comment box now fits all buttons with any translatiuons
• The Grading view has been updated:
  • New revision selector to allow graders to switch between revisions 
  • Added a new progress circle showing total grading progress across all revisions

• Student Pays course dates are now shown in the instance time zone
  • The issue was occurring just when you were in a different time zone from the instance one (e.g. You are setting up a course in an instance in the US from New Zealand)
• Accessibility
  • The lesson menu in the Schedule view is now keyboard accessible

New Releases

• Language selection for German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese or English is now available for the lesson environment, under the account drop-down menu. Selecting a language reloads the lesson environment with all titles, messages and tooltips translated
• The Lesson Menu is now available on all published items in the Schedule View. From here users can:
  • Unpublish modules and (stand-alone) lessons 
  • Commit and uncommit lessons and sections 
  • Reset progress for all students in lessons and sections
• Student progress bar data visualization has been added for each lesson/section that displays how many students have not started, are in progress, have committed and have been granted extensions

Improvements

• Student Pays
  • the schedule view shows course dates and is read-only when the course isn't activated.
  • If the course start date is set to a future date ('pending'), setting the availability of the content is allowed.
  • Limit selectable availability dates to Student Pays course dates in the Schedule view
• Decimal places UI for the spreadsheet panel has been updated to the symbols to + / - for ease of setting
• Copy Course now retains the course grouping when copying a course

Fixes

• Corrected the availability message in the published module card to match the schedule interface in regard to what content was available to all students
• Reduced padding for fields and font in the Course Grouping option in the admin cards
• Removed redundant link to Content Library in empty lesson lists for LabStation instances
• Updated placeholder text for Course Name input fields from kuraCloud to Lt 

Technical

• Improve performance of (rare) full pod sync, which will no longer timeout and restart repeatedly
  • On at least one occasion in the last year, this problem delayed pack changes made in Instance Portal from applying for some hours
• Time Picker
  • Fix the Adelaide timezone issue where setting availability in the schedule view did not persist
  • Also includes fix for exceptions being thrown when using the keyboard to select an invalid date in the Change Start Date dialog of Student Pays courses

New Releases

• Our Schedule interface is now available as a beta to all customers
  • Use the toggle control to easily  turn on/off lesson availability for lessons and sections 
  • Includes check boxes to set bulk or bepsoke availability across all modules and lessons
  • Availability messaging for states of lessons in the schedule interface, showing how many sections your content is available to  
  •  Mobile View - This adapts the new beta schedule view for small screen devices 
    • Add new tab navigation to make schedule view available on mobile devices

Improvements

• Copy course feature now publishes content after it has been copied. (i.e., if a lesson or module was published in the original course, it will be published in the new course)
• Published content can now be viewed in our new Schedule interface
• Student Pays courses can now be committed and graded after the course has finished and been archived
• The Auto Scale button label has been replaced with an icon and tooltip to explain how it works

Fixes

• Safari Fix where downloads from the button panel failed to start in Safari.
  • also fixed file downloads in Safari
• Fixed the problem that a user can not create a course when the user is a student in a course and has been invited to the same instance as a course admin
• Fixed Label Image, where answer locations were reverted to minimum size
• Access denied fix for users moving between student access in one course to staff access in another