New Lt Feature Releases

• Improved Lt accessibility by adding access keys and the ability to navigate the lesson by tabbing
• Fixed a bug in the Annotation Panel where the annotations could go blank for some students
• Various improvements to the Lt Content Library
• Adding a "Set for All Sections" button to update the availability start and end date for all sections
• Applied multiple security updates
• Behind the scenes work to get ready for the new Lt Analytics Dashboard coming next month. Here’s a sneak peek!

Content Library updates

Understand Your Physiology

Last month we released this new collection. Understand Your Physiology is a learning supplement that has more than 160 ready-made lessons and over 3900+ interactive questions. The collection covers fundamental physiological concepts including regulation and control, body systems, and multi-system physiology.

New lessons

• v1.0 versions of 18 Lt Biology labs added to the US_Biology_Pack (build #318)
• Biology - release of 18 final v1.0 labs
  • Acid Rain – Lab v1.0
  • Aquatic Photosynthesis – Lab v1.0
  • Biological Membranes – Lab v1.0
  • Cellular Respiration – Lab v1.0
  • Diffusion through Membranes – Lab v1.0
  • Enzyme Action: Testing Catalase Activity – Lab v1.0
  • Interdependence of Plants and Animals – Lab v1.0
  • Limitations on Cell Size – Lab v1.0
  • Metabolization of Sugars by Yeast – Lab v1.0
  • Mitosis and Meiosis – Distance Learning Lab v1.0
  • Mitosis and Meiosis – Lab v1.0
  • Photosynthesis – Lab v1.0
  • Population Dynamics – Lab v1.0
  • Population Genetics and Evolution – Distance Learning Lab v1.0
  • Population Genetics and Evolution – Lab v1.0
  • The Visible Spectra of Plant Pigments – Lab v1.0
  • Transpiration – Lab v1.0
  • Turnip Peroxidase – Lab v1.0
• Anatomy
  • Digestive System Model – Lab v1.0
• Biology
  • Genetics of Drosophila – Distance learning lab DLv1.0
  • Genetics of Drosophila – Lab v.10
  • Animal Behavior – Distance Learning Lab DLv1.0
  • Animal Behavior - Lab v.10
  • Bacterial Transformation - Lab v1.0
  • Bacterial Transformation - Distance Learning Lab v1.0
• Community Translated lessons – Portuguese (pt-BR)
  • There are 59 lessons spread between Human Phys and Anatomy.
• Community Translated lessons – Deustch (de-DE)
  • Three modules containing 3 lessons each:
    • Flüssigkeitshaushalt und Ernährung – v1.2.5
    • Klinische Messungen I – v1.2.5
    • Klinische Messungen II – v1.2.5

Lesson updates

• Aerobic Fitness Testing v1.3.3 fc4
  • Formatting fixes
  • Updated volunteer demographic info
• Human Phys, PCM, Immersive Nursing
  • Lung Volumes v1.3.7
  • Read-only data panels replaced with data panels.

We are continuously improving features and performance, fixing bugs, and releasing updates to Lt daily.

Here's what got released this month.

Improved Canvas Integration

• Added new grade syncing modes to Canvas Integration. After syncing, assignments can be moved to new assignment groups. Assignments that have been moved will continue to have their grades updated.

  • New Assignment Group - Canvas creates a new assignment group for every Lt lesson.

  • No Assignment Group - Canvas places new assignments in the top assignment group in the course.

  • Single Assignment Group - Canvas creates a single assignment group for all Lt lessons. Canvas places new assignments in this group.

Improvements and Bug fixes

• Style and usability improvements to the Lt Grading Interface.

• Educators can now view the work for a student who is still in progress (not yet committed) or for lessons without a completion page, so that they can see how students are progressing.

• Minor bug fixes and improvements

Content Library updates

New lessons:

• How to write good MCQs v1.0 (Getting Started with Lt - Administrators v1.3.9 module)

• Reproductive System Model - Lab v1.0 (Anatomy - Reproductive System v1.1 module)

• Respiratory System Model - Lab v1.0 (Anatomy - Respiratory System v1.1 module)

• Biological Membranes – Lab pr1.0 (Pre-release, Biology)

Lesson updates:

• Aesthetics, Assessment, Accessibility, and Activities v1.1 (Getting Started with Lt - Administrators v1.3.8 module)

  • Added Instructor’s Material explaining good and bad examples of page layout in lesson

  • Updated key words

  • Replaced figures on p16

  • Updated permission for Bloom’s taxonomy image on p12

  • Added more information on accessibility

  • Added additional links to tools and resources

• Cardiorespiratory Effects of Exercise v1.3.3 (Exercise Physiology, Human Physiology)

  • Moved example data from Instructor's Material into lesson, deleted redundant table and note).

• Sensory Illusions - Lab v1.3 Distance learning version (Human Physiology)

  • This lab was initially released only to the Neuroscience and Psychophys collections, but you can now find it in Human Phys as well.

New German content:

• Heart and ECG v1.3.3 (Herz und EKG) module

• ECG Basics v1.3.2 (EKG-Grundlagen) module

• Cardiac Cycle v1.3.2 (Herzachse) module

• Abnormal ECGs v1.3.2 (Anormale EKGs) module

• Heart and ECG – Lab v1.3.3 (Herz und EKG – Praktikum) module

• Anaerobic Fitness Testing – Lab v1.3.2 (Anaerobe Fitnesstests – Praktikum) lesson

We are continuously improving features and performance, fixing bugs, and releasing updates to Lt daily.

Here's what got released this month.

Model Answers

• Added a new model answer view of the lesson (all panels show the model answers, and report page is always visible), accessible via a new link in the grading interface

Improved Grading Workflow

• Added a new sidebar in the grading view that enables graders to move between students for the same question. Graders now have the flexibility to grade in the way that suits them best
• Added a search box for new grading sidebar
• Added sorting to the grading interface (order by family name or given name)
• Progress indicators for students and overall progress for the entire lesson within the grading interface

Improvements and Bug fixes

• Students now have the ability to add their own comments to example data in the Data Panel

• Improved the reliability of the PDF generator service

• Authors can find recent work easier by using the new ‘Recently Edited’ filter we’ve added to the Lesson card

• Syncing grades is now even faster across large courses

• Fixes a bug where lessons would still indicate they were in a module after being removed

• Resolve issues around password reset and email change when a user makes multiple requests at once

• Added a fix for persisting of grades when switching quickly to another student in the grading interface

• Canvas Integration warns users when they don't have the correct permissions to sync grades

• Implemented a cooldown period of two hours for bulk "Send Invites" from Student Accounts administration. Students already invited in the previous two hours are not reinvited.

• Updated our Canvas integration to fix a syncing issue that some customers were seeing

We are continuously improving features, fixing bugs and releasing updates to Lt

Here is a summary of what got shipped this month.

Content Library

• You can now find the content that suits your course even faster! By searching the Lt Content Library using module/lesson names & keywords

Simplified Grading 

Grading in Lt has been improved and simplified. Our previous grading modes have been combined into a single-mode.

• All student work can be graded in Lt

• Administrators can choose to allow students to download a PDF of their report

• Administrators can choose to allow students to submit a PDF of their report by email

• Student workflows stay the same as they were with the previous grading modes (unless you change the settings)

• Lesson report settings in existing courses will be updated to match the features of their previous grading mode. 

• Courses that previously used kuraCloud Grading will have their settings preserved

Improvements and Bugfixes

• Improved our database load times, large courses and lessons will feel even faster to Educators and Students

• For our European Educators, we’ve now added support for semicolons when using CSV files to import lists of students

We are continuously improving features and performance, fixing bugs, and releasing updates to Lt daily.

Here's what got released this month.

Introducing the Lt Content Import Library!

• Accessed from the Course menu, users can now browse and import over 400 interactive and fully-customizable life science lessons & labs

Student Licence Count

• Instance Administrators can now use the instance dashboard to monitor the number of active students across the instance

Student Homepage updates

• Updated the styling of the student homepage to include information about lesson availability
• Students can now see their recently accessed lessons at the top of the student home page

Improved Publishing Workflow

• Simplified the lesson and module publishing workflow by giving users the option of automatically making the lessons or modules immediately available

Improvements and Bugfixes

• Improved the search feature to make this more helpful when a search returns no results
• Styling and contrast changes to the student list view to enhance accessibility
• Fixed a bug where availability shows up as undefined in the published lesson card if access within a minute of a refresh
• Fixed an issue with the placement of the Lt logo on some devices
• Added a new course setting to more easily control student access to Example Data 
• Updated the emails that get sent to new users
• Added translated lessons and modules to the Content Import Library 

(Deutsch (de-DE) 

Español (es-LA) 

Français (fr-FR)

Português (pt-BR))

• Graders can now choose to grade questions that were not set up for grading at authoring time. These questions will be togglable hidden or shown in the grading interface via a checkbox.
• IE 11 Support will be dropped on July 31st 2020 (for more information, go here)
• Various bug fixes and smaller improvements