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We're continuously improving features and performance, fixing bugs, and releasing updated content to Lt.

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January 31, 2022

Software
New Releases
  • Accessibility - Users can access mini-pages in the learning content by using the keyboard
    • Navigation and page content now have visible focus for the user
    • Navigation can be accessed to the next or previous page by pressing the enter key or spacebar on the navigation button
Improvements
  • Student experience - Improvements made to the mobile view of the Pay Now and Enter Code Later buttons to sit nicely.
    • The Pay Now button in the grace period banner now takes the user directly to our payment processor, Stripe
  • Natural Sort - Sort order for the Content Library has been updated from machine-oriented sorting (e.g. Items were labeled A1, A2, A3... but sorted A1, A10, A11, A12, A2, A3 etc) to natural sort order
  • In App Comms - Empty Lessons and Modules cards now have more informative wording about how to import content into your course, including a link to our Content Library
Fixes
  • Data Settings button - The 'Data Settings' button is persisted for a course where it's Example Data setting is 'On by Default'
  • Drag and Drop - We have fixed text selection and the drag/drop bug which only allowed the user to see up to two decimal places
    • This also includes improvements to dragging/copying data values out of our sampling-related panels
  • Image uploads - In the General Settings of Instance Administration we no longer support the .svg image format
    • Many email clients including Gmail do not support this format causing SVG's not to display in invite emails
    • Note this will not fix the issue for existing affected customers unless they re-upload the image in .jpg or .png format

 

21 January 2022

Content
  • Frog Nerve – Lab v1.3.4 (Animal Physiology, Neuroscience) 
    • Updated images of CAP records.
    • Updated our setup video style. 
    • Slightly modified settings to the CAP threshold activity. 
  • Heart Valves module v1.3.4 (Human Phys, Lt Sensors Human Phys, Preclinical Med) 
    • Improvement to tutorials Cardiac Cycle (v1.3.2) and Heart Valves (v1.3.4) - Updated question about ordering of events during systole and diastole. 

 

14 January 2022

Content
 

 

New Spanish content:

The complete Anatomia collection and the following modules in various collections.

  • Fisiología sensorial (Human Phys, Neuroscience, and Psychophysiology)
  • Ilusiones sensoriales (Human Phys, Neuroscience, and Psychophysiology)
  • Prueba de aptitud aeróbica (Exercise Physiology)
  • Nervio sensorial de la cucaracha (Animal Physiology, Neuroscience)
  • Potencial de acción de las lombrices de tierra (Animal Physiology, Neuroscience)
  • Nervio de Rana (Animal Physiology, Neuroscience)
  • Potenciales de acción intracelular (Animal Physiology, Neuroscience)
  • Ilusión tamaño-peso (Neuroscience, and Psychophysiology)
  • Potenciales Evocados Visuales (Neuroscience)
  • Metabolismo energético (Exercise Physiology) 
 

New Portuguese module in the Human Physiology and Lt Sensors collections:Respiração

New Additions to Psicofisiologia collection (already exist in Human Physiology collection)

  • Teste de Stroop
  • Reflexo e tempo de reação
  • Ilusão sensorial
  • Fisiologia Sensorial
  • EOG

New Additions to Neurociênca collection (already exist in the Human Physiology collection)

  • Resposta ao mergulho
  • EOG
  • Reflexo e Tempo de Reação
  • Ilusão Sensorial
  • Fisiologia Sensorial
  • Teste de Stroop 
 

 

New English lesson in the Getting Started with Lt collection: Patient Case Study [Template]

 

Updated German lessons - Human Physiology and Lt Sensors

Herz und EKG – Praktikum

  • “Proband” changed to “Proband/Probandin”
  • “PR-Segment” to “PQ-Strecke” and “PR-Intervall” to “PQ-Intervall”

Herz und periphere Durchblutung – Praktikum

  • “Proband” changed to “Proband/Probandin” 
 

 

December 31, 2021

Software
Improvements
  • Student access details  - We now show students on their dashboard when their course ends and the details of their license expiry 
  • Section availability - In the scenario where an Educator makes content available before importing  sections, we have improved the UX so new sections will inherit the existing lesson availability.
  • Student card:  Invite status updates ​​​​​
    • Send Invite button becomes Resend Invite after an invitation email has been sent to a student 
    • A timestamp is now included in the status view so educators can track at-a-glance when they sent the email
    • We have removed student status for a deleted course
Accessibility
  • We have added keyboard accessibility to the student lesson pages.
  • File uploads - A file can be uploaded when the camera icon is highlighted using a keyboard
  • Selecting links - Being able to select all links in the learning contents using the 'Tab' key, open pop-up and pop-over link using the 'Enter' key.
Fixes
  • Batch email - Technical improvement to the performance of sending many student invitations when in Student Pays mode.
  • Spreedsheet calculations - Deeply nested spreadsheet calculations now run in time proportional to the size of the spreadsheet, rather than never finish the computation, which was overwhelming the server and impacting overall perfomance of Lt instances.

9 December 2021

Content
  • Earthworm Action Potentials - Lab v1.3.4 (Animal Physiology, Neuroscience)
    • Troubleshooting information about anesthesia of the worm have been added to page 4 and the IM.
  • Airflow - Lab v1.3.6 (Human Phys)
    • Settings file updated - calibration method changed to "Normal breaths" instead of "Full expiration", to match the procedure in the lab.
    • Replaced mechanics of breathing images in background with updated images.
    • Moved subtitle popup to video caption instead of text box.
  • Skeletal Muscle Function - Lab v1.3.7 (Preclinical Medicine, Human Physiology, Neuroscience, Immersive Nursing)
    • The order of page 5 and 6 have been reversed.
    • More detailed information has been added about how to elicit a twitch response.
    • An illustration showing the correct placement of the electrode at the wrist has been added
  • Beer’s Law – Lab v1.0.1 (Chemistry) 
    • Materials list - updated ”Unknown solution” to “…solution of unknown concentration”.
    • Page 3, Step 4. Added sentence to say that instructor will prepare a solution of unknown concentration.
  • New Human Physiology and Lt Sensors lab
    • Électro-oculographie (EOG) – TP v.1.3.5
  • Updated Human Physiology and Lt Sensors labs:
    • Pression artérielle – TP v1.3.3
      • Setup images updated
      • Value panels added on pages 5, 11, and 16
      • Arm position corrected for reference position on page 12
      • Settings files updated with master device reselected in Lt Sensor version
    • Réflexes et temps de réaction – TP v1.3.6
      • Settings files updated with master device reselected in Lt Sensor version
  • Reflexe und Reaktionszeiten – Praktikum v1.3.6
    • Settings files updated with master device reselected in Lt Sensor version
  • Pressão sanguínea – Laboratório v1.3.2
    • Settings files updated with master device reselected in Lt Sensor version
    • Arm position corrected for reference position on page 12
    • Value panels added on pages 5, 11, and 16
    • Setup images updated
  • Presión arterial – Laboratorio v1.3.3
    • Setup images updated
    • Value panels added on pages 5, 11, and 16
    • Arm position corrected for reference position on page 12
    • Settings files updated with master device reselected in Lt Sensor version

November 30, 2021

Software
New Releases
  • Accesibility - We have added keyboard accessibility for our lessons tile on the student homepage so a student can view and select a lesson in the default view via their keyboard
Improvements

  • Student communication - We have updated the copy and styling on the student grace period reminder banner.

Content Library - Ongoing iteration to optimise our content library experience
  • Updated library UI to full screen view for better readability 
  • Added filter for user's default web browser language
  • Improved searchability for collection titles
  • Updated display of special characters in lesson titles
Fixes
  • Updated documentation links - Our links to the kura-api documentation in the instance admin pages are no longer broken and have been redirected to the correct pdf.
  • Spectral Analysis - The correct absorbance value is now displayed when sampling in the Spectral Analysis, Absorbance over Time, panel.
  • Deleted and archived course lists are now scrollable.
  • Fixed the 'Send Invite' button copy which was showing for students that had already signed up, which was causing confusion for educators.
  • Graders - Fix for where example data wasn't showing in the student view for graders.

19 November 2021

Content
  • New Module: Community Translatied Immersive Nursing
  • Barry West – Schlaganfall v1.3.8 added to Pfelge - Patientenfallstudien course
  • Bruits du cœur – TP v1.3.4 added to Human Physiology and Lt Sensors collections
  • Respiration – TP v1.3.3 (Lt Sensors)
    • Updated settings file for pages 7-10 setting the Finger Pulse Sensor as the master device.
    • Updated French (fr-FR) Animal Physiology and Neuroscience lab
  • Potentiels d’action du ver de terre – TP v1.3.3
    • Extracellular recording and Differential amplifier sections have been rewritten on the background page and 6 new popups added.
    • Captions rewritten in the minipages on page 10. 
  • Reflexes and Reaction Times - Lab v.1.3.7(Human Phys) and v1.3.8 (Lt Sensors)
    • p20 Updated feedback and added a new question to reflect auditory reactions aren't always faster than visual reactions.
  • Spinal Reflexes – Lab v1.3.8 (Lt Sensors and Human Phys)
    • p1 Corrected intro text that mentioned brain structures (they are not covered in the lab)
    • p4 New video poster image
  • Electrooculography – Lab v1.3.4 and PLP v1.3.3 (Lt Sensors Human Phys)
    • Updated eye images in the pre-lab prep (background and intro page).
    • Updated eye images in the lab (background and challenge page).
    • Changed "ngstagmus" to "nystagmus" in keywords. 
  • Kidney and Urine – Lab v1.3.4 (Human Phys, Lt Sensors Human Phys, Immersive Nursing, Preclinical Medicine)
    • IM: Recipe has been added to make artificial urine.
  • EEG - Lab (Human Phys, Lt Sensors Human Phys)
    • On page 11: Auditory stimulus - analysis, changed the graph titles and y-axis labels to match the green box - to be % of "no music" values, rather than % *change* of "no music" values.
  • The name of the "Getting Started with Lt - Administrators" module has been changed to “Getting Started with Lt - Educators”
  • Brain Dissection - Lab v1.2 
    • Removed references to non-existent videos at the top of p.5-8.
    • Added more function info to tables on p.5-8 to help students remember, and also to help with the function DnD questions on p.5-7. Added question feedback on p.5-7 to the function DnD questions saying to check the tables for help.

 

November 1 2021

Content

Updated lesson: 

Unstimulated Ileum - Lab

  • Updated example data comments to say "acetylcholine" instead of "carbachol". Removed note about carbachol on pages: Acetylcholine - activity; Mystery drugs - activity. Removed note about carbachol example data from the IM.

  • Removed "mystery antagonists" comment from example data.

  • Added popup "How to use example data" and linked to it on Transducer setup page and Acetylcholine activity page.

October 31, 2021

Software
Improvements
  • UX update - Invites accepted state display has been moved from the dashboard area to the student account row.
  • Readability - fixes to cards for readability on mobile and small screens.
LTI
  •  Improved error messaging in the LTI integration.
  •  You will now see one of our more helpful error messages. 
  • Added a new error message if the LMS isn't providing the students or educators email address.
Fixes
  • kuraCloud Desktop no longer crashes when attempting to sample after the Vernier SpectroVis has been disconnected.
  • Sections - Fixed an issue where switching to sections in student view wasn't showing the correct content to administrators.
  • Analytics dashboard - Fixed an issue where the analytics dashboard progress bar wasn't showing the students progress state.
  • Course Card - Fixed an issue where the course card wasn't displaying the student invites accepted count correctly.

19 October 2021

Content

Patient Resource packs (Entire Collection)

  • Replaced brand names of drugs with generic names.
  • Added notes regarding medical profession terminology.
  • Added condition name to lesson title so the lessons are easier to search.

New lessons:

  • Système nerveux autonome – TP v1.3.6 (PowerLab and Lt Sensors versions)

  • Effets cardiovasculaires de l’exercice physique – TP v1.3.4 (Lt Sensors)

Updated lessons:

  • Types de panneau et applications Lt v1.3.5
    • Added information about Hotspot panel and Spectral Analysis panel
  • Muscle et EMG – TP v1.3.3 (Lt Sensors)
    • Updated settings files
  • Réflexes et temps de réaction – TP v1.3.5 (Lt Sensors)
    • Updated settings files

Updated lessons:

  • Muskel und EMG – Praktikum v1.3.3 (Lt Sensors)
    • Updated settings files
  • Reflexe und Reaktionszeiten – Praktikum v1.3.5 (Lt Sensors)
    • Updated settings files