Lt Releases
We're continuously improving features and performance, fixing bugs, and releasing updated content to Lt. Here are our latest releases.
August 31, 2022
Software- 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
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The label Image panel is now keyboard-accessible
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All of our Drag and Drop panels are now accessible with the following:
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More Styling and annotation options are screen-readable for editing on selected labels
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Pressing Space/Enter on a label in its location will enter the label to the list
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- 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
- 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:
- Moodle
- Canvas
- Brightspace D2L
- Blackboard
- We have added a direct link to the LTI setup guide in the Admin card. We officially support the following four systems:
- Copy course workflow
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Copy course workflow improvements:
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when copying a course [Copy] is now added to the short name of the course for ease of identification
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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
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Student contact will persist for the copied course
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- 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
August 24 2022
ContentEnglish 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)
August 9 2022
ContentEnglish
Population Dynamics – Lab v1.2.2 (Biology) Blood Counting - Lab v1.2 (Human Phys) Lung Volumes - PLP v1.3.2 (Human Phys, PCM) Sensory Physiology - Lab v1.3.2 (Human Phys, Neuro, Psychophys) Stimulated Ileum - PLP v1.3.3 (Pharmacology) Neural Tissue Histology - Lab v1.1.2 (Anatomy) UYP
German
English removed from videos, screenshots, and text panels in the following lessons/modules:
Portuguese
English removed from videos, screenshots, and text panels in the following lessons/modules. Additionally, a subtitles popup was added to the following Case Studies and Evaluations:
French
New French lesson: English removed from videos, screenshots, and text panels in the following lessons/modules:
Spanish
New Spanish lesson: English removed from videos, screenshots, and text panels in the following lessons/modules:
July 31, 2022
Software- 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
- 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
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Buttons and dialog for a student submitting a lesson report via email are now translated.
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The comment box now fits all buttons with any translations
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The Grading view has been updated:
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New revision selector to allow graders to switch between revisions
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Added data visualization donut to show total grading progress across all revisions
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Student Pays course dates are now shown in the instance time zone
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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)
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Accessibility
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The lesson menu in the Schedule view is now keyboard accessible
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June 30, 2022
Software- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
May 31, 2022
Software- 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
- 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
- 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
May release - New community translated content
ContentNew Spanish Content
New Farmacología (pharmacology) collection
Conducto deferente estimulado de rata Additional Fisiología Humana (human physiology) lessons
New Portuguese Content
New Farmacologia (pharmacology) collection
New Habilidades Clínicas (clincal skills) collection
29 April 2022
ContentNew Biology Labs
Updated Biology Labs
Neuroscience and Animal Physiology
Exercise physiology