Here are the highlights of the enhancements in this release:

Bulletins can now be scheduled to become visible to students for a specific time period
The option to enable/disable comments has been moved to the Options menu, and there is a new icon showing when this is turned on or off
All homework and tasks that have deadlines within the relevant time frame will be shown on the calendar
Advanced reporting is now easier to search and sort

Schedule bulletins

Teachers can now schedule when a bulletin will be made visible to students and when it will be removed:

We’ve introduced a new icon that shows when comments are disabled. The option to disable or enable comments has been moved to the Options menu:

Activities and homework in calendar events

Until now, tasks and assignments have only appeared in calendar events if they were part of a plan. Now, you can connect homework, tasks and assignments which are not part of a plan to calendar events.

To connect the activity to an event:

1. Create a calendar event in a course.
2. Add an activity.
3. When setting the deadline, select “At a specific event”.
4. Select an event from the date picker (events are highlighted in green).
5. When you click Save the activity will appear in the calendar event.

Also, any activity (task, test or assignment) that has a deadline within the time span of a calendar event will appear in the calendar.

Homework is labelled with an ‘H’ in the calendar event.

You can select a specific event when you set a deadline for an activity (the green dates represent events):