System administrators can now allow users on their site to search on username. Especially in big organisation this can be useful when multiple users have the same first and last name.
Searching on username can be enabled under Admin>Edit global settings>Features and security with the setting 'Allow to search on username' in the Privacy section. Be aware that this applies to all roles, including students.
When enabled, all users on the site are able to use the username to find users in common places, such as Messaging, the Participants page and Your students. Note that this is limited to places that use the PersonIndex for search. After the setting is enabled, it can take up to an hour before the username is added to this index for all users.
Since this enabling this setting should be a conscious choice by the customer, it will always be disabled by default for new sites, even if the setting is enabled in the template site.
We have introduced a second tab for showing topic information in the table view. By default we show name of the topic and plans added to the specific topic. If teachers have added extra topics fields in the plan setting page, like "description" or "learning objectives" they will also be listed.
In this view teachers can create new topics, edit topic name, as well as copy and delete a topic. You can also open a plan within a topic to see detailed plan information.
| Area | Reference | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| IMS-ES | ITS-88773 | The IMS-ES "readAllPersons" method can now be disabled in the integration configuration. |
| Planner | ITS-90789 | Fixed an issue with ordering of plan resources in the play plan elements list (side menu). |
| Registrations | ITS-90388 | After adding a registration and setting a deadline. The deadline would sometimes not show on the registration overview page. |
20th of June, we made a new global setting available to allow administrators to enable AI features on their site. (For now, this enables creating surveys using AI.) The setting was put at the top of the 'Features and security' page, but is now moved to the 'Tools and features' section on the same page, to appear with other features that can be enabled and disabled.
| Area | Reference | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Administration | ITS-87963 | Fixed an issue where saving a new site profile with the option "ePortfolio (Not public on the internet)" enabled, caused an error. |
Students that can access table view, can now navigate from single topic page to the table view. In the table view, plans will be filtered by the selected topic. This link will make it easier for students to find their relevant plans in table view.
| Area | Reference | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment record | ITS-89083 | Made a change to prevent teachers with read-only permissions from being able to set grades in Gradebook. |
| Home Page | ITS-90252 | When viewing your list of courses on the Home screen. Fixed an issue where "show more" did not work, when clicking to view more than 24 courses. |
In this release, we replace the global content search in the personal menu with the beta version of our new search. The benefit for users is that they can now find also plans and topics with the search tool.
The new search will move out of beta over the summer with final touches to the user interface for better user experience.
To work more efficiently, teachers can now navigate from single topic page to table view. In table view plans will be filtered by this specific topic.
We have made some improvements to how plans are listed in the tab "Without date" and in the folder "Without topic".
Without date:
When creating multiple plans without a date, the first plan you create will be listed at the top, and the newest one will be listed at the bottom. This will make it easier for teachers to use the feature "Set dates" on plans.
Folder "Without topic"
The order of plans in this folder can only be changed by using drag and drop. When reorganizing your plans, the new order will now be reflected in the table view.
Course dashboard functionality was replaced by the course overview page in a user interface upgrade in 2021. So that teachers would have time to move their content to resources, we have kept the old dashboards available in read-only mode from the course links, together with a warning that they will be removed permanently by the end of 2021. For various reasons, the removal was delayed, but in this release they are now removed from the link collection.