January 2025 product updates

Admins can under Features and security enable a read-only mode of the table view for users.

Change password option hidden when native login is disabled

When "Allowed to use standard itslearning login" disabled for the user with a profile or policy setting, the option to change the password will no longer be visible in "Your settings". This change eliminates confusion for users who authenticate through an external system and do not use native login credentials.

Support for Eduplaces SSO

itslearning now supports Eduplaces Single Sign-On (SSO). This new integration allows users to seamlessly log in to itslearning using their Eduplaces credentials, providing a more streamlined and efficient login experience.

Please contact your local itslearning team if you would like start using Eduplaces SSO.

Recent Google documents discontinued

To improve security, we recently have reduced the permissions the Google Drive picker requires. This is now limited to the files a user has added to itslearning.

As a downside, this also limits the functionality to quickly add a file you recently worked on to the files that are also added to itslearning. This functionality could be found in the planner and in learning paths.

Since this functionality already had low usage and with this change would become less useful, we have decided to discontinue this functionality.

Files can still be added by opening the Google Drive picker.

Restricted permissions scope for Google Drive picker

Google has introduced a new permission scope for Google Drive they strongly recommend partners like us to use. The old scope gave us access to all files on the user's Drive. The new scope restricts our permissions to the files the user selects in the Google Drive picker. You will see the new permission scope when you give consent while connecting your Google account to your itslearning account. The changed scope does not affect any files that have already been added to itslearning.

Functionality wise the only difference can be seen where you can pick a "Recent " Google Drive file, which can for example be done in the planner. This used to include all files that were recently added or changed on user's Google Drive, but now is limited to the files that have been added to itslearning before. Given the low use of this Recent functionality and its downgraded usefulness, we will remove it in an upcoming release.

Note that the reduced permission scope will only affect users that haven't given consent yet, or that want to disconnect and reconnect their Google account.

Better feedback when IM is disabled for users

It is possible to disable messages for single users. As part of this user story, we have improved the feedback that teachers are receiving if they try to send a message to a user that cannot access messages. The feedback is improved for 1:1 messages, group conversations and course conversations.

Admins: Simplifying "View as student" in Courses

For admininstrators only - in a previous relase we simplified the "view as student" option in courses so the course owner (e.g. the course teacher) can only view the course as a student, and not as any other profile. As such we have removed the "View as other profile" from the profiles page. There is no action for administrators.

Public link in planner

When using public link in a self-paced course, users will navigate to "Topics" in stead of the tab "All plans", so that they easily get an overview of all the course content.