itslearning-2024.7.3 released product updates

Discontinuation of “Seen” button in aggregated LO report

This functionality was enabled for a small amount of sites. It allowed users to confirm they have seen the aggregated LO report that could be accessed via the person popup. Given its little use, this functionality has been discontinued.

Create plans in the topics tabs of the table view

There are two tabs in the table view: plans and topics. To better support long-term planning, teachers can now create plans in table view when choosing topic view.

New and smaller course cards

Course cards offer users easy access to their courses. Teachers can see their follow-up tasks and students can see tasks that are due this week as well as new announcements. We have now updated the look and feel of the cards and made them smaller so that they don’t take up so much space. Cards will adapt to the available width of the screen and the content inside. All cards on the same row will have the same size.

Additional feature control for system administrators

There are a couple of features that up until now could only be enabled or disabled by itslearning Support. With this release, it is also possible for system administrators to enable or disable these features under Admin>Edit global settings>Features and security. Please remember that less can be more and only enable features if you are sure they are needed.

For a better overview, there are a couple of new sections on this page where all settings related to a feature are grouped. Some existing settings have been moved into this section.

• Assessment record

  • Allow weighting for categories - If categories are used in the assessment record, this setting makes it possible to have a different weight per category. This will impact the overall average.

  • Enable assessment summary - Enables a new option in the assessment record that can be accessed via the 3 dot menu. Here, teachers can create one or more summaries that can include assessments from different categories and across terms.

  • Enable exempt - Allows teachers to exempt an assessment in the assessment record, which will exclude this assessment from the average.

• Assignment tool

  • Existing settings moved into this section:

    • Send a submission-receipt to students when answering a mandatory assignment

    • Enabled discussion in assignment

  • Enable teacher notes - Teacher notes cannot be seen by a student. It allows a teacher to take notes on an assignment answer, or if a course has multiple teachers the field can be used for discussion.

• Rich text editor

  • Existing setting moved into this section:

    • Enable accessibility plugin in rich text editor

  • Enable LaTeX plugin - Allows teachers who know LaTeX to insert formulas and equations in the rich text editor.

Lastly, in the “Available functions” section the setting “Let teachers grant temporary access to students who have been removed from a course” has been added. This setting is especially useful when course membership is managed via an integration, where for example a student has moved class and needs to be able to finish an assignment.