Sprint 64 was released on Thursday, 9/30/14, and included the following enhancements and new features:
NEW
Assessment Enhancements: As discussed on Insight, we are improving the assessment tool to allow for sharing questions amongst any assessment.
Assessment Question Versioning: There are situations where an organization wants to reuse a question on another assessment, but tweak its content slightly. This feature is useful when the meaning of the question isn't changing but some of the content in the question needs to be changed (for example 401K contribution amount changes for the upcoming tax year). For this purpose we've added the ability to create a new version of an assessment question when editing a question.
When a new question version is created, the stem and choice content will by copied to the new version. Any changes to the stem or choices are isolated to that specific version.
Question versions must maintain the original question’s integrity so that it would be equally valid to analyze responses to version 1 only, version 2 only, or a blend of versions 1 and 2. The question administrator is ultimately responsible for ensuring that any text changes from one version to the next do not "break" the original question’s integrity. To help enforce consistency, when a question has multiple versions, the editing options will be reduced so that the only allowable changes will be:
question stem content
choice content
question feedback content
notes can be added (all notes for a question will be visible; each note will indicate the question version the note was added for)
tags can be added/removed (all tags are attached the question, not to the question version)
Inclusion setting (always, eligible, never)
Any other change would constitute more than just a version change, and would therefore require a completely new question to be created. This means that, for example, the following items cannot be changed on any version (including the original):
Question type (pick one, pick many)
Question and Choice format (HTML or Plain text)
Maximum possible points for the Question
The ordering sequence of the Choices
New Choices cannot be added
Choices cannot be removed
The point values for the Choices cannot be changed
Integration Completion Product Code: There are situations where a completion in an enrollment needs to write to a transcript in an external system. Our current integration will notify the external system using the originating order/invoice record, but doesn't allow for a "completion only" notification to an external system where the order/invoice didn't originate from that external system. For this reason, we've added a new completion integration product code to all product types.
Currently this new field is only usable for use with our Personify clients. For Personify clients, the field maps directly to an Approved Transcript Definition Program and should be the Program Id. If set, when the enrollment is completed, the completion will be recorded on the learner's Personify transcript.
Webinar Activity: The end user Webinar experience has been completed, and the activity is now ready to be used within a product. Adding a Webinar activity requires the section administrator to configure the Webinar activity on Live after the product has been published. (This activity leverages your enterprise WebEx account.)
Enrollment Codes and Section Administrators: A new checkbox has been added to the enrollment code screen to in order to support adding enrollment code administrators as section administrators. This feature should be used only when an enrollment code administrator is supposed to become a section administrator for the associated product sections.
Copyright in Assessments: A new field has been added to the description tab in assessments which lets an administrator include a copyright message in an assessment. This message will be displayed to the learner on each question screen while taking an assessement as well as at the bottom of the results page.
ENHANCEMENTS
Completion Valid Thru: Learning products now have an optional Completion Valid Thru date.
Admin Side:
The Add Completion feature now respects the product Completion Valid For Days property.
The completion certificate now supports a new CompletionValidThru field if it is specified in the uploaded template.
End User:
If there's a Completion Valid Thru date:
It will be visible on the learner's PDF transcript.
Completion certificates will show that date, if the certificate template has a CompletionValidThru placeholder field.
Completion Lookback for Prerequisites: Prerequisites in Learner Community now support a Completion Lookback in Days field. If set, the prerequisite will be satisified only if the completion occurs within lookback time period. The start date of the enrollment minus the completion lookback days is used to calculate the completion lookback.
Evaluation Summary Report: Search in the grids is now working.
Please feel free to leave comments or questions about this sprint!