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Releases 2022

Brooke Henshall
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The following article is to inform you of feature updates, user interface changes and bug fixes of the latest release on our production environment (ans.app).

Release 18th of December 2022


Changes to the platform

Restore changes of exercises and questions

Summary: We added a restore option for changes to content and grading scheme of questions. If the logs feature is enabled on school level, you can now restore changes made to the content and grading scheme of questions in their respective logs (question bank exercise log and assignment log).
Additional information: The attributes that can be restored are: 

  • Exercises
    • Name
    • Code
    • Time limit
  • Question grading scheme
    • Bonus
    • Grading type
    • Limit to zero
    • Total points
    • Partial scoring
    • Maximum points
    • Skippable
  • Question content
    • Question type
    • Correct alternatives
    • Question content
    • Order type
    • Answer field height
    • Word limit

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Set different timeslots for extra time students in different groups & classes

Summary: You can now set a timeslot for extra time students in a group or class. Previously this was only possible for all participants in a course.
Benefits: This makes it easier to plan different timeslots for different classes with extra time students. It can also be used to create a 'resit' group with different timeslots for extra time students.
Additional information: This is only available if the beta feature 'Extra time' is enabled. This addition is only applicable for timeslots for the taking of a test and not for the publication timeslots.

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The classes tab has now been moved into the users tab

Summary: The tab 'Classes' can now be found in the tab 'Users'.
Benefits: Better oversight. All user information is in one tab.

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Moved the question bank assignment blueprint select field to the settings page

Summary: We moved the selection field for the blueprint of a question bank assignment to the settings page.
Benefits: This helps us distinguish permissions more easily.
Additional information: This has to do with the work we are doing for custom roles. In addition, the blueprint tab is now no longer visible if the question bank assignment is not attached to a blueprint.

Previous location of selection field:

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New location of selection field:      

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We improved the message shown to students if the student does not meet the location requirements to start a digital test

Description: Students will be informed as to why they cannot take an assignment when they do not meet the location requirements to start a digital test.
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Student numbers are sent to ProctorExam as external ID of student sessions

Summary: We now add the student number to ProctorExam sessions in the external ID field.
Benefits: This means you can find student sessions in ProctorExam using the student number of the participant. In the screenshot below, you can see that the student number as it is registered in Ans is included in the ProctorExam session. We've indicated the student number field with a red box.
Additional information: This feature is only available if the ProctorExam beta feature has been enabled.

Student in Ans:

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Student in ProctorExam:

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The export for open questions of a digital test is now processed as a background job

Description: Requesting the export of open questions will now be done in a background job. You will receive an email once the export is done, with a link to the job, to download your exported files.

Benefits: This is in line with other exports and safer since we no longer email you the export.
Additional information: The background job can also be accessed from your user settings page and will be deleted after 14 days.
This export is only shown as available if you have open questions in your digital test.

We have improved the consistency in mandatory fields in the course settings page

Description: We now also require the study field to be present from the course settings page.
Benefits: Department admins would lose access to a course if all studies were removed from the course, with this change this is no longer possible.

We now show the merge dialog when converting an employee to a student where a student with that student number already exists

Summary: When converting an employee to a student where a student with that student number already exists, we now show the merge dialog with the option to merge both accounts.
Benefits: This change makes it easier to merge an employee with a student account. Additionally, this prevents duplicate accounts for one user.

Removed eleven test from school settings

Summary: We have removed the eleven test for student number validation in the school settings as this feature wasn't used by any school.

Admins are no longer added as instructors when importing classes

Summary: We no longer assign (department) admins to classes when importing.
Benefits: This makes the behavior consistent with creating a class from the interface.

Removed course and question bank icons on their overview pages

Summary: We removed the icons on the overview pages for courses and question banks
Benefits: The icons were redundant and the overview is now easier to read.

Previous course overview:       

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New course overview:

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Align the use of icons

Summary: We have changed several icons in our platform.
Benefits: Display of icons is now more consistent across the platform. We have also changed overlapping or ambiguous use of icons and assigned icons a specific use. The changes to icons are:

    • We changed the assignment icons from extension to dashboard.
    • We changed the policy Results icon to beenhereResults.
    • We changed the mark_chat_read Review icon to content_paste_searchReview.
    • We changed the bookmark icon in a digital test from bookmark_add to bookmark_border.
    • With the exception of the courses icon (label_important), we also now only use the outlined style for icons.

Archiving assignments feature additions

Summary: We have added the following additions to the archiving assignments feature:

  • Included archiving events in the assignment log. We have included archiving assignment events in the assignment log.
  • Unarchiving a result when an assignment is archived is prevented. We now restrict unarchiving of results when its assignment is archived. This ensures there are no unarchived results in archived assignments, which are difficult to find.
  • Archiving of open assignments is prevented. We do not allow assignments with a current timeslot to be archived anymore. This solves the issue of participants trying to take an assignment which is already archived.

Renaming of multiple elements in the platform

Summary: Based on your feedback, we are working on multiple interface inconstancies and improvements. Below you can find the element(s) that have been renamed, including the place in the platform where it changed. The change is applied to all translations of the platform unless indicated otherwise.

  • Renamed 'itembank toets' to 'itembanktoets' in all places in the platform where the itembanktoets is used. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only.
  • Renamed 'Random samengesteld' to 'Random gegenereerd' in the assignment insights. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only.
  • Renamed 'Review per student' to 'Review per participant' in the review menu of an assignment.
  • Renamed 'This question bank has # questions' to 'This question bank has # exercises' in the exercises tooltip of the question banks menu.
  • Renamed 'Vragen toewijzen' to 'Opgaven toewijzen' in the assigning exercises to reviewers popup. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only.
  • Renamed 'assignment' in 'Digital peer-reviewed assignment' and 'Digital self-reviewed assignment' to 'test'.
  • Renamed 'groepnaam' to 'groepsnaam' and 'email' to 'e-mail' in the group import dialog. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only.
  • Renamed 'students' to 'participants' in the assignment review options and peer review options.
  • Renamed 'Theme' to 'Themes' in the school settings.
  • Renamed 'choices' to 'alternatives' in the question summary of the editor.
  • Renamed 'students' to 'learners' in assignment timeslots.
  • Renamed 'General' to 'Overview' in question bank settings.
  • Renamed 'Audit log' to 'Log' in the school settings. In Dutch, the header of the menu was called 'Geschiedenis'. This is changed to 'Log' as well.
  • Renamed webhook 'berichten' to webhook 'events'. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only. 

Bug fixes

  • Fixed in issue where enabling a lockdown browser integration would prevent the instructor from accessing a preview result
    The check in the codebase for lockdown browser integrations (Safe Exam Browser & STEP) did not exclude demo (preview) results
  • Fixed an issue where preview results would be included in the calculation item analysis values in the insights
    Results that were created by using the preview feature for digital tests were included in the p, rit and rir value. This fix is only for new item analysis values. We did not recalculate all existing analysis.
  • Fixed an issue where filtering on school years in classes would incorrectly select the checkboxes in the dropdown
    The checkbox of the filtered school year would not be ticked after filtering.
  • Disabled confirmation pop-up for students when viewing the criteria during a publication
    During a publication, students can click on the 0 points in the grading scheme and would then receive a pop-up asking them to confirm if they want to award zero points.
  • Fixed an issue where live assignments were shown in the user schedule which were not planned for the user
    We would show all assignments from the courses that the user belongs to even though the student was not added to a timeslot. We now also check if the user has access based on the timeslots.
  • Fixed the translation for the description dropdown menu
    The translations were set in English for the dutch translation. This only affected the dutch translations
  • Fix issues with the preview of a question bank exercise when changing the question type to hotspot match
    Changing from open to hotspot match would keep the response for the open question which was not linked to a hotspot area.
  • Fix copying mark calculation from question bank assignment when a randomized blueprint is used
    Due to a bug the grade calculation options from a question bank would never be copied to an assignment if a randomized blueprint was used.
  • Fixed an issue in the Safe Exam Browser with downloading files
    We've added the objectstore as whitelisted URL to the safe exam browser configuration, to allow downloading of images/files that are served through the platform
  • Fixed an issue where a tooltip would overflowing outside the screen
    In case a the width of a tooltip is larger than the width of the screen, the width of the tooltip will stretch the width of the screen. This is not desirable, the tooltip should be wrapped and continue on a new line.
  • Fixed an issue where the questions in a digital test would be correctly answered but no points would be awarded when using the feedback button during a digital test
    When using the feedback option in a digital test the score of a question is directly calculated, if the student changed his answer after viewing the feedback, the score would not be recalculated on submit, causing the score to be incorrect.
  • Fixed an issue where the question insights were not shown
    In rare cases we would create 2 item analyses and one version would be updated and the other shown.
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to search on an exact timestamp via API V2
    Timestamp are stored with 6 milliseconds precision in our database, but it was not possible for a user to use this as we only show 3 milliseconds in the response. When searching on a "2022-11-15T15:12:09" we will search between 15:12:09.00000 and 15:12:09.999999 and when searching with 3 milliseconds "2022-11-15T15:12:09.088" we will search between 15:12:09.087900 and 15:12:09.088100
  • Fixed an issue with the numbering in the review overview pop up that would not correspond with the number shown in the header
    We used to different ways of ordering which caused the numbers in the dialog to not correspond with the numbers shown in the grading header.
  • Fixed an issue where students couldn't upload a file when additional time was alloted
    The check to verify if the student is allowed to upload a file, was not taking additional time into account.
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible for staff members to leave a course
    The link to leave a course from the user settings page did no longer work.
  • Fixed an issue with the preview of questions in a digital test
    Changes to the abilities caused some options in the preview to no longer be visible (gaps, click to edit etc).
  • Fixed an issue where the student overview during reviewing cannot be closed
    Changing the number (go to student) via the arrows would trigger several requests and cause the weird behavior. We also fixed the scroll issue for smaller screens.
  • Fixed an issue with the half and full-width comma in Chinese, Japanese and Korean text
    A unicode block which caused the preview to not load.
  • Fixed an issue where the options button for hotspot areas would not work after the test was taken as all options were hidden
    We have ability checks on the options in the options dropdown and all options were no longer visible as you cannot remove hotspot areas after the test is taken. We no longer show the options button when the test is taken.
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to change the contribution of bubble sheet questions
    This was accidentally changed and has been restored.
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to add new staff to a course if the "Allow employees to invite students" privilege was disabled
    The "Allow employees to invite students" also disabled the option for staff to add new staff to a course.
  • Fixed typo in 'The blueprint will be exported and send to your email' in the blueprint settings
    In the blueprint settings under 'export blueprint' the subtext says 'The blueprint will be exported and send to your mail', which contains a grammatical error. 'Send' in this case should be 'sent'.
  • Fixed issued where authors could not create tags for question bank exercises
    Authors don't longer get a message that they don't have the rights to add tags to a question bank exercise.
  • Fixed use of plural forms when indicating the amount of items used in match questions in the question summary of the editor
    In the summary of match questions it always uses the plural forms when indicating the amount of rows and columns there were used. We changed '1 rows' and '1 columns' to '1 row' and '1 column' respectively.
  • Fixed an issue where links in the tags overview did not work
    The links from the tags overview in the question bank were not working and this was fixed.
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Release 27th of November 2022

Changes to the platform

Archive assignments and results

Summary: In addition to archiving results, you can now also archive the assignment. Currently, the following information of assignments will be archived:

  • Questions
  • Grading scheme
  • Objectives
  • Flow
  • Taking screen
  • General settings
  • Review options
  • Timeslots
  • Attachments
  • Accessibility
  • Requirements
  • Assigned reviewers
  • Publication

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The following information has not been included yet:

  • Prevent restoring results
  • Prevent changes to integrations
  • Prevent participants taking the assignment

Benefits: This feature allows you to archive all results and all contents and settings of a planned assignment, ensuring no (unauthorised) changes can be made.

Additional information: Archiving and unarchiving is done from the general settings of the assignment in the Danger zone section. The beta feature archives both assignments and results and has been renamed 'Archive assignments and results' for this reason.

Hide extra time in student overview if user isn't allowed to change this

Summary: The extra time column is now hidden in the students overview for users that don't have permission to change the extra time setting

Benefits: This limits the information shared with employees members that don't need to know about the extra time provided to students. Only administrators will be able to view and change the extra time settings in the students overview.

Additional information: This change does not impact the extra time column in the learners section of a course. This change only applies if the beta feature 'Extra time' is enabled.

Changes to filters

We have implemented four improvements to filters in the platform. 

Improved the visibility of activated filters

Summary: Improved the contrast between active and inactive filters. 

Benefits: It is now easier to see whether a filter is active. Filters_release.png


Removed class filter in the user overview 

Summary: We have removed the class filter from the student menu in the user overview. 

Benefits: This will help with better controlling access to classes.

Additional information: Classes remain visible in the classes overview.

 

Removed the item 'reviews' from the reviews filter menu

Summary: Removed the item 'reviews' from the reviews filter menu. The reviews filter can be found in the results overview of an assignment.

Benefits: This was a non-functional item in the menu which we removed. 
Additional information: The reviews feature is available through beta features so this should be enabled first.

 

Added thousands delimiters to counters

Summary: Added a dot to group digits in thousands for all the counters in the platform. For example for the amount of users.

Benefits: Counters with more than a thousand objects will be easier to read.

Additional information: As delimiter we use a dot, following the continental European standard. 

 

Alumni has been released to open beta

Summary: The alumni feature has been moved to open beta. With this feature, it is possible to mark users as alumni in the interface. This means they won't be shown in the general users overview, but hidden behind a filter.

Benefits: Marking students as alumni can be helpful if you have alumni that you are required to keep data of for a period of time, but you would like to hide their accounts in user overview. By making use of the student filter in the user overview, you can filter on students or on alumni. 
Additional information: Alumni are still included in any counters related to users in the platform. Additionally, we have renamed 'Uitstromers' to 'Alumni' when using the platform in Dutch. 

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Receive notifications when users reply to your comment or flag

Summary: The creator of a comment will receive a notification for each reply to the comment.

Benefits: This improves the workflow for comments and flags, so that users are notified of any responses timely.

Additional information: The notification will only be sent to the original author of the comment or flag.

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Blocked email addresses are now unblocked after 24 hours

Summary: It may be possible that some email addresses within your school are blocked by Ans. If an automated email, for example to notify students that a publication has started, is sent to an email address which does not exist, the email bounces. To prevent our mailserver from being blocked by our supplier, the email address is blocked after 10 bounces within an hour. At this moment, we unblock the email address at irregular time intervals. This has been set to 24 hours.
Benefits: It is now clear when an email address is unblocked by Ans.

 

Exporting a class has been moved to a background job

Summary: Previously, the exported classes file was sent directly to the user via email. This has been moved to a background job. You can download the export file from within the platform. 

Benefits: As the class export contains personal data, the export is preferably not shared via email. Therefore, the export has moved to background jobs so it is now only possible to download your export from within the platform. This better complies with the GDPR regulations.

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Logs feature additions

Summary: In the release of October 16th, we moved the logs feature to open beta. We have now added reviews of question bank exercises to the question bank exercises log. 

Benefits: More consistency between reviews of question bank exercises and reviews of results.

Additional information: The question bank exercise log is incorporated in the beta feature 'Logs'.

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Renaming of multiple elements in the platform

Summary: Based on your feedback, we are working on multiple interface inconstancies and improvements. Below you can find the element(s) that have been renamed, including the place in the platform where it changed. The change is applied to all translations of the platform unless indicated otherwise.

  • Renamed 'Rect' to 'Rectangle' and 'Poly' to 'Polygon' in hotspot and hotspot match questions.

 

Bug fixes

  • Restored date formatting to include year on the cover of a written assignment.
  • Fixed an issue where reverting the points granted with slider would make the result log inaccessible.
  • Fixed an issue where participants couldn’t access their digital test with ProctorExam.
  • Fixed an issue where proctoring settings wouldn’t copy when using templates or copying a digital test.
  • Improved the position of the Readspeaker tool in a digital test.
  • Fixed the display of participants in the taking page summary.
  • Fixed issue where the link to question insights of an assignment from the question bank exercise insights didn’t work.
  • Fixed an issue where the attachment would not automatically show when DocReader was enabled.
  • Added the page height of an answer field to the exercise log.
  • Fix issue where students are unable to view an exercise attachment when view exercise once is enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where the timestamps of open question answer versions wouldn’t show.
  • Fixed issue where students could access an assignment before ProctorExam started the recording.
  • Fixed an issue where searching question bank questions did not return any results.
  • Fixed an issue where having extra spaces in the klass import file would not enroll the students in their classes.
  • Fixed an issue where invigilators were not able to view Proctorio recordings.
  • Fixed an issue causing the gaps in a fill-in question to be invalid.
  • Readspeaker is now enabled by default when participating in a digital test.
  • Update date and time format in export files.
  • Fixed an issue where employees were able to edit their email in the user settings even if it was disabled in the university settings.
  • Fixed an issue where attempting to generate forms for classes would immediately close the dialog.
  • Fixed an issue where attempting to retrieve criterium from a coding assignment with the API would result in an error.
  • Fixed an issue in the French instruction confirmation email where the email would appear incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue where not all assignment types supported uploading files to results.
  • Fixed an issue where unreadable email addresses would not get correctly parsed.
  • Fixed an issue where assigning reviewers does not work when changing the language to French.
  • Fixed an issue where attachments (in assignment settings) were not visible to invigilators.
Release 6th of November 2022

Changes to the platform

The Schoolyear integration has been released to open beta

Summary: The Schoolyear integration has been moved to open beta.

Benefits: By enabling the integration with Schoolyear, the testing environment for students on private laptops (Bring Your Own Device) will be secured. Schoolyear temporarily locks the students' screen to prevent student access to other documents and applications during a digital test.

Additional information: The Schoolyear integration is in the open beta, which means an administrator will first need to enable it in order to use this feature. A license for the Schoolyear integration is required in order to use this feature.

 

Added the option to set specific exercises to be opened by participants only once

Summary: You can now set specific exercises to be opened only once by participants while taking a digital test. If a participant views an exercise during a digital test, the exercise will then be locked after viewing once. Participants can't go back to view or edit their answer. A warning is displayed to participants before navigating to a different exercise.

Benefits: This setting provides more granular control over participants' navigation between exercises as you can determine the reopening per exercise.

Additional information: The option can also be enabled to ensure participants cannot navigate back to an informational exercise, with a video or description, for example. 

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Added support of Japanese and Chinese characters in written assignments

Summary: We now support Japanese and Chinese characters in written assignments.

Benefits: It allows you to use Ans for your written assignments for courses and tests that need Japanese or Chinese characters.

 

Autostart will be enabled by default for permitted processes in the Safe Exam Browser configuration

Summary: Permitted processes (applications) are now automatically started when entering the Safe Exam Browser. Previously, the permitted applications were only started if autostart was enabled manually.

Benefits: On startup, Safe Exam Browser closes all applications, including permitted applications. It may not always be possible to start these applications in the lockdown browser. This means the permitted applications now run on startup.

Additional information: In Safe Exam Browser, this is a checkbox that can be enabled/disabled per permitted process. In Ans this setting is enabled for every permitted process.

 

It is no longer possible to add gaps with the same name to a fill-in question

Summary: The ability to add gaps with duplicate names to a fill-in question is no longer possible. An error will be displayed to inform you that the gap name already exists.

Benefits: If a question contained two gaps with the same name and a participant added two different answers, then one of the given answers would be duplicated for both gaps. 

Additional information: Existing gaps with duplicate names have been updated to include a number in the name. For example, if a question has two gaps both named 'XY', they will be updated to 'XY 1' and 'XY 2'.


It is no longer possible to add duplicate exercises to assignments

Summary: Previously, a visual warning would appear when an exercise was added twice or more to an assignment from a question bank. However, the warning did not prevent the duplicates to be added to the assignment. The ability to add duplicate exercises to assignments is no longer possible. 

Benefits: Duplicate exercises will not be overlooked. 

Additional information: If an exercise has already been added to an assignment, it also will not appear in the 'Add exercises' dialogue. Existing duplicates (copied) questions will be unlinked in the assignment.

The solution of equations is displayed when creating a mathematical equation question

Summary: We have added the possibility to display the solution to an equation when editing or grading a mathematical equation question.

Benefits: You can now verify the equation and the operation will be graded correctly while creating or editing the question.

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Display the full name of authors in the question bank exercise overview

Summary: The first and last name of an author is now displayed in the exercises overview in a question bank.
Benefits: You can better recognise the author of an exercise. This avoids confusion in case authors have the same first name.

Clicking the split-screen button opens the digital test in fullscreen instead of the attachment

Summary: Last release we have changed the position of the split screen button. In this release, we have changed the behaviour of the split screen button. When participants click the split-screen button if split screen is enabled, Ans will now open the test in full screen instead of the attachment.

Benefits: Based on your feedback, it turned out that the need among our users to 'close' the split-screen attachment is more common than the need to open the attachment in full-screen mode, so we adapted the toggle accordingly.

Additional information: It is still possible to switch in fullscreen from the test to the assignment, by using the tabs.

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Reviews feature additions

Summary: We have expanded the reviews feature with the possibility to add comments to a review. A comment can be added without the need to first approve or disapprove a result. The comment will be visible in the log of the result.

Benefits: This allows adding more context to a review, for example, to elaborate the reason for an approval or disapproval.

Additional information: The log of the reviews comments are only accessible if you have the logs  feature enabled (see logs feature below). The content of the reviews comments are also incorporated in the Results API.

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Logs feature additions

Summary: In the previous release, we moved the logs feature to the open beta, which included logs for results and assignments. We have now added logs for question bank exercises. Currently, we show the following information in the question bank exercise log:

On exercise level

  • Script
  • Author
  • Label

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On question level

  • Question content
  • Question type
  • Maximum points
  • Bonus and skippable
  • Word limit
  • Single/multiple answer multiple choice questions toggle
  • Grading type (rubric/criteria/slider)
  • Limit minimum to zero points
  • Partial scoring
  • Order type in order questions
  • Answer field height (written assignments)

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Additional information: The exercise log information will also be added to the assignment log. The exercise logs are incorporated in the same beta feature 'Logs'.

 

Renaming of multiple elements in the platform

Summary: Based on your feedback, we have been working on multiple interface inconstancies and improvements. These range from spelling errors, unclear names or elements of which the name is being used inconsistently. Below, we have provided a list with all elements that are renamed, including where in the platform it is changed. The change is applied to all translations of the platform unless indicated otherwise.

  • Renamed 'Number of students' to 'Number of participants' in the assignment insights histogram
  • Renamed 'Kijk na per opgave' to 'Kijk na per vraag' in the review menu of an assignment. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only.
  • Renamed 'Symbols' to 'Variable' in a mathematical equation question
  • Renamed 'Students' to 'Participants' in the Safe Exam Browser settings
  • Renamed 'Test' to 'Assignment' in the Safe Exam Browser settings
  • Renamed 'Exercises' tab to 'Exercise protection rules' in the question bank settings
  • Renamed 'question bank assignments' settings to 'assignment protection rules' in the question bank settings
  • Rename 'the Safe Exam Browser' to 'Safe Exam Browser' in the Safe Exam Browser settings
  • Renamed 'Dates and times' tab to 'timeslots' in the assignment settings
  • Renamed 'Export the files into a .zip file' to 'Export an archive of all files that were uploaded during an assignment' in the export menu under assignment settings
  • Renamed 'Mijn account' to 'Instellingen' in the menu in the navigation bar. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only
  • Renamed 'assignment type' to 'exercise selection' in the generate an assignment menu.
  • Renamed 'Question group(s)' to 'Flow group(s)' in the navigation settings in accessibility settings
  • Renamed 'Question' to 'Question content' in the question editor, above the question content
  • Renamed 'choices' and 'answers' to 'alternatives' for all options in the multiple choice question
  • Renamed "question category" to "question type" in the menu when changing a question to a different question type.
  • Renamed "Help" to "Help Center" in the navigation bar. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where searching on question bank exercise ids was not possible
  • Fixed an issue where instructors would receive an error message when clicking 'load more' at a student's live assignments overview
  • Fixed an issue where the link to a trashed question bank exercise would not redirect to the trashed exercises overview
  • Fixed an issue where the numbering of flow groups was incorrect
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to connect a new Ouriginal integration
  • Fixed an issue where a peer-review assignment would not always be automatically submitted after the deadline
  • Fixed an issue in the API where retrieving a newly created object would fail
  • Fixed an issue with duplicate questions being shown in the preview of a digital test
  • Fixed issues where it was not possible to add a comment after annotating text in a peer-review hand-in assignment
  • Fixed an issue where a review question could not be added to a course hand-in assignment
  • Fixed issue with mark calculation formula being removed if there are no spaces around comparison operators
  • Fixed an issue where participants could not rotate image attachments
  • Fixed an issue where high-contrast mode resulted in the menu being invisible during the assignment
  • Fixed issues with video attachments not being shown
  • Fixed issue where question insights falsely displayed 0,0
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to reopen exercises while monitoring participants. 
Release 16th of October 2022

Features and improvements

Logs has been released to the open beta

Summary: The logs feature has been moved to the open beta. This feature revamps what was previously the 'Audit Log'. The log shows more detailed information about changes made within the platform and presents them in a comprehensive manner. For now, the log is available for results and assignments. Currently we show the following information in the logs:

Results

  • Started/submitted
  • Student activity
    • Viewing exercises
    • Answering questions
  • Reviewing activity
    • Assigned/removed points
  • Reviews, review requests including content (this is a beta feature and should be turned on first)
  • Incidents including content (this is a beta feature and should be turned on first)
  • Flags including content
  • Discussions including content
  • Archiving actions

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Assignments

  • Created
  • Timeslots

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Benefits: You can use the log information for internal use, for example to keep track of changes made to an assignment or a result.

Additional information: If enabled, the previous audit log will be replaced. Eventually we are planning to use the same format for logs in other places within the platform.

Manual plagiarism checks for Ouriginal has been released to the open beta

Summary: The manual plagiarism checks feature has been moved to the open beta. The default setting for when Ouriginal is enabled for your assignment, is to automatically send the answers of all participants for the plagiarism check.  

Benefits: This feature makes it possible to turn off this auto-submit feature within the integration and instead manually submit answers for analysis by Ouriginal.

Additional information: The manual plagiarism checks feature is in the open beta, which means an administrator will first need to enable it in order to use this feature. A licence for the Ouriginal integration is also required in order to use this feature.

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Added insights per group for questions in planned assignments

Summary: We have replaced the feature for viewing insights per class or group with an overview with which to easily compare the different values.

Benefits: Users can now view the insights of questions for different groups in one overview.

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A digital test with attachments will start in split-screen mode by default

Summary: A digital test with attachments will start in split-screen mode by default. In addition, the split-screen/full-screen toggle for attachments, which used to be a black bar, has been changed to an icon and moved to the attachments bar.

Benefits: Participants are more clearly made aware that there is an attachment included in the digital test. They still have the option to close the viewer or view the attachment in full-screen. With the addition of the split-screen/full-screen toggle, it is easier to toggle split-screen & full-screen directly from the test view. The toggle is also easier to find.

Additional Information: Opening by default and allowing students to close the viewer or view the attachment full-screen was determined preferable to the risk that students might miss that the digital test includes an attachment. If you click on the toggle without any attachments open, the first attachment will automatically be opened.

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Added a warning that flow will not be supported when converting a digital test to a written assignment

Summary: When flow has been used in your digital test and you want to convert this digital test to a written assignment, a warning will be displayed when clicking the convert button. 

Additional information: Flow was not supported in written assignments before, but now a warning is shown.
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Extended LaTeX support in preview of written assignments

Summary: If you use LaTeX in written assignments, the preview of the assignment now also shows LaTeX that is created by using backslashes with brackets. Previously, the preview was only showing LaTeX if it was created by using the double dollar signs.

Benefits: You can now use brackets in combination with backslashes to type LaTeX which will also show correctly in the preview of the written assignment. To start typing LaTeX, use \(\backslash (\). After finishing your formula or text in LaTeX, type \(\backslash)\). 

The LTI 1.3 has been released out of open beta

Summary: The LTI 1.3 integrations have now been released out of beta. At the moment, the LMS platforms Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard and Moodle are supported for LTI 1.3. 

Additional information: All administrators have already been informed of the following information in the  pre release article.

  • New LTI 1.2 integrations can no longer be configured on university level.
  • If you currently have any LTI 1.2 integrations configured on university level, you can continue to use these until the 23rd of April 2023.
  • It will no longer be possible to use LTI 1.2 after the deprecation.
  • We advise institutions to replace their LTI 1.2 integration to version 1.3 as soon as possible as IMS Global stopped supporting version 1.2 on June 30, 2022. You can find more information on how to setup LTI 1.3 here. 

 

Added the STEP integration to university integrations to configure a default config key

Summary: The initial setup for the STEP integration has been moved to the university settings. Activating the STEP integration will still be done through the assignment settings.

Benefits: A default configuration key can now be set in the university integration settings. This configuration key will then be set as the default configuration key for newly created assignments.

Additional Information: It is still possible to overwrite the default configuration key of the university settings. A new configuration key can be set in the STEP assignment integration settings.

 

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where participants could not rotate image attachments.

  • Fixed an issue where the enumeration of exercises was removed when assignments were planned in a course via the API.

  • Fixed an issue where dragging split-screen did not work on tablets.

  • Fixed an issue where the "Don't activate employee accounts at creation" setting would not work for custom SAML SSO connections.

  • Fixed an issue where the Readspeaker language settings would appear outside the screen.

  • Removed duplicated setting from the Safe Exam Browser options. 

  • Fixed an issue with the Brightspace LTI 1.3 integration where students were not redirected and received an incorrect notice to login through LTI.

  • Fixed an issue where the code editor content was cropped when printing a grading scheme
    labels. 

  • Fixed an issue where the 'upload background image' was replaced with the word 'drawing' and 'hotspot' for the drawing question and hotspot question.

  • Fixed an issue where the preview of written assignments would not display after reloading the page.

  • Fixed an issue where setting the grade calculation to "none" would mark the results as not graded.

  • Fixed an issue where new version available would not always be visible.

  • Fixed an issue where Proctorio would get stuck on the loading screen.

  • Fixed an issue with the autofocus of input fields.

  • Fixed an issue where an assignment created from a template would get stuck on the loading page.

  • Fixed an issue where the guess score of multiple choice questions was not displayed accurately in the insights when automatic scoring was used. 
Release 25th of September 2022

Features and improvements

Added support for DocReader in attachments when using the Readspeaker integration

Summary: We added support for DocReader, which is an additional module of Readspeaker.

Benefits: Participants with accessibility needs are able to read attachments which are uploaded to a digital test using DocReader in addition to the regular Readspeaker functionalities. 

Additional information: For this functionality to work, your institution must have a Readspeaker DocReader licence and an active Readspeaker integration in Ans. An administrator of your school must whitelist our objectstore URL in their Readspeaker dashboard, which is: https://docreader.readspeaker.com/.

If you are using Readspeaker in combination with a lockdown browser, such as Schoolyear or Safe Exam Browser, no additional URLs need to be whitelisted in your lockdown browser. The current list in this article is still accurate and up to date. 

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The LTI 1.3 has been released to the open beta

Summary: The LTI 1.3 integrations are now available in the open beta. In the near future, this will replace the current LTI integrations which are built on version LTI 1.2. IMS Global will not support this version in the future. You can find more information about the deprecation schedule of LTI here.

Additional information: Currently, the LMS platforms Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard and Moodle are supported. All support articles on how to enable the LTI 1.3 integration and how to create an LTI 1.3 link for your assignments will be published to our help center when the release is deployed on the production environment on the 25th of September 2022. The deprecation date of the LTI 1.2 will be announced in the next pre-release.

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Added fraction support to the code editor

Summary: The Python fractions library can now be imported in the code editor and created variables can be used in questions.

Benefits: All benefits of the Python fractions library are documented in the documentation of Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/fractions.html.

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Added the user object to the webhook

Summary: The webhook now also supports user objects.

Benefits: It is now possible to create a webhook for users, which allows for updates to be received in real time for changes made to users, and see which changes have been made. Just like for other supported webhook attributes, the create, update and delete events are supported. Screenshot_2022-09-16_at_11.45.03.png

Updated styling of filters

Summary: We have slightly updated the styling of filters in several places within the platform including question banks, courses and results.

Benefits: It is easier to distinguish different states of the filters. The colours also follow the Ans palette more closely.

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Changed 'Random' & 'Fixed' assignment types to 'Fixed selection' & 'Randomised per participant'

Summary: We've elaborated the description of assignment types when generating a question bank assignment.

Benefits: This updated wording better describes the difference between the assignment types.

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Removed the step required to edit the ReadSpeaker integration settings within a digital test

Summary: The 'edit' button in the Readspeaker integration settings within the digital test has been removed.

Benefits: You can now toggle the Readspeaker settings directly, without first clicking the 'edit' button. This removes an extra step in the process of setting up the integration.

API updates

Summary: We have made some improvements to the API. This includes:

  • All user attributes in API V2 are returned even if their value is blank. Previously, attributes such as role_id are not sent if it is empty. Now, all fields specified in the documentation are sent even if they are empty.
  • Added the option to manage the Ouriginal integration via the API.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue in a written assignment where the preview did not refresh after changing the order of questions in an exercise.

  • Fixed an issue where the view would not be updated after deleting an unrecognised scan.

  • Fixed an issue where the preview would jump ahead/backwards after reloading.

  • Added support for using Fraction when using the code editor.

  • Fixed an issue in written assignments where the preview would not work if a video or audio description was used.

  • Fixed an issue where "Exam is not published" would show up when reviewing a multiple choice question.

  • Fixed an issue where a warning was displayed in Dutch when the user's language is set to English.

  • Fixed an issue where points of a multiple-choice question would not be imported correctly when making use of QTI.

  • Fixed issues where changing the grading method in a hand-in assignment results in the access denied page and the review options tab disappearing.
Release 4th of September 2022

Features

Limit Guess Correction to 0 

Summary: To prevent students from receiving negative scores, we have added the option to limit the corrected score after applying the guess correction to 0.

Benefits: This feature will be added to the guess correction option when you’ve selected the formula as mark calculation method. This feature is helpful for assignments that combine open-ended questions and closed-ended questions, which can be corrected for guessing. If you use this option, the score of the open-ended part will not be affected by the guess correction.

Additional information: All information about this option and examples of how the feature works can be found in the renewed guess correction article and in the new mark calculation examples article. 

Improvements to printing and scanning

Summary: We have made improvements to the printing and scanning of written assignments. This includes:

  • The preview of a written assignment is now available on all environments.
  • Improvements to recognition of multiple response questions. From now on, not all multiple-response answers will be flagged. We will still flag corrected and overruled answers.

Improvements to the help centre

Summary: Over the last few months, we have been working on updating our help centre. Currently, we are focusing on the employee section. Some improvements that can already be seen include:

  • Translating all articles to Dutch in the employee section. The progress can be seen here.
  • Reviewing, improving and expanding all articles in the employee section.
  • Collapsable menus have been added to longer articles to easily find the applicable information. An example can be found here. 

If you have any feedback on the help centre improvements, we would love to know. Feel free to send your feedback to support@ans.app.

User interface changes

Harmonised dates and times

Summary:Within the platform, we have harmonised the use of dates and times. More information can be found here.

Where in the platform did we change it: Several places in the platform where the time and dates are displayed, such as timeslots, when participants started/submitted an assignment and in a question bank assignment and question bank exercise overview.

 

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the gaps in a fill-in question would not appear when copied from the question bank.
    Question types - Question banks

  • Fixed an issue where (copy) would always be appended to an exercise name after copying independent of the selected language.
    Exercises

  • Fixed an issue where the h1 tag styling would appear visually smaller than an h2 tag styling when using LaTeX.
    Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where the objectives in a question bank would not load.
    Objectives - Question banks

  • Improvements to automatically grading equations with the mathematical equation question.
    Grading -  Question types
Release 14th of August 2022

Features

Indicator icon for downloadable files

Summary: An icon now displays at the attachment overview to indicate if participants can download the added attachment during a test.

Benefits: Instructors can easily see if the attachments they have added to their test can be downloaded by participants.

Additional information: For consistency, we have also updated the icon that displays if attachments are hidden from participants. 

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User interface changes

Only the highest grade is taken into account in the questions insights 

Summary: Previously, we took all results (multiple attempts) into account at the questions insights. This has now been changed to be consistent with other insights.

Where in the platform did we change it: In the insights tab of your assignment at the questions tab.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the rights of students to add other students to a group got taken away. Courses - Groups

  • Fixed an issue where sending null with a role attribute results in an error when using API V2.
    Api

  • Fixed issue with searching exercises in the add questions dialogue.
    Digital test - Questions

  • Fixed an issue where a department admin was not removed from the overview of department admins when the users role was changed.
    Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where the preview didn't show the correct order of questions when 'Shuffle order of question group' has been turned off.
    Exercises

  • Fixed an issue where the 'add variable' button in content editor was not working.
    Exercises

  • Fixed an issue where strikethrough did not work in a digital test when using the Safari browser.
    Digital test

  • Improved performance when searching for learners in a course.
    Courses

  • Fixed an issue where score grade blocked the assignment from being copied.
    Assignments

  • Fixed an issue where learners and groups could not be imported from a CSV file.
    Import/export
Release 24th of July 2022

Features

Changes to the open question in written assignments

Summary: The open question types 'Open question as blank box' and 'Open question with squares' will be combined with the standard open question. 

Benefits: More consistency and clarity for written assignment question types. 

Additional information: The question type will display as 'Open' for any previous assignments that used 'Open question as blank box' and 'Open question with squares' previously. The API will still support the previous method up until the 3rd of September 2022.

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Clarity for participants when submitting a digital test

Summary: Based on user feedback, we have replaced the 'Resume later button' with a 'Cancel' button. The 'Resume later' button can still be found in the top right corner of the test.

Benefits: Less room for error during the submission of digital tests.

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Assignment protection rules

Summary: The assignment protection rules feature has been released out of the open beta. This feature allows administrators to add assignment protection rules to assignment labels. You can read more about this feature here.

Benefits: More control for users to disable changing certain elements within an assignment. 

Additional information: Assignment protection rules can only be added by users with an administrator role. 

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Enable the guess correction by default from the school settings

Summary: It is now possible to enable the guess correction by default from the school settings.

Benefits: Instructors don't have to enable it for every assignment.

Additional information: The setting does not apply for question bank assignments. Enabling the guess correction by default from the school settings, can only be added by users with an administrator role. 

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Improvements to item analysis in question banks

We have made several changes to the way we display the P, Rit and Rir values of exercises. Previously, we only calculated these values for individual questions, which could result in a range of multiple values per exercise.
  • For the exercise overview in the question bank we now calculate the P, Rit and Rir value of the exercise as a whole.
  • The Rir values of an exercise are now included in the question bank exercises overview.
  • The value in the question bank overview is now the aggregated value of the exercise across all assignments and results.
  • This facilitates additional sort and filter options for these values.
  • If applicable, the P, Rit and Rir values of an exercise are broken down per school year in a new table.
The P, Rit and Rir values per individual question can still be found in the assignment insights within a course.


Ability to select multiple items before applying the filter in a question bank

Summary: When filtering in a question bank, you can now select multiple categories such as learning objectives & tags at once without the filter menu disappearing.

 

Added support for the RelayState parameter

Summary: Administrators can now provide a RelayState parameter in the SSO configuration. The RelayState parameter redirects a user to a specified URL in Ans. For example. you can set it up to redirect a user directly to the start of the test.

 

Multiple import actions have been moved to background jobs

Summary: The following import actions have been moved to background jobs.

  • QTI 
  • QML 
  • CSV
  • Score Grades (Review method: Table)

Added uploader of documents in results (API)

Summary: The schema of result files now includes the user_id to show who uploaded the file.

Improved timestamps in question bank exercises

Summary: The year when a question bank exercise was used and modified, is now displayed.

Improved starting a digital test for participants

Summary: The page of students waiting to start a digital test is automatically refreshed when the switch to start the test is enabled.

User interface changes

Changes to the interface of platform 

Summary: To improve the accessibility and meet the additional WCAG guidelines, we have made some small changes to the interface in our platform. 

Where in the platform did we change it: You may notice these changes in the side menus, the font size and the icons.

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Only the highest grade is taken into account in the objectives insights 

Summary: Previously, we took all results (multiple attempts) into account at the objectives insights. This has now been changed to be consistent with other insights.

Where in the platform did we change it: In the insights tab of your assignment at the objectives tab.

 

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where question banks would not be visible for a department admin if they were not added to the department.
    Question banks

  • Fixed issues with mathematical equation questions when using simplify with multiple solutions.
    Question types

  • Fixed an issue where the image question, free formatted question and the open question with final answer could not be stored in a question bank.
    Assignments - Question banks

  • Fixed an issue in the QTI import for multiple choice questions where answer alternative points were not properly imported.
    Import/export - Question types

  • Fixed an issue where filtering on ''All authors' in a question bank was not possible.
    Question banks

  • Fixed an issue where 'staff' and 'department admin' roles could not create courses.
    Courses
 
Release 3rd of July 2022

Features

  • Added confirmation dialog for broadcasting announcements
    Beta - Digital test
  • Added custom role restrictions for the grading scheme of assignments
    Assignments - Beta - Grading
  • Added custom role restrictions for the learning objectives of assignments
    Assignments - Beta - Learning objectives
  • Allow announcements to be used separately from digital test chat
    Beta - Digital test
  • Close dismissible dialogs by clicking on the scrim
    Miscellaneous
  • Directly select a group when creating a timeslot
    Taking
  • Improved ordering of multiple choice variables and question content of the results export
    Results
  • Syntax highlighting for Prolog is now supported in the code editor
    Digital test - Miscellaneous
  • The 'Digital test overview for participants' feature has been released to open beta
    Beta - Digital test
  • The 'Review period' feature has been released out of beta
    Review
  • The 'STEP Stick integration' feature has been released to open beta
    Beta - Integrations
  • The X-Frame-Options security header has been enabled to prevent Ans from being embedded, which protects users against clickjacking attacks
    Miscellaneous
  • The date & time fields have been combined into a single field in the user interface and in the API V2
    API - Miscellaneous
  • The guess score will now be shown at the questions analytics for multiple choice questions
    Insights
  • The relation ids from list actions have been removed from the API V2
    API

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where digital tests with a password were not accessible unless the password contained a number
    Digital test
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to store 'open question as blank box' and 'open question with squares' in a question bank
    Question types - Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to update the margins of fill-in questions in the grading scheme
    Questions
  • Fixed an issue where pinned courses would still be visible in the users overview even after the user was removed from the course
    Courses
  • Fixed an issue where students would be kicked out of a digital test when the password was changed
    Digital test - Taking
  • Fixed an issue where students would get stuck in Safe Exam Browser when "require answer" was enabled and the time limit expired
    Integrations - Taking
  • Fixed an issue with the show feedback option in the preview of fill-in questions
    Questions
  • The performance of the preview in digital tests has been improved and the preview now displays a loading animation when loading exercises
    Digital test
Release 22nd of May 2022

Features

  • Added a new section to the API documentation to inform of upcoming deprecations
    API
  • Added an option to enforce a specific version of the Safe Exam Browser
    Digital test - Integrations - Taking
  • Added custom role restrictions for publications
    Beta - Publications
  • Added custom role restrictions for requirements of assignments
    Assignments - Beta
  • Added custom role restrictions for the accessibility settings of assignments
    Assignments - Beta
  • Added endpoints to list, create and destroy users in a group with the API
    API
  • Added endpoints to list, create, update and destroy users in a course with the API
    API
  • Certificate for Single Sign On is renewed
    Miscellaneous
  • Included assignment flow in custom role restrictions for content of assignments
    Assignments - Beta
  • Monitoring participants is now available as beta feature
    Beta - Digital test
  • Participants pasting content and leaving the tab can be automatically reported as an incident in the monitoring panel (proctoring)
    Beta - Digital test
  • The old Safe Exam Browser integration under 'Accessibility' is converted to the Safe Exam Browser integration under 'Integrations' within the assignment settings
    Integrations
  • User specific custom role is displayed when adding department admins to departments
    Beta - Miscellaneous

Bugfixes

  • Aligned the answers of a bubblesheet assignment on both sides of the reviewing page
    Assignments - Review
  • Fixed an issue were the grading progress of the assignment would never reach 100%
    Assignments - Insights - Review
  • Fixed filter on the taking page for digital test for groups
    Digital test - Groups - Taking
  • Fixed inactive students being shown when adding members to a question bank
    Question banks
  • Fixed issue where differential questions would not automatically get solved properly
    Digital test - Grading
  • Fixed issue where integrations were not being copied over when creating a new assignment from an assignment template
    Assignments
  • Fixed issue where preview results were shown in the results overview page
    Results
  • Fixed issue where the criteria were duplicated after synchronising
    Digital test - Grading - Question banks
  • Fixed issue with insights page counting students for multiple percentages in objectives
    Insights
  • Fixed the counter for exercises per objective in the blueprint tab of a question bank assignment when the exercise contained trashed questions
    Learning objectives - Question banks
  • Fixed the progress bar in the grading overview for coding assignments for groups
    Digital test - Grading
  • Improved importing figures for QML and QTI import
    Miscellaneous
  • Improved recaptcha notice when recaptcha is invalid the first time
    Miscellaneous
  • It is no longer possible to send invitations to students when importing classes and enforce Single Sign-On is enabled
    Administration
  • Removed the option to set automatic scoring as a grading type when switching to a category that does not support automatic scoring
    Digital test - Grading
Release 1st of May 2022

Features

  • Add the ability to show the score in the preview of an question bank exercise
    Question bank exercises
  • Added courses, question banks and classes counters to the user page
    Miscellaneous
  • Added custom role restrictions for the mark calculation of assignments
    Beta - Roles
  • Added custom role restrictions for timeslots
    Beta - Roles
  • Added drawing compression improvements
    Beta - Drawing question
  • Added employee, student and course counters on class page
    Miscellaneous
  • Added exercise and blueprint counters on question bank assignment page
    Miscellaneous
  • Added group member counters to the group page
    Miscellaneous
  • Added mark filter to results with histogram showing mark distribution
    Results
  • Added objectives and blueprint counters on the question bank objectives page
    Miscellaneous
  • Added support for grading with table in the API
    API
  • Archive results is now available as an open beta feature
    Archive results - Beta
  • Change 'students' to 'participants' in result export pop-up dialog
    Miscellaneous
  • Removed the points that are shown on the choices from the order question
    Miscellaneous
  • Renamed custom role restrictions from 'See all' to 'View'
    Beta - Roles
  • Reviews is now available as an open beta feature
    Beta - Reviews
  • The content from discussions in the daily summary emails has been removed
    Emails
  • The delivery options for printing written assignments with Rijnja has been updated
    Integrations
  • Users will be warned that changing the mark calculation of a question bank assignment will affect linked assignments
    Question bank assignments
  • When calculating the cut-off score, the minimum points value is taken into account
    Beta

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue in the question bank preview when the amount of markers of a hotspot question was decreased
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where a user would get a list of duplicate question banks when moving a question bank assignment
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where integers from the script editor would be shown as decimals in a digital test
    Digital test
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to copy an assignment to a question bank
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to list question banks with the API
    API
  • Fixed an issue where it was possible to clear the passed grade in the mark settings of a question bank assignment
    Question bank assignments
  • Fixed an issue where participants with additional time would no longer have access to the digital test after the deadline had passed
    Digital test
  • Fixed an issue where removing a reviewer from a course would still show the reviewer assigned to exercises to review
    Course
  • Fixed an issue where setting user ids to an empty array will cause an error when updating groups via the API
    API
  • Fixed an issue with administrators accessing question banks
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue with displaying the LTI name if the name is unknown
    Integrations
  • Fixed an issue with the usage of '<' or '>' signs in an equation in the text editor
    Digital test
  • Fixed enabling 'For AI reviewing' when enabling the ProctorExam integration with the API
    API - Beta
  • Improved setting the time for publication timeslot when changing the time in the popup dialog
    Miscellaneous
Release 10th of April 2022

Features

  • Added minimum points as input option for determining the cut-off score
    Beta - Results
  • Added suggestion for maximum points based on Cohen-Schotanus method when determining the cut-off score
    Beta - Results
  • Always display explainer text below a text field instead of only on click
    Miscellaneous
  • An error message is now shown when the uploaded file cannot be read
    Miscellaneous
  • As of May 23rd 2022, the Safe Exam Browser integration under “Accessibility” will be fully replaced by the Safe Exam Browser integration under "Integrations"
    Digital test - Integrations
  • Improved consistency of feedback dialog in exercise previews and digital tests
    Digital tests - Question banks - Questions
  • Improved the background job logging when importing groups to better highlight errors during processing
    Miscellaneous
  • Reintroduced the option to award zero points when grading with points by using the keyboard key next to 1 (`/~)
    Grading
  • Removed remaining attempts button from the results page
    Digital tests - Results
  • Rename 'grades' to 'marks'
    Miscellaneous
  • Renamed 'Grader breakdown' to 'Reviewer breakdown' in the assignment insights
    Insights
  • The QTI export is now processed in a background job
    Question banks - Questions

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue when creating a user via the API when enforce_sso is enabled
    Administration
  • Fixed an issue when loading a preview of a question bank exercise in a question bank assignment
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue when using boolean values as variables in the script editor
    Grading
  • Fixed an issue where a copied assignment would always append (copy) independent of the language settings
    Assignments
  • Fixed an issue where instructors could not delete a manually uploaded student file
    Digital tests
  • Fixed an issue where instructors were unable to preview a digital test if it contained requirements
    Digital tests
  • Fixed an issue where results were not created for unenrolled students in a written assignment
    Results - Written assignments
  • Fixed an issue where student emails are displayed as invited after the students had signed in
    Administration
  • Fixed an issue where teachers would get a daily email about discussions even if there are none
    Miscellaneous
  • Fixed an issue where the Safe Exam Browser Server is unintentionally enabled with API
    API - Digital tests
  • Fixed an issue where the answer options of the first generated form are not shuffled
    Written assignments
  • Fixed an issue where the duration graph in insights would only show graded results
    Insights - Results
  • Fixed an issue where the insight display the incorrect amount of points for questions with automatic scoring
    Insights - Questions
  • Fixed an issue where the second decimal was not shown for trailing zeros
    Results
  • Fixed an issue where users with the role repro were not able to view printable assignments
    Administration - Written assignments
  • Fixed an issue with the naming of columns in the export file of the grading table
    Grading
Release 20th of March 2022

Features

  • API V2 is now out of beta
    API
  • Added the option to prevent creating new accounts through Single Sign-On
    Administration - Beta feature
  • Display number of employees and students at the navigation section of school users
    Miscellaneous
  • Display number of staff, learners and groups at the navigation section of course members
    Course - Miscellaneous
  • School periods can be selected directly when creating a new course
    Course
  • The timestamp now also includes seconds in the access log events
    Administration

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue in the insight where 'Needs attention' displays on questions incorrectly
    Insights
  • Fixed an issue that caused users to receive an error message when attempting to peer review
    Digital tests - Grading
  • Fixed an issue where a students' submission for a fill-in question with a variable would get incorrectly graded if it contained multiple decimals
    Digital tests - Grading
  • Fixed an issue where a user would be incorrectly redirected for assignments with a location restriction
    Taking
  • Fixed an issue where an incorrect order was shown in the question bank exercise preview after removing a question
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where confirmed users received a message stating that their email must be confirmed when attempting to sign in
    Administration
  • Fixed an issue where exercises would not display in the preview when added from a question bank
    Assignments - Question banks - Questions
  • Fixed an issue where incorrect feedback was displayed for fill-in questions
    Question types - Questions
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to update the criteria after a bubblesheet assignment had been taken
    Bubble sheet - Grading
  • Fixed an issue where it was possible to pin deleted courses
    Courses
  • Fixed an issue where questions were incorrectly highlighted while grading
    Assignments - Grading
  • Fixed an issue where searching for a specific question bank would display other question banks
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where students did not receive a grade for assignments reviewed on paper
    Grading - Written assignments
  • Fixed an issue where the 'less than (<)' symbol would incorrectly save in a digital test
    Digital tests - Taking
  • Fixed an issue where the icon was missing for answers with negative score in the results overview page on the exercises tab
    Results
  • Fixed an issue where the live chat was not accessible to students
    Beta feature - Digital tests - Taking
  • Fixed an issue where the objectives filter in an question bank took removed questions into account
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where the question type filter in an question bank took removed questions into account
    Question types - Question banks
  • Fixed the exercises count per objective in the blueprints tab of a question bank assignment
    Assignments - Question banks
  • The word limit is not displayed for questions where it is not applicable
    Written assignments - Questions
Release 27th of February 2022

Features

  • Added a copy to clipboard option to the API token and the print download link
    Miscellaneous
  • Added an email log to the user page which displays the email activity of users
    Miscellaneous
  • Added an option to include all results across multiple pages when using bulk selection
    Results
  • Notifications can now be enabled in beta features
    Beta feature
  • Scipy is now supported in the code editor
    Digital test
  • The students audit logs of a digital test now also display seconds
    Digital test

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where authors could not delete descriptions in question bank exercises
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where emoji tabs where visible when changing the font colour
    Miscellaneous
  • Fixed an issue where indicators were not shown for correct answers in multiple choice questions that used images as answer fields
    Digital tests - Question types
  • Fixed an issue where locations were not displayed in alphabetical order within the settings of a digital test
    Digital tests
  • Fixed an issue where tags could not be edited from the second page onward in the question bank settings
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where the preview of a question bank exercise would not display the contents of a predefined answer
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where the preview of question bank exercises would not display when adding question bank exercises to an assignment
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where users were not shown on the taking page when adding a group and class timeslot
    Taking
  • Fixed an issue with the consistency between decimals for the mark and insight page
    Insights
  • Fixed an issue with the grading of negative numbers of a numerical question when the margin type is set to percentage
    Grading
  • Fixed an issue with the ordering of question groups by domain and objectives when planning a digital test from the question bank
    Digital test - Question banks
Release 6th of February 2022

Features

  • Default publication settings can now be customised in the school settings
    Publications
  • The search in the navigation bar has new colours
    Miscellaneous
  • Viewing your result as students has become more mobile friendly
    Grading - Results
  • When randomly assigning exercises, a student is now less likely to get exercises they've had before
    Digital test

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where annotations for written assignments would disappear for reviewers
    Review
  • Fixed an issue where deleted objectives would display incorrectly
    Courses - Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where deselecting question contents in the publication settings would still show the question title
    Publications
  • Fixed an issue where exercises would not be shown in the preview when added from a question bank
    Question banks - Questions
  • Fixed an issue where question bank previews would load incorrectly
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where students received a notification email about viewing a publication that was not available to them
    Administration
  • Fixed an issue where the code editor returned values with too many decimals
    Miscellaneous
  • Fixed an issue where the exercise count of question bank assignments would display incorrectly
    Question banks
  • Fixed an issue where the guess score would not copy over properly
    Insights
  • Fixed an issue where the unanswered questions warning would be shown incorrectly when using strikethrough on a question without answering it
    Digital test - Taking
  • Fixed an issue with viewing a digital test result after selecting resume later
    Digital test
  • Reduced the amount of flags for handwritten test when the shuffled answer option was used
    Written assignment
Release 16th of January 2022

Features

  • The ProctorExam integration is now available in beta features
    Beta feature - Integrations

Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where Proctorio would launch for teachers when previewing a digital test with Proctorio enabled
    Digital tests - Integrations
  • Fixed an issue where modifications to the layout of a written assignment were not visible until the page was refreshed
    Assignments
  • Fixed an issue where multiple choice answer options were not shuffled when using the 'Shuffle the answer options' in the Print settings of a written assignment
    Assignments
  • Fixed an issue where multiple choice answer options would get shuffled when fixed starting position was enabled
    Questions
  • Fixed an issue where the paintbrush tool would stop working for drawing questions
    Digital test
  • Fixed an issue where the preview of a bubble sheet assignment was not updated when changing the number of questions or choices
    Assignments

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