This article contains this release's feature updates, user interface changes and bug fixes.

Changes to the platform

Added new log in methods and updated the styling of login page

Summary: The styling of the login page has been updated, clarifying the process of logging in with your school account. In addition, you now have the option to log in with your Google or Microsoft account, unless the school requires you to log in with your school account.

Additional information: Logging in with your Google or Microsoft account only works for existing accounts. The two-factor authentication (2FA) is still enforced when logging in via Google or Microsoft. If you are using a secure environment such as a kiosk application or STEP stick and you want to allow user login via Google and/or Microsoft, make sure that the correct URLs are whitelisted in your security application. The links have been made available in the updated whitelist article here.

Set the default Safe Exam Browser settings in school settings

Summary: You can now set the default settings for the Safe Exam Browser in the school settings.

Benefits: This allows organisations to set default settings for the Safe Exam Browser, reducing the room for error and creating a more consistent experience for participants. It also allows organisations to disable Safe Exam Browser throughout the whole school.

Additional info: By default the integration will be disabled. For schools that have already used the integration in an assignment, the integration will stay enabled. Disabling the integration on school level disables all Safe Exam Browser integrations on all assignments.

We now allow viewing student answers with multiple users outside of the reviewing workflow

Summary: It is now possible to view student answers while another user is viewing the same answers when navigating to a student answer via the student's result overview or via a link that has been shared with you.

Benefits: This was a source of annoyance for several teachers, especially while attempting to discuss a student's work among colleagues. Users can now view student answers simultaneously and collaborate more easily.

Additional information: Student answers are still locked when navigating to the next ungraded answer in the review overview. This is to ensure you and your colleagues do not grade the same student twice/at the same time. Changes to grading are as of yet not updated in real time when viewing student's work together.

Updated button styling for creating new tags and relations of question bank exercises and for assigning tags of question bank assignments

Summary: The buttons to create new tags and question relations have been changed from a rectangular button to a fixed '+' button on the same line as the Tag area's title. The styling has also been applied to question bank assignments.

Benefits: The new styling gives it a fixed location, which makes it easier to find.

Additional information: We are working on standardising many of the buttons that are being used within the platform. This is to create a greater sense of consistency, so the user can expect how a certain button looks and what action it will perform, based on its appearance.

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Improved the performance of planning a question bank assignment

Summary: The performance of copying an assignment from a question bank to course has been improved.

Improved showing multiple choice content in the question editor

Summary: When editing exercises, the stripped content (without HTML formatting) of choices were displayed. This caused images added in answer alternatives of a multiple choice questions to not be displayed.

Benefits: The formatted content is now displayed, including images, while editing exercises.

Removed the option to downgrade an employee to a student from the employee overview page 

Summary: We removed the option downgrade an employee to a student from the employee tab at the users overview. We removed this as we discovered that it was not functional as students require a student number. Instead, this will need to be done by using the "Convert to student" option under the settings of the user. From here, you will be prompted to enter the student number for this user.

Benefits: Removing this option avoids confusion as it was not functional.

Moved the fill-in question breakdown in the question insights to a collapsible table

Changed the order of the name in generated PDF's for classes

Summary: As announced in the last release, we changed the pdf name of generated forms. The same data is available in the filename but shown in a different order.
The order has been changed from: [class]-[form position]-[student number]-[student name].pdf to: [class]-[student name]-[form position]-[student number].pdf.

Benefits: This change allows for easier sorting the forms before printing. This change only has an impact if classes are used. The order of the student name is dependent on the name sorting which can be set in the general university settings.

Additional information: This change has no impact on PDF forms that were printed before this release, but were scanned and processed after the this release.

Added pagination when viewing the users of a class

Summary: We have added pagination to loading the users on the overview page for users in classes.

Benefits: The pagination only loads a certain number of users at a time, making the page more responsive.

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 'Done' to 'Submitted' on the taking page of a digital test and hand-in assignment. This applies to the English version of the platform only.
• Renamed 'Aantal opgaven' to 'Aantal vragen' in the layout of a bubble sheet assignment. This applies to the Dutch version of the platform only.
• We have removed the statement "New accounts can only be created by using SSO, LTI or the API." from the description of the Enforce SSO feature, as it is not accurate. Users are still able to create new accounts via imports and it was removed to avoid confusion.
• "Allow students to enrol themselves in this course" has been changed to "Allow students to enrol themselves" in the course settings.

Open beta changes

API updates

Summary: We have added the following extensions to the API V2:

• Added support to search on null values
  We've added the ability to search for records with empty attributes in API V2. To search for null values, you can use "null" as the value for the attribute in the search query. For example, to find all users without an external_id, you can search with external_id:null.
• Add author_id to questions
  The question bank exercises already contained the author_id, but the author_id to the question response in API V2 has been added as well.
  
• Added the numeral attribute to submissions
  We have included a numeral attribute in the submission response that is determined by the chosen enumeration set in the layout. The numeral is a combination of the exercise and question position (e.g. 1a) when the assignment does not use flow, and the position of the submission within the student's test when flow is utilised.

• Improved the grading options description for assignments
  The API documentation stated that university grading options are used as the default if none are specified in the request. However, this is not accurate. If a question_bank_assignment_id is provided for the assignment, then the grading options for that question bank assignment will be used as the default if none are specified in the request. This has been corrected in the updated description.

Bug fixes