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4.4.8 - 09/15/2020

Feature

  • [Course Groups] Confirm group delete when Assignments/Assessments are present

4.4.2 - 08/27/2020

Feature

  • [Campus Status] Fix Icon Display Rules

4.4.3 - 08/25/2020

Feature

  • Add sis_verified_enrollment

4.4 - 07/27/2020

Feature

  • [Assessments] Add Start Date

  • Add Covid Status to dashboard

4.4.1 - 07/24/2020

Feature

  • [Zoom] Allow free users to create zoom meetings

  • Support email origins

  • Covid Status Support for roster

4.3.16 - 06/21/2020

Feature

  • Enable Starting SISImport from Dashboard

4.3.14 - 06/09/2020

Feature

  • AWS Uploads now saved locally and then pushed to remote

4.3.6 - 06/01/2020

Feature

  • Expanded Branding Support

4.3.5 - 06/01/2020

Feature

  • Expanded Branding Support

4.3.3 - 05/29/2020

Bug Fix

  • Fix Available Data Visibility for Non-Credit Courses

4.3.1 - 05/21/2020

Feature

  • Group View Tab

4.3 - 05/20/2020

Feature

  • Mirror Warning Banner

  • Bulletin Tagging Support

  • Production Mirror

  • Setup unique permissions

4.2.9 - 02/28/2020

Enhancement

  • Bulletin Tagging Support

4.2 - 01/21/2020

Bug Fix

  • fix assignment actions width

4.1.33 - 01/08/2020

Bug Fix

  • Upgrade Zoom Library / support conferences

4.1.32 - 01/03/2020

Enhancement

  • [Add Grade] optional due date support

4.1.30 - 10/11/2019

Enhancement

  • add bulletin support for attachment viewer deep link

4.1.31 - 10/11/2019

Bug Fix

  • fix issue where letter grade assignments could show a total score of NaN

4.1.26 - 09/24/2019

Enhancement

  • add support for deep linking from dashboard

Bug Fix

  • prevent failed documents load from failing all courses

4.1.25 - 09/19/2019

Bug Fix

  • fix issue with editing assignment feedback

Enhancement

  • assignments view drag / drop

  • drag / drop assignments view

4.1.24 - 09/16/2019

Enhancement

  • Sortable Rows for Documents

4.1.21 - 09/09/2019

Enhancement

  • Enable Global Masquerade for Read Only Admins

4.1.19 - 09/03/2019

Feature

  • [Dashboard] Support Disabling Observers @ University Level

  • [Bulletin] Support Shared Attachments in Email Notifications

4.1.17 - 08/30/2019

Bug Fix

  • Fix Text Submission Display

  • Ignore Trailing Punctuation when Parsing External URLs

  • Discussion Board Feedback - Anonymous Grading Support

4.1.16 - 08/20/2019

Feature

  • Export Student Assessment Responses

4.1.11 - 08/19/2019

Feature

  • Non-academic course support

Bug Fix

  • Fix Console Error with Assignment Sharing

4.1.9 - 08/18/2019

Feature

  • Email Markdown

4.1.8 - 08/17/2019

Enhancement

  • [Course Import] custom date fields for assessment / assignment

4.1.2 - 08/15/2019

Enhancement

  • Share Assignments to Bulletin

4.1.1 - 08/14/2019

Bug Fix

  • [Preferred Name] Change Default Display Behavior

  • [Assessment] Fix File Upload

Feature

  • Lock Existing Responses

4.1 - 08/10/2019

Bug Fix

  • Fix Folder Created By Console Error

  • Fix Column Sorting Persistence

  • Fix User Name Display Preference in Roster

  • Fix Roster Send Email to Users functionality

Enhancement

  • [Group] Setting to Allow Members to Upload Documents / Links

  • [Assignment] allow limiting of total number of submission attempts

  • [Documents] Add "Created By" Column

  • Toggle User Display Name Between Legal / Preferred

Clean Up

  • Show nickname & legal name next to options

4.0.3 - 07/23/2019

Enhancement

  • [Dashboard] Reports Column Sorting

  • Toggle User Display Name Between Legal / Preferred

4.0.2 - 07/16/2019

Bug Fix

  • [Course Import] Resolve Unprocessable Request

  • [Zoom] Fix Completed Email accidental Resend

Enhancement

  • [Bulletin] Filter by User in Course / Group Bulletin

4.0.1 - 07/07/2019

Bug Fix

  • Fix Edit Assessment View not deleting Question Attachments upon removing them

  • Fix Old Email Reminder URLs & Reminders for Assessment Submissions using incorrect routing

  • Fix for renaming and previewing attachments uploaded for file submission

  • Fix Cover Picture modal footer text incorrectly displaying 0

  • Fix non-existent localize strings for Assessments/Assignments Grades Un/Published

  • Fix Events for Assignments Showing Loader Endlessly

Enhancement

  • Zoom Video Recording Placeholder while Processing

4.0 - 06/27/2019

Accessibility

  • Improved accessibility on Edit Post, Edit Comment, Record Audio, and Import Grades modals.

  • Added “Description” and “Alt Text” accessibility fields to attachments and documents.

Attachments

  • Added the ability to preview file uploads. Now you no longer have to second-guess whether or not you’ve uploaded the correct file!

  • Attachments can now be renamed during their initial upload.

Assignments

  • Fixed a text overflow bug when previewing text submissions.

  • Added instructional text for students to File Submission assignments.

Assessments

  • Fixed bug with slow loading of student results.

  • Fixed a bug with editing due dates while viewing results.

  • Fixed an incorrect error being thrown when changing a question from “File Upload” to a different question type.

  • Fixed incorrect warning text when deleting answers from questions.

  • Added the ability to “anchor” certain answers to the bottom of the list when randomizing multiple choice answers.

  • Added the ability to set access codes that are required for an assessment to be started.

  • Added a “Show one question per page” option. When checked, only one question will be shown on the page at a time while taking a test.

  • Added skeleton loading for questions to improve user experience.

  • Clarified extra credit header text.

Calendar

  • Cleaned up how calendar events look if you are not the event creator.

  • Added a badge signifying the event creator to the View Event modal.

  • Added the option to leave calendar events to the View Event modal.

Clubs

  • Added the ability to filter clubs by Category Name.

Dashboard

  • Added reports for clubs and groups.

Discussion Boards

  • Fixed a bug where recommended word counts in text areas were being displayed as required.

  • Changed info regarding hidden posts from “Other posts will only show after you have made X posts” to “Posts by other students will only show after you have made 1 post”

Documents

  • Drag & drop sorting has been removed.

  • Added an alert notifying users of successfully moving a document into or out of a folder.

  • Fixed missing options when previewing multiple documents.

  • Added the file size to the download tooltip in course documents.

Gradebook

  • Fixed browser compatibility for gradebook categories.

Notifications

  • Allow professors to manually toggle sending notifications to users when editing posts.

  • Added support for grouping related notifications together (for example, “4 assignments changed in English 101”).

Roster

  • Added to the “Users” tab both a user count and the number of users filtered out when using the search function.

  • Fixed a bug with anonymous name generation when importing groups from the roster.

Miscellaneous

  • Notebowl now supports the option for user to have both a legal first name and a preferred first name. Only instructors will see the legal name, all other users will only see the preferred name.

  • All text areas now support Markdown

  • Modals can now be dismissed by clicking anywhere outside the modal.

  • Added the ability to pause and resume while recording audio.

  • Added support for automatically importing cloud recordings after a Zoom meeting has ended.

  • Fixed incorrect orientation of images that were added through the mobile app.

  • Decreased the delay for popovers to appear on mouse hover.

 

3.9.9 - 05/13/2019

Enhancement

  • Zoom Auto Recording

 

3.9.8 - 05/02/2019

Bug Fix

  • Auto-Orient Images from Mobile

  • Fix Assessment Due Date Bug When User Submission is In Progress

  • Add Correct Notification Text for Zoom Meeting and YouTube Live

  • Admin Dashboard - Fix Duplicate Reports Button for Clubs

Feature

  • [Assessment] Access Code

  • Anchoring answers in randomized multiple choice

  • Support Preferred Name in SIS Import

  • D2L Grade Passback Support

  • [Dashboard] Add Download Button to Reports

  • Admin Dashboard - Allow Importing of Course/Group/Club Roster from CSV File

  • Anonymous Names

Enhancement

  • Allow Professors to Manually Toggle Sending Notifications to Users when Editing Posts

  • [Attachment] add accessibility fields

 

3.9.7 - 02/21/2019

Enhancement

  • Allow Club Admins to see Club Reports on Dashboard

Bug Fix

  • Zoom Scope Adjustment

 

3.9.6 - 02/09/2019

Feature

  • [Documents] Add download file restriction

Bug Fix

  • [Discussion Boards] Do not show edit/delete warning if edit/delete is enabled

  • Various Canvas Fixes

  • [Accessibility] Fix API gateway accessibility

  • [Dashboard] fix updating user university

  • Fix Global Masquerade Mode Edge Case

Enhancement

  • [File Viewer] Display images with img tag

 

3.9.5 - 02/02/2019

Bug Fix

  • Fix Previous Instances of Canvas "Not Due" Indicator

  • Bugfix for Assessment Responses Unique Properties

 

3.9.3 - 02/01/2019

Bug Fix

  • Fix Markdown & Link Collision

  • [Canvas] fix issues with no due date

  • [SISImport] persist course name if changed manually

 

3.9.2 - 01/31/2019

Bug Fix

  • [Assessment] fix reopen assessment with time limit

  • Fix Group Discussion Board Bugs

  • [Discussion Boards] Professor should always be able to edit their own posts

Enhancement

  • Import Course Groups into Assignment

  • [Assignment Groups] UI improvements

  • “Add Many Groups” Functionality

  • [Accessibility] Improve Color Contrats

 

3.9 - 01/28/2019

Feature

  • Bulletin Markdown Support

  • Course Groups

Enhancement

  • [Course Groups] locked group support

  • Named Assignment Groups Support

  • [Discussion Board] pinned post support

  • Autodrop Students After Dead Date

  • [SISImport] Speed Improvements & Support for Clearing Merged Sections

Bug Fix

  • [Bulletin] Fix external link overflow for Pinned Posts

 

3.7.5 - 01/22/2019

Enhancement

  • [Assignment Feedback] Add accent border

  • Import CSV For All Assignment Types

  • [AssignmentGroups] Allow professors to manually unlock groups with submissions/grades

Bug Fix

  • allow feedback creation after assignment past due

  • [Discussion Boards] fix submission count

Clean Up

  • [Bulletin Posts] improve dropdown button alignment

 

3.8 - 01/22/2019

Bug Fix

  • [Canvas] Handle Multiple Foreign Key Formats

 

3.7 - 01/15/2019

Enhancement

  • [Course Setup] Add ability to import Assignments, Assessments and Documents

  • [Discussion Boards] Edit / Delete Enabled Flag

 

3.6.2 - 01/15/2019

Feature

  • [Dashboard] Drop Student Automatically after X Days if Synced

 

3.6 - 01/12/2019

Enhancement

  • support new discussion board types on search page

Feature

  • Private Discussion Boards

  • Group Discussion Boards

  • [Common Cartridge] Support Question Bank Imports

Bug Fix

  • [Discussion Boards] Fix submissions tab in deep link

  • Fix Discussion Boards Post Singular View

  • Fix Feedback Notification Deep Link

  • Prevent Anonymous Feedback

  • Fix Feedback Notifications

 

3.5 - 01/08/2019

Enhancement

  • [Calendar] Support Event Attachments

  • [Group Assignments] Remove self-enroll dropdown

  • [Comment] Audio Recording Support

Canvas

  • [Canvas] Add Settings tab

  • [Canvas] Add Notifications tab

Feature

  • [University] Global Anonymous Setting

Bug Fix

  • [Bulletin] Cleanup post bugs

 

3.4.1 - 12/22/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Canvas] Prevent Invite Emails from Sending to New Users

Feature

  • [University] Global Anonymous Setting

  • [Canvas] Sync LTI Submission Date

 

3.4 - 12/18/2018

Feature

  • New Zoom Integration

  • Comment Replies

Enhancement

  • Add meta tag for Mobile Safari Smart App Banner support

  • [Event] add attachments support

Bug Fix

  • [Discussion Board] Fix word count alignment

  • [Discussion Boards] Fix Anonymous Issue

  • [Discussion Boards] always allow student to see own posts when requirements have not been met

 

3.3.3.2 - 12/13/2018

Enhancement

  • [Notifications] Prevent popover overflow

 

3.3.2 - 12/13/2018

Enhancement

  • [Common Course Cartridge] Support Single Element Import

 

3.3.3 - 12/12/2018

Bug Fix

  • [DiscussionBoard] Fix next/previous submission buttons

 

3.3.3.1 - 12/12/2018

Canvas

  • [Canvas] Open in New Tab button

Bug Fix

  • [Assignment] Feedback posts bugfixes

 

3.3.2 - 12/11/2018

Bug Fix

  • Unsupported page improvements

 

3.3 - 12/11/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Courses] Course Enrollments with TA Role Bugfixes for Unpublished/In Future

  • [Notification] Assignment feedback notifications fix

 

3.3.1 - 12/05/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Documents] fix first load

 

3.3 - 12/04/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Gradebook] Support Removing Percentages per University

  • [Bulletin] load all scheduled posts

  • [Assessment] enable time limit radio button when input changed

  • [Grades] Fix category column width

  • [Discussion Board] Fix Post Visibility message

  • [Assessment] fix multiple select saving

  • [Bulletin] fix abuse reporting modal

  • [Members] fix send email modal

Canvas

  • [Headless] Padding around content

Clean Up

  • Remove Download Restrictions Feature

 

3.2.1 - 11/22/2018

Feature

  • Cleanup & Expand Reporting

 

3.2 - 11/21/2018

Bug Fix

  • Fix for Publish Grade Button showing for all students on Group Assignments

 

3.2 - 11/19/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Notification] Bugfix for group assignment feedback posts visible to everyone

  • [Reset Password] Fix broken styles

Enhancement

  • [AttachmentExternal] remove viewType check for parsing url

 

3.1 - 11/19/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Grade Scale] maintain custom values when switching away

  • [Bulletin fix scheduled posts regression]

Enhancement

  • [Share Document] clean up link UX

  • [AttachmentExternal] display description on share component

  • [Documents] ability to create shared delayed post

  • [File Viewer] Blur background when open

Clean Up

  • Rename Mobile notification setting to Push

 

3.1.0 - 11/13/2018

Feature

  • Assessment question report

 

3.0.3 - 10/31/2018

Bug Fix

  • D2L Preceptor - TA Support / Canvas Future Due Date Support

 

2.8 - 10/31/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Canvas] Safari cookie bug

 

3.0 - 10/31/2018

Bug Fix

  • Resolve Creator issue for Imported Grades

 

2.7.9.4 - 10/24/2018

Bug Fix

  • redirect to proper domain on university change

 

2.7.9.3 - 10/17/2018

Enhancement

  • Update "+x" bubble for student count in thumbnail bubbles

Bug Fix

  • Update Invite User

Feature

  • [Assignments] Add assignment status for instructors

 

2.7.9.1 - 10/11/2018

Bug Fix

  • fix production regression

 

2.7.9 - 10/10/2018

Bug Fix

  • fix view as student on initial load

  • Fix Group Submission Date Sorting

Enhancement

  • [Discussion Boards] If no requirements, change status to Submitted once has 1 entry

  • [Assignments] add status "Graded" for students

 

2.7.8 - 10/08/2018

Enhancement

  • [Grading Panel] User Interface Improvements

  • [Tables] Improve discard style

  • [Styles] Highlight selected rows

  • [Accessibility] Improve accessibility of course/group tabs

Bug Fix

  • accept user override for download endpoint

  • Improve ios scrolling

  • [Create Conference Post] improve selection UI

 

2.7.6 - 09/30/2018

Enhancement

  • [Discussion Board] change default tab to Discussion Board before the due date

  • [Assessments] Clean up Assessment Results header

  • Flex Scaffolding

  • [Share Documents] add warning when sharing documents set as "Private"

  • [Assessments] Improve time limit form

  • [View Assignment] For students, add status to the header

Bug Fix

  • [File Upload] Fix file upload spacing

  • [Hangout Panel] Improve spacing

 

2.7.4 - 09/24/2018

Bug Fix

  • support unavaialble links

 

2.7.3 - 09/21/2018

Enhancement

  • [Discussion Board] Show total count of all late posts/comments

  • [Grade Scale] Improve instructions in Grade Scale form

  • [Reopen Assessment] improve wording

Bug Fix

  • fix unsupported browser page

  • [Assignments] Fix/improve error messages on fields when editing assignments

  • [Profile picture bubbles] Fix overflow bug when too many admins on a course/group/club

  • [Edit Categories] Fix placeholder category row and extra credit bug

  • add view link support to AssessmentSubmission

  • prevent socket disconnected bar from appearing on login page

 

2.7.2 - 09/13/2018

Feature

  • [Discussion Board] posts visibility

Bug Fix

  • fix double encoding error

 

2.7 - 09/11/2018

Feature

  • Sharing Documents

Bug Fix

  • add support for document deep links

 

2.6.7 - 09/07/2018

Enhancement

  • separate Observer role tab permissions

  • [Anonymous Grading] randomize sort order

  • [Course] observer role tab permissions

Feature

  • Clubs Report V1

 

2.6.4 - 09/04/2018

Enhancement

  • restrict enrollments to non-students

 

2.6.1.2 - 08/30/2018

Bug Fix

  • prevent hanging upon attachment create failure

Enhancement

  • Helper messages

 

2.6.3 - 08/29/2018

Feature

  • Roster Sources Support

 

2.6.1.1 - 08/27/2018

Bug Fix

  • fix preview assessment via view as mode

 

2.6.1 - 08/25/2018

Feature

  • YouTube Live Support

 

2.6.0 - 08/24/2018

Bug Fix

  • pagination-load-status

  • fix Enrollment.lastAccessAt sort order

Clean Up

  • Grade scale flex conversion

Enhancement

  • [Assignments] redirect to assignment page on create

  • [autofill grades] add to View Assignment

  • automatically scroll hangout comments

  • [assignments] status badge

  • [Cover Images] add size recommendation

  • [D2L Sync] Support TA Role

 

2.5.8 - 08/23/2018

Enhancement

  • Discussion Board Settings in User Profile

 

2.5.7 - 08/22/2018

Bug Fix

  • Fix Canvas Due/Available Date

 

2.5.1 - 08/16/2018

Feature

  • [Cover Images] add Theme tab

Bug Fix

  • [LocalJob] ensure local jobs always appear in job monitor

  • fix input-property-row enum radio default selection

  • [CourseSetup] prevent infinite redirect when link viewed by non-administrator

  • clear edit categories editable on cancel

Enhancement

  • [Assessments] Add publish assessment to all tabs

  • [Scope Dropdown] use fullTitle for courses

  • [Viewer / Grading Panel] Support for User Switching

  • [Discussion Board] hide confirmation modal for teacher/ta

 

2.5 - 08/14/2018

Enhancement

  • [Discussion Board] Enable Anonymous Posting

  • Anonymous Assessment Grading

  • [SelectionDropdown] split clubs into own section

  • Implement Observer Role Support

Bug Fix

  • fix adding feedback to assessment no submission

  • Prod Fixes

 

2.4.3 - 08/13/2018

Bug Fix

  • enable sign out action in local masquerade mode only

  • fix group locks pending

Feature

  • Global Masquerade

  • Global Masquerade Mode

Clean Up

  • Pretty Links

Enhancement

  • convert course masquerade bar to searchable

 

2.4 - 08/07/2018

Feature

  • [Question] Extra Credit Support

  • Add Web & Document Settings

  • Course Cover Images

  • Document Notifications

  • [Dashboard] Time Machine

Bug Fix

  • [Folder] ban . and ..

  • [Tab Titles] Fix search placeholders

  • [Add Assignment] fix attachments margins

  • fix add-assignment bugs

  • Fix course term date

  • follow up color redesign

  • [Folder] restrict . and .. in folder name

  • [U of A Login] Fix for Changing Email Issue

Enhancement

  • [a11y] clean up remaining bugs

  • [a11y] canvas disabled buttons

  • [Viewer] Add attachment title breadcrumbs

  • Tabpanel focus accessibility

  • [a11y] post content tooltips

  • viewer header responsive

  • Tabs accessibility

  • [grading panel] structure cleanup

  • [a11y] submission cell labels

  • [a11y] contrast colors

Clean Up

  • Remove Zendesk from Header

  • [a11y] modal close button label

  • [Dashboard] Course Sorting & Course Stats Improvements

 

2.4.1 - 08/07/2018

Bug Fix

  • add focus wrappers to Modal / Viewer

  • Conference button bug

  • [a11y] minor fixes

 

2.4.4 - 08/07/2018

Bug Fix

  • Canvas Fixes

 

2.2.2 - 07/23/2018

Bug Fix

  • [SettingCollection] allow updating default value

Enhancement

  • [a11y] Table sorting

  • [a11y] tooltips

  • [a11y] file viewer

 

2.3.2 - 07/23/2018

Clean Up

  • Update D2L Importer

 

2.2.1 - 07/19/2018

Bug Fix

  • [canvas] fix bottom padding for intercom to fit

 

2.2.0 - 07/18/2018

Clean Up

  • miscellaneous bug fixes

  • [a11y] Selection Dropdowns Cleanup

  • [a11y] datepicker cleanup

Bug Fix

  • fix clubs infinite redirect issue

Enhancement

  • Club Dashboard Link

 

2.1.8 - 06/27/2018

Bug Fix

  • Fix generateQuestions RPC Endpoint

 

2.1 - 06/05/2018

Clean Up

  • EDS Cleanup

 

1.8.0 - 05/10/2018

Clean Up

  • [Sign Up Form] fix css alignment

Feature

  • [Payments] AutoRefund

  • Sync Grades & Send Feedback to Canvas

  • Send Slack Message on D2L course creation

Bug Fix

  • [Assignments] Remove Filtered Query

  • Resolve Gradebook Precision

 

1.6.11 - 04/05/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Canvas] Fix for No Due Date

  • Improve Error Messages

 

1.6.7 - 04/04/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Canvas] Fix Due Date for Older Installs

 

1.6.1 - 04/02/2018

Enhancement

  • [Canvas] Support Available Date & Due Date

  • [Youtube] High Res Thumbnail

Clean Up

  • [M4V] Support

Bug Fix

  • [Canvas] Fix Alert Domain

 

1.5.9.2 - 03/30/2018

Enhancement

  • [Canvas] Paywall Confirm for Professors

  • [Canvas] Slack Management Support

Feature

  • [Canvas] Add Reporting to Dev-Support-Help

 

1.5.9.1 - 03/22/2018

Customer Request

  • [Canvas] Change Default Submission Type

 

1.5.8.3 - 03/13/2018

Customer Request

  • Prod Fix Restore Deleted Enrollment

 

1.4.4.8 - 03/05/2018

Feature

  • [Canvas] Support View as Student

 

1.4.4.5 - 02/27/2018

Bug Fix

  • Resolve Signup Form Issue

  • Fix Submission Previews

Enhancement

  • [Dashboard] Clubs Improvements

Feature

  • [Canvas] Disable User Enrollment Email

 

1.4.4.2 - 02/13/2018

Bug Fix

  • Cleanup ZIP Downloads

 

1.4.4 - 02/12/2018

Bug Fix

  • [Production] Large File Upload

 

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