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  • Improved object editor workflow and fixed user membership issues

    Posted by: Robin Smidsrød 20. Apr 2020 18:21

    Today's update (6b463a0) brings with it the following changes:

    Security issues

    • Now avoids non-read permissions assigned to anonymous user.

    Performance improvements

    • Increased hardware resources to handle additional load because of home-schooling situation.

    New features

    • Enabled teachers to save edits without notifying student until the document is ready.
    • Added assessment plugin to object editor, which enables teachers to highlight different parts of the text with color and information.

    Enhancements

    • Improved voice recorder app to use current browser APIs for microphone access.
    • The add new site behavior has been improved to avoid accidential overwriting of site information.
    • The notify supervisor feature in the object editor has a simpler user experience.
    • Improved process-oriented document writing workflow by allowing the description field to be used as a comment for author.
    • Improved readability of object editor contents by increasing line height.
    • Fixed accessibility issues in synthetic speech user interface.
    • Some buttons in the user profile page now have improved accessibility.

    Bugfixes

    • Large resolution video can now be played without overlapping the viewport. This isssue should now be fixed.
    • Fixed issue with no memberships being shown in user profile if e-Portal user isn't a member of any institution groups.
    • Fixed issue where administrator role from e-Portal is turned into an institution and course administrator role. Now it properly assigns the supervisor role in the same situation.
    • Fixed an issue in the message reading pane where the delete or mark as unread button would redirect to new message instead of back to list.
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  • Improve messaging and Google Chrome cookie behavior fixes

    Posted by: Rakesh Kumar Shardiwal 12. Mar 2020 19:24

    Today's update (40f90ea39) brings with it the following changes:

    Security issues

    • Google Chrome v80 made changes to SameSite cookie behavior. The SameSite attribute on cookies is used to control cross-domain behavior. All cookies are now set to Samesite=Lax, but session cookies are explicitly set to Samesite=None.
    • Talkbook sound files are now served with CORS headers. This solves a playback issue with translation audio files used in D-bok.
    • HTTPS certificates are now issued using LetsEncrypt ACMEv2.

    Performance improvements

    • Updated to the latest Perl toolchain. This might give minor performance improvements.

    New features

    • Added conversation view for messages. Now users can see all of the conversations they have had with another person on a single page.
    • Added inline attachment option to new message screen, now user can upload new file or choose any existing object as attachment to a message. Where you want to store the uploaded attachment can be chosen.

    Enhancements

    • Message reply status is now available in the messaging system.
    • Messaging inbox/outbox search query is sticky now, it remembers what you have searched when you re-enter the page.
    • Accessibility of the sound player has been improved.
    • Accessibility of the manage_language template function has been improved.

    Bugfixes

    • Fixed user-interface inconsistency with tab navigation in messaging feature.
    • Fixed inability to navigate cells in quiz type matchbox with keyboard.

    Documentation improvements

    • Added reference documentation for:
      • Template behavior
      • BlobMachine behavior
      • User collection and permission manager behavior
      • User, object and quiz container models
      • CSV parsing, captcha validation, business metric logging, pagination, macro and talkbook libraries
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  • Migration from Rackspace to Azure data center

    Posted by: Robin Smidsrød 17. Dec 2019 21:07

    The entire system has been moved from the Rackspace London data center to the Azure North European data center.

    Contact support if any unexpected issues that might be related to this migration happen.

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  • More user behavior reports and improved report performance

    Posted by: Robin Smidsrød 16. Dec 2019 18:09

    Today's update (6f5f52e) brings with it the following changes:

    Performance improvements

    • The performance of the user memberships report was improved a lot.
    • The performance of the course results report was improved.

    New features

    • A report for how much a user has progressed in courses was added to the user profile.
    • A report with the lowest course object scores was added to the user profile. It makes it easy to see which course objects the student needs to work on. It is a subset of what is available in the course result report.
    • A report for user submissions was added to the user profile. This makes it easy to find essays that the student is working on. It is a subset of what is available in the course result report.

    Enhancements

    • The user activity report now supports reporting activity information for a range of dates, not just a single day or week. Additional information was added to the table legend to clarify some date range issues.
    • The course results report now supports a range parameter, making it possible to only see activity for a certain date range.
    • The report of access keys assigned to a user and the report to show all institution, group and course memberships were extracted out of the user profile and moved to their own request handlers. The user profile still load these reports into the page.
    • Added user name to page title for the following reports:
      • course_result
      • user_access_keys
      • user_course_progress
      • user_memberships
      • user_object_scores

    Bugfixes

    • When a supervisor views the course result of a student the student identifier wasn't logged. This is now fixed.
    • Downgraded FFMPEG from version 4.x to version 3.x because of unmaintained third-party code. This might impact the ability to create thumbnails for some video formats.
    • Improved developer documentation for the course_result request handler.
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  • Improved documentation and page navigation

    Posted by: Robin Smidsrød 12. Nov 2019 17:12

    Today's update (2f25d62) brings with it the following changes:

    Security improvements

    • Secure websockets are now allowed by our CSP policy on secure sites.

    Performance improvements

    • Improved navigation between pages by avoiding deprecated browser features.

    Documentation improvements

    • Added reference documentation for:
      • Email-sending behavior
      • Object rendering behavior
      • Factory behavior
      • Flash message behavior
      • File manager parameter validation
      • FastCGI web worker behavior
      • File type detection behavior
    • Added reference documentation for the following HTTP request handlers:
      • aicc
      • dev
      • edit_autoreg
      • eportal_push
      • execute
      • external_search_config
      • help
      • list_permission
      • login
      • logout
      • mark_message
      • measure
      • move_element
      • nav_course
      • new_message
      • online
      • page_view_log
      • ping
      • placement_test
      • preview_content
      • quiz_editor
      • read
      • read_exam
      • read_site
      • register_account
      • resolve_path
      • session
      • sso
      • talkbook
      • update_autoreg
      • update_class
      • update_config
      • update_order_course_element
      • update_site
      • update_site_containers
      • upload
      • user_activity
      • watermark
      • welcome
      • write
      • write_account
      • write_account
      • write_autoreg
      • write_course_element
      • write_glossary
      • write_institution
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