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Release notes - March 12, 2012

This release adds several new features to EduBrite platform, some of these enhancements also required minor changes in the user interface. If you are already a user of EduBrite platform, please read the changes below

 

New Features

  • Ability to create Program with courses, where each course may have a pre-requisite course. This feature allows creating sequenced program to force the learners to follow a specific path if they are signing up for multiple courses
  • Ability to specify credits for every course in the program. When learners complete a course successfully, they earn the credit specified for the course in the program.
  • Minimum credit requirements for the program. By specifying minimum credits for the program, you can add qualifying criteria for the whole program. When learners earn atleast the minimum credits, they get the program certification 
  • Ability to specify optional courses in program. Learner have to finish all mandatory courses in the program, to become eligible for program certificate. Optional courses allow giving multiple options to learners to achieve a program certification
  • Default grading scheme in course sessions, which allows tracking and evaluating learner's progress in the course. 
  • Course Completion Certificate, which provide a printed PDF stating learner's grades after they successfully complete a course
  • Program Completion Certificate, which provides a printed PDF showing completion status of learner
  • Gradebook enhancements to allow passing score, and category denominator
  • Ability to create Course Completion Exam, for a course session. Learner's have to pass the exam to complet any course. 
  • Creation of Program Bundle - which can contain multiple programs. This can be done by using a program type Bundle. In the bundle multiple tracks can be defined and in each track multiple programs (components) can be added.
  • Program Enrollment in Bundled programs - allows self or administered enrollment in the Program Bundle, by allowing canddates to choose a track, and available sessions
  • Partial scoring in MR (Multi Response questions) - For a test, you can enable parital scoring option from the properties tab. If enabled, user will get scaled score for MR questions if they didn't select all correct choices, but only a few correct ones. If they select any wrong choice, then answer will be considered incorrect and no points will be given 
  • VGR, HGR, VGMR, HGMR questions in test - allows single row/column now. Also for HGMR and VGMR questions, weights can be defined for choices

Detailed documentation about new features will be added in knowledgebase on support site in few days

 

User Interface Changes

  • Exam, Course menu can be turned on/off for learners in a site, by turning on/off corresponding tabs from Site Details->User Interface
  • A new menu option is added to customize the Dashboard options (Homepage options) Account->Dashboard Options
  • Program - We've now added a program sub tab under Courses tab on the top. It will show all the programs available in the site, and any specific program can be searched. The previous place to see program list, from inside Group is still present. 

 

  • Program List - this page no longer shows all the program sessions for a program in this list. To view the program sessions, you can open the program details page

 

  • Program Details - this page now shows program description, and a drop down of program sessions, which exist for any program. You can create new program session right from here. The course sessions for each program session are also shown on this page now, next to each course. So the Program-courses list panel is now merged with course sessions for any selected program session.

 

  • Exam creation - when you create an exam for a course session, you can now specify the exam as Course Completion Exam. For this type of exam, you are only allowed to select 1 test per exam

 

  • Course Session Details - My Stats panel now dislays course completion status and provides a link to print the certificate

 

  • Course Members list - shows the completion status of the members, and a link to print the certificate 

 

 

  • Course Auto Award - now you can specify this property for a course, from course editor. It will allow you to create self paced course which can have mandatory lessons and quizzes. When learner completes all mandatory lessons and quizzes, they will be automatically awarded the course certificate

  • Course access without course session - set this option to create private courses which can be authorized to groups and can be taken by learners without any course session.

  • Rename menu in course editor - Context menu (open from mouse right click) to allow rename of any module, topic, lesson or course

 

  • Partial scoring in MR (Multi Response questions) - For a test, you can enable parital scoring option from the properties tab. If enabled, user will get scaled score for MR questions if they didn't select all correct choices, but only a few correct ones. If they select any wrong choice, then answer will be considered incorrect and no points will be given

 

  • Enrolled Program panel on Homepage

 

 

 


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