Added: The communication centre has been added to the aNewSpring mobile apps.
Learners can now access their messages and announcements within the app, in addition to the already available general notifications and social notifications.
They can send new messages or reply to existing ones in the same intuitive way as on desktop.
Read and unread messages are clearly distinguished.
Learners can choose to receive push notifications for newly received messages and announcements.
The setting for receiving push notifications about messages and announcements is automatically enabled for all learners who currently have push notifications turned on in their app.
Added: The ‘Ask the instructor a question’ option has been added to the aNewSpring mobile apps as well.
Learners - Simplified the flow for adding free products with direct access
Improved: Adding products with ‘Free, direct access’ as payment method has become easier for learners.
Learners don’t need to go through the order flow anymore and will directly navigate to the newly subscribed course, or to the homepage when being subscribed to multiple courses at once.
The order email notifications will no longer be sent for this type of product.
Learners - The availability of the model answer in essay questions
Changed: The model answer, which helps learners in grading their own essay questions, is now only displayed when learners themselves are responsible for grading the question. Otherwise, it is shown only to the instructor, who can include it in the assessment of the learner.
Learners - Uploading video file in the video hand-in assignment
Added: In addition to recording a video within the video hand-in assignment and submitting it, learners can now also upload a pre-recorded video file.
Learners - Screen reader accessibility (WCAG)
Improved: Improvements have been made to non-text content regarding screen reader accessibility.
Non-text content, such as images, videos and sound fragments, can now include alternative text.
The alternative texts are accessible for screen reading services, enabling all users to access and understand the non-text content.
These improvements have been applied to the relevant content types in questions and content parts.
Note: In June 2024, alternative texts will be expanded to all areas where non-text content can be added via the text-editor as well.
Learners - Keyboard accessibility (WCAG)
Improved: Improvements have been made to enhance keyboard accessibility for several activity types:
The six evaluation activities: scan, 360 feedback, questionnaire, form, reflection and survey; and the event activity.
Content - Improving file management in content libraries
Improved: Adding and managing files within a content library has been made easier by renewing the interface and by adding the tagging possibilities.
The files tab within the content library has been updated to match the common interface, enhancing consistency and intuitiveness.
This also includes the ability to add tags to files and narrow your view based on selected tags in the filter.
The ability to view tags that are pre-added to files, and the capability to filter based on tags, has been added to various other places within the content library where you can add files.
Such as adding files in questions and content parts.
Note: The ability to filter files by tags will be available slightly later, in June 2024.
PE-online - Adding PE edition IDs to courses
Note: This feature will go live in June 2024
Added: You can now add PE-online accreditation to courses by using PE edition IDs.
Any PE-online IDs in the template will be ignored when PE edition IDs are added to a course from that template.
Certificate - Certificate code for the course’s start and end dates
Added: You can now automatically add the start and end date of the course to the certificate using the certificate codes 'courseStartDate' and 'courseEndDate'.
Survey - Template data included in the export
Note: This feature is already available
Added: The name and external ID of the template from which the feedback is gauged are now included in the export as well.
Email notification - Removing email notifications for free products with direct access
Changed: The ability to edit the content of email notifications for acquiring products with 'Free, direct access' as a payment method has been removed, as these email notifications are no longer present.
WCAG - Non-text content accessibility for screen readers
Added: The ability to provide non-text content with alternative text, making it accessible to screen reading services.
All non-text content, such as images, videos and sound fragments that are essential for understanding the entire content, can now include alternative text.
The alternative text can be provided when selecting the file for the content.
API - Method to enrol and unenrol learners for events
Note: This feature will go live in June 2024
Added: Various API calls have been added to enable the option for managing learners’ enrolment in events from your own system.
The GET call '/getBookableEventSubscriptions/{eventID}' allows you to retrieve all learners who are subscribed to an event.
The POST call '/subscribeBookableEvent/{userID}/{eventID}' allows you to enrol learners in events.
The POST call '/unsubscribeBookableEvent/{userID}/{eventID}' allows you to unenrol learners from events.
API - Method to link instructors to learner groups in the course
Note: This feature is already available
Added: You can link instructors to learner groups within a course from your own system by using the POST call '/setStudentGroupTeachers'.
Instructors previously linked to the learner group (but not included in the call) will be removed from the group.
Instructors will only be linked to the learner group if they have access to the course.
Marjolein Dronkert
The release is expected on May 28th.
Learners - Communication centre in the mobile app
Added: The communication centre has been added to the aNewSpring mobile apps.
Learners can now access their messages and announcements within the app, in addition to the already available general notifications and social notifications.
They can send new messages or reply to existing ones in the same intuitive way as on desktop.
Read and unread messages are clearly distinguished.
Learners can choose to receive push notifications for newly received messages and announcements.
The setting for receiving push notifications about messages and announcements is automatically enabled for all learners who currently have push notifications turned on in their app.
Added: The ‘Ask the instructor a question’ option has been added to the aNewSpring mobile apps as well.
Learners - Simplified the flow for adding free products with direct access
Improved: Adding products with ‘Free, direct access’ as payment method has become easier for learners.
Learners don’t need to go through the order flow anymore and will directly navigate to the newly subscribed course, or to the homepage when being subscribed to multiple courses at once.
The order email notifications will no longer be sent for this type of product.
Learners - The availability of the model answer in essay questions
Changed: The model answer, which helps learners in grading their own essay questions, is now only displayed when learners themselves are responsible for grading the question. Otherwise, it is shown only to the instructor, who can include it in the assessment of the learner.
Learners - Uploading video file in the video hand-in assignment
Added: In addition to recording a video within the video hand-in assignment and submitting it, learners can now also upload a pre-recorded video file.
Learners - Screen reader accessibility (WCAG)
Improved: Improvements have been made to non-text content regarding screen reader accessibility.
Non-text content, such as images, videos and sound fragments, can now include alternative text.
The alternative texts are accessible for screen reading services, enabling all users to access and understand the non-text content.
These improvements have been applied to the relevant content types in questions and content parts.
Note: In June 2024, alternative texts will be expanded to all areas where non-text content can be added via the text-editor as well.
Learners - Keyboard accessibility (WCAG)
Improved: Improvements have been made to enhance keyboard accessibility for several activity types:
The six evaluation activities: scan, 360 feedback, questionnaire, form, reflection and survey; and the event activity.
Content - Improving file management in content libraries
Improved: Adding and managing files within a content library has been made easier by renewing the interface and by adding the tagging possibilities.
The files tab within the content library has been updated to match the common interface, enhancing consistency and intuitiveness.
This also includes the ability to add tags to files and narrow your view based on selected tags in the filter.
The ability to view tags that are pre-added to files, and the capability to filter based on tags, has been added to various other places within the content library where you can add files.
Such as adding files in questions and content parts.
Note: The ability to filter files by tags will be available slightly later, in June 2024.
PE-online - Adding PE edition IDs to courses
Note: This feature will go live in June 2024
Added: You can now add PE-online accreditation to courses by using PE edition IDs.
Any PE-online IDs in the template will be ignored when PE edition IDs are added to a course from that template.
Certificate - Certificate code for the course’s start and end dates
Added: You can now automatically add the start and end date of the course to the certificate using the certificate codes 'courseStartDate' and 'courseEndDate'.
Survey - Template data included in the export
Note: This feature is already available
Added: The name and external ID of the template from which the feedback is gauged are now included in the export as well.
Email notification - Removing email notifications for free products with direct access
Changed: The ability to edit the content of email notifications for acquiring products with 'Free, direct access' as a payment method has been removed, as these email notifications are no longer present.
WCAG - Non-text content accessibility for screen readers
Added: The ability to provide non-text content with alternative text, making it accessible to screen reading services.
All non-text content, such as images, videos and sound fragments that are essential for understanding the entire content, can now include alternative text.
The alternative text can be provided when selecting the file for the content.
API - Method to enrol and unenrol learners for events
Note: This feature will go live in June 2024
Added: Various API calls have been added to enable the option for managing learners’ enrolment in events from your own system.
The GET call '/getBookableEventSubscriptions/{eventID}' allows you to retrieve all learners who are subscribed to an event.
The POST call '/subscribeBookableEvent/{userID}/{eventID}' allows you to enrol learners in events.
The POST call '/unsubscribeBookableEvent/{userID}/{eventID}' allows you to unenrol learners from events.
API - Method to link instructors to learner groups in the course
Note: This feature is already available
Added: You can link instructors to learner groups within a course from your own system by using the POST call '/setStudentGroupTeachers'.
Instructors previously linked to the learner group (but not included in the call) will be removed from the group.
Instructors will only be linked to the learner group if they have access to the course.