The following bug fixes, new features, and improvements are now part of the EdReady platform, as of 11 May 2018:
- There is a new feature now available where you can adjust the settings for a scope so that a student can take the same scope in more than one goal. The combination of a scope and a goal defines a ‘study path’, so this feature means that students can now pursue a study path more than one time, separated by goal.
- The feature is enabled via a setting on the Scopes tab where you can designate the maximum number of times that a study path can be taken by any one student. Each study path must still be in a separate goal.
We added quite a few additional options to the study-path management facility where administrators and teachers can manually organize and/or correct the different study path enrollments for students.
- The feature is enabled via a setting on the Scopes tab where you can designate the maximum number of times that a study path can be taken by any one student. Each study path must still be in a separate goal.
- We think we have finally squashed a challenging bug related to the LTI-based single-sign-on (SSO) protocol. This bug was throwing an ugly http 500 error for students who tried to sign on to EdReady via SSO when they already had an account they had created directly on the site.
- There is another new feature specific to Developmental English. We now have a pool of questions for Developmental English which are specifically reserved for use during the initial diagnostic. These questions avoid the use of long reading passages, which we heard from teachers and students were quite frustrating for students since the questions are pulled randomly and students found themselves having to read a lot of different material with little benefit.
- As with most features, the option to ‘use reserved diagnostic question pool’ can be enabled or disabled as needed. It is now on by default for all Dev English study paths. You can turn it off in the study path options.
- The special diagnostic pool of questions has to also be included in your scope. The question collection is now included for all Dev English scopes. You can remove it if you want to but we would recommend leaving it included.
- There is now an option to have NO title on the Congratulations page. For cases where that page is really an interim milestone, it can often make sense to leave out the title.
- We updated all of the question collections and many of the tools associated with managing those collections.
- We squashed a number of other bugs and made a number of minor improvements throughout, as usual.