New features
- Smart search on system options: The generic search field can now be used to quickly find options/functionalities.
- Specification of recipients for notifications by email addresses: Now you can specify custom emails which you want a notification to be sent to, following these steps.
- SCORM reports to show attempts in progress: Until now, only passed or failed attempts were shown in the SCORM reports. Now, you'll be able to see attempts that are still in progress.
- Course completion rate for a group or branch: Now you can see the course completion rate for a group or a branch through the respective reports, as described in this article.
- History of all assignment retries: The system will now be listing past submissions along with the new attempt. You can find more information here.
- Choose a specific date as certificate expiration: Until now, you could only set a duration for certifications. You can now set a specific date, following these instructions.
- Make portal inaccessible to robots: Until now, search engines could crawl and index the external pages of your portal. Now, this can be avoided. You can find out how in this article.
- Clone feature for custom reports: It will save time when you need to create many similar reports with many rules, as you won't have to do it one by one. Check this article for more information.
- "On course X completion, call URL Z" for all courses: You can easily specify the automation "On course X completion, call URL Z" to be triggered for all courses.
- Preview Certificate template when adding/editing a course: The Certificate template can now be previewed from within the course info page.
- Create categories on the spot: Categories can now be created from within the course info page when editing or adding a new course.
- Improved the login process: Users can log in either by username or email.
Improvements
- UI/UX improvements: This release includes several UI/UX improvements.
- Test completion screen will show in more detail what answer was wrong in a “fill in the gap” question.
- Small improvements on the instructor course dashboard page.
- A course assignment notification is now sent even when the system automatically reassigns the course upon certification expiration.
- The character limit for GIFT/AIKEN question imports is now 40.000 characters.
- Added more options on the menu that you see when you use a mobile browser.
- Improvements in cropping images.
- Improvements on the admin view on the mobile app browser.
- Small improvements on the "Users & Progress" page you access from your instructor course dashboard.
- Small improvements on the test and survey creation pages.
- Performance improvements:
- Improved the cycle time on cron jobs that handle scheduled (X hours before/after) notifications. The accuracy of scheduled notifications has been improved significantly.
- One dedicated server for API requests. This means that the service users will no longer be affected by massive API bursts, so better user experience should be attained.
- Increased application logs.
- Changes on custom reports and courses included in learner progress output:
- "Have completed a course within a period of time" restricts the output to courses that users have completed within a set period of time.
- "Got a certification within a period of time" restricts the output to courses users have received a certification for within the set period of time.
- "Have completed the course" or "Have a certification for course" will output the progress only in the specified courses.
- The training progress export (through the Reports section) will no longer include the instructors.
- Added placeholder on course assignment notifications: {related_user_login} placeholder was added to course assignment notifications.
- Small changes for new portals and branches:
- "External catalog" will be disabled by default on new portals.
- "Disallow members of this branch to login from main domain URL" will be enabled by default on new branches.
- Disabled autofill on multiple inputs. This will prevent browsers from auto-filling fields.
- Hidden links and text from the instructor and learner dashboard on mobile browser view.
- Change on the “Assignment” & “ILT” icons when grade for submissions/participations is pending. Now there's one icon badge with the sum of assignments and ILTs to be graded.
- Upgraded SimpleSAMLphp to 1.18.
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where the notification "X hours before an ILT session starts" was being sent to users that have been removed from the course.
- Fixed an issue where SCORM modules were not responsive on pop-up viewing on a mobile browser.
- Fixed an issue where video and audio units that are longer than 1 hour were freezing.
- Fixed an issue where the video sample units could not be viewed on Google Chrome.
- Fixed an issue where certifications could not be previewed when the user's username contained @.
- Fixed an issue where text was being cut off on assignment text submissions with << in them.
- Fixed an issue where a link to the timeline was being shown when learners tried to update their email with an email of a user that had been deleted.
- Fixed an issue where the time was not being calculated correctly for users in cases where they had been logged out due to the "Disallow multiple logins from the same user" option.
- Fixed an issue where the top drop-down menu was empty for users that have no profile permissions.
- Fixed an issue where users could not log in via SSO on their mobile apps.
- Fixed an issue where a link in the course description of a course would cause a layout issue on the course catalog.
- Fixed an issue where users that were imported into a branch were not met with the branch default language.
- Fixed an issue where clicking at the score in reports as an instructor would cause an error.
- Fixed an issue where the message "Looks like you don't have any courses yet" was not being shown on the dashboard of users that have no courses.
- Fixed an issue where the "Get all" button for group bundles that have a % in their name was not working.
- Fixed an issue where the course image was spilling over to the course title and description on smaller browsing windows.
- Fixed an issue where the screen rotated when users tried to access an ILT unit within the browser view on their mobile apps.
- Fixed an issue where an error was being produced when trying to preview or download a certification as an instructor.
- Fixed an issue where the search field for the user list became case-sensitive when searching with custom user field value.
- Fixed an issue where the branch infographic was showing incorrect number of logins.
- Fixed issues with notifications showing incorrect domain in URL placeholders.
- Fixed an issue where the user limit reset date on active plans was not the day of the month the subscription started at.
- Fixed an issue where expired certifications were not being renewed if the current certificate duration was "forever".
- Fixed an issue where users could not reply to messages.
- Fixed an issue where you could not send a message via the mass actions in the Users admin list.
- Fixed an issue where the certification download button was not shown in the course completion pop-up.
- Fixed an issue where the certification could not be downloaded from custom reports.
- Fixed an issue where a malfunction occurred on display of available certification backgrounds due to the large number of uploaded backgrounds.
- Fixed an issue where the change of TalentLMS domain name could cause the subscription to deactivate.
- Fixed issues with drop-down menus not working properly on mobile browser view.
Security Patches
- Patched against stored XSS attacks in Messages and Discussions.
- Destroy other logged-in sessions upon email and password change.
- Patched against CSV injection on course report export.
- Patched against XSS attacks on app create portal page.
- Patched against IDOR vulnerability.
Mobile app
- Support for ILT units.
- Support for password-protected tests.
- Full-screen mode support for multiple unit types.
- SCORM improvements.
- UI improvements.
- Improved support for Wistia and H5P content (iOS only).
- Support for the 'show score' option in tests (when it is off, no score bar is shown on either app).