Release Notes November 2020

New Features

Custom homepage:
- By working with sections, you are now able to fully customize your external login homepage. You can add a banner, text, image/video, and, add a course gallery. Find more information here. Branches can also have their own unique external homepage. Find more information here.
Notifications:
- Now you are able to preview your notifications and see how an email looks before it is sent out.
- A notification on the “X hours before user deactivation” event is now available.
- A notification on the “X hours after user creation” event is also available.
Courses: You can now create alternative learning paths for your courses.

Improvements

Automations: The automation “On course X completion, assign course(s) Y” can now be used for multiple course completions.
Assignments & ILTs: A search field is now available on the Assignments & ILT page when logged in as an Instructor.
ILTs:
- A confirmation modal is now added for users that are unregistering themselves from a session.
- The ILT session description is now available via a smart tag on ILT-related notifications.
- You are now able to select and add/remove users en masse from an ILT session.
  Find more information here.
Timeline:
- The event “File download” is now available where you can track the users that have downloaded files from your portal.
- You are now able to see by whom and by which method a user was added to a course.
- You are now able to see by whom a user was removed from a course.
- The activation of an account via email is now visible on the Timeline.
Categories:
- Categories can now be collapsed and extended.
- Selecting a category automatically selects all subcategories without expanding them. The same applies when unselecting a category.
- Expanding a category opens only the first level of subcategories.
- The reset button unselects and collapses all categories.
Languages: TalentLMS now supports the Georgian language.
General:
- Now when the system is locked, all users except for the Account Owner are logged out.
- Custom drop-down fields have been redesigned so the possible values are more legible.
- A new rule is available in Custom reports so you can select users by using part of their email domain.
- Course report exports now include a Certificate expiration date column.
- You can now activate, deactivate, delete, and send messages to multiple users. You can also enroll, unenroll, and reset the progress of a user at once via Mass actions in a Course’s User tab. Find more information here.
- You can add and remove courses from branches or groups, set a category, and show or hide courses on the course catalog. Find more information here.
- You are now able to set a maximum capacity of attendees for your GoToWebinar/GoToMeeting/GoToTraining integration.
- You are now able to add/remove multiple courses to/from a branch or group en masse, as well as add multiple courses to a specific category and show/hide courses from the catalog en masse.
- Sections can now be reordered with some or all of their units selected.
- The phrase “Navigate on course page” is now “Start course” on our WordPress plugin.
- You are now able to customize the footer of your emails and choose whether your TalentLMS domain will be visible
- The API endpoint GET timeline has been updated for the “user_create_payment” event, and the course ID is now available under the object ID parameter.
- The character limit is now extended on the Overview tab of the exported Survey reports.

Bug fixes

Fixed an issue with certificates' expiration dates causing long-term dates to display incorrectly.
Fixed an issue with empty submissions on tests.
Fixed an issue with the timer on video units.
Fixed an issue with user creation after completing a shared course.
Fixed an issue with the option “Tests & assignments I choose”, where the selected values were not visible.
Fixed an issue with time zones upon self-registration to branches.
Fixed a minor UI issue on the Admin dashboard.
Fixed an issue where the course catalog was still visible in deactivated branches.
Fixed an issue with BambooHR auto-sync, where deactivated users in BambooHR were not deactivating in TalentLMS.
Fixed an issue where the notification 'X hours before an ILT session starts' was not sent when the recipient was set to the value “Specific recipients”.
Fixed an issue where the manual test completion was overwriting the test’s last attempt.
Fixed an issue with our WordPress plugin where courses deleted from TalentLMS were not deleted from WordPress.
Fixed an issue in the notification ‘X hours before course expiration’ where an incorrect value was presented for the site URL smart tag.
Fixed an issue where SCORM zip packages with non-Latin characters could not be uploaded to the portal.
Fixed an issue with the BigBlueButton integration when setting the maximum number of participants to 40 users.
Fixed an issue where the notification “On course completion” for branch members was sent to instructors that were not added to the branch.
Fixed an issue with a custom variable that is sent to our integration with PayPal.
Fixed an issue where inactive courses were added in the Courses Leaderboard.
Fixed an issue with BigBlueButton and screen sharing.
Fixed an issue with the average test score on Infographics.
Fixed an issue where the given answers in multiple-choice questions were not visible to learners even when the option “show given answers” was enabled.
Fixed an issue where branch admins were able to use the “Login as user” feature on other branch admins.
Fixed an issue with the issuance of communication badges.
Fixed an issue where custom reports with many rows were not sent to specific requesters.
Fixed an issue where courses that contained Zoom sessions created before Zoom updated their app settings, could not be deleted.
Fixed an issue where the user was repeatedly re-assigned to a course when the course was set to be re-assigned seven days before the certification expiration date.