Date available on Pearson VUE Hosted Server: April 26, 2018
Potential date available for Remote Deployment Installations: May 11, 2018
Release Updates
Pages | Users Affected | Description | When does this happen? | Outcome | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Develop Questions ->Cases | Project Managers, Case Publish | The ability to publish and unpublish cases was removed. | The requirement to publish cases is no longer necessary to publish an exam or a section. The functionality has been removed. | Users are no longer able to publish or unpublish an exam. | Update |
| Create Roles | Project Manager | The ability to publish and unpublish cases permission was removed. | For existing users with this Publish case permission, the role has been removed. | Because Case Publish has been removed, the permission has also been removed. | Update |
Create/Edit Exam Form, | Project Managers, Create Sections, Create Exams | Cases no longer carry a status of Draft or Publish. | When users previously viewed the aforementioned pages, the status of the case was listed as Draft or Published. | The system no longer lists a status for cases. | Update |
| Modify Questions | Project Managers, Item Reviewers | Removed Add Question to Case button. | Previously users had the ability to add existing questions to a new case. | Users will no longer be able to add existing questions to a case from the Modify questions page. | Update |
| Configuration | Project Manager | Moved Reference Configuration settings to References Tab | Previously Reference configuration was split between the questions and references tabs on the configuration page. | Project Managers will now notice that all reference settings are on the reference tab. | Update |
| Create Questions, Modify Questions | Item Writers, Item Reviewers, Project Managers | References can be set for individual item elements. | References were previously set at the item level exclusively. | Users can now set references at the item level and/or the individual option level including the answer key. | Enhancement |
| Custom Report (Reports Page) | Project Mangers, Manage Reports | References tied to specific item elements will now be flagged in the custom report | Originally on the custom report references did not have a specific flag. They were all tied to the item with no discernible affiliation to unique elements. | With the ability to tie references to specific item elements the custom report will now display where the reference has been linked to the item. i.e. Distractor A, Key B, Item etc. | Enhancement |
| Manage Item Bank (Add Content) | Item Bank Administrators | Ability to query items in a specific project from the manage item bank area | When viewing items in the Content Add page in the Manage Item bank area users would see all items in the selected project without the ability to query the list of items. | Users can now use the query the items in a selected project from the content add page. | Enhancement |
| Assign work to users, Review Summary | Project Managers, Item Reviewers | Saved search names now appear for review assignments | When assignments were previously displayed the entire search criteria for the assignment was listed. | Now when review assignments are displayed the saved search name will be displayed. | Enhancement |
| Assign work to users | Project Managers | Deleting saved search prompts users of active assignments | When users attempted to delete saved searches previously the system would prevent the process and display the following message: "Work assignments for this criteria exists in the itembank, please remove it to delete." | Now when a users attempts to delete a saved search the system will now display which users contain an assignment using that saved search. | Enhancement |
| Custom Report | Project Managers, Manage Reports | Question ID is duplicated in Cloned To/From columns in custom report | After users clone a question and make subsequent revisions to cloned question the custom report displayed duplicate ids in the cloned to/cloned from columns for the original (cloned to) and cloned items (cloned from) | This has been corrected so that duplicated item IDs no longer appear on the custom report. | Fix |
| Dashboard | Item Writers | Draft/Rejected Count not updating correctly on Dashboard | When a writer logged into the system and looked at the dashboard, it would show that there were no items in their Draft/Rejected queue when there are actually items in those states. | Updated question service to ensure that the counts showing to the writers on the dashboard are correct. | Fix |
| Dashboard | Item Reviewers | All review states appear on reviewer dashboard | When reviewers look at the dashboard they notice all review states across the itembank rather than the review states that reflect their project access. | Now, the reviewer see the review states that apply to the projects that they have access to. | Fix |
| QTI Export Rendering | Project Managers, QTI Export | Spreadsheet items: Cell-level scoring overrides item level experimental flag | When specifying cells for scoring on the spreadsheet type item if you were to mark the item as experimental from the create/edit exam forms page the QTI exported would show that the item was scored (scored="true" in the QTI) | When exporting spreadsheet items with cell-level scoring if you were to flag the item as experimental the item would be set to Unscored (scored="false" in the QTI) | Fix |
| Write Question, Modify Question | Project Managers, Item Writers, Item Reviewers | Properties window for Enhanced Matching item cannot be moved vertically | When using the properties window for tokens, targets and labels on Enhanced Matching items the properties window can only be moved horizontally. | The properties window can now be moved vertically on enhanced matching items. | Fix |