Combined Product Release Log Overview

All Learnosity product releases and notes for each.

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  • Latest
  • 2020.1.LTS Recommended (Rel.: 20th February 2020, EoL: 20th February 2022)
  • 2019.3.LTS (Rel.: 31st October 2019, EoL: 31st October 2021)
  • 2019.2.LTS (Rel.: 26th June 2019, EoL: 26th June 2021)
  • 2019.1.LTS (Rel.: 27th February 2019, EoL: 28th February 2021)
  • 2018.2.LTS (Rel.: 3rd October 2018, EoL: 30th September 2020)
  • 2018.1.LTS (Rel.: 6th June 2018, EoL: 31st May 2020)

Latest

Our rolling release. This release contains in-development new features released since the most recent Long Term Support.

This should only be used for in-development systems targeting a production release using the next Long Term Support release (see our Learnosity Help article for further details) or for testing upcoming features while in-development.

21st May 2020
Features
Questions API v2.155.0, Author API v1.66.0, Question Editor API v3.79.0, Data API v1.39.0
  • Added the ability to move text after being written in the drawing Question type. This creates a better user experience.
  • Added support for uploading images in the longtextV2 Question type. This allows students to combine both images and text in a single response.
  • Added a new Text Tool into the drawing Question type, that allows users to add text into the canvas. This adds an essential element to the tool, allowing students to create drawings including typed text.
  • Added better ARIA labels to the custom keypad dropdown in the Math keypad so that screenreader users will get full information of what they are selecting.
  • Added support for video files in the ".WMV" (Windows Media Video) file format, in the file upload Question type. This provides better support for videos created on the Windows operating system.
  • Added new public methods for reading and writing the description attribute to Activities: getActivityDescription() and setActivityDescription().
  • Added various updates to support PHP 7.4 compatibility.
  • GET sessions/reports/adaptive: Added support for retrieving the custom_state from self-hosted adaptive Sessions.
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.155.0, Author API v1.66.0, Data API v1.39.0
  • Fixed a bug with Line Chart where the correct answer was not being displayed when in review mode, like all the other charts.
  • Fixed a bug where videos were playing automatically, when that was not the intended behaviour.
  • Fixed a bug with the different charts where the x-axis label would overlap after interacting with the chart in any way.
  • Fixed a bug where the redo, undo and clear drawn marks features in the drawing Question type caused browser freezes or severe delays.
  • Fixed a bug that caused simplefeatures inside sharedpassage rendering to fail when navigating between dynamic sections.
  • Fixed a bug where the "show advanced search" button is missing in the Item list at extra small to medium screen sizes. This occurred when the toolbar had a single control search field and the Tag search fields showing.
  • Fixed a bug where changes to Item settings were removing additional Item metadata. This was causing issues mainly with Items that contained Mathgen data which was also stored in the Item metadata object.
  • Fixed a bug where the math question generator was not initialized with the correct authentication details. Users should now be able to access this feature and create expressions without any problems.
  • GET jobs: Fixed a bug for Itempool jobs where halted status was returned instead of queued.
Polish
Questions API v2.155.0, Author API v1.66.0, Question Editor API v3.79.0
  • Improvement: adjusted navigation to the info and keypad dropdown menu in the Math keypad so that screenreader users can get to these options from any top line key in the keypad.
  • Improvement: made changes to the UI of the Academic Benchmark standards browser.
  • Improvement: enabled the cancel button by default in the customize text labels page in Activity Edit, Item Settings and Workflow pages.
  • Improvement: updated the served JavaScript API file to reference the correct documentation site.
  • Improvement: the help text for the file upload dialog window has been updated with ".WMV" (Windows Media Video) file format support. This improves the user experience.

30th Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Data API v1.38.2
  • SET itembank/items: Fixed a bug that could cause an Item's definition to be overridden if the Item also contained the legacy content parameter.

28th Apr 2020
Features
Questions API v2.154.0, Author API v1.65.0, Question Editor API v3.78.0
  • Added support for showing distractor rationale with validation UI to the clozeassociationand clozetext Question types.
  • Added support for showing distractor rationale with validation UI to the clozedropdown Question type.
  • Added the "Math composition" symbol, represented with a circle to the Math Keypad.
  • MathCore v1.75.0:
    • Added support for ignore order within Chemistry formula containing equilibrium reaction.
  • Added tooltips for the settings, workflow and standards buttons in the Item editor page.
  • Added the "Math composition" symbol, represented with a circle to the Math Keypad.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.105.1, Questions API v2.154.0, Author API v1.65.0, Question Editor API v3.78.0, Data API v1.38.1
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the preventDefault option of the item:beforeunload event from working in adaptive Assessments.
  • Fixed a bug, adding a missing scrolling indicator label to the label bundle.
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when setting skip_submit_confirmation to true, which bypassed the submission criteria.
  • Fixed a bug that made simple features not accessible in the sharedpassage feature, when the readyListener is fired.
  • Fixed a bug in which the choice matrix Question type was a bit slow to respond after users selected one of the options.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented users from correctly setting the border color of a table header.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented iOS users from using the audio player volume control.
  • Fixed a bug where loading an Activity's Items after creating an Item failed to find the new Item.
  • Fixed a bug with the math Question generator where removing a parameter would cause the wrong names to be applied to the remaining parameters.
  • Fixed a bug where label bundle overrides for Item workflow didn't cater for mixed case reference names.
  • Fixed a bug where half of the find passage button was not clickable.
  • Fixed a bug in the details tab of the Item settings page, where the apply and cancel buttons would be incorrectly enabled when focusing and then unfocusing certain input fields, without making changes.
  • Fixed a bug where the Show Answers button did not show the correct answers for any Questions in Items using Features.
  • Fixed a bug where certain UX controls were still visible in the AB standards modal window, when the "discard changes" modal window was visible.
  • Fixed a bug where errors from the embedded Items and Assess APIs were bubbling up to the errorListener of Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where an Activity's player templates were not displayed correctly after destroying and re-initializing Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where a previous validation value was persisting once a row or column count had been changed. Row and column count changes now reset validation and alternate response values.
  • Fixed a bug where the hotspot area dropdown menu was resetting, when new areas were added to the image.
  • SET itembank/items: Fixed bugs in forward-port of Data API v0 support.
Polish
Items API v1.98.2, Questions API v2.154.0, Author API v1.65.0, Annotations API v0.9.1
  • Improvement: internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.
  • Improvement: updated behavior when tabbing in and out of the Math keypad, so that when a keyboard user enters a symbol, uses shift-tab to move their cursor to the input, then used tab to return back to keypad they will be focused on the most recently entered symbol.
  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the record functionality in the audio Question type.
  • Improvement: updated the user experience of working with Item workflows.
  • Improvement: updated Author API's ability to recover from fatal errors.
  • Internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.

1st Apr 2020
Features
Assess API v2.105.0, Questions API v2.153.0, Author API v1.64.0, Question Editor API v3.77.0, Data API v1.38.0, Annotations API v0.9.0
  • Added support for preventing Item navigation, when there are Questions that do not meet the number of required answers, or are unattempted. Setting disable_item_navigation: true in the warning_on_change object will show a warning dialog without the continue button.
  • Added a configuration option which can be turned on for a consumer to enable a performance optimization for extremely large scale assessment (500k users concurrently).
  • Added a close button for the Math keypad with floating display and improved its navigation using only the keyboard. Furthermore, announcements on its opening and closing have been added for screen reader users.
  • Added new ruler images with predictable display resolution.
  • Added a new attribute, disable_auto_link for longtextV2, when set to true, URLs entered by the user will not automatically become clickable-links.
  • Added a new public method getAttemptedStatus() to get the attempt status of a Question, such as hasReachedMinLimit.
  • Added an aria label for shorttext Question types, providing extra context for users.
  • Added a new method setItemJson() which updates the Item JSON. This allows developers to update any field in an Item, which was previously impossible in Author API.
  • Added new public methods for reading and writing title attribute to and from Items and Activities: getItemTitle(), setItemTitle(), getActivityTitle(), setActivityTitle().
  • Added label bundle support for Workflow states.
  • Editing an Item and navigating back to the Item list page will only show that Item if the workflow state matches that of the allowed_workflow_state initialization option.
  • Added a new attribute, disable_auto_link for longtextV2 Question type. When set to true, URLs entered by the user will not automatically become clickable-links.
  • Forward-ported some functionality from Data API v0 to ease migration before the June 2020 End of Life phase. Please contact Learnosity support if you need assistance upgrading to v1.
  • Added support for automatically tracking anonymized errors within Annotations API.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.105.0, Questions API v2.153.0, Author API v1.64.0, Question Editor API v3.77.0
  • Fixed a bug where the item:goto event was triggered twice in the table of contents menu. Now, the <a> element handles the event.
  • Fixed a bug where the dialog title was centered and class names were not defensive enough.
  • Fixed a bug where the minimum selection notification message did not display in the resume state.
  • Fixed the empty content in the correct answer list in the classification Question type.
  • Fixed a bug, an encoding issue with the Audio recording in simple features. Users can now record audio files up to ten minutes in length.
  • Fixed a bug where the AB standards modal didn't always expand to its maximum height of 600px.
  • Fixed a bug where errors from the embedded Question Editor API instance were not bubbling up to Author API's errorListener.
  • Fixed a bug where the save button was initially disabled when the navigate method was called with the route items/:data.
  • Fixed a bug where the AB standards chip tray scrollbar appeared when there were 3 rows or more, instead of 4 rows or more.
  • Fixed a bug, a layout issue in the AB standards modal window where the next button was included as part of the scrollable content.
  • Fixed a bug where the items attribute is not removed from the Activity JSON if it's set to an empty array or null upon saving the Activity as required for adaptive assessments.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the math generator expression icon from showing correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where the application was throwing an error in a native alert, when its DOM hook was destroyed before initialization had completed.
  • Fixed a bug where font_sizes didn't work if enabled was undefined, although the default should be true.
  • Fixed a bug where the Layout and Keypad headings in the "More options" section of a Question shared the same identifier. This resulted in the inability to individually hide these sections using the hidden sections initialisation options.
  • Fixed a bug, a race condition which prevented the Math editor from being loaded.
Polish
Items API v1.98.1, Assess API v2.105.0, Questions API v2.153.0, Question Editor API v3.77.0
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.
  • Improvement: Fixed accessibility color scheme for selectable components, for example, multiple choice Question options.
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.
  • Improvement: Updated accessibility for the formula editor in math questions.
  • Improvement: Updated accessibility with Voice Over to prevent the screen reader from announcing everything inside the calculator dialog.
  • MathCore v1.74.0:
    • Improved support in Learnosity math scoring, where if an expression includes an exponential we were not recognising equivalent expressions. For example, where e^x is included and can be factored, i.e. 5*x*e^x-5e^x, the equivalent expression 5e^x(x-1) will now be scored as correct.
    • Improved support for trigonometry identities that were not working with more complicated arguments inside the trig functions. The following trig identities are supported: reciprocal, pythagorean, quotient (tangent/cotangent), cofunction, supplement, periodic when n=1, parity (even/odd), sum and difference, and product to sum.
  • Improvement: Increased the alternative text field for Question types with images such as highlight, drawing and label image with text.
  • Improvement: Updated the default ruler image for the Simple Feature.

11th Mar 2020
Features
Items API v1.98.0, Assess API v2.104.0, Questions API v2.152.0, Author API v1.63.0, Data API v1.37.0, Annotations API v0.8.0
  • Added a warning dialog to inform the user about unsaved annotations. When users are about to navigate away from the page by clicking the back button or reloading the browser, a warning dialog will appear to warn users if there are any unsaved annotations like text highlighting, or sticky notes. This warning dialog will only show up when the Activity's type is submit_practice.
  • Added a new warning dialog for unsaved annotations content. When users are about to navigate away from the page by clicking the Back button or reloading the browser, a warning dialog will appear to warn users if there are any unsaved annotations like text highlight, sticky note... This warning dialog will only show up when the activity's type is submit_practice.
  • Added support for the multiple choice Question type to allow users to set min_selection when multiple_responses: true.
  • Added a new init option property skip_replay_animation which controls the existing skip_highlight_animation.
  • Added support for event.preventDefault() in the save:activity event to prevent an Activity from being saved.
  • Added the ability to save your progress and quit, if a network issue caused math generation to fail.
  • Added a 'seed' column to the final datatable in the math generator wizard. The original expression of each row will always be displayed before applying a math generator Question type.
  • Added label bundles to the Academic Benchmarks Standards user interface.
  • Internal changes and dependency updates to support future functionality.
  • Added a new public method safeToUnload which can be used to tell if there is any unsaved annotations.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.104.0, Questions API v2.152.0, Author API v1.63.0
  • Fixed a bug that caused the two events item:setAttemptedResponse and item:attemptedstatus:change to be called only when Items change. With this fix, each time a user attempts a Question, those two events will always be called.
  • Fixed a bug where number line plot Questions were causing console errors, when "show correct answers" was turned on in Item preview mode.
  • Fixed a bug in which the minus sign was rendered too thin in the following Question Types, causing it to be barely visible: Math Formula, Cloze Math, Cloze Chemistry, Cloze Math with Image and Math Essay.
  • Fixed a bug where the hover description was not displaying in the longTextV2.
  • Fixed a bug that caused "validated" events to be dispatched at inappropriate times in the "resume" state.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player simple feature can be interacted with, when there is no source URL.
  • Fixed a bug in which setting the correct answer in the Graphing Question Type could lead to the application crashing.
  • Fixed a bug in which creating a new label in the Graphing Question Type would result in a console error.
  • Fixed a bug where dynamic content handles weren't rendered properly in the math question generator when adding new dynamic data parameters.
  • Fixed a bug where Item status was fully editable even when Item workflow was enabled. Users are now only able to archive an Item, as setting an Item to published is handled by Item workflow.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the original expression to be validated as correct despite not being selected as a validation in the math question generator Question type in Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where the workflow settings modal window overlapped with the Item settings modal window.
  • Fixed a bug where clearing the Academic Benchmarks Standard filtering in the Item list toolbar did not clear the selected Standard in the Academic Benchmarks Standard browser user interface.
  • Fixed a bug where the Academic Benchmarks standards browser was visible when the discard changes prompt was visible in the Item settings takeover window.
  • Fixed a bug where Author API tooltips were not rendering inside modals and takeovers.
  • Fixed a bug where a slow connection could cause the math question generator to crash when switching to the 'Expression & question' section of the wizard.
Polish
Assess API v2.104.0, Questions API v2.152.0, Author API v1.63.0, Annotations API v0.8.0
  • Improved internationalization by moving the period (“.”) punctuation from the Accessibility Options panel into the label bundle.
  • Improvement: upgraded accessibility for drag and drop Question types, and JAWS compatibility.
  • Improvement: upgraded drag and drop accessibility for the following Question types: Cloze Drag & Drop, Label Image With Drag & Drop, Classification and Matchlist. Now the focus will be ensnared into the dropped response instead of going back to the possibility list.
  • Improvement: Keyboard navigation for distractor rationale is now better organised, with related content grouped together.
  • Improvement: Drag and drop Questions will now announce a better message regarding how to interact with response container zones.
  • Improvement: Changed the default decimal places in the Math Generator Question type from 0 to 10.
  • Upgraded internal tooling to improve security and performance.

2020.1.LTS Recommended

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

This is our recommended version for production releases right now.

Read more about 2020.1.LTS here.

  • Released: 20th February 2020
  • End of Life: 20th February 2022

21st May 2020
Features
Questions API v2.151.4
  • MathCore v1.73.1:
    • Added support for ignore order within Chemistry formula containing equilibrium reaction.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.103.4, Questions API v2.151.4, Author API v1.62.4, Question Editor API v3.76.3
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the preventDefault option of the item:beforeunload event from working in adaptive Assessments.
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when setting skip_submit_confirmation to true, which bypassed the submission criteria.
  • Fixed a bug where number line plot Questions were causing console errors, when "show correct answers" was turned on in Item preview mode.
  • Fixed a bug in which the choice matrix Question type was a bit slow to respond after users selected one of the options.
  • Fixed a bug where an Activity's player templates were not displayed correctly after destroying and re-initializing Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where the math question generator was not initialized with the correct authentication details. Users should now be able to access this feature and create expressions without any problems.
  • Fixed a bug where widgets couldn't be edited in Internet Explorer 11 due to a rarely occurring race condition.
Polish
Assess API v2.103.4
  • Improvement: Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.

30th Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Data API v1.36.6
  • SET itembank/items: Fixed a bug that could cause an Item's definition to be overridden if the Item also contained the legacy content parameter.

28th Apr 2020
Features
Data API v1.36.5
  • Added some functionality, forward-ported from Data API v0 to ease migration before the June 2020 End of Life phase. Please contact Learnosity support if you need assistance upgrading from Data API v0.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.103.3, Questions API v2.151.3, Author API v1.62.3, Question Editor API v3.76.2
  • Fixed a bug where the dialog title was centered and class names were not defensive enough.
  • Fixed a bug, a regression where ruler simple features which were authored in Question Editor v3.77.0 or later would not display correctly, when using Questions API v2.151.2 or earlier.
  • Fixed a bug where loading an Activity's Items after creating an Item failed to find the new Item.
  • Fixed a bug, an encoding issue with audio recording in simple Features. Users can now record audio files up to ten minutes in length.
  • Fixed a bug, a race condition which prevented the Math editor from being loaded.
Polish
Items API v1.97.4, Questions API v2.151.3
  • Improvement: internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.
  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the record functionality in the audio Question type.

1st Apr 2020
Features
Author API v1.62.2
  • Added support for event.preventDefault() in the save:activity event to prevent an Activity from being saved.
  • Added the ability to save your progress and quit, if a network issue caused math generation to fail.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.103.2, Questions API v2.151.2, Author API v1.62.2, Data API v1.36.4
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.
  • Fixed a bug that caused "validated" events to be dispatched at inappropriate times in the "resume" state.
  • Improvement: Keyboard navigation for distractor rationale is now better organised, with related content grouped together.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player simple feature can be interacted with, when there is no source URL.
  • Fixed a bug where the hover description was not displaying in the longTextV2.
  • Fixed a bug where dynamic content handles weren't rendered properly in the math question generator when adding new dynamic data parameters.
  • Fixed a bug where clearing the AB standards filtering in the Item list toolbar did not clear the selected standard in the AB standard browser UI.
  • Fixed a bug where the AB standards browser was visible when the discard changes prompt was visible, in the Item settings takeover window.
  • Fixed a bug where Item status was fully editable even when Item workflow was enabled. Users can now only archive an Item, as setting an Item to published is handled by Item workflow.
  • Fixed a bug where a slow connection could cause the math question generator to crash when switching to the 'Expression & question' section of the wizard.
  • Fixed a bug in foundational work for Item bank performance improvements.
Polish
Items API v1.97.3
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.

11th Mar 2020
Features
Question Editor API v3.76.1, Reports API v1.16.1
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.103.1, Questions API v2.151.1, Author API v1.62.1, Question Editor API v3.76.1, Reports API v1.16.1
  • Fixed a bug that caused the two events item:setAttemptedResponse and item:attemptedstatus:change to be called only when Items change. With this fix, each time a user attempts a Question, those two events will always be called.
  • Fixed a bug in which the minus sign was rendered too thin in the following Question Types, causing it to be barely visible: Math Formula, Cloze Math, Cloze Chemistry, Cloze Math with Image and Math Essay.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the original expression to be validated as correct despite not being selected as a validation in the math question generator Question type in Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where using undo/redo to change to a state with no data incorrectly displayed 'undefined'.
  • Fixed a bug where dynamic content handles weren't rendered properly in the math question generator when adding new dynamic data parameters.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the CKEditor context menu to flicker under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug where sessions-summary-by-tag reports would fail to render pre-2018.1.LTS sessions properly.
  • Improvement: changed a parameter name on the response-analysis-by-item report, changing from id to reference in item_reference_map to reduce ambiguity.
  • Fixed a bug in the response-analysis-by-item report, where Question permutations for an "unattempted" response were incorrectly represented as an empty array ("response": []). Unattempted Question permutations are now represented as "response": null. This only affects raw data exposed through the report's dataListener.
Polish
Items API v1.97.2, Reports API v1.16.1
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: Polished the grid view and Item detail view of the response-analysis-by-item report
    • On detail view, item reference will not be pushed out of its cell when resized.
    • Image tools will not flash on loading of the report.
    • Detail preview panel now will resize dynamically when changing the report width.
    • Support for the scroll bar function in Edge and IE 11 browsers.
    • Made a change to set the minimum height of the report to 650px.

20th Feb 2020
Features
Assess API v2.103.0, Questions API v2.151.0, Author API v1.62.0, Question Editor API v3.76.0, Reports API v1.16.0
  • Added internationalization support for all ARIA labels within the assessment player.
  • Added support for multiple choice Question type to allow users to set max_selection when multiple_responses is set to true.
  • Added support for showing distractor rationale with validation UI to the multiple choice Question type.
  • Added support for configuring distractor rationale behavior with the show_distractor_rationale initialization option.
  • Added support for configuring distractor rationale behavior with the showDistractorRationale property in the options argument of question.validate() and questionsApp.validateQuestions() methods.
  • Added support for specifying which stem numeration is used for distractor rationale with the ui_style.validation_stem_numeration property.
  • Added internationalization labels for all ARIA related attributes for most of the Question types.
  • Added in support for Authoring Workflows. Transition Items through the built-in workflow so authors can collaborate on content quality. Items now have a state such as "Draft" or "Review", showing where they are in the authoring process.
  • Added in support for Academic Benchmarks standards. This allows authors to align standards to Items and filter Items by standard. Please visit the help article to learn more.
  • Added a new max_selection input field when multiple_responses is selected in the multiple choice Question.
  • Added a new checkbox before the ARIA label in the math dialog window.
  • Foundational work for Item bank performance improvements.
  • Added support for using the show_distractor_rationale initialization option in questions_api_init_options with Session Detail By Item and Session Detail By Question report types.
  • Added Item detail view to the response-analysis-by-item report, for reviewing individual responses and identifying common responses across the class.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.103.0, Questions API v2.151.0, Author API v1.62.0, Question Editor API v3.76.0
  • Fixed a bug that was blocking users from resuming the previous test, if their test time had exceeded max_time and the time limit_type was set to hard.
  • Fixed a bug in the multiple choice Question that caused a delay when selecting a valid answer if there were a lot of math options.
  • Fixed a bug in which the content of the Calculator display was cut off in Internet Explorer 11 and Safari browsers when Questions API was set to a font size larger than normal.
  • Fixed a bug in which the prime symbol couldn't be used to label a graph.
  • Fixed a bug, some visual defects in the multiple choice Question.
  • MathCore v1.36.0:
    • Fixed a bug with scoring expressions with parentheses in equivSymbolic. Now 14(0.25) with be considered symbolically equivalent to 0.25(14).
    • Added support for unicode equivalent of LaTeX Greek symbols. Now the unicode equivalent will validate to the corresponding LaTeX character.
  • Fixed a bug where the scroll position jumped back to the top when a user went to the widget editor, then Item settings, then back to the widget editor. Retaining the scroll position is helpful when the user is authoring very long content in the widget editor.
  • Fixed a bug where an empty tool bar was being displayed in Item edit mode, even when all of its elements were disabled via initialization options.
  • Fixed a bug where the undo and redo capabilities didn't work with math rendering.
  • Fixed a bug where the aria_label attribute wasn't added to the widget JSON for math and chemistry Question types, when the edit ARIA label checkbox was enabled and the value of the ARIA label field was automatically generated by SpokenMath for accessibility.
Polish
Author API v1.62.0, Question Editor API v3.76.0
  • Improved the behaviour of the MathGen parameter inputs so that it's easy to add valid values.
  • Improvement: Upgraded the CKEditor Rich Text Editor to get the latest bug fixes and improvements.

4th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Items API v1.97.1, Author API v1.61.1, Question Editor API v3.75.0, Data API v1.36.3
  • Fixed a bug where an error was thrown if a consumer does not have a primary organisation.
  • Fixed a bug where the undo and redo capabilities didn't work with math rendering.
  • Fixed a bug where the simple feature modal window didn't work if the class learnosity-response-editor was used to initialize Question Editor API.
  • Fixed a bug where the value set for the individual area dropdown in the hotspot Question type did not show the value when reopening the Question to edit.
  • GET sessions/responses: Fixed performance issue when ordering responses.

29th Jan 2020
Features
Items API v1.97.0, Assess API v2.102.0, Questions API v2.150.0, Author API v1.61.0, Reports API v1.15.0
  • Added foundational work for Item bank performance improvements.
  • Items API now can retry any failed network request three times before aborting the current operation. This feature greatly improves the stability of the API when the app is being used in an unstable network environment.
  • Added a new initialization option in Assess API, eventOptions.customUnload which allows the developer to perform certain action before the browser navigates away from the current page.
  • Added a feature, whereby Questions API now can retry any failed network request three times before aborting the current operation. This greatly improves the stability of the API when the app is being used in an unstable network environment.
  • Changed the Item list, Item picker, intro and outro search toolbars to use flexbox instead of the CSS classes lrn-col-*. Any host pages that have selectors that target the search toolbar's lrn-col-* classes should be changed.
  • Preview release of the response-analysis-by-item report UI.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.102.0, Questions API v2.150.0, Author API v1.61.0, Data API v1.36.2
  • Fixed a bug that caused the dividers of each Item to be hidden in the horizontal table of contents.
  • Fixed a bug where the answer masking button was not working properly in the assessment player.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the menu button twice on mobile platforms threw an exception.
  • Fixed a bug that caused assesssments using the vertical_stretch option to have an incorrect calculated height.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the submit_criteria option from alerting the user if they tried to submit a session containing unattempted Items.
  • Fixed a bug causing the public method getCurrentItem to return an incorrect isLastItem value in adaptive assessments.
  • Fixed a bug where the undo and redo capabilities didn't work with math rendering.
  • Fixed a bug where there were multiple Questions API instances on the page, that would cause a warning to be overridden (the warning that appears when the user is about to navigate away from the assessment).
  • Fixed a bug where the word count would increase when applying bold, italic or other inline formatting to the input text of the longtext V2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug in the audio Question type where the "Tap to start playback" modal window did not begin playing audio when clicked.
  • Fixed a bug where aria-roledescription was showing incorrect content in the association Question type dropzone area.
  • Fixed a bug in which pressing the Enter key wouldn't create a new line while typing math into the math essay Question type.
  • Fixed a bug where Item details could not be edited if wysihtml was set as the editor for Question Editor API.
  • Fixed a bug where saving an Activity would fail when it contained Items with duplicate references, but unique IDs.
  • Fixed a bug where the add image modal window was not centralized properly when multiple instances of Author API were used.
  • Fixed a bug where the add image modal window was not resized when the window was resized.
  • Fixed a bug where the simple feature modal window was positioned for the wrong instance when using multiple instances of Author API.
  • GET report/datasets: Fixed a bug that prevented retrieval of report datasets.
  • GET sessions/responses: Fixed a bug that presented responses out of order.
Polish
Assess API v2.102.0, Questions API v2.150.0, Author API v1.61.0
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.
  • Improvement: updated the accessibility of the audio Question type, making it work better with screen readers and also making it easier to navigate using the keyboard.
  • Improved accessibility by adding ARIA labels to all checkboxes throughout Author API where possible.
  • Improved accessibility by trapping the keyboard interactions within the Math Question Generator takeover when it opens.
  • Added ARIA labels to tooltips.

10th Jan 2020
Polish
Data API v1.36.1
  • SET sessions: Improved handling of older import/export data formats.

8th Jan 2020
Features
Items API v1.96.0, Assess API v2.101.0, Data API v1.36.0
  • Added support for calling reset() before Items API initialization has completed.
  • Added support for decouple_submit_from_review with Sections. This lets students use the review screen independently and can progress through sections without having the review screen automatically open at the end of each section.
  • Added the attribute isLastItem to the Public method getCurrentItem, so that you can tell whether the current active Item is the last Item or not.
  • Added support for calling reset() before Assess API initialization has completed.
  • SET sessions: Allowed consumers to import sessions that were exported from a different consumer.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.96.0, Assess API v2.101.0, Questions API v2.149.1, Author API v1.60.0, Question Editor API v3.74.1
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the user from passing a custom DOM selector when initializing the Items app in the assess mode.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Accessibility panel to change the colour palette of the wrong Assess app instance when there were multiple Assess app instances on the same page.
  • Fixed a bug where Tokenhighlight Question Type does not render token with math content properly.
  • Fixed a bug with the Shading Question Type that caused the browser to crash when navigating through it using VoiceOver.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the footer tooltip of charactermap and characterMathMap of longtextV2 Question types from showing up.
  • Fixed a bug that threw an exception on the page, which occurred in the following situations: When we called the public method append after calling the public method reset, and When we called the public method reset immediately after calling the public method append.
  • Fixed a bug in the customized Math Keypad that caused buttons added to a custom group to render with the wrong color.
  • Fixed a bug that happened when customizing the Math Keypad that caused the backspace button not to render properly when added to a custom group.
  • Fixed a bug with Mathcore that wouldn't allow authors to score by example using equivLiteral
  • Fixed a bug where saving an Item whose description has more than 250 characters did not fail with an appropriate error.
  • Fixed a bug where Items with the same reference but coming from different Item banks and/or Item pools were not handled correctly in an Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where the Question validation section was not loading on the second call of the setWidget() public method.
  • Fixed a bug where the loading animation never disappears when the editActivity() or the editItem() public methods were called inside the readyListener function.
  • Fixed a bug where the add image modal window was being added to the wrong instance of Author API, when the host page contained multiple instances of Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where font_settings, font_sizes and custom_styles were not working properly when the host page initialised multiple instances of Question Editor.
  • Fixed a bug where users could type raw LaTex in ckEditor which broke the code.
  • Fixed a bug where the init option assetRequest did not work properly when there were multiple instances of Question Editor.

18th Dec 2019
Features
Questions API v2.149.0, Data API v1.35.0
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better data storage.

11th Dec 2019
Features
Assess API v2.100.0, Questions API v2.148.0, Author API v1.59.0
  • Added a new initialization option decouple_submit_from_review which allows the user to directly submit at the end of the assessment without entering the review screen if the review screen button is enabled.
  • Added a new init option called: mirror_visibility. When it's enabled, changes in the visibility of a feature's DOM element affect the feature. For example, for video players or audio players, the feature.pause() public method will be called when the element becomes invisible. For imagetool, line reader and calculator, the feature.toggle(false) public method will be called when the element becomes invisible, and then feature.toggle(true) if the element later becomes visible again.
  • Refactored Author API to support upcoming features.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.100.0, Questions API v2.148.0, Author API v1.59.0, Question Editor API v3.74.0
  • Fixed a bug where the calculator would not disappear, when navigating to the next Item.
  • Fixed a bug where the two column layout would collapse whenever there was an intro Item.
  • Fixed a bug where Drawing Question type broke if the uploaded SVG image did not contain width and height.
  • Fixed a bug in which the calculator's input field overflowed horizontally.
  • Fixed a bug in which MathJax rendering crashed with a [Math Processing Error] message when clients have a combination of LaTeX/MathML equations and MathJax-rendered markup in their Items. This is due to MathJax assigning consecutive integer IDs to the elements it renders, and these IDs clashing with the IDs of the already rendered MathJax elements in the Item.
  • Fixed a bug in custom Questions where correct answers weren't being displayed in review state.
  • Fixed a bug when using Safari with VoiceOver where the user could no longer navigate to the page's text content after closing the Calculator feature.
  • Fixed a bug where the editItem() public method was not working when called from Item edit in Activity edit.
  • Fixed a bug where calling the public method once() didn't work for most events.
  • Fixed a bug in Author API where clicking the rich text editor's undo button would result in empty space being added above Question Editor.
  • Fixed a bug in Author API where clicking the rich text editor's undo button after some text was made bold caused a console error.
  • Fixed a bug where the simple feature modal was not working when using multiple instances.
  • Fixed a bug in which the font size for the buttons in the Math Keypad was smaller than it should have been.
Polish
Questions API v2.148.0, Author API v1.59.0
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: The preview panel is now updated immediately when a user navigates to Item settings from the widget editor, and sets some dynamic data.

20th Nov 2019
Features
Questions API v2.147.0, Question Editor API v3.73.0
  • Added a new init option show_distractor_rationale to enable or disable the distractor rationale user interface in activityInitParams.
  • Added ARIA labels to classification cells, allowing screen readers to announce drop zones, and announce whether each drop zone is already populated, improving accessibility.
  • Added the ability to customize the ARIA label in response containers of math Question types, improving accessibility.
  • Added the ability to customize the ARIA label in response containers for math Question types.
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.147.0, Author API v1.58.0, Question Editor API v3.73.0
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's toolbar buttons to display in left-to-right style, with right-to-left languages.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's text direction buttons to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's buttons for increase and decrease indentation to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug where the plaintext Question type's text would be hidden in review mode.
  • Fixed a bug where the classification Question type would display a “correct answers” box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue causing custom Questions to show an error and fail to load, when Angular's Zone.js library was included in the same page.
  • Fixed a bug where the labels for CKEditor in Author API were not correct and could not be overwritten by custom labels.
  • Fixed a bug where the left and right borders were missing for the Token Highlight Question in Item preview.
  • Fixed a bug in Edge and IE11 where an unnecessary vertical scrollbar appeared for the Token Highlight Question in Item preview.
  • Fixed a bug where disabling any rich text area fields in Item settings would cause any existing content to overflow out of the text area element.
  • Fixed a bug where calling the following public methods repeatedly failed to update the UI: setItemDescription(), setItemDifficulty(), setItemNotes() and setItemSource().
  • Fixed a bug where the safeToUnload public method wasn't detecting unsaved changes to the current Widget.
  • Fixed an issue where Items with legacy content did not render.
  • Fixed a bug where incorrect Item references were displayed in Activity preview.
  • Fixed a bug where the itemedit:changed event wasn't firing when the Item title was updated.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented dependent arrays which were interleaved using custom layouts from working.
  • Fixed a bug in which the number pad symbols (numbers and backspace) were not available in the "All Symbols Character Map" when creating a custom keyboard.
  • Fixed a bug where the dynamic content dropdown did not appear in the Math modal editor, when opened for a second time.
Polish
Questions API v2.147.0, Question Editor API v3.73.0
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.
  • Added more detail to error messages for Questions API.
  • Improvement: Upgraded Spokenmath to v1.13.0:
    - Added ARIA label for integrals int.
    - Added ARIA label for limits lim.
    - Added ARIA labels for 'not similar' and 'not congruent' symbols.
    - Fixed ARIA labels for units of measurement, e.g. 12 m/s will now be correctly announced as “12 meters per second“.

2019.3.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about 2019.3.LTS here.

  • Released: 31st October 2019
  • End of Life: 31st October 2021

21st May 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.7, Questions API v2.146.8, Author API v1.57.6
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the preventDefault option of the item:beforeunload event from working in adaptive Assessments.
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when setting skip_submit_confirmation to true, which bypassed the submission criteria.
  • Fixed a bug in which the choice matrix Question type was a bit slow to respond after users selected one of the options.
  • Fixed a bug where an Activity's player templates were not displayed correctly after destroying and re-initialising Author API.
Polish
Assess API v2.99.7
  • Improvement: Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.

28th Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.6, Questions API v2.146.7, Author API v1.57.5
  • Fixed a bug where the dialog title was centered and class names were not defensive enough.
  • Fixed a bug, a regression where ruler simple features which were authored in Question Editor v3.77.0 or later would not display correctly, when using Questions API v2.151.2 or earlier.
  • Fixed a bug where loading an Activity's Items after creating an Item failed to find the new Item.
Polish
Items API v1.95.7, Questions API v2.146.7
  • Improvement: internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.
  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the record functionality in the audio Question type.

1st Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.5, Questions API v2.146.6, Author API v1.57.4
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.
  • Fixed a bug that caused "validated" events to be dispatched at inappropriate times in the "resume" state.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player simple feature can be interacted with, when there is no source URL.
  • Fixed a bug where the hover description was not displaying in the longTextV2.
  • Fixed a bug where the safeToUnload public method wasn't detecting unsaved changes to the current Widget.
Polish
Items API v1.95.6
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.

11th Mar 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.4, Questions API v2.146.5, Reports API v1.14.5
  • Fixed a bug where users were able to resume the previous test after their test time had exceeded max_time and time's limit_type is hard.
  • Fixed a bug, some visual defects in the multiple choice Question.
  • Fixed a bug where sessions-summary-by-tag reports would fail to render pre-2018.1.LTS sessions properly.
Polish
Items API v1.95.5
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.

20th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.146.4, Data API v1.33.2

19th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.72.3
  • Fixed a bug where the value set for the individual area dropdown in the hotspot Question type did not show the value when reopening the Question to edit.

4th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Author API v1.57.3, Question Editor API v3.72.2
  • Fixed a bug where calling the public method once() didn't work for most events.
  • Fixed a bug in Author API where clicking the rich text editor's undo button would result in empty space being added above Question Editor.
  • Fixed a bug where incorrect Item references were displayed in Activity preview.
  • Fixed a bug where the Question validation section was not loading on the second call of the setWidget public method.
  • Fixed a bug in which the font size for the buttons in the Math Keypad was smaller than they should have been.
  • Fixed a bug where users could break CKEditor by entering raw LaTex.

29th Jan 2020
Bugfixes
Items API v1.95.4, Assess API v2.99.3
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the user from passing a custom DOM selector when initializing the Items app in the assess mode.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the dividers of each Item to be hidden in the horizontal table of contents.

8th Jan 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.2, Questions API v2.146.3
  • Fixed a bug where the calculator would not disappear, when navigating to the next Item.
  • Fixed a bug where the two column layout would collapse whenever there was an intro Item.
  • Fixed a bug where Drawing Question type broke if the uploaded SVG image did not contain width and height.

11th Dec 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.146.2, Author API v1.57.2, Question Editor API v3.72.1, Reports API v1.14.4
  • Fixed a bug in custom Questions where correct answers weren't being displayed in review state.
  • Fixed a bug where the classification Question type would display a "correct answers" box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue causing custom Questions to show an error and fail to load, when Angular's Zone.js library was included in the same page.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's toolbar buttons to display in left-to-right style, with right-to-left languages.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's text direction buttons to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's buttons for increase and decrease indentation to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug in which MathJax rendering crashed with a [Math Processing Error] message when clients have a combination of LaTeX/MathML equations and MathJax-rendered markup in their Items. This is due to MathJax assigning consecutive integer IDs to the elements it renders, and these IDs clashing with the IDs of the already rendered MathJax elements in the Item.
  • Fixed a bug where the Item details could not be edited, if Wysihtml was set as the editor for Question Editor API.
  • Fixed a bug where disabling any rich text area fields in Item settings would cause any existing content to overflow out of the textarea element.
  • Fixed a bug where Items with legacy content did not render.
  • Fixed a bug where the dynamic content dropdown did not appear in the math modal editor, when opened for a second time.
  • Fixed a bug where the simple feature modal was not working when using multiple instances.
  • Fixed a bug in the sessions-list-by-item report, where it threw a 500 error for sessions initialized with single-ibk (single Item bank) format.
Polish
Questions API v2.146.2
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.

5th Dec 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.95.3
  • Fixed a bug in Self-hosted adaptive Activities where refreshing an assessment could have led to an error loading subsequent Items.

27th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Reports API v1.14.3

20th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.1, Questions API v2.146.1, Reports API v1.14.2
  • Fixed a bug where calling the public method getSubmissionData() would break Items navigation in assessments.
  • Fixed a JavaScript exception thrown in "review" state when a custom Question did not include a validation object.
  • Fixed a bug in which screen readers misread the degree symbol when rendered by MathJax in math Question types.
  • Fixed a bug in live-activitystatus-by-user report, where it would throw JavaScript errors after pausing an assessment.
Polish
Author API v1.57.1
  • Improvement: Polish and cleanup of internal code to support future math features.

31st Oct 2019
Features
Questions API v2.146.0, Author API v1.57.0, Question Editor API v3.72.0
  • Added camera support to Chrome and Safari on iOS. Now users can take and upload pictures using their iOS devices.
  • Added accessibility enhancements to the camera upload feature, such as adding a focus trap to the modal and improving the keyboard navigation.
  • Added support to enable and disable autocorrect, autocapitalize and autocomplete HTML attributes, for the following Question types: Short Text, Plain text (essay), Essay with rich text, Add text to Image, and Fill in the blanks.
  • Added attribute_overrides: {} support in Question Activity initOptions, to allow user override of specific attributes (spellcheck and instant_feedback) of Question data.
  • Upgrade Mathcore to v1.72.0:
    • Added scientific notation support for specifying the number of significant digits to the left of a decimal point.
    • Added an option normalizeArithmetic for the equivLiteral scoring method to better support responses which are similar to the correct answer. For example, -(x/2) could now be validated the same as (-x)/2.
  • Upgrade Spokenmath to v1.13.0:
    • Added ARIA label for integrals int.
    • Added ARIA label for limits lim.
    • Added ARIA labels for 'not similar' and 'not congruent' symbols.
    • Fixed ARIA labels for units of measurement, e.g. 12 m/s will now be correctly announced as “12 meters per second”.
  • Added the ability for authors to search by status on Activity list.
  • Added a feature so that Tags cannot be edited in Item edit mode, via the initialization option config.item_edit.item.tag.edit (a boolean).
  • Added a rich text editor to the description, source and notes field of Item settings for a richer text-editing experience.
  • Added the capability for the MathML Editor to indent MathML code automatically after saving. With this change, Authors will now see their MathML formulas not only syntax highlighted but also automatically indented without the need to do this manually.
  • Added a feature to display a waiting panel in the validation area, whenever a Question is being updated. This gives the user a better sense of what is happening.
  • Put the ARIA label field (used by SpokenMath for accessibility) for Math and Chemistry Question types behind a checkbox to improve UX.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.0, Questions API v2.146.0, Author API v1.57.0, Question Editor API v3.72.0, Data API v1.33.1, Reports API v1.14.1
  • Fixed a bug (or two) that would prevent the user from using the drawing tool and wouldn't allow to render the appropriate number of Items and toolbar buttons if there was a backslash in the reference.
  • Fixed a bug, where resuming adaptive Activities would show an incorrect Item count.
  • Fixed a bug with the Hotspot Question Type in which the focus state got lost when navigating the target regions with both the keyboard and the mouse.
  • Fixed a bug with the Math Keypad in which borders between rows of buttons were not visible for some zoom configurations.
  • Fixed a bug where the clear, redo and undo icons of the Drawing Question toolbar’s buttons had inconsistent sizing when compared with the other button icons.
  • Fixed a bug in which the user didn't get any feedback if they accidentally denied camera access to the application. Now students get an error message with instructions on how to proceed to use the camera upload functionality (if they denied permissions for the application to access the device camera).
  • Fixed a bug (regression) in v2.145.0 that caused JavaScript errors to be thrown in IE11 with some Fill in the Blanks Question types.
  • Fixed a bug, a rare race condition where a session could be moved to "Completed" status before final scoring had finished. See the help article on lifecycle for an overview of the lifecycle of a session.
  • Fixed a bug where widgets were re-rendering whenever the title or reference changed.
  • Fixed a bug where Author API set the both the Item id and reference to the same value, when converting an Activity's array of Items from string format to object format.
  • Fixed a bug in Activity edit where the archived Item corner icon was overriding the corner icon for external Item bank Items.
  • Fixed a bug where search by tag hierarchy wasn't working properly if the tag hierarchy contained a tag type with spaces.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking on the scrollbar in the tag suggestions view inside Item or Activity settings would dismiss the suggestions.
  • Fixed a bug where loading an Item with widgets in its definition object and Questions/Features array that don't match causes an infinite loop.
  • Fixed a bug where declaring a Question Type dependency in the init options did not work.
  • Fixed a bug where the Question preview was not re-rendered when dynamic data changed.
  • GET itembank/items: Fixed a bug where an error prevented retrieving Items from a secondary Item bank with item_pool_id and advanced_tags.
  • GET itembank/offlinepackage: Fixed a bug where non-existent Activities would be silently ignored from the request. This could lead to confusing situations where incomplete packages would be generated. A clear error is now returned, allowing the caller to correct their request.
  • Fixed a bug in lastscore-by-item-by-user and sessions-list-by-itemreports where the report would render incorrectly with align_items=reference.
Polish
Items API v1.95.2, Assess API v2.99.0, Questions API v2.146.0, Author API v1.57.0
  • Improvement: updated the error message for itemadaptive and branching (Testlet) Adaptive Activities, when no Items could be found matching the required_tags in the initialization options.
  • Improved support for mobile devices by collapsing multi-column Item layouts to a single column when the available width for any column is too narrow.
  • Improvement: Updated the highlight Question type by filtering out duplicated points.
  • Improvement: Added working label bundles for the imageupload Question.
  • Improvement: Increased the timeout for the client-side scoring of math Questions to ensure the scorer doesn't fail to validate answers on lower-end devices.
  • Improvement: Disabled the preview button in Activity Edit mode if the Activity contains an unpublished Item.
  • Improvement: Put the ARIA label field (used by SpokenMath for accessibility) for Math and Chemistry Question types behind a checkbox to improve UX.

9th Oct 2019
Features
Items API v1.95.1, Assess API v2.98.0, Questions API v2.145.0, Author API v1.56.0, Question Editor API v3.71.0, Reports API v1.14.0
  • Fixed a bug that caused offline assessment to fail at load time, when items was an array of objects.
  • Improved the usability of Item navigation methods by returning Promise objects to notify the caller when navigation completes, or when it is interrupted.
  • Added the ability for users to take a web cam still photo and upload directly from the file upload Question type.
  • Added the characterMathMap icon to the longtextV2 Question to allow the user to select special math characters.
  • Added a new settings.full_height initialization option which allows the Item settings container to grow to occupy the window height.
  • Added a new closeItemSettings() public method, which allows the user to dismiss the modal window for Item settings.
  • Added aria live region support in the Activity list, Item picker and shared passage views. Aria live messages will be announced by screen readers when search results are updated, search filters are cleared, and when the list sorting has changed.
  • Added the ability for users to take a web cam still and upload directly from the File Upload Question type.
  • Made changes to the WIRIS configuration for the Right to Left static math to remove unused options such as Handwriting recognition.
  • Added a new options key to the Questions array that the response-analysis-by-item report returns for the MCQ type (multiple choice) Question. This enables the response-analysis-by-item report to display Questions in the same order as in the Question Editor API.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.98.0, Questions API v2.145.0, Author API v1.56.0, Reports API v1.14.0
  • Fixed a bug where calling Item navigation methods would disable the table of contents in the assessment player.
  • Fixed a bug where the accessibility states (focus, hover, etc.) for some annotations tools (notepad, drawing tool and sticky notes) were not rendering consistently across different color themes in Assess API.
  • Fixed a bug that would prevent Items from being initialized in Items API, with "rendering_type": "assess", if there was a backslash in the reference.
  • Fixed a bug where the color picker and color palette buttons in the drawing Question toolbar had inconsistent accessibility states when compared with other APIs.
  • Fixed a bug where the focus states of the drawing Question toolbar buttons were inconsistent with the other buttons.
  • Fixed an bug that prevented some SVG images used with image highlight Question types from displaying in Firefox.
  • Fixed a bug by preventing the plaintext Question type from causing the container's height to change continuously when the content is too long.
  • Fixed a bug in which the MathQuill library was not rendering the limit symbol and the corresponding function aligned at the same level on Firefox.
  • Fixed a bug where saving Activities consecutively sometimes failed due to replication lag.
  • Fixed a bug in the Item list of Activity edit where the Item's display content was missing after editing its stimulus, saving it and returning to the Activity Edit screen.
  • Fixed a bug where Items couldn't be rendered if they contained HTML content that couldn't be migrated to the Author API compatible format. This fix allows Authors to now view and edit widgets in legacy Items.
  • Fixed a bug which was saving incorrect HTML in the Item content field after a widget in the Item was converted from a Question to a Feature, or from a Feature to a Question. Such Items, after they have been saved, will now be rendered properly through Items API during assessment.
  • Fixed a potential bug in IE11 where promises were being used without importing the promise polyfill, beforehand.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity editor UI was crashing when quickly toggling between the edit and preview screens.
  • Fixed a bug in session-detail-by-item reports, where Sessions initialised with duplicate Items could not be rendered.
  • Fixed a bug in the item-scores-by-tag-by-user report, where the tooltips ran off the screen, due to long text in the column.
Polish
Author API v1.56.0
  • Improvement: changed the vendor library Underscore.js to the latest version.
  • Improvement: upgrade code mirror and Beautify.js to NPM versions.
  • Improved navigation to Item settings. Item settings is no longer a separate screen, it now appears as an overlay over the user's current screen. This means that users can open the widget editor, open Item settings, then close it and return to the widget editor without losing any changes to the widget.

19th Sep 2019
Features
Items API v1.95.0, Assess API v2.97.0, Questions API v2.144.0, Author API v1.55.0, Question Editor API v3.70.0, Data API v1.33.0, Reports API v1.13.0
  • Added support for resuming sessions created on the web in the offline app and vice versa.
  • Improved support for mobile devices by collapsing multi-column Item layouts to a single column when the available width is too narrow.
  • Added a new public method, LearnosityApp.offline().push to allow the user to push their attempted offline assessment back to the server.
  • Added a new public method, LearnosityApp.offline().getSession to allow the user to retrieve the stored session information from the device's indexedDB.
  • Added aria-labels to the response areas of the following Question types: formulaV2, cloze formula, image cloze formula and formula essay. This improves accessibility for response areas and lays the groundwork for future accessibility innovations.
  • Added support to configure which Annotations modules are available in an Activity, through the Activity editor.
  • Added a feature, in which the status for Items is now shown on the Activity edit page. Visibility can be controlled by setting the initialization option config.activity_edit.item.status.show (a boolean).
  • Added support for MathML syntax highlighting into the Rich Text Toolbar's Math Editor. This provides proper syntax highlighting and indentation out of the box, and makes it considerably easier for authors to edit their MathML formulas.
  • GET itembank/offlinepackage: Added support for including Items from multiple Item banks in a single offline package.
  • Added support for specifying organisation_id in the following reports: event-progress-by-tag-by-user, last-score-by-tag-by-user, progress-by-tag progress-by-tag-by-user progress-single and sessions-summary-by-tag. This allows an API Consumer to report on sessions using Items and Tag hierarchies from one of its additional Item banks, if available.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.97.0, Questions API v2.144.0, Author API v1.55.0, Question Editor API v3.70.0, Data API v1.33.0, Reports API v1.13.0
  • Fixed a bug in which the assessment player's previous button label couldn't be configured for internationalization purposes. Now clients can customize and localize the text for this button.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the timer in an assessment being misread when changing from 'reading time' to 'assessment time'.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type’s snap-to-grid feature did not support decimal numbers.
  • Fixed a bug where the show all responses label bundle was missing.
  • Fixed a bug where the orderlist Question type could not load the page in review mode, when automarkable was set to false.
  • Fixed a bug that caused offline assessments from resuming on the Web, when using the same session_id that was used offline.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the wrong offline assessment asset path to be synchronized on the server.
  • Fixed a bug, when submitting an Activity in Offline mode that didn't contain a 'course_id' field, an error would be thrown in the console.
  • Fixed a bug where public methods for the video player feature weren't working in Safari.
  • Fixed a bug where the compass in the drawing Question type could still draw arcs in the preview state.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented rendering unanswered rating Questions in review state.
  • Fixed a bug where the fileupload Question type displayed a useless comma, that should have been deleted after the last entry in the supported type list.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Chrome tabs to crash when rendering zero-width characters in the LearnosityMath font.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented static methods like LearnosityApp.save from being called after the Questions API script was loaded.
  • Fixed a bug with choice matrix Question type when having more than 10 Items in an Assessment and math content inside the questions it will break the page and stop the Activity from loading.
  • Fixed a bug where equivSymbolic scored a fraction as correct when it was not.
  • Fixed a bug where saving Items consecutively sometimes failed due to replication lag.
  • Fixed a bug where the label and value of the Item banks selection dropdown were not vertically aligned.
  • Fixed a bug where setItemTags and setActivityTags did not set the Tag's description if the Tag was new.
  • Fixed an issue where the Item bank name provided in the route is not selected in the Activity edit Item picker when using the navigate public method.
  • Fixed a bug where Tags of name or type comprising 255 characters or above were blocked from being added to Items and Activities on the front end. 255 remains as the maximum limit for Tag name or type, but is now handled solely on the back end.
  • Fixed a bug where console errors were occasionally thrown after adding a widget to an Item.
  • Fixed a bug where errors thrown from Question Editor would cause Author API to crash.
  • GET itembank/offlinepackage: Fixed a bug where some Items in the generated packages would be missing some of their Questions or Features.
  • Fixed a bug in item-scores-by-tag-by-user report where the background image was not displayed.
Polish
Questions API v2.144.0, Author API v1.55.0, Data API v1.33.0
  • Improved the reliability of "validated" Question events by ensuring they are dispatched after the validation UI has rendered.
  • Improved the performance of processing Tags during the saving operations of Items and Activities.
  • Improvement: we no longer add the organization ID (organisation_id) to the Item object (within the items array of the Activity definition) if the Item belongs to the default organization.
  • SET itembank/items and SET itembank/activities: Improved the Tags-processing performance when saving Items and Activities.

28th Aug 2019
Features
Assess API v2.96.0, Questions API v2.143.0, Author API v1.54.0, Question Editor API v3.69.0
  • Improvement: after closing the Save/Submit Activity dialog, the focus will now return to the control the user had last interacted with.
  • Improvement: the horizontal menu in the assessment player will now correctly announce the current status of Items with screen readers.
  • Improvement: added support for Android TalkBack where it wouldn't indicate which is the active Item in the Review Screen. This change will allow Android screen reader users to know the current Item when reviewing their progress in an assessment.
  • Added support for Cloze Question type authoring and delivery in Arabic RTL (right-to-left) mode. This was done by fixing the border position for drag and drop possibility response groups.
  • Added accessibility support to scribble, line and compass tools of the Drawing Question type.
  • Added support for various file types (MATLAB, Altera Quartus, Verilog, Assembly, C, C++, .h, .v and .s) for the File Upload Question type.
  • Added replay functionality to the drawing Question type. Now, during review mode, students and teachers can review how each shape was drawn.
  • Added some contextual help in Math Keypad about the keyboard shortcuts and why they may be different depending the region.
  • Added visibility change event to all features, for analytics purposes.
  • Improved accessibility of the search bar in both the Item and Activity Lists.
  • Added a feature enabling rich text editing for points in the numberline plot Question type.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.96.0, Questions API v2.143.0, v2.142.2, Author API v1.54.0, Question Editor API v3.69.0, Reports API v1.12.3
  • Fixed a bug that caused Assess API to appear to load forever if reset() was called while an AppendPromise was pending.
  • Fixed a bug where the video feature close captions panel was initially accessible by screen readers when it had not been activated.
  • Fixed a bug with event counting, which was incorrect when uploading an image for the second time without annotations.
  • Fixed a bug where the color picker dropdown menu would be closed suddenly, when using the TAB key navigate to the last color option.
  • Fixed a bug where the user could not center a table in the stimulus, when manually adding the table-centered class name to the table element from source.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented users from modifying the table with actions like "delete column" or "insert row before/after" in the longtextV2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug where an image would display misaligned in the stimulus, if it was the last element in the stimulus content.
  • Fixed a bug with simple shading, which was scoring incorrectly when the score was set to zero.
  • Fixed a bug with the Response Masking Setting in the multiple choice Question Type when multiple instances were included in the same assessment.
  • Fixed a bug where the image cloze association Question type would display a "correct answers" box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player used as a Simple Feature would break its style when used inside a match list Question type either in the stimulus list or possible responses.
  • Fixed a bug with the drawing Question type where the default selected drawing tool would default into ‘Scribble’ mode, even when that tool was removed from the toolbar.
  • Mathcore v1.71.0
    • Fixed two bugs related to fractions in Learnosity Math for equivSymbolic. One case was incorrectly validating a fraction correct for a repeating decimal validation value. The other not recognising the simplest form when using a fraction for validation.
    • Fixed a scoring issue in Learnosity Math for equivSymbolic that was incorrectly validating part of an expanded equation without needing the whole correct validation value.
  • Fixed a bug where the <label></label> elements in the tag search dropdown in the Activity list were missing the ids of the <input /> elements they are associated with in their `for` attribute. This is very important for screen reader accessibility
  • Fixed a bug where safeToUnload(true) returned false instead of true when the Item was dirty, and when in the Item edit within Activity edit view.
  • Fixed a bug where users would be incorrectly redirected after saving an Activity and navigating to another page on slow networks.
  • Fixed a bug where upon duplicating an Item, the displayed maximum score would be incorrect because it included the previously duplicated Items in the calculation.
  • Fixed a bug where setting Item Tags in the save public event didn't result in the Tags being saved to the database.
  • Fixed a bug which allowed dynamic data to be saved with non-uniform number of columns in the input CSV. This caused the dynamic data to not be rendered properly during assessment.
  • Fixed a bug with the Graphing Question type in which the labels for enabling or disabling the arrows in both axes were switched.
  • Fixed a bug for Firefox where Math questions have extra padding at left edge of the validation section.
  • Fixed a bug where the UI was broken for custom Question types with images.
  • Fixed a bug in which, for Questions that contain MathML, the formulas were not being automatically rendered.
  • Fixed a bug in item-scores-by-tag-by-user where users were not displayed in the same order as in the initialisation options.
  • Fixed a bug in session-detail-by-item where using questions_api_init_options.labelBundle would return an error stating the option was not allowed.
Polish
Questions API v2.143.0, Question Editor API v3.69.0
  • Improvement: Made the font size bigger for the new symbols “not congruent” and “not similar”.
  • Improvement: Made the font size bigger, for the new symbols “not congruent” and “not similar”.
  • Improvement: The math validation default in Question Editor API has been changed to equivLiteral instead of "equivSymbolic" in every math Question.
  • Improvement: Removed redundant math renderer option from default templates.

21st Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.95.2, Questions API v2.142.1, Reports API v1.12.2
  • Fixed a bug where Android TalkBack wouldn't indicate which is the active Item in the Review Screen. This change will allow Android screen reader users to know the current Item when reviewing their progress in an assessment.
  • Fixed a bug in which the focus would not return to the control the user interacted with previously, after closing the Save/Submit Activity dialog.
  • Fixed a bug with the Response Masking Setting in the Multiple Choice Question Type when multiple instances were included in the same assessment.
  • Fixed a bug in existing reports that have screen-readable score chart content, where screen readers would read out multiple lines of text at once without pause, as if there was no punctuation. This resulted in garbled and confusing descriptions of score portions. Now, screen readers will pause at appropriate times when reading multiple lines of content to describe score charts.

14th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Reports API v1.12.1

8th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.95.1
  • Fixed a bug where Assess API could not be loaded when requested with a particular version format.

7th Aug 2019
Features
Questions API v2.142.0, Author API v1.53.0, Question Editor API v3.68.0, Reports API v1.12.0
  • Added the option to add "not congruent"(≇) and "not similar"(≁) symbols to the keypad.
  • Added accessibility support for the Drawing Question type including the toolbar, select and erase drawing marks.
  • Added three new events, which are fired when creating, editing and adding Items via the Activity Editor. These allow developers to add custom functionality, by listening for these events.
  • Changed the public methods: duplicateActivity(), setActivity() and setActivityItems() so that they now return false in the Item edit in Activity edit view. The new behaviour is clearer because it explicitly returns false instead of behaving unpredictably.
  • Changed the public methods: createItem(), duplicateItem(), editItem() so that they now return false in the Activity edit view. The new behaviour is clearer because it explicitly returns false instead of behaving unpredictably.
  • Improved the public method safeToUnload(). If it's called in the Item edit in Activity edit view, it now checks whether there are unsaved changes in both the Activity edit view and the Item edit view. Previously, it only checked if there were unsaved changes in the Item edit view. This makes the safeToUnload() public method more reliable when used to check if the user has any unsaved changes.
  • Added the option to add "not congruent" (≇) and "not similar" (≁) symbols to the keypad.
  • Updated the template placeholder for Cloze math Question type to be more math specific.
  • Added the ability to navigate clickable links (that are enabled with click events) via keyboard controls, to allow keyboard-only users to access the links. See here for the full list of affected report types and event types.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.95.0, Questions API v2.142.0, Author API v1.53.0, Question Editor API v3.68.0, Reports API v1.12.0
  • Fixed a bug that prevented iOS devices screen readers from being able to announce the timer on an assessment.
  • Fixed a bug in which the native “exit fullscreen” button on iOS (specifically on iPads) completely covered the Assess player's hamburger menu.
  • Fixed a bug in the Scientific Calculator where the aria-label of the toggle to switch between "radians" and "degrees" would not be updated after clicking on it.
  • Fixed a bug where the Custom Question type does not have scorer JS provided. In this case, the Question should be launched as a non-validatable Question and automarkable should return false instead of null.
  • Fixed a bug with the Image Annotation Uploader, where a loaded image was deleted and the "changed" event wasn't being called.
  • Fixed a bug where the save:success event did not contain the Item data.
  • Fixed a bug with the Graphing Question type in which the labels for enabling or disabling the arrows in both axes were switched.
  • Fixed a bug for Firefox where Math questions have extra padding at left edge of the validation section.
  • Fixed a bug in the item-scores-by-tag-by-user report where some drill-down requests would be slow to respond, or result in a 500 error.
Polish
Assess API v2.95.0, Questions API v2.142.0, Reports API v1.12.0
  • Improved the accessibility of autosave alert dialogs, by adding a polite level aria-live announcement and allowing the dialog to be dismissed with the escape key.
  • Improved accessibility for our Video Player. Now, the time slider constantly shows its aria attributes, and the captions menu is fully accessible.
  • Improved accessibility for the Response Masking Setting in the Multiple Choice Question Type. Now, more context has been added for screen reader users when masking or unmasking a response option.
  • Improved the MathJax accessibility processing for better cross browser support, particularly on IE11.
  • Improved accessibility by removing role="heading" from the drop responses area of the image drag and drop Question type. Screen readers will no longer announce the heading when navigating through the response areas.
  • Improved accessibility by updating aria-label text editor inputs for the longText and longTextV2 Question types, in order to avoid screen readers repeating the stimulus.
  • Improved JS canvas-based score bars accessibility across all UI report types (except sessions-list-by-item, session-detail-by-item, session-detail-by-question,last-score-by-item-by-user, live-activity-status-by-user,activity-summary-by-group,sessions-summary-by-group and item-scores-by-tag-by-user),
    • Correcting score element order in score bar
    • Supporting screen reader to read the content of the score bar.

17th Jul 2019
Features
Assess API v2.94.0, Questions API v2.141.0, Author API v1.52.0, Question Editor API v3.67.0, Reports API v1.11.0
  • Added the aria-current attribute to the review screen Items, so screen readers will announce which Item you are currently on.
  • Added 'aria-hidden' attribute to the progress bar of an Activity, to avoid repetition since screen readers would read the same as in the Items count.
  • Added a new option to the Hotspot Question type. This enables users to customize the focus state color, by letting them choose the color individually or globally as a default. For the Safari browser, in order to retain normal keyboard navigation behaviour with this fix, you will need to adjust Safari settings.
  • Added a shortcut for the Math Keypad to allow users to enter a forward slash without it being converted to a fraction.
  • Multiple changes in Item editing within Activities:
    • The message "Item successfully added" has been changed to: "Item successfully added to the Activity".
    • The message "This item will be added to the activity on save" has been changed to: "This item will be added to the Activity on save".
    • The message "Item successfully added to the Activity" now gets dismissed when the user changes to a different view. Previously, the message was being dismissed when the Item was changed, which caused the rest of the UI to shift upwards and this could be inconvenient for authors.
  • Updated the disabled state for the back and settings buttons in the Item edit view, to be consistent with the rest of the disabled Authoring UI elements.
  • Added a new option to the Hotspot Question type. This enables users to customize the focus state color, by letting them chose the color individually or globally as a default.
  • Improved keyboard and content accessibility of chart tooltips across all UI report types (except item-scores-by-tag-by-user, sessions-summary-by-group and activity-summary-by-group), in accordance with WCAG 2.1 guidelines:
    • It is now possible to toggle chart tooltips using keyboard focus. This allows keyboard-only users to view the contents of the tooltips. Additionally, tooltips can now be read by screen readers.
    • Tooltips will now remain visible if the cursor is positioned onto the tooltip. This allows the text inside the tooltip to be selected using the cursor.
    • All visible chart tooltips can now be dismissed by pressing the Escape character key.
  • Added the ability to expand and collapse accordions in sessions-summary-by-tag report and progress-by-tag report using only keyboard controls. This ensures that both reports meet WCAG 2.1 Level A in keyboard accessibility.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.94.0, Questions API v2.141.0, Author API v1.52.0, Question Editor API v3.67.0, Reports API v1.11.0
  • Fixed a bug where the page height was inconsistent when the window was resized.
  • Fixed a visual bug with the heading of an assessment which made the content of the Activity too close to the subtitle.
  • Fixed a bug where using MathML that contained alttext caused the assessment player to load indefinitely.
  • Fixed a bug that made the compass too small if the image source dimensions were very large.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Horizontal Keypad always matched the image size in the Cloze Math With Image Question type. This was particularly a problem when using very small images, causing the keypad not to be wide enough to contain all of the buttons and hence being harder to use.
  • Fixed a bug that added double quotes to aria-labels in cloze text Question types.
  • Fixed a bug with the compass tool in the Drawing Question type. When the user changed the uploaded image width and height manually with the wrong ratio, the compass could not be moved to the edge of the drawing area.
  • Fixed a bug, a JavaScript error that was thrown when using the compass tool in the Drawing Question type on touch devices.
  • Fixed a bug with the image annotations upload dialog. When a loaded image was deleted, the event "changed" wasn't being called.
  • Fixed a bug with the validate method, where the count of feedback attempts was not being recorded correctly. Also, added a new feedbackAttempt flag.
  • Fixed a bug with horizontal keypad where focusing away and back from a response zone caused the keypad to collapse in width.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the Highlight Question color picker button on the toolbar, and the Rating button would submit the Activity.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Question instance from removing all events when calling the off public method without any arguments.
  • Added title attributes to the Drawing Question toolbar button.
  • Fixed a bug where references with different case or trailing/leading spaces, or not passing a reference, were not handled properly when passed into the editActivity public method.
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn't save an Activity containing Items with duplicate references, but different IDs.
  • Fixed a bug where references or titles could be entered with leading or trailing spaces, or passed into public methods without being trimmed.
  • Fixed a bug where the public method saveActivity was only saving changes to the Activity and not the Item within the Activity that was currently being edited.
  • Fixed a bug where Activities with lots of Items (more than 100) failed to load all Items.
  • Fixed a bug where Items from an Item pool with a numeric ID could not be added to an Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where an Item with missing restricted Tags could be updated.
  • Fixed a bug where the calculator simple feature was not taking up the full width of the editor.
  • Fixed a bug where changing the uploaded image width would not update the height value with the image original ratio in the Drawing Question type.
  • Fixed a bug where Question Editor threw an error on very slow computers.
  • Fixed a bug where the Question Editor API would throw an error if the selector defined in the config.container.scroll_into_view_selector init option did not exist in the DOM.
  • Fixed a bug where the custom metadata heading and content did not have a section identifier to allow them to be hidden.
  • Fixed a bug in the session-detail-by-item report and session-detail-by-question report, where the tooltips on the score bubbles could be partially obscured and were visually inconsistent with other report types. They now have consistent styling and are displayed to the left of the score bubble for better usability.
  • Fixed a bug when rendering two item-scores-by-tag-by-user reports, where one report would display the previous report’s values instead of its own if they had the same user IDs.
  • Fixed a bug where sessions saved via Data API's SET /sessions endpoint in the format: from_template did not work with some reports.
Polish
Assess API v2.94.0, Reports API v1.11.0
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Updated the table of contents list to now use <a> elements instead of <button> elements to improve accessibility. This change aligns more accurately with the link's functionality based on the WAI-ARIA standards. For the Safari browser, in order to retain the previous keyboard navigation behaviour, users will need to adjust their Safari settings under 'Highlight the next item on a webpage'.
  • Updated the placement of chart tooltips on some reports, for better usability.

2019.2.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about 2019.2.LTS here.

  • Released: 26th June 2019
  • End of Life: 26th June 2021

21st May 2020
Features
Questions API v2.140.15
  • Added support for video files in the ".WMV" (Windows Media Video) file format, in the file upload Question type. This provides better support for videos created on the Windows operating system.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.10, Questions API v2.140.15
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the preventDefault option of the item:beforeunload event from working in adaptive Assessments.
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when setting skip_submit_confirmation to true, which bypassed the submission criteria.
  • Fixed a bug in which the choice matrix Question type was a bit slow to respond after users selected one of the options.
Polish
Assess API v2.93.10, Annotations API v0.7.7
  • Improvement: Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.
  • Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.

28th Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.9, Questions API v2.140.14
  • Fixed a bug where the dialog title was centered and class names were not defensive enough.
  • Fixed a bug, a regression where ruler simple features which were authored in Question Editor v3.77.0 or later would not display correctly, when using Questions API v2.151.2 or earlier.
Polish
Items API v1.94.6, Questions API v2.140.14, Annotations API v0.7.6
  • Improvement: internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.
  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the record functionality in the audio Question type.
  • Internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.

1st Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.8, Questions API v2.140.13
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.
  • Fixed a bug in which setting the correct answer in the Graphing Question Type could lead to the application crashing.
  • Fixed a bug that caused "validated" events to be dispatched at inappropriate times in the "resume" state.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player simple feature can be interacted with, when there is no source URL.
  • Fixed a bug where the hover description was not displaying in the longTextV2.
Polish
Items API v1.94.5, Questions API v2.140.13
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.

11th Mar 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.7, Questions API v2.140.12
  • Fixed a bug where users were able to resume the previous test after their test time had exceeded max_time and time's limit_type is hard.
Polish
Annotations API v0.7.5
  • Upgraded internal tooling to improve security and performance.

20th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.11, Data API v1.32.3
  • Fixed a bug where the word count would increase when applying bold, italic or other inline formatting to the input text of the longtext V2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug in which pressing the Enter key wouldn't create a new line while typing math into the math essay Question type.
  • GET report/datasets: Fixed a bug that prevented retrieval of report datasets.
Polish
Items API v1.94.4, Assess API v2.93.6
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.

29th Jan 2020
Bugfixes
Items API v1.94.3
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the user from passing a custom DOM selector when initializing the Items app in the assess mode.

8th Jan 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.10
  • Fixed a bug where Drawing Question type broke if the uploaded SVG image did not contain width and height.

11th Dec 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.9, Reports API v1.10.9
  • Fixed a bug in custom Questions where correct answers weren't being displayed in review state.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue causing custom Questions to show an error and fail to load, when Angular's Zone.js library was included in the same page.
  • Fixed a bug where the classification Question type would display a "correct answers" box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's toolbar buttons to display in left-to-right style, with right-to-left languages.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's text direction buttons to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's buttons for increase and decrease indentation to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug in which MathJax rendering crashed with a [Math Processing Error] message when clients have a combination of LaTeX/MathML equations and MathJax-rendered markup in their Items. This is due to MathJax assigning consecutive integer IDs to the elements it renders, and these IDs clashing with the IDs of the already rendered MathJax elements in the Item.
  • Fixed a bug when using Safari with VoiceOver where the user could no longer navigate to the page's text content after closing the Calculator feature.
  • Fixed a bug in the sessions-list-by-item report, where it threw a 500 error for sessions initialized with single-ibk (single Item bank) format.
Polish
Questions API v2.140.9
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.

27th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Reports API v1.10.8

20th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.5, Questions API v2.140.8, Question Editor API v3.66.4, Reports API v1.10.7
  • Fixed a bug (or two) that would prevent the user from using the drawing tool and wouldn't allow to render the appropriate number of Items and toolbar buttons if there was a backslash in the reference.
  • Fixed a bug that would prevent Items from being initialized in Items API, with rendering_type: “assess”, if there was a backslash in the reference.
  • Fixed a bug, where resuming adaptive Activities would show an incorrect Item count.
  • Fixed a bug where calling the public method getSubmissionData() would break Items navigation in assessments.
  • Fixed a JavaScript exception thrown in "review" state when a custom Question did not include a validation object.
  • Fixed a bug with the Math Keypad in which borders between rows of buttons were not visible for some zoom configurations.
  • Fixed a bug where the clear, redo and undo icons of the Drawing Question toolbar’s buttons had inconsistent sizing when compared with the other button icons.
  • Fixed a bug, a rare race condition where a session could be moved to "Completed" status before final scoring had finished. See the help article on lifecycle for an overview of the lifecycle of a session.
  • Fixed issue where MathML content was being moved into empty cells when being displayed in table format.
  • Fixed a bug in live-activitystatus-by-user report, where it would throw JavaScript errors after pausing an assessment.
Polish
Questions API v2.140.8
  • Improvement: Added working label bundles for the imageupload Question.

31st Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.4, Questions API v2.140.7, Author API v1.51.6, Question Editor API v3.66.3, Reports API v1.10.6
  • Fixed a bug where calling Item navigation methods would disable the table of contents in the assessment player. Improved the usability of Item navigation methods by returning Promise objects to notify the caller when navigation completes, or when it is interrupted.
  • Fixed an bug that prevented some SVG images used with Image highlight Question types from displaying in Firefox.
  • Fixed a bug where the Imagetool Feature had the customised value buttonicon set, it would show a large size icon instead of a thumbnail.
  • Fixed a bug with the choice matrix Question type, where having more than ten Items in an assessment and math content inside the Questions would break the page and stop the Activity from loading.
  • Fixed a bug where Items couldn't be rendered if they contained HTML content that couldn't be migrated to the Author API compatible format. This fix allows Authors to now view and edit widgets in legacy Items.
  • Fixed a bug where saving Activities consecutively sometimes failed due to replication lag.
  • Fixed a bug where console errors were occasionally thrown after adding a widget to an Item.
  • Fixed a bug where errors thrown from Question Editor would cause Author API to crash.
  • Fixed a bug where Question Editor threw an error on very slow computers.
  • Fixed a bug in lastscore-by-item-by-user and sessions-list-by-itemreports where the report would render incorrectly with align_items=reference.
Polish
Annotations API v0.7.4
  • Improvement: Internal work to improve the error message's clarity.

9th Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.6, Author API v1.51.5, Reports API v1.10.5
  • Fixed a bug where the orderlist Question type could not load the page in review mode, when automarkable was set to false.
  • Improved the reliability of validated Question events by ensuring they are dispatched after the validation UI has rendered.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type’s snap-to-grid feature did not support decimal numbers.
  • Fixed a bug where the show all responses label bundle was missing.
  • Prevent the plaintext Question type from causing the container's height to change continuously when the content is too long
  • Fixed an issue in which MathQuill was not rendering the limit symbol and the corresponding function aligned at the same level on Firefox.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented rendering unanswered rating Questions in review state.
  • Fixed a bug where the compass in the drawing Question type could still draw arcs in the preview state.
  • Fixed a bug where Items couldn't be rendered if they contained HTML content that couldn't be migrated to the Author API compatible format. This fix allows Authors to now view and edit widgets in legacy Items.
  • Fixed a bug where Tags of name or type comprising 255 characters or more were blocked from being added to Items and Activities on the front end. 255 remains as the maximum limit for Tag name or type, but is now handled solely on the back end. This solves the issue, and also removes a redundant process.
  • Fixed a bug where saving Items consecutively sometimes failed due to replication lag.
  • Fixed a bug which was saving incorrect HTML in the Item content field after a widget in the Item was converted from a Question to a Feature, or from a Feature to a Question. Such Items, after they have been saved, will now be rendered properly through Items API during assessment.
  • Fixed a bug in session-detail-by-item reports, where Sessions initialised with duplicate Items could not be rendered.
  • Fixed a bug in the item-scores-by-tag-by-user report, where users are not displayed in the same order as in the initialization options array.
  • Fixed a bug in the item-scores-by-tag-by-user report, where the tooltips ran off the screen, due to long text in the column.
Polish
Author API v1.51.5, Data API v1.32.2
  • Improvement: we no longer add the organization ID (organisation_id) to the Item object (within the items array of the Activity definition) if the Item belongs to the default organization.
  • Improved the performance of processing Tags during the saving operations of Items and Activities.

19th Sep 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.3, Questions API v2.140.5, Author API v1.51.4, Question Editor API v3.66.2, Reports API v1.10.4
  • Fixed a bug in which the assessment player's previous button label couldn't be configured for internationalization purposes. Now clients can customize and localize the text for this button.
  • Fixed a bug with the drawing Question type where the default selected drawing tool would default into ‘Scribble’ mode, even when that tool was removed from the toolbar.
  • Fixed a bug where the image cloze association Question type would display a “correct answers” box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug where an image would display misaligned in the stimulus, if it were the last element in the stimulus content.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented users from modifying the table with actions like "delete column" or "insert row before/after" in the longtextV2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug with simpleshading, which was scoring incorrectly when the score was set to zero.
  • Fixed a bug where an Item with missing restricted Tags could be updated.
  • Fixed a bug where changing the uploaded image width would not update the height value with the image original ratio in the Drawing Question type.
  • Fixed a bug where the UI was broken for custom Question types with images.
  • Fixed a bug in session-detail-by-item where using questions_api_init_options.labelBundle would return an error stating the option was not allowed.
Polish
Author API v1.51.4
  • Improvement: added a feature to pass the organization ID to the Items API, to assist in fetching the correct Items.

28th Aug 2019
Features
Questions API v2.140.4
  • Added scoring capabilities for the drawing Question type, so that it can now be scored for having an attempt.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.94.2, Assess API v2.93.2, Questions API v2.140.4, Author API v1.51.3, Annotations API v0.7.2
  • Fixed a bug with self-hosted adaptive Activities where the Items in a set would not be presented to the student in the order specified by the back end.
  • Fixed a bug with dynamic content in which the dollar sign was being removed from any entry containing it.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Assess API to appear to load forever if reset() was called while an AppendPromise was pending.
  • Fixed a bug where the Custom Question type does not have scorer JS provided. In this case, the Question should be launched as a non-validatable Question and automarkable should return false instead of null.
  • Fixed a bug with the Image Annotation Uploader , where a loaded image was deleted and the "changed" event wasn't being called.
  • Fixed a bug where references with different case or trailing/leading spaces, or not passing a reference, were not handled properly when passed into the editActivity public method.
  • Fixed a bug where setting Item Tags in the save public event didn't result in the Tags being saved to the database.
  • Fixed a bug causing incomplete text highlights in Firefox with selections containing inline math content.

14th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Reports API v1.10.3

7th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.3, Author API v1.51.2, Question Editor API v3.66.1, Reports API v1.10.2
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the Highlight Question color picker button on the toolbar, and the Rating button would submit the Activity.
  • Fixed a bug in the Drawing Question type that made the compass too small if the image source dimensions were very large.
  • Fixed a bug, a JavaScript error that was thrown when using the compass tool in the Drawing Question type on touch devices.
  • Fixed a bug with the Image Annotations Upload dialog. When a loaded image was deleted, the event "changed" wasn't being called.
  • Fixed a bug with the validate method, where the count of feedback attempts was not being recorded correctly. Also, added a new feedbackAttempt flag.
  • Fixed a bug where the save:success event did not contain the Item data.
  • Fixed a bug where references or titles could be entered with leading or trailing spaces, or passed into public methods without being trimmed.
  • Fixed a bug where Activities with lots of Items (more than 100) failed to load all Items.
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn't save an Activity containing Items with duplicate references, but different IDs.
  • Fixed a bug where the custom metadata heading and content did not have a section identifier to allow it to be hidden.
  • Fixed a bug where the calculator simple feature was not taking up the full width of the editor.
  • Fixed a bug when rendering two item-scores-by-tag-by-user reports, where one report would display the previous report’s values instead of its own if they had the same user IDs.

17th Jul 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.1, Questions API v2.140.2, Data API v1.32.1, Reports API v1.10.1
  • Fixed a visual bug with the heading of an assessment which made the content of the Activity too close to the subtitle.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Question instance from removing all events when calling the off public method without any arguments.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Horizontal Keypad always matched the image size in the Cloze Math With Image Question type. This was particularly a problem when using very small images, causing the keypad not to be wide enough to contain all of the buttons and hence being harder to use.
  • Fixed a bug where using MathML that contained alttext caused the assess player to load indefinitely.
  • Fixed a bug with the compass tool in the Drawing Question type. When the user changed the uploaded image width and height manually with the wrong ratio, the compass could not be moved to the edge of the drawing area.
  • Added title attributes to the Drawing Question toolbar button.
  • SET /itembank/activities: Fixed a bug where Activities containing duplicates of the same Item reference could not be saved.
  • Fixed a bug where sessions saved via Data API's SET /sessions endpoint in the format: from_template did not work with some reports.
Polish
Items API v1.94.1, Data API v1.32.1
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improved error messages for requests to invalid Item bank endpoints.

2nd Jul 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.1, Author API v1.51.1

26th Jun 2019
Features
Questions API v2.140.0, Author API v1.51.0, Question Editor API v3.66.0, Data API v1.32.0, Reports API v1.10.0
  • Added a new Drawing Question type that allows students to use different drawing tools to draw on an image.
  • Improved the accessibility of Matchlist Question type by adding aria live text and role description support, also using spoken math in aria instead of LaTeX.
  • Improved accessibility for screen readers in Choice Matrix Question type. Now the numeration of each row is included in the aria-label.
  • Added the ability to create and edit Items within Activities.
  • Added the ability to save Activities in Author API that contain unpublished or archived Items.
  • Added new public methods for reading and writing data to and from Items: getItemDescription(), setItemDescription(), getItemDifficulty(), setItemDifficulty(), getItemNotes(), setItemNotes(), getItemSource() and setItemSource().
  • Added a new activity_edit.status.show initialization option which allows the Activity status dropdown to be shown.
  • Added description text to the label bundle for description, source, note and acknowledgement fields in the Item settings details tab.
  • Added a feature to customize an Activity's labels.
  • Added a convenient color picker to the rating Question, replacing an older string input method for choosing colors.
  • GET /scoring: Added new optional param partial_scores. This enables Data API's scoring endpoint to give partial score information.
  • session-detail-by-item report: Added support for passing the items_api_init_options.config.
    ignore_question_attributes     option    . This enables more control over how the session is shown by Reports API, eg. set "shuffle_options": false so that MCQ options are consistently displayed in their default order to make review easier.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.0, Questions API v2.140.0, Author API v1.51.0, Question Editor API v3.66.0, Reports API v1.10.0
  • Fixed a bug where the LaTex "cancel" symbol was not rendering properly in the response area of some drag and drop Questions.
  • Fixed a bug with cursors, preventing the not allowed cursor from appearing when the TOC menu is enabled.
  • Fixed a bug with the review screen accessibility, so that focus shifts to the heading, rather than onto the first Item.
  • Fixed a bug, correcting the focus to the responsive menu toggle, if a dialog launched via the responsive menu was cancelled.
  • Improved accessibility for the "Warning if question(s) not attempted" dialog in Assess API.
  • Improvement: changed all headings in modal windows to heading 2 (h2) level, to conform with WCAG guidelines for heading navigation structure.
  • Fixed a bug where moving or resizing the Line Reader Feature via arrow keys would not prevent assessment navigation.
  • Fixed a bug where stimulus_list and possible_responses would be shuffled in the same order in the Association Question type when no validation object was authored.
  • Fixed a bug with the multiple choice Question type, where images were not being centered correctly.
  • Fixed a bug when opening the Keypad inside a modal, with the Chemistry with Image Question type. The bug caused a height to be incorrectly added to the modal window, causing an unintended change to its size.
  • Fixed a bug where the calculator was not returning focus back to the toggle button, in the Safari browser.
  • Fixed a bug with rendering the horizontal math keypad. The width is now updated to be only wide enough to contain all rendered buttons (in cases where there were less than ten buttons in a row).
  • Fixed a bug in Chemcore where equivLiteral was not ignoring trailing spaces in superscript text.
  • Fixed a bug where the focus was being trapped inside cloze association and association Question types after a response was dropped in a dropzone.
  • Fixed a bug with Cloze Dropdown question type when used in Question Editor in "Show Answer" mode, it triggered an error in console due to some missing validation on the element to focus.
  • Fixed a bug where additional changes to an Item were not being persisted while an Item save was in progress. Now, certain actions are disabled when an Item save is in progress.
  • Fixed a bug where newly added Items in the Item list didn't show their display content.
  • Fixed a bug where the setItemTags() public method did not return the expected value.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the saveActivity public method to be called on the Item picker list.
  • Fixed a bug where pool Items could not be previewed in Activity edit.
  • Fixed a bug where the "Questions" and "Features" buttons were sometimes hidden.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity list preview didn't work if the Activity contained an Item where the Item ID and Item reference were different.
  • Improvement: Removed Questions and Features from the event data in the item:open event. Previously, they were always empty arrays, which was misleading as the Item could have contained Questions or Features.
  • Fixed a bug in which the content of both the MathML and LaTeX input fields overflowed horizontally instead of wrapping. This makes it easier for Math authors to read and edit the source code of the equations they write.
  • Fixed a bug where the getData() method would be broken if the subsequent requested user_ids with a different combination of user_id.
  • Fixed a bug in the response-analysis-by-item report where the report silently failed with an invalid session. The report is now giving an error message explaining why the session can't be processed.
  • Fixed a bug with label bundles where the not_attempted and not_marked aliases were not working as documented.

5th Jun 2019
Features
Items API v1.94.0, Assess API v2.92.0, Questions API v2.139.0, Author API v1.50.0, Question Editor API v3.65.0
  • Added support for self-hosted back-ends to perform the Item selection in adaptive assessments.
  • Added support for the Line Reader Feature type to Assess regions.
  • Added the line reader Feature type, a visual assistive tool that allows a user to view one line of text at a time.
  • Added the ability to define custom aria labels for response containers in cloze text, cloze association, and cloze dropdown Question types.
  • Added a new settings.show initialization option which allows the Item settings button to be hidden.
  • Added support for the line reader Feature to the Item list. Icons indicating line reader will now appear next to Items in the list.
  • Added support for the Line Reader Feature type to the Question Editor API.
  • Added support for authoring Line Reader simple features.
  • Added a flag called "compareGrouping" to Math formula, Cloze Math and Cloze Math with Image. This flag forces equivLiteral away from its default state to recognise parenthesis and correctly support the commutative property of multiplication.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.94.0, Assess API v2.92.0, Questions API v2.139.0, Author API v1.50.0, Question Editor API v3.65.0, Annotations API v0.7.1
  • Fixed a bug that caused a legacy version of Questions API (v1) to be loaded when questionsApiVersion: 'latest' version was requested.
  • Added the attempt_status metadata to Items, so that each Item’s attempt state can be correctly rendered when using lazyload mode.
  • Fixed a bug that caused vertical_stretch to fail to render properly after the reset public method was called.
  • Fixed bug that caused the input of shorttext and plaintext to render pasted RTF content incorrectly.
  • Fixed various bugs with the ratings Question type, related to rich text rendering and the modal user interface.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed users to dismiss the modal window when they were informed that their time was over. Now, as intended, they cannot dismiss it and they must submit the test.
  • Fixed a bug, adding new behaviour where the system clears aria live text after a short interval, once a cloze association Question is no longer being interacted with, so that the aria live text isn't needlessly read out again when navigating with a keyboard.
  • Fixed a bug with rendering the horizontal math keypad, updating the width to be only wide enough to contain all rendered buttons (in cases where there are less than ten buttons in a row).
  • Fixed a bug where the Math keypad used inside a modal would remain opened after closing the modal window.
  • Fixed a bug, preventing a false-positive error from being thrown when rendering the check answer button with the custom Questions.
  • Mathcore v1.70.0
    • Fixed a bug with equivSymbolic compareSides where it was not functioning as expected for inequalities.
    • Added more comprehensive support in Learnosity Math for commutative property of multiplication. As equivLiteral ignores parenthesis, this was leading to issues where certain correct responses were not validating.
  • Fixed a bug where responses authored without a value were scored as correct if match_all_possible_responses was set to true.
  • Fixed a bug where the getLocation() public method returned a route with :widgetData instead of :data, which was inconsistent with previous versions.
  • Fixed a bug where the setItemTags() arguments were not correctly handled, leading to incorrect Tags being shown in the user interface.
  • Fixed a bug where malicious client side content could potentially be executed when loading from an Item bank. This would have occurred prior to the loading of our rich text editor, which normally handles the filtering and escaping of content. Now, this potential risk has been eliminated.
  • Fixed a bug where dragging a Question or Feature to the bottom or top of the screen didn't cause the page to scroll.
  • Fixed a bug with the height of LaTeX source input field, in order to avoid a scrollbar overlapping the text being displayed.
  • Fixed an issue where undo/redo in conditional attributes in Features did not work in certain cases.
  • Fixed a bug when navigating the assessment with a screen-reader. If the assessment had Annotations API initialized, users would navigate through highlight elements that were not yet active.
Polish
Items API v1.94.0, Data API v1.31.0, Reports API v1.9.1
  • Improved error messages and validation to provide more readily actionable information.
  • Internal changes and dependency updates to support future functionality.
  • Improved error messages and validation when too many entries are passed in arrays of activities, sessions or users.
Refactors
Questions API v2.139.0
  • Updated user interface and changed the library for the rating Question type.

15th May 2019
Features
Assess API v2.91.0, Questions API v2.138.0, Author API v1.49.0, Reports API v1.9.0
  • Added internal changes to prepare for upcoming features in the v2019.2.LTS release.
  • Improved the accessibility of cloze association Question types by adding aria live text and role description support, removing deprecated attributes, and using spoken math in aria instead of LaTeX.
  • Added new search functionality for upcoming Enterprise Authoring features.
  • Added new report type response-analysis-by-item, a report for retrieving and comparing individual responses for a class of students. This report is UI-less, but can be used to build a custom report view.
  • Added new getData() public method for the item-scores-by-tag-by-user report. This method allows retrieving the same raw score data that is available in the user interface of the report.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.91.0, Questions API v2.138.0, Author API v1.49.0, Question Editor API v3.64.0
  • Fixed a bug, solving an XSS vulnerability in title and subtitle fields.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the user to click on the exit and close buttons within the assessment player multiple times, firing multiple AJAX calls. This was causing a locking issue in a database.
  • Fixed a bug, preventing multiple Assess API instances from being loaded on the same page.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the errorListener callback to be called multiple times each time we initialized a new instance of the Questions app.
  • Fixed a bug in the essay with plain text Question type, that increased the height of the text box area, every time a character was typed.
  • Fixed a bug with the Video Recorder Question Type in v2018.2.LTS that impeded the component, preventing it from loading properly.
  • Accessibility label added to Multiple Choice Question type when entered in "review" state.
  • Fixed a bug with the Formula Keypad, where the array button didn't have a title.
  • Fixed a bug in which the buttons in the math keypad rendered the browser's native popover when hovered on, even when the showHints flag was explicitly turned off.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Math Keypad symbol group names in the dropdown menu couldn't be customized for internationalization purposes. Following this change, clients can pass in custom labels for these symbol groups via Label Bundles in Questions API.
  • Fixed a bug, that prevented the overwrite_warning attribute from working properly.
  • Fixed a bug with the Math Keypad where when opened inside a modal window, caused it to be positioned incorrectly after switching the keyboard type.
  • Fixed a bug where the getLocation public method returned a route with :itemReference instead of :reference, which was inconsistent with previous versions. Also, fixed a bug where it was not returning new value for new Items and Widgets.
  • Fixed a bug where the check answer button was partially un-clickable due to an overlapping HTML element.
  • Fixed a bug where Items without any widgets could not be opened.
  • Fixed a bug where navigating from items/:reference/widgets/:reference to items/:reference/widgets/new would cause the app to crash.
  • Fixed a bug where it was very difficult to customize the settingsActionBuilderStepTitle internationalization (i18n) label.
  • Fixed a bug where the names of Simple Features were hardcoded and could not be altered by labels.
  • Fixed a bug where the Question types: "Fill in the Blanks: Dropdown" and "Fill in the Blanks: Text" were missing stimulus for simple layouts.
Polish
Data API v1.30.1
  • GET /itembank/activities: Improved the validation of the tags parameter to reject invalidly-formatted tags with better error messages. The tags should be in TagsV2 or TagSearchByType.

30th Apr 2019
Features
Items API v1.93.0, Assess API v2.90.0, Questions API v2.137.0, Author API v1.48.0, Data API v1.30.0, Reports API v1.8.0, Annotations API v0.7.0
  • Added an internal change inside annotations module to improve the performance of Items API.
  • Added an internal change inside the annotations module to improve the performance of Assess API.
  • Improved accessibility of choicematrix Questions.
  • Improve accessibility of transcripts for Pearson audio Question types.
  • Added Status, Scoring type, Description, Acknowledgements, Source, Notes and Difficulty level input fields to the Details tab of Item settings.
  • Added a new Actions tab to Item settings which allows adding special behaviors to the Item.
  • Added render:widgets event that is triggered after widgets (Questions and Features) are re-rendered in an Item.
  • Modified duplicateItem() public method to accept an alternative argument duplicateItemSettings object for more options.
  • SET /reports/datasets: Added support for in-place update of report datasets. The dataset_id parameter can be specified to target an existing dataset for update. The previous version of a dataset remains valid until the new version is available, allowing for continuous use of a dataset during background updates.
  • Added support for showing new versions of report datasets. This feature is used via the Data API's SET /reports/datasets endpoint.
  • Added render method to the stickynote module to render all notes when the DOM context of stickynote is ready.
  • The public method addNote of the stickynote module now accepts a new context argument which is a DOM selector. Calling this method while providing a context will allow the created sticky note to be added to that DOM element.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.93.0, Assess API v2.90.0, Questions API v2.137.0, Author API v1.48.0, Question Editor API v3.63.0, Data API v1.30.0
  • Fixed a bug that caused Annotations API to always load the latest version.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a failure to load hyperlinks within Item content.
  • Updated the Assess Player's Item Counter from aria-live="assertive" to aria-live="polite" to improve the overall accessibility experience.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Answer Masking button of the Assess Player had an empty title attribute.
  • Fixed inconsistencies in dialog behaviour where some dialogs could be closed with the escape key, but others couldn't. Any dialog that can be dismissed can now be dismissed using the escape key.
  • Improved accessibility in the review screen by maintaining focus within the review screen, improving navigability for the 'close' and Item filter buttons, and providing status information on selectable Items within the review screen.
  • Fixed a bug in which screen reader users were not notified of new notifications, such as Item flagging or response masking mode toggling.
  • Fixed a bug in the Assess player that prevented the Calculator feature from being toggled by pressing the button on the right hand side menu.
  • Fixed an issue in which the focus was not being trapped within the Assess player's flyout menu once it was open. Also added support for closing this menu using the Escape key.
  • Fixed a bug that caused drag-drop Items with duplicated content from disappearing after moving them into a drop zone.
  • Fixed a bug with the Cloze association Question type where validation icons would overlap long content in draggable Items.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Image Highlight Question type was always being floated to the left even in RTL environments. This change allows for RTL customers to have this Question type rendered in the correct place.
  • Enhanced the accessibility of the Multiple Choice Question type by wrapping all options with a role="group" element.
  • Fixed a bug where double dollar signs ($$) were not treated as delimiters for inline latex.
  • Fixed a bug in which the record button of the record video Question type was not triggering the expected behavior when activated using the keyboard's spacebar key.
  • Fixed a bug when switching between degrees and radians in the Calculator feature.
  • Fixed a bug in which the focus automatically jumped to the "Record" button of the Video Record Question type once the Question loaded.
  • Fixed a bug in which the focus went back to the "Next" button after being pressed. The focus now goes back to the Item itself in order to avoid context changes.
  • Removed an unnecessary aria-pressed attribute from the Review Screen button in the Assess player.
  • Fixed a bug where latest verion of Assess API was always requested by Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity edit mode button was disabled when activity_edit.mode.default initialization option was set to 'preview'.
  • Fixed a bug, increasing the maxiumum value for significant decimal places from 10 to 20.
  • Fixed a bug where you could input numbers outside the allowed range.
  • Fixed a bug where some CKEditor labels were not internationalized.
  • Fixed a bug where the label bundle key for clozeassociation Question type template markup "response" was incorrectly set to ckeditor.lang.lrn.response.label instead of ckeditor.lrn.response.label.
  • GET /itembank/activities: Fixed a bug where newly-created or updated Activities would no longer be searchable using the item_references filter. This bug continues to affect Activities created or updated using Data API 2019.1.LTS, or latest between 20th Feb–30th Apr. All affected Activities will be corrected in the coming weeks. For an ad-hoc fix in the meantime, the Activity data can be retrieved, and re-SET without modification with the SET /itembank/activities endpoint; alternatively, the Activity can also be loaded in the Author site and saved without modification.

3rd Apr 2019
Features
Assess API v2.89.0, Questions API v2.136.0, Author API v1.47.0, Question Editor API v3.62.0, Data API v1.29.0, Annotations API v0.6.0
  • Added static public methods to get labels, region presets and region definitions.
  • Improved the horizontal keypad to support customizable symbols other than the number pad symbols.
  • Refactored Item edit to support upcoming features.
  • Added the possibility to customize the horizontal keypad with all symbols and not only the number pad ones.
  • GET /sessions/statuses: Added support for parameter include to request more data from the session status. This currently allows to retrieve the activity_template_id of the requested sessions without an extra call to the Data API.
  • Added new public methods showAnnotations() and hideAnnotations() to display and hide all Annotation modules content.
  • Added support for the public method module, when there is no module name provided, it will return an array that contains all the enabled module names.
  • Added new public methods show() and hide() for text highlight, to display and hide highlighted text.
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.136.0, Author API v1.47.0, Question Editor API v3.62.0, Annotations API v0.6.0
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type scored the same value differently.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type put an exclamation mark (!) on top of correct responses when they matched initial values.
  • Fixed a bug where $$ delimited LaTeX was not rendered in MathQuill.
  • Improved the accessibility of the video recording Question type by forcing focus to land on the "record" button and providing better messages to screen readers.
  • Fixed a bug where "block-keyboard" configured math keypads had a text overflow beneath the menu, when they had a lot of tooltip text.
  • Mathcore v1.67.1
    • Added support in mathcore for unicode degree symbol to be treated the same as the LaTeX \deg.
    • Added support to ignore unicode \u200b (Zero width space). Previously if this invisible character was included in the validation value the student could not get a correct answer. Now mathcore will ignore this character and the student can get a correct score.
    • Fixed an issue in mathcore where isSimplified was not correctly recognising simplified cases using \sqrt.
    • Fixed an issue where negative fractions were not validating correctly using equivSymbolic and isSimplified.
  • Fixed a bug where the unsaved changes alert was not triggered when editing a Question or viewing the list of shared passages.
  • Fixed a bug where $$ delimiters for imported LaTeX were not correctly handled.
  • Fixed a bug where the Tag search options were not correctly displayed in a narrow browser in Item picker view.
  • Fixed an issue in Internet Explorer, where Question preview was not reflecting changes in the edit panel.
  • Fixed a bug where the default LongTextV2 image link was broken when no image path was set and template_defaults init option was set to true.
  • Fixed bugs that caused Annotations app inside a form element to trigger a submit event when clicking stickynote's trash button or drawing's hide grid button.

15th Mar 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.135.1
  • Fixed bug that caused the mcq with shuffle_options: true to be validated incorrectly.

13th Mar 2019
Features
Assess API v2.88.0, Questions API v2.135.0, Author API v1.46.0, Question Editor API v3.61.0, Data API v1.28.0
  • Added support for annotation features when using ui_styles to initialize the Assess API layout, so that the annotation tools can be used in Activities created with Author Site.
  • Added support for arrow keys navigation to keep the focus inside the calculator Feature. This should also be applied to screen readers following the WAI-ARIA accessibility standards.
  • Added a simplified horizontal layout to the Formula Keypad. It can be enabled by setting "horizontal_layout": true and applying the customization setting horizontalPad: ['0', '1', ...] in the Question JSON.
  • Added stacked_fraction support in the simplechart Question type to allow authors to define the fraction labels on the X Axis of simple charts.
  • Refactored Item edit to support upcoming features.
  • Added the option to use the new simplified horizontal layout for the formula keypad instead of the normal keypad and symbols groups in all math-related Question types. This functionality is still in beta and currently only supports the number pad customization (numbers and operators). Therefore, the existing symbol groups will not render with this form of the keypad.
  • Added stacked_fraction support to simplechart.
  • Added two new attributes, max_score_of_attempted and max_score_of_unmarked, to the output of the GET /sessions/scores endpoint for each session returned. These new attributes provide a more complete picture of the state of a session's score, including whether manual scoring may be required.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.88.0, Questions API v2.135.0, Author API v1.46.0, Question Editor API v3.61.0
  • Fixed a bug where two different modal dialogs shared the same ID, which is meant to be unique.
  • Fixed a bug where the resources button was being moved to an empty sidebar instead of the top-right dropdown menu when using "ui_style": "main".
  • Fixed a bug that caused the image tool to disappear when using the full screen mode on small devices.
  • Fixed an issue where the seconds of a session's dt_started time were being dropped, causing the started time to be rounded down to the minute.
  • Fixed a bug where double dollar signs $$ were not treated as delimiters for inline LaTeX.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the clozeassociation Question type to fail in rendering the simple features after moving the dragged response to the possibility list.
  • Fixed a bug in IE11 where the association Question type would not work correctly whenever students dropped in a new response to replace the current response.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the calculator from being closed when clicking the close button on mobile devices.
  • Fixed a bug where spaces would be ignored if you had entered a special character from the keypad as the last character in a Question.
  • Fixed a bug with the accessibility of the assessment player subtitle, updated the color to comply with the required contrast ratio.
  • Mathcore v1.66.0
    • Added an option 'treat all letters as variables' which when selected will ignore any default interpretation of letters used as constants or units. For example, '7nm' is treated in Mathcore as 'seven nanometers' by default. The new flag will treat that as straight variables, therefore '7mn' (7 * m * n) will now validate equivSymbolically with '7nm' (7 * n * m).
    • Fixed issue with equivSymbolic not behaving as expected with expressions consisting of two non-combinable (decimal) terms.
  • Fixed a bug where Author API couldn't be loaded because customButtons were configured but dependencies.question_editor_api.init_options.rich_text_editor was not defined.
  • Fixed a bug where double dollar signs ($$) were not treated as delimiters for inline LaTeX.
Polish
Assess API v2.88.0
  • Improvement: refactored the way elements are inserted in each region. Now their order in the DOM is more logical and intuitive, leading to a better accessibility and UX.

2019.1.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about 2019.1.LTS here.

  • Released: 27th February 2019
  • End of Life: 28th February 2021

21st May 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.13
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the preventDefault option of the item:beforeunload event from working in adaptive Assessments.
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when setting skip_submit_confirmation to true, which bypassed the submission criteria.
Polish
Assess API v2.87.13
  • Improvement: Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.

28th Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.12, Questions API v2.134.19
  • Fixed a bug where the dialog title was centered and class names were not defensive enough.
  • Fixed a bug, a regression where ruler simple features which were authored in Question Editor v3.77.0 or later would not display correctly, when using Questions API v2.151.2 or earlier.
Polish
Items API v1.92.9, Questions API v2.134.19
  • Improvement: internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.
  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the record functionality in the audio Question type.

1st Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.11, Questions API v2.134.18
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.
  • Fixed a bug that caused "validated" events to be dispatched at inappropriate times in the "resume" state.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player simple feature can be interacted with, when there is no source URL.
  • Fixed a bug where the hover description was not displaying in the longTextV2.
Polish
Items API v1.92.8, Questions API v2.134.18
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.

11th Mar 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.10, Questions API v2.134.17
  • Fixed a bug where users were able to resume the previous test after their test time had exceeded max_time and time's limit_type is hard.
  • Fixed a bug in which the minus sign was rendered too thin in the following Question types, causing it to be barely visible: Math Formula, Cloze Math, Cloze Chemistry, Cloze Math with Image and Math Essay.

20th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.16
  • Fixed a bug where the word count would increase when applying bold, italic or other inline formatting to the input text of the longtext V2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug in which pressing the Enter key wouldn't create a new line while typing math into the math essay Question type.
Polish
Items API v1.92.7, Assess API v2.87.9
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.

29th Jan 2020
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.6
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the user from passing a custom DOM selector when initializing the Items app in the assess mode.

8th Jan 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.15
  • Fixed a compatibility issue causing custom Questions to show an error and fail to load, when Angular's Zone.js library was included in the same page.

11th Dec 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.8, Questions API v2.134.14
  • Fixed a bug where calling the getSubmissionData() public method would break Items navigation in assessments.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue causing custom Questions to show an error and fail to load, when Angular's Zone.js library was included in the same page.
  • Fixed a bug where the classification Question type would display a "correct answers" box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's toolbar buttons to display in left-to-right style, with right-to-left languages.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's text direction buttons to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's buttons for increase and decrease indentation to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug in which MathJax rendering crashed with a [Math Processing Error] message when clients have a combination of LaTeX/MathML equations and MathJax-rendered markup in their Items. This is due to MathJax assigning consecutive integer IDs to the elements it renders, and these IDs clashing with the IDs of the already rendered MathJax elements in the Item.
  • Fixed a bug when using Safari with VoiceOver where the user could no longer navigate to the page's text content after closing the Calculator feature.
Polish
Questions API v2.134.14
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.

20th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.13
  • Fixed a JavaScript exception thrown in "review" state when a custom Question did not include a validation object.
  • Fixed a bug, a rare race condition where a session could be moved to "Completed" status before final scoring had finished. See the help article on lifecycle for an overview of the lifecycle of a session.
Polish
Questions API v2.134.13
  • Improvement: Added working label bundles for the imageupload Question.

31st Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.7, Questions API v2.134.12
  • Fixed a bug where calling Item navigation methods would disable the table of contents in the assessment player. Improved the usability of Item navigation methods by returning Promise objects to notify the caller when navigation completes, or when it is interrupted.
  • Fixed an bug that prevented some SVG images used with Image highlight Question types from displaying in Firefox.
Polish
Author API v1.45.8
  • Improvement: Removed support for quoted search phrases when searching Items. Enclosing a phrase in quotes will now find not only Items containing the whole phrase, but also Items containing all the words in the phrase.

9th Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.11, Author API v1.45.7
  • Fixed a bug where the orderlist Question type could not load the page in review mode, when automarkable was set to false.
  • Improved the reliability of validated Question events by ensuring they are dispatched after the validation UI has rendered.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type’s snap-to-grid feature did not support decimal numbers.
  • Fixed a bug where the show all responses label bundle was missing.
  • Fixed a bug where Tags of name or type comprising 255 characters or more were blocked from being added to Items and Activities on the front end. 255 remains as the maximum limit for Tag name or type, but is now handled solely on the back end. This solves the issue, and also removes a redundant process.
  • Improvement: we no longer add the organization ID (organisation_id) to the Item object (within the items array of the Activity definition) if the Item belongs to the default organization.
  • Fixed a bug where saving Items consecutively sometimes failed due to replication lag.

19th Sep 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.6, Questions API v2.134.10
  • Fixed a bug that caused Assess API to appear to load forever if reset() was called while an AppendPromise was pending.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Chrome tabs to crash when rendering zero-width characters in the LearnosityMath font.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented users from modifying the table with actions like "delete column" or "insert row before/after" in the longtextV2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug where an image would display misaligned in the stimulus, if it was the last element in the stimulus content.
  • Fixed a bug where the image cloze association Question type would display a “correct answers” box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug with simple shading, which was scoring incorrectly when the score was set to zero.
Polish
Author API v1.45.6
  • Improvement: added a feature to pass the organization ID to the Items API, to assist in fetching the correct Items.

28th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.9
  • Fixed a bug where the Custom Question type does not have scorer JS provided. In this case, the Question should be launched as a non-validatable Question and automarkable should return false instead of null.
  • Fixed a bug with the Image Annotation Uploader , where a loaded image was deleted and the "changed" event wasn't being called.

7th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.8
  • Fixed a bug with the validate method, where the count of feedback attempts was not being recorded correctly. Also, added a new feedbackAttempt flag.
  • Fixed a bug with the image annotations upload dialog. When a loaded image was deleted, the event "changed" wasn't being called.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the Highlight Question color picker button on the toolbar, and the Rating button would submit the Activity.

17th Jul 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.7, Author API v1.45.5
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Question instance from removing all events when calling the off public method without any arguments.
  • Fixed a bug with the multiple choice Question type, where images were not being centered correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where stimulus_list and possible_responses would be shuffled in the same order in the Association Question type when no validation object was authored.
  • Fixed a bug where an Item could not be saved if a restricted Tag was also hidden.
Polish
Author API v1.45.5
  • Optimized complex searches by Tag to improve search performance.

26th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.5, Questions API v2.134.6, Author API v1.45.4, Question Editor API v3.60.4
  • Fixed a bug that caused a legacy version of Questions API (v1) to be loaded when questionsApiVersion: 'latest' version was requested.
  • Fixed a bug where authored responses without a value were considered correct if 'match_all_possible_responses' was set to true.
  • Fixed bug that caused the input of shorttext and plaintext to render pasted RTF content incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug where Question Editor wasn't closed properly.
  • Fixed a bug where malicious client side content could potentially be executed when loading from an Item bank. This would have occurred prior to the loading of our rich text editor, which normally handles the filtering and escaping of content. Now, this potential risk has been eliminated.

5th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.5, Questions API v2.134.5
  • Fixed a bug, solving an XSS vulnerability in title and subtitle fields.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the user to click on the exit and close buttons within the assessment player multiple times, firing multiple AJAX calls. This was causing a locking issue in a database.
  • Fixed a bug, preventing multiple Assess API instances from being loaded on the same page.
  • Fixed a bug in the Essay with Plain Text Question type, that increased the height of the text box area, every time a character was typed.

15th May 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.4, Assess API v2.87.4, Questions API v2.134.4, Author API v1.45.3, Question Editor API v3.60.3, Data API v1.27.2
  • Fixed a bug where resuming a session under heavy load would fail with a 500 error. Sessions can now be resumed successfully regardless of system load.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a failure to load hyperlinks within Item content.
  • Fixed a bug when switching between degrees and radians in the Calculator feature.
  • Fixed a bug that caused uploads of CSV files to fail when using the fileupload Question type.
  • Fixed a bug that caused drag-drop Items with duplicated content to disappear after moving them into a drop zone.
  • Fixed a bug where Unicode support was not working in the ClozeDropDown Question type.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the errorListener callback to be called multiple times each time we initialized a new instance of the Questions app.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity edit mode button was disabled when activity_edit.mode.default initialization options was set to 'preview'.
  • Fixed a bug where some CKEditor labels were not internationalized.
  • Fixed a bug where the label bundle key for clozeassociation question type template markup "response" was incorrectly set to ckeditor.lang.lrn.response.label instead of ckeditor.lrn.response.label.
  • Fixed a bug where the default LongTextV2 image link was broken when no image path was set and template_defaults init option was set to true.
  • GET /itembank/activities: Fixed a bug where newly-created or updated Activities would no longer be searchable using the item_references filter. This bug continues to affect Activities created or updated using Data API 2019.1.LTS between 20th Feb–15th May. All affected Activities will be corrected in the coming weeks. For an ad-hoc fix in the meantime, the Activity data can be retrieved, and re-SET without modification with the SET /itembank/activities endpoint; alternatively, the Activity can also be loaded in the Author site and saved without modification.

30th Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.3, Assess API v2.87.3, Questions API v2.134.3, Author API v1.45.2, Question Editor API v3.60.2
  • Fixed a bug that caused Annotations API to always load the latest version.
  • Improved accessibility in the review screen by maintaining focus within the review screen, improving navigability for the 'close' and Item filter buttons, and providing status information on selectable Items within the review screen.
  • Improved the clozedropdown Question type so that it ignores leading & trailing whitespace during validation.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type put an exclamation mark (!) on top of correct responses when they matched initial values.
  • Fixed a bug where the unsaved changes alert was not triggered when editing a Question or viewing the list of Shared Passages.
  • Fixed a bug where the tag search options were not correctly displayed in a narrow browser in Item Picker view.
  • Fixed a bug where double dollar signs ($$) were not treated as delimiters for inline LaTeX.
  • Fixed a bug where the default LongTextV2 image link was broken when no image path was set and template_defaults init option was set to true.

3rd Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.1, Assess API v2.87.2, Questions API v2.134.2, Author API v1.45.1, Question Editor API v3.60.1
  • Added more detailed error messages for Items API.
  • Added a feature to allow developers to define the offline Item bank path during runtime with offline_base_path attribute. This attribute should be used only for offline assessment.
  • Fixed a bug where the resources button was being moved to an empty sidebar instead of the top-right dropdown menu when using "ui_style": "main".
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type scored the same value differently.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the calculator from being closed when clicking the close button on mobile devices.
  • Fixed a bug where spaces would be ignored if you had entered a special character from the keypad as the last character in a Question.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the clozeassociation Question type to fail in rendering the simple features after moving the dragged response to the possibility list.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the image tool to disappear when using the full screen mode on small devices.
  • Added support for arrow keys navigation to keep the focus inside the calculator Feature. This should also be applied to screen readers following the WAI-ARIA accessibility standards.
  • Fixed a bug where Author API couldn't be loaded because customButtons were configured but dependencies.question_editor_api.init_options.rich_text_editor was not defined.
  • Fixed an issue in Internet Explorer, where Question preview was not reflecting changes in the edit panel.

13th Mar 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.1, Questions API v2.134.1
  • Fixed a bug where two different modal dialogs shared the same ID, which is meant to be unique.
  • Updated the color of the Assessment Player subtitle to comply with the contrast ratio for accessibility purposes.
  • Mathcore v1.66.0
    • Added an option 'treat all letters as variables' which when selected will ignore any default interpretation of letters used as constants or units. For example, '7nm' is treated in Mathcore as 'seven nanometers' by default. The new flag will treat that as straight variables, therefore '7mn' (7 * m * n) will now validate equivSymbolically with '7nm' (7 * n * m).
    • Fixed issue with equivSymbolic not behaving as expected with expressions consisting of two non-combinable (decimal) terms.

20th Feb 2019
Features
Items API v1.92.0, Questions API v2.134.0, Author API v1.45.0, Question Editor API v3.60.0
  • Added Annotations API support in Items inline mode.
  • Improved keyboard accessibility for the audio recording question (bubble style). When recording or playback begins, focus is now moved automatically to the first button inside the recording/playback bubble. The ESC key will close the bubble and return focus to the original button.
  • Improved the message displayed in an Item which warns that it is used in Activities.
  • Added a new title.mandatory initialization option which requires titles to be set on newly created Items and Activities.
  • Added a new display paradigm for archived Items, which are now shown in the Activity edit Item list with an appropriate flag, so that clients are aware that an archived Item is being used in the Activity.
  • Added show_tags to the global config options to allow users to specify which Tag types to show in the Tag suggestion dropdown in Items and Activities list view.
  • Added "ə" (schwa) into the special characters modal window of CKEditor.
  • Added the new math symbol "system of equations/inequalities" to the custom keypad symbols list for formula Question types.
  • Added the option to display font sizes in CKEditor by specifying the rich_text_editor.font_sizes initialization option.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.0, Questions API v2.134.0, Author API v1.45.0, Question Editor API v3.60.0, Data API v1.27.1
  • Fixed a bug where the custom name of Items were not correctly shown when changing to the next section.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the page to scroll when drawing in the highlight Question type.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the entire window to scroll when dragging the imagetool and calculator on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the graph plotting Question type to incorrectly detect mouse coordinates when CSS transforms are applied to ancestor elements.
  • Fixed a bug where the response for the numberlineplot Question type can still be changed by users after calling the public method disable(), also after calling the enable() method, the Question would be broken and the user could not change the response.
  • Fixed a bug where caption file uploading in the Video Player would cause an undefined error.
  • Fixed a bug where access to an Activity was incorrectly denied if the same Tag types were specified in hide_tags and in the Tag part of the Activity list filter.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity title placeholder text used the Item placeholder text rather than Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the next button continuously would sometimes cause Items in the Item list to repeat.
  • Fixed a bug where access to an Item/Activity was incorrectly denied if a consumer did not have a default Item bank.
  • Fixed a bug where adding new array options did not work if a Simple Feature was added just previously.
  • Fixed a bug where enabling "Match all possible responses" was not disabling the Alternate responses' score for the Label image with drop-down, and Label image with text Question types.
  • Fixed a bug where indenting text in CKEditor did not work.
  • Fixed a bug where pasting LaTeX into a CKEditor field caused MathJax classes to be added.
  • Fixed input validation for the SET itembank/items endpoint to force the Item definition to match the Item's Question and Feature references. This reduces scenarios where the Item can be mistakenly saved with the wrong set of widgets.
  • Fixed a bug in the SET itembank/activities endpoint where an Activity with resource_items could not be saved.

31st Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Author API v1.44.1
  • Fixed a bug with asset uploading, where a misconfigured API version caused uploads to fail.

30th Jan 2019
Features
Items API v1.91.0, Assess API v2.86.0, Questions API v2.133.0, Author API v1.44.0, Question Editor API v3.59.0
  • Added the new resource_items support for assess mode. This allows teachers to provide a place where students can access additional learning resources such as documents, diagrams, charts, images and so on.
  • The questionsApiActivity.math_renderer setting currently overrides any Question-level math renderer settings. The behaviour controlling the override has now been moved from Questions API to Assess API.
  • Added support for Questions API CSS styles to be more defensive with custom CSS style.
  • Improvement to simplify the math rendering process: math is first rendered inside Questions and Features using the appropriate renderer, then global math is rendered.
  • Added support for higher quality audio recordings (16-bit, 22050Hz) for the audio Question type. This enables more reliable processing of the audio by speech recognition software.
  • Removed a global CSS rule that left-aligned text, in order to utilize the browsers' default behavior when rendering left or right-aligned text. This should better match expectations when customizing the look and feel of Questions and Features.
  • Increased the maximum matrix size from 5x5 to 10x10 in formula Questions. This allows larger matrices to be used in math Questions and the math editor.
  • Added a warning message if an Item is part of one or more Activities, so that the author is aware that changing the Item also changes the Activities.
  • Fixed a bug where navigating from Item preview to Item edit resulted in an error.
  • Fixed a Content Security Policy (CSP) error by updating a library dependency. This was preventing Author from rendering on some sites.
  • Added support for CKEditor toolbar to upload resources in the stimulus. For example, if you have a chemistry assessment, a resource could be the periodic table of elements.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.86.0, Questions API v2.133.0, Question Editor API v3.59.0
  • Added the new resource_button capability, which can be added to the user interface. This allows teachers to provide a place where students can access additional learning resources such as documents, diagrams, charts, images and so on.
  • Enhanced the accessibility of the Assess Player by updating the Previous and Next navigation buttons to provide more context to users relying on screen readers to move back and forth throughout the assessment.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the readyListener event to be called after the start button appeared, when the students used a very low-end machine to load the assessment.
  • Fixed a Label Bundle issue. After submitting a test, the confirmation text wouldn't be fully customizable. Now, successfully submitted can be overridden by the author.
  • Fixed a bug where test timers were started in "preview" and "review" Assessment states.
  • Improved the defensiveness of Assess API's CSS against external stylesheets with .pagination or .item selectors.
  • Fixed a bug with a missing arrow in the simple chart.
  • Fixed bugs (CSS conflicts) to handle tabs in Author API and Questions API.
  • Fixed an issue with the Audio Player Simple Feature bubble z-index. This would prevent the user from seeing and accessing the controls of the Audio Player when placed inside a Widget dropzone container.
  • Refactored the audio dialogs, to use a unique template as well as a unique look and feel to allow the student to have a more consistent user experience.
  • Fixed a bug where the number of feedback attempts (limiting the number of times a student can click the "Check Answer" button) was not stored and recalled when resuming a session.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with the Fullscreen API changes in Chrome 71.
  • Fixed a bug where the ShortText Question Type still can input special characters when it has reached the defined max_length.
  • Fixed a bug that causes the sharedpassage feature from being rendered multiple times through the public method append.
  • Fixed a bug that would lead video and file uploads to use expired access tokens.
  • Fixed a bug which caused the formulaessay Question to return true from its isAttempted() method after being focused and blurred without any content change.
  • Fixed several bugs where the Gridded Question type did not recognize responses containing a decimal point as representing the value zero.
  • Mathcore v1.65.0
    • Added support for augmented matrices.
    • Added support for equivSymbolic + isSimplified for radicals with indices higher than two.
    • Added support for LaTeX 'array' to Mathcore.
    • Fixed a bug with inequalities not evaluating correctly with negative numbers.
    • Fixed equivalence of lists with or without braces.
  • Fixed a bug which didn't allow authors to specify anchor elements within a CKEditor input field.
  • Updated scoring for Question Editor API: Enabling "Match all possible responses" now disables the score of the Alternate responses. Disabling "Auto scoring" now hides "Match all possible responses" from the UI.
  • Fixed a bug where feature previews (protractors, imagetool) quickly appeared then disappeared when initially added to an Item, or when their properties were being edited.
  • Fixed a bug where keypad hints weren't appearing in the Template and validation area in edit mode for chemistry and math Questions.

9th Jan 2019
Features
Questions API v2.132.0, Author API v1.43.0, Question Editor API v3.58.0, Data API v1.27.0
  • Added support for Ruby characters in HTML to allow delivery of pronunciation guidance to students learning languages with logographic characters such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
  • Added a new symbols group, "arrays", to the formula Question keypad. This group contains two new symbols, "system of equations/inequalities" and "multi-line equation". Basic support for the LaTeX array environment has been added to MathQuill in order to support this.
  • Added lowercase characters μ (mu) and ρ (rho) to the Greek symbols group in the formula Question keypad.
  • Fixed a security issue, where Activities did not check whether existing Items in the Activity were restricted.
  • Added a new tags_on_create initialization option which automatically Tags an Item or Activity when saved. This saves authors time when creating content that requires identical Tags.
  • Added support for Partial Match and Partial Match per Response scoring to the Hotspot Question type.
  • Added support for specifying the creating user when calling the SET /itembank/activities/duplicate endpoint, by providing the meta.user parameter. The specified user will be marked as the creator of the newly duplicated Activities/Items/Questions/Features (for the purposes of audit trail and when retrieving the entities via Data API).
Bugfixes
Items API v1.90.1, Assess API v2.85.3, Questions API v2.132.0, Question Editor API v3.58.0, Data API v1.27.0
  • Internal logging improvements.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the page to jump when there were more than ten assessment Items and the user started to navigate to a different Item.
  • Fixed a bug where the focus gets lost after closing the Calculator within the Assess Player. With this change, the focus will be restored to the element that triggered the Calculator, providing a better user experience to users relying on the keyboard to navigate the app.
  • Fixed a bug where the table of contents Item count index was reset in a section, when saving and resuming the Activity.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the intro Item with hyperlink text to have a double underline.
  • Fixed a bug where a flash of extra width could be seen when the loading spinner appeared.
  • Fixed a bug where the line chart labels would be cut off when using the font sizes large, extra large and huge.
  • Fixed a bug where the videoplayer would not load videos on initialization.
  • Fixed a series of Accessibility issues with the Calculator feature in both their "Basic" and "Scientific" variants:
    • Fixed the temporary loss of focus when tabbing into the Rad/Deg button on the Scientific calculator.
    • When opened, focus now moves immediately to the close button.
    • When closed, focus now returns back to the triggering element.
    • The user can no longer tab outside of the Calculator when open.
  • Fixed a bug where the bgcolor attribute was being removed for certain HTML elements.
  • Fixed a bug where inserting accent marks on Safari on the Short Text Question type by pressing Cmd+E followed by any vowel would result in an extra accent mark being inserted.
  • Mathcore v1.64.0
    • Fixed a bug with isExpanded method so it will validate additive terms to powers greater than 5.
    • Added support in mathcore to ignore trailing commas. For example in set notation if a user adds a comma after the last value the response will still validate correctly, i.e. { 1, 2, 3, 4, } will validate to the correct response { 1, 2, 3, 4 }.
    • Fixed a bug where is Simplified scoring method was validating the original expression to be simplified as correct.
  • Polished the preview and review modes for the selected Question types: highlight, clozeassociation, imageclozeassociationV2, orderlist, numberlineplot, imageupload and fillshape.
  • Fixed an issue with MathML self-closing tags being transformed during sanitization. This would affect the generated Widget JSON and display mathematical content incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug where the bgcolor attribute was being removed from table tags in content created by CKEditor rich text editor.
  • Fixed a bug where the headers "Layout", "Details", "Scoring" and "Keypad" in the "More options" section had the wrong i18n label keys.
  • Fixed a bug where the callback function of a custom button was not reset when re-initialising Question Editor.
  • Fixed a bug where ruby and rt tags were being removed from rich text HTML content. This is to allow delivery of pronunciation guidance to students learning languages with logographic characters such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
  • Fixed a bug in the SET itembank/items/duplicate endpoint where, for an Item being duplicated, dynamic content data would not be included in the duplicated Item.
  • Fixed a bug in the SET itembank/activities/duplicate endpoint where, for Items in an Activity being duplicated, dynamic content data would not be included in the duplicated Item.

10th Dec 2018
Features
Items API v1.90.0, Questions API v2.131.0, Author API v1.42.0, Question Editor API v3.57.0
  • Added support for rendering archived Items in assessment.
  • Added support for skip_highlight_animation flag. This flag, when set to true, will skip the animation of the highlight Question type when Questions API is initialized in review state. However, the animation will still be visible when the user clicks on the play button.
  • Improved the design of the confirmation screens for Activity and Item duplication.
  • Improved the appearance of the display count section on the Item list.
  • Added the possibility to specify where custom_metadata fields are rendered in a customised Question layout.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.90.0, Assess API v2.85.2, Questions API v2.131.0, Author API v1.42.0, Question Editor API v3.57.0
  • Fixed an issue with the Items API .validateQuestions(options) public method not taking into account the options object passed to it. For example, .validateQuestions({ showCorrectAnswers: true }) wouldn't work properly.
  • Fixed an issue where the inclusion of Simple Feature IDs in the Initialization object's feature_ids array would prevent Features and Simple Features from initializing correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where hidden sticky notes would reappear when navigating between Items in an assessment.
  • Fixed a bug where the menu toggle button on the right side of the screen should display the labels Expand menu and Collapse menu accordingly.
  • Fixed recognition of Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files by the fileupload Question type.
  • Fixed a case where Simple Features inside draggable possible responses would disappear when moved to a different response container.
  • Fixed a bug where the Tokenhighlight Question Type showed the wrong validation border colors.
  • Fixed an issue with some MathML Tags being removed when sanitizing some content. They have now been added to the supported Tags.
  • Fixed a bug that caused submit_over_limit to not work properly with the longtextV2 Question type
  • Fixed a bug that removed the responses' index in clozeformula, clozechemistry, imageclozeformula, and imageclozechemistry Question types when we called the disable method.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the last number on the axis of the graphplotting Question type to disappear.
  • Fixed a bug where Features like the calculator where not hidden, when navigating from preview to edit.
  • Fixed a bug where an unnecessary component was added, which could cause a flickering effect on load.
  • Fixed a bug where dynamic variables in Items were not properly displayed in Item picker preview.
  • Fixed a bug where navigating from preview to edit did not hide an open simple feature (like calculator).
  • Fixed a bug where entering the greater-than symbol '<' removed the aria label in the LaTeX editor.

14th Nov 2018
Features
Questions API v2.130.0, Events API v1.5.0, Author API v1.41.0, Question Editor API v3.56.0
  • Added support for uploading .zip files to the fileupload Question type.
  • Added support for keyboard navigation and screen readers to the audio recorder Question type and audio player Feature volume controls to improve accessibility for users who prefer keyboard or audio interfaces.
  • Added fraction format support for all charts Question types. It can be defined as a string either in the x axis point label field or in the snap_to_grid field.
  • Added support for prevent_scale to Imageclozeformula and Imageclozechemistry Question type, to prevent or allow image scaling with screen size changes.
  • Enabled scoring against all possible responses.
  • Implemented internal changes to Events API which improve stability and performance.
  • Minor cosmetic improvements to Item settings and Activity Editor.
  • Hidden Tags are now handled on the server, in order to fix performance issues which could occur when using a large amount of Tags.
  • Added support for prevent_scale to Imageclozeformula and Imageclozechemistry Question types, to prevent or allow image scaling with screen size changes.
  • Added a new 'Match All Possible Responses' option which allows the Question to be scored from a combination of valid and alternate responses. This reduces work for authors as they no longer have to generate all possible permutations of responses.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.89.2, Assess API v2.85.1, Questions API v2.130.0, Author API v1.41.0, Question Editor API v3.56.0
  • Internal updates to ensure cached methods are called in the expected order.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking on the playback volume control in the video recording question would open a new, empty tab.
  • Fixed an issue preventing uploads of unrecognised file types on some operating systems.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the formula Question type from returning the highest possible score, when valid_response and alt_responses have the same correct answer value.
  • Fixed a bug where changing to fullscreen mode in an assessment caused the volume slider on audio recording questions and audio player features to be inaccessible by the user.
  • Fixed the vertical alignment of \sigma expressions when using the MathQuill math renderer.
  • Fixed a bug where the fileupload Question type would show an uploading state indefinitely, when multiple files were selected to be uploaded at once.
  • Fixed a bug where overwriting an existing recording for the audio Question type would result in silence being recorded instead of sound when using Safari 12 on MacOS. A new confirmation dialog will now be displayed when the overwrite_warning option is set to true.
  • Fixed a visual bug with the suggestedAnswers for numberline Question type not being rendered in the exact position.
  • Fixed several minor bugs with the video Question type.
  • Fixed a bug on touchscreen devices where draggable possible responses would remain selected after moving them.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio recording Question's current position indicator would jump around unpredictably in Safari 12.
  • Fixed a bug where the longtextV2 Question's word count label was displaying the word count, even when the word count option was unticked.
  • Fixed bugs that caused the public method resetValidationUI to fail in clearing the suggested answers list.
  • Fixed a bug in fillshape that threw an exception in the console and prevented the suggested answer list from being visible.
  • Fixed a bug where the save button did not turn green if you changed data in the save:activity public event when saving a new Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where a newly created or edited Activity wasn't being shown in the Activity list, forcing a user to refresh the browser in order to see the Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where an error was thrown when opening the asset uploader for the protractor or ruler Feature.
  • Fixed a bug where adding a MathQuill matrix caused an error, and indenting a MathQuill fraction caused the display to break.

24th Oct 2018
Features
Questions API v2.129.0, Author API v1.40.0, Question Editor API v3.55.0
Bugfixes
Items API v1.89.1, Assess API v2.85.0, Questions API v2.129.0, Author API v1.40.0, Question Editor API v3.55.0
  • Fixed a bug that caused calling the public method of an itemsApp instance to throw an exception when we re-initialized Items API.
  • Fixed a bug where calling reset() on Assess API with events enabled will cause the application to throw errors in the browser console.
  • Fixed a scrolling performance issue with scrollablepassage features on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug which caused an unwanted pair of curly braces "{}" to be added to the LaTeX output of the subscript symbol in formula Questions.
  • Fixed a bug where audio Question Types would show a missing device error and not start on Safari 12 for MacOS.
  • Fixed a scrolling performance issue with scrollablepassage features on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug where grouped possible responses in Match List Question types could not be selected on touchscreen devices.
  • Fixed a bug where sharedPassages math renderer would be overriden in some cases and therefore not applied correctly.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented allow_negative_scores from being included in the captured Question object.
  • Fixed a bug where inserting accent marks on Safari on the Cloze Text Question type by pressing Cmd+E followed by any vowel would result in an extra accent mark being inserted.
  • Fixed a bug where the Imageclozetext Question type input box placeholder value was broken when it had more than one word.
  • Fixed a bug with the formula keypad where certain touch devices would trigger the same input twice instead of once.
  • Fixed a bug where the Create Table and Edit Table modals in the Essay with rich text Question type were rendered in an incorrect position in two-column layouts.
  • Fixed a bug where copy-pasting content was not possible on the Cloze Math Question type when used on Firefox on a Windows device.
  • Mathcore v1.62.1
    • Improvement: trimmed empty LaTeX wrappers {} to defend against accidental input of empty exponents.
    • Fixed a bug where the equivSymbolic expression was not working with expressions that include fractions and variables as exponents.
    • Fixed a bug where Learnosity is interpreting nm as nanometers in contexts where they should be treated as variables.
  • Fixed a bug where the save:activity event was fired too early and changes on the client side were not persisted.
  • Fixed a bug where disabling the Item search feature of an Activity would hide the Item banks selection dropdown.
  • Improved the responsive behaviour of the search toolbar in the Item list and Activity editor Item search views.
  • Added logic to ensure that an image resize error is not thrown when justify commands are applied to text elements in CKEditor.
  • Fixed a bug where the search parameters were not correctly set in the UI when calling navigate with search parameters.
  • Fixed a bug in the Item list description, where escape sequences were not being resolved into displayable characters.
  • Fixed a bug where the customized template was not found for existing Questions.
  • Removed a CSS rule which was causing the HTML unordered list ul and ordered list ol attribute 'type' to be ignored.
  • Fixed a bug where LaTeX containing line breaks was not handled correctly in CKEditor.

2018.2.LTS

This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about 2018.2.LTS here.

  • Released: 3rd October 2018
  • End of Life: 30th September 2020

21st May 2020
Polish
Assess API v2.84.16, Annotations API v0.5.11
  • Improvement: Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.
  • Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.

28th Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.25
  • Fixed a bug, a regression where ruler simple features which were authored in Question Editor v3.77.0 or later would not display correctly, when using Questions API v2.151.2 or earlier.
Polish
Questions API v2.128.25, Annotations API v0.5.10
  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the record functionality in the audio Question type.
  • Internal tooling upgrade to improve stability.

1st Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.15
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.
Polish
Items API v1.88.8, Questions API v2.128.24
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.

20th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.23
  • Fixed a bug where the word count would increase when applying bold, italic or other inline formatting to the input text of the longtext V2 Question type.
Polish
Items API v1.88.7, Assess API v2.84.14
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.

4th Feb 2020
Bugfixes
Data API v1.26.7

29th Jan 2020
Bugfixes
Data API v1.26.6

11th Dec 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.13, Questions API v2.128.22
  • Fixed a bug where calling the getSubmissionData() public method would break Items navigation in assessments.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue causing custom Questions to show an error and fail to load, when Angular's Zone.js library was included in the same page.
  • Fixed a bug where the classification Question type would display a "correct answers" box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's toolbar buttons to display in left-to-right style, with right-to-left languages.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's text direction buttons to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's buttons for increase and decrease indentation to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug in which MathJax rendering crashed with a [Math Processing Error] message when clients have a combination of LaTeX/MathML equations and MathJax-rendered markup in their Items. This is due to MathJax assigning consecutive integer IDs to the elements it renders, and these IDs clashing with the IDs of the already rendered MathJax elements in the Item.
  • Fixed a bug when using Safari with VoiceOver where the user could no longer navigate to the page's text content after closing the Calculator feature.
Polish
Questions API v2.128.22
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.

20th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.21, Annotations API v0.5.9
  • Fixed a JavaScript exception thrown in "review" state when a custom Question did not include a validation object.
  • Fixed a bug, a rare race condition where a session could be moved to "Completed" status before final scoring had finished. See the help article on lifecycle for an overview of the lifecycle of a session.
  • Improvement: Internal work to improve the error message's clarity.
Polish
Questions API v2.128.21
  • Improvement: Added working label bundles for the imageupload Question.

31st Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.12, Questions API v2.128.20, Reports API v1.7.6, Annotations API v0.5.8
Polish
Author API v1.39.9
  • Improvement: We no longer add the organization ID (organisation_id) to the Item object (within the items array of the Activity definition) if the Item belongs to the default organization.
  • Improvement: Removed support for quoted search phrases when searching Items. Enclosing a phrase in quotes will now find not only Items containing the whole phrase, but also Items containing all the words in the phrase.

10th Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.19
  • Fixed a bug that caused Chrome tabs to crash when rendering zero-width characters in the LearnosityMath font.

9th Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.18, Question Editor API v3.54.9, Reports API v1.7.5
  • Fixed a bug where the orderlist Question type could not load the page in review mode, when automarkable was set to false.
  • Improved the reliability of "validated" Question events by ensuring they are dispatched after the validation UI has rendered.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type’s snap-to-grid feature did not support decimal numbers.
  • Fixed a bug with the Graphing Question type in which the labels for enabling or disabling the arrows in both axes were switched.
  • Fixed a bug in the item-scores-by-tag-by-user report, where the tooltips ran off the screen, due to long text in the column.

23rd Sep 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.88.6
  • Patch version to fix a regression.

19th Sep 2019
Features
Items API v1.88.5
  • Fixed a bug with dynamic content in which the dollar sign was being removed from any entry containing it.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.11, Questions API v2.128.17, Annotations API v0.5.7
  • Fixed a bug that caused Assess API to appear to load forever if reset() was called while an AppendPromise was pending.
  • Fixed a bug where the image cloze association Question type would display a “correct answers” box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug where an image would display misaligned in the stimulus, if it were the last element in the stimulus content.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented users from modifying the table with actions like "delete column" or "insert row before/after" in the longtextV2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug with simpleshading, which was scoring incorrectly when the score was set to zero.
  • Fixed a bug causing incomplete text highlights in Firefox with selections containing inline math content.
Polish
Author API v1.39.8
  • Improvement: added a feature to pass the organization ID to the Items API, to assist in fetching the correct Items.

28th Aug 2019
Polish
Questions API v2.128.16
  • Improved support for dynamically loaded resources from Learnosity servers.

7th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Reports API v1.7.4
  • Fixed a bug when rendering two item-scores-by-tag-by-user reports, where one report would display the previous report’s values instead of its own if they had the same user IDs.

17th Jul 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.15
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the question instance from removing all events when calling public method off without any arguments.
  • Fixed a bug with the multiple choice Question type, where images were not being centered correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where stimulus_list and possible_responses would be shuffled in the same order in the Association Question type when no validation object was authored.
Polish
Author API v1.39.7
  • Optimized complex searches by Tag to improve search performance.

26th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.88.4, Questions API v2.128.14, Question Editor API v3.54.7
  • Fixed a bug that caused a legacy version of Questions API (v1) to be loaded when questionsApiVersion: 'latest' version was requested.
  • Fixed bug that caused the input of shorttext and plaintext to render pasted RTF content incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug where the customized template was not found for existing Questions.

5th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.10, Questions API v2.128.13
  • Fixed a bug, solving an XSS vulnerability in title and subtitle fields.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the user to click on the exit and close buttons within the assessment player multiple times, firing multiple AJAX calls. This was causing a locking issue in a database.
  • Fixed a bug, preventing multiple Assess API instances from being loaded on the same page.
  • Fixed a bug in the Essay with Plain Text Question type, that increased the height of the text box area, every time a character was typed.

15th May 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.9, Questions API v2.128.12
  • Fixed a bug that caused a failure to load hyperlinks within Item content.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the errorListener callback to be called multiple times each time we initialized a new instance of the Questions app.
  • Fixed a bug when switching between degrees and radians in the Calculator feature.
  • Fixed a bug that caused uploads of CSV files to fail when using the fileupload Question type.

1st May 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.8
  • Fixed a bug with recent accessibility changes under certain Android environments. These changes will be re-applied in a future release.

30th Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.88.3, Assess API v2.84.7, Questions API v2.128.11, Author API v1.39.6, Question Editor API v3.54.6, Annotations API v0.5.6
  • Added more detailed error messages for Items API.
  • Improved accessibility in the review screen by maintaining focus within the review screen, improving navigability for the 'close' and Item filter buttons, and providing status information on selectable Items within the review screen.
  • Improved the clozedropdown Question type so that it ignores leading & trailing whitespace during validation.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type put an exclamation mark (!) on top of correct responses when they matched initial values.
  • Fixed a bug where double dollar signs ($$) were not treated as delimiters for inline LaTeX.
  • Internal change to ensure the LTS version is loaded properly.

3rd Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.10, Question Editor API v3.54.5
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the calculator from being closed when clicking the close button on mobile devices.
  • Fixed a bug where spaces would be ignored if you had entered a special character from the keypad as the last character in a Question.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the clozeassociation Question type to fail in rendering the simple features after moving the dragged response to the possibility list.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the image tool to disappear when using the full screen mode on small devices.
  • Added support for arrow keys navigation to keep the focus inside the calculator Feature. This should also be applied to screen readers following the WAI-ARIA accessibility standards.
  • Mathcore v1.61.3
    • Fixed an issue where negative fractions were not validating correctly using equivSymbolic and isSimplified.
  • Fixed an issue in Internet Explorer, where Question preview was not reflecting changes in the edit panel.

13th Mar 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.6, Questions API v2.128.9, Author API v1.39.5, Question Editor API v3.54.4
  • Fixed a bug where the custom name of Items were not correctly shown when changing to the next section.
  • Fixed a bug where two different modal dialogs shared the same ID, which is meant to be unique.
  • Updated the color of the Assessment Player subtitle to comply with the contrast ratio for accessibility purposes.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the graph plotting Question type to incorrectly detect mouse coordinates when CSS transforms were applied to ancestor elements.
  • Fixed a bug where the response for the numberlineplot Question type can still be changed by users after calling the public method disable(), also after calling the enable() method, the Question would be broken and the user could not change the response.
  • Mathcore v1.61.2
    • Fixed a bug in Mathcore where \sqrt{ rac{1}{x}} should equal \frac{1}{x^{\frac{1}{2}}}.
    • Improved support in Mathcore to ensure all equivalence between inverse hyperbolic functions validate correctly.
    • Fixed support in Mathcore for Algebraic operations involving trig terms.
    • Fixed a bug where the sums of numbers to a variable power do not simplify. For example, (1+.0025)^n should validate in its simplest form as (1.0025)^n.
    • Fixed a bug in Mathcore where equivSymbolic was not accepting equivalent expressions that include fractions when the expression is raised to a variable exponent.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the next button continuously would sometimes cause Items in the Item list to repeat.
  • Fixed a bug where pasting LaTeX into a CKEditor field caused MathJax classes to be added.
  • Fixed a bug which didn't allow authors to specify anchor elements within a CKEditor input field.

20th Feb 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.5, Questions API v2.128.8, Annotations API v0.5.4
  • Fixed a bug that caused the intro Item with hyperlink text to have a double underline.
  • Fixed a bug where the table of contents Item count index was reset in a section, when saving and resuming the Activity.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the page to jump when there were more than ten assessment Items and the user started to navigate to a different Item.
  • Fixed a bug where test timers were started in "preview" and "review" Assessment states.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the readyListener event to be called after the start button appeared, when the students used a very low-end machine to load the assessment.
  • Fixed a bug where the line chart labels would be cut off when using the font sizes large, extra large and huge.
  • Fixed a bug where inserting accent marks on Safari on the short text Question type by pressing Cmd+E followed by any vowel would result in an extra accent mark being inserted.
  • Fixed a bug where a flash of extra width could be seen when the loading spinner appeared.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause video and file uploads to use expired access tokens.
  • Fixed a bug with a missing arrow in the simple chart.
  • Fixed bugs (CSS conflicts) to handle tabs in Author API and Questions API.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the sharedpassage Feature from being rendered multiple times through the append public method.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the entire window to scroll when dragging the imagetool and calculator on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the page to scroll when we draw in the highlight Question type
  • Fixed a bug where the drawing toolbar would sometimes appear far from any drawing areas when entering drawing mode.

31st Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Author API v1.39.4
  • Fixed a bug with asset uploading, where a misconfigured API version caused uploads to fail.

30th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.4, Questions API v2.128.7, Author API v1.39.3, Question Editor API v3.54.3
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with the Fullscreen API changes in Chrome 71.
  • Fixed a bug where the bgcolor attribute was being removed for table elements.
  • Fixed a bug where Features like the calculator were not hidden, when navigating from preview mode to edit mode.
  • Fixed a bug where the callback function of a custom button was not reset when re-initialising Question Editor.

9th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.3, Questions API v2.128.6, Author API v1.39.2, Question Editor API v3.54.2, Reports API v1.7.3
  • Fixed an issue where the inclusion of Simple Feature IDs in the Initialization object's feature_ids array would prevent Features and Simple Features from initializing correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where hidden sticky notes would reappear when navigating between Items in an assessment.
  • Fixed a bug where the focus gets lost after closing the Calculator within the Assess Player. With this change, the focus will be restored to the element that triggered the Calculator, providing a better user experience to users relying on the keyboard to navigate the app.
  • Added support for Ruby characters in HTML to allow delivery of pronunciation guidance to students learning languages with logographic characters such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
  • Fixed a bug that removed the responses' index in clozeformula, clozechemistry, imageclozeformula, and imageclozechemistry Question types when we called the disable method.
  • Fixed a bug with some MathML Tags being removed when sanitizing some content. They have now been added to the supported Tags.
  • Fixed a bug where Simple Features inside draggable possible responses would disappear when moved to a different response container.
  • Improved the compatibility of classification Question type scoring to handle legacy validation data.
  • Fixed a series of Accessibility issues with the Calculator feature in both their "Basic" and "Scientific" variants:
    • Fixed the temporary loss of focus when tabbing into the Rad/Deg button on the Scientific calculator.
    • When opened, focus now moves immediately to the close button.
    • When closed, focus now returns back to the triggering element.
    • The user can no longer tab outside of the Calculator when open.
  • Fixed a bug where the dynamic variables in Items were not properly displayed in the Item picker preview.
  • Fixed a bug where entering the greater-than symbol '<' removed the aria label in the LaTeX editor.
  • Fixed a bug where certain sections had the wrong i18n label.
  • Added support for Ruby characters in HTML to allow delivery of pronunciation guidance to students learning languages with logographic characters such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
  • Fixed a bug in the Item Scores by Tag by User report where the drill down functionality did not work if the report was displaying exactly one column.

10th Dec 2018
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.5, Data API v1.26.5, Annotations API v0.5.3
  • Fixed a bug that caused submit_over_limit to not work properly with the longtextV2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the formula Question type from returning the highest possible score, when valid_response and alt_responses have the same correct answer value.
  • Fixed a bug where overwriting an existing recording for the audio Question type would result in silence being recorded instead of sound when using Safari 12 on MacOS. A new confirmation dialog will now be displayed when the overwrite_warning option is set to true.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio recording Question's current position indicator would jump around unpredictably in Safari 12.
  • Fixed bugs that caused the public method resetValidationUI to fail in clearing the suggested answers list.
  • Fixed the vertical alignment of \sigma expressions when using the MathQuill math renderer.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the last number on the axis of the graphplotting Question type to disappear.
  • Fixed recognition of Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files by the fileupload Question type.
  • Internal performance improvements for executing requests with Learnosity servers.
  • Fixed a bug in Annotations API where the Text Highlight popover wouldn't reposition after modifying the current text selection.
  • Fixed a bug where a collapsed Sticky Note could accidentally be expanded when selecting text or scrolling, especially on touch devices.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the text highlight popover to appear in the wrong position, inside the scrollable container of its parent.

14th Nov 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.88.2, Assess API v2.84.2, Questions API v2.128.4, Author API v1.39.1, Question Editor API v3.54.1, Data API v1.26.4, Annotations API v0.5.2
  • Fixed a bug where sharedPassages math renderer would be overriden in some cases and therefore not applied correctly.
  • Fixed a bug that caused calling the public method of an itemsApp instance to throw an exception when we re-initialized Items API.
  • Fixed a bug where calling reset() on Assess API with events enabled will cause the application to throw errors in the browser console.
  • Fixed a bug where sharedPassages math renderer would be overriden in some cases and therefore not applied correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where inserting accent marks on Safari on the Cloze Text Question type by pressing Cmd+E followed by any vowel would result in an extra accent mark being inserted.
  • Fixed a bug where the Create Table and Edit Table modals in the Essay with rich text Question type were rendered in an incorrect position in two-column layouts.
  • Fixed a bug where the Imageclozetext Question type input box placeholder value was broken when it had more than one word.
  • Fixed a bug where copy-pasting content was not possible on the Cloze Math Question type when used on Firefox on a Windows device.
  • Fixed a bug with the formula keypad where certain touch devices would trigger the same input twice instead of once.
  • Fixed a bug where the fileupload Question type would show an uploading state indefinitely, when multiple files were selected to be uploaded at once.
  • Fixed a bug in fillshape that threw an exception in the console and prevented the suggested answer list from being visible.
  • Fixed a bug that caused an unwanted pair of curly braces "{}" to be added to the LaTeX output of the subscript symbol in formula Questions.
  • Fixed a visual bug with the suggestedAnswers for numberline Question type not being rendered in the exact position.
  • Fixed an issue preventing uploads of unrecognised file types on some operating systems.
  • Removed a CSS rule that was causing the HTML unordered list ul and ordered list ol attribute types to be ignored.
  • Fixed a bug where disabling the Item search feature of an Activity would hide the Item banks selection dropdown.
  • Improved the responsive behaviour of the search toolbar in the Item list and Activity editor Item search views.
  • Fixed a bug where the search parameters were not correctly set in the UI when calling navigate with search parameters.
  • Fixed a bug in the Item list description, where escape sequences were not being resolved into displayable characters.
  • Fixed a bug where LaTeX containing line breaks was not handled correctly in CKEditor.
  • Fixed an error in SET itembank/items/duplicate that prevented an Item from being duplicated if it contained Tags with different numeric names representing the same integer value, for example "001" and "01".
  • Improved the visibility of texthighlight module's popover toolbar. When the selected text is too close to the edge of the screen, the popover toolbar will appear in the opposite direction to make sure it's visible to the user.

24th Oct 2018
Features
Questions API v2.128.3
  • Added scoring capabilities for the video Question Type so that it can now be scored for having an attempt.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.1, Questions API v2.128.3, Annotations API v0.5.1
  • Fixed a scrolling performance issue with scrollablepassage features on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a scrolling performance issue with scrollablepassage features on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug where grouped possible responses in Match List Question types could not be selected on touchscreen devices.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented allow_negative_scores from being included in the captured Question object.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Annotations API Text Highlight popover would render on top of the text selection, hence making it overlap the system's native dialog on Android and ChromeOS. Now it renders below the selection so that it's easier to interact with.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Annotations API Text Highlight popover automatically closed before being able to select a color on iOS 12.

17th Oct 2018
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.2
  • Fixed a bug where audio Question Types would show a missing device error and not start on Safari 12 for MacOS.

8th Oct 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.88.1, Questions API v2.128.1
  • Fixes bug that prevents users from navigating to the new adaptive item if the previous item has reference's format as a number (example: "123456789")
  • Fixes bug that prevents users from creating polygon element in graphplotting question type when clicking on the initial point.

3rd Oct 2018
Features
Questions API v2.128.0, Author API v1.39.0, Annotations API v0.5.0
  • Upgraded the base library of our Graphing Questions to benefit from enhancements in responsive behaviour and touch device interaction.
  • Added to the Video Player feature, providing support for reloading a video if it is not available on the first try.
  • Add reset event which will be triggered when questionApp.reset() is called
  • Added support for authors to be able to record videos via the Simple Features modal window.
  • Added a feature to split the search field in two, allowing an author to search by content or by reference.
  • Added the new Drawing feature, which allows students to draw on top of their assessment content.
  • Updated the component powering all movable Annotations tools to use pointer events where available.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.88.0, Assess API v2.84.0, Questions API v2.128.0, Author API v1.39.0, Question Editor API v3.54.0, Data API v1.26.3, Annotations API v0.5.0
  • Added the support for lastItems in the initOptions JSON when resuming an Item Branching Adaptive Assessment.
  • Fixed a bug when running in the Safari/iOS9 environment, where the assessment wouldn't start due to an error thrown by Safari when trying to access static built-in properties.
  • Fixed a bug where the Annotations API may be initialized before the Assess API is ready, causing it to use the wrong DOM context.
  • Fixed a bug where the Custom Button icon image disappeared in the menu region area.
  • Added the support for lastItems in the initOptions JSON when resuming an Item Branching Adaptive Assessment.
  • Added accessibility color scheme support to the Annotations API tools: text highlighter, notepad, sticky notes and the drawing tool.
  • Fixed a bug: Notepad should not appear on top of the Assess API mobile menu.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Assess API to send the wrong contextHeight to the scrollablepassage.
  • Fixed several minor bugs with the video Question type.
  • Fixed an issue with cloze association and cloze dropdown Question types, where the responses would not reshuffle when using dynamic content.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the overflow:auto containers from scrolling, when dragging the responses of dragdrop Question types to the top or bottom edges of their containers.
  • Added bidirectional support for essay with rich text V2 question type.
  • Fixed a bug where the Numberline Question type showed incorrect suggested answers.
  • Fixed a bug where the clozeassociation Question type's wordwrap option does not work in the response container.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the length of the clozeassociation response zone to be calculated using LaTeX code instead of rendered math.
  • Fixed a bug that caused special characters in an Activity's reference to not be correctly handled during duplication.
  • Fixed a bug with error message feedback. If an Activity's Item JSON does not contain an organisation_id or a reference, display a more helpful error message.
  • Improved suggested Tags functionality to allow searching for and adding short Tags.
  • Fixed a bug where calling getWidget() right after the widgetedit:widget:ready event was fired, returned false instead of the widget JSON.
  • Fixed a bug that was breaking the dynamic data buttons.
  • Fixed a bug where label bundle values for the pointers dropdown could not be set, in the Question type imageclozeassociationV2.
  • Added the ability to customize all labels in the color picker, in both image cloze association V2 and hotspot Question types. This improves internationalization support.
  • Fixed a bug in SET /itembank/items/duplicate where all-numeric reference strings were rejected as invalid even though they were passed in correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where the tooltips for some icons did not use label bundle strings.
  • Fixed a bug where the StickyNote setPosition() public method was not working properly.
  • Fixed a bug in which the Annotations API Text Highlight popover automatically closed, before being able to select a color on iOS and Android. Now, users are able to pick their highlight color of choice on touch devices.
Refactors
Reports API v1.7.2
  • Various internal changes that improve stability.

27th Sep 2018
Bugfixes
Data API v1.26.2
  • Fixed bug in SET /itembank/items/tags where a large item/tag combination could make the request fail. Requests are now split and batched internally to allow appropriate scaling.

12th Sep 2018
Features
Items API v1.87.0, Assess API v2.83.0, Questions API v2.127.0, Author API v1.38.0, Question Editor API v3.53.0, v3.51.3, Reports API v1.7.1
  • Internal performance improvements for executing requests with Learnosity servers.
  • Added support for enabling/disabling Annotations API's Notepad module based on the global editable flag.
  • Refactored the UI style of the Assess API application menu in right regions.
  • Added support for iPad and iPhone to the video recording Question type.
  • Added a feature for the video player to handle starting video playback at a specific time within the video, specified with URL parameters.
  • Added support in spokenmath for two new math symbols: material conditional ⇒ and material equivalence ⇔ to the math keypad.
  • Mathcore v1.61.0
    • Added support in mathcore for Leibniz notation in differentiation. This will ensure, for example, that dx and dy are considered as single variables.
  • Added better handling so that the count in the Item list view is now only shown if the user clicks the "Display total" button. This speeds up the initial loading of Item list.
  • Added the public method duplicateActivity to duplicate an Activity.
  • Added the rupee currency symbol (₹) to CKEditor's special characters section.
  • Provided clearer aria-label for formula question types.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.83.0, Questions API v2.127.0, v2.125.2, Author API v1.38.0, Question Editor API v3.53.0, Data API v1.26.1
  • Fixed a bug where the save/submit dialog could still show the cancel button when limit_type was set to hard.
  • Updated button styles to be the same in all regions.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Item container to be rendered with the wrong height in the horizontal-fixed region.
  • Fixed a bug where the assessment button element lost its title attribute, when hide_label_option was set to true.
  • Fixed a bug that caused content inside the scrollablepassage feature to be invisible when being used on iOS 10 devices.
  • Improved the stability of the audio recorder Question type on mobile devices.
  • Fixed a bug where entering double quotes into a math formula within the stimulus results in subsequent HTML not being rendered correctly.
  • Fixed a bug that caused auto-generated math content from being cleared when the formula input's focus was removed.
  • Provided a better description for formula Question types when these Question types are validated.
  • Fixed a bug where ImageclozeassociationV2 did not render math properly in the alt_response tab in Question Editor.
  • Fixed a bug where draggable Items were hidden when dragged over other Questions in the same Item.
  • Fixed a bug where dynamic content variable names that contained spaces or math function names would render incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the formulaV2 Question type to use the MathQuill engine to render math content during review state, when no math_renderer engine was defined.
  • Fixed a bug that had TextHelp read orderlist options as a single word, rather than as separate options.
  • Fixed a bug for the Microsoft Edge browser, where it would report a font-face loading error in the console when rendering MathJax.
  • Improved the SpokenMath text string generation:
    • The use of the word times for equations containing parens,
    • Infinite repeating decimals: We now correctly describe 0.\overline{4} as "0 point repeating 4",
    • Decimals with a trailing zero: We now correctly describe 0.60 as "0 point 6 0" instead of "0 point 60",
    • Measure of angle: \measuredangle is now described as "measure of angle",
    • Singular ordinal fractions frac{1}{9} is now correctly described as "1 ninth" rather than "1 ninths",
    • Mixed numbers are now correctly described as "and" so 3\frac{4}{5} is now "3 and 4 fifths" instead of "3 plus 4 fifths", and
    • Unary plus: where +10 is now correctly described as "plus 10" rather than "10".
  • Mathcore v1.61.0
    • Fixed a bug where the sums of numbers to a variable power do not simplify. For example, (1+.0025)^n should validate in its simplest form as (1.0025)^n,
    • Fixed a bug with equivSymbolic and algebraic substitution, and
    • Fixed a bug with the square root of 1/x where \sqrt{\frac{1}{x}} should equal \frac{1}{x^{\frac{1}{2}}}.
  • Added support in spokenmath for two new math symbols: material conditional ⇒ and material equivalence ⇔ to the math keypad.
  • Improved the text string generation
    • The use of the word times for equations containing parens.
    • Infinite repeating decimals
    • Decimals with a trailing zero
    • Measure of angle
    • Singular ordinal fractions
    • Mixed numbers
    • Unary plus
  • Fixed a bug where an error was thrown when searching for a Tag which does not exist in Activity list view.
  • Fixed the way we handle rare backend exceptions when accessing the standalone Item list, or within the Activity edit mode.
  • Fixed a bug where loading an Activity does not clear the data from the previously loaded Activity.
  • Added check to prevent image resizer from appearing when the dynamic data variable drag handle is clicked.
  • SET /itembank/items/tags - fixed a bug where supplying the same Tag with different spacing within its type or name can trigger a 500 server error. It now treats the above scenario as two separate Tags.
  • GET /itembank/questions - fixed an issue where a non-string array of references or item_references would trigger a 500 server error. The request now returns a validation error instead.
  • GET /itembank/items - fixed an issue where a non-string array of references or questions.references would trigger a 500 server error. The request now returns a validation error instead.

27th Aug 2018
Features
Author API v1.37.0, Question Editor API v3.52.0
  • Give authors the possibility to add Items from different Item banks to an Activity.
  • Activity editor now supports editing of Tags. This allows authors to easily Tag Activities in the user interface, allowing Activities to be sorted into categories for improved searching and reporting.
  • Activities now support an Activity title, a free text field used for display and search purposes.
  • Provide ability to add dynamic data variables to rich text fields via the Add Math modal window.
  • Improved suggestion logic when searching for Tags, to match Tag name or Tag type to the whole search phrase.
  • Added a feature allowing authors to create a shallow copy of an Activity, i.e. an Activity with a new reference where Items and Questions are the same as in the original Activity. This reduces duplicates in the Item bank when authors want to copy an Activity, but don't need to change the content of any Items within.
  • Provide the ability to add dynamic data variables to rich text fields via the Add Math modal window.
Bugfixes
Author API v1.37.0, Question Editor API v3.52.1, v3.51.2, v3.52.0, v3.51.1, Data API v1.26.0, v1.25.2
  • Fixed a bug where the sort button was not displayed properly if Author API was part of a form.
  • Fixed a regression in QE which breaks the output question JSON when creating new MCQ options or clearing existing options.
  • Fixed an XSS vulnerability where inserting an image with an "on error" function and an invalid image source value causes the error function to be executed.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing empty paragraphs above and below certain top level block elements when authoring content with a rich text editor.
  • Fixed bug in session/responses endpoint where a combination of several user and activity ids could lead to a timeout of the endpoint. The endpoint is now able to fetch data for those combinations in linear time.
Polish
Data API v1.26.0, v1.25.2
  • Added a Request UUID to all Data API Endpoints which identifies the request in the Learnosity system. The UUID is returned in the response metadata on error. This UUID can be communicated to Learnosity support to assist with investigating root causes of unexpected errors.

23rd Aug 2018
Features
Items API v1.86.0, Assess API v2.82.0, Questions API v2.126.0
  • Added support to help client developers handle errors when modules fail to load, usually due to poor network conditions. The error code for this is 50014.
  • Added support to help you handle errors when modules fail loading due to poor network conditions. The error code for this is 20015.
  • Added two new math symbols: material conditional ⇒ and material equivalence ⇔ to the math keypad.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.82.0, Questions API v2.126.0, v2.125.1, Author API v1.36.1
  • Fixed a bug where the review screen button in the drop-down menu ignored the option show_submit_button: false and still showed the finish button in the review screen dialog.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Questions API initialization to fail when render_with_captured_questions: true is used in "resume" state.
  • Fixed a bug that caused errors with assessment navigation when render_with_captured_questions: true is used in "resume" state.
  • Fixed the unattempted state of the Rating Question Type so that it appears blank instead of highlighting the first option.
  • Fixed a bug where tooltips for buttons in the right region would be cut off when long label text was used.
  • Fixed a bug affecting Firefox and Safari where math elements in question stimulus had an unnecessary bottom margin applied when an ancestor element was focused.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the image tag to malfunction when double quote " was used in alt or title attributes.
  • Fixed several minor bugs with the Video Question Type.
  • Fixed a bug where the sort button was not displayed properly if Author API was part of a form.

3rd Aug 2018
Features
Assess API v2.81.3
  • Updated version of Annotations API.

1st Aug 2018
Features
Assess API v2.81.0, Questions API v2.125.0, Author API v1.36.0, Question Editor API v3.51.0, Data API v1.25.1, Reports API v1.7.0
  • Added labelBundle support for Annotations API (highlighting, notepad) in Assess API.
  • Added two new math symbols: left square bracket [ and right square bracket ] to the math keypad.
  • Authors can now view and modify titles when they're creating or editing an Activity. This allows authors to give user-friendly names to Activities, improving the authoring experience.
  • Added support for controlling visibility of premium Question types and premium Question features.
  • Remove highlightable style from the style dropdown menu of both CKEditor and WYSIHTML.
  • Improvements to internal tracking mechanism.
  • Added new student rollup view to the item-scores-by-tag-by-user report, which is shown when the now optional row_tag_type is omitted. It shows only the student rows, with scores aggregated according to the content hierarchy.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.85.0, Assess API v2.81.0, Questions API v2.125.0, Author API v1.36.0, Question Editor API v3.51.0, Reports API v1.7.0
  • Fixed a bug which was breaking the load of local activities for offline usage.
  • Fixed a typo on the review screen of the assessment player: where it used to say "Un-attempted" it now reads "Unattempted".
  • Fixed a compatibility issue when PDF.js is included in the same document.
  • Fixed a bug where placing Items within scrollable passages in legacy columns in Activities on an iPad to not render.
  • Fixed an issue where the calculator feature would always open above its associated button on smaller browser window sizes.
  • Fixed a bug where draggable Items would lose focus when scrolling on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug where the dynamic content Question does not save the response value from the first attempt.
  • Fixes bug that causes imageclozeassociationV2 question type to fail to render the stored dynamic content attempts during review mode.
  • Fixed a bug that caused math content to render improperly when the new public methods dynamics.nextAttempt() or dynamics.previousAttempt() were called.
  • Fixed a bug with the public method setScrollablePassagesContextHeight which was not resetting the size of the scrollablepassage to automatic when content was used as an argument of the public method.
  • Fixed a bug that caused custom Question and customfeature that did not have the js attribute defined to block other Questions and Features from being rendered properly.
  • Fixed a bug where the Cloze Association default response container style was broken when clicking the Try Again button.
  • Fixed a bug where calling Try Again would consistently return options in the same order across refreshes on the following Question types: Multiple Choice, Choice Matrix (standard and inline), Classification, Cloze Association, Association and Image Cloze Association. This fix forces the correct answer to be in an unpredictable, random order on every single attempt.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player (simple feature) styling will be broken by text-indent when its type is displayed as text.
  • Fixed a bug where resetting an image uploaded in rich text editor left an empty image element in the source.
  • Fixed a bug where the browse controls were not displayed in the order specified in the configuration.
  • Fixed a bug where audio inside a shared passage did not stop playing when changing the URL or switching views.
  • Fixed a bug where the widget instances were not correctly ordered on reorder, add and remove.
  • Fixed an issue which was causing Question Editor menu buttons to flicker when typing in the stimulus.
  • Fixed a bug where audio inside a shared passage did not stop playing when changing the URL or switching views.
  • Fixed a bug in the Session Detail By Item and the Session Detail By Question reports, where styles from the report page could affect the styling of the Items. Now styles of the stimulus and other Question elements created via Author Site / Author API will be displayed correctly.

18th Jul 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.84.2
  • Fixed an issue with internal session state tracking.

11th Jul 2018
Features
Assess API v2.80.0, Questions API v2.124.0, Author API v1.35.0, Question Editor API v3.50.0, Data API v1.25.0
  • Added a new flag, warning_on_section_change support which will pop up a dialog box to let users know that they are about to navigate to a new section, and will not be able to go back to the current section. The default value of this flag is false. This improves the user experience by properly setting expectations.
  • Added a new video recording Question type. This allows users to record and submit video responses to Questions within supported browsers.
  • Added new init options that determine whether Activity titles are enabled in Activity edit and Activity list views. This will allow authors to provide a title for their Activities and easily find them in the list view.
  • SET consumer/keys/lti: You can now set your own LTI key & secret pair instead of using the keypair generated by Learnosity. A valid key and secret must be 16-255 characters long, and is limited to characters allowed in HTTP headers.
  • SET sessions/template: Added support for gridded, choicematrix and longtextV2 Question types. Those can now be included and scored in paper-based assessments and other off-line tests.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.84.1, Assess API v2.80.0, Questions API v2.124.0, Author API v1.35.0, Question Editor API v3.50.0, Data API v1.25.0
  • Enforced case-sensitivity for Item references in adaptive Activities, in line with the normal behaviour of Items API. This fixes an issue in item branching assessments where students were not be able to complete a test if the Activity definition contained an Item reference with different casing to what was present in the Item bank.
  • Fixed the way cross-domain iframe is served, it is now using requested version by server side determination. This allows better forward compatibility.
  • Fixed a bug where a test:pause event was unexpectedly triggered after a submit call.
  • Fixed a bug where some customized labelBundle values were being converted to lowercase. Now, multiple sentences and proper names will remain capitalized as configured.
  • Fixed a bug where the responsive region updated the wrong region settings, so that the right region did not appear when changing the window size to a medium or large viewport.
  • Fixed a bug where the flag button and calculator button weren’t showing tooltips when the user’s cursor was hovering over the button.
  • Fixed a bug so that only the vertical_stretch_option will be applied when both vertical_stretch_option and scrollable_option are both enabled at the same time in the Items region. This will prevent conflict between the two settings.
  • Fixed an issue with internationalization labels not applying to Image Highlight Question types.
  • Fixed an issue where opening the Calculator feature could cause the page position to jump to the top of the page.
  • Added unique ID to sharedPassages taking into account occurrences of the same passage across multiple sections. This fix makes passages unique to their section.
  • Fixed a bug that causes custom Question type from calling the validate event before the ready event is triggered in review mode.
  • Fixed an issue with Basic Extended calculator where the % function was inconsistent with the existing Scientific Calculator.
  • Mathcore v1.59.0
    • Added support for primes as a variable character.
    • Added use of rules in "trig" identities.
  • Fixed a bug where Item references were being duplicated on the Item list.
  • Fixed slow performance on the Item list for some queries.
  • Fixed a bug where loading Question Editor would make other instances of CKEditor hidden.
  • GET itembank/items: Fixed slow performance for some queries.
Polish
Author API v1.35.0, Data API v1.25.0
  • Updated message to show option for duplicating passages only if the Item being duplicated has a passage and duplicate_shared_passages option is set to true.
  • SET sessions/template: Tightened validation of the session_id attribute. Various elements of the system assume it to be a UUID, which led to downstream processing error when it was not. The endpoint now rejects the payload upfront with an indication that the attribute needs to be fixed before continuing.

20th Jun 2018
Features
Items API v1.84.0, Assess API v2.79.0, Questions API v2.123.0, Author API v1.34.0, Data API v1.24.0
  • Dynamic data now supports the characters " and \. This means authors don't need to manually enter unnecessary backslash \ characters when authoring.
  • Added mapping for Events API to support LTS versioning.
  • Added support for caching inline public methods for Items API.
  • Changed the behaviour of the submit dialog which was showing the close button when the "limit_type": "hard" init option was enabled. It previously allowed users to go back to the assessment.
  • Added an invisible character for texthelp support in matchlist. this will help screen-reading software process the words on the page.
  • Added an option of splitting the js property in custom Questions to Question and scorer within one object.
  • Added a Feature exposing an itemlist:selection:changed public event (when in item_list mode and enable_selection is true), whenever the user selects/unselects an Item and also when a selection is cleared using the clearSelectedItems public method. This allows you to identify selected Items to act on with a "save" button. It also works with pagination.
  • Allow specifying search filters in the Item lookup tables for Activity edit.
  • Fixed bugs and improved the user experience for authors who use audio recording when creating the Audio Player simple Feature.
  • For the math keypad, LaTeX can now be added into dynamic data without any need for extra escaping. LaTeX used anywhere else still requires the \( \) delineators. This allows authors to more easily input LaTeX since they don't need to add in extra escape characters.
  • If the following conditions are met: then the URL will now automatically be converted into a HTML img element. This enables authors that are unfamiliar with HTML to embed images simply by pasting the URL.
  • GET sessions/responses: custom session metadata can now be retrieved in the response using the "include": ["sessions.session_metadata"] option, so the session metadata is conveniently available while processing the responses and score data.
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.123.0, Author API v1.34.0, Question Editor API v3.49.0
  • Removed a console error when reviewing the correct answer on the simple shading Question type.
  • Fixed a bug where the sort list Question type shows the wrong stimulus list Item when resuming responses.
  • Fixed a bug where the Tag search options were not displayed in the Item list.
  • Fixed bug with uploading of text file types (and .VTT caption files, specifically).
  • Fixed a bug where adding an Underlined Indicator to some text in a rich text field would break the Remove Format functionality.
  • Fixed a bug where adding multiple empty possible responses would break the imageclozeassociationV2 Question.
  • Fixed a bug where the button to add response positions wasn't clickable.

2018.1.LTS

Our first Long Term Support release. This provides a stable, supported codebase, receiving stability & performance code fixes for its full lifecycle.

Read more about 2018.1.LTS here.

  • Released: 6th June 2018
  • End of Life: 31st May 2020

21st May 2020
Polish
Assess API v2.78.19
  • Improvement: Upgraded internal libraries to benefit stability and performance.

28th Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.28
  • Fixed a bug, a regression where ruler simple features which were authored in Question Editor v3.77.0 or later would not display correctly, when using Questions API v2.151.2 or earlier.

1st Apr 2020
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.18
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.
Polish
Items API v1.83.11, Questions API v2.122.27
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.
  • Improvement: Internal tooling update to improve error tracking and analytics.

20th Feb 2020
Polish
Items API v1.83.10, Assess API v2.78.17
  • Improvement: internal changes to support better error logging.

11th Dec 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.16, Questions API v2.122.26
  • Fixed a bug where calling the getSubmissionData() public method would break Items navigation in assessments.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue causing custom Questions to show an error and fail to load, when Angular's Zone.js library was included in the same page.
  • Fixed a bug where the classification Question type would display a "correct answers" box at the wrong time.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's toolbar buttons to display in left-to-right style, with right-to-left languages.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's text direction buttons to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the essay with rich text Question type's buttons for increase and decrease indentation to have no effect.
  • Fixed a bug in which MathJax rendering crashed with a [Math Processing Error] message when clients have a combination of LaTeX/MathML equations and MathJax-rendered markup in their Items. This is due to MathJax assigning consecutive integer IDs to the elements it renders, and these IDs clashing with the IDs of the already rendered MathJax elements in the Item.
  • Fixed a bug when using Safari with VoiceOver where the user could no longer navigate to the page's text content after closing the Calculator feature.
Polish
Questions API v2.122.26
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.

20th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.25
  • Fixed a JavaScript exception thrown in "review" state when a custom Question did not include a validation object.
  • Fixed a bug, a rare race condition where a session could be moved to "Completed" status before final scoring had finished. See the help article on lifecycle for an overview of the lifecycle of a session.
Polish
Questions API v2.122.25
  • Improvement: Added working label bundles for the imageupload Question.

31st Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.24

10th Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.23
  • Fixed a bug that caused Chrome tabs to crash when rendering zero-width characters in the LearnosityMath font.

9th Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.22
  • Fixed a bug where the orderlist Question type could not load the page in review mode, when automarkable was set to false.

19th Sep 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.15
  • Fixed a bug that caused Assess API to appear to load forever if reset() was called while an AppendPromise was pending.
  • Fixed a bug, solving an XSS vulnerability in title and subtitle fields.
Polish
Questions API v2.122.21
  • Improved support for error tracking.

28th Aug 2019
Polish
Questions API v2.122.20
  • Improved support for dynamically loaded resources from Learnosity servers.

17th Jul 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.19
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the question instance from removing all events when calling public method off without any arguments.
  • Fixed a bug with the multiple choice Question type, where images were not being centered correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where stimulus_list and possible_responses would be shuffled in the same order in the Association Question type when no validation object was authored.
Polish
Author API v1.33.12
  • Optimized complex searches by Tag to improve search performance.

26th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.9
  • Fixed a bug that caused a legacy version of Questions API (v1) to be loaded when questionsApiVersion: 'latest' version was requested.

5th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.14, Questions API v2.122.18
  • Fixed a bug, solving an XSS vulnerability in title and subtitle fields.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the user to click on the exit and close buttons within the assessment player multiple times, firing multiple AJAX calls. This was causing a locking issue in a database.
  • Fixed a bug, preventing multiple Assess API instances from being loaded on the same page.
  • Fixed a bug in the Essay with Plain Text Question type, that increased the height of the text box area, every time a character was typed.

15th May 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.17
  • Fixed a bug that caused the errorListener callback to be called multiple times each time we initialized a new instance of the Questions app.
  • Fixed a bug when switching between degrees and radians in the Calculator feature.
  • Fixed a bug that caused uploads of CSV files to fail when using the fileupload Question type.

30th Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.8, Assess API v2.78.13, Questions API v2.122.16, Author API v1.33.11, Question Editor API v3.48.12
  • Added more detailed error messages for Items API.
  • Improved accessibility in the review screen by maintaining focus within the review screen, improving navigability for the 'close' and Item filter buttons, and providing status information on selectable Items within the review screen.
  • Improved the clozedropdown Question type so that it ignores leading & trailing whitespace during validation.
  • Fixed a bug where the simplechart Question type put an exclamation mark (!) on top of correct responses when they matched initial values.
  • Fixed a bug where double dollar signs ($$) were not treated as delimiters for inline LaTeX.

3rd Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.15
  • Fixed a bug where spaces would be ignored if you had entered a special character from the keypad as the last character in a Question.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the clozeassociation Question type to fail in rendering the simple features after moving the dragged response to the possibility list.
  • Fixed a bug where the response for the numberlineplot Question type can still be changed by users after calling the public method disable(), also after calling the enable() method, the Question would be broken and the user could not change the response.

13th Mar 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.12, Question Editor API v3.48.11
  • Fixed a bug where the custom name of Items were not correctly shown when changing to the next section.
  • Fixed a bug where two different modal dialogs shared the same ID, which is meant to be unique.
  • Updated the color of the Assessment Player subtitle to comply with the contrast ratio for accessibility purposes.
  • Fixed a bug where pasting LaTeX into a CKEditor field caused MathJax classes to be added.

20th Feb 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.11, Questions API v2.122.14
  • Fixed a bug that caused the intro Item with hyperlink text to have a double underline.
  • Fixed a bug where the table of contents Item count index was reset in a section, when saving and resuming the Activity.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the page to jump when there were more than ten assessment Items and the user started to navigate to a different Item.
  • Fixed a bug where test timers were started in "preview" and "review" Assessment states.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the readyListener event to be called after the start button appeared, when the students used a very low-end machine to load the assessment.
  • Fixed a bug where the line chart labels would be cut off when using the font sizes large, extra large and huge.
  • Fixed a bug where inserting accent marks on Safari on the short text Question type by pressing Cmd+E followed by any vowel would result in an extra accent mark being inserted.
  • Fixed a bug where a flash of extra width could be seen when the loading spinner appeared.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause video and file uploads to use expired access tokens.
  • Fixed a bug with a missing arrow in the simple chart.
  • Fixed bugs (CSS conflicts) to handle tabs in Author API and Questions API.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the sharedpassage Feature from being rendered multiple times through the append public method.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the entire window to scroll when dragging the imagetool and calculator on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the page to scroll when we draw in the highlight Question type

31st Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Author API v1.33.10
  • Fixed a bug with asset uploading, where a misconfigured API version caused uploads to fail.

30th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.10, Questions API v2.122.13, Author API v1.33.9, Question Editor API v3.48.10
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with the Fullscreen API changes in Chrome 71.
  • Fixed a bug where the bgcolor attribute was being removed for table elements.
  • Fixed a bug where Features like the calculator were not hidden, when navigating from preview mode to edit mode.

9th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.9, Questions API v2.122.12, Author API v1.33.8, Question Editor API v3.48.9, Data API v1.23.8
  • Fixed an issue where the inclusion of Simple Feature IDs in the Initialization object's feature_ids array would prevent Features and Simple Features from initializing correctly.
  • Fixed a bug that removed the responses' index in clozeformula, clozechemistry, imageclozeformula, and imageclozechemistry Question types when we called the disable method.
  • Fixed a bug with some MathML Tags being removed when sanitizing some content. They have now been added to the supported Tags.
  • Improved the compatibility of classification Question type scoring to handle legacy validation data.
  • Fixed a bug where the dynamic variables in Items were not properly displayed in the Item picker preview.
  • Fixed a bug where entering the greater-than symbol '<' removed the aria label in the LaTeX editor.
  • Fixed a bug where certain sections had the wrong i18n label.
  • Fixed an error in the SET itembank/items/duplicate endpoint that prevented an Item from being duplicated if it contained Tags with different numeric names representing the same integer value, for example "001" and "01".

10th Dec 2018
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.11, Data API v1.23.7
  • Fixed a bug that caused submit_over_limit to not work properly with the longtextV2 Question type.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the formula Question type from returning the highest possible score, when valid_response and alt_responses have the same correct answer value.
  • Internal performance improvements for executing requests with Learnosity servers.

14th Nov 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.8, Questions API v2.122.10, Author API v1.33.7, Question Editor API v3.48.8
  • Fixed a bug where calling reset() on Assess API with events enabled will cause the application to throw errors in the browser console.
  • Fixed a bug with the formula keypad where certain touch devices would trigger the same input twice instead of once.
  • Fixed a bug that caused an unwanted pair of curly braces "{}" to be added to the LaTeX output of the subscript symbol in formula Questions.
  • Fixed an issue preventing uploads of unrecognised file types on some operating systems.
  • Fixed a bug where sharedPassages math renderer would be overriden in some cases and therefore not applied correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where inserting accent marks in Safari with the Cloze Text Question type by pressing Cmd+E followed by any vowel would result in an extra accent mark being inserted.
  • Fixed a bug where copy-pasting content was not possible on the Cloze Math Question type when using Firefox on a Windows device.
  • Fixed a bug where the Create Table and Edit Table modals in the Essay with rich text Question type were rendered in an incorrect position in two-column layouts.
  • Fixed a bug where the Imageclozetext Question type input box placeholder value was broken when it had more than one word.
  • Fixed a bug in fillshape that threw an exception in the console and prevented the suggested answers list from being visible.
  • Fixed a bug in the Item list description, where escape sequences were not being resolved into displayable characters.
  • Fixed a bug where label bundle values for the pointers dropdown could not be set, in the imageclozeassociationV2 Question type.

24th Oct 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.7, Assess API v2.78.7, Questions API v2.122.9, Author API v1.33.6, Question Editor API v3.48.7, Data API v1.23.6

17th Oct 2018
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.8
  • Fixed a bug where audio Question Types would show a missing device error and not start on Safari 12 for MacOS.

8th Oct 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.6
  • Fixes bug that prevents users from navigating to the new adaptive item if the previous item has reference's format as a number (example: "123456789")

3rd Oct 2018
Features
Items API v1.83.5, Reports API v1.6.3
  • Internal performance improvements for executing requests with Learnosity servers.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.6, Questions API v2.122.7, Events API v1.4.3, Author API v1.33.5, Data API v1.23.5
  • Fixed a bug that caused Assess API to send the wrong contextHeight to the scrollablepassage.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the overflow:auto containers from scrolling, when dragging the responses of dragdrop Question types to the top or bottom edges of their containers.
  • Fixed a bug where the Numberline Question type showed incorrect suggested answers.
  • Fixed a bug where the clozeassociation Question type's wordwrap option does not work in the response container.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the length of the clozeassociation response zone to be calculated using LaTeX code instead of rendered math.
  • Various internal changes that improve stability.
  • Internal performance improvements for executing requests with Learnosity servers.
  • Fixed bug in SET /itembank/items/tags where a large item/tag combination could make the request fail. Requests are now split and batched internally to allow appropriate scaling.
  • Fixed a bug in SET /itembank/items/duplicate where all-numeric reference strings were rejected as invalid even though they were passed in correctly.

12th Sep 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.5, Questions API v2.122.6, Events API v1.4.2, Question Editor API v3.48.6, Data API v1.23.4
  • Fixed a bug where the save/submit dialog could still show the cancel button when limit_type was set to hard.
  • Updated button styles to be the same in all regions.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Item container to be rendered with the wrong height in the horizontal-fixed region.
  • Fixed a bug where the assessment button element lost its title attribute, when hide_label_option was set to true.
  • Fixed a bug that caused content inside the scrollablepassage feature to be invisible when being used on iOS 10 devices.
  • Improved the stability of the audio recorder Question type on mobile devices.
  • Fixed a bug where entering double quotes into a math formula within the stimulus results in subsequent HTML not being rendered correctly.
  • Fixed a bug that caused auto-generated math content from being cleared when the formula input's focus was removed.
  • Provided a better description for formula Question types when these Question types are validated.
  • Fixed a bug where ImageclozeassociationV2 did not render math properly in the alt_response tab in Question Editor.
  • Fixed a bug where draggable Items were hidden when dragged over other Questions in the same Item.
  • Fixed a bug where dynamic content variable names that contained spaces or math function names would render incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the formulaV2 Question type to use the MathQuill engine to render math content during review state, when no math_renderer engine was defined.
  • Fixed a bug that had TextHelp read orderlist options as a single word, rather than as separate options.
  • Fixed a bug for the Microsoft Edge browser, where it would report a font-face loading error in the console when rendering MathJax.
  • Added support in spokenmath for two new math symbols: material conditional ⇒ and material equivalence ⇔ to the math keypad.
  • Improved the text string generation
    • The use of the word times for equations containing parens.
    • Infinite repeating decimals
    • Decimals with a trailing zero
    • Measure of angle
    • Singular ordinal fractions
    • Mixed numbers
    • Unary plus
  • Fixed a bug where an error fetching past events on subscriber initialisation would prevent receiving any future events.The API still reports the error in the console, records it in the LearnosityEvents.errors list and sends it to the errorListener if specified, but now continues to send subscribe requests to retrieve new events and deliver them to the application.
  • Fixed the messages reported on backend errors. Previously, raw backend error responses were reported verbatim in the console. An additional error message is now reported, if available, giving more context about what the error means for the API (e.g., fatal or not). This does not impact what gets recorded (i.e, the error only) in LearnosityEvents.errors nor sent to the errorListener.
  • Fixed a bug where requests denied with 4xx HTTP errors would be retried in a tight loop. This prevents overloading the backend with a lot of known-incorrect requests. As before, the request is passed to the caller's errorListener, allowing it to be informed about the issue and take further corrective action if needed.
  • Fixed an XSS vulnerability where inserting an HTML tag with any "on" event function causes said function to be executed.
  • SET /itembank/items/tags - fixed a bug where supplying the same Tag with different spacing within its type or name can trigger a 500 server error. It now treats the above scenario as two separate Tags.
  • GET /itembank/questions - fixed an issue where a non-string array of references or item_references would trigger a 500 server error. The request now returns a validation error instead.
  • GET /itembank/items - fixed an issue where a non-string array of references or questions.references would trigger a 500 server error. The request now returns a validation error instead.

27th Aug 2018
Bugfixes
Question Editor API v3.48.5, v3.48.4, Data API v1.23.3
  • Fixed a regression in QE which breaks the output question JSON when creating new MCQ options or clearing existing options.
  • Fixed an XSS vulnerability where inserting an image with an "on error" function and an invalid image source value causes the error function to be executed.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing empty paragraphs above and below certain top level block elements when authoring content with a rich text editor.
  • Fixed bug in session/responses endpoint where a combination of several user and activity ids could lead to a timeout of the endpoint. The endpoint is now able to fetch data for those combinations in linear time.
Polish
Data API v1.23.3
  • Added a Request UUID to all Data API Endpoints which identifies the request in the Learnosity system. The UUID is returned in the response metadata on error. This UUID can be communicated to Learnosity support to assist with investigating root causes of unexpected errors.

23rd Aug 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.4, Questions API v2.122.5, Author API v1.33.4
  • Fixed a bug where the review screen button in the drop-down menu ignored the option show_submit_button: false and still showed the finish button in the review screen dialog.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Questions API initialization to fail when render_with_captured_questions: true is used in "resume" state.
  • Fixed a bug that caused errors with assessment navigation when render_with_captured_questions: true is used in "resume" state.
  • Fixed a bug where the Rating Question Type would not highlight the selected response in "review" state.
  • Fixed the unattempted state of the Rating Question Type so that it appears blank instead of highlighting the first option.
  • Fixed a bug where tooltips for buttons in the right region would be cut off when long label text was used.
  • Fixed a bug affecting Firefox and Safari where math elements in question stimulus had an unnecessary bottom margin applied when an ancestor element was focused.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the image tag to malfunction when double quote " was used in alt or title attributes.
  • Fixed a bug where the sort button was not displayed properly if Author API was part of a form.
  • Improved suggestion logic when searching for Tags, to match Tag name or Tag type to the whole search phrase.

1st Aug 2018
Features
Data API v1.23.2
  • Improvements to internal tracking mechanism.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.3, Questions API v2.122.4, Author API v1.33.3, Question Editor API v3.48.3, Reports API v1.6.2
  • Fixed a compatibility issue when PDF.js is included in the same document.
  • Fixed a bug where Questions API would crash when the correct answers list for some legacy classification Questions was shown.
  • Fixed an issue where the calculator feature would always open above its associated button on smaller browser window sizes.
  • Fixed a bug where Classify, Match and Order Question types would lose focus when scrolling on iOS devices.
  • Fixed a bug where the dynamic content Question does not save the response value from the first attempt.
  • Fixed a bug that caused imageclozeassociationV2 Question type to fail to render the stored dynamic content attempts in review mode.
  • Fixed a bug that caused math content to render improperly when the new public methods dynamics.nextAttempt() or dynamics.previousAttempt() were called.
  • Fixed a bug with the public method setScrollablePassagesContextHeight which was not resetting the size of the scrollablepassage to automatic when content was used as an argument of the public method.
  • Fixed a bug where the audio player (simple feature) styling will be broken by text-indent when its type is displayed as text.
  • Fixed a bug where calling Try Again would consistently return options in the same order across refreshes on the following Question types: Multiple Choice, Choice Matrix (standard and inline), Classification, Cloze Association, Association and Image Cloze Association. This fix forces the correct answer to be in an unpredictable, random order on every single attempt.
  • Fixed a bug where resetting an image uploaded in rich text editor left an empty image element in the source.
  • Fixed a bug where the browse controls were not displayed in the order specified in the configuration.
  • Fixed a bug where audio inside a shared passage did not stop playing when changing the URL or switching views.
  • Fixed a bug where the widget instances were not correctly ordered on reorder, add and remove.
  • Improvements to internal tracking mechanism.
  • Fixed an issue which was causing Question Editor menu buttons to flicker when typing in the stimulus.
  • Fixed a bug in item-scores-by-tag-by-user report with scrolling performance on mobile devices.

18th Jul 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.4, Questions API v2.122.3
  • Enforced case-sensitivity for Item references in adaptive Activities, in line with the normal behaviour of Items API. This fixes an issue in item branching assessments where students were not be able to complete a test if the Activity definition contained an Item reference with different casing to what was present in the Item bank.
  • Fixed a bug where placing Items containing drag and drop features, such as classification, not to render on iOS devices when used in an Activity containing columns and scrollable passages.

11th Jul 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.3, Assess API v2.78.2, Questions API v2.122.2, Events API v1.4.1, Author API v1.33.2, Question Editor API v3.48.2, Data API v1.23.1, Reports API v1.6.1
  • Fixed the way cross-domain iframe is served, it is now using requested version by server side determination. This allows better forward compatibility.
  • Fixed a bug where a test:pause event was unexpectedly triggered after a submit call.
  • Fixed a bug where some customized labelBundle values were being converted to lowercase. Now, multiple sentences and proper names will remain capitalized as configured.
  • Fixed a bug where the responsive region updated the wrong region settings, so that the right region did not appear when changing the window size to a medium or large viewport.
  • Fixed a bug where the flag button and calculator button weren’t showing tooltips when the user’s cursor was hovering over the button.
  • Fixed a bug so that only the vertical_stretch_option will be applied when both vertical_stretch_option and scrollable_option are both enabled at the same time in the Items region. This will prevent conflict between the two settings.
  • Fixed an issue with internationalization labels not applying to Image Highlight Question types.
  • Fixed an issue where opening the Calculator feature could cause the page position to jump to the top of the page.
  • Fixed a bug that causes custom Question type from calling the validate event before the ready event is triggered in review mode.
  • Fixed an issue with Basic Extended calculator where the % function was inconsistent with the existing Scientific Calculator.
  • Fixed a bug where Item references were being duplicated on the item list.
  • Fixed slow performance on the Item list for some queries.
  • Fixed a bug where loading Question Editor would make other instances of CKEditor hidden.
  • GET itembank/items: Fixed slow performance for some queries.
Polish
Events API v1.4.1, Author API v1.33.2
  • Made the retry-on-error behavior less aggressive by batching all retried publish events into fewer requests. This reduces the load on both clients and server in case of transient failures, and avoids compounding the problem while ensuring past events do not get lost.
  • Updated message to show option for duplicating passages only if the Item being duplicated has a passage and duplicate_shared_passages option is set to true.

20th Jun 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.1, Questions API v2.122.1, Author API v1.33.1, Question Editor API v3.48.1
  • Fix error on next button when using Pages functionality
  • Fixed a bug where imageclozeassociationV2 Question type response container moves to the wrong position when image size is too small.
  • Fixed a bug where sortlist Question type shows the wrong stimulus list items when resuming.
  • Fixed an error when reviewing the correct answer on simpleshading Question type.
  • Fixed an issue where the characterMap modal could not be opened in fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed a bug where the videoplayer Feature would not show the video preview when no preview image was specified.
  • Fixed a bug where the Tag search options were not displayed in the Item list.
  • Fixed a bug where adding an Underlined Indicator to some text in a rich text field would break the Remove Format functionality.
  • Fixed a bug where adding multiple empty possible responses would break the imageclozeassociationV2 Question.
  • Fixed a bug where the button to add response positions wasn't clickable.
Refactors
Items API v1.83.2
  • Added mapping for Events API to support LTS versioning

13th Jun 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.1
  • Minor performance improvements for Activity initialization

6th Jun 2018
Features
Items API v1.83.0, Assess API v2.78.0, Questions API v2.122.0, Events API v1.4.0, Author API v1.33.0, Question Editor API v3.48.0, Data API v1.23.0, Reports API v1.6.0
  • Added support for LTS versions
  • v2018.1.LTS is released

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