Items API Release Log Overview

Below is an overview of notes for each release of Items API.

Versions on this page

  • Latest
  • 2019.3.LTS Recommended (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.

8th Jan 2020
Features
Items API v1.96.0, Assess API v2.101.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.96.0, Assess API v2.101.0, Questions API v2.149.1
  • 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

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

11th Dec 2019
Features
Assess API v2.100.0, Questions API v2.148.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.100.0, Questions API v2.148.0
  • 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.
Polish
Questions API v2.148.0
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.

20th Nov 2019
Features
Questions API v2.147.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.147.0
  • 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.
Polish
Questions API v2.147.0
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.
  • Added more detail to error messages for Questions API.

2019.3.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 2019.3.LTS here.

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

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
  • 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.
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.

20th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.1, Questions API v2.146.1
  • 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.

31st Oct 2019
Features
Questions API v2.146.0
  • 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”.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.99.0, Questions API v2.146.0
  • 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.
Polish
Items API v1.95.2, Assess API v2.99.0, Questions API v2.146.0
  • 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.

9th Oct 2019
Features
Items API v1.95.1, Assess API v2.98.0, Questions API v2.145.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.98.0, Questions API v2.145.0
  • 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.

19th Sep 2019
Features
Items API v1.95.0, Assess API v2.97.0, Questions API v2.144.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.97.0, Questions API v2.144.0
  • 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.
Polish
Questions API v2.144.0

28th Aug 2019
Features
Assess API v2.96.0, Questions API v2.143.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.96.0, Questions API v2.143.0, v2.142.2
  • 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.
Polish
Questions API v2.143.0
  • Improvement: Made the font size bigger for the new symbols “not congruent” and “not similar”.

21st Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.95.2, Questions API v2.142.1
  • 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.

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
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.95.0, Questions API v2.142.0
  • 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.
Polish
Assess API v2.95.0, Questions API v2.142.0
  • 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.

17th Jul 2019
Features
Assess API v2.94.0, Questions API v2.141.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.94.0, Questions API v2.141.0
  • 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.
Polish
Assess API v2.94.0
  • 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'.

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

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
  • 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.
Polish
Questions API v2.140.9
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards.
  • Improvement: polished some UI text for the imageupload Question type.

20th Nov 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.5, Questions API v2.140.8
  • 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.
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
  • 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.
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

19th Sep 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.3, Questions API v2.140.5
  • 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.

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, 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 causing incomplete text highlights in Firefox with selections containing inline math content.

7th Aug 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.3
  • 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.

17th Jul 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.1, Questions API v2.140.2
  • 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.
Polish
Items API v1.94.1
  • Updated internal libraries to maintain security standards up to date.

2nd Jul 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.140.1
  • Fixed a bug with Horizontal Keypad where focusing away and back from a response zone, caused the keypad to collapse in width.

26th Jun 2019
Features
Questions API v2.140.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.93.0, Questions API v2.140.0
  • 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.

5th Jun 2019
Features
Items API v1.94.0, Assess API v2.92.0, Questions API v2.139.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.94.0, Assess API v2.92.0, Questions API v2.139.0, 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 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
  • Improved error messages and validation to provide more readily actionable information.
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
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.91.0, Questions API v2.138.0
  • 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.

30th Apr 2019
Features
Items API v1.93.0, Assess API v2.90.0, Questions API v2.137.0, 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 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
  • 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.

3rd Apr 2019
Features
Assess API v2.89.0, Questions API v2.136.0, 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.
  • 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, 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 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
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.88.0, Questions API v2.135.0
  • 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.
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

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.

9th Oct 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.134.11

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.

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
  • 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.

26th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.5, Questions API v2.134.6
  • 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.

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
  • 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.

30th Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.3, Assess API v2.87.3, Questions API v2.134.3
  • 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.

3rd Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.92.1, Assess API v2.87.2, Questions API v2.134.2
  • 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.

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
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.87.0, Questions API v2.134.0
  • 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.

30th Jan 2019
Features
Items API v1.91.0, Assess API v2.86.0, Questions API v2.133.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.86.0, Questions API v2.133.0
  • 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.

9th Jan 2019
Features
Questions API v2.132.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.90.1, Assess API v2.85.3, Questions API v2.132.0
  • 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.

10th Dec 2018
Features
Items API v1.90.0, Questions API v2.131.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.90.0, Assess API v2.85.2, Questions API v2.131.0
  • 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.

14th Nov 2018
Features
Questions API v2.130.0, Events API v1.5.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.89.2, Assess API v2.85.1, Questions API v2.130.0
  • 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.

24th Oct 2018
Features
Questions API v2.129.0
Bugfixes
Items API v1.89.1, Assess API v2.85.0, Questions API v2.129.0
  • 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.

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

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, Annotations API v0.5.8
  • 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 Annotations API sessions could not be saved when a Drawing annotation was added to an Item with a reference longer than 36 characters.

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

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.

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

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.

26th Jun 2019
Bugfixes
Items API v1.88.4, Questions API v2.128.14
  • 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.

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, 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.
  • Internal change to ensure the LTS version is loaded properly.

3rd Apr 2019
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.10
  • 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.

13th Mar 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.6, Questions API v2.128.9
  • 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.

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.

30th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.4, Questions API v2.128.7
  • 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.

9th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.84.3, Questions API v2.128.6
  • 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.

10th Dec 2018
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.128.5, 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.
  • 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, 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.
  • 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, 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 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, 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 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.

12th Sep 2018
Features
Items API v1.87.0, Assess API v2.83.0, Questions API v2.127.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.83.0, Questions API v2.127.0, v2.125.2
  • 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

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
  • 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.

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
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.85.0, Assess API v2.81.0, Questions API v2.125.0
  • 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.

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
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Items API v1.84.1, Assess API v2.80.0, Questions API v2.124.0
  • 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.

20th Jun 2018
Features
Items API v1.84.0, Assess API v2.79.0, Questions API v2.123.0
  • 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.
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.123.0
  • 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.

2018.1.LTS

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

Note that v2018.2.LTS is now available, so we recommend using that version for production releases instead now.

Read more about 2018.1.LTS here.

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

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.

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
  • 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.

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
  • 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.

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

30th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.10, Questions API v2.122.13
  • 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.

9th Jan 2019
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.9, Questions API v2.122.12
  • 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.

10th Dec 2018
Bugfixes
Questions API v2.122.11
  • 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.

14th Nov 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.8, Questions API v2.122.10
  • 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.

24th Oct 2018
Bugfixes
Items API v1.83.7, Assess API v2.78.7, Questions API v2.122.9

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
  • 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
  • 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.

12th Sep 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.5, Questions API v2.122.6, Events API v1.4.2
  • 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.

23rd Aug 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.4, Questions API v2.122.5
  • 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.

1st Aug 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.3, Questions API v2.122.4
  • 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.

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
  • 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.
Polish
Events API v1.4.1
  • 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.

20th Jun 2018
Bugfixes
Assess API v2.78.1, Questions API v2.122.1
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
  • Added support for LTS versions
  • v2018.1.LTS is released

For information on releases prior to 6th June 2018, please click here.