New Release Updates February 2023

21 February 2023

🐞 Bug Fixes

We released fixes for the following:

• Certificate fields not aligned correctly between preview and pdf
• Questions added to test pages appear for learner without publishing updates
• TI tax code search not producing all available tax codes available in Avatax
• CAM slideout gets cutoff on Articles/Videos
• Custom role without the "delete credits batches" permission still see the delete button when viewing credit batches

15 February 2023

🔥 New Features

We want to ensure our security is top notch so we are going to require enabling SSL for BI Connector in an upcoming release. If you are using BI Connector, you most likely do not need to take any action. However, if you haven’t installed a certificate and enabled SSL with your connection, please review the steps below and decide if action needs to be taken.

1. Download the certificate from AWS by clicking here.
2. Follow instructions for the relevant product you’re using to connect to BI Connector.
3. Install the certificate and enable SSL with root certificate.

🐞 Bug Fixes

We released fixes for the following:

• When emailing learners, Zoom recordings are being displayed with a timestamp that does not match the actual time of the recording.
• Learners are unable to complete learning paths after having their access revoked.
• ‘Fatal error’ for course with quiz builder active in certain scenarios.
• When printing question analysis, PDF is generated with the release page in the background.
• Misaligned questions and responses in multiple choice questions.
• Enabling “always display detail page” in panorama removes access dates for panorama learner.

🔥 New Features

ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENT - WCAG: Problems with Site Logo

Ensure header logo has the proper label so it can be read by screen readers.

🔔 Early Announcement

Ensure that the header and “Print” links on the transcript page can be read by screen readers and that the learner profile menu is keyboard navigable.

If your site has custom CSS targeting elements in the header on the transcript page, the accessibility changes included in this ticket may have an impact on your custom styling. In order to retain your styling, you may need to make adjustments in the elements you’re targeting:

• When there is no company logo uploaded, the default fallback text in the .company__beta-logo .company-logo__container class changed from an h4 tag to a span tag with class of h4. Anyone targeting .company_beta-logo. company-logo_container h4 will need to update CSS to .company_beta-logo .company-logo_container span
• The transcript page title in the .company__school-name class changed from a p tag to an h1 tag. Anyone targeting .company__school-name p across all pages will need to update CSS to .company__school-name p, .company__school-name h1. Anyone who is specifically targeting .company__schoolname p inside the learner transcript page will need to update the p tag to an h1 tag.

Examples

🔔 Early Announcement

ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENT - WCAG: Provide a Valid Label for Form Fields

Ensure that fields on the assessment, reflection, survey, catalog, cart, and learner profile pages have valid labels so that they can be read by screen readers.

We’ve also made two key updates to the comment box field on discussion pages:

• We added a new translation to define the instructional text that appears to learners in the comment box field. The translation is called thread.enter.comment and defaults to “Enter your comment here.”
• We adjusted the label on the comment box field. If your site has custom CSS targeting this text area, the accessibility changes included in this ticket may have an impact on your custom styling. In order to retain your styling, you may need to make adjustments in the elements you’re targeting:
  • A new label has been added above the textarea element on the comment form. A new translation has been added for this label: thread.enter.comment
  • The textarea has been moved out of a label element. Anyone targeting the textarea in the comment form currently with a rule that includes the label tag will need to update the CSS rule to remove the label tag.
  • To target the elements specifically: the comment textarea has a id of #comment-text and the new comment label has an id of #comment-text-label

Examples

🔥 New Features

ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENT - WCAG: Ensure Dialogues Use Proper Structure and Focus

Ensure cart modal and course/workbook completion dialogues have the proper name and structure so they can be read by screen readers.

🐞 Bug Fixes

We released a fix for the following:

• Grant certificates and awards for ILTs and VILTs with pre-learning/post-learning and award claiming.

7 February 2023

🔔 Early Announcement

We want to ensure our security is top notch so we are going to require enabling SSL for BI Connector in an upcoming release. If you are using BI Connector, you most likely do not need to take any action. However, if you haven’t installed a certificate and enabled SSL with your connection, please review the steps below and decide if action needs to be taken.

1. Download the certificate from AWS by clicking here.
2. Follow instructions for the relevant product you’re using to connect to BI Connector.
3. Install the certificate and enable SSL with root certificate.

1 February 2023

🔥 New Features

CONTENT - Allow Non-English Characters in Content Titles

We previously required content item, course section, and course lesson titles to have at least one English (Roman alphabet) character because we use those titles to build the content URL slug (e.g., ...learn/course/intro-to-marketing).

With this update, we’ve expanded the languages that can be used to build slugs, so you’re no longer required to include Roman characters in the title fields.

Examples of how we build slugs:

• If a title contains only Roman characters (i.e., the letters and numbers used in English, Italian, French, etc.), those form the slug.
  • E.g., Video test > ...learn/course/video-test
• If a title contains non-Roman characters, they will be converted into Roman characters in the slug.
  • E.g., введение в маркетинг > …learn/course/vvedenie-v-marketing
• If a title contains a mix, slug formation depends on which languages are involved. It may only include the Roman characters and omit those characters from the other language, so we recommend that you do not mix different languages within a single content title.
  • E.g., Intro to マーケティング > …learn/course/intro-to

🔥 New Features

ECOMMERCE - Allow Credit Redemptions Exclusively

If you’re using our training credits functionality to allow learners to purchase content with credits, you can now configure content items so that they are purchasable only by credits. Previously, you were required to also input a real-world currency cost (e.g., in dollars) in order to make the item purchasable with credits.

This functionality includes a new translation field redeem-with-credits.credits-only, which defines the text that appears at the top of the course details page sidebar when a course only has a credit cost and no dollar cost. This translation defaults to “Redeem with credits”.

Heads up! We’ve also taken the opportunity to improve the navigation of the Ecommerce settings. You’ll now find the Credit Requirement field in Enrollment > Ecommerce > Pricing section together with all the other price settings.

See our Training Credits article for more information.