Developer Release Logs

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.

10th October 2024

Features

  • Added Question level distractor rationale support for Multi-step Math Question type. (Questions API)
  • Added Question level distractor rationale support for clozeformulaV2 Question type. (Questions API)
  • Added Question level distractor rationale support for hotspot Question type. (Questions API)
  • Added a display a message with a link to the newly created groups in random Activity. (Author API)
  • Added a new createItemGroup public method to allow the creation of random Activity groups programmatically. (Author API)
  • Added a new premium feature for capturing an image of handwritten math responses. (Questions API)
  • Added new initialization options to be able to set the default state of intro and outro Items for new Activities. The new options are named config.activity_edit.intro_item.default_checked and config.activity_edit.outro_item.default_checked. (Author API)
  • Added screen reader messages for the focus and toggle states of a response area option in various drag and drop Question types. (Questions API)
  • Added support for changing cameras when recording in the video Question type on a mobile device. (Questions API)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug in the lastscore-by-item-by-user and session-list-by-item reports, when the configuration was not set during initialization. (Reports API)
  • Fixed a bug where Author Aide API did not initialize correctly after the application code was loaded on the page. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where Author Aide API did not work when multiple instances of Author API existed on the same page. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the texthighlight module resumed with a different highlight ID in the annotations session. (Annotations API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby macOS VoiceOver was not announcing scoring results properly on Safari upon clicking 'check answer'. (Questions API)

Polish

  • Improvement: added a video preview before recording in the video Question type. (Questions API)
  • Improvement: enhanced overall system stability. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: increased the overlay notification icon size to 24px by 24px for the Label image with drag & drop Question type. (Questions API)
  • Improvement: internal update for library package compatibility. (Items API)
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the app. (Data API)
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the app. (Events API)
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the app. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the application. (Questions API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Annotations API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Question Editor API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Questions API)
  • Improvement: updated prompts to get better alt text description through AI model for uploaded images. (Author API)
  • Improvement: user interface improvements for pop-up content button. (Questions API)

26th September 2024

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug in the lastscore-by-item-by-user and session-list-by-item reports, when the configuration was not set during initialization. (Reports API)
  • Fixed a bug where Author Aide API did not work when multiple instances of Author API existed on the same page. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug, where assessment was not working for random Activities. (Items API)

Polish

  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the application. (Data API)
  • Improvement: internal update to to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Questions API)
  • Improvement: removed the beta_flags.lds initialization option. It was previously used to prevent the loading of the Learnosity Design System components in Author API to mitigate breaking changes. (Author API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Items API)
  • Improvement: updated the white on black theme to improve color accessibility. (Assess API)
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility. (Data API)
  • Improvement: user interface improvements for the pop-up content button. (Questions API)

11th September 2024

Features

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug in Item editing, where a label HTML tag contained an icon without text accompanying it for screen readers. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug that caused Annotations API to fail when loading in vertical_element assessments. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug that was preventing the alt text generator for images from generating content with an empty stimulus. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where duplicate responses were resetting other responses in the clozeassociation Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the Item preview in Activity edit mode did not properly show all Widgets inside it. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the stimulus image was not resizing for the image annotation upload Question type, when changing the dimensions on Author Site. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby an absence of responses caused an error in the numberlineplot Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug, where assessment was not working for random Activities. (Items API)

Polish

  • Improvement: enhanced overall system stability. (Events API)
  • Improvement: enhanced overall system stability. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: several minor UI improvements to the multistepmath Question type. (Question Editor API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility, and performance. (Data API)
  • Improvement: updated random Activities to allow saving without adding any Items to the Item groups. (Data API)
  • Improvement: updated the white on black theme to improve color accessibility. (Assess API)
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility. (Events API)

28th August 2024

Features

  • Added a new initialization option restricted_tags that limits the creation and updating of Items and Activities based on the provided configuration. (Author API)
  • Added changes required for an upcoming feature. (Author API)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug in the graphplotting Question type whereby cursor point manipulation could cause loading errors when the Activity was saved and reviewed. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug that caused Annotations API to fail when loading in vertical_element assessments. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the correct rendering of Math when there is another version of MathJax on the page. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where duplicate responses were resetting other responses in the clozeassociation Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the navigate event was incorrectly fired with an invalid route, and the getLocation method returned an incorrect value when persist was set to false in the initialization options. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the Item duplication check in an Activity was performed twice. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the Item duplication check in an Activity was performed twice. (Data API)
  • Fixed a bug where the Item preview in Activity edit mode did not properly show all Widgets inside it. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the force submit dialog was not showing the extended time from the live progress report. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug where the stimulus image was not resizing for the image annotation upload Question type, when changing the dimensions on Author Site. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the tooltip for some buttons still showed up, even when the buttons were already hidden. (Question Editor API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby HTML elements were not rendering correctly on labels for graphplotting Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby HTML elements were not rendering correctly on labels for the graphplotting Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby all graph-type Question types tick labels disappeared on hover. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby log warnings were generated when moving elements within graph-based Question types. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby responses containing certain characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane could result in sessions becoming unscorable. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby validation indicators were cropped for the classification Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug, when mixing React.js and non-React.js radio inputs with the same name. (Questions API)

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Items API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Questions API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility, and performance. (Data API)
  • Improvement: updated the image alt text generation. (Author API)
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility. (Events API)

14th August 2024

Features

  • Added a new image_alt_text_generation initialization option, which allows for uploaded images to have their alt text automatically generated with AI. (Author API)
  • Added a new items_order attribute to the Sessions Detail by Item Report, which helps in customizing the report by arranging and filtering the Items as needed. (Reports API)
  • Added changes required for an upcoming feature. (Question Editor API)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug that prevented response boxes from being displayed in the numberline Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where Author API's takeover page was not correctly displayed. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where review mode was starting on the wrong Item for existing sessions. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug where the video recorder Question type exited from full-screen mode when the Items API was embedded into an iframe, and the browser zoom was not set to 100 percent in Google Chrome. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the force submit dialog was not showing the extended time from the live progress report. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug where the navigation & save buttons on the bottom right were getting misaligned, when changing the save button label. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug where the remove button for distractor rationale had no ARIA label. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the timer would become inaccurate on slower computers. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug where the tooltip for some buttons appeared, when the buttons were set to hidden. (Question Editor API)
  • Fixed a bug whereby fraction denominators were being cropped in the numberlineplot Question type. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug, when mixing React.js and non-React.js radio inputs with the same name. (Questions API)

Polish

  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the scoring endpoint. (Data API)
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the app. (Data API)
  • Improvement: internal update to improve the security and stability of the app. (Events API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Annotations API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Assess API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Items API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Questions API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Reports API)

17th July 2024

Features

  • Added a new items_order attribute to the Response Analysis by Item Report, which helps in customizing the report by arranging and filtering the Items as needed. (Reports API)
  • Added changes required for an upcoming feature. (Author API)

Bug fixes

  • Added labels to form fields, improving accessibility for screen reader users. (Question Editor API)
  • Fixed a bug where an indent mixed with other text format caused a cut off of the response in clozeassociation Questions. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the activity_edit.save.persist initialization option was not being honored. When set to false, updates to the Activity will be blocked. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the jobs/sessions/scores/subscores and jobs/sessions/metadata endpoints failed with an ambiguous error message for requests with duplicate sessions. (Data API)
  • Fixed a bug where the video recorder Question type exited from full-screen mode when the Items API was embedded into an iframe, and the browser zoom was not set to 100 percent in Google Chrome. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the focus indicator was not matching with the playing audio widget, as set by Action Builder. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the masking tool was overlapping the sticky note, when masking question types that support response masking. (Annotations API)
  • Fixed a bug where the navigation & save buttons on the bottom right were getting misaligned, when changing the save button label. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug where the reference of a new Activity was not properly set when using the navigate public method. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the response masking button was not being enabled when setting the Items region to vertical_element. (Assess API)
  • Fixed a bug where the section index was not being passed as an argument for the section:items:changed event callback. (Assess API)

Polish

  • Improvement: internal update for library package compatibility. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: removed use of deprecated events to maintain compatibility. (Assess API)
  • Improvement: removed use of deprecated events to maintain compatibility. (Question Editor API)
  • Improvement: removed use of deprecated events to maintain compatibility. (Questions API)

3rd July 2024

Features

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where MathML tags were not persistently rendering. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where Questions API preview inside Author Aide was accidentally being styled by Author API CSS. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where an indent mixed with other text format caused a cut off of the response in clozeassociation Questions. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where questions generated via Author Aide could not be saved if the user's firstname or lastname were not set. (Author API)
  • Fixed a bug where the focus indicator was not matching with the playing audio widget, as set by Action Builder. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug where the timer would become inaccurate on slower computers. (Assess API)

Polish

  • Improvement: enhanced the stability of the Scoring endpoint. (Data API)
  • Improvement: internal update for library package compatibility. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Question Editor API)
  • Improvement: updated the AB (Academic Benchmarks) standards browser to show standards codes in the search results. (Author API)

19th June 2024

Features

  • Added an exclamation icon when the character limit is reached in the notepad. (Annotations API)
  • Added background capabilities for future features. (Question Editor API)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug around unpredictable behavior of placing minus signs before functions in the scientific calculator. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug that prevented learners from navigating to an adaptive Item where the Item's reference was provided as a number. (Items API)
  • Fixed a bug where the keyboard was lagging when deleting text from the longtextV2 Question type on iPad. (Questions API)
  • Fixed a bug with text area height for the notepad. (Annotations API)

Polish

  • Improvement: replaced partially-correct SVG icon to improve color accessibility. (Reports API)
  • Improvement: updated initialization option checks for empty values. (Author API)
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Questions API)

6th June 2024

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug that prevented learners from navigating to an adaptive Item where the Item's reference was provided as a number. (Items API)

Polish

  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance. (Items API)
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