In these release notes
assessmentQ 2.15 contains the following new features and improvements:
- Advanced reports
- Select text in the assessmentQ item bank
- Separate SSO configurations for assessmentQ portal and backoffice
- Adaptive assignments with branching items
- New option for the finish button in an assignment part
- Design optimisations in the assessmentQ player
- Setting the default user language
- Additional assessmentQ e-mail notifications
- New correction option in Math entry
- Optimisation of the calculator
- API update
- Other improvements
- Removed features
Advanced reports
Starting from assessmentQ 2.15, a new Advanced reports module is available in the assessmentQ backoffice.
In the new Advanced reports module, you can generate fully customised reports based on your own data selection and session filters.
The new module allows you to fully personalise the insights in your users' results:
- user-friendly way to generate and customise advanced reports to your needs
- automatic notifications as soon as your report is available
- customisation of the visible columns in the generated report
- extended filter options for data selection
- possibility to share the report
- ...
Notes:
- Backoffice users who had access to the Advanced reporting or to the Schedule reports and / or Group reports modules in Edumatic will automatically have access to the new Advanced reports module in the assessmentQ backoffice.
- Existing advanced reports in Edumatic, however, are not converted to assessmentQ anymore. For more info, see Removed features.
Select text
Starting from assessmentQ 2.15, the Select text item type is available in the assessmentQ item bank.
The item type allows participants to highlight words in a text based on certain categories. It contains several improvements in assessmentQ:
- Standardised and easy-to-use scoring mechanisms.
- Set of predefined colours out of which you can select the colours of the highlighter for your categories. Using these predefined colours guarantees a good visualisation of the highlighted text in Dark and High contrast modes.
Note: All Select text items previously created in Edumatic have been migrated to the assessmentQ item bank:
- As an author, you can now edit these items in the assessmentQ item bank. When you open a migrated Select text item, you will see that the item status is changed to Draft. You will have to edit the item and resolve the validation errors (for example, select new highlighter colours out of the predefined set of colours, and check the score of the item). For more info, see Removed features below.
- Edumatic Select text items that were already part of assignments do not change. Participants can answer these items as before. The scoring mechanism and the reporting for these items remains unchanged.
Separate SSO configurations for assessmentQ portal and backoffice
Up to now, when a Single Sign-On (SSO) configuration was set up between assessmentQ and a customer's domain/network, it applied to the assessmentQ portal as well as to the assessmentQ backoffice.
Starting from assessmentQ 2.15, it is possible to set up a separate SSO for the assessmentQ portal and the assessmentQ backoffice. In addition, the option to sign in via e-mail address and password can be configured separately for the portal and the backoffice.
For example:
- You want to allow your participants to sign in to the portal with e-mail address and password and your backoffice users to sign in via SSO (or vice versa).
- Previously, both sign-in methods were shown on the assessmentQ sign-in screen, which could be confusing for your users. Now a separate sign-in screen can be shown to sign in to the portal (using the portal URL) and to sign in to the backoffice (using the backoffice URL).
The new configuration options have been added to the Single Sign-On module under Integrations:
Notes:
- In the migration to assessmentQ 2.15, existing SSO configurations are configured for the portal and backoffice (as it was before). If the SSO configuration needs to be changed, this can be done by your assessmentQ administrator.
- Signing in to assessmentQ (whether via SSO or via e-mail address and password) is an authentication process only. Authorisation to the assessmentQ backoffice remains dependent on the roles and permissions that are set for the user. When authenticated, users can click through to the backoffice using the same credentials they used to sign in to the portal, provided they have the appropriate roles and permissions.
- A user can only use one SSO, unless both SSO methods use the same identifier. It is the responsibility of the assessmentQ administrator to make sure that the identifier is the same in case of multiple SSOs.
Adaptive assignments with branching items
Starting form assessmentQ 2.15, a new type of adaptivity has been introduced: branching adaptivity.
In an adaptive assignment with branching items, the paths taken by the participants are not determined by the results they obtain at the end of each part (as in a multi-stage adaptive assignment), but by the answer they give to a branching question.
Using branching items in an adaptive assignment allows you to ask targeted questions to your participants.
Participants follow a personalised track. Questions only appear if they are relevant to them.
Note: If you are interested in using branching adaptivity, please contact Televic Education via support@televic-education.com.
New option for the Finish button in an assignment part
A new option has been added in the assignment template for the Finish button in an assignment part allowing you to:
- rename the button. This way, you can use a different label for the Finish button at the end of an assignment part vs. the Finish button at the end of the assignment.
- hide the button. In this case, the Finish button is no longer shown at the end of a part. The participant will only see the Next button and will navigate on to the next part unnoticed.
You find this option in the Button and labels settings in the assignment template:
Design optimisations in the assessmentQ player
Several design optimisations have been made:
- Starting from assessmentQ 2.15, the buttons in the information bar (at the top of the player) and the buttons at the bottom of the player can be shown without a label. In this case, only the button icon is shown.
If you want to use a button without a label, you need to leave the label empty in the assignment template: - Until today, the Finish button was always shown to the participant, but the button was inactive until the participant reached the last item. Starting from assessmentQ 2.15, this button will only appear in the last item of an assignment part or an assignment.
Note: The label of the navigation buttons (when used) is now inserted in the button instead of displayed in front of the button.
Setting the default user language
As an assessmentQ administrator, you can now set the default user language. All new accounts will automatically be assigned this language.
Note: Users can - if desired - change their language via their profile.
Additional assessmentQ e-mail notifications
In the previous assessmentQ release, we have introduced assessmentQ e-mail notifications to inform our backoffice users that their content export is ready to download or that content has been shared with them.
In assessmentQ 2.15, two new e-mail notifications have been added. Backoffice users can now also receive an e-mail notification when:
- a comment has been added to their items.
- their advanced report has been generated or updated.
As a backoffice user, you can activate or de-activate these assessmentQ e-mail notifications via the Preferences in your account settings.
New correction option in Math entry
A new correction option Approve Identity functions has been added to the Computer Algebra System in the Math entry item:
Optimisation of the calculator
Improvements have been made to the calculator to better handle the difference between the minus sign and the state sign:
- The "-" button now only acts as an operator:
using the operator without having anything in front will show a syntax error, because the operation requires a number before and after the operator. - The "(-)" button only acts as a state sign. Using the state sign between two numbers without an operator in between will show an error because a state sign is only valid in front of a number. Between numbers, there should always be an operator.
- In the display of the calculator there now is a clear distinction between the minus sign and the state sign.
API update
A new API call has been added:
- DELETE v2/sessions/id to delete a session
As a result of the introduction of branching adaptivity, changes have been made to the following calls:
- GET /v2/publications/{id}
IsAdaptive is replaced by AdaptivityType (enum) in the returned Publication - POST /v2/publications
IsAdaptive is replaced by AdaptivityType (enum) in the CreatePublication body - The return of the Reports calls will now also contain the obtained score for adaptive assignments.
Other improvements
- Assignments
The maximum number of parts you can use in an assignment has been increased from 20 to 50. - Adaptive assignments
Starting from assessmentQ 2.15, the reports of adaptive assignments will show a total score both for branching adaptivity and for multi-stage adaptivity. The total score will also be returned via the API reports call. - Assignment template - Messages and warning settings
In the Messages and warning settings in the assignment template, you can now also customise the messages that are shown to the participant when clicking on the Reset button. - Assignment template - Correction and feedback settings
When you de-activate the option Show Check button in the Correction and feedback settings in the assignment template, the option Show feedback will automatically be de-activated. You can only activate the option Show feedback if the option Show Check button is checked. - Information bar in the player
If there is no information to be shown in the information bar, it is no longer displayed. That way, there is more screen real estate in the player for the content. - Access code page
When the access code page is used in an iframe, the participants will now be able to use a Back button to return to the access code page after finishing their assignment. - Content review
The Instruction field can be filled in optionally. Thus, adding an instruction is no longer required when creating a content review task. - Export limits
The export limits in assessmentQ have been increased to 10.000 rows for Excel exports and 1000 rows for PDF exports. - User management
An administrator can now also manage access to item development reports for users or user groups. More information - Security improvements
Removed features
Select text
- The Edumatic item type Select text cannot be used anymore in the Edumatic backoffice. All Edumatic items have been migrated to Select text items in the assessmentQ item bank.
- The colour picker for the highlighter per category has been replaced by a set of predefined colors. When editing a migrated item, the author will have to assign new colours to the text markers.
- The option Min or max score per category has been replaced by Score per category.
- Subscript or superscript can no longer be used in Select text.
- The eraser has been removed in the player. Participants can erase marked text by clicking on the selected text again. On hover, the cursor will show a red close icon.
Standard reporting
- The Standard reporting modules for Schedules and Groups in Edumatic cannot be used anymore. You can now create your schedule and/or group reports in the new Advanced reports module in the assessmentQ backoffice.
Advanced reporting
- The Advanced reporting module in Edumatic cannot be used anymore. Existing advanced reports in Edumatic are not converted into assessmentQ advanced reports.
- In the new Advanced reporting module, you can create reports up to the level of sessions. It is not possible to create reports for items and answers. For a detailed analysis of items and answers, please refer to the Analysis module.
- An advanced report can only be displayed in table view; the chart view is no longer available. You can, however, fully customise the table view to your needs. More info.
- It is no longer possible to search in an advanced report. However, you can easily narrow down your report using the selection and filter criteria.
- The option to create a report including a filter that needs to be defined by the user is no longer available.
- The hierarchical combinations to organise the data in an advanced report are limited. For example, you can no longer organise assignments on top of schedules. Only the inverse combination schedule(s) > assignment(s) is supported.
- The option Include users without results is no longer supported.
- It is no longer possible set a separate logo per report. By default, the logo from the default theme of your assessmentQ environment is used. More info.