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Users Can Renew Their Course Licenses (New Feature)

Many organizations sell their courses under a subscription model, where the purchaser is required to pay to maintain access to the course year after year. If the purchase doesn’t renew their course license, the learners would lose access to the course. In the past, whenever someone would buy a new license, that license would be effective immediately and always result in a new license key. This meant that if someone wanted to prepay for the renewal 3 months early, there would be a 3 month overlap between the old license and the new license. This was therefore encouraging organizations to wait until the last minute to renew their subscription to courses. This new feature allows a purchase to renew an existing license. By doing so, (a) the new license only becomes effective on the date that the old license expired, thereby ensuring that there is no overlap between two licenses, and (b) the license key remains the same, thereby not requiring the purchasing to update the license key in the “OCI Course” activity or sharing a new key via email with all their learners.

_{March 25, 2024 ♦ v4.1.9.3 ♦ HCE-7974}

Improvements to Purchases of Courses that Have a Face-to-face Activity (Improvement)

When purchasing a course that has a Face-to-face session using the “Self-enrolment (Advanced)” method, it is generally preferred for the user to select the session date / time immediately to reserve their seat before collecting their payment (and thereby reducing the likelihood that they will request a refund due to the session they wanted to attend no longer being available). However, when a user is purchasing multiple seats on behalf of other users (e.g. in bulk or even a license for their entire site), the registration process becomes more complex given that not all users who will end up registering in the course will necessarily want to attend the same session (on the same date / time). Improvements have been made to the purchasing process to (a) make it more obvious to the purchaser that the course they are buying contains an instructor-led portion and (b) the users will be asked to select the session they want to attend when they self-enrol in the course (using the key the purchaser is paying for). If a user is purchasing a course for themselves, they are given the option to select the session immediately, but are also given the option to skip the selection if they want to select the session later (after enrolling in the course).

_{February 22, 2024 ♦ v4.1.9.1 ♦ HCE-7811}

License Keys Need to Enforce Pre-requisites (Bug Fix)

When a user is given a license key to a course that has pre-requisites, that user can still enrol in the course (using the key) even though they did not complete the pre-requisite(s). If the user completes the course, they will not be awarded a learning recorded but they are not prevented from enrolling in the course. As part of this software fix, when a learner tries to enrol in a course that has pre-requisites using a license key, the enrolment will verify if the user has completed the pre-requisites. If they have not, they will be presented with a message informing them that they must complete the pre-requisites first. That message has a hyperlink that will redirect them to the pre-requisites.

_{February 22, 2024 ♦ v4.1.9.1 ♦ HCE-7859}

User Interface Improvements to the Face-to-face Summary Pages (Improvement)

Face-to-face sessions are summarized on certain screens, like on the sign-up screen and in the calendar. The event summarizes the session and includes information such as the method of delivery (in person or virtual), the name of the facilitator, etc. As part of this improvement, information that is not captured for the event in question is removed from the summary.

_{February 22, 2024 ♦ v4.1.9.1 ♦ HCE-6511}

Usage Report (New Feature)

This report summarizes various statistics about the usage of the system over time. The initial web page (the “Summary”) displays the number of courses, number of users, number of recently active users, number of role assignments, number of posts, number of questions, number of resources, average number of participants, average number of recently active participants, and average number of course modules. The administrator can then click on each tab to get more details broken down over a time period. The information is available in a graphical format as well as a table format. A similar report is available within individual courses to provide data about the course in question..

Learn more here: Usage (System Level)

_{February 22, 2024 ♦ v4.1.9.1 ♦ HCE-7764}

Moodle Plugin Updates (Moodle Update)

As part of our general development cycle, numerous 3rd party plugins available from the Moodle marketplace were updated. These include: block_checklist, format_grid, mod_checklist, mod_hvp, mod_zoom, reported_extendedlog.

Learn more here: Moodle Plugins
_{February 22, 2024 ♦ v4.1.9.1}

Moodle 4.1.9 Update (Moodle Update)

As part of our general development cycle, the HCE, which is based on Moodle, the world's most popular open-source LMS, has been upgraded to Moodle 4.1.9.

Learn more here: Release Notes for Moodle 4.1.9
_{February 22, 2024 ♦ v4.1.9.1 ♦ HCE-7886}