Dual Code is committed to continuously improving the HCE and regularly implementing new features with each release. You'll find below our latest release notes
March 25, 2022
Simple CSV Question Type Format (New Feature)
The Simple CSV format is for importing questions to be used with the Quiz module. The format supports True and False questions as well as the 'All or Nothing' multiple choice question type.
Learn more here: https://docs.moodle.org/39/en/qformat/dcsimplecsv
Ref: HCE-5376
URL for the Optional Logo (New Feature)
The theme allows administrators the ability to add an optional logo at the top right of the header (available under the "Header" tab in the theme settings). This enhancement allows the administrator to also specify a URL that the user will be redirected if they click on the logo. The URL opens in the same browser window.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/lgAG
Ref: HCE-5376
March 21, 2022
Supporting Documentation Would Erroneously Mark a Learner as Complete (Bug Fix)
Under certain conditions, a file uploaded in the "Supporting Documentation" activity within a course would mark the learner as having "completed" that activity prior to the submission being accepted by an instructor. As part of this change, the activity ensures that the submission must be approved by a user with the right permissions in order for the learner to receive an activity completion record.
Learn more here: Adding an Activity#397SupportingDocumentation(Newin3.9.7)
Ref: HCE-5346
Asynchronous Reporting Infrastructure (New Feature)
The learning environment has numerous reports available. In large systems that contain hundreds of courses and tens of thousands of users, some of the reports may take a long time to load. It's not always practical for the instructor or administrator to stay on the page until it finishes loading. This feature introduces the concept of asynchronous reporting. When a user generates a report, the report is generated in the background. This means that the user can leave the web page and continue with their other tasks. Once the report is available, the user is notified via email and using the learning environment's built-in notification system. The user can then go back to the web page and view / download the report that has already been generated.
The report remains available for a period of time (by default, 7 days). So if the user goes back anytime in the next week, they can continue to see the report. If they need an updated copy of the report, they can generate it once again, which kicks off the asynchronous report all over again. Even though an updated copy of the report is being generated, the earlier copy will remain available until the end of the 7 days.
Note that when a report is generated, only the user who generated it has access to that generated copy.
For the moment, the only report that uses this asynchronous framework is the "Time Spent in Activities" report. Other reports that are known to take a long time to generate will be migrated over to this new framework in the near future.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/ZgOj
Ref: HCE-5296
Searching the OCI Marketplace by Organization (Improvement)
The OCI Marketplace search's tool has been enhanced to search by organization. If a user now enters the name (or partial name) of an organization and that organization has published courses in the OCI Marketplace, the list of courses will appear.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/SgOj
Ref: HCE-5278
Calendar Invites for Sessions with Multiple Dates (Improvement)
When a user signs up for a face-to-face session, a calendar invite is sent to them and added to their calendar (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, etc.). However, if a session had multiple dates in it (e.g. March 21 and March 28), both dates were embedded in the same invite and certain calendar applications only accepted the first date and discarded the second date. As part of this improvement, the learning environment now sends a separate invite for each date in a session.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/DgD5AQ
Ref: HCE-5129
March 16, 2022
Automatic Exclusion OCI Users from Program and Cohort Conditions (Improvement)
Programs and cohorts allow an administrator to define business rules to automatically add and remove users. In order to exclude OCI users from these programs / cohorts, the administrator had to set explicit rules. If an administrator were to forget this important step, OCI users would be added to programs / cohorts and potentially be enrolled in courses that are meant for internal users only. Given that these rules are always meant for learners known to the organization (and not site visitors), the system now automatically skips OCI users when evaluating programs / cohorts conditions.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/vIDHBQ
Ref: HCE-5335
March 14, 2022
Moodle 3.9.13 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 3.9.13.
Learn more here: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_3.9.13_release_notes
Ref: MDL
March 13, 2022
Forcing Users to Complete Their Profile (New Feature)
Some organizations design a custom user profile form with mandatory fields, but the form itself is optional. In other words, they didn't necessarily want to force users to fill out the form, but if users did choose to fill out the form, then the organization wants users to fill out the form in its entirety. As part of this feature, a new setting has been added to the learning environment to determine whether or not the form is required to be filled out.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/wIDHBQ
Ref: HCE-4647
March 11, 2022
Listing of OCI Courses in the "OCI Course" Activity (Improvement)
A course in the learning environment can reference courses available in the OCI Marketplace. When searching for OCI courses while using the "OCI Course" activity, the list of courses is now ordered alphabetically in descending order and shows the name of the organization offering the course.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/NwXWAw
Ref: HCE-5371
New Menu for OCI Users (New Feature)
Are you worried about what OCI users might see when they come to your site? In order to standardize the experience for OCI users and not display menu items that are meant for internal staff only, the top menu for all OCI users is now the same on all systems and displays:
- Course Catalogue (but only lists your courses that are available in the OCI Marketplace)
- My Courses
- A link that takes users back to their employer's learning environment
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/SgOj
Ref: HCE-5334
March 8, 2022
Tracking User Licenses (New Feature)
This new System Health check called "User Licenses" tells you exactly how many users in your system consume licenses and how many licenses you have left. As you approach your limit, the system will automatically notify System Administrators) to that you can take action before you run out of licenses.
Did you know that users who register to your learning environment via the OCI Marketplace no longer count against your user licenses? Why not take advantage of this and encourage your site visitors to log in via their employer's "powered by Dual Code" learning environment!
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/SgOj
Ref: HCE-5266
March 2, 2022
Showing LRX Records in the Learning History Report (New Feature)
The Learning History report, which allows learners to view their historical learning records and download their certificate of completion, now shows learning records completed via the OCI Marketplace! This means that even when a learner completes a course on another organization's learning environment, as long as that environment is "powered by Dual Code", then they can download their proof of completion via their employer's learning environment. The report also has an "Issued by" column that names the OCI Partner that issued the learning record.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/GIAX
Ref: HCE-5272
Hiding Programs and Courses from Compliance Archives (Bug Fix)
The compliance archives were displaying programs and courses that were not available to users on the date/time the archive was taken. With this change, the programs and courses are no longer displayed if, at the exact date/time the archive is taken, the program/course is not available to users (e.g. hidden).
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/bwCj
Ref: HCE-4942
February 28, 2022
Learning History Reports Including Learnings Records for Programs (New Feature)
The Learning History report now includes learning records for programs in addition to those for courses. If a Statement of Mark / Transcript is available for the program in question, a direct link to the statement of mark is available in the report (where the Certificate of Completion is available for a course)
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/GIAX
Ref: HCE-5311
February 16, 2022
BigBlueButton 2.4.4 Update (BigBlueButton Update)
As part of our general development cycle, the web conferencing system, which is based on BigBlueButton, has been upgraded to version 2.4.4
Learn more here: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.4/new.html
Ref: HCE-5300
February 10, 2022
Restoring the "Unlock Notification" Setting in Courses (Bug Fix)
When an activity is copied using the "import" or "back up" and "restore" procedures), the "Unlock Notification" is always disabled. As part of this change, the setting of the unlock notification is now copied over when the activity is restored.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/rIK8B
Ref: HCE-5264
February 2, 2022
Display the Face-to-face Activity Shortname in the Calendar Invite (Bug Fix)
According to the face-to-face activity documentation, the calendar invite sent to the user is meant to use the "shortname" of the face-to-face activity. It was detected however that the invite used the general "name" of the activity itself. This change ensures that the calendar invite now uses the shortname as per the documentation.
Learn more here: https://docs.dualcode.com/x/DgD5AQ
Ref: HCE-5260