Currently Rostered Users
What’s Improved?
- Instructors and Administrators will now be able to download a list of all users currently rostered for their institution.
Additional Details
- The output Excel file will provide the following information:
- Name
- Email Address
- Role
- Groups
- Date Added
- Acount Status
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Instructors
- School Administrators
Institution Level Content Download
What’s Improved?
- Administrators can now download an Institution level content report.
Additional Details
- This report downloadable from the user's browser will contain the following information:
- Title
- VBID
- Total adopted concurrency across all adopted collections
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Montly Expiration emails
What’s Improved?
- Administrators will now receive a monthly email detailing adoptions that are set to expire in current and next month. Administrators will only see institutions that they are associated with in Explore.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
New Bookshelf Video
What's Improved?
- Swapped out Bookshelf video on Bookshelf features page with one that reflects the redesign.
Who does this change affect?
- Learners
- Instructors
Updated Refund Policies: Wiley Plus and Cengage Unlimited
What's Improved?
- Updated our refund policy page to reflect new terms with Wiley Plus and Cengage Unlimited.
Who does this change affect?
- Learners
- Instructors
ACS Code Upload Hard Failures
What's Improved?
- Fixed an issue that caused bulk ACIS code upload sheets that had missing or had incorrect column headers to fail and keep retrying even though the jobs could never complete. Now, when we get an ACIS code upload sheet with wrong headers, we take note, email the user who needs to fix their sheet about the problem, and stop retrying.
Who does this change affect?
- Publisher Administrators
Report emails
What's Improved?
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause reports to go offline. This would prevent spreadsheet results from various jobs from being emailed to end users.
Who does this change affect?
- Publisher Administrators
Improved Error Reporting for Bulk Spreadsheet Upload
What's Improved?
- We have improved error reporting when adding items to a booklist through a bulk spreadsheet. Now, some spreadsheet imports that would have failed silently now provide details about what went wrong in the spreadsheet sent back to the user in the results email.
Who does this change affect?
- Publisher Administrators
Page Viewer UI Pagination
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue where changing the number of items shown in the Booklist Manager request would cause problems in the user interface.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Instructors
- School Administrators
Request Rights Page not Showing VBID
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue where some table views in the Booklist Manager Request Rights page didn’t show the item VBID, which caused items to fall in under the wrong column headers.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Instructors
- School Administrators
Status Updater Bailing on Missing Booklists
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue where a background process would fail up update Booklist item statuses if the work that the process was doing included a reference to a booklist duration whose requested title or booklist had been deleted. Since these durations should have been deleted when the booklist or the requested title was deleted (but for some reason was not), we are now cleaning up the bad records and continuing to process the rest of the work.
Additional Details
- This should result in booklists with fewer items “stuck” in needs info, request rights, or adopt status that should have been automatically “promoted” to the next status.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Requests for "No Match Found” Type Assets
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue preventing user from submitting a distribution request in Booklist Manager for “no match found” items.
Additional Details
- Previously, users would get errors about course info being not available, even when it was provided. The workflow now works as expected.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Improved Booklist Manager Column Sorting
What’s Improved?
- It is now faster to sort by columns in Booklist Manager.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- School Administrators
Booklist Manager UI - Auto-adopt Workflow
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue affecting our Netsuite POS integration, the V4 Adoptions API and Booklist Manager where, if the option to auto-adopt qualifying matched titles was selected, the book was not moved to the available status but instead stayed in the adoptable status.
Additional Details
- The issue occurred during a three-day window in mid-August. This issue has been corrected, and titles “stuck” in the adopted status were promoted to available status.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Booklist Processing
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue in Booklist Manager that could prevent booklists from being processed in certain scenarios.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Metadata: Author Field Character Increase
What’s Improved?
- Fixes an issue where items imports would fail if the author name field contained more than the allowed number of characters.
Additional Details
- The max number of characters for the Author Full Name has been increased to 1020. If title requests are imported with more than the allowed number of characters, other requested titles on the import will be processed and the user will receive a message in their import notification email that those items with long author names failed due to exceeding the allowed character limit.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Publisher Courseware Deeplink Message Proxies
What's Improved?
- Allows VitalSource to proxy LTI 1.0 and 1.3 Deeplinking messages to Publisher courseware platforms. This allows VitalSource to remain the LTI tool installed in the LMS/VLE and use the Publisher deeplinking interfaces to fetch and push links back into the LMS/VLE courses for Publisher Partner Integrations.
Who does this change affect?
- LMS/VLE Administrators
- Instructors
Currently Rostered Users
What’s Improved?
- Instructors and Administrators will now be able to download a list of all users currently rostered for their institution.
Additional Details
- The output Excel file will provide the following information:
- Name
- Email Address
- Role
- Groups
- Date Added
- Account Status
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Instructors
- Administrators
Institution Level Content Download
What’s Improved?
- Administrators can now download an Institution level content report.
Additional Details
- This report downloadable from the user's browswer will contain the following information:
- Title
- VBID
- Total adopted concurrency across all adopted collections
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Montly Expiration emails
What’s Improved?
- Administrators will now receive a monthly email detailing adoptions that are set to expire in current and next month. Administrators will only see institutions that they are associated with in Explore.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
View Individual Asset Concurrency Limits
What’s Improved?
- Administrators can now view the individual asset concurrency limits for institution adoptions. When viewing a collection at the institution level, the “View Content” button will show the limit of each asset.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Administrators
Bulk Distribution Rights Report eMails
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue that would prevent the system from emailing result reports after assigning or unassigning bulk distribution rights.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Publisher Administrators
Unredeemed Codes Cancellation Fix
What’s Improved?
- Fixes an issue where unredeemed codes for subscription products could not be cancelled.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Publisher Administrators
Remove Support for Importing .xls Files
What’s Improved?
- Removes support for importing .xls files. Manage will continue to support importing of .xlsx files.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Publisher Admins
Update Company Picker
What’s Improved?
- Now, when searching for companies in type-ahead dropdowns, we search for your text anywhere in the company name, rather than only from the beginning. Practically, that means that when searching for a particular Barnes & Noble school, for example, it’s not necessary to type “Barnes & Noble Education - My School Name” to find the school. Instead, the user can simply type “My School” and find the company.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Publisher Admins
Advanced Search Button Misaligned
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue on the Basic Search page where the Advanced Search button was misaligned in Chrome 91.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Publisher Admins
Broken Prices Link for Packages in Basic Search
What’s Improved?
- Fixed an issue on the Search Results page where clicking on the Prices button for a package returned an error page. The link now correctly takes the user to the package's Prices page.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Publisher Admins
Update Search Exports
What's Improved?
- The behavior of search exports has changed.
Additional Details
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Previously, when exporting search results, if any duration of an asset matched your search query, when you exported, you would see every duration to which your company has access, even ones that didn’t meet your search criteria.
For example, imagine that you are an institution with two duration of the book “A Farewell To Arms,” both the 90-day and 180-day rental. And, imagine that you do a search for all books distributed to you with a duration of 180 days. In this case, you would see a listing for “Farewell” that would include both the 90- and 180-day durations. With this new change, only the 180-day rental would show under the listing for “Farewell.”
For publishers and VST staff, this is even more important because content owners and VST employees can see every duration of an asset. Previously, that meant it was impossible to see exactly which durations were distributed by a particular school because if the school had at least one duration of a title, all durations would show up in the report. Now, only the durations actually distributed will be in the report.
This does mean, however, that when searching on duration-specific criteria (like a particular price type or price currency) that not every product will come back in the search results. However, when searching on “book-level” attributes, such as titles or ISBN, all rental products will return.
Who does this change affect?
- Publisher Administrators
Improved Error Messaging for Browser Support - Mobile Safari <13
What’s Improved?
- See other note about adding “we do not support this browser” to chrome. We are doing this across all browsers we don’t support. This is another one. This is in line with Bookshelf.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Learners
- Instructors
Improved Error Messaging for Browser Support - Chrome<60
What’s Improved?
- Added the “we do not support this browser pages” for browsers we haven’t supported in eons. These ancient browsers would break on certain pages, so this will be some upfront annoyance for users having old computers/ having to switch browsers, but will help with long term pain with the browser breaking mid-site. Also note, the store supports the same browsers as Bookshelf.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Learners
- Instructors
South Africa Bulk Store
What’s Improved?
- Created a SA regional Bulk store, for customers in the SA region to purchase eTextbooks in bulk.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Instructors
- School Administrators
UK Bulk Store
What’s Improved?
- Created a UK regional Bulk store, for customers in the UK region to purchase eTextbooks in bulk.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Instructors
- School Administrators
Bulk Store Homepage Refresh
What’s Improved?
- Updated Bulk Store marketing page to reflect the Bookshelf redesign and refreshed dated content.
Who Does This Change Affect?
- Instructors
- School Administrators
Duplicate Student emails
What's Improved?
- Occasionally, when our email workers failed to run properly, emails to students would get duplicated. We have cleaned this behavior up so email retries will not send duplicate copies of the same email over and over.
Who does this change affect?
- Store Administrators
Clear Search and Filters
What's Improved?
- We fixed a bug on the Connect Items page that was preventing the page to properly reset when a user clicked “Clear Search & Filters”.
Who does this change affect?
- Store Administrators
Changes to "Allow Opt-Outs?" Behavior
What's Improved?
- Regular users can now set their default preference on whether students should be able to mark their own participation preferences.
Additional Details
- This config can be found in Connect under Settings > General Settings > Allow Opt-Outs?. This config will also be used to set group-level “lock participation” configs that control whether or not students will be allowed to change their participation preference.
- Users can still override the group-level “lock participation” config, we will just handle the default position of that config better from here on out.
Who does this change affect?
- Store Administrators
"View & Edit" Modal Fix
What's Improved?
- We’ve squashed a bug that caused the section information displayed in the “View & Edit” modal on the Students page in Connect to not properly update based on enrollment changes.
Who does this change affect?
- Store Administrators
Add Student Types to UI Charges Report
What's Improved?
- Users can now see Student Types associated with student records in Connect on the Reports > Campus Reports > Student Charges & Refunds report. This new column will be left empty when Student Types are not set up.
Who does this change affect?
- Store Administrators
Improved Copy on Courses Page Filters
What's Improved?
- The Connect Courses page filters got an update making them easier to understand/read. Previously tenses used were all over the place and it made it harder to parse than it should have been.
Who does this change affect?
- Campus Store Administrators