Release Notes - 10/1/22 - 12/31/22

No updates for 10/1/22 - 12/31/22

Update to Pub Comp Email Language

What’s Improved?

• Additional language has been added to pub comp statement emails, informing customers of three (3) additional columns that will be added to FEB-23 statements and going forward.

Who does this change affect?

• Publisher Admins

Email Matches to Me – Updated

What’s Improved?

• The “Email Matches to Me” report, found on the Explore & Create page, now includes a column for “requirement status.” This data is tied to the adoption information received from the RMS.
• This will help users weed out non-required course materials when using the report to identify good candidates for their IA or EA program.

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins

Students page – enhanced performance

What’s improved?

• We have made more performance tweaks to the Students page in Connect! For programs with a large number of students the page should perform much better.

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins

New Schedule Functionality

What’s Improved?

• We have eliminated the concept of a “default” schedule that automatically gets created with new catalogs and arbitrary default schedule dates.
• Users will now be promoted to enter their schedule dates (instead of relying on arbitrary “default” schedule dates).
• This will allow for much better processes around catalog setup tasks because the schedule dates will be meaningful.

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins

Chrome-related Fix

What’s Improved?

• A visual bug caused by a browser update has been fixed. The catalog selector dropdown no longer shows as empty for users on the most recent version of Google Chrome.

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins

Verba Enrollments Update (Instructors)

What’s Improved?

• Updates how instructor enrollments are handled to allow instructors to see all course materials in the event they are teaching two sections with different materials that map to the same course in their LMS platform.

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins
• Instructors

SFTP Enrollment Ingestion Update

What’s Improved?

• We’re now providing support for schools that want to send enrollment files more than once a day.
• Ingestion will now kick off once an hour at the half-hour mark. (Note: Timing of catalog/adoption imports has not changed.)
• Offering support for the ingestion of multiple files a day will ensure that enrollments in Connect are more up-to-date and accurate.
• Students will see a marked improvement in their experience, especially when opting out of content from the Course Dashboard.
• Students who were not yet reflected in Connect enrollments would receive an error when they attempted to opt out.
• We recommend a maximum of 4 files a day, spaced out about 6 hours apart to ensure enrollment dependent processes have time to finish between imports.
• You can choose the timing of your files to align with your own time zone, hours of operation, and any of their existing automated processes
• It’s highly recommend that you retain your existing file placement timing of prior to 2:30 AM Pacific to ensure maximum enrollment coverage based on RMS catalog/adoption ingestion timing

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins
• Learners

Digital Match Report Upgrade

What’s Improved?

• The Matches report, found on Explore & Create page and accessed by clicking the “Email Matches to Me” button, now respects the selected filter and/or search results!

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins

No updates for 10/1/22 - 12/31/22

Deeplinking

What’s Improved?

• The instructor deeplinking tool has been updated to show a list of currently-adopted materials.
• This helps instructors efficiently use the tool to quickly add relevant deeplinks to their LMS courses.
• Buttons in the instructor deeplink tool have been updated to be clearer about what they do. We’ve also added a new button to quickly add a generic link to the book.
• We’ve added a setting for our instructor deeplink tool to hide the search bar. This is intended for IA schools who do not want instructors to be able to add content adoptions through the deeplinking tool.
• When search is disabled, instructors are restricted to adding deeplinks only for content that’s already been adopted to their course.

Who does this change affect?

• LMS Admins
• Institutional Admins
• Instructors
• Learners

No updates for 10/1/22 - 12/31/22