Release Notes — 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Analyze

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Billing

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Bookshelf

Added a chameleon parameter to remove citations from the library

What’s changed?

Removed book citations from the library. These citations had extremely low use and were based off old code.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Added Back to page button to the reader

What’s changed?

Added a back-to-page button on the lower toolbar so that learners can easily jump back to their previous position in the book.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors
Connect

Single schedule not being applied to new groups

What’s changed?

We fixed a bug that was preventing schedules from being applied to new groups added during item creation. From now on, if there is a single schedule for a catalog, all new groups will inherit that single schedule regardless of how the group is created.

Who does this change affect?

  • LMS Admins
  • Institutional Admins

Digital Match Report now respects the new Explore and Create filters and adoptions with no digital match when applicable

What’s changed?

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?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Support for multiple SFTP enrollment ingestion per day

What’s changed?

The Verba team recently released an update to the automated SFTP Enrollment Ingestion for Connect. 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.)

What do I need to do?
The Verba Product team recommends 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, however it’s highly recommend that you retain your existing file placement timing of prior to 2:30am Pacific to ensure maximum enrollment coverage based on RMS catalog/adoption ingestion timing.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Fixed catalog selector not displaying open catalog options in Chrome

What’s changed?

The catalog selector dropdown no longer shows as empty for users on the most recent version of Google Chrome.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Updated EA + Print Distribution Tools interface

What’s changed?

We’ve released a cosmetic change to the EA + Print Distribution Tools interface to make it easier to distinguish between “mark as issued” and “mark as returned” calls to action.

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Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

New default schedule and default schedule date behavior

What’s changed?

We have eliminated the concept of a “default” schedule that automatically gets created with new catalogs. We also got rid of the concept of arbitrary default schedule dates. From here on out users will need to manually create ALL schedules they need for a catalog and enter the necessary dates instead of making changes to the defaults. This will allow for much better processes around catalog setup tasks because the schedule dates will be meaningful vs. arbitrary.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Fixed performance for the Students page in Connect

What’s changed?

For programs with a large number of students, the page should perform much better.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Include requirement status information in the "Email Matches to Me" Explore & Create export

What’s changed?

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 and 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?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Prevent group deletion if licenses exist

What’s changed?

Users will no longer be able to delete item groups if students have been licensed, even if the licenses are inactive.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors
Content Upload

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Explore

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Launch

Course Dash: Added option to hide search box

What’s changed?

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?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Course Dash: Revised deeplink buttons on material cards

What’s changed?

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.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Course Dash: Show adopted materials on initial/adopt view

What’s changed?

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.

Who does this change affect?

  • Learners
  • Instructors

Instructor Verba Enrollments Update

What’s changed?

Updated 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?

  • Learners
  • Instructors
Deep linking

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Manage

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Store & Sampling

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Studio

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

Verba

No updates for 4/01/24 - 6/30/24

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