CN Website Release Notes 2017

November 30, 2017

November 2, 2017

Update User Label designs (manage user label, remove user labels, add repetitive labels)
Combine courses
Convert personal course to institution course (and the opposite)
Import Discussion Topics from another course
Update Certificate Design
Auto-award Course Completion Certificate
Allow instructor to change Course Completion badge
Badge refinements

Sept 29, 2017

Support importing entire course through Common Cartridge
Add personal Question Banks for instructors
Add HTML editor option for Multiple Choice questions on quizzes
Allow instructor to provide predefined feedback on Multiple Choice, True or False, and Fill in the Blank questions
User email refinements (display linked emails on user profile and CN System Admin)
Add “Text Entry” submission, “Submit a File/Assignment” changed to “Submit a File/Text Entry”
Add CN Consortium page to website

Sept 13, 2017

August 15, 2017

August 3, 2017

July 6, 2017

Basic functions of Course of the Week badge
Portfolio tab/page in CN Channel - allow admins to create sections on all Channel members’ portfolios
user profile privacy controls
search refinements
advanced member search in CN Post under “The World” post view
remove Why CN from header, add CN ePortfolio page
Promote Leadernomics’ open course (course public page--log out view, log in view not a course member yet, log in view a course member already)
Common Cartridge Files
import courses through CN admin will copy course completion settings
import tasks into another course will copy task visibility conditions
CN authorization service and JS SDK
allow the same badge to be awarded multiple times from the same course
allow instructors and Channel admins to edit descriptions CN predefined course badges

May 25, 2017

Add emojis to post form
Course Files page
Refine GradeBook’s Course Grade logic with weighted categories
Refine Import Tasks
Import Quizzes
Fix word count for other languages
Show Anar icons based on whether post meets word count goal or not
CN Admin controls - disable search and email functions for a Channel’s members
View Posts Based on Timeframe - can now select specific time
ClassCast Access Data - see who accessed the ClassCast, how many times, and when
Refine user tagging function
Badges - change Description to Description/Criteria

April 25th, 2017

Advanced member search
Entering time uses consistent format throughout CN
Allow users to define gender
Hide user with the most Anar seeds from Anar progress bar
Show/hide posts on user public profile control
Folders for the showcase section on profile
Generate report: change button name and add report for course enrollment and course completion based on selected time frame
Bookmark Task where user left off
Give user a checkmark button to claim course completion next to course title
Show which posts/reflections were created since the last time user visited the course/network
Refined order of reflections (show the 3 newest reflections)
Allow students to print quiz
Removed My Class and Instructors visibility settings from Basic Information section
Refine email threads

March 22nd, 2017

Continue working on notifications in CN Post
Update the UI of the CN file uploader (filters by file types and reduce the height)
Institution logo and cover image on Channel member’s profile page
Two customizations for NCC client: hide most recent login section on user profile page, disable Channel members’ profile page and social interaction functions on mini profile card
Change the term “Conexus” to “Network”
Add description on Showcase files on user profile page
Allow bold text in post form
If the default seeds for create a post/poll/event is 0, allow instructors to manually adjust Anar Seeds on individual posts/polls/events
Allow instructors to set default Visibility Setting for posts in their course
Add “Go to My CN ePortfolio” links to Full CN and CN Post
Add reminder popover for users to follow people in CN Post “The World” view
Show public posts made by people you are following on top (in CN home feed and CN Post “The World” feed)
Show global posts made by classmates you are following on top (in full CN and CN Post “My Global Class” feed)
Add CANCEL button and a new footer to reflections

Feb 22, 2017

Back-end update
Allow rotate profile picture
My Global Class View update (add timeframe post filter, exclude global posts from My Class, new Global Post pop-up tooltip)
CSV upload grades
Handle Roster page functions for large courses that have more than thousands of members
Profile refinements: 1. add floating navigation menu, 2. allow order major sections, 3. keep visibility options consistent from section to section
Anar table update: seperate “create post” and “create poll and event”. Do not award Anar Seeds for creating quizzes and ClassCast
Allow users to rotate their profile picture
Hide Calendar by default if there are no upcoming calendar events in the following 7 days
Back updates:

Jan 24, 2017

Update the Reseller page and About Us page
Apply dropdown design for course access setting
Apply dropdown design for late submission settings
Use pop-up tooltip to prompt users to earn 100 seeds. This tooltip won't show until the 8th login for new users.
Add pop-up reminder to download the CN mobile app
Anar label refinements and add it to CN Post
CN Channel--allow download student general report from a specific course
Add word count and instructor suggested hashtag to the post creation from from DropBox

Jan 3, 2017

CN Channel Certificate
Allow late submissions for X amount of days
Totally remove cookie, and use CN token only
Refinements on Add New Institution window of profile page
Delete posts under groups if group is deleted (and delete old data from this issue)
Refinements on Add Link/LTI Tool window design (from area 3 of course)
Refine Anar icons to be more descriptive