CN Website Release Notes 2023

November 30, 2023

ePortfolio Publications integration with scholarly site ORCID https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/19592663304983
Institution Gateway Page profile card display logic updates https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039784434
CN Rich Text editor (HTML editor) refinements
- Added default padding above and under embedded images and iframe items
- Gave a default Title tag to iframe videos for accessibility
- Cleaned up format for Source Code
H2 Title format template updated: Title text is now black instead of blue to avoid it looking like a link.

November 2, 2023

Integration with Slack: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/17920484924439
Support new multiple-choice quiz type: No Correct Answer: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/18865272070551
Import publications from Google Scholar to ePortfolio: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/18812750165655
Allow CN Channel admins to grant full GradeBook and DropBox access to TA, ID, FE by default: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/10908542873111
Add group name label to group posts
CN website updates – partner logos, new use cases, and new CN Accessibility page
Support HEIC format image files

September 27, 2023

3 more HTML format templates: quote block, style H2 heading, accordion element: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025660653 (view #10 at the bottom)
New notification type: 1. New quiz submissions, 2. Student comments on instructor’s assignment annotations through CN Grader Beta https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/16095298488471-CN-Grader-Beta-
Course Analytics update: 1. Discussion Topic analytics incorporates course hashtags and student data, 2. Most Active Students and Top Performing Students analytics both show more meaningful data for both small and large courses, 3 GradeBook items in Assignments analytics follow alphabetical order
- Classic Course Analytics (for instructors): https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007945954
- Pathway Course Analytics (for instructors): https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/8407507684119

- Course Analytics Dashboard (for students): https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/7660668331415

Parent/guardian account UI enhancements https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/17913023825303
Added a new post filter “Never Reflected posts” to courses and Networks.

August 31, 2023

Course Groups feature refinements: 1. New ways to create groups (i.e. based on email domain and user label), 2. The option to automatically add new course members into groups that are created based on email domain, user label, or evenly and randomly split. https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/235456027-Course-Groups
Copy Rubrics from someone else's course using a copy code https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/14203937505303
New notification type: Assignment submission is annotated by instructor through CN Grader (Beta).
Balanced Assessment refinements: made it available to all File/Multimedia, graded submission types and related DropBox updates. https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/17216837238167
Instructor comments can now be deleted from any page: Gradebook, DropBox, or the CN Grader.
Pathway activity completions number count updates: excluded observer data and made sure the number stays up-to-date
Play .gif files automatically in posts and HTML-created content
Replaced HigherEdJobs with LinkedIn Jobs for job recommendations
User label self-select is added to the Institution Gateway page https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003318974

July 31, 2023

CN new grading tool: CN Grader(beta). This feature is only available to CN Channels that have requested it. If your institution is interested in using this LMS feature, please reach out to the CN team. https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/16095298488471-CN-Grader
LTI click-through account creation/linking enhancements: supporting user self-select a user label. See approach #5 at the bottom of this support article: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003318974-Assign-User-Labels
CN Channel>>User Reports: Allow filtering instructors/students by courses https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033217734

Course filtering options on the institution's public page https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/12423177505815
Allow individual users to hide Country/Region and flag https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/16536142243735
Allow individual users to hide and sort personal courses and Networks on the Courses menu https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005364854
Allow instructors to give selected students quiz due date extensions https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006639374
Allow CN Channel admins to disable courses from CN Channel>>Course Management: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/16542945263383
Provide 5 default Instructor-Suggested hashtags in each new course and Network to facilitate social discussions https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006231113
CN assignment and grading features bug fixes and enhancements
Added a hint for the Recommendations feature on user ePortfolio to encourage the use of this feature

June 30, 2023

GradeBook items are not associated with a GradeBook category now produce a warning message for course instructors
Updated CN translation engine to integrate automated Google translation. At this moment, 80% of the CN buttons, links, and hints can be translated automatically with the new translation engine. We will continue to improve the translation rate in the next couple of months.
CN Users can now use Microsoft Azure AD to log in

Allow CN Channel admins to hide specific video conferencing tools (i.e., Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Meetings) from posts, Classic, and activities in both Classic and Pathway courses.
https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/15800136129303
Pathway course instructors can now link to ClassCast posts from the course path https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051622533

Support multiple user labels throughout analytics and reports in CN Channel
CN Channel>>Instructor Reports reinforcements: removed SmartLink-specific analytics and added additional general analytics. The updated reports are applicable to both Classic and Pathway LMSs.
HTML editor updates: 1. Disable embedding documents in the assignment submission HTML editor to avoid redundancy, 2. Institution Showcases creation form now supports basic style options for Completion Instructions and Assessment Guidelines https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001434633
Added a new Roster Settings option: Anonymize Roster. https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/11631044856727
Bulk download submissions from non-graded assignments in Pathway LMS

May 31, 2023

Rumi UI Overhaul: Based on user feedback, we turned Rumi push-downs into pop-overs and recommendation posts to reduce the obtrusiveness of Rumi messages https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008990561-Rumi-Overview
Zoom app user account creation and join course experience testing and refinements
Rich Text editor UI/UX refinements
Pathway course UI/UX refinements (e.g., page redirection and different assignment icons)
Roster export data fixes

April 27, 2023

Integrated Microsoft Immersive Reader with Pathway activities https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/13543823631767
Allow instructors to use a copy code to copy tasks and activities from another course https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/14203937505303
New CN Channel setting: when public users join a Channel course/Network, automatically add them to the Channel.
Updated CN Channel setting: disable posting features in all or selected courses/Networks.

March 27

Updated Institution Gateway Page Design: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039784434
Launched CN ePortfolio (Course-level) LTI tool. It has a dedicated UI and features for ePortfolio users. CN ePortfolio institutions will no longer need to use the CN Post LTI tool for ePortfolio.
- CN ePortfolio (Course-level) LTI tool integration guide for Moodle: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/13411389840791
- CN ePortfolio (Course-level) LTI tool integration guide for Canvas: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/13429794101783
- CN ePortfolio (Course-level) LTI tool integration guide for Sakai: https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/13431212781847
- CN ePortfolio (Course-level) LTI tool integration guide for D2L:
- https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/13618828505111
Support importing existing rubrics and institution rubrics for assignments in courses and for institution Showcases

https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412988368535

https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001434633

Developed institution manage rubrics features in CN Channel https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/13597399710103
Migrated to the new Google Identity Services library. We also made slight language updates to the Google Drive Assignment creation form.

https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034433554

https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007586673

Provide section-based quiz analytics https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023929133
Increased intrinsic resolution for badge images. This way users can zoom in to see details of a badge image
Added a predefined Lesson Completion badge to Pathway courses
Improved the CN LaTex math equation tool to improve its usability and efficiency https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/9937980420887

Feb 8, 2023

New notification types:
- Course content published for Pathway courses https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/5224345641623
- Assignment due date changed
Add quiz question sections and update quiz attempt score report https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/12278851194135
Some CN Post UI updates (Roster, student Groups view, Analytics dashboard, Anonymous posting)
Institution Public Page UI refinements https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/12423177505815
Pathway content margin adjustments to increase readability
Pathway student view: Only have the current lesson open, and close all other lessons to reduce cognitive load
Allow sorting skill tags on ePortfolios and CN Channel>>Institution Suggested Skills

Jan 9, 2023

Add time spent on each quiz attempt
Voice recognition input (beta) as a new input method in posts and reflections
CN Channel mass user removal https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/11551528532119
Roster Setting with more sorting and student privacy options for both course and Network https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/11631044856727
Anar Seeds weekly data for both course and Network https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/11631044856727
Each Task, including subtask, has a unique URL now in Classic LMS. Instructors will be able to use it to take students to specific content.
Update course content created and updated notifications to support the Task tool in Classic courses https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/7758602368919
Allow pull selected questions from question banks and additional question bank refinements https://support.thecn.com/hc/en-us/articles/11632536785431

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