Release notes for web applications

We released SiteBuilder 2.435 on Tuesday 26^th May 2020. In this version:

• You can now choose a tiled layout for news pages. When you create a new page and change the page template to 'News', you can choose 'List' or 'Tiles' in the 'Display format' dropdown. You can also change the display format of an existing news page by editing its properties.
• We made some accessibility improvements:
  • When you insert a video into a page there is now a box to specify a captions file.
  • On news and calendar pages there is greater contrast between the colours of tags and the text within them.
• We made some changes to the properties for payment forms:
  • There is now the option 'Send email receipt on successful payment', which enables you to turn off email receipts from SiteBuilder to users. Note, though, that if the form collects the user's email address, the online payments system will still send a receipt.
  • The options to include submitted data and files in email notifications of submissions are now disabled.
• When you add surrounding content to a forum page, it is now displayed below the page title, as intended.

We released Tabula 2020.6.4 on Thursday 18^th June 2020. In this version:

• We continued to refine the Marks Management component. For example, the 'Calculate module marks' page is now faster.
• The checkbox to select all students on the Marking page for an assignment is now working again.
• We fixed the buttons for recording attendance at small group teaching events for all students at once.
• We completed more work on the upcoming graduation benchmark functionality.

We released Tabula 2020.6.3 on Friday 12^th June 2020. In this version:

• We changed how you record first-year module marks when an assessment component was missed due to force majeure. You now choose whether to award module marks and / or credit. Your choice will depend on whether the module's remaining assessment components:
  • Were sufficient to assess learning outcomes
  • Enable you to differentiate student performance.
• When you include component marks on an exam grid, you can now hover over each mark to see the sequence, title and weighting of the component.
• We completed more work on the upcoming graduation benchmark functionality.

We released Tabula 2020.6.2 on Wednesday 10^th June 2020. In this version:

• In the Marks Management component:
  • Module Managers and Departmental Administrators can now confirm module marks, and the corresponding component marks, as actual marks.
  • Module marks calculated in Tabula are now automatically uploaded to SITS. Any module marks recorded before this release have also been uploaded.
  • You can now record unconfirmed actual component marks via the Tabula API.
  • If you enter a module mark that differs from the calculated module mark, you must now add an explanatory comment.
  • We made it clearer when the weighting for an assessment component is changed to 0% due to variable assessment weighting (VAW). A label of '0%' is now shown next to the mark for the component, and when you hover over this you see an explanatory note.
  • We added the following to each table for entering or previewing marks:
    • The students' names.
    • A link for each student to a popup summary of their profile, which contains a link to the full profile.
    • The ability to sort the tables by clicking on the column headings.
• We also completed further work in preparation for the upcoming graduation benchmark functionality.

We released Tabula 2020.6.1 on Friday 5^th June 2020. In this version:

• We introduced new functionality within the Marks Management component. You can now:
  • Make a missing marks adjustment when an assessment did not take place, for example due to industrial action or COVID-19.
  • Scale component marks to properly reflect the performance of a cohort against learning outcomes and grade descriptors. Thanks are due to Dave Wood (Maths) and Sam Coy (Computer Science) for their invaluable help with this.
  • Calculate and record module marks - Tabula can calculate module marks when component marks are present.
• We widened the page to show more on screen. This should help when you view previews of exam grids, for example.
• When you include mitigating circumstances on an exam grid:
  • Comments from the panel are now shown. These comments were already available within the assessment breakdown of any affected student.
  • Where a recommendation to the exam board applies to all of a student's modules for the mitigation period, these modules are now listed.
• We completed some work in preparation for the upcoming graduation benchmark functionality.