Tabula release notes

We released Tabula 2019.11.3 on Thursday 21^st November 2019. In this version:

• Small group attendance reports now include students subsequently removed from the group membership. A bug was causing the omission of such students.
• We made some changes to avoid mitigating circumstances submissions becoming 'orphaned'. For departments or sub-departments with existing submissions, it's now impossible to:
  • Disable mitigating circumstances in the department settings.
  • Remove the last Mitigating Circumstances Officer.
• Exam grids now show details of affected assessments for students with mitigating circumstances.
• Mitigating circumstances submissions now include the mitigation grading code used on exam grids. These are A (mild), B (moderate), C (severe) or R (rejected). The codes are shown in the submission alongside the text description of the grading.
• When adding permissions or assigning roles, UG and PGT students are generally no longer suggested. This is because UGs and PGTs are ineligible for department-wide roles such as Senior Tutor or Module Manager. They can still, however, be a personal tutor, marker or small group teaching event tutor.
• We improved the formatting of email notifications.
• We also improved the display of notifications in the activity stream.

We released Tabula 2019.11.2 on Thursday 14^th November 2019. In this version:

• Module-related SITS data is now imported hourly, rather than daily. This may help avoid confusion caused by data in Tabula not reflecting changes in SITS.
• Certain special characters are now removed from assignment names when uploading submissions to Turnitin. These characters were preventing Turnitin from processing submissions.
• We changed the timing of assignment submission reminders sent on the close date, via My Warwick, to students who have not submitted. These are now sent 4 hours before the assignment closes. This is at 8am for assignments with the standard close time of 12 noon. They were previously sent at midnight on the close date.
• The 'Meeting record approval' setting of sub-departments (for example, 'Architecture UG') is now honoured. Previously the setting from the parent department (for example, 'Architecture') was used.
• Pages detailing Mitigating Circumstances submissions now display the submission date. This is in addition to the date the submission was last modified.
• We added further validation to ensure that some permissions can only be granted to staff members.

We released Tabula 2019.11.1 on Thursday 7^th November 2019. In this version:

• We added mitigating circumstances information to exam grids. Tabula now displays the grading – A (mild), B (moderate), C (severe) or R (rejected) – of the mitigation, and the date it was decided. If the mitigation was acute, a zero is appended to the grading to denote that it has already been dealt with. When you view a student's assessment breakdown, some details of the mitigating circumstances are shown at the bottom. This includes recommendations and comments for the exam board.
• When you record a missed meeting, the inaccurate message 'Submitting this record will mark a monitoring point as attended' is no longer displayed.
• When you record attendance for a monitoring point by uploading a CSV file, a confirmation screen now details the changes this will make. You can then confirm or cancel the changes.

Please note: we released changes to assignment opening and closing dates separately, between this version and version 2019.10.5.

We released Tabula 2019.10.5 on Thursday 31^st October 2019. In this version:

• The Modules page within each student's profile now displays the total number of CATS for that student.
• When adding or editing departmental marking descriptors, you can now format them using Markdown syntax.

We released Tabula 2019.10.4 on Thursday 24 October 2019. In this version:

• All 'Email these students' buttons now produce a pop-up containing the email addresses of the students. You can then choose to:
  • 'Copy to clipboard', for pasting the addresses into an email yourself. This will be useful for those accessing their email accounts via a web browser.
  • 'Open email app', to start a new message in your default email client, populated with the addresses. Long lists of addresses can be truncated by your email client when using this option; the 'Copy to clipboard' option provides a way around this. If you don't use Outlook, you can choose the appropriate address separator for your email client here: https://tabula.warwick.ac.uk/settings.
• When you upload marker allocations via spreadsheet and there's a problem, we've made the error message you see more specific. The message now states where the problem lies by providing the sheet name and row number.
• We made it easier for people using only a keyboard to navigate pop-ups that show monitoring point attendance.