Tabula release notes

We released Tabula 2020.11.4 on Thursday 26^th November 2020. In this version:

• When you record attendance at a small group teaching event, there are now two 'attended' options:
  • Attended in person - when the student attended in person
  • Attended remotely - when the student attended remotely, via MS Teams, for example.
  Both options appear as attended outside of the 'Record attendance' page for the event. They are also treated the same by any automatically recorded monitoring points. This change makes it easier to determine who should be contacted if someone who attended in person tests positive for Covid-19.
• When viewing a department's list of mitigating circumstances submissions, the module filter now includes affected modules from external departments.
• We fixed a bug that caused marks to incorrectly show as 'Out of sync with SITS' in some cases, which prevented changes to them.

We released Tabula 2020.11.3 on Friday 20^th November 2020. In this version:

• We fixed a bug that caused Tabula to base the graduation benchmark figure for part-time PGT students on a single year of study.
• We completed some preparatory work to enable the selection of a cohort using filters and the generation of resits for this cohort. Currently, you can generate resits by module.
• We fixed a bug that caused the omission of certain students from notifications of confirmed actual mark changes. These notifications go to the Departmental Administrators of other departments with students taking the affected module. Previously, students were omitted if they changed courses the year after taking the module.

We released Tabula 2020.11.2 on Wednesday 11^th November 2020. In this version:

• Syllabus+ events with an end date earlier than the start date are now omitted from departmental calendars. Such events were causing errors and preventing affected calendars from displaying. Omitted events are detailed in a message above the calendar.
• We fixed a bug that prevented some users from dismissing items in their activity stream.

We released Tabula 2020.11.1 on Wednesday 4^th November 2020. In this version we fixed a number of bugs, including some that affected the Tabula API.

We released Tabula 2020.10.4 on Thursday 29^th October 2020. In this version:

• When students move from one self-signup small group to another, we now indicate this on the attendance page for any affected events. In the old group, Icon representing a person, with a line through it appears for all events after the date of the move. In the new group, Icon representing a person, with a line through it appears for all events before the date of the move. In both cases, we display explanatory help text when you select the icon. This brings self-signup groups inline with groups that students are allocated to, for which we introduced this icon in Tabula 2019.7.3.
• We completed more preparatory work to enable the processing of marks by cohort. This will provide an alternative to processing marks by module.
• We completed some work to import special arrangements for rest break time during exams. This will be used by the Alternative Exams Portal to ensure the relevant students receive their allotted rest break time.