Tabula release notes

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.

We released Tabula 2020.5.4 on Thursday 27^th May 2020. In this version:

• We made some refinements to the new Marks Management component and worked on new functionality within it. This included adding histories for component marks: when a mark was previously recorded, you can now view a history of this, which provides the time and date of the change, the name of the person who made it, and the mark and grade recorded.
• We fixed the 'Copy comments and files' button that appears for final markers in the double seen marking workflow. Using this button now copies the comments and files from the first marker, as intended.

We released Tabula 2020.5.3 on Thursday 21^st May 2020. In this version:

• We added a new component, Marks Management, which provides a straightforward way of entering component marks for upload to SITS. Our noticeboard post about this gives more information.
• As part of this work we enabled uploading of marks to SITS for all departments where it was not already enabled.
• We also turned on the departmental setting to validate grades for all departments. This makes the process of entering marks and grades easier and less prone to error because the correct grade is automatically added when a valid mark is provided. The grade is drawn from the marks scheme defined in SITS for the assessment component.

We released Tabula 2020.5.2 on Thursday 14^th May 2020. In this version we completed some work relating to marks and exam boards support for 19/20.

We released Tabula 2020.5.1 on Thursday 7^th May 2020. In this version we fixed some bugs, including two that affected assignments using the moderated marking workflow.