We released Tabula 2021.1.3 on Thursday 21^st January 2021. In this version:

• We added a new small group set type, 'SGT Lecture':
  • This is for imported Syllabus+ lecture events.
  • When you import small groups from Syllabus+, you may see sets of groups listed as 'SGT Lectures'. Importing such a set results in a Tabula small group set of the type 'SGT Lecture', with the corresponding lecture events.
  • You can also manually create a Tabula small group set of this type and then import the relevant Syllabus+ lecture events on the Events screen.
  • You allocate students to the groups in 'SGT Lecture' sets in Tabula. No allocations are held in or imported from Syllabus+.
  • Events within Syllabus+ 'SGT Lectures' groups are not shown on timetables in Tabula via the Syllabus+ timetable feed. You can instead display the imported events to staff and students when you publish the groups in Tabula. The events are labelled 'Lecture'.
  • When you publish the groups, both the 'Staff' and 'Students' checkboxes are pre-selected.
  • In contrast, for group sets of type 'Lecture', the 'Students' checkbox is unselected and a warning that the events may duplicate a Syllabus+ whole cohort event is displayed.
• We completed some preparatory work for improvements to how resits are generated in Marks Management.
• The checks completed when small groups are created within Tabula or imported from a spreadsheet are now consistent. We also restored the validation message shown, via either method, when a group has no name.
• We added the facility for students' profiles to show their preferred pronouns. This relies on a change to eVision, to provide students the option of specifying their preferred pronouns during course registration. Once this is complete and the pronouns are available in SITS, Tabula will import and display them.

Technical notes

Bugs fixed

• [TAB-8934] - Importing Small Groups from a spreadsheet seems to use different validation from the UI
• [TAB-8949] - Profile import often fails for department SL

Improvements made

• [TAB-8881] - New lecture type in SGT
• [TAB-8957] - Add preferred pronoun to the student profile and the sub-set modal

Dev tasks completed

• [TAB-8808] - Pre-populate resit notes based on module results