We released Tabula 2020.2.2 on Thursday 13^th February 2020. In this version:

• You can now view an attendance audit trail for small group events. On the 'Record attendance' page for an event where attendance has been recorded or changed, a 'View history' button is displayed next to the 'Attendance last updated' time and date. If you select this button, a pop-up box displays a table with the following columns:

  • Date - the time and date of the change

  • User – the person who made the change

  • Changes - the name and University ID of each student whose attendance was recorded or changed, with the corresponding icon for 'Attended', 'Missed (unauthorised)', etc.
  Please note the following about the 'Changes' column:
  • Full audit trail data is only available from 29th October 2019. For attendance recorded or changed before then, 'Unknown' is displayed in this column.
  • If the user saves without making changes, or only creates or edits an attendance note, 'No attendance changes' is displayed.
  The above builds on work done for the previous release, which added a clock icon to the attendance icon when attendance was recorded or changed after the day of the event. If an attendance note is in place, though, the familiar envelope icon is displayed instead.
• We added a downloadable Excel template for uploading small group teaching event attendance. On the 'Record attendance' page, select the 'Upload attendance' button, then in the box that pops up use the link to download the template. The template includes any attendance that has already been recorded.
• We made some changes to what you see when reviewing the mitigating circumstances submissions added to a panel:
  • We moved the 'Return to panel' button from the 'Actions' section on the right to the top of the page and made it a link instead. The top section of the page remains in place when you scroll, so the link stays visible.
  • We added the 'Approve outcomes' (or 'Unapprove outcomes') button to the bottom of the 'Outcomes' section. It is also available in the 'Actions' section, as before.
• Markers can now see the time and date that feedback was published to students. On the 'Marking' page for an assignment, under the expandable 'Marked' section, this information is displayed next to the progress bar for each student whose feedback has been published.

• We made the Assignments page of students' profiles more consistent with the Assignments page under Coursework Management. This had the unintended effect of displaying the ‘student view’ of the Assignments page within students’ profiles to staff. The ‘staff view’ has since been restored.

• Students with extensions are now released for marking when their extended deadline is reached, rather than on the assignment close date. This applies to assignments set to automatically release to markers.
• The 'Late feedback' filter on the 'Assignments' page now takes extensions into account. When you apply this filter, the following scenario will no longer cause the assignment to be displayed:
  • The assignment close date was more than 20 working days ago
  • The assignment has a student enrolled whose extended deadline is fewer than 20 working days ago
  • This student has not yet received feedback.
  The 'Assignments' page for a department is accessed via the corresponding link under 'My department-wide responsibilities' on the main 'Coursework Management' page.
• Students with an extension who are subsequently removed from the assignment are no longer notified that their submission is overdue. This was already the case for students without extensions.
• On the 'Set default event properties' page for a small group set, the time picker for 'Start time' and 'End time' no longer displays a date.
• All files within Coursework Management now download when you select them. Previously, certain files opened in the web browser in certain cases. This change provides greater consistency and improved security.

Technical notes

Bugs

• [TAB-6796] - Student with extension is displayed in ready for marking section when not submitted
• [TAB-6803] - Additional guard for examtimetable
• [TAB-6891] - When expanding a section, the browser sometimes scrolls to higher up in the page
• [TAB-7485] - Inconsistencies between the coursework and profiles student submissions lists
• [TAB-7535] - Profile Subset Permissions
• [TAB-8109] - Late feedback filter doesn't take extensions into account
• [TAB-8114] - Student with extension, removed from assignment, still receiving notifications
• [TAB-8115] - Time picker issue in SGT - default event properties
• [TAB-8120] - Panel outcomes can't be updated once they've been approved by chair
• [TAB-8123] - Clock overlay displayed for SGT event attendance for students who weren't members of the group
• [TAB-8128] - Throw an error when trying to submit a mitcircs claim to a department with no explicitly named MCO

Improvements

• [TAB-7180] - Display 'student feedback published' dates to markers
• [TAB-7628] - Force download of files, rather than opening them in-browser
• [TAB-7775] - CSV template download, from the 'Upload attendance from CSV' option when recording attendance by point
• [TAB-7783] - Make it clearer why a student is invalid when uploading monitoring point attendance via CSV
• [TAB-8117] - Approve outcomes UX improvements
• [TAB-8127] - Reject monitoring point reports to API (SynchroniseAttendanceToSitsBySequenceCommand) if there are Tabula-recorded points for that student

New Features

• [TAB-8132] - Show an audit trail of RecordAttendance events for a small group register

Tasks

• [TAB-7630] - Improve message when feedback files are uploaded without a student ID in their names
• [TAB-8126] - Remove references to the Web Team on the 'Need help?' page