We released Tabula 2020.12.2 on Thursday 10^th December 2020. In this version:

• We completed some work on the Small Group Teaching component to cater for different event delivery methods and facilitate Covid-19 contact tracing:
  • When creating or editing a small group set, there is now a required 'Delivery method' property, with the following options:
    • Online only - there is no 'Location' property for the event. When you record students as having attended, Attended remotely (attended remotely - introduced in Tabula 2020.11.4) is the only option.
    • Face to face only - when you record a student as having attended, Attended in person (attended in person) is the only option.
    • Hybrid (online and face to face)
  • We also added the 'Delivery method' property to previously created sets, with 'Hybrid' as the default value.
  • When you select 'Online only' or 'Hybrid', another two properties are available:
    • Online Platform - with options such as Teams and Moodle.
    • Online delivery URL - for the URL of the event on the relevant platform. This appears as a link in students' timetables.
  • These new properties are also available in the 'Default properties' for the events within a set.
• On the 'Manage extensions' page for an assignment, if a student has not requested an extension, the Status now reads 'No extension requested'. The previous text, 'No extension', did not make clear that an extension had not been requested.
• We fixed a bug that affected approved extension requests that were subsequently revoked. The notification to the student about this incorrectly listed the current date as the assignment deadline.
• For assignments set not to allow late submissions, students are no longer notified when their submission is overdue.
• We restored the message you see when you are prevented from creating an assignment from SITS with the same name as an existing assignment. A bug was preventing the display of this message, which applies for assignments within the same module and year.
• We fixed a bug that affected some assignments using a reusable marking workflow and marker allocations imported from small groups. For the affected assignments, attempting to modify the imported marker / moderator allocations led to all students being allocated to a single marker / moderator.

Technical notes

Bugs

• [TAB-8256] - Bulk assignment creation from SITS - Unique assignment name validation isn't displayed
• [TAB-8846] - Issue importing small groups when using moderated workflow
• [TAB-8873] - Validate resits can be sent to SITS
• [TAB-8882] - Don't include "Upload your submission" button in notification when we know you can't submit
• [TAB-8883] - Notification sent when extension is revoked displays incorrect new assignment deadline
• [TAB-8888] - Prevent F2F only events from having online delivery urls and online only events from having locations
• [TAB-8891] - Graduation benchmark course type (UG/PG)

New Features

• [TAB-8890] - Expose SGT delivery method in the Timetable API

Stories

• [TAB-8884] - Wording amendment on Coursework management where no extension has been requested

Dev Tasks

• [TAB-8856] - Add new fields to SGT events create/edit form
• [TAB-8857] - Render event location URL on timetables for online and hybrid events
• [TAB-8860] - Ensure copy events from previous years includes new online fields
• [TAB-8895] - Include SGT group id and event id in timetable event occurrence object