We've made some minor improvements to the Branching scenario screen to make it clearer where your start and end scenes are. 

What's changed?

Start scenes

Every Branching scenario requires a start scene. The start scene will always be the first scene in your scenario. Prior to this release it was possible to reorder the scenes which would sometimes result in your start scene being out of order. We've fixed this issue by ensuring that the first scene always remains as the start scene. 

End scenes 

Every Branching scenario requires at least one end scene, but can contain as many as you like. All scene types except for Feedback popups can be set as an end scene. 

The main focus for this release was to make sure our users don't publish a Branching scenario without setting an end scene. This is important because an end scene marks the screen as complete, and without one, learners will not be able to complete the course. 

To make it difficult to do this, we display a warning message that persists until you add your end scene. 

In addition we've made it easier to set an end scene by displaying the controls in a more prominent position. 

We've also included helpful visual aids to indicate where each end scene resides in your scenes list. 

We've just released an update to the grading screen to help improve performance and usability!

What's changed? 

You'll notice while using the new grading screen that it feels a lot more performant. By rebuilding the front-end, we've been able to provide noticeable performance improvements. 

In addition, we've implemented familiar controls and components that will provide our users with a more cohesive experience across the application. 

Although there have been no functionality changes with this release, we've retained the legacy grading screen so that you can switch back to it if you choose. Simply click the 'Switch to legacy grading' button and you'll be sent back to the old experience. 

We've released improvements to the SCORM usage report to make it easier to track the usage of SCORM objects from your workspace. 

Included in the update is the following additional data points: 

• Resource Type (Lesson / Quiz)
• Username (username as stored in host LMS)
• Name (First and last name as stored in host LMS)
• First access (the date the user first accessed the resource from host LMS)
• Location (URL where the resource is hosted)

Other improvements include:

• Usage totals count — dynamic usage count that reflects the filters set.
• Export — ability to export the report using the filters set. 

If you're on a premium plan, you can now set the trainer you want to appear on your invitation emails. 

By default, the user displayed on an email invite is the user who triggered the invitation by inviting a learner to a course, or a trainer to the workspace. You can leave as is, or choose another option. 

These options include: 

1. Automatic — this is the status quo, and depends on who did the inviting.
2. No trainer  — don’t display any trainer in the email. 
3. Specific trainer — display a trainer you have specified.

We’ve introduced a new preview-mode toolbar that gives users control over how they preview the course. Included in this update is the ability to:

1. Preview the draft or published version of the course
2. Ignore course settings
3. Preview the course on multiple devices

Draft / Published version

You can now choose to preview either the draft or published version of the course. A course will have a draft version if you have unpublished changes to any of the course content e.g. lesson or quizzes. The published version of the course is the version that learners can see.

Course settings

By default when previewing a course, all courses settings that can inhibit your ability to properly preview a course have been disabled. These settings include;

• Course availability dates
• Course prerequisites
• Module order
• Lesson lock-step

If you need to test the course with the settings active, simply enable them by clicking the toggle next to each setting.

Device preview

As part of this release we’ve introduced the ability to preview how your course will appear on different devices. We’ve included 3 options for you to test:

1. Desktop (default)
2. Tablet
3. Mobile

You can now batch delete and deactivate learners from the users page.

For those of you who’ve found yourself deleting old users one-by-one, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now batch delete users.

Try it yourself by heading over to the Users page and select a number of learners from the learners tab by clicking over the table row and checking the checkbox next to their name. As you do this, you’ll see the batch toolbar appear from the bottom of the page that now includes Deactivate and Delete buttons.

GDPR and user deletion

As part of GDPR Coassemble now permanently deletes all personal identifying information (PII) from the database. If you choose to delete users from your workspace (where your workspace is the only workspace they are a member of), their PII will be unrecoverable, along with all of their results and progress. You will not be able to reverse this action.

If any of your users is a member of another workspace, their PII will remain until they’ve been removed from all workspaces. 

Deactivating users

If you need to keep a learner's records, but want to remove their access to your workspace, you should deactivate them rather than delete them. A deactivated user does not count towards your user count, and importantly, their user records are stored. You can reactivate a user at any time, and this will restore enrollments, course progress, and user permissions. 

To improve the workflow for your learners, we’ve introduced a new email that is automatically sent when they are issued a certificate for completing a course. In addition to recognising their achievement, this email will allow learners to access their certificates without having to access the course.

We’ve just released an exciting update that will allow you to ‘set-and-forget’ all of the settings related to learners finishing a course.  From today, you can configure the following globally:

• The issuing of Certificates
• Your Certificate design
• Course Finish screen states

Issuing of Certificates

If you are currently issuing certificates for every course in your workspace, you’ll be happy to know that you can now set the issuing of certificates to ON by default. By doing this, every new course you create will automatically be set to issue certificates.

The global configuration can be overridden for each individual course, so if there are some courses that you don’t want to use them, you can set them to OFF by clicking the Override button from the Finish screen inside your course, and then unchecking the ‘Issue certificate’ button.

Note that the issuing of certificates is set to ON by default. 

Certificate design

You can configure a global Certificate design that can be applied to all courses of your courses. To set this up, head over to the Customize > Certificate design tab. From here, you can set up your certificate, and it will be used as the default course certificate for every new course you create. If you make any changes, these changes will be reflected in any course that is using the global design.

Once again, if you want to create a unique certificate design for a particular course, you can do this for each individual course by clicking the override button from the certificate designer inside a course.

Course Finish screen states

As a trainer, you can tailor the course finish experience for your learners using the 'Finish Screen' tab inside a course. Although you may have used the same message for every course, you were required to set it up every time. With this release, you can set it up once, and it will be applied to all new courses going forward.

You can tailor the finish experience to suit each possible finish state on your course. Depending on what modules you have in your course, there are 3 possible finish states:

1. The learners completes the course and passes
2. The learner finishes the course and fails (only available if you have a quiz or assignment module)
3. The learner finishes the course but is waiting for a trainer to grade an assignment (only available if you have an assignment module)

You can override the global configuration on a course-by-course basis if you want by clicking the ‘Override’ button from the Finish screen inside a course.

Inline editing

In addition to all of these great changes, we've updated the finish screen editor inside the course builder to include inline editing. 

Learners can now star courses they reference frequently, or are currently working through. 

To star a course, learners can click the star icon in the top-right-hand corner of the course card. Starring the course pins it to the top of the dashboard. Learners can star as many courses as they like.

We've just changed the name of the Text with Image screen to better represent how it is used in the platform by the majority of our users. More often than not, our users treat the Text with Image screen as a blank page where they add videos, images, and tables using the Text editor, instead of relying on the image uploader placeholder. 

In light of this, we've changed the name of the screen to Blank screen and have removed the image placeholder so that you don't feel inclined to use just an image. You can still add images with the text editor, and align and resize them any way you like. 

Image captions

So that there was no reduction in functionality for this screen, we've added support for captions inside our text editor. Now you can add captions to images any where you add an image using our text editor. 

Will this effect my existing screens? 

This change will not effect any of your existing Text with Image screens. Any images you added previously will remain in place.