Post Upgrade Release – On Tuesday, 5th September 2017, between 7am-9am, we made some updates to QMplus. These updates added new functionality as well as fixing outstanding issues since the July upgrade.
A few issues remain but the majority have been fixed as you can see below:
- Turnitin Assignment and Grading Report problems. FIXED (27/07/17)
- Grid format – an error message is displaying in place of grid icons. Temporary solution: switch to Collapsed Topics format. – Fixed for September release
- Delete a course – The ability to delete a course on QMplus is not working. After you delete a course, you can still search for it and access it. – Fixed for September release
- ‘Main content goes here’ error – users intermittently experiencing a blank page with this error and being prevented from navigating anywhere within QMplus. Users are advised to clear browser cache to be able to access QMplus again. – Fixed for September release
- Anonymous posting to forums. We now have a solution but were not able to implement in time for the September release. – Coming soon
- Marking Report (under Grades). The Marking Report appears to be working as expected in some course areas but not in others. Other issues were also raised – Majority of issues fixed for September release
- Online Marking of .Docx documents. There is a new feature where .docx documents are converted to .pdf documents to allow for online marking. – Fixed for September release
- Mass Actions plugin has been disabled as it is not working as expected. We are investigating the issue. – Fixed for September release
- Gradesplus update needed for our new theme. – Fixed and enabled for September release (added to the custom user menu above widgets)
- External HTML. Adding external HTML to a landing page region may cause issues with the design of the page. – Users advised to return to design mode in the text editor before saving to avoid issues.
- A slideout menu sometimes appears from the right hand side saying ‘Undefined Drawer’ – Known Moodle bug – not fixed
- Inconsistent breadcrumbs – truncated or very long – Fixed for September release – Solution is to offer long breadcrumb view to those who may require it.
- Select all/none buttons not working when exporting grades from a gradebook and also not working in the Talis Aspire Reading Lists. Fixed for September release
- Course Menu block items not working as expected – (you can hide reports, participants and MY QMplus in the config for this block) – Fixed for September release – Reports, participants and My QMplus are now collapsed. Edit the block to hide completely or delete and re-add
- New icons missing for Tab Display, Echo360/Q-Review and H5P – With the exception of Echo360, fixed for September release
- Module search very slow and not working correctly on Smartphones – Fixed for September release
- Module search first attempt no courses listed just a line but works second time – Fixed for September release
- Deleting course (administrators). Problem with deleting courses – Fixed for September release (slight button misalignment in category view in IE)
- Hiding and unhiding of topics in Collapsed Topics . Topics, once hidden cannot be revealed and do not appear in line with the other topics. – Fixed for September release
- Course summary not displaying in collapsed topics format – Fixed for September release
- Logged out and can’t login – when you have been logged out (e.g. due to inactivity) it is not obvious where to log back in – Fixed for September release – we have added a login icon to QMplus where the dashboard icon is
- Gradebook – export function – When exporting grades from a gradebook in, the link to select all/none is not working. – Fixed for September release
- Images on School landing pages – Inconsistent rendering of image size and Display issues in IE – Fixed for September release – images will now be fixed at 180px
- Tabs disappearing in course formats – assessment info and any other tabs are added but then disappear on page refresh – Fixed for September release
- Hyperlinks not visible on landing pages in some themes with background fill – Fixed for September release
- Q-Review icon not correct (it says Echo 360) and it looks as though it is stretched – Not possible for September – waiting for third party
- Shibboleth authentication slow – we are continuing to investigate this issue
- Course Creation Wizard – admins couldn’t use – Fixed for September release
- Intermittent database error – Users can be presented with a ‘Main Content goes here’ message where the module content should be. – Fixed for September release
- Backup and Restore – Inability to backup and restore courses – Fixed for September release
- SITS Marks Transfer – Some options not selectable – Fixed for September release
Other Styling issues that have been fixed
- Zoom not working for Rubrics marking
- Table cells in books are losing their borders
- The Checklist activity small styling issues
- Creating groups – button placement and overall layout
- Drag and drop text Quiz Question type – borders missing
- Language change – ‘Faculty’ changed to ‘School’ on the landing page picker page
- Language change – In the Landing page block – Pick a landing page changed to Pick a Home page
- Glossary – display issues (next & previous buttons)
- File submission screen – alignment issues
- Notifications area formatting issues
- styling bug in module info
- Submit assignment button – changed from washed out grey to faculty theme colour.
- Assignment rubric layout issue
- The settings block has been forced to display at the top of a module page
- The Preferences link has been moved from the custom user menu (above widgets) to underneath the username/profile pic (Above modules)
- The Persistent menu in the gradebook table not persistent in Chrome
- Assignment – odd/tiny icons appearing on summary table
- Message preferences screen – formatting issues – help text disappearing etc
- Landing page picker – too much padding
- Arrows not visible on landing page blocks with background fill
- Textbox colour of a quiz review attempt
- Widgets picking up faculty theme styling
- Grid format – strange heading ‘general’
- Subpage and assignment module icons are the same
- landing page section showing to a student when hidden
- error when changing news and announcements settings
- Book icon doesn’t look like a book
New Plugins
The following plugins have been included in the September release
- Blackboard Collaborate – more information available at: https://help.blackboard.com/Moodlerooms/Administrator/Manage_a_Site/External_Tools/Blackboard_Collaborate and https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_collaborate
- Fair Allocation – https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_ratingallocate
- Talis Reading Lists – a new Talis Online Reading List option to be available as a trial only.
- S&E Course Management – in house development – Workload planning is being added to the September release. This will enable a category view of assessment activity across all modules. Physical Coursework Tracking has been delayed.
Other features
- A new custom h3 heading class has been added to the Header menu in the Atto text editor this will add a background colour the same as your theme (previously you could only have blue)
- The Landing page list no longer needs to look so cryptic as we will map landing page category ids to the course/module shortname
- The archive landing page has been updated
- There is now a logout button in the QMplus footer
- The QMUL logo in the footer now links to the QMUL website
- User can now select the ‘Queen Mary Crown’ watermark when designing a Certificate for their users
- There are now tooltips in the activity picker (indicated by an i) so users can find out more about what that activity can do.
- Med and Dental portal page theme colour variant – You can now add a class or “primary” to the <ul> – <ul class=”modulelist primary”>