Author Site Release Log

Below is a list of Author Site releases and notes for each.

Version 1

Developer
v1.147.1 – 10th April 2024
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Tag list did not return all Tags.

Archived
v1.147.0 – 27th March 2024
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where default reference settings were not added in Author Aide.

Archived
v1.146.1 – 13th March 2024
Polish
  • Improvement: Updated feedback collection tool configuration options.

Archived
v1.146.0 – 28th February 2024
Features
  • Added more language support to Author Aide.

Archived
v1.145.2 – 14th February 2024
Polish
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.

Archived
v1.145.1 – 31st January 2024
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where user management navigation from Author Site to Learnosity Console threw an error, '500'.

Archived
v1.145.0 – 17th January 2024
Features
  • Added in re-generation limits to Author Aide.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where audit trail content would not load if there was a large amount of data.
  • Fixed a bug where user management navigation from Author Site to Learnosity Console threw an error, '500'.

Archived
v1.144.1 – 6th December 2023
Polish
  • Improvement: Added generative AI beta flag to enable it by default.
  • Improvement: Added support for Spanish, British and Chinese dialects to translation mode.

Archived
v1.144.0 – 22nd November 2023
Polish
  • Improvement: increased the maximum length accepted by the Learning Standards input from 500 characters to 1000 characters.
  • Improvement: increase Author Aide stability and robustness.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Author Aide did not retrieve the correct version of Author API.
  • Fixed a bug where the Activities menu was not highlighted while using the Activity editor.

Archived
v1.143.1 – 1st November 2023
Polish
  • Improvement: internal changes in preparation for an upcoming feature.
  • Improvement: Added default config settings for generative AI.

Archived
v1.143.0 – 27th September 2023
Features
  • Added a revision page to Author Aide Question generation.

Archived
v1.142.0 – 6th September 2023
Polish
  • Added UI polishes for Author Aide.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where created_through and translated_through were not correctly saved in the database.

Archived
v1.141.1 – 16th August 2023
Features
  • Added the ability to update Tags/Tag Types which have more than 70k Items associated with them.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the "More" button in the Item editor history tab would timeout.

Archived
v1.140.0 – 26th July 2023
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Archived
v1.139.1 – 29th June 2023
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Tags and Tag Types associated with many Items could not be updated or deleted. A limit has been added to prevent this.
  • Fixed a bug where bulk updating too many Items or Activities would fail. A limit has been added to prevent this.

Archived
v1.139.0 – 29th June 2023
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.

Archived
v1.138.0 – 7th June 2023
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where control/command clicking, or right-clicking, to open an Item from the Item list in a new tab or window would result in a HTTP 404 not found error.

Archived
v1.137.0 – 17th May 2023
Features
  • Added a search field allowing authors to filter Tag types. The search requires a minimum of two characters and uses a right wildcard.
Polish
  • Improvement: updated the login page and top navigation bar to resolve certain accessibility issues, including:
    • Adding alternative text on the logo,
    • Fixing contrast on the login button,
    • Fixing the contrast of the small text CSS selector,
    • Fixing invalid role on mandatory fields indicator, and
    • Adding lang attribute to HTML element.
  • Improvement: updated the user interface area to align input fields vertically. Fixed styling of the delete button so that the red color renders.

Archived
v1.136.1 – 29th March 2023
Polish
  • Improvement: update 2FA registration process by removing the phone verification step.

Archived
v1.136.0 – 8th March 2023
Polish
  • Improvement: updated internal libraries to maintain security, compatibility and performance.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the back button on the 2FA registration form (mobile verification step) didn't work as expected, where it got redirected to the login screen, instead of going on to the next phase of registration, to scan the QR code.
  • Fixed a bug with AWS credentials.

Archived
v1.135.1 – 15th February 2023
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Item list searches from one tab were affecting other tabs.
  • Fixed a bug where the organisation ID was not included in the URL of the Activity editor page.

Archived
v1.135.0 – 31st January 2023
Features
  • Added the EOLA banner for the legacy Activity Editor on all pages, instead of just the Activity pages.

Archived
v1.134.1 – 14th December 2022
Polish
  • Improvement: removed legacy search code.

Archived
v1.134.0 – 23rd November 2022
Features
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the cookie banner used an incorrect font.

Archived
v1.133.0 – 2nd November 2022
Features
  • Added a banner allowing users to decide on their cookie preferences.

Archived
v1.132.6 – 14th September 2022
Polish
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.

Archived
v1.132.5 – 24th August 2022
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Activity list search parameters were being cleared when clicking the "Back to Activity list" button in the Activity editor.

Archived
v1.132.4 – 13th July 2022
Polish
  • Improvement: added support for the 'developer' API version.

Archived
v1.132.3 – 1st June 2022
Polish
  • Improvement: updated internal tracking mechanisms.

Archived
v1.132.2 – 11th May 2022
Polish
  • Fixed a bug where navigation in the legacy Activity preview was not possible.

Archived
v1.132.1 – 30th March 2022
Polish
  • Improvement: updated vendors for security and compatibility.

Archived
v1.132.0 – 9th March 2022
Features
  • Added an end of life announcement banner for the legacy Activity editor.
Polish
  • Improvement: upgraded internal libraries to improve compatibility, security and performance.

Archived
v1.131.0 – 16th February 2022
Features
  • Added Item Settings to the left hand navigation bar, when editing an Item within an Activity.

Archived
v1.130.2 – 6th January 2022
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where trying to access an organisation the user didn't have access to resulted in a 500 error instead of the appropriate error page.

Archived
v1.130.1 – 9th December 2021
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the side navigation menu in the Activity editor would disappear when editing an Item.

Archived
v1.130.0 – 9th December 2021
Features
  • Improvement: when editing an Item inside an Activity on the Author site, the ‘next/previous' as well as the 'duplicate activity' buttons are no longer available to the user.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the "All Activities" main menu option was not being highlighted while users were on the Activities editor page.

Archived
v1.129.0 – 17th November 2021
Features
  • Improvement: upgraded internal libraries to improve compatibility, security and performance.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Activity history was not retrieved if the Activity's reference contained a space.

Archived
v1.128.1 – 28th October 2021
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Items in the Item list were not properly updated after a bulk update.
  • Fixed a bug where Items saved with many Tags sometimes did not return when searching by one of those Tags.

Archived
v1.128.0 – 8th October 2021
Features
  • Added URL routing support in the new Author Site for the Author API based Resource Item feature.
  • Added next and previous buttons to the Activity Editor to navigate between Activities.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Item edit settings screens were not available when editing Items inside Activities in the new Author Site.

Archived
v1.127.1 – 15th September 2021
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the audit history button for an Activity was shown for a new Activity.

Archived
v1.127.0 – 25th Aug 2021
Features
  • Added the End of Life (EOL) announcement for the v0 version of Author Site.
Polish
  • Set all new activities to "unpublished" by default.

Archived
v1.126.1 – 15th July 2021
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the table head elements in Author site weren't styled bold by default.
  • Fixed a bug, an issue where italics were not being applied to text in the edit panel stimulus section.
  • Fixed a bug, where 'Generate Hash' button in the administration panel settings in the Activity editor was broken.
  • Fixed a bug where the side menu would disappear in the Item and Activity editors at exactly 1200px browser screen width.

Archived
v1.126.0 – 23rd June 2021
Polish
  • Improvement: removed the Questions, Assess and Question Editor API versions from the organisation list view. Reordered Author API version field in organisation edit view.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the option to duplicate Activities with no Items was disabled in the Activity editor.
  • Fixed a bug where adaptive assessments could not be saved in the Author Site.

Archived
v1.125.2 – 13th May 2021
Polish
  • Improvement: updated dependency libraries as part of ongoing maintenance of Author Site.

Archived
v1.125.1 – 29th April 2021
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Items were not accessible for editing from the reports tab, in the Author Site-based Activity editor.

Archived
v1.125.0 – 21st April 2021
Features
  • Added next and previous buttons to the Item Editor of the new Author Site. This allows authors to easily navigate between neighbouring Items in the sorting order specified in the Item List.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Action builder user interface controls were not available in the old Author Site.
  • Fixed a bug where Item edit side bar buttons disappeared at certain screen widths.

Archived
v1.124.1 – 31st March 2021
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where redirection to the intended URL did not always work after logging in via two factor authentication.

Archived
v1.124.0 – 10th March 2021
Polish
  • Improvement: side navigation menu Items in the Item editor, which were not applicable for read only Items, are now hidden.
  • Improvement: upgraded vendors to improve compatibility.

Archived
v1.123.0 – 18th February 2021
Features
  • Added support for read only configuration within the Author Site for Items.

Archived
v1.122.1 – 7th January 2021
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Items that were saved as objects from being used in Activity reports.

Archived
v1.122.0 – 9th December 2020
Polish
  • Improvement: the bulk update functionality for Items and Activities is now only available to users with the bulk update manager role.

Archived
v1.121.0 – 18th November 2020
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Item and Activity bulk update menu items were mixed up in the mobile view.
  • Fixed a bug that made it impossible to click on a tag with an empty name in the edit Tag type page of the Tag manager.

Archived
v1.120.0 – 28th October 2020
Polish
  • Improvement: separated the bulk update functionality from the legacy Item list page into its own menu item and page.
  • Improvement: separated the bulk update functionality from the legacy Activity list page into its own menu item and page.
  • Added a new condition to enable the Author API-based Activity editor only when the organisation's Author API version is set to 2020.2.LTS or above.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug, a login redirection issue where the user was being redirected to a default URL after re-authenticating.

Archived
v1.119.0 – 8th October 2020
Features
  • Added the ability to enable the Author API based Activity editor with options to create and edit Items within Activities. The Author API based Activity editor also works with permission groups to configure access to the Activity editor features and access to Activities in the Item bank.
Polish
  • Improvement: various updates to support upgrading to Symfony v4.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Author API save and back buttons could be enabled via organisation settings configuration, which conflicted with the new Author Site user interface.
  • Fixed a bug that overrode the ui_style attribute in the activity editor in Author site.

Archived
v1.118.0 – 16th September 2020
Polish
  • Improvement: changed the way Item and Activity references are generated. The references now use UUIDs instead of incremental IDs. This avoids collisions when multiple authors are simultaneously creating new Items or Activities.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where opening an Item written in the legacy format caused the settings tab in the Item edit screen to not work properly.

Archived
v1.117.0 – 27th August 2020
Features
  • Added a section in the navigation bar to show the version of Author API currently being used.
Polish
  • Removed deprecated functions.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug which caused performance degradation and delays in Tag hierarchy updates.

Archived
v1.116.0 – 5th August 2020
Features
  • Added an animation to the Item save and Item duplicate buttons when clicked. This indicates to the user the button is about to be activated.
Polish
  • Improvement: Hid the close button of the Item duplication confirmation screen in the new Author site.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Author Site fetched the latest label bundle for the Activity editor, regardless of the version Assess API was pinned to.

Archived
v1.115.0 – 16th July 2020
Features
  • Added a spinner to the save button that appears when the Item is being saved. This makes it clear that the app is doing something when the save button is clicked.
Polish
  • Improvement: disabled the save button in the Item editor when the correct answer field needs to be filled in for auto-scorable Question types. The save button is now enabled by default when editing a Widget.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where a layout exception error was thrown in the new Author site when Question Editor API custom layouts are used.

Archived
v1.114.0 – 25th June 2020
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Duplicate item and Save buttons were enabled when the workflow settings modal window was open while editing an Item in the new Author Site.
  • Fixed a bug where asset files weren't being cache busted.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented users from correctly setting the border color of a table header.

Archived
v1.113.0 – 3rd June 2020
Features
  • Improvement: various updates to support PHP 7.4 compatibility.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Item editor mode would fail to load using Author API v2019.1.LTS.
  • Fixed a bug where saving a Tag type caused a 500 error.
  • Fixed a bug where retrieving Tags in the old Author Site failed.

Archived
v1.112.0 – 21st May 2020
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the organization item in the navigation menu would not be visible when there was only one organization available.

Archived
v1.111.0 – 28th April 2020
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the user interface breakpoints set by the Responsive Design in Author API were not respected because padding was applied directly on the Author API container.

Archived
v1.110.0 – 1st April 2020
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the math modal was inaccessible through the math Question generator.
  • Fixed a bug where Item references with slashes were not handled correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where clicking the "Add Math" button inside the rich text editor and then quickly going to Item settings would cause the page to freeze.

Archived
v1.109.1 – 12th March 2020
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where an encoding issue with UTF-8 conversion affected preview and reports in Activities.

Archived
v1.109.0 – 11th March 2020
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the duplicate Item confirmation screen was not being displayed in the new Author Site.
  • Fixed a bug where the create new Item and Activity pages would load an existing entity when there were over 30 digits in the incremental references.

Archived
v1.108.0 – 20th February 2020
Polish
  • Added minor visual updates to the two-factor authentication setup and login screens, to improve appearance and accessibility.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where italics, numbered lists and bulleted lists were shown as plain text without appropriate styles.

Archived
v1.107.0 – 29th January 2020
Features
  • Internal changes to support future functionality.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where text inside a <blockquote> element had the wrong font size.
  • Fixed a bug in legacy Author site where the simple feature modal window wasn't working properly.

Archived
v1.106.0 – 8th January 2020
Features
  • Added polishes and enhancements to new version of the Author Site.

Archived
v1.105.0 – 11th December 2019
Features
  • Added a new version of the Author Site which needs to be configured through your support contact.

Archived
v1.104.0 – 20th November 2019
Features
  • Added functionality (beta) to prepare for future security enhancements to our login mechanisms.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the URL to review Items/Activities linked to a Tag that did not work.

Archived
v1.103.0 – 31st October 2019
Features
  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.
Bug fixes

Archived
v1.102.0 – 9th October 2019
Features
  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where bulk updating Items and Activities does not update the last_updated_by field to the correct user who performed the said action.
    Fixed a bug where bulk updating Activities does not update the dt_updated field to the correct date and time when the said action was performed.

Archived
v1.101.0 – 19th September 2019
Features
  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.

Archived
v1.100.0 – 28th August 2019
Features
  • Added in some enhancements to support upcoming features.
Bug fixes
  • Added (reintroduced) the "content Items" feature.

Archived
v1.99.1 – 7th August 2019
Bug fixes
  • Fixed an issue where Tags containing HTML character entities were converted to the actual character. This also resulted in the existing Tag not being recognized and a new one created.

Archived
v1.99.0 – 17th July 2019
Polish
  • Remove deprecated features: content Items, Item recommended time setting and DB migration.

Archived
v1.98.0 – 26th June 2019
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Adaptive Activities such as ItemBranching could not be previewed in the Author Site.

Archived
v1.97.0 – 5th June 2019
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that was causing the Activity preview to throw an error, when the organisation was set to Assess API's latest version, and the inline checkbox was selected.

Archived
v1.96.0 – 15th May 2019
Features
  • Improved the appearance of the login page and added new intro text.

Archived
v1.95.0 – 30th April 2019
Features
  • Updated configuration options for Author API, to support upcoming features.

Archived
v1.94.0 – 3rd April 2019
Features
  • Added annotations settings to Activity editor, so that users can toggle the enable/disable button to show/hide annotations tools.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Annotations' notepad to be covered by the website's main toolbar.

Archived
v1.93.1 – 13th March 2019
Features
  • Improved the username field to be 255 characters long, supporting the standard email format.
  • Fixed a bug where opening the Item picker in Activity edit didn't work if one of the added Items has a forward slash in its reference.

Archived
v1.93.0 – 20th February 2019
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the Question Editor init options configured in the organisation settings were being incorrectly overridden by the user's authoring permission group.

Archived
v1.92.0 – 30th January 2019
Features
  • Added support for resource Items in Activity builder. For a chemistry Question, an example of a resource could be the periodic table, which students might need.

Archived
v1.90.0 – 13th November 2018
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where, when editing the last Activity of a given page, trying to navigate to the next Activity throws an error.
  • Fixed a bug where searching and adding Tags with double quotes resulted in an error.

Archived
v1.89.0 – 24th October 2018
Features
  • Added a new Tag Hierarchy Manager role. This role can access and edit Tag hierarchies in order to define the categorization model used for Items.

Archived
v1.88.1 – 8th October 2018
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where tag suggestions didn't work due to the user not having the Tag Manager role.

Archived
v1.88.0 – 3rd October 2018
Features
  • Added a new feature, that starts the Tag search in Author Site if three or more characters have been typed.
  • Restricted the Tags section so that it can only be accessed by users with the Tag Manager role. This gives administrators finer control over who is allowed to create and modify Tags.
  • Improvement: make Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) more specific.
  • Improved the Author Site's history source diff view, using a new library to enable a better copy and pasting experience. This now allows authors to copy widget JSON with ease.

Archived
v1.87.0 – 12th September 2018
Features
  • Added a new Activity manager role. Only users with the Admin or Activity manager role can now access Activities.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where adding Tags to Items via bulk update does not update the dt_updated field to the current time.
  • Added a feature to read the prefix for new Items from the Author API configuration, if Author API is enabled.

Archived
v1.86.1 – 23rd August 2018
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the "back to Item" button wouldn't prompt the user about unsaved changes, causing loss of data.
  • Fixed an issue where the internationalization label "screenReaderOnly" was incorrect.

Archived
v1.86.0 – 1st August 2018
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the assessment element was duplicated when previewing an Activity.
  • Fixed a bug where duplicating an Item with shared passage did not work if the Item reference was changed before duplication.

Archived
v1.85.0 – 20th June 2018
Changes
  • Any User Manager who has been migrated to Learnosity Console Site during the BETA will now be redirected to Console User Management when conducting user management operations.
    See the User Manager role guide for more on user operations.

Archived
v1.84.1 – 31st May 2018
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug, applying a height of 500 pixels to the container where Assess API is rendered, so that the Items region is not clipped, when Assess API has the vertical stretch option enabled.

Archived
v1.84.0 – 9th May 2018
Features
  • Increased the number of Tags that are displayed during a Tag search from eight to twenty. This makes the Tag search more effective for authors.
Changes
  • Creating a new Author Site user will no longer add them to the Learnosity Updates mailing list.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Author Site couldn't load Items with more than few hundred tags.

Archived
v1.83.7 – 2nd May 2018
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Author Site couldn't load items with more than few hundred tags attached to them.

Archived
v1.83.6 – 18th April 2018
Features
  • Added forgot password functionality to the Author Site login screen. This enables users to send themselves an email to reset their password.
  • Improved the Author Site user profile edit page. Username is now Username/Email and must be a valid email. Password is mandatory when saving changes. Users are notified via email if their Username/Email or Password is changed. This enables users to reset their passwords by ensuring all users have a valid email. This also improves security for user account management by ensuring users confirm their password to make changes and are notified in the event of a change.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where Author Site did not navigate to the confirm Item duplicate site.
  • Fixed a bug in Author Site where navigating back to Item search threw an error.

Archived
v1.83.5 – 15th February 2018
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where a consumer with access to multiple organisations gets tags belonging to one organisation suggested in the `Find by Tags` search field of another organisation.

Archived
v1.83.3 – 15th November 2017
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug where duplicating and immediately editing an Item could cause the edits to be ignored.
  • Fix bug where duplicating an Item sometimes did not copy Tags across to the new Item.
  • Fix bug where duplicating an Items and modifying its Item reference could result in extra copies of the Item.
  • Fix bug where an Activity's time_updated property was not updated when the Activity's Tags were modified.

Archived
v1.83.2 – 25th October 2017
Bug fixes
  • When viewing changes to activity.metadata in the activity history, changes will now be displayed in JSON format.
  • Fix bug which caused discrepancies in the search results when viewing mass updates and searching the Item list in different tabs of the same browser.

Archived
v1.83.1 – 17th October 2017
Bug fixes
  • Disable Author API tagging mode when in Author Site context

Archived
v1.83.0 – 5th October 2017
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug where duplicated items would take the old item's creation time, instead of the current time.
  • For customers using Author API v1, new Item tagging interface displays long description for suggested tags.

Archived
v1.82.0 – 13th September 2017
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug where audit trail showed an infinite loading spinner in rare cases where there was no audit data available for the Item.
  • Scroll Question Editor into view after selecting a Question template. This fixes an issue where the Question Editor's fields were sometimes hidden behind the navigation bar.

Archived
v1.81.2 – 2nd August 2017
Bug fixes
  • Fix rare bug where saving an item could fail if the item contained Questions/Features that were also referenced by other items.

Archived
v1.81.1 – 12th July 2017
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug where image upload could fail when using Question Editor v2 in the Author Site.
  • Add support for the legacy widget:begin action to the Item events editor.
  • Fix bug where Items couldn't be saved if they contained more than 250 characters for the source, note or acknowledgements fields.

Archived
v1.81.0 – 20th June 2017
Features
  • Author Site's Activity editor now supports localization labels related to reading time.
  • Author Site's Activity editor now provides a toggle for shuffle items, which can be enabled to randomize the order of items each time the test is loaded.
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug in the Item events editor where the available events/actions would be shown even if no target widget was selected. This was misleading because actions could be selected even though they would never be triggered. The actions are now hidden until a widget reference is selected.
  • Fix bug where the Item preview did not show all Questions/Features on a multi-part Item.
  • Fix bug where an image could not be inserted into a wysihtml rich text editor if the editor did not already contain some text content.

Archived
v1.80.0 – 31st May 2017
Features
  • User management now hides inactive users by default.
Bug fixes
  • Remove deprecated item transition options from the activity builder UI.
  • Uploaded content is now embedded using explicit https urls, to improve device compatibility.

Archived
v1.79.0 – 10th May 2017
Features
  • Action Builder is now disabled in the Assess preview tab by default. Added a View in Assess API button to the Advanced tab for previewing the full Action Builder behaviour.
  • Add a new Action Builder action item:widgets:disable to the Action Builder, for disabling all widets on the item.
  • Add retrocompatibility for navigation:enable and navigation:disable in the Action builder.
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug in batch update functionality where using a combination of Select All and manually deselecting items could cause the batch update to be incorrectly applied to the deselected items.
  • Fix bug where tag types with thousands of tags could not be edited.
  • Action Builder now correctly understands an empty array ([]) as an empty action. This improves the compatibility of Action Builder with existing content.

Archived
v1.78.1 – 19th April 2017
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug where widget was getting added twice in IE browsers when using non Author API mode

Archived
v1.78.0 – 29th March 2017
Features
  • Add a visual Action Builder on top of the existing functionality already available in Author Site. The builder will save the user the time and the complexity to manually edit the JSON source.
Bug fixes
  • Fix bug with creating/editing items where, after having saved once, it was not possible to save a second time.
  • Fix bug where expanding the More options section of the question editor could cause the Question Editor to close and return to the item edit view.

Archived
v1.77.0 – 09th March 2017
Features
  • Add reading_mode setting to the UI/time Settings Panel.
Bug fixes
  • Fix an issue with Graphing Questions and Polygon feature validating incorrectly and showing incorrect score.

Archived
v1.76.0 – 15th February 2017
Features
  • Added helpful suggestions to give a clearer cause on why adaptive simulation fails
  • Changed text on buttons from `Login` to `Log In` and `Logout` to `Log Out`, aligning to the general verbiage in Learnosity products.

Archived
v1.75.0 – 11th January 2017
Features
  • Added support to run adaptive simulation with 1 user
Bug fixes
  • Fixed issue with re-captcha in login would appear all the time for some users

Archived
v1.74.0 – 8th December 2016
Features
  • Added support custom question editor layouts.

Archived
v1.73.0 – 17th November 2016
Features
  • Add ability to preview item with Action Builder using Assess API
Bug fixes
  • Force a save when duplicating an item in the author site, to keep an item in sync with what is in database

Archived
v1.72.1 – 19th October 2016
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where auto-generated item references large enough were being converted to scientific notation and not incrementing properly.
  • Path to content item editing has been fixed.
  • Fixed a bug where archiving an item via author api v1+ would not work.

Archived
v1.72.0 – 6th October 2016
Bug fixes
  • Resolved issue with next and previous buttons when navigating through items by storing the item list in the session each time the item list is rendered.
  • Instances where files only partially upload are handled more gracefully.
  • Instances where item/activity history is incomplete no longer cause the history to not load.

Archived
v1.71.4 – 28th September 2016
Bug fixes
  • Item and activity edit history now gives an appropriate error after navigating to a new organisation and the older organisation history cannot be displayed.
  • Fixed item previous and next buttons not appearing when editing an item via a new browser tab, or editing an item via a question type search.

Archived
v1.71.3 – 21st September 2016
Bug fixes
  • Fix regression introduced in v1.70.0 release when updating items or activity tags in mass

Archived
v1.71.2 – 15th September 2016
Bug fixes
  • Fix regression introduced in v1.70.0 release when searching for existing questions/features

Archived
v1.71.1 – 14th September 2016
Bug fixes
  • Fix regression introduced on v1.70.0 release when adding questions/features to an Item for clients not using Author API

Archived
v1.71.0 – 14th September 2016
Features
  • Improved consistency in action button labels
  • Upgraded to Symfony 2.8
Bug fixes
  • Fix issue where item search parameters in Author API were sometimes not persisted
  • Fix duplicate item button not working after sorting items in the main listing
  • Fix duplicating items created in Author API v0 when client has upgraded to Author API v1

Archived
v1.71.0 – 14th September 2016
Features
  • Improved consistency in action button labels
  • Upgraded to Symfony 2.8
Bug fixes
  • Fix issue where item search parameters in Author API were sometimes not persisted
  • Fix duplicate item button not working after sorting items in the main listing
  • Fix duplicating items created in Author API v0 when client has upgraded to Author API v1

Archived
v1.70.0 – 24th August 2016
Features
  • Only show recaptcha after a failed login attempt

Archived
v1.69.0 – 3rd August 2016
Features
  • Bring back the next and previous button
  • Add support to allow opening items in new tab

Archived
v1.68.0 – 13th July 2016
Features
  • Internal changes to support future changes to Author API
Bug fixes
  • Internal changes to support tags

Archived
v1.67.0 – 5th July 2016
Features
  • Internal changes to support large numbers of tags.

Archived
v1.66.0 – 22nd June 2016
Polish
  • Fixed flickering drop down issue.
  • Changed all instances of deleted status for items to archived.

Archived
v1.65.0 – 2nd June 2016
Features
  • Removed the new item button on bulk updates page.
  • Instead of clicking to expand the menus in all menus, including Tags and Activities, we now have a hover state to launch them.
  • Created a separate page for bulk updates to organisation that have Author API enabled.
  • Add support for item score in preview mode.
Polish
  • Mapped email fields to newly created pardot custom fields
Bug fixes
  • Added missing json decode that caused regression on Author API edit view page.
  • Fixed special characters issue in Item Reference which caused truncation or removal.

Archived
v1.64.0 – 11th May 2016
Features
  • Improved password security with the addition of Captcha.
  • Added registration welcome email for new authors.
  • Added fixed size option to image uploader.
Bug fixes
  • Prevented image scaling option showing when not applicable.
  • Fixed preventScaling not being applied to widget stimulus.

Archived
v1.63.1 – 22nd April 2016
Bug fixes
  • Preserve widget order when duplicating items.

Archived
v1.63.0 – 20th April 2016
Features
  • Allow ordering of widgets within an item. Widgets within an item are now saved in the same order as is seen in the right hand panel.

Archived
v1.62.2 – 30th March 2016
Polish
  • Internal polish/updates for using Author API with Author Site.

Archived
v1.62.1 – 16th March 2016
Bug fixes
  • Fixed an issue where items that contained a back slash in their reference could not be opened from the item list view.

Archived
v1.62.0 – 9th March 2016
Features
  • Add Show Value link to event creation in item history
Polish
  • Usability tweaks for organisations page
Bug fixes
  • Fix item access issue related to the situation that multiple organisations are sharing same consumer

Archived
v1.61.0 – 17th February 2016
Features
  • Enable metadata in author site for Question Editor V2
Polish
  • Added bottom padding to Question Editor overlay as content was getting cropped and looked imcomplete
Bug fixes
  • Fix spinner staying forever after saving the item
  • Handle metadata field in the audit service classes
  • Add metadata to the audit triggers

Archived
v1.60.1 – 10th February 2016
Bug fixes
  • Append a unique value to the reference when duplicating an Item
  • Use UUID for widget reference when duplicating an Item

Archived
v1.60.0 – 1st February 2016
Features
  • Add support for saving question metadata field
Bug fixes
  • Editing question using Question Editor v3 without Author API context incorrectly shows the preview panel by default
  • Load ACE editor only on pages which requires it (namespacing done)
  • Fix editing questions within Question Editor v3

Archived
v1.59.0 – 13th December 2016
Polish
  • Item Edit: when using Author API, the status icon will now got updated a long with status updates at the flyout menu

Archived
v1.58.0 – 9th December 2015
Features
  • Item Edit: when using Author API within Author Site, established QuestionEditor settings will be used.
  • Item Edit: when using Author API, on creation of a new item, the ability to duplicate the item will become available
  • Item Edit: when using Author API, validation errors for attributes from side panels will be more pronounced.
Polish
  • Item Edit: Moved adaptive attributes and recommended time attribute to the advanced panel.
  • Item Edit: Item Workflow renamed to Workflow
  • Item Edit: Enemy Items settings have been removed
  • Item Edit: when using Author API, back and save buttons are centralised to the top right - there are now no longer two or three potential instances of different back buttons.
  • Item Edit: the deleted status has been renamed to archived.
Bug fixes
  • Item Edit: when using Author API, the history tab will update properly.
  • Item Edit: fixed issue where unnecessary exceptions were logged to the console.
  • Item Edit: when using Author API, the error message for an item reference already existing is now appropriately descriptive
  • Item Edit: when adding/editing questions, attribute fields will no longer have double borders.
  • Item Edit: Recommended Time attribute now validates correctly.

Archived
v1.57.0 – 18th November 2015
Polish
  • When using author api for the Items list, filter searches are preserved across page views.
  • Assess API preview screen adapted for use with changes to Assess API and using Assess Inline by default.
Bug fixes
  • Assess API modal backdrop will no longer hide the entirety of the page content.
  • Documentation site link from authoring tags description is corrected to new endpoint.
  • Fixed issue on Item edit where not all questions for the item were being displayed.

Archived
v1.56.1 – 3rd November 2015
Bug fixes
  • Item editing was not displaying all questions associated with an item in the sidebar in certain cases

Archived
v1.56.0 – 28th October 2015
Features
  • Item editing view with Author API now will have most its functionality on the right hand side flyout back
  • Enable item creation and editing with the Author API with beta flag enabled
Polish
  • Fixed broken documentation links at Tags edit page
  • Long tag type and tag names now would not breaks view

Archived
v1.55.0 – 8th October 2015
Features
  • Items created with the Author API will be editable with the Author API on the Author site
  • Author API Item list view available to replace Author site Item list view (requires beta flag)
Polish
  • Alert box jumping has been resolved.

Archived
v1.54.1 – 25th September 2015
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug where item selection view does not load at activity creation page

Archived
v1.54.0 – 24th September 2015
Features
  • Added support for displaying links with organisation id
  • Added the option to use the Author API list view
Bug fixes
  • Fixed the activity report for activities with subscores
  • Fixed broken update routes
  • Fixed a bug where item edit or new item route not loading questions

Archived
v1.53.1 – 10th September 2015
Bug fixes
  • Fixed issue that affected previewing activities

Archived
v1.53.0 – 10th September 2015
Features
  • Allow raw latex entry in item stimulus

Archived
v1.52.0 – 27th August 2015
Features
  • Allow 'style' and 'border' attributes on HTML elements in ckeditor source view

Archived
v1.51.1 – 13th August 2015
Bug fixes
  • Fixed activity editor for adaptive activities

Archived
v1.51.0 – 16th June 2015
Polish
  • Sort filter panel's Questions/Features dropdown alphabetically
  • Remove unused organisation's beta_flags
Bug fixes
  • Make sure that the image upload modal is not cropped

Archived
v1.50.1 – 4th June 2015
Bug fixes
  • Set the db-connection to utf8mb4 in order to enable all utf8 characters to be saved

Archived
v1.50.0 – 21st May 2015
Features
  • Enable tag hierarchy creation/editing under an optional tag-manager user role
Bug fixes
  • Ensure tag hierarchies are updated when a tag's name or sort order is changed
  • Ensure editing is disabled on save of multi-column items

Archived
v1.49.2 – 30th April 2015
Polish
  • Added 'Exclude All Borders' option in ckeditor table dialog
Bug fixes
  • Disable submit buttons after the first click

Archived
v1.49.1 – 23rd April 2015
Bug fixes
  • Checks for unique reference supplied for adaptive simulations

Archived
v1.49.0 – 15th April 2015
Features
  • Chemistry symbol group is now available in the Edit Math panel

Archived
v1.48.2 – 9th April 2015
Polish
  • Inserted Greek symbol group in ckeditor
Bug fixes
  • Escaping HTML entities in the items list
  • An empty activity config should not break the activity page
  • Preview font size dropdown should not change activity config
  • Adaptive simulation created timestamp shown in simulation list

Archived
v1.48.1 – 1st April 2015
Bug fixes
  • Item listing displays HTML in descriptions

Archived
v1.48.0 – 26th March 2015
Features
  • Add user management functionality to create or edit user
Polish
  • Update accessibility options
  • Change create new item and activity button label
Bug fixes
  • Stripped zero-width whitespace from Items/Questions references
  • Disable horizontal scrolling when sorting features and questions by dragging

Archived
v1.47.0 – 12th March 2015
Features
  • Adaptive simulations list page updates simulation status without needing page refresh

Archived
v1.46.1 – 5th March 2015
Bug fixes
  • History panel now shows events in descending order

Archived
v1.46.0 – 26th February 2015
Features
  • Added per-item scoring support
  • Refactored adaptive simulations
Polish
  • Added the image upload modal to the image tool feature
  • Action Builder field renamed to Advanced and added sub-label - Action Builder
Bug fixes
  • Items: not inserting duplicate widget on error and disabling drag/drop in IE
  • Items: prevent duplicated wrapper for scrollable passage element
  • Enabling the download link for simulation results via https
  • Prevent raw latex in detail fields from being rendered
  • Make basic appear before keyboard in the latex popup

Archived
v1.45.0 – 5th February 2015
Features
  • Activity: added ability to preview in a separate full page
  • Items: added ability to preview in a separate full page
Bug fixes
  • Activity: preview dropdown gets covered by Assess API

Archived
v1.44.0 – 1st February 2015
Features
  • Adaptive Activity: Added raw simulation data download link to simulation results page
Polish
  • Made the size of widget overlay buttons consistent

Archived
v1.43.0 – 29th January 2015
Features
  • Replaced the widget modal with a full page overlay
Bug fixes
  • Made the json validation stricter by not allowing scalar values

Archived
v1.42.0 – 21st January 2015
Features
  • Performance improvement on Items and Activity list tables
Bug fixes
  • Saving items would issue an error in IE11

Archived
v1.41.1 – 22th January 2015
Bug fixes
  • Fixed the appearance of 2 contradictory messages in IE when creating an item

Archived
v1.41.0 – 15th January 2015
Features
  • Added action dropdown for bulk updating activities
  • Enhanced the error message in the adaptive activity simulation
Polish
  • Autopopulate the height and width fields for the image upload question
Bug fixes
  • Fixed activity report to accommodate adaptive report types
  • Disabled access to author site for IE less than version 10
  • Enabled line break for 2 columns layout

Archived
v1.40.0 – 11th December 2014
Features
  • Enabling the new misc symbol group in question editor
Polish
  • Remove redundant centre option from the div dialog
  • Hiding deleted activities by default
  • Using the image upload modal for image upload question
Bug fixes
  • Make sure that bulk tagging updates the hierarchy queue
  • Fixed missing alert on items page
  • No longer prompting about changes when item is saved
  • Correctly handle tab changes in edit view

Archived
v1.39.1 – 27th November 2014
Polish
  • Renamed some custom class names
Bug fixes
  • Fixed the history when hidden elements are contained in the audit tables
  • Fixed the next action when filtering the search with a question type

Archived
v1.39.0 – 13th November 2014
Features
  • Improved support for new 100% height support in the scrollable passages.
  • Load Question Editor API with organisations custom CSS.
Bug fixes
  • Cast numeric item references to string in activity builder.

Archived
v1.38.0 – 30th October 2014
Features
  • Added edit tab for adaptive activities
  • Added image alignment option in image uploader
  • Enable sorting of activities
Polish
  • Added pagination at top of page for activities, items and questions
  • Allow enabling/disabling of scoring and distractors for an activity
Bug fixes
  • On Activity page, only show the alert when something has actually been changed
  • Fixed pagination overlap in Firefox
  • Fixed image upload icon not showing in IE and Firefox
  • When a question/feature reference is updated, the change is automatically propagated to all items with a link to the question/feature
  • Reference for activity can now have up to 150 characters

Archived
v1.37.0 – 16th October 2014
Features
  • Added ability to duplicate an item (including duplication of questions/features associated with the item)
Polish
  • Numbering items in activity builder
  • Group symbols in the math editor
  • Make note and source searchable in items list
Bug fixes
  • Proper alignment of multiple activity tags
  • Handling items which do not exist in the db in the activity builder

Archived
v1.36.0 – 9th October 2014
Features
  • Simulation tool to evaluate tag and item exposure for adaptive activities
  • Adding character restrictions to Activity references
Bug fixes
  • Items: removing content editable from tabbed templates that allowed users to change content
  • Fixed search when choosing intro and outro items.

Archived
v1.35.1 – 2nd October 2014
Bug fixes
  • Fixed the scrambling of multiple item widgets
  • Adding a session id to adaptive activities preview

Archived
v1.35.0 – 25th September 2014
Features
  • Added audit trail for activities and improved diffs for json and html
Bug fixes
  • Fixed toggling in the audit trail preview
  • Bug fixes for the image uploader: escaping quotes and correctly binding the Ok event
  • Set google custom dimension correctly

Archived
v1.34.2 – 18th September 2014
Polish
  • Adding space in activity builder
  • Added note to image uploader about image sizing
Bug fixes
  • Added image to the context menu
  • Hide dimensions for non-image assets
  • Activity Builder: Set a default value for rendering_type
  • Fix problem in generating password hash

Archived
v1.34.1 – 11th September 2014
Polish
  • Add more padding to label bundle input element
  • Add submit criteria to activity builder
Bug fixes
  • Add height and width to image uploader and set image details on opening the dialog
  • If there are no items in an activity display the "Edit" tab to avoid error notification

Archived
v1.34.0 – 4th September 2014
Features
  • Added tagging for activities
  • Added configurable Label Setting option to the Activity Builder
Bug fixes
  • Selecting items in activities

Archived
v1.33.0 – 28th August 2014
Features
  • Activity Builder: Add adaptive panel, Password field validation and hash generator, Items avg difficulty field.
Bug fixes
  • Activity Builder: Activity report overlaps issue, and other various polishes and bug fixes
  • Fix video size issue.

Archived
v1.32.0 – 25th August 2014
Features
  • Added support for multiple activity base templates per organisation
  • Added support for using assess inline in item edit page preview mode
Bug fixes
  • Remove the loader image if activity report is loaded and is not saved
  • Escape quotes in data-description attribute for item select page
  • Show the upload button if not using question editor V2

Archived
v1.31.0 – 14th August 2014
Features
  • Unified modal for uploading and embedding images
  • Added acknowledgements to items
  • Added serif util class
Bug fixes
  • Fixed duplication of content in widget description
  • Allowed characters for item reference updated

Archived
v1.30.0 – 7th August 2014
Features
  • New Activity report
  • Activity builder improvements
  • Increased Item and Question/Feature reference length
Bug fixes
  • Item editing: allow adding extra classes
  • Fixed error displayed when editing a widget of unknown type

Archived
v1.29.0 – 5th August 2014
Features
  • Initial support for integrating Digital Assets Manager from 3rd parties
Bug fixes
  • Item: error when saving/creating an item without content and setting it as published
  • Activity: handle GET requests to create route gracefully

Archived
v1.28.0 – 29th July 2014
Features
  • Items: new question/feature edit button on edit panel
Bug fixes
  • Login form: text in username input getting cropped
  • LaTeX editor: View Source button not updated when modal is closed in "source" mode

Archived
v1.27.0 – 15th July 2014
Features
  • Bumped ckeditor to 4.4.2
  • Added scrollable passage support in ckeditor div plugin
  • Added source button to ckeditor math plugin

Archived
v1.26.0 – 2nd July 2014
Features
  • Items: renamed URL routes to read "item" instead of "sheet"
  • Items, Activities: support deep linking through a URL that will allow for creation if the entity doesn't exist already.
  • Added support for URLs that specify the organisation and will automatically switch to it if required.
Bug fixes
  • Audit trail: not rendering item styles properly

Archived
v1.25.0 – 26th June 2014
Features
  • Audit Trail support: logging changes and new History panel to review them
Bug fixes
  • Not able to add Questions/Features to an Item on Firefox

Archived
v1.24.0 – 24th June 2014
Features
  • Item search: added support for changing the tag filer from an "all" (and) to an "either" (or) search
Bug fixes
  • Item search now returns correct results when filtering by Question Type and Tags
  • Confirmation dialog when deleting Tags was not displaying the "Yes" option

Archived
v1.23.0 – 19th June 2014
Changes
  • New Item Edit page: moved "Related Items" into "Adaptive" and renamed it to "Enemy Items"

Archived
v1.22.0 – 12th June 2014
Changes
  • Allowing SVG in up loadable types
  • Added auto width option for tables which will use content to define it's width
Bug fixes
  • Item Preview Font size button positioning fixed.

Archived
v1.21.3 – 3rd June 2014
Polish
  • Add svg format to upload allowlist

Archived
v1.21.2 – 3rd June 2014
Bug fixes
  • Fix for content items preview

Archived
v1.21.1 – 3rd June 2014
Features
  • Image upload enhancements
Bug fixes
  • Question reference number update if item reference is updated

Archived
v1.20.4 – 26th May 2014
Bug fixes
  • Fix for the going through the items list
  • Improved tag search
  • Don't show unnecessary change warning

Archived
v1.20.3 – 19th May 2014
Bug fixes
  • Fix content cut off in items editor flyout panel.

Archived
v1.20.2 – 16th May 2014
Polish
  • Turn off autocomplete on login form.
  • Rename class to block-indent and change label in style container.
  • Hide edit tab in activity builder for adaptive and sections activities.
Bug fixes
  • Added padding and adjusted shadow on preview wrapper.
  • Fix the issue where preview of font size does not work in FF.

Archived
v1.20.1 – 15th May 2014
Bug fixes
  • Hotfix for saving multiple tags.

Archived
v1.20.0 – 15th May 2014
Features
  • Add preview settings for activity builder preview panel.
  • Add preview settings dropdown menu to the other two item edit pages and some polish.
Polish
  • Preview settings: Full width has active class by default, validation button position tweak and disable validation button if no questions have validation object.
  • More style and html tweaks and switch to preview tab when dropdown toggle is clicked.

Archived
v1.19.1 – 14th May 2014
Bug fixes
  • Hotfix for adding and searching tags.

Archived
v1.19.0 – 12th May 2014
Features
  • Added Item List and Item Picker.
  • Add Item Edit: Hide panel button.
  • Add Item Edit: Show panel button.
Polish
  • Fix HTMLEditor dropdown to use Helvetica Neue.
  • Add simple animation to items newly added to the item list.
  • Activity Builder: style, color, layout.
  • HTML Editor: Removed block styles from styles drop down to have them only available within Style Container plugin.
Bug fixes
  • Fix the issue where activity builder doesn't always save changes.
  • Fix the way of getting base activity template.

Archived
v1.18.2 – 12th May 2014
Features
  • HTML Editor: Enabled data attributes for all allowlisted html tags.
Polish
  • HTML Editor: Upgraded version from 4.3.2 to 4.4.0.
  • HTML Editor: Added missing plugins.

Archived
v1.18.1 – 06th May 2014
Polish
  • Google Analytics improvement: including Authoring as a context in Learnosity Assess.
  • Changed 'Back' to 'Back to Search' on new ui flyout menu.
  • Changed background color of main nag bar and flyout panels.
  • Added max-height and overflow auto for inline HTML editors.
  • Changed height of content containers (also ckeditor) to be 100%.
  • Changed width of reference input field to be wider.
  • Fixed flyout menu click on icon.
  • Use white button for search.
  • Reduce HTML editor container height.
  • Fixed issue with scrolling on items editor and moved footer.
Bug fixes
  • Fix navbar background colour.
  • Remove position fix to avoid alert message getting cut off.

Archived
v1.18.0 – 30th April 2014
Features
  • Added ability for users to search for items via question type.
  • Added a simple HTML editor to some fields on the item edit page.
  • Sorting the organisations by name.
  • Added item count to activity list.
  • Added support to preview Activities.
Polish
  • HTML Editor: Changed widget drag handler size to be dynamic.
  • Update login and items editor styling.
  • Polish items editor alignment issues.
  • Changed icon for Questions and Features in items editor.
Bug fixes
  • Items: error thrown when previewing an Item without questions/features for Questions API v1.
  • Items Edit: tags were not being saved in new UI.