Release Updates July 2024

Planned for the release on August 7th, the search function on the panorama grading page will be optimized to meet the needs of power users who are grading for large quantities of learners in a single panorama.

With this improvement, searching in the panorama grading page will return results only for learners who have completed any gradable assignment, assessment, survey, or Bongo assessment within the past year. In the event that a learner has NOT completed any assignment within the past year, none of their assignments will be visible on the panorama grading page. In the event that a learner HAS completed any assignment within the past year, ALL of their past assignments are visible on the panorama grading page.

We are excited to announce a new feature scheduled for release on August 7th. Admins and main site roles with content permissions will soon be able to move multiple content items in bulk to folders within the Courses and Events lists. This enhancement will significantly reduce the time and effort required to organize content.

Key Features:

• Select up to 50 pieces of content on a page at once
• Move content to multiple folders simultaneously (up to 10 folders)

We hope this new capability improves your workflow and enhances your content management experience. Stay tuned for more updates!

👉 See the full update on the Tag Manager status here.

With a future release, you will be able to view all tags within your instance from the new Tag Manager interface. There is also an option to search through the list to see if a tag exists today. The new Tag Manager interface will be available under site settings for admins and main site custom roles with the new Manage Tags permission.

This is just the first step! Additional features for the Tag Manager are in development and will be released separately. These include the ability to create, edit, and delete tags from this central interface.

Some things you can do with the first phase of Tag Manager:

• Start to think about what custom roles (if any) should have access to the new interface.
• Review your full tag list and firm up your tag strategy if you haven't already.

• Updated the creation of Training Credit Accounts to prevent the minimum credit request from being 0 or negative.

• Credit Redemption Log does not capture all Training Credit redemptions.
• When editing curated categories and subcategories in the catalog widget, clicking on Save Category leads to errors when using more than 2 subcategories.
• Learners that complete specific content items that are later assigned to the learner by a competency assessment are getting stuck in learning paths.

Redesign of the Add Content and Add Events experiences is now live! Originally tailored especially for our newcomers, we've also made a few improvements during the preview period to make it work for seasoned users too. Get seamlessly guided through a wizard flow focused on base content types, ensuring every required field is filled before diving into the Authoring UI.

Main Site and Panorama users, equipped with the right authoring permissions, will now see this redesigned flow.

To see this new experience for Courses, go to Courses > All Courses > Click the plus icon to add content.

To see this new experience for Events, go to Events > All Events > Click the plus icon to add content.

Some things to know about the new experience:

• All articles related to content creation have been updated to reflect this new flow. View the articles here.
• We encourage to create and use our new Templates folder. You can select a template in the new creation flow. To learn more about Templates, check out this article. 
• Don't worry about your custom content types! While the creation flow now emphasizes base content types and templates, your custom ones are still fully functional. You will only see the option to choose a custom content type if you start from blank. Learn more about custom content types in this article.
• We hosted a full Office Hours on this topic - in this 45 minutes, we showcase the new flow, explain its benefits, look at content types, and review how to best use templates. Go watch today!

If you create or grade Bongo Assignments, today’s release gives you the ability to set a score that learners will be evaluated against when they complete Bongo assignments directly within the Thought Industries platform. You can set a minimum passing score that learners need to achieve in order for a Bongo assignment page to be marked complete.

This feature is designed to work in tandem with all of the evaluation types offered in our Bongo integration. Take a look at our updated support article to learn more about how scores from different Bongo evaluation types will be reflected in Thought Industries.

• We’ve added the Credit Batch Name field from our application database to the creditbatches BI 2.0 table in Redshift. This field will now be available to customers using our BI Connector solutions.

• Ensure that buttons and form fields on Select Boxes questions have meaningful labels so that learners who are using keyboard navigation can respond to the questions.
• Ensure the buttons in the user flow for deleting discussions and assignments all have accessible names so that they are operable by learners who are using screen readers.

• Missing WebEx connection code paths to Manage Webinar Settings permission.

• In certain scenarios, the "Publish Changes" button will not display when editing a course until the page is refreshed.
• In certain scenarios, the "Content Completion Date" will not display on a learning path certificate if the learning path is marked as completed by an admin.
• Dual role users get “Not Found” error after clicking on “Recertify” link in email regarding expiring certificates.

If you create or manage Manager-Learner Dual Role users, today’s release gives you additional control over your existing dual role users! It’s now possible to disable either the manager or learner profile for an existing dual role right within the Thought Industries Platform.

• On both learner and manager profiles for dual role users, we’ve exposed a disable button that can be used to remove one of the profiles for the user.
• This feature is available for admins with the Manage Roles permission.

Go to Users > Managers > Select a user who has a dual role > Scroll down to the Role section to see your options. Check out our help article about dual roles to learn more!

We’ve created a new REST endpoint to allow admins to disable dual role users in bulk. Specifically, this endpoint will allow admins to disable the manager profiles for dual role users in bulk.

A few key things to note about using this endpoint:

• This endpoint can only be used to disable the manager profiles for dual role users. If you desire to remove the learner profile for a dual role user, you will need to do that in the UI.
• This endpoint accepts an array of manager user IDs. The endpoint will delete the manager profile for all of the valid dual role users included in the array. The learner profile will remain in tact.

See our API documentation for more details.

Content Creation Flow UX Enhancement

UX enhancements to the content creation wizard to present all available base content types on the first step, reducing an extra click.

New GraphQL Endpoint: Creating Locations for ILT

We’ve created a new GraphQL endpoint to allow Admins to create locations for ILT courses and events.

A few key things to note about using this endpoint:

This is a GraphQL endpoint designed to allow for the creation of locations in Thought Industries via an external source such as a client API call or a 3rd party event management tool that is integrated with Thought Industries' APIs.

This endpoint is designed to work in connection with our existing CreateInPersonEvent and UpdateInPersonEvent GraphQL mutations, so that locations created via this endpoint can be used to create or update ILTs using the mutations above.

See our API documentation for more details.

New REST API Endpoint Property: Reset Course Progress

The Reset Course Progress REST API endpoint has been updated for increased flexibility. The endpoint now includes a resetProgress property, allowing you to optionally use the endpoint to reset course progress, revoke course access, or both.

The new resetProgress property is optional and defaults to yes, making this a non-breaking change that does not require you to make any changes to the structure of any existing requests you're already making to this endpoint. See updated REST API documentation for details.

• Ensure state information for page progress indicators on slideshow and presentation pages is correctly communicated to screen readers so that learners using keyboard navigation understand the purpose and state of these controls.
• Ensure that the audio play component on presentation, slideshow, and audio pages is navigable for learners navigating by keyboard.

• Manage Webinar Settings Permission does not allow Webex Meetings account to be added.
• Custom Admin Roles without permission to use CAM can still see 'Add Image from Central Asset Manager' button during certificate creation
• Events Sidebar Navigation Issue: When you click on Webinar Settings, the sidebar switched to Course Settings.