Monthly Release Notes - August 15, 2022
Minor Updates
- API: Copy endpoint should also auto-update
- API: GET assignments/parts should also return the id of the parent assignment/part (masterid, create_method)
- Cloud: [Grace Period] Provide course-level option to bypass grace-period
- Cloud: [AWS] Update reaper to support Sagemaker Canvas (app_type = “Canvas”)
- Container: Release pgAdmin as a new lab type
- Grading: Allow Vocareum Assignments imported via Canvas’s ‘Pages’ to be gradable
- Infrastructure: Initial release of site status page at https://status.vocareum.com
- Infrastructure: [Data Pipeline] Save latency_time in lab_sessions file
- Infrastructure: New organization flag – Learners also use SAML to make sure their labs can be iFramed in their LMS and users are authenticated using their Vocareum’s SAML/SSO URL
- Infrastructure: [SSO] When SSO is enabled for an org, require all org-admin to enter via SSO; no direct login
- UI/UX: Release a new Quiz labtype with new MCQ format (includes bookmarking & free response)
- UI/UX: When “Teacher Cannot Edit” is enabled in course setting, disallow “Edit/Drop” actions from Enrollment tab
- UI/UX: On the Submissions Dashboard, add column to list the last submission date
- UI/UX: Provide instructors with ability to provide students with additional feedback per rubric item
- UI/UX: Performance improvements on VSCode and Jupyter Lab launch
- UI/UX: Class dashboard – UI tweaks, additional student/team actions exposed in expanded sidebar menu. Support for viewing lab status of all learners for AWS, VM, and Container Labs
- UI/UX: Added VM labs to new architecture courses
- UI/UX: On Home – Course Listing (list view), change course link to “Edit Assignments” page
Bug Fixes
- Container: Fixed conflict between Teacher IDE and Student container view resulting in 403/503 errors
- UI/UX: Grace period control in Org settings page was not displayed properly
- UI/UX: Azure detail spend was not showing service details for a user/part (lab)
- UI/UX: Fixed intelliJ lab on Chrome not accepting keyboard input