Monthly Release Notes - January 17, 2023
Major Updates
- Infrastructure: [AWS] Bulk Deactivation Update
- Infrastructure: New Labtype: “Vocareum Notebook” – Enable embedding of executable cells with other content
- Infrastructure: New Labtype: “Front-end web Development” – For development and grading of HTML/CSS/JS labs
- Infrastructure: New Labtype: “Vocareum Terminal” – Simple bash terminal (container architecture)
- Infrastructure: Add MySQL database option to VSCode container
Minor Updates
- API: [API] Support assignment display order
- API/LTI: Initial flow for new batch execution/API for verification
- API/LTI: [LTI 1.3] Create API calls for changing/updating LTI version and adding context id to a course
- API/LTI: [LTI 1.3] Add ability to sync Vocareum Course Roster/Enrollments with LMS Roster
- API/LTI: [LTI 1.3] Add support for linking cloned courses with parent courses
- API/LTI: [API] Enhance the GET /assignments API endpoint to also return part-ids (max 10) in an array
- Cloud: [GCP] Add/Edit/Delete org-level policies + custom roles
- Cloud: [AWS] Match assignment-parts requiring certain resources with cloud account pools with appropriate quotas
- Grading: Include free response MCQ score in total assignment score
- Grading: Improve grader experience when traversing submissions in JupyterLab
- Infrastructure: Support instructor/grader roles for SAML authentication
- Infrastructure: Support two simultaneous Jupyter sessions (container architecture)
- Infrastructure: Add filters to include/exclude files/folders for submissions and provide API end-points
- Infrastructure: [Container] Allow users to specify name of image/lab created via “Save Image”
- Infrastructure: Allow students to submit exams without completing all parts. (Warning for which parts are missing)
- Infrastructure: Resetting a timed exam for a student will now require them to re-enter the exam passcode
- UI/UX: Add ‘ctrl+esc’ as alternate escape hatch keys for Vocareum Basic/Standard/Elite labs
- UI/UX: Allow multiple simultaneous invocations of Terminal-V1 (separate parts on the same page)
- UI/UX: Allow for instructors to see/change ‘Container Architecture’ flag when creating a new course
- UI/UX: Show assignment id next to assignment name in copy assignment dropdown
- UI/UX: Add support for searching by course-id in Home Dashboard
- UI/UX: Add budget values for VM and Container labs in the Class page
Bug Fixes
- API/LTI: [LTI 1.3] LTI Launch Request gets a 403 Forbidden Error for some public keyset URLs when user agent isn’t present
- Cloud: IDE – work folder / default file open behavior does not work when no submission flag is O
- Cloud: AWS cloud labs returns an authentication error for Team Projects
- Cloud: Org dashboard charts are continually shrinking on page load
- Infrastructure: Remove byte order mark from csv so that new users aren’t created when assigning custom roles
- Infrastructure: Fix issue where Vocareum throws 400 errors indicating size of request header exceeding server limit
- UI/UX: Allow students in team projects to view grades panel instead of “Invalid access” message
- UI/UX: VM Lab Sessions modal not loading from Class Page
- UI/UX: Desktop, RStudio Elite, and MySQL WB lab types incorrectly display the container selection dropdown menu + don’t start the appropriate application within the Student IDE
- UI/UX: [Vocareum Elite] Submissions file-tree does not get updated on submission
- UI/UX: Fix addcourse redirecting to homepage when org not set, and cleanup error styling
- VM: ‘Extend’ for VM Labs not working correctly if session time is set @ course Level