Pages/Feature:  

Manage Users

Description: 

In order to accommodate pasting space delimited lists of users from Microsoft Excel, the Manage Users page was modified in the following way:

• The Search box now states, "Search by name, username or email"
  
• The Full Name column has been split into two columns: First name and Last name
  • Both columns are sortable and searchable
  • By default, the list is sorted by Last name in ascending order
  • You can search by either First name or Last name
    
• The Email address column has been renamed to Email
  
• The Impersonate button has been moved to a menu item of the More menu
  
  
  • The items in the More menu are listed in alphabetical order
  • When you select Impersonate, the confirm Impersonate message replaces the More menu
    
• The Last login column format was updated to control and reduce data wrapping
  MMMM DD, YYYY
  at HH:MM
  
• Data wrapping in the table grid has been minimized:
  • The system will not wrap First name, Last name, and Status columns
  • Email and Username columns can wrap onto a second line if necessary

See the Manage Users topic for details. 

Pages/Feature:  

Manage Users

Description: 

In order to accommodate pasting space delimited lists of users from Microsoft Excel, the Search box was modified in the following way:

• Users can copy and paste space delimited values into the search box (multiple leading/trailing spaces, and spaces before/after/between phrases are allowed)
• Once values are entered in the Search box, filter the results to display values that appear in any of the following columns:
  • First name
  • Last name
  • Username
  • Email
• A filter can match one or more columns at the same time (e.g., first name and email), however, those records MUST continue to match the criteria of the Show Users (All users, Active users, Inactive users) and Show (In this organization, In this project, Not in this project) drop-down filters to display the results.
• Filters are not case sensitive
• In the example below, the entered filter "rev user" matches a first name, username, and last name
  

See the Manage Users topic for details. 

Pages/Feature:  

Manage → Reports → Custom Report, Manage → Project Bank → Generate Report

Description: 

When validators include answers for the 3 validation questions upon validating an item, these values are now included in the Custom Report when Validation data is included in the report.

If there are multiple raters, the Yes/No answers are listed in a comma separated list, by order of the raters listed in the Raters column.

The JSON report includes the following key/value names:

• hasOneCorrectAnswer = true or false
• hasOneVerifiableReference = true or false
• hasCorrectExamBluePrint = true or false

This information is displayed individually for each rater.

See the Custom Report and Custom Reports topics for details.

Pages/Feature:  

Manage Item Bank → Projects

Description: 

Archived projects are now not displayed on the Manage Item Bank → Projects page by default. A new Show Archived option was added to the page to allow users to show the archived projects in addition to projects that are Active, In Setup, and Closed.

See the Create Projects topic for details.

Pages/Feature:  

Manage → Settings → Configuration → Advanced Settings tab

Description: 

One new Item Attribute (Enumerated) and three new Response Attributes (Response Required, Response Confirmation, No Response Confirmation) were added to the Project Advanced Properties.

See the Project Advanced Properties Tab and Item Advanced Properties Tab topics for details.

Pages/Feature:  

Batch Edit

Description: 

All the advanced item properties were grouped together under Advanced Properties on the Batch Edit page. Users can configure multiple items for Enumerated, Shuffle Response, Add Calculator, Set Minimum Response, Set Maximum Response, Response Required, Response Confirmation, and No Response Confirmation.

See the Project Advanced Properties Tab and Edit Properties of Multiple Items topics for details.

Pages/Feature:  

Question History, Examine Questions, all non-editable ExamDeveloper screens where Advanced Properties tab exists, Translate Side by Side

Description: 

The Advanced Properties tab displays the newly added Enumerated, Response Required, Response Confirmation, and No Response Confirmation properties. The Translate Side by Side page displays the Advanced Properties in read-only format. You must go back to the original item and make the changes for the Advanced Properties.

Examine Questions - Advanced Properties tab

Question History - Advanced Properties tab

Translate Side by Side - Advanced Properties band

See the Examine Items and The History Tab topics for details.

Pages/Feature:  

Manage → Reports → Custom Report, Manage → Project Bank → Generate Report

Description: 

All the Advanced Properties list consistent values that correlate to the user interface making it easier for users to consume the information. The following values have also been moved under advancedProperties so all the advanced properties are grouped together: title, shuffleResponse, calculatorType, minimumResponse, and maximumResponse.

• enumerated: null (Not Set), true, false
• shuffleResponse: null (Not Set), yes, no
• Calculator: null (Not Set), Standard, Scientific, Graphing, Standard & Scientific, Standard & Graphing, Scientific & Standard, Scientific & Graphing, Graphing & Standard, Graphing and Scientific, Standard & Scientific & Graphing, Scientific & Standard & Graphing, Graphing & Standard & Scientific
• minimumResponse: null (Not Set), # correct
• maximumResponse: null (Not Set), # correct
• responseRequired: null (Not Set), true, false
• responseConfirmation: null (Not Set), true, false
• noResponseConfirmation: null (Not Set), true, false

Pages/Feature:  

QTI Builder page

Description: 

The Enumerated, Response Required, and Response Confirmation item attributes that are configured in a DT Template, now pre-populate the values for these attributes at the item level on the exam when the DT Template is applied to the exam. Previously these attributes were set at the exam level. They can now be set as a property of the DT item. Standard Item Bank items on an exam will still read these values from the Item Advanced Properties.

DT Template - Item Control Configuration

DT Template applied to an exam

Pages/Feature:  

Import Questions, Create Exam Form → View Exams → XML Export, Manage ItemBank → Reports → Questions → XML button, Manage → Reports → Questions → XML button, Manage → Project Bank → Collections →

Description: 

The new Enumerated, Response Required, Response Confirmation, and No Response Confirmation item fields may now be imported using the Microsoft Excel and XML files. The new item attributes are exported in the XML file. There are no changes to the XLS export because the Advanced Properties are exported in the Manage → Reports → Excel exports.

The allowed values for the Excel fields are blank (Not Set), True, or False.

The allowed values for the XML fields are blank (Not Set), True, or False. This is how the XML report both imports and exports the new item attributes.

See the Formats of Items Uploaded to ExamDeveloper topic for details.

Pages/Feature:  

QTI Export

Description: 

The QTI export for an exam now includes the four new item attributes Enumerated, Response Required, Response Confirmation, and No Response Confirmation.These fields are now listed in the ItemPool.xml file. The values listed for each of these attributes will be true, or false.

Enumerated is listed within the Item attribute:

Response Required, Response Confirmation, and No Response Confirmation are listed within the itemproc_extension attribute:

The attributes are not generated in the QTI if the Advanced Property is configured for Not Set.

Pages/Feature:  

Manage → Reports → Custom Report, Manage → Project Bank → Generate Report

Description: 

The reviewConfiguration element in the project.json file was previously null. It is now populated with review workflow details so that the review IDs in question.json can be mapped to the review workflow.

Question.json - reviewConfig ID

Project.json - reviewConfigurationID

Pages/Feature:  

Manage → Reports → Custom Report, Manage → Project Bank → Generate Report

Description: 

For Constructed Response/Oral type questions, the JSON report now lists the name of the toolbar in the Question.json report rather than the ID for the toolbar.

Pages/Feature:  

Create/Edit Section page

Description: 

The ability to add assets to exam sections has been removed. Only Items may be added to a section.

Pages/Feature:  

QTI Export

Description: 

Users can now add the Lock As you Go attribute to Section → SectionprocExtension → PearsonvueSectionControl. This feature forces the test driver to lock candidates' responses when they click Next to navigate off the item. This feature can only be set at the section level. This attribute is listed in the Section.xml file within the sectionproc_extension attribute, under the pearsonvue:sectioncontrol child attribute.

Pages/Feature:  

Question Summary, Review Questions, Examine Questions

Description: 

The User Tracking tab now includes a Written by field identifying who authored the item.

See the Examine Items topic for details.

Pages/Feature:  

Write Question, Write Case Question, Modify Question, Modify Question from Examine Questions, Asset comments

Description: 

When writing items, modifying items, and adding or viewing assets, users can add comments. When multiple comments have been added, the rows of comments are now listed in alternating colors.

Pages/Feature:  

Examine Questions

Description: 

When users attempt to clone an item and make the original item obsolete, they are prevented from cloning the item if it is currently checked out by another user.

User opens the item on the Examine Questions page. The item is checked out by another user. User clicks Clone.

User selects the Make this question obsolete option and clicks OK.

A message in red appears at the top of the page stating <username> checked out item xxxxx on June 18, 2019 at 11:44. The user is prevented from cloning the item since they cannot change the state of an item that is checked out to another user.

See the Examine Items topic for details.

Pages/Feature:

Examine Questions

Description:

 Users were unable to clone items. This problem was fixed ans users are once again able to clone items.

Pages/Feature:

View Collections - Word and HTML Output

Description:

Previously the Word and HTML output reports for collections were listing some items in the report twice.

The dependency on ExamCase was removed and it was not replaced. There was an unintended omission of code in the first production release. This has been fixed fixed.

Pages/Feature:

Exam Forms - Word export

Description:

Client was unable to export an exam in the DOCX format. Two items were preventing the export. This issue has been fixed.

Pages/Feature:

Create/Edit Exam Form

Description:

Users created an exam with 4 sections on it. A template was applied that had at least 2 placeholders on it. The placeholders were applied to the sections as follows:

• Section 1 - Placeholder A
• Section 2 - Placeholder B
• Section 3 - Placeholder B
• Section 4 - Placeholder A

User saved the exam. User then removed the first section from the exam. Sections 2 - 4 should have still had placeholders B, B, and A. Instead, the following placeholders were applied to the sections: Section 2 - Placeholder A, Section 3 - Placeholder B, and Section 4 - Placeholder B. The placeholders were moving up when a section was removed when they should have stayed in place.

Changes were made to update and refresh the placeholders in the correct order.

Pages/Feature:

Create/Edit Exam Form - Enhanced Matching item type

Description:

Users that created an Enhanced Matching item type added labels that were center aligned. When they submitted the item, the label text moved to left aligned (almost out of the box) instead of being center aligned as formatted. This issue has been resolved to retain the selected alignment when Saving or Submitting the item.

Pages/Feature:

Create/Edit Exam Form - Enhanced Matching item type

Description:

When users created an Enhanced Matching item type, the Properties window sometimes scrolled off the page due to Window size or resolution. Users were unable to move the window or scroll to the bottom of the window to apply the changes.

The following changes were made to the Properties window:

• The Properties window no longer scrolls off the page due to window size/resolution changes for both the horizontal and vertical changes
• Users can now drag the Properties window even if there are changes for both the horizontal and vertical changes
• Users can press the ESC key on the keyboard to close the Properties window
• The Properties window now opens to a visible area on the page

Pages/Feature:

Description:

NCEES tried to update their equations. They got a page showing it was not available. This has been fixed so the page migration now runs independently without having any information in the link table. Equations can now be successfully migrated.

Pages/Feature:

Manage Item Bank → Projects → Collections

Description:

Client tried adding a number of collections to a project. All the collections were added to the project rather than the selected number of collections. This issue was fixed so that only the selected number of collections are added to the project.

Pages/Feature:

Manage Item Bank → Projects → Collections

Description:

When viewing the revision history for Fill in the Blank and Constructed Response item types, users were presented with an error. This issue has been resolved.

Pages/Feature:

Write Questions, Write Case Questions

Description:

When users added a second response for Constructed Response/Oral item type and selected the Edit Only toolbar, a full Rich Text Editor toolbar was displayed rather than no toolbar. This issue has been resolved.

Pages/Feature:

Write Questions, Write Case Questions

Description:

Users were exporting items to clone them into a new itembank as part of their migration. When stand-alone exhibits were attached to the items, they were not attached correctly upon importing them. This issue has been resolved.

Pages/Feature:

Manage → Project Bank → Custom Report

Description:

Users generated a custom report and the metadata columns were present in the report, but the metadata was included in the report. This issue has been resolved.

Pages/Feature:

Manage → Project Bank → Custom Report

Description:

Exporting the JSON custom report presented an error for metadata fields. The key name field was changed to metadata when it was supposed to be metaDataKey. This has been corrected.