Keywords:

1.21, Release Notes, Product Updates

 

Inquisiq LMS Release 1.21 was deployed on July 18, 2021 and contains the following enhancements and bug fixes.

Learner Experience: Enhancements 

Announcement Widget Enhancement 

Description: Based on customers feedback we are enhancing the user experience of the announcement widget to make it more prominent for the learners. The announcement widget’s placement on the dashboard can be updated by a learner per their preference. Due to this experience, there was a chance the learner can miss important announcements shared by admins. To manage this, we are introducing a new alert which will generate in the bell icon every time there is a new announcement for the learner. This will act a subtle nudge for the learner to review the new announcement. 

System & UI Changes: 

1. New announcement highlighted under bell icon. On click of the announcement you will be taken to the announcement widget where you can read the full announcement. 

 

Saving Learner’s Preference in Next-Gen Catalog 

Description:  A user’s preference for viewing catalog in either tile view or list view and default sort option for the catalog will now be stored. This will help the user to not have to select the options repeatedly on every login. 

 

Launch Course Directly from Catalog  

Description: Learner’s can now navigate to the course details once enrolled into a course from the catalog. Click ‘Enrolled’ button on the catalog course detail screen and go to the course without having to navigate to the enrollment widget. 

 

Enrollment Widget Enhancement 

Description: The system will provide details, informing user if a course is locked by a perquisite when the user clicks on the lock icon. 

 

Administrator Experience: Enhancements 

Introduction of ‘Copy Course’ Feature  

Description: Admins can now copy any course and save time. This capability is useful in the scenario where two courses have most of the properties similar to each other. Instead of creating a new course, you can click on the new ‘copy’ option and update. 

System & UI Changes: 

1. A new ‘copy course’ option is available under course options and course properties, as shown in the screenshots below. 

2. On click of the new option, a modal window will pop-up. Add a course code and code(non-mandatory) to copy the course. Unique name validation is applicable while creating a copy of the course. 

3. Once copied, all the properties will be available on the new course. You can update the properties as required. 

4. To allow copy of courses that are shared from content distribution hub, you are required to enable the below config under CDH->course->settings 

 

Introduction of ‘Copy Role’ Feature 

Description: Admins can now copy roles and save time. If you have two roles with almost similar permissions, no need to create the second role from scratch. You can use the copy role option to copy the role. 

System & UI Changes: 

1. A new ‘copy role’ option is available under roles. 

2. This action will copy all the permission but not the name and rules set. 

3. Unique name validations apply to roles. 

4. Please note default system admin role cannot be copied. 

 

Introduction of ‘Quiz randomization’ Option 

Description:  A new option to present quiz questions in a random order is now available in quiz module. This will allow admins to create quizzes with the option to present questions in a random order to the learners. 

System & UI Changes: 

1. The new ‘Randomize questions’ option is available under quiz. 

2. When this option is selected, allow bookmarking is disabled by default. 

3. When this option is enabled, following flows can occur, 

 a. Flow 1 - Completion on first launch, followed by review: 

i. Learner launches content for first time, random order is generated - 4,3,1,2 

ii. Order is stored in suspend data 

iii. Learner completes content, and exits 

iv. Learner re-launches content in review mode 

v. Order is read from suspend data and remains 4,3,2,1 

 

b. Flow 2 - Exit first launch without completing, followed by re-launch: 

i. Learner launches content for first time, random order is generated - 1,4,2,3 

ii. Order is stored in suspend data 

iii. Learner exits in the middle of the content 

iv. Learner re-launches content 

v. Order is read from suspend data and remains 1,4,2,3 

 

c. Flow 3 - User fails, followed by another attempt 

i. Learner launches content for first time, random order is generated - 3,1,4,2 

ii. Order is stored in suspend data 

iii. Learner fails the content 

iv. Learner re-launches content to attempt again 

v. Random order is generated, 2,1,3,4 

vi. Order is stored in suspend data 

vii. If user completes, launch in review maintains order  

viii. If user exits without completing, next launch maintains order 

ix. If user fails, repeat Flow 3 

 

Introduction of ‘Bulk Upload’ Content Packages  

Description: Admins can now bulk upload content. The system allows bulk upload of 25 files at once. 

 

System & UI Changes: 

1. A new bulk upload is available under content packages. 

2. On click on the option, you will be presented with the below screen to add files. 

3. You can select files and they are automatically uploaded. On successful upload system will show the below screen. If there is an error, the system will display the error. Please correct the error and try again. You can upload 25 files in one go.  

4. Please note the following in case of bulk upload, 

a. Content package - will be created with file name as content package name. 

b. Video - Title will be stored as the name of the file being uploaded and all other setting as default. 

c. PowerPoint, PDF - Title will be stored as the name of the file being uploaded. 

 

Introduction of ‘Subscription’ Feature  

Description: You can now sell subscription to course catalog with the introduction of the subscription feature. Subscription feature is only enabled for Authorize.net payment processor, for now. 

System & UI Changes: 

1. A new option to enable subscription is available under course catalog -> modify action. A catalog can be free, fixed price or sold for a recurring fee through subscription plan. You can add multiple subscription plans for the catalog as shown in the screen below. 

 2. Once subscription is enabled for a catalog, users will see ‘Subscribe’ button on the course catalog. And on click of the button, all the subscription plans would show up. 

3. After selecting the subscription plan, user needs to select if they want to set-up a manual or an automatic subscription.  

a. Coupon code can only be applied in case of manual subscription 

4. Complete payment with you card and you will see the purchase receipt as shown in the screenshot. 

5. Once a user subscribes to a catalog of courses and LP, they will see ‘Enroll’ button on the set of courses/LP/catalog which were part of the subscription.  

6. User will see new option under purchase for subscription cancellation. If a user cancels his subscription, subscription will be cancelled immediately but the user will be able to access the content for the duration of the subscription. 

7. Admin can terminate user’s subscription anytime. If a subscription is terminated by an admin, user loses access to the training under the catalog immediately. 

 

Introduction of New Email Placeholders 

Description:  Three new email placeholder have been added. 

1. Under course enrollment ‘Course Link’ placeholder. This is the link to the course. In case you have SSO set-up, the course link page will direct you to the sign-in page. 
2. Under recipient’s placeholder for user address, city, postal code, and country from the user fields section. 
3. Under object section portal URL link. This is the URL of the LMS portal. 

 

Introduction of New Fields Under Rules 

Description:  Three new fields are now available under rules – language, role, and supervisor. 

• Language – will create rule on user’s default language. For example, if you want to add users to a group based on their language, you can create a rule with this option. 
• Role – will allow you to create rules based on user’s role in the portal. For example, you can assign courses to users based on their role. 
• Supervisor - group users by supervisor.  

 

Introduction of New Alerts Under Bell Icon 

Description:  Three new alerts have been added to be picked up under the bell icon. 

1. Alert for admins when an external training record is uploaded by a user and the system is configured to get admin approval for external training. 
2. Alert for a learner when an external training record is either approved or rejected. 
3. Alert for a user when a purchase request is either approved or rejected by admin 

 

eCommerce Functionality

New Payment Processor Integration: Stripe 

Description: In addition to existing PayPal and Authorize.net eCommerce integrations, Inquisiq now supports Stripe as a payment processor for your eCommerce set-up.  

Set-up Instructions: 

1. Stripe is available as an option under eCommerce set-up in your LMS portal. 

2. For setting up the integration go to - https://dashboard.stripe.com and sign-in with your account. 

3. Now go to the highlighted developer section and grab the publishable and secret key details. 

4. Copy the key details from above into your LMS portals Stripe integration set-up and save the details to activate the integration. 

5. To enable email triggering, modify the email setting options available on the stipe portal account. As per stripe documentation, email for payment receipts will work only with live API key. 

6. All payment made on your LMS portal can be viewed in your Stripe account. 

 

API and Integrations

API Framework v2

We have redesigned our API! The Inquisiq LMS v2 API is organized around REST and designed with functionality to allow customers to easily integrate their third-party applications with the Inquisiq LMS in more meaningful ways.

This version of our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts JSON request bodies and returns JSON responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.

This version of the Inquisiq LMS API should be used by customers for any new development going forward. While it is still active and will continue to be supported, our legacy API has been deprecated, and should not be used for new development going forward.  

Please click here for more information on the new Inquisiq LMS v2 API.

 

Zapier Integration Support

Inquisiq LMS can now integrate with over 3,000 other applications via the Zapier platform. Zapier is a tool that helps you automate tasks between two or more applications without the need for coding. When an event happens in one application, Zapier can tell another application to perform a particular action.

You can use this integration to synchronize data between Inquisiq LMS and a variety of other services.

Please click here for more information on integrating with Inquisiq LMS via Zapier.

 

Bug Fixes 

1. Email notification for task submitted were not going to proctors. This has now been corrected. 
2. A bug was reported where the average rating was being displayed on the catalog pages of courses (both old and next gen) when publicize ratings was disabled. This bug has been fixed. 
3. When creating a new task module (with a task resource), if “Save Changes” was clicked after clicking “New Module” (without a page refresh in between), the task resource was unlinked on the second save. This is now fixed. 
4. User registration approval emails were not being triggered in the system. This issue has been fixed now. 
5. Discussion board bugs relating to formatting and moderation have been fixed. 
6. Report subscription was failing for user course transcript report when all interaction fields were included. We have now fixed this bug. 
7. We have fixed the hiding of users from the grid for users that are not part of permission group scope and the hiding of groups from the grid for groups that are not part of permission scope. 
8. A bug was identified where user with group created and editor permission was unable to create groups. This has now been fixed. 
9. User upload file was having issues with the following fields – home phone, work phone and fax. The order has been corrected and the upload is working as expected. 
10. On completing a learning path with the next-gen enrollment widget enabled, the learner was taken to old learning path view. This has been corrected. 
11. Certificates that have credits with decimal places, i.e., 1.5 were not being displayed correctly. This has been fixed. 
12. Next-gen learning path detail page was not showing an end date. This is now fixed. 
13. User course transcripts report was showing content resource field as blank. This has been corrected. 
14. An issue was identified when an admin was deleting course enrollments for a user. The issue has been fixed. 
15. Course name on mouse over was not showing properly if special characters were part of the name. This has been fixed. 
16. We were getting an error saying coupon code has already been used when trying to checkout after applying a coupon code that is only allowed 1 user per person to an item in the cart. This bug has been corrected. 
17. Text overflows out of the label container and onto the border of the certificate when you open the certificate in PDF. This has been now fixed. 
18. The listing of ILT events on the Next Gen Catalog calendar was not adjusting for the viewing users time zone. This issue has now been fixed. 
19. A proper error description was not showing up when attempting to create a new course with an existing short code. We have now updated the error message.