Installation manual

New Features and Enhancements Course Delivery

Release Notes for Release 9.1 Service Pack 3 (9.1.30151.0) Page 7

Assessments

Instructors now have the ability to view question numbers while building and editing assessments.

Questions can be referenced by number throughout the assessment and can be used to

sequence questions in an assessment.

Grade Center

Several features in the Grade Center have been enhanced to improve communication between

the instructor and students and make navigation easier.

Feedback and Comments

To augment the existing ability to download columns from the Grade Center and grade offline,

Instructors can now include comments in the download. Comments can be added or edited

offline, and are associated with the grade when the column information is uploaded to the Grade

Center.

The full features of the Text Editor are now available for Feedback to Users and Grading Notes

from the Grade Details page and within the Grade Center grid. The Text Editor can also be used

for feedback on Tests, Assignments, Group Assignments, Blogs, Wikis, Journals, and posts to

the Discussion Board. Incorporating all the features of the Text Editor allows Instructors to

leverage the full range of functions for formatting text and adding external links, attachments,

images, Mashups, and multimedia to Feedback and Grading Notes.

Students are able to view the Feedback added using the Text Editor on their My Grades page.

Needs Grading Page

Instructors can access assignment and test attempts that need grading from a new Needs

Grading page accessed in the Grade Center section of the Control Panel. On the Needs Grading

page, instructors can view how many attempts are ready for grading and sort and filter the items.

Attempts are placed in a queue for easy navigation among items when grading or reviewing.

Once an attempt is graded, it no longer appears on the Needs Grading page.

Smart Views

Smart Views added as Favorites appear as an indented list in the Grade Center section of the

Control Panel.

Column Delete Alert

When groups with graded Blogs, Journals, Wikis, or Discussion Boards are deleted, an alert

appears prompting the instructor to save or delete the corresponding Grade Center columns.

Managing columns for groups becomes part of the same process as deleting groups.

Text Editor

The symbol font is removed from the Text Editor and a symbol picker has been added.