Tabula 52 (Tellurium) - Wednesday 11th December 2013
Tabula version 52 (Tellerium) was released on Wednesday 11th December 2013. The main visible improvements and changes are:
Permissions changes
The following changes have been made to permissions:
- All staff members can now see a student's ITS usercode (previously: just tutors and supervisors)
- All staff members can now see a student's core course details (previously: just staff in the student's department)
- All staff members can now see a student's personal tutor, research supervisor and any other relationships in Tabula (previously: just staff in the student's department)
- All staff members in the student's department can now see their small groups (previously: just tutors, supervisors and departmental administrators)
- Tutors, supervisors, route managers and route assistants can now manage Member Notes on a student profile (previously: just departmental administrators)
General improvements and fixes
- Newly-created assignments now include submissions, marks, extensions and other features by default (these can still be turned off)
- Extension requests now include extra information both in Tabula and in the email notification
- When disallowing extensions for an assignment, any existing extension requests are automatically declined
- Removing a student from the enrolment list for a set of small groups will now also remove them from any of the groups themselves
- We've added a way to quickly navigate between components in Tabula (a small dropdown next to the title of the area of Tabula in the header)
- The feedback deadline is now shown correctly for students with extensions
- When approving extensions, the new deadline is prefilled with the one requested by the student
- We've re-designed the student profile page to better accommodate students who have taken (or are taking) multiple courses
- Small group attendance is no longer shown for students on their profile if they aren't in any groups
- We've added an API to Coursework Management to list all assignments for a department
- Calendar dates are now shown alongside term weeks in attendance monitoring
- You can now click and view the list of students who aren't allocated to a group
- Route managers can now see meeting records
- % splits of research supervision are now shown in Tabula
- You can now link directly from a student's module registrations to MRM
- Moderated and seen-second marking workflows are now possible in Coursework Management, including when using Online Feedback
- Users are no longer taken to the 'Allocate students' screen when creating small groups with self-sign up
- Holiday weeks no longer start on Thursdays in Attendance Monitoring
- Names that include an apostrophe are now easier to search for in Student Profiles
- An alignment issue when viewing attendance monitoring data has been fixed
- A problem downloading submissions that were already completed when using marking workflow has been fixed
- Route/module managers can now correctly view the "Admin" pages on Tabula
Technical release notes:
Sub-task
Bug
- [TAB-1065] - Don't take users to 'Allocate groups' screen for new self-sign up groups
- [TAB-1140] - Monitoring points: holiday weeks are displayed starting Thursday
- [TAB-1197] - Inconsistencies when searching for names which include an apostrophe
- [TAB-1261] - Unlinking an assignment gets stuck if you don't select an assess component
- [TAB-1304] - Allow admins to record seminar attendance
- [TAB-1556] - HTML in attendance monitoring tooltips (student record page)
- [TAB-1571] - Don't retract filter options immediately
- [TAB-1572] - Freemarker errors on view/record attendance for PAIS Undergraduate
- [TAB-1573] - Freemarker exception on filtering students in PAIS attendance monitoring
- [TAB-1577] - Hibernate exception from attendance when viewing profile page
- [TAB-1581] - Audit items with no equivalent DB item don't display
- [TAB-1582] - Attendance monitoring filtered view - content not aligning
- [TAB-1585] - Error token viewing attendance for group on test
- [TAB-1596] - Freemarker exception viewing attendance view/record homepage for sub-dept
- [TAB-1597] - Freemarker exception filtering for students in Attendance Monitoring
- [TAB-1602] - Exception getting extension email
- [TAB-1606] - Extension review modal doesn't load for non StudentMembers
- [TAB-1607] - Expandables in coursework grant extension request modal fail in Firefox
- [TAB-1612] - Trying to transition marker state from Completed to InProgress when downloading submissions
- [TAB-1616] - Module Auditors able to remove permissions of Module Assistants and Managers
- [TAB-1617] - Small group attendance missing for some groups
- [TAB-1620] - FTL exception viewing online feedback for a particular student
- [TAB-1622] - Section switch dropdown opens causes display oddness in IE11
- [TAB-1623] - Submission.state is redundant and should be removed
- [TAB-1633] - SGT attendance not displayed on student profile
- [TAB-1637] - Tooltips in SGT gadget in profile use wrong font
- [TAB-1641] - Route/module managers denied permission to departmental admin page
Idea
- [TAB-269] - Add workflow options to Mark Schemes
Improvement
- [TAB-430] - Make maintenance mode page prettier
- [TAB-880] - Feedback deadline for students with extensions
- [TAB-969] - Prefill new submission deadline with requested date
- [TAB-1049] - Redesign student profile page to facilitate multiple years and module info
- [TAB-1156] - Show information from student profiles on extension requests
- [TAB-1285] - Review the default options for assignments
- [TAB-1365] - Expose extra information in extension request notifications
- [TAB-1428] - Handle existing extension requests when disallowing at assignment level
- [TAB-1542] - Show corresponding calendar dates in Attendance Monitoring
- [TAB-1546] - Don't show SGT attendance for students with no small groups
- [TAB-1561] - Remove students from groups when manually removed from a groupset
- [TAB-1562] - Allow users to switch more easily between tabula components
- [TAB-1563] - Show list of students who haven't been allocated to a group
- [TAB-1586] - Enable route manager to see meeting records from dissertation supervisors
- [TAB-1592] - Expose % split of supervision when student has more than one supervisor
- [TAB-1601] - Link from "Module Registrations" gadget to MRM (open in new window)
- [TAB-1619] - Display non-secret information about students to all staff
New Feature
- [TAB-1112] - Coursework Management API: List all assignments for a department
- [TAB-1560] - Allow creating sub-departments in UI
Support
- [TAB-1525] - Withdrawn students still appearing in monitoring points list
- [TAB-1611] - Alumni member still active in Tabula