January 2025 Release Overview

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This post provides a summary of the upcoming changes including those features which we have highlighted due to their impact. This release is subject to change and we will do our best to keep the information up to date before the release to live on Thursday the 9th January 2025. For more in depth technical detail additional details are available on the release page.

Improvements to Content Blocks for Content Designer: Documents
Improvements to File Uploads for Content Designer: Documents
Show/hide columns from instructors in the gradebook
Direct grade entry from the Grid view or Submissions page
Manage course access from Course Settings

Add Submission Attempts for Release Conditions

You will now be able to use Submission status as a release condition for other items. Some instructors had mentioned that they wanted an item to become available after a previous assessed item was submitted rather than marked. This release will mean that you can setup a rule to allow an item to be released as soon as the user has submitted rather than needing to wait for that submission to be marked or having to setup an automatically marked assessment.

Image 1. The new Attempt submitted option is in the dropdown menu for a gradable item in the Release condition panel.

The page for setting a release condition. The release condition is set to apply to all members and Performance is checked. Attempt submitted is highlighted in the dropdown menu for a gradable item.

Set default automatic zeros to off in the gradebook for new courses

Anthology will change the default setting for new courses to turn off automatic zeroes. This will not be retroactive so current courses will not change. Most courses at the university chose to turn off automatic zeroes so this change will be beneficial at an institutional level. As usual your school will be contacted during our NAYPL process to set the default for your school/deanery template. Any new courses that you create after the release date in January will be set to have automatic zeroes turned off so you may need to be aware of this.