June 2025 Release Overview
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 the evening of Thursday the 5th June 2025. For more in depth technical information additional details are available on the release page.
Add resizable dividers to Documents
Instructors can now find a divider block in Documents. Dividers can be used to help students easily identify related and unrelated sections. This new feature aims to improve the readability and structure of educational materials.
Key Features:
- Flexible: Dividers can be used in various ways to suit different instructional needs.
- Resizable: Dividers can be resized across up to four columns, providing flexible options.
Image 1. The new option to add a divider is now included among the various block types.
Image 2. The divider block spans three columns in the Document.
Create Jumbled Sentence Questions
Instructors can now create jumbled sentence questions for online exams. This feature lets instructors define one or more paragraphs with blanks for students to complete. Additionally, instructors can:
- Define distractors to challenge students
- Add automated feedback for correct and incorrect answers
- Designate questions as extra credit
- Use accessibility tools, such as keyboard-only workflows, to create this question type
To create a variable, insert the variable in square brackets within the paragraph. Each variable is automatically recognised as the correct answer. Instructors can enable partial credit to award points for partially correct responses. For example, if half of the answers are correct, half of the max points are awarded.
Variables can include the following characters:
- Letters
- Digits (0-9)
- Full-stops (.)
- Underscores (_)
- Hyphens (-)
The question text and variable input are validated for syntax correctness, notifying instructors of any errors, such as a missing bracket.
Example paragraph with variables:
Single water molecules are held together by [covalent] bonds and multiple water molecules are held together by [hydrogen] bonds. The kind of bond where atoms are sharing electrons but are not sharing them equally is [polar covalent bond].
Saved questions display variables in bold and underlined in purple for clarity. Instructors can also manually add feedback to student responses and use the Edit/Regrade workflow during grading.
Image 1: Instructor creates a jumbled sentence question type.
For students, answer options are displayed in a random order, ensuring fairness in the assessment experience.
Students can:
- Identify if a question is marked as extra credit
- Answer questions using assistive technology
- Auto-save their responses as they work
- Reset the question to clear all selections
Known Issues
This update will look to fix an issue related to the retrieval of deleted tests or assignments. Previously, when a user deleted a test or assignment containing attempts, the grade history would not show who cleared the grades. However, now when downloading the Gradebook and selecting “Include Deleted Items”, the “Attempt Grade Cleared” record will show the user name, role, IP address and name. – #90233
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“For students, answer options are displayed in a random order, ensuring fairness in the assessment experience.” — There are questions for which this makes no sense. I have used jumbled-sentence questions in Learn Original for physics tests, in which there is a natural order of the answer options. Randomising them only creates confusion. The task is to identify the correct answer, and not to make it as difficult as possible to spot the correct one among the randomly ordered options. For example, one jumbled sentence question with four parts had the answer options 0, N, 2N, 3N, …, 9N, which should be displayed in this order.