Historic release notes (DigEx/WISEflow)

Release date: 04-09-2015

General

• Nordic Kalmar2-service replaced by global EduGain authentication service

Release date: 11-08-2015

General

• Limitation on amount of assessors per flow has been removed
• Message center: FLOWoral
• New British 16 step grade scale ranging from F- to A*

Manager

• The maximum limit of assessors on a flow has been removed
• New and separated assessor distribution that improves the overview and makes it quicker and easier to administrate assessors assignments to participants
• New and separated assessment export functionality that makes it possible to export assessments directly to external systems, and introduces the option to filter and order the assessment list made into PDF.
• New module: FLOWAdminAssessment - The possibility for setting a license defined administrative assessment on a participant. Ie. Used Attempt or Absent
• Information about which assessors have registered which assessments, when there is a conflict or when all assessors have not registered yet.
• New SIS client: SIS-DK

Assessor

• Author: Export of question from activity to question bank

Release date: 12-08-2015

General

• Improved stability and robustness in FLOWmulti

Manager

• First name and last name are now in separate columns in the participant list

Assessor

• Author: Add questions from the top of the activity when more than 10 questions are present

Participant

• Improved control and validation of uploaded PDF file

Release date: 16-05-2015

General

• Built in check for system requirements
• Improved login module
• New scalable architecture underneath the hood

Manager

• Overview on flows keeps settings across page shifts
• Blank hand ins are shown in the participant list

Assessor

• Author tool: Dynamically showing the maximum obtainable score on activity and questions
• Print of annotations in WISEflow Annotate.

Participant

• Possibility for blank hand in

Licence administrator

• Possibility for exporting users to Excel spreadsheet

Release date: 18-02-2015

General

• Message center that visualises which messages are sent from a flow, and makes it possible to customize the content.
• Author: Question bank that makes it possible to create questions to be used on multiple activities.
• FLOWmulti: Possibility for running tests without the demand for the use of the FLOWlock browser.
• Censor IT: Export of assessment distribution is now possible on all flows with id from Censor IT associated.
• Ephorus: New plagiarism service available.

Manager

• FLOWmulti: Basic live monitor that visualizes the progression of the participants during the flow.
• Auto focus on the search field in the flow overview makes it faster to find the right flow.

Assessor

• FLOWoral: Assigned periods is now shown on the exam page.

Participant

• Improved overview on the hand in state on a flow, where uploaded files sill are shown, though the paper has not been handed in.

Licence administrator

• New tab: License overview that displays information about the license and provides access to license statistics.

Release date: 17-12-2014

General

• Statistics module that enables license administrators to gain insight in the activity on their license.
• Minor front end adjustments, bugfixes and performance upgrades.

Manager

• Adjusted design on the front page tab that amongst other things visualizes which elements are mandatory.
• New front page element: Confirmation of hand in to library.

Licence administrator

• New tab: License overview that displays information about the license and provides access to license statistics.
• Tracking code to Google Analytics can be set on the license, whereby all user activity can be monitored in Google Analytics.
• New tab: Support.

Release date: 27-11-2014

General

• FLOWmulti - new module to run multiple choice activities made in WISEflow Author
• Censor IT - New integration that makes it possible to pull assessors automatically in to a exam flow from Censor IT.
• Bugfix: Upload from local copy from FLOWlock dit not correctly show when the paper had been uploaded
• Minor front end adjustments, bugfixes and performance upgrades.

Manager

• New front page elements: Subtitle, english subtile and name of advisor.

Licence administrator

• Bugfix: Flow lists not shot the correct flow type.

Release date: 11-11-2014

General

• FLOWoral - module to support oral tests
• Draw - feature that makes it possible to make a draw between assignments handed out to participants.
• ZIP of papers on entire flow has been improved and with better explanation
• Bugfix: The FLOWlock browser could in some cases cache images taken with webcam, though the image had actually been deleted
• Minor front end adjustments, bugfixes and performance upgrades.

Manager

• Additional content illustrates more clearly, who the material will be handed out to

Licence administrator

• Bugfix: Phone numbers can now contain more than just digits when editing users
• Bugfix: Excel import of users do now also support users without organisation id

Release date: 28-10-2014

General

• WISEflow Author - first step towards multiple choice flows in WISEflow.
• Minor front end adjustments, bugfixes and performance upgrades.

Manager

• Show assessment to participants can now again be selected for all participants at once.
• Fixed so the FLOWhandin icon is shown correctly in FLOWcombined.

Assessor

• WISEflow Author - module to compose and arrange multiple choice activities for the coming FLOWmulti
• Bugfix: WISEflow Annotate now works in Internet Explorer 9 and 10 again

Release date: 06-10-2014

General

• New flow type, FLOWhandin, which makes it possible to create and manage flows, without the one PDF as paper requirement. This can be used to exams, where spreadsheets, sound/video etc. is handed in as primary exam paper. The manager can define the maximum allowed amount of files handed in and if this maximum has to be reached, in order for the participant to be able to hand in.
• Notifications on email links directly to the login page of the license, if it exists.
• Swedish language support.
• Minor front end adjustments, bugfixes and performance upgrades.

Manager

• Advanced settings can now also be specific for the flow type, as it is on FLOWhandin, where you can define the maximum amount of allowed files and if all of those is required in order for the participant to hand in.
• Possibility for requiring an English Title on the official front page.
• Fixed header on flow overview table that stays visible when scrolling.
• Preview of the official front page has been made more distinctive with a button

Assessor

• Bugfix: General paper comments could not be accessed on archived flows

Participant

• Array

Licence administrator

• 14 days lookahead on flow activity makes it possible to see when flows are starting and ending for participants 14 days ahead of time.
• The requirements for the users email address has been changed, so it now is possible for a user to appear on several licenses with the same address

Release date: 02-09-2014

General

• New integration platform that introduces access to the norwegian 'Felles Studentsystem' (FS) and simplifies the access to other student information systems.
• New and refactored chore in WISEflow that improves performance and paves the road for an even higher degree of customization of each institutions license.
• Simplified email setup without the need of a primary email and with a better overview on where the addresses is coming from.
• WAYF scoping of subdomains so you are sent directly to the login page without the need of choosing your institution from a list.

Manager

• FLOWcombine: Module that makes it possible to put flows into series and manage them as one test or exam.
• New interface for the creation of flows that makes it more clear what the different options implies.
• Synchronization of the flow with SIS is reactivated on the manager page
• Simplified version of the possibiliy of merging several SIS codes into a single flow. Assessors are now also synchronized from SIS.
• The assessment list does now include the SIS code from the flow and is downloaded instead of displayed inline in the browser.
• Administratively withdrawing a paper does now result in a mail to the participant in question.
• Added assessors are now shown in alphabetic order
• Bugfix: Download as ZIP of the entire flow is now again possible on archived flows.

Assessor

• Optimization of WISEflow Annotate so a problem where highlights were hidden behinde the text in certain types of papers are minimized.
• Bugfix: If you were both assessor and participant on a FLOWprovisional flow it was not possible to access your own paper in WISEflow Annotate.
• Demo flow has been moved so it always is positioned below the real flows.

Participant

• FLOWlock: The paper is now continously saved locally in the FLOWlock browser, which ensures your material on bad connectivity or computer breakdown.
• FLOWlock: Built in warning if the paper has not been automatically saved the last 10 minutes.
• Upload of local copy to FLOWlock is now also requiring proctor password
• Demo flow has been moved so it always is positioned below the real flows.

Release date: 12-06-2014

Assessor

• Bugfix: Notifications on mismatching registered grades was not sent out correctly.

Participant

• Bugfix: Upload of fallback file from FLOWlock failed.

Release date: 02-06-2014

General

• Improved error handling when internet connection is poor or lost.

Manager

• Cancelling a registered assessment on a single participant
• Reassignment of assessors to participants, even though assessors have been active on the participant.
• Administrative withdrawal of FLOWlock hand ins.
• Manager is now informed by mail, when the evaluation period has ended.

Assessor

• Bugfix: WISEflow Annotate // No connection alert on refresh.
• Bugfix: Special characters was not shown correctly when download as zip.

Release date: 22-05-2014

General

• Integrated support page
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Assessor

• Bugfix: WISEflow Annotate // Some papers are missing pages.

Release date: 30-04-2014

General

• New grade types together with the possibility of defining which one should be available on license.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Manager

• Flow setting: Option that makes it possible for the internal assessor to upload assignment on flow until the flow starts.

Assessor

• Automatic word/character count of paper in WISEflow Annotate.
• Email notification when the evaluation periods starts on a flow.
• Flow setting: Internal assessor can upload assignment on flow.

Release date: 07-04-2014

General

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Manager

• Advanced flow settings that enables customization of the participants hand in proces to match the given exam type. First step towards a greater level of customization of flows on the basis of the license setup.
• Flow setting: No withdrawal of paper after hand in.
• Flow setting: Permission to delayed hand in.

Release date: 17-03-2014

General

• FLOWprovisional. Module that enables assessors to create and manage provisional flows, where they also can act as assessors.
• FLOWlock stable version. Module to be used at onsite exams with the participants own computer, but in a secured environment.
• Dynamic count of new flows that improves the overview of which flows you have been associated with..
• New Icelandic grade scale (0 to 10 in 0.5 steps).
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Manager

• FLOWlock monitor (beta) that provides a live overview of activity and status of the participants at the flow.
• If a flow is run with the option to Register Assessments, it is now possible to download/print an assessment list.

Assessor

• Provisional flows can be created and managed with FLOWprovisional, where you at the same time can be enrolled as participant or assessor.

Participant

• Appendix Material can be added as photos with the use of webcam in FLOWlock.
• Fallback upload in FLOWlock that enables the participant to upload material that has been saved in FLOWlock due to missing internet connection.
• Revision overview in FLOWlock makes it possible to see every saved revision of the paper and to revert to a revision if needed.
• Option to post a comment to Twitter or Facebook when handing in paper.

Release date: 18-11-2013

General

• Timezone support. WISEflow now shows all dates/times in the timezone of the users computer.
• Improvements to the FLOWlock module (improved stability, time change on-the-fly, exit password)
• Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

Manager

• Bug fix: EKA codes from a combined flow could not be removed

Release date: 31-10-2013

General

• New frontpage to wiseflow.dk with a new consistent background graphic.
• FLOWlock-module to be used to onsite exams.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Release date: 30-08-2012

General

• UNIlogin added as login and autentification possibility.
• New template based emails.
• The official front page has been redesigned.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Participant

• Fallback to a simple upload functionality in some versions of supported browsers.
• You now have to actively confirm, if you choose to withdraw the paper handed in.

Release date: 24-05-2013

General

• Number of entries in tables are now shown both in the top and the bottom.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Manager

• When adding an assessor to a flow there are now automatically focused on the search field afterwards.
• Date and IP for submitted papers are now shown as tooltip on the submitted icon in the participant list.
• Bug fixed where EKA-codes not always where shown correctly in the participant list.

Release date: 14-05-2013

General

• Final asssessment registration
• Support for NemLogin on subdomains for public institutions
• Norwegian version of WISEflow including norwegian grade scale (A-F)
• Faster and more efficient handling of supported languages
• Improved cache support so WISEflow will be experienced quicker and cache related bugs not appear on version upgrades
• Prolonged session time so you do not have to relogin as often when using WISEflow for longer periods of time
• Bug fixed that made the Choose File-button not work properly in some browsers
• Minor bug fixes

Manager

• Optional feature to select Final Assessment Registration on flow, so assessors can registrate their final assessment of participants
• Student number (if it exists) is now visible on participants in the Basic and Assign Assessor tabs
• Improved warnings if you delete/remove important elements from a flow (i.e. assessors with registrated assessments)
• Bug fixed where not all participants had student number assigned from SIS

Assessor

• Participant list has been improved so it displays more information about participants and support final assessment registration.
• Bug fixed that resulted in limited functionality in WISEflow Annotate on iPad.

Participant

• Participants that are not in groups do not have to create a single man group in order to submit paper, if Group Members is a front page element.

Licence administrator

• Student number is no longer a required field during creation of users, if this is an ID on the license.

Release date: 17-04-2013

General

• Minor bug fixes.

Manager

• Progress indicator when creating flows.
• Bug fixed where the creation of a flow would time out if many participants where enrolled.
• Bug fixed where emails under certain circumstances could be sent to participants, though flow state was non-activated.

Licence administrator

• Bug fixed where the personal identification number could not be empty when creating user.

Release date: 14-04-2013

General

• Integration with Kalmar2 so it now is possible to log in with other scandinavian login services.
• Minor bugfixes.

Manager

• Bug fixed where standard users could not search for users on license.
• It is now possible to add participants to flows until the hand in deadline for the participants has been reached.

Assessor

• Bug fixed where the correct grading information in some occasions was not shown.

Licence administrator

• Change in the way Personal Identification Numbers are handled, so it is not required when creating/editing users. If an invalid number is entered it will not be saved on the user.
• Changed the way users are imported so it uses a Excel template instead of a CSV file. Thereby it should be more simple to create multiple users in one take.

Release date: 26-03-2013

General

• Adjustment of Choose file button so it works optimal in all supported browsers.

Manager

• Adjustment of the way flow codes are generated, if you do not integrate with a SIS.
• Handed in material can be downloaded as ZIP from the moment the submission deadline has been exceeded.

Assessor

• Bug fixed in WISEflow Annotate which could result in pages not beeing shown.

Participant

• IE-fix so flows change state in the flow overview without the need of refreshing the browser.

Release date: 20-03-2013

General

• Bug fixed which sometimes made it impossible to download handed in material.
• WISEflow has been adjusted so Internet Explorer 8 and 9 can run WISEflow properly.

Assessor

• Bug fixed in WISEflow Annotate which did not always show the annotation overview correctly.

Licence administrator

• Bug fixed: Editing userdata on license users

Release date: 18-03-2013

General

• Bug fixed: Media files did not play properly when opened directly in browser.

Manager

• Archived flows from Aarhus University updated with new user data, which triggered a bug when showin archived flows.

Release date: 08-03-2013

General

• Input on certain front page elements, such as student card number, where added separators.
• Problems recognizing certain users logging in with WAYF.
• Improved language support so WISEflow adapts to the browser language settings.
• Minor bugfixes and design adjustments.

Manager

• The notification about a non-activated flow has been done more visually appearant.
• Bug fixed where the Declaration of Honesty front page element was not displayed correct in the preview.

Assessor

• Bug when deleting general flow comments fixed.
• Bug fixed which did not display assignment and appendix material in WISEflow Annotate.

Participant

• Bugfix: Digits on the official front page was not saved correctly.

Release date: 06-03-2013

General

• Minor bugfixes.

Participant

• Order of elements changed in the submission logic, so it is possible to upload paper before the official front page is completed.

Release date: 04-03-2013

General

• Minor bugfixes

Release date: 01-03-2013

General

• DigEx is now called WISEflow.
• New server environment with strongly improved security, performance and backup.
• New design
• WISEflow Login to users without affiliation to institutions.
• New license administration module with flow lists, user search and management.
• New profile settings module.

Manager

• Redesigned functionality and improved performance on flow administration.
• Flows can now be created as formal exam flows with data pulled from SIS (Student Information System) or provisional flows to educational use in courses, where users are added manually.

Assessor

• WISEflow Annotate (former DigEx ReadeR) has expanded its functionality with drawings (free hand, square, circles, lines and arrows)as a way to annotate.

Participant

• Changed hand in functionality, so the progression of the hand in process is better supported and you now have to actually click Hand In to hand in your submission.
• Upload can now be done directly from your Dropbox folder, which is enabling handing in from iPads etc.

Release date: 29-06-2012

General

• Optimized database structure that makes DigEx and DigEx Reader less demanding on browser resources
• Incorporated operational status
• Option to choose between which email addresses notifications will be sent to.
• If you have several user roles in DigEx, you can now choose which one to go to automatically when logging in.
• The ones responsible for managing flows in DigEx is now called Flow Managers.

Manager

• Flow overview: all flows are shown together and sorted after progression, which is displayed in the right part of the list.
• Flow overview: all data in the list can be found by searching from the upper right corner
• Students need to have beh.status 'tilmeldt' and checkstatus 'godkendt' in STADS in order to be automatically activated on a flow activity in DigEx.
• DigEx is now synchronized with STADS until the flow is archived.
• Non-activated flows are no longer activated automatically on the flow start time. An email is instead sent to the flow manager with an notification two days ahead.

Assessor

• Integration with Urkunds plagiarism control mechanism, which generates a plagiarism report on every single paper in DigEx.
• General flow comments can be made to all students at once.
• DigEx App beta version: comments and annotations made offline on an iPad can be saved and shared online in DigEx
• DigEx Reader optimized to Safari on iPad.
• Video and sound player embedded in DigEx Reader.
• Copy and paste of text in DigEx Reader
• Single page view mode in DigEx Reader, which improves reading and commenting on tablets.

Participant

• The upload functionality has been improved.

Release date: 25-05-2012

General

• Support for student numbers with 10 characters.
• Fixed bug: Choose Examiner at the front page could not be chosen, if an external examiner were assigned
• Fixed bug: Characters at the front page did not support special characters.

Manager

• Synchronization with STADS is now terminated, when the hand in deadline is exceeded.
• Fixed bug: The flow summary did not always display correctly if all students were assigned an examiner.

Release date: 15-03-2012

General

• NemID support

Manager

• It is now not possible to activate a flow, if you have not informed the involved students and examiners.

Release date: 01-03-2012

General

• Demo flows for students and examiners.
• Playback of audio and video files in the browser.

Release date: 05-01-2012

General

• Improved administration tools (parsing and flow overview
• Prolonged login time span (4 hours)

Manager

• Syncronization with STADS is now continuing until the flow is archived.
• The examination time can now be set without restrictions

Assessor

• General comments from DigEx Reader can be viewed on each student in the list, where the grades are set

Release date: 20-12-2011

General

• Improved stability and performance
• Automatic reporting of errors

Manager

• Optional parameter to identificate anonymous students by
• Equally assignment of students to examiners according to papers handed in
• Errors corrected in date picker

Assessor

• Improved student overview whereby it is easier to see if papers have been handed in or prolonged deadline has been given

Participant

• Improvement of receipts sent by email

Release date: 09-12-2011

General

• Synchronisation with STADS is now fully enabled until the start of the flow
• The WAYF session is now terminated at log off which makes it possible to shift user in the same browser
• AU ID at contact information

Manager

• A front page template can be previewed from the front page configuration tab
• Improved search functionality which makes it possible to search for examiners on name, emai or AU-ID
• Deactivation of students whereby exam codes where only a part of the students are to be examined is easier to manage

Assessor

• Integration with Adobe Connect which makes it possible to video conference online with co-examiners in a private meeting room.
• Integration with STADS-vip which brings you to the online grade registration with a single click

Participant

• Upload button has been visually enhanced and painted green

Release date: 24-11-2011

General

• New AU design
• Upgraded upload-functionality with improved browser compatibility
• Contact information at names on non-students
• The official front page is integrated directly in the paper PDF after submission deadline

Manager

• Combining flows - many to one. Several flows can be administrated as one.
• Created flow can be deleted
• Flows are created with exam code + exam period and type
• More information on the students (ECTS, exam type, graduation type)
• Created flow has to be activated, before the exam participants can access it
• Material can be uploaded to the examiners on a flow
• All changes to a flow are saved automatically and an interactive checklist can be used to verify the flow configuration
• Amount of students an examiner is assigned is shown in the student list
• Examiners can be assigned equally and randomly to the students with a single click (when more than one examiners)

Assessor

• Improved overview of the flow before it starts

Participant

• Improved overview of the flow before it starts