Each release we make aNewSpring even more user friendly and give it extra features.

Below is a list of recent updates. We will update this list if a new version of aNewSpring is being released.

August 2020 - release 86

Learners

• Added: Learners now receive a feedback alert after handing in a version in the hand-in assignment.
• Improved: It is possible to search the homepage for courses that haven’t been started yet.

Templates

• Improved: Toggling a template functionality in the template settings will directly check/select all sub-options.
• Added: An explanation on the content management page.
• Improved: The navigation of while editing activities. We changed the 'Cancel' button into a 'Back to template' button. 

Instruct

• Improved: various changes to the Dashboard, including: 
  • The order of the data is now shown highest to lowest.
  • All learners (including those that haven't started the course yet) are now shown in the activity progress.
  • Combined the various statistics pages into one page with multiple tabs.
  • Redesign of the learner and course statistics.

Users

• Improved: The button 'Import users' is now combined with the +Users button.
• Added: The ability to determine the time zone for users you import.
• Added: To make aNewSpring more secure, all new passwords must contain 8 or more characters.

Catalogue

• Added: Option to display the events in the product. (Potential) learners can already see (or even enrol for) the events, before purchasing/adding the product.

Events

• Added:Event groups

Look & feel settings

• Added: A "Back to overview" button, so you use “Update” to save changes.

General

• Improved: Changed icons on several pages

Tech/Security 

• Improved: Prevent blocking of the servers when users spam data into fields for passwords, access codes or 2FA codes. 

May 2020 - release 85

General

• Improved: Loading of various pages is now more consistent. Elements will be loaded simultaneously.
  
  

Events

• Added: Tags and possibilty to filter on tags in the overview of events and when adding events in an activity.

Creating content

• Improved: Elements move slower while navigating the plus editor page
• Improved: The plus-editor interface and interaction. The edit action of the elements is now placed above the splitting action.

Templates

• Added: Your previous choices for template settings will be remembered, so you don't have to start from scratch the next time you create another template.
• Improved: Breadcrumb at the overview of blocks and activities. 
• Improved: The tabs within the templates and activies have a different order and new icons.
• Improved: The buttons to edit the blocks and activities in the template are updated to make it more clear. The button to enter the block edit flow is now called Settings.
• Improved: Explanation for learner at the start of the course.
• Improved: Sharing tab has been moved to the discussion widget.
• Added: Explanation for the discussion widget. 
• Improved: The Personal Learner Advice functionality has been freshened up and moved to the template settings page. The options in the advice functionality offer additional explanations and the interface is now more user friendly.
• Improved: The legend has been removed in the modal of creating an activity, added better explanation to the types. 
• Added: Reflection activity
• Added: Expanding the condition (after activity "X" is completed with result "X") with the attendance score of events. This condition can now also be triggered by the attendance score of an event activity.

Admin

• Improved: Previously, an administrator also needed the permission for the groups overview to manage learner groups, which is no longer the case.
• Added: learner groups can be linked to instructors within a course. 
• Added: LTI ID on the settings page of the course
  
  

Instructor

• Added: Instructors can filter on their learner groups in new messages, via the filter. 
• Improved: The instructor dashboard

Communication

• Added: An announcement can be send to multiple courses at once.

Catalogue

• Removed: The 'free' label and 0 dollar in free products. From now on, products will only have a price indication if they actually have a price.

Student

• Added: learners are now able to adjust submitted (video) hand-in assignments, provided that the learner is responsible for completing the activity.

March 2020 - release 84

Events

• Added: New assessment type 'Attendance' to assess the learners with 'Present' or 'Absent'. 
• Added: Limit unenrollment option. Learners can only unenroll before the set time period. After the set time period, learners are unable to unenroll.

Create content

• Added: You can now add Hihaho videos as content type in the plus editor.

Templates

• Improved: When creating a template you don't have to choose a type anymore. Choose the purpose of the template and the functionalities you want to use.
• Added: New option in template settings: learners receive e-mail notifications of all discussions, regardless if they participate in the discussions.

Admin

• Added: Add one or more learner groups to a course, even when the course already exist.
  
  
• Tab learners at the settings of a course: 
  • Improved: Design of the learner list. 
  • Added: Add learners to one or more groups. Groups will be shown in the learner list. 
  • Added: Search on learner groups
    
    
• Added: Activate and unsubscribe button in the user settings. 

Environment settings

• Added: Notification text of 'External activity and webinar assessed' can now be edited.

PE-Online

• Added: External ID field for PE-Online in template settings

December 2019 - release 83

Learners

• Fixed: Navigating back for extra practise.
• Added: Two-factor authentication (login via mobile app included)

Designer

• Added: A new evaluation activity: Form
• Added: When creating an activity, a tooltip appears on the create button when no activity name has been filled in yet.

Catalogue

• Added: Opt-in checkbox for demo products

Tenant

• Improved: Returned tooltip when purchasing licenses back to the correct height.

November 2019 - release 82

Learners

• Changed: Moved collapse/expand icon to the left of the activity title when an activity has sections.
• Added: Extra space between 'Reply' and 'Reply to all' buttons in the communication centre.
• Changed: Popup at end of activity will now always show the 'Back to overview' button.

Instructor

• Added: When replying to a message, you can also open the previous message in the popup.

Designer

• Added: Change styling of learning journey to for example create a knowledge base instead of linear learning journey. This setting:
  • Hides the learning journey timeline.
  • Shows blocks ans activity more compact.
• Added: Only allow learners to go back to overview at end of activity.
• Improved: Optimised the table under the Content tab of a template. Only the data of expanded folders will be loaded to improve loading times of large content libraries.
• Improved: Search feature allows searching content by ID when selecting existing content to use in the template.
• Changed: The focus stays on a block after creating or editing the block.
• Added: Filter tags when selecting content for an activity.

Author

• Improved: Renewed the table under the Content tab.
• Added: Screenreading service ReadSpeaker: Select more languages for the content library so this can be used for ReadSpeaker.
• Fixed: Fill-in-the-blanks question don't allow creation of questions without a 'blank'.
• Tags:
  • Added: Create tags and apply them to content libraries, questions and content parts. An administrator can set the permissions in the tag collection.
  • Added: Filter on (multiple) tag(s)

Administrator

• Tags:
  • Added: Set permissions for authors to access a tag collection.
  • Added: Set permissions per user to use and/or manage a tag collection.
  • Added: Rename a tag collection.
  • Added: Link tag collections at the user data. This is only possible if the user has at least one of these roles: designer, author, administrator or reseller. The administrator that wants to change these settings needs administration rights for tag collections.

Catalogue

• Fixed: Renewed integration with Stripe API to keep it working.
• Editing a product:
  • Fixed: 'Gross' and 'Nett' terms have been swapped
  • Added: '%' at VAT/GST

Events

• Fixed: Breadcrumb navigation at 'Events'.

Settings

• Changed: An email notification will not be sent anymore if the content is empty.

General

• Changed: Communication centre back-end: Replaced the text in the buttons 'Archive', 'Mark as read' and 'Mark as unread' with icons.

August 2019 - release 81

Learner

• Notes feature
  • Create and edit notes at each activity
  • Create bookmarks within notes
    • Bookmark automatically created when new note is created
  • Create notes in app
• After completing activity, now two separate buttons to navigate back to overview or go to next activity, based on advice
• In group message, learner can now reply to both all as to sender
• When navigating from activity, back to overview the learner will be directed to the specific activity in his overview (anchor added)

Designer

• Able to add score to assessment, without having to select a threshold. This makes it possible to show a score without passed/failed
• Warning message improved when you base score on criteria, but no criteria are set
• Designer (with author rights) can now easily edit content, directly when testing template using the new 'edit' icon
• Able to create and apply tags to templates if admin has added designer to tag collection

Author

• Possible to add url/link to hotspot (entire image) at an image

Administrator

• Tags
  • Can create multiple tag collections, and delete those that are not in use
  • Can determine access to tag collections for admins, designers and resellers
  • Create multiple tags and apply tags
    • Add name
    • Add color
  • Edit existing tags
  • Delete tags, also when in use
    • Show warning message when deleting
  • Filter on multiple tags
  • See which tags are in use
• 'Settings' button changed to 'Learners'. Will navigate straight to learner tab at a course
• Settings now located at 'more' dropdown menu

Reseller

• Able to create and apply tags to templates and courses if admin has added reseller to tag collection

App

• Notes added to app
• Added icons at activities now visible in app

Reports

• 'Select all' option at courses added when running report

Tenant

• Able to edit 'Multiple answers possible' sentence in the look & feel settings, at questions (description).
• Able to edit 'Forgot password' notification, also name of learner is automatically embedded in this notification

June 2019 - release 80

Learner

• Search function enhanced for learners on home page:
  • Searches on block name, activity name and section name.
  • By clicking on search result, learner will be navigated to requested information (block to block, activity to activity and section to section).
  • Learner can directly navigate back to search result.

Designer

• Now possible to add the following conditions at activities and/or blocks:
  • Until "X" period has passed after completing activity "X"
  • Until "X" period has passed after completing block "X"
  • Until a retention of "X"% is reached

Administrator

• Option added at managing events, at activity tab at course.
  • Enroll learners directly to the event when they start with the course.

App

• Search function added to the (custom) aNewSpring app(s).

Miscellaneous

• LTI provider tools: optional to receive progress instead of score.
• External ID added to content libraries
• API-calls added in which you can (un)link designers and authors to content libraries:
  • POST /linkAuthorToContentLabels/{userID}/
  • POST /linkDesignerToContentLabels/{userID}/
  • POST /unlinkAuthorFromContentLabels/{userID}/
  • POST /unlinkDesignerFromContentLabels/{userID}/
• Submanagement
  • (Un)link subenvironments from look & feels.
  • Filter on subenvironments at look & feels.
  • Automatically link new look & feels to active subenvironments and unlink all subenvironments that are linked to look & feels, to which you have access as (sub)tenant admin rights.

Release 78 and 79 -> aNewSpring for Trainers

December 2018 - release 77

Instructor

• The instructor overview page is renewed:
  • New interface
  • Name of the course is now clickable
  • Latest search query and amount of courses are remembered on the page
  • Sorting now works across all pages that list courses, instead of a single page
  • New filter button to filter on favorite / non favorite courses
• Shadowing courses has been adjusted:
  • Starting and continuing with shadowing via instructor page has been changed
  • Stop with shadowing now within the shadowed course
• Assessing has been optimized:
  • The assessment modal has been updated with new elements:
    • Light score containers
    • responsive behaviour
    • 'Assess and next' button
  • The drop-down for scoring has been replaced with a score spinner. This spinner works as following:
    • Manually add score
    • Scrolling with mouse wheel
    • Using the keyboard arrow
    • Clicking on the 'up' and 'down' buttons in the spinner
    • Better validation check
  • Possibility to adjust score and feedback of:
    • Essay questions
    • (video) hand-in assignment
    • External activities
    • Webinars
  • Possibility to add attachments to assessments of webinars and external activities. This can also be added or changed when reassessing.

Designer

• Check box added to the following activities to indicate if these are reassessable (checked by default):
  • Essay questions in lessons, assignments and assessments
  • (video) hand-in assignments
  • External activities
  • Webinars
• You can now add and description at an external and webinar activity

Author

• Readspeaker Doc reader added. Only when ReadSpeaker is enabled.

Learner

• Possibility to change assessor of (video) hand-in assignment when it is handed-in. Only available before assessing.
• Receive a notification when an assignment has been reassessed.

September 2018 - release 76

Learner

• New editor (The CKEditor 4)

Author

• New editor (The CKEditor 4)
  • Some editors are changed to an in-line version to save extra clicks, such as answers and feedback
• Content part - Made more clear that title is optional
  
  

Designer

• Activity - Able to add and hide content in published state:
  • Lesson
• Activity - If content is added/hidden at activity, a warning with confirmation option appears
• Activity - Able to change the order of pages in published state:
  • Assignment
  • Lesson
  • Evaluation (360 feedback, Scan and Inquiry)
• Activity - Merge the random assessment into the assessment activity
  • Works the same but now in single activity type
  • Able to create an assessment with random question but without exam terms
• Activity - Content parts are still visible after completing an evaluation type activity
• Page structure is added to the evaluation activities
• Template settings - ‘Hide new activities and blocks’ setting is off by default
• Template testing - Changing the stop testing link to a button to make it more clear
• Add beta flag on video hand-in assignment
  
  

Tenant

• Text - Change text of purchasing license
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Add a loading page when the new environment is being created, instead of a empty white page

September 2018 - bonus release

• Video hand-in assignment

June 2018 - release 75

Learner

• Added portfolio functionality.

Instructor

• Optimized the previous and next button for the assess learner flow.

Designer

• 'Course completed activity' and 'Base course grade on' editable after the template is published.
• Template notifications - if the 'course completing activity' is completed, the user will not receive template notifications.
• Cleaning up text and the order of the conditions.
• Added new conditions for activities and blocks:
  • Activity / block is available 'x' 'time' after activity / block 'y' is completed.
  • Activity / block is available until 'x' 'time' after activity / block 'y' is completed.

Administrator

• From now on admins can never change their own administrator permissions.
• New admin permission: Log in as other administrators.
• Warning text change (when removing a course from a learner)

May (8th) 2018 - release 74

Learner

• Now possible to view the privacy statement you have added to the platform when an user logs in or when an account is being created.
  
  

Designer

• Now able to add notifications per template, which are send based on conditions you have set.

Instructor

• Instructor can now view per learner what needs to be assessed, not just by activity. This makes it easy for an instructor to view all work that has been handed-in by the learner and view it again later as well.

Tenant

• Now able to add a privacy statement to each (sub)environment, per language.
• HTST option at the HTTPS options at advanced settings.

Miscellaneous

• 'Privacy by default'. Only the first name, 'middle name', last name, e-mail address and password are visible by default at new (sub)environments).
• Navigation enhanced: consistency within the platform navigation with new 'header' and bread crumbs.
• API-calls getStudentTeachers and getTeacherStudents added.
• All users that are added to aNewSpring, via any entrance save API, will now be linked to their respective subenvironment (only for sub admin management).
• LTI configuration: link added if a custom paramater is not available

March 2018 - release 73

Learner

Designer

• Drag & Drop activities, blocks and widgets
• Activities no longer need unique names.
• Main 'courses' tab renamed to 'Templates', including all text related to 'templates'.
• 'Course content' renamed to 'Content'.
• 'To do' renamed to 'Blocks & Activities'.
• Events are no longer linked to event activities (see below)

Administrator

• Manage administrator rights:
  - Subscribe learners.
  - Create and manage courses
  - Manage existing events in courses
  - Create and manage content libraries
  - View user overview
  - Create users and manage personal data
  - Manage roles
  - Manage groups
  - Create and manage events
  - Create and manage reports
• Events are added to courses by administrator
• When you remove learners in a user group, you now get the following options:
  - Only remove from group.
  - Remove from group and make courses expire.
  - Remove from group, delete subscriptions and results.
• When you import users via Excel, you can now directly link them to a subenvironment.

Tenant

• Notifications on free products made adjustable.

Miscellaneous 

• At the reporting engine you can now add:
  - Template name and title.
  - Block name.
  - 'Course completing activity'; the score, status and date of completion.
  - 'Base course grade on'; the score, status and date of completion.

December 2017 - release 72

Learner

• Login screens changed. Login box and access code box seperated
• Login flow for learner improved (create account)
• Learner sees orange status at feedback questions, if threshold is set for question and not all correct answers have been given
• Documentation activity always shows table of contents when opened
• Hand-in button hand-in assignment placed under assignment description
• Hand-in button hand-in assignment now visible and disabled, when there is no instructor linked to a course yet
• QR code option visible in the custom apps and MemoTrainer app
• When the learner creates an account, it is now more clear what information might be missing
• Keyboard shortcuts (Bold, underline and italic) are prevented in the Fill in the blank questions

Author

• Add threshold to question types: multiple choice, fill in the blanks - text, fill in the blanks - drag & drop and matching

Designer

• Add exam terms to questions which have been linked to templates, but do not yet have an exam term
• Make external activity available in personal learner advice (optional)
• Create QR code specific for activity. Scan this code in the MemoTrainer or custom app to go directly to that activity
• The announcement widget is removed (had no function any more)

Instructor

• Export of certificates: if certificate acquired you now see 'yes' instead of '...'

Administrator

• When importing users via Excel, force password change when user logs in for the first time

Reseller

• When updating a catalogue product, remain on the same page instead of navigating back to overview

Miscellaneous 

• When reporting on learner groups, the reporting engine only shows courses related to that learners groups
• Able to select certificate code in certificate type of reports
• Force password change via addUser/updateUser calls in our API
• Block name shown in getResults via API
• Changes have been made to improve performance on the course overview and content overview pages, due to increased usage of these pages
• Tenants can make an export of the balance-mutations with the filtered selection

October (25th) 2017 - release 71

Author

• Combined evaluation and knowledge content libraries, no knows as 'content libraries'
• 'Item' renamed to 'Question'
• Able to use '?' in question names
• Relink the links to other content parts in content part/question to newly copied content part/question

• Activity content tab and Sequence and section tab are combined into one tab

August (23rd) 2017 - release 70

Author

• When creating a new question the default location is the root of the content library.

Designer

• At activity content, now choose content via 'Select content' button.
• Change sequence and sections in all published activities,
• Change everything within a published documentation activity.
• At random assessments now able to:
  - Make a new attempt only possible after previous attempt has been failed.
  - Show the highest score of all attempts or score of last attempt.
• When copying a template, select which content libraries should also be copied instead of copying all content libraries by default.
• When creating a new template, directly create a content library or select a multiple existing content libraries.

General

• Help button on 'learner side' now always points to studentsupport.anewspring.com (unless changed). The help button on back-end side refers to help selected for Instructors.
• Contact button hidden at catalogue product page when catalogue manager is not selected.
• Sound of background video on login screen muted.
• Scroll bar added to list of learning journeys of student (+10 learning journeys).
• Text changed when a SCORM activity is not finished and student goes back to overview.
• List items in checklist are now more readable because of a darker grey color.
• Extern ID added to balance-mutations on settings page

June 2017 - release 69

        Instructor

• Event tab added to overview. 
• Instructor can check events and assess learners.

       Designer

• Can add Events to learning journey

       Administrator

• Access to 'Event' tab.

April 2017 - release 68

       Instructor 

• External activity - Able to add explanation when grading.

December 2016

       Student

• With only a single instructor linked in a course, it is no longer needed to choose an addressee when sending a message.
• Introduction text Drag & Drop question altered.
• Introduction text forgot password adjusted.
• Content viewer: added an arrow to indicate that their is more information below.

       Instructor

• Optimizations for creating calendar item.
• Reset button added when sorting statistics of a student as an instructor.

       Mentor

• Icons that are only available for instructors, are no longer visible for a mentor to prevent any confusion.

       Author

• Possibility to upload video’s in our own video player.
  
  

       Designer

• Explanation added why a template cannot be removed.
• Enable/disable the share tab.

       Administrator

• Sorting on renewal page optimized.

       Tenant

• Customizable help button for instructors
  
  

       General improvements

• Back-end logo has same padding on each back-end page. 

Oktober 2016

       Administrator

• Add layering in student groups
• Interaction and design of 'Groups' page now consistent with the rest of the aNewSpring platform.
• Group names no longer have to be unique
• In the column 'Groups' when importing users, you know have to add an External ID instead of the group name.
  
  

April 2016

       Student

• 'Personal settings' adjusted to 'Account settings'. 
• 'Sender' becomes 'Recipients' at sent messages in communication centre. 
• Overview of obtained certificates with possible expire date.  

       Designer

• A page remembers your preference of the amount of results you would like to see. 
• Add content parts to evaluation activities.  
• Adaptive blocks are made better visible in the learning journey.  
• Testing activities separately.  
• Certificate expiry date and certificate overview.  
• Possible to rename learning objectives and sections after publication of template.

February 2016

       General improvements

• Back-end look & feel optimizations; modern, consistent, usability and future proof.
• Back-end menu structure optimization.

January 2016

       New MemoTrainer app:

• Supporting plus editor content. 
• Walk through the whole learning journey in the app.
• Hand-in assignment.
• Discussions (only in activities).

September 2015

      General improvements

• Support button has been moved to the right and the support articles can be consulted directly. 
• New back-end users get an explanation of features at main pages.
• Style back-end navigation has been updated.
• Design of pop-ups improved. 
• Optimizations for input fields and check boxes.

       Student

• Look & feel consistent in the interface.
• Optimization for assessing essay questions.
• Feedback form 360 optimized.

       Designer

• When modifying an activity you will now come directly at the tab 'Activity content'.

August 2015

       Student

• Possibility to add more then one file in message.
• Messages will be shown in thread structure.
• Optimizations for adding comments. 
• Index is moved to the drop-down menu at the left of the screen.
• No index will be shown by one content page. 
• Look & Feel optimizations in course part player. 
• Optimizations of profile page. 

       Author

• Google Docs integration

       Designer

• Possibility to set up a look & feel at the template. 

       Administrator

• Adding a title to a course (only visible for students).
• Possibility to sort the course tiles at home by:

1. Title
2. Last active (standard)
3. Last active course on first place, others by name
4. Name

July 2015

       Student

• New design (modern, touch friendly and responsive) of the following screens 

1. Login page. 
2. Home.
3. Catalogue.
4. Course overview with Learning Journey.
5. Results overview.
6. Learning objectives overview more integrated in the learning journey. 
7. Widgets are expandable.
8. Communication centre and notifications.
9. Discussions.
10. Memotraining settings.

• Progress learning objectives update after completing an activity. 
• Ability to add the estimated duration of an activity. 
• Added German language. 

March 2015

       Student

• Progress on learning objectives visible after completion activity. 
• On a test with timelimit a pop-up to prepare participants hereon. (text will be hidden if the designer mentioned something in ‘explanation before start activity’).

       Author

• Whole image can be set as a hotspot. 
• "A, B, C ' in front of the possible answers have an off option.

       Designer

• Improvements hand-in assignment and external activity: 
• Assessment add. 
• Learning objectives can link to evaluation. 
• Final grade calculate on the basis of the evaluation criteria.

       Administrator

• Enroll students in existing students groups.

February 2015

       Student

• Go through content touch friendly. 
• The following improvements are made in the content screens within activities: 
• Display questions and content parts 
• Responsive design. 
• Display of discussion pages. 
• View "More information" pages. 
• Ask instructor. 
• suggestion at the end of the activity. 
• Display of progress at the end of the activity. 
• Results pages.

       Designer

• The selection of a customized content part in the document widget. 
• MemoTraining settings (adjustment only valid for new registrations): 

1. Feedback type (adjustment is made in the “Course”). 
2. Section titles