QMplus known issues – December Release 2020

Issues fixed in this release

• Assignments displaying as late in the assessment information block
  Issue: Students are seeing assignments displayed as late, when the due date has not passed. Occurs for students only.
  Status: This has been resolved and will be applied with the December release.
• Intermittent issue with backing up and restoring quizzes
  Issue: problems when backing up and restoring quizzes
  Status: Requires an update to the version of Moodle (to version 3.8.5). Requires an outage to QMplus and will be applied with the December release.
• Anonymous posting to forums
  Issue: The anonymous posting option is not available.
  Status: The Open Advanced forum will be installed as an alternative forum option, as it offers anonymous forum posting.
• Privacy issue with group posts on forums
  Issue: In some cases users can click through on the forum posts and see participant details
  Status: Student permission changes required. This will be applied with the December release.
• Timetable link not working for staff
  Issue: The timetable link is not working for staff.
  Status: Updates are required in the Timetable system Scientia and the QMplus script will need to be updated after. Planned for next release. This will be applied with the December release.
• Assignment badges:
  Issue: Badges that provide information under assignments do not show the correct number of submissions due when group submissions settings are in use.
  Status: This has been resolved. Also Information about restrictions will now be displayed above the assignment due date. This will be applied with the December release.
• Unenrolment of suspended users:
  Issue: Suspended SITS enrolments cannot be unenrolled.
  Status: This has now been resolved through bulk unenrolment and will be applied with the December release.

New features

• Group Members – Add this resource to QMplus areas to allow students to see which groups they are a member of.
• Bulk download of quiz attachments – Allows the bulk download of attachments which have been submitted to essay type questions in quizzes.

Outstanding issues

Issues and plugin requests which are still being worked on:

• Gradebook times out
  Issue: Intermittent issue occurs for administrators.
  Status: Requires further investigation
• Numbas – Further development and testing required.
• Coderunner – Further development and testing required. Expected to be available in January.
• My Feedback – Further development and testing required.
• Heatmap – Further development and testing required.