Absorb 5: Release Notes 5.64

This release is planned for deployment on October 7, 2018.
Please note: all features listed here are subject to change prior to deployment. Releases are deployed at 10:00 AM Mountain Time. Users may experience errors or be logged out of their session when using the LMS at that time.

Admin,

Learner

Edit/Hide Learner Profile/ Change Password (New Learner Experience)

Administrators will now be able to control a learners ability to edit their profile information or change their passwords. 

Admin,

Learner

Dashboard Tiles (New Learner Experience)

Administrators will now be able to customize learner dashboard tile's icon colour, text colour, and background colour on a tile per tile basis for a more customized dashboard experience. 

Admin,

Learner

User Provisioning for SAML Single Sign-On (New Learner Experience)

Absorb will be adding the option upon setting up your SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) to allow users to be automatically created in the LMS when they attempt to authenticate if they do not already exist.  When enabled, Absorb will create users based on attribute information included in the SAML response from the Identity Provider (IdP). 

When leveraging user provisioning to create new users in the LMS, any default or custom profile field can be set for user by including a standard 'schema-less' attribute statement included in the SAML response. Complex lookups for these fields are also supported, including:

• Department
• Supervisor
• Country and Province
• Language

Admin,

Learner

Course Upload Improvements (New Learner Experience)

• Increased the default upload size to 10MB
• An approved/denied email notification will now be sent to a learner when their course upload submission has been approved or denied by an administrator
• Virus File Scanning will now occur on all files submitted via a course upload. Any file deemed as malicious will be marked as rejected and locked down (unable to be opened or downloaded). The File Scanning process doesn't affect learner progres; complete/denied status will still be granted upon approval or denial and files may still replaced prior to being marked complete.

Admin,

Learner

External Training Improvements (New Learner Experience):

• An approved/denied email notification will now be sent to a learner when their external training submission has been approved or denied by an administrator

Learner

Search Bar Improvements (New Learner Experience)

The search bar will now remain open on the top of the search page. When navigating to another page the search term will be automatically cleared. The X in the search bar has been removed and clicking anywhere on page will close the search bar.

Admin

Edit Curriculum Enrollment Expiry Date

The Expiry Date field shown on a users transcript page for a curriculum will now mirror the functionality of our Course enrollment Expiry Date. Admins will be able to edit a users curriculum expiry to extend access to the curriculum and the courses inside of it. Any changes made to the users Curriculum Expiry Date will automatically cascade down into the courses enrollments as well. 

Admin

Transaction Report- New Columns

• The transaction report will now have a "Cart Item" column that shows the name of the purchased course or "multiple" if more than one course was purchased at the time of the users transaction.
• The transaction report will now have a "Learner Department" column that allows admin to filter the transaction report by department.