iQualify updates

Checklists help new users get started with iQualify!
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These role-specific guides provide step-by-step onboarding, helpful resources, videos, and tips to help users learn the features most relevant to them.
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Existing users can also complete Checklists to discover features and functionality they may not have explored before.
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We encourage all users to complete their Checklist and organisations to promote them as part of their onboarding process.
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Learn more in the Onboarding new users in iQualify help article.

We’ve released some work to help you manage your Talk messages!

• See at a glance messages that are still unread: filter to only see your unread messages in public channels.

• Come back to them later: mark as unread to come back to a message later.

• Need to start fresh: mark all your messages as read in one go.

• Clarity for what is unread: likes on a message will no longer trigger the unread indicator (green dot).

Get an overview of Talk in iQualify for learners.

We’ve released some work to help you manage your talk messages!

• See at a glance messages that are still to read, filter to only see your unread messages in public channels.

• Messages in private channels, filter by and see how many unanswered messages there are awaiting replies.

• Come back to them later, mark as unread to come back to a message later.

• Need to start fresh, mark all your messages as read in one go.

• Clarity for what is unread, likes on a message will no longer trigger the unread indicator (green dot).

And just a quick note on Private Talk channels and how the unanswered filter and counter now work. In the past the counter for this filter, only showed the unread messages on your current view, now the counter shows all unanswered messages, for this reason (and as a one off) all unanswered private talk messages older than a year will no longer be marked as unanswered.

Find out more information on Talk in iQualify.

• Learners now have a consistent view of submissions and past attempts for multi choice tasks, both views show which the learner got correct, incorrect and which answers they should have chosen as correct.
• If a page has been removed from a course, and a learner tries to access it, they will be redirected to the course contents page.
• Improvements to create consistent behaviour making sure that talk channel subscription options apply and stick.
• Improvements to allow seamless uninterrupted flow for learners submitting file upload tasks in case of outages.
• Fix to stop view jumping when trying to edit a large Talk message.
• Fix to the quiz task counter to increase as expected when the quiz has a strict timer applied.
• Improved accessibility for inline references.

Assessment locking improvements:

• Facilitators/coaches are now able to see the lock status for learner tasks.
• Facilitators/coaches can manually unlock an task for a specific learner via the class console.
• If authors update the assessment unlocking condition, existing learner submissions will have the locking condition applied.

We’ve improved how assessment opening conditions behave when authors make changes.

When authors update opening conditions and republish, assessments open automatically for learners who now meet the criteria the next time they access the course.

From the Class console, facilitators and coaches can also unlock assessments for individual learners, making it easier to step in when support is needed.

Learn more about what happens when you make changes to opening conditions, or how to view and manage them from the Class console.

• Feature release - authors can set assessment opening conditions. Alongside opening dates, score-based conditions can be used to open other assessed tasks. Find out more.
• Security improvements to SAML encryption for SSO (Single Sign On)

• You can now edit you own talk or end-of-page discussion posts.
• Talk post titles have been reinstated.
• Better prompting to avoid loosing posts if you navigate away before saving.
• Fix, posters are no longer redirected to the top of the page when pressing reply on an end-or-page discussion.

What's new

Authors now have more control over when learners can access assessed tasks and quizzes, supporting clearer sequencing and helping ensure learners are prepared.

Alongside opening dates, you can set score-based conditions so learners unlock assessments only after achieving a minimum score on an earlier task or quiz.

First release

For this first release, if you make changes to opening conditions and republish, those changes will flow to class activations.

Please note that in some cases, assessments may remain or become locked for certain learners. We recommend using sandpit courses to explore and test this behaviour.
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Coming soon

In our second release, enhancements will include automatically opening assessments for learners who meet updated conditions on republish, as well as enabling facilitators and coaches to unlock individual learners’ assessments directly from the Class console.

Learn more about assessment opening conditions and how they can help structure your course, or reach out if you’d like help getting started.

• Security update: SVG files unavailable for upload with the exception of badges.
• Updates and improvements to the Te Reo Māori language option.
• Security improvments to SSO (Single Sign On).

Edit your posts without starting again
Made a typo or missed something? You no longer need to delete your whole post. For end‑of‑page discussions and Talk channels, select the three dots on the right of your post and Edit.

Titles are back
We heard your feedback — titles are a key part of Talk channels. You can now add a title to Talk posts, and we’ve added previous titles back in.

Avoid losing work
If you try to navigate away before sending your message, you’ll now see a prompt so you don’t lose your work.

Find more in Overview of Talk Channels.