June 27, 2024

Overview

This document may change as the release approaches.

This release, we are bringing you updates to the Math Checker and Module List tools to help you better access suggestions after making changes and styling your lists respectively.

We've also addressed several bugs customers reported and a few we found in our own bug hunts.

Summer School Is On Demand

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We had 5 live sessions led by our very own Juli Van Dorn; she's so amazing that she made all of the trainings available On Demand for educators that weren't attend all the sessions.

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These sessions help new instructors get started with DesignPLUS, elevate content, build templates, explore all the tools, and even use course-level customizations. Summer School is a great way to get started or quickly up-skill before the semester starts.

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New Features

There are no new features being released this week.

Updated or Modified Features

Math Checker

This update allows users to dismiss errors and review and use suggested alt text in the Math Checker tool, even after manually updating the alt text for equations.

Even after updating the alt text for an equation, users can now select Show Alt Suggestion for further review.

After showing the suggestions, users may opt to use the suggestion or hide the suggestion again.

Module List Style

A new Button List style has been added to the Module List tool, and we added text alignment controls for the links within a Module List.

Add a Module List, choose the new style, and begin customizing your colors and columns.

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

Columns

This update corrects an issue in which some items in the Sidebar, such as sortable controls, would lose focus when the Sidebar re-rendered.

Keyboard Controls: Skip to Footer

We have added the ability for keyboard-accessible elements to jump to the Sidebar footer and to return to the main navigation from the footer.

Accordions, Expanders, Tabs

Duplicating Panels

We've improved the duplicate function for Accordion and Expander panels so that any styles applied to the panel heading are now included in the duplicated panel.

Preview File Inline within Tabs

We also resolved an issue where file previews were not working when the links were contained within Tabs.

Banner Images

When choosing a Banner Image from the Image tool options, the inserted image now has alt text set to the same alt text used in the [Banner Images] source page, or is makes as decorative using role="presentation" if no alt text is present.

This gives institutions the ability to set Banner Image alt text from the Customizations course and know that when users add that image to their page(s), the alt text is there, too.

Content Blocks

When setting a Category for a Content Block in the Customizations course, users can now seamlessly include special characters without impacting the Sidebar. This is also true for Objective Groups and Template Sub-Categories.

Policies

This update fixes a bug with the Policy tool that required users to click away from a newly added policy placeholder and back into it or reload the page altogether in order to insert a policy. Now, the tool will auto-select the placeholder so that users can insert their desired policy as needed.