Changes log | Enlight Help Center

Quick links: A list of the most important recent updates/ feature enhancements you may really want to know about:

14th December 2024

General fixes to stability of the system.
Fix issue where it was not possible to browse the server of prior images when trying to replace an image in an existing reference article.

Allow students to more easily see all answers they have submitted and all instructor responses to those answers for a given course step
- See: Showing students their prior answers and instructor feedback

Improvements to the unread student messages email alerts sent to managers and instructors, including improved 'unsubscribe' options.
- See: Subscribing to student activity emails

Optionally collection student employer company name on student sign-up
- Force the collection of employer/company name on student sign-up and allow or not student editing of this field later
- See: Collecting the student's "associated company" (employer) name

Extended staff and student avatar features with direct file upload options now available
- Previously avatars were only available for those with a Gravatar account and were not heavily used. With changes including allowing direct image file uploads instead, this may make it more usable.
- See: What, avatars now too? Crikey!

Prevent students from re-enrolling in courses they have already done
- By default Enlight allows students to re-enroll in courses after they have finished them. But you have the option now to disable this either for all your courses, or on a course-by-course basis.
- See: Allow or prevent students from repeating courses

Renew enrollments
- Moved the "renew enrollment" link
- See: Where has the renew enrollment option gone?

Creating and editing course steps
- These update improve the creating and editing of course steps, especially with regards to Library Items
- See: Updates to creating and editing a course step

Manual course completion status setting
- This feature existed previously but was lost and has now been returned.
- See Manually completing and reverting completions

Sort by progress (steps to be done/completed)
- You can now sort the Enrollments page list by how close a student is to finishing their course. 😀
- See: Managing Student Enrollments - Progress sorting

Enhancements to Enrollment (and Marking) list view screens
- Additional filtering and options - see Managing Student Enrollments
- Date filtering sort option fixed - see Managing Student Enrollments - Date filtering
- The "To be Marked" screen now uses the "Enrollment" screen for better instructor usage - see "To be Marked" screen changed to use the "Enrollment" screen

Update to "Final Checkpoint" management options
- New options for instructors to manage the "Final Checkpoint" on courses. This is to allow immediate completion and certification after final marking done (without having to wait for student to clear the final checkpoint)
- See Final section - override options

Updates to "Enrollments" page date filtering - including now with sorting
- Added:
  - Sorts based on the date filter selected - with option to sort ascending or descending
  - "Last seen" date filter
  - "Last step" date item (date shown but not filterable)
- See the updated "Date filters" section in Managing Student Enrollments for full details

Updates to "Enrollments" page filtering options
- Added:
  - New date filtering options
  - New date column with date details of enrollment start, updates, completion, etc.
- See Managing Student Enrollments for full details

Updates to "Chat" send functionality
- Added:
  - Option - for both instructors and students - to use <enter> key to send (as current) chat messages or instead for "new line" for multi-line chat messages.
  - Default organisation-wide setting option
- See:
  - Tip: Chat sending options
  - Tip for students: Chat sending options

Further updates to "Notifications"
- Added:
  - An "Unread" feature to allow notifications marked as read to be set to "unread" (for if you made a mistake marking a message as read, or want to mark it as "unread" to remind you to come back to it later). See last item on: Managing Notifications - The Notifications Page
  - A "Mark as read" override feature to allow marking other instructors messages as read. See: Managing Notifications - Allowing other instructors to "Mark All As Read"

Notifications management updates and enhancements
- Added:
  - Notification alerts for instructors on the dashboard and enrollment pages. See: Managing Notifications - Notification Alerts for Instructors
  - New filtering menu and options on the Notifications page. See: Managing Notifications - The Notifications Page

View links for student certificates:
- Updated:
  - Provided an option to make student certificates viewable by anyone with the link, not requiring and Enlight log to see the certificate. See: (documentation to be provided soon)