Winter Release 

December 2020

BlueVolt’ s 2020 Winter Release is packed with updates to Embedded Analytics, the Sharing Center, and KnowledgeBumps.  Here is a quick synopsis of what’s in this release. Links to various Knowledgebase articles are provided to learn more about the updates to each of these features.

 

Embedded Analytics:  Learn more here

BlueVolt comes with a robust analytics suite. The core offering provides dashboards that give you board-ready insights into the aggregated performance of your training program.  

Upgrading to the Executive level offers advanced data modeling capabilities, along with the ability to author and save your own custom dashboards. 

 

Sharing Center: Learn more here

• Sell Courses via the BlueVolt Sharing center: You can earn revenue on the courses you want to sell via the BlueVolt Sharing Center. Admins of other universities can then purchase enrollments and set the course up in their university.

• Sharing Center Notification Filters: The ability to filter notifications on the Sharing Center has been added so that admins may more quickly find the necessary notifications to act upon. You may now filter via Notification Types or choose to show only notifications with a status of Pending/Needs Approval.

• Sharing Center Course Catalog Company Name: Your BlueVolt customer success manager may add a company name to the setup for your university. When this information has been added it will display on the Sharing Center Course Catalog filter panel under the publisher section. The display shows: Company Name – University Name – University ID. (See example of BlueVolt – BluePort – 3246 in the screenshot provided.)

• Admins can see BlueVolt Link™ partners: Admins of universities with the option of “Allow Sharing to Link Customers” (must be enabled by your BlueVolt customer success manager) will now see BlueVolt Link™ next to the names of partners with an external LMS that you may want to share your courses with. You will also see these partners with this designation while in the Sharing wizard and also on the Courses I’m Sharing – Group by Subscriber page.

 

KnowledgeBumps™: Learn more here

• Choose Hours for a KnowledgeBump™: In addition to days, months, weeks – admins will now be able to select Hours for the delivery of a KnowledgeBump™.
• KnowledgeBump™ Notifications: When a KnowledgeBump is delivered to learner (via text or email or both), a learner side notification with link to the KnowledgeBump is also sent.
  
  
• KnowledgeBump™ Learner Privacy Settings: Admin Can Change Communication Preferences for KnowledgeBumps. This enables the learner to choose if they want to receive texts for KnowledgeBump™ delivery.
  

Flash Course Inactivation

To support the upcoming Flash retirement at the end of December 2020, all courses in the platform with Flash modules are marked as inactive. These courses are still accessible to admins in your uni. They may update the course and reactivate as needed. Please contact your BlueVolt customer success manager if you have any questions.

 

Bug fixes:

• Updated missing translations for the request permission page for blocked domains. 
• Resolved issue with Flash Audit Report timing out. 
• Fixed issue with old badge images still displaying.
• Resolved issue where some courses didn’t play via Chrome browser. 
• Resolved issue on the Sharing Center where "Next Page" button did not changed between disabled and enabled states when the number of pages changes in the Sharing Center. 

 

Release 11.27

3 September 2020

Bug fixes/changes:

• Updated BlueVolt privacy policy published
• Fixed Shopping Cart so that it checks if promo code applied previously and is still waiting has now expired.
• Changed limit for Group Types to maximum of 30 in a university to prevent issues with the Course Enrollment Totals report. 
• Resolved issue where bad data from Custom Enrollment Field was causing the Course Enrollment Totals report to fail. 
• Resolved issue where video module didn’t launch for learners logged in as “Guest”. 
• Resolved issue where Bulk Upload would fail with unexpected characters represented in Custom Fields. 
• Resolved issue with translated Primary Group name display. 
• Resolved issue Category display didn’t respect display order setting. 
• Resolved issue where learner was unable to access certificate link for re-enrollment course. 
• Resolved issue where video didn’t auto-play with launch as expected. 
• Resolved issue learner was unable to opt-out of re-enrollment course as expected.
• Resolved issue with incorrect data showing for University Google Search 
• Resolved issue in Sharing Center - Course Catalog where filtering with course details open cleared the course catalog
• Resolved issue where switching universities from Sharing Center or Dashboard failed to switch as expected.

Other Development Work

• Logi Installation and API framework.

Summer release

August 2020 

New Features

BlueVolt Sharing Center: The BlueVolt Sharing Center allows you to harness the power of content sharing with new tools and workflows built right into our powerful learning platform. Within minutes, you can share your courses directly with your partners or to our vast network of distributors and associations in the skilled trades.

Click here to learn more about the BlueVolt Sharing Center.

 

KnowledgeBumps™ : You can create a course that, once the learner has completed the core material, additional information may be delivered to learners at the cadence of your choice, via a link in an email or a text message, or both. You can choose from a variety of KnowledgeBump™ experiences.

Click here to learn more about KnowledgeBumps™.

 

File Upload Module type: Administrators can now select specific administrators that should be notified when a learner uploads a file for File Upload module types. Helper text is provide in red to caution the admin to select specific administrators that will have access to the course since course restrictions are set on a different tab of the course editor and can be changed at any time independent of the specific administrators settings.

Vietnamese – New Platform Language: Added Vietnamese as a new platform language

 

Bug fix/Changes:

• Resolved issue where the category sidebar panel did not display categories appropriately because it wasn’t respect the category “depth” set on the category editor page.
• Resolved issue where some courses erroneously displayed the “Contains Flash”  message on the course editor.
• Resolved issue with assessment engine displaying scroll bars at the bottom of the editor when accessing the engine from the Question bank editor. 
• Resolved issue where learners received an error message when attempting to retake a quiz with an essay that had originally been marked as failed. 
• Resolved issue where events displayed in list view but not in the calendar view. 
• Resolved issue with Closed Captioning not working for courses built in Rise. 
• Added Switch uni check to assist with occasional oops error reported by BTAdmin 
• Resolved issue where training track report didn’t include some completions.
• Fixed some grammatical errors on the password reset email. 
• Fixed SSO links in Assessment email. 
• Resolved issue with how OpenSesame’s course length is converted on the course detail page. 
• Fixed issue where very long links displayed incorrectly on the training calendar.
• Resolved issue where Bulk Upload page didn’t respect the checkbox for address checkbox “Check this to update the Address for the Existing Users”. 
• Resolved issue where Bulk Upload page didn’t respect the checkbox for “Check this to add user to new group(s) without removing them from groups they may currently be a member of”. 
• Fixed typo in default Multiple Course Enrollment Email. 

Other development work:

• Remove usage of AWS Root key by the platform and replace with an alternate API key with lower access rights.
• PCI Compliance - Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability - JQuery Upgrade

Release 11.23-11.24

Bug fixes/changes:

• Resolved issue where some Purchase Order emails were not sent as expected. 
• Delete empty groups function repaired to run hourly.
• Removed non-active admins from email for inactivating shared courses.
• Resolved issue so that admins can delete a training track type.
• Resolved issue where admin category sort order lists alphabetically as expected regardless of upper or lower case.
• Resolved issue so that university admin can CC a group admin on a scheduled Course Enrollment Totals report.
• Fixed missing BlueVolt Logo when viewing admin side Dashboard.

Other Development Work

• Sharing Center
• KnowledgeBumps
• Changed Zendcoder to transcode to only MP4 instead of other additional unused file types

Release 11.19-20 (May 13 2020)

New Features/Updates:

New Course Taxonomies:

This new feature will assist with how courses can be filtered in the new BlueVolt Academy.  When an admin is creating a course, they can now indicate Type, Industry and appropriate Job Role(s) that should be associated with the course. These taxonomies can be added under Step 4 Other Settings when editing a course.

Removal of “Remember Me” and Updated Behavior When Closing Window: To improve security, the “Remember Me” checkbox has been removed and when a user closes their browser window(s), the system logs them out.

 

Bug Fixes/Changes:

• Resolved issue where error was received when downloading a BlueBucks report. 
• Resolved issue where existing user invited to uni never received Accept/Deny screen as expected. 
• Resolved issue where course enrollment email link for learners accessing via SSO was incorrectly. 
• Resolved issue where the Flash audit report would time out for some universities with a significant number of courses that contained Flash based modules. 
• Resolved issue where users may experience an error when the address information is not completed even though it isn’t required.
• Changed Czech translation on assessment window per customer request.
• Changed Italian translation on assessment window per customer request.
• Changed Spanish translation on admin course results page per customer request. 
• Change text on Publisher File Upload page from max of 2 gigs to Max of 1 gig. 
• Resolved issue where the links in emails displayed improperly for universities with a custom domain. 

Release 11.18 (April 15 2020)

New Features/Updates:

Feature Update: My Courses Page - Shared Courses: Removed Delete Capability

Previously, a university admin could delete (in addition to inactivating) a course that was shared to their university. Deleting a course that was shared and had enrollments caused the course to no longer be included in reports and was blocked from being re-shared in the future if needed.

Shared courses can still, however, be inactivated so that their learner can no longer find them in the catalog or take the course.

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1.  Admin Side Nav bar –
Training Content Courses
2.  Choose Select All under Category drop down

 

Result: Not that any course that is marked “Shared” also does NOT have an X at the end of the row. (e.g. Shared course can not be deleted.)

 

Bug Fixes/Changes: 

• Resolved issue where university admin wasn’t seeing the Invite Everyone in the Uni email button. 
• Resolved issue where new dashboard wasn’t updated with training track completions. 
• Resolved issue where the assessment editor displayed with scroll bars at the bottom.
• Updated error message when attempting to rate a course that user had not completed to make it clearer. 
• Updated the training calendar header text to respect color defined in Card Title Text color on UI Settings tab.
• Removed Dismiss all link on notification window when there are not any notifications to dismiss. 
• My courses button alignment off when viewing in Italian

Release 11.17 (April 1 2020)

New Features/Updates:

My Courses Page Language Filter:

This feature enables admins to filter the list of courses by the language that has been selected for them. The language dropdown is located on the upper right of the My Courses page list if you have courses that have more than one language applied to them.

My Courses Page: Defaults to Active Courses Only

This My Courses page loads courses currently marked as Active. This change was made to improve loading time of the page, especially when there may be several inactive courses slowing down the load of the page.

 

Bug Fixes/Changes: 

• Resolved issue where the customized Behind Schedule email had issues with certain characters. 
• Resolved error with SSO account verification email. 
• Resolved error when attempting to export Aggregated Assessment report that includes mismatched data. 
• Changed the legacy dashboard so that the timestamp isn’t out of date. 
• Resolved issue with address on registration form being required without the display of “required”. 

Release 11.16 (March 18 2020)

New Features/Updates:

New Feature: Save Dashboard Filter Views 

This feature enables University Admins to filter the dashboard and save the selected filters as a view with a specific time range or a specific group, for example. A saved view can also be set as the default view that initially displays when first loading the new dashboard.  

NOTE: Save Dashboard Filter Views is only available to University Admins. Group and Report Viewer admins do not have this functionality available.   

Read more here in the Dashboard knowledgebase article .

 

Updated Feature: This course contains audio for Sage UI

If an admin chooses to, they can select a check box on Step 2. Display of the course editor that the course contains audio. This information will display for the learner on the course detail page.

 

 

Updated Feature: Autoenrollment link transition page should not show header and should carry email address to registration page 

This feature was redesigned to improve the Autoenrollment experience, especially for new users who are initially signing up for a university.  When a user clicks an autoenrollment link, the initial page will only show a page with the course name and instructions to enter their email address. If the email address doesn’t match that of an existing user in a university and the course is in a public university, then the user will be presented with a registration page where the email they entered on the autoenrollment link page is carried through to the registration page.

 

NOTE: If the course is in a private university and the user doesn’t match an existing account, they will receive an accessed denied page.

 

 

Bug Fixes/Changes:

• Show missing Fee and Course length for courses listed on Training Track detail page 
• Added additional wording about adding lowercase letter in addition to uppercase letter to assist learners with entering correct password configuration on the password reset page. 
• Resolved issue that caused confusion for admin of a university that would see admin link when visiting university they were not an admin of. 
• Fix issue where admin was receiving error when trying to inactivate a user in the university due to bad data. 

Release 11.15 (March 4 2020)

New Features/Updates:  

1. Improve Send Email Invite workflow: 
   This feature is to help admins understand the number of people they are about to send an email invite to. 
   
   1. Search for users to send invite:   On the nav bar, click on Admin Users Learners Add Edit Users  Enter a name in keyword field (e.g. Smith) 
   2. Send email invites to: Everyone in this list:   Click the Everyone in this list button  Click the Send emails button. You should get a popup that  says “Are you sure” and the number of invites should match the number of users in the list.   
      
      
      
      
2. Added Course, Category, and Training Track titles to university name on browser tab:  
   This feature is to improve search engine optimization by appending the name of a course, category or training track to the university name on the window tab.                                                              

   For example: from Volt Land Homepage, you can view a category title by clicking the Supplier Training category block on the home page and then when the category displays you can also see that the category name is appended to the university title on the tab.  
   
   

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3. Changed Country and State drop down fields on Edit Profile and Registration pages:

   This feature has been redesigned to improve the registration and profile edit pages where users struggled with completing the required country and state fields due to the browser autofill popups. The Country and State/Province field now displays as a drop-down list.

    

   

Bug Fixes/Changes: 

• Fixed issue were group admins who reset their password on the Edit user admin page were losing their group admin permissions.
• Fixed issue with Bulk upload not entering state or groups
• Resolved issue where timeout occurred when BTADMIN merged two accounts.  

Release 11.14 (February 19 2020)

New Features/Updates:  

Flash Course Labels: 

In addition to running the Flash Content Audit report, the My Courses page lists courses with Flash based modules and are noted with a red Flash button.  

To visit the All courses page, go to:  Admin Training Content Courses Select All under Category drop down. You can filter the My Courses page by clicking on the More Filters link in the top right and selecting "Yes" under Contains Flash Content. 

When editing a course, the modules section displays a red Flash button for each of the modules that contain Flash.

Bug Fixes/Changes: 

• Resolved issue where some videos modules didn’t respect the Full screen command. 
• Resolved issue where the Pin Code field was locked on the edit Training Track page and thus prevented admin from editing a pin code for the training track. 
• Resolved issue where some learners attempt to redeem $BlueBucks ended in a timeout. 
• Resolved issue where some admins were not redirected to the correct university from the Admin side 
• Resolved issue where Export button the dashboard didn’t download spreadsheet as expected. 
• Resolved issue with a file module in a customer university that displayed error when trying to Preview.

Release 11.13 (January 22 2020)

New Features/Updates:  

• Password Reset – Validate Entry: Per industry standards, the Password Reset form requires that the user enters their password twice and validates that they match.  
• Grade Essay email link: The link in the Grade Essay email to admins now links directly to essay response submitted by the learner instead of the entire list of responses that need to be graded.  

 

Bug Fixes/Changes: 

• Resolved issue where running the admin side transcript for a specific learner resulted in error page. 
• Made improvements to the admin side transcript page where admins sometimes received a gateway timeout when attempting to run a transcript for some learners.
• Made improvements to the new Dashboard Share feature to prevent incorrectly cropped images of the dashboard from being sent via the email.
• Resolved issue with new Dashboard where group changes were not updated in the dashboard. 
• Resolved issue with the new Dashboard filter Search functionality that resulted in the dashboard not applying the selected filter criteria. 
• Updated the Online Transaction Report so that quantity of items purchases is accurately reflected. 
• Additional update to the SalesForce integration package to prevent time out. (Reported by Savant) 
• Training Calendar updated so that the zip code filter doesn’t display if there are not any training events listed that occur in the US. 

Release 11.12 (January 8 2020)

New Features/Updates:

• Recommendation Engine – Manual Selection: The first phase of development for the “Recommendation Engine” introduces a feature where admins can manually select which courses or training tracks they want to choose to display as “Recommended” when learners are viewing specific courses. The default title that displays for this new section on the Course Detail page is “Recommended for You”. This title can be customized by going to: Admin Settings University Text Labels and Description Section: Custom Recommendation title. This customized title can be also be localized to various languages supported in the university.
  
  Up to four training items (courses or tracks) will display for the learner on the Course Detail page. Only courses that are available to the learner will display (e.g. courses that are restricted to a group where learner is not a member will not display.)
  
  Admins can add recommended courses or training tracks under Recommendations in the Display section when editing a course. In addition to what courses or training tracks should display for the learner, the admin can choose when they want them to display on the Course Detail page. Choosing Always will display other recommended training items any time the learner views the Course Detail page. Choosing Only after completion will display the recommended courses only after the course has been marked as completed.

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• Shared Course Data via the Reporting API: The Reporting API endpoint now includes data for courses shared out. E.g. ABC University uses the Reporting API to pull data in to a BI tool or data warehouse and shares courses to XYZ university. Enrollment data for users who enroll in ABC shared courses in XYZ university will now be available to ABC university via the API. This behavior matches how the Course Enrollment Totals Report behaves currently. Note: both the Course Enrollment Totals Report and the Reporting API respect the privacy settings in the university courses are shared to. For example: If XYZ university has chosen to not include PII (Personally Identifiable Information) for their university, then ABC university will see enrollments for each course that a learner in that university enrolls in, but their PII will be represent with dashes (- -).
  
  
• Button Hover State: Some universities had button colors selected that made the text on hover state disappear. To resolve this, the button text on hover state will remain white instead of using the “visited link color.

Bug Fixes/Changes:

• Updated Course CreatedBy data field to more accurately reflect actual date created. 
• Resolved issue where $BB balance wasn’t accurate after merging accounts. 
• Resolved issue where assessment modules in courses with badges awarded were timing out. 
• Resolved issue where video player controls covered up bottom of video and critical content. 
• Fix for when bad data in system provides admin an error screen when inactivating users.
• Resolved issue that gave an error to learners requesting enrollment approval for courses in a training track. 
• Fix for sections not preventing learner from accessing content in section prerequisites. 
• Fix for the new Dashboard sharing feature that provides error when clicking ADD and not entering an email address.
• Fix for admin transcript not expanding the course details as expected when clicking the plus sign next to course name.
• Fix for assessment images that overwrite images with same name in other assessments.
• Fix for preview feature for anonymous users requiring log in when it should not. 
• Updated SalesForce integration to assist with periodic timeouts and failure to sync data.
• Resolved issue where browser console errors and warnings unnecessarily displayed. 
• Resolved issue when users registered and would manually enter a region (e.g. US or CA) instead of using the dropdown list. 
• Group Admins will now be routed to the old dashboard instead of the new one as expected.
• For learner file upload approval notifications, only group admins for the groups that the course is restricted to will receive the notifications instead of all group admins that the learner is a member of.
• The registration page now has a character limit on the input fields  and also resolved issue where slow networks occasionally allowed a user to submit their registration prior to all required fields being entered.
• Added error to the shopping cart when a learner attempts to add mixed currency items to the cart. (i.e. One course in USD and one course in Euro currency is not allowed to be added to the cart.)
• Resolved issue where an error would display instead of a log in prompt when users attempted to go directly to a link (such as for a course or a category) after they logged out.
• Resolved issue where the catalog or search results for paid courses were always displaying USD symbol for paid courses even when the course was marked in a different currency.