Week of 14 March 2016¶

New Report of Learner ORA Responses¶

A new report for ORA assignments is now available on the Instructor Dashboard. For each ORA assignment in the course, the report includes each learner’s response, assessment details and scores, the final score for the assignment, and any feedback provided by the learner about the peer assessment process. Learners are identified by anonymized ID in this report.

For more information, see Generate a Report for ORA Assignments in the Building and Running an edX Course guide, or, for Open edX installations, Generate a Report for ORA Assignments in the Building and Running an Open edX Course guide.

Other Changes¶

• This release corrects errors that occurred after a course team member deleted student state for an ORA assignment submission. After student state was deleted, information about the submission continued to appear in the Staff Debug dialog box. In addition, when the learner attempted to submit a new response, the attempt failed. These errors now longer occur. (TNL-3880)
• This release includes several updates to the user interface for peer instruction problems. These updates include a change to the problem heading, which now reads “Peer Instruction Question”, and the addition of an “Explain to other students why you chose this answer” cue for the final answer text box.

Packaging Change for Dogwood¶

A patch to Open edX Dogwood was released on 9 March 2016. This patch only corrected a problem in the packaging of the release. If you have already installed Dogwood, there is no need to reinstall it.

CourseTalk for Course Reviews¶

Installations running the latest version of Open edX can now add the CourseTalk widget to their instances of Open edX. The CourseTalk widget allows learners to post course ratings and reviews that then appear on the course’s About page. When you add the CourseTalk widget to an Open edX instance, the widget is enabled for every course on that instance.

Updates to E-Commerce Checkout¶

For installations running the latest version of Open edX, this release includes updates to the user interface on the Checkout page that is presented by the the edX e-commerce service. The functionality of this page has not changed, and learners can continue to check out using their credit cards or PayPal.

For more information about the edX e-commerce service, see Adding E-Commerce to the Open edX Platform in the Installing, Configuring, and Running the Open edX Platform guide.

Other Changes¶

Previously, the course About page included an unnecessary heading labeled overview. This release removes the overview heading. (OSPR-1146)

Documentation for Open edX Users¶

A new section, “Adding E-Commerce to the Open edX Platform”, is now available in the Installing, Configuring, and Running the Open edX Platform guide. Two versions of this guide are available on the docs.edx.org website.

• Installations running the Dogwood version of Open edX can refer to Adding E-Commerce to the Open edX Platform (Dogwood) in the Installing, Configuring, and Running the Open edX Platform - Dogwood Release guide.
• Installations running the latest version of Open edX can refer to Adding E-Commerce to the Open edX Platform in the Installing, Configuring, and Running the Open edX Platform guide.