The latest Argos Platform update launched AUGUST 13, 2024. Many of these updates are aimed at creating a more intuitive user experience and implementing bug fixes.
As you navigate through the updated platform, if you find any bugs we may have missed, please use our Report an Issue option to let us know. When reporting the bug, it is always helpful to include the steps you followed that produced the bug.
For Students
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New Home Page Interface: For students enrolled in a course, the new home page interface organizes course content to show overall course progress, a list of upcoming and latest assignments, and a quick launch in the header menu.
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New Learn Page Interface: Students can view the entire course (in gallery view or list view) by order of due date and arranged in units and modules.
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New Schedule Interface: Students can view content by due date week by week or view full schedule with past due content appearing greyed out.
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New Notes Interface: Students can now add notes for specific sections of a page versus general notes for an entire page as "My Notes" and add, view, or "thumbs ups" in "Class Notes."
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Reset Password: Students enrolled using the "skip email verification" step can now "generate a reset password link" if they have forgotten their password.
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Screen Reader: Feedback can now be detected and read by screen readers.
For Creators
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Student Interface Customization: Add a custom welcome message, a subtitle, an image, an intro video, and other details.
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Upload Image or Video: New clickable link (button) added to the component panel for more intuitive uploads.
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Keyboard Shortcuts: Use standard shortcuts like copy/paste and delete using keyboard strokes.
For Instructors
- Menu Changes: Reports renamed to "Insights" and will contain "Content", "Learning Objectives", "Scored Activities", "Practice Activities", and "Surveys". "Overview" will now contain "Course Content", "Students", "Quiz Scores", and "Recommended Actions".
- Insights: Student progress and proficiency can now be viewed by units and modules across content and learning objectives. Also includes two quick-filter buttons, one button shows units with high progress but low proficiency and the other button will show students with zero progress.
General Bug Fixes
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Paid Courses: Corrected an issue where a certain setting would render a paid course as "Free".
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Attempt Progress: Progress is now accurately reflected and non-graded pages show 100% progress when completed.
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Component Panel: Corrected an issue where changes in the component panel were lost.
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Simple Authoring Slider: Corrected an issue where question prompt text was too small.
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Simple Authoring Text: Corrected an issue where black could not be selected as a color for component text.
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Simple Authoring Preview Match: Corrected an issue where preview (student view) didn't match authoring view.
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Simple Authoring MCQ: Corrected an issue where "Incorrect: [specific response]" gives the wrong feedback.
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Simple Authoring Lesson Load Time: Improved content rendering to reduce load time for longer and asset-rich lessons.
UPDATES & FIXES - MAY 13, 2024
For Students (NEW)
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Two-Click Launch: Students accessing Infiniscope lessons without logging in will now experience fewer clicks to get started. Students will now be able to access the lesson in two clicks vs. five clicks in previous versions.
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1/1 Scoring: Students that click restart on the first screen of a lesson will no longer receive a score of 1/1.
- Captcha Fix for Tour It in VR: Recaptcha can now be circumvented for students using a VR headset while viewing tours.
- Links: Hyperlinks in lessons will now open to a new tab by default.
For Creators (NEW)
- Links: Hyperlinks open in a new tab by default. Creators may now use hyperlinks without worry of students losing their place in a lesson.
- Author vs. Student View: An update to the CSS (Custom Style Sheet) means content on a page in the authoring view will match the student view.
- Creating a Page: A new interface for creating a basic or adaptive page.
- Media Manager: Images and videos added to the media manager can be archived and replaced, preventing duplicates and saving bandwidth.
For Instructors (NEW)
- Scheduling: Issues fixed where an extra day was added when setting a due date.
- Default Dates: Issue fixed where adding current dates or today's date resulted in 1975 set as default.
- Links: Hyperlinks open in a new tab by default, therefore students will not lose progress in a lesson.
- Labels: Course instructors can customize labels for units, modules, and sections.
Other Items
- General bug fixes
UPDATES & FIXES - JANUARY 30, 2023
For Students
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New Course Overview: Student course overview contains a "Where you left off" feature for students that leave their window idle for an extended period of time or when they lose their connection to the server.
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Offline Quiz Answer Saving: Students will see a warning if their device went offline during a quiz (assement page) and responses will be saved for submission once connection is restored.
- Direct Delivery (non-LMS enrollment): Students that are not enrolled by a teacher will now enter their email twice as a verification step during account creation. The number of steps to enrollment and account creation have been reduced and improved language is included to simplify the user flow and reduce confusion
- Discussion Activity: New activity type enables students to collaboratively discuss course content.
- Extra Practice: When extra practice is enabled, students will see a new Practice type on the left panel of the course overview.
For Creators
- Significant Figures: Construct questions that allow lesson creators to target student response precision in feedback.
- Discussion Activity: New activity type enables creators to include a directed discussion activity.
- Extra Practice: A new page type that allows creators to design extra practice pages and set them as Deliberate Practice.
- Versioning: Structural changes to a unit, module, or page will be flagged during publishing as "Major" and result in a new version number.
- Media Library: Warning appears when a duplicate media asset is uploaded.
For Instructors
- Instructor Dashboard Report Tabeling: Default view of any table is 20 entries, but new feature allows Instructors to see 10, 20, 50, or 100 rows of student data on a report table.
- Re-enroll a Student: If a student was accidentally unenrolled from a course or lesson, an instructor now has the option to view suspended students and re-enroll them.
- Course Content: Slide out feature now clearly details the unit, module, and page levels and all are formatted as a numbered list. Slide out also features a highlight where the student is currently in the course.
- Collaborative Spaces: Course instructors can now apply and configure a discussion activity for all pages in a course.
- Manage Enrollments: Instructors can now add students to a course through the Student tab of the course dashboard.
Other Items
- General bug fixes
UPDATES & FIXES - AUGUST 2, 2023
The latest Argos Platform update launched August 2, 2023. Many of these updates are aimed at creating a more intuitive user experience. Here you will find user navigation improvements, ease of use (course set up, instructor controls, etc), and a new adaptive page tool!
As you navigate through the updated platform, if you find any bugs we may have missed, please use our Report an Issue option to let us know. It is always helpful to include the steps you followed that produced the bug.
For Students
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New Course Overview: Student course overview contains updated interface that now shows Due Dates, smart suggestions based on assignments that are up next, and a built in course Discussion Board.
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Idle timer & Session Timeout: A 30-minute session timeout was introduced to prevent students who leave their window idle for an extended period of time from losing their connection to the server.
For Creators
- New Adaptive Page Tool: Infiniscope members now have access to a new adaptive page tool with an intuitive user interface for lesson creation. Members without a coding background can now create classroom deliverable lessons that integrate just in time feedback and pathing used for differentiation. A flowchart integration enables users to view the individual paths students may follow during the lesson.
For Instructors
- New Course Setup Wizard: Comprehensive course setup flow enables scheduling features and helps with section tracking for instructors and administrators.
- Course Scheduler: New instructor interface for creating a course schedule (suggested deadlines a.k.a. soft deadlines) and improvements to creating hard deadlines in a calendar view.
- Assessment Settings: New instructor controls allow for further course customization including the ability to change the number of attempts allowed per lesson, the scoring strategy per lesson, and whether students can start or submit attempts after the deadline.
- New Reports & Analytics: New Instructor-facing reports show student Progress and Proficiency for the overall course, and by Unit and Page/Lesson. Courses with Learning Objective mapping also have reports showing mastery by Learning Objectives.
- Built-In Discussion Board: Each course comes with a built-in discussion board that can be toggled on/off by the instructor. Content specific discussion collaborative spaces exist alongside standard pages and will be coming soon for adaptive pages.
Other Items
For Students in HabWorlds - Some Changes to the Course
- Unit 2, R*: Scaffolding was added to the lessons, the number of student attempts were increased, and some gating was added in training lessons. The assessment screens were divided up so there are fewer questions on each screen.
- Unit 3, fp: Additional trap states and information on screens were added throughout the unit to help students and clarify misconceptions. The assessment screens were divided up so there are fewer questions on each screen.
- Unit 4, ne: Scaffolding was added to training lessons, including setting pop-up tips to be open by default, and some gating was removed to help students through lessons. Some assessment screens were divided into multiple screens and additional clarifying information was added on some screens.