Engineers have monitored. No errors have been reported, maintenance ended.

Code has been deployed and engineers are monitoring

Code has been deployed and engineers are performing initial smoke tests.

Maintenance has now begun

The EQUAL Dev team are planning a release on the 23rd May at 10pm. Downtime notices will be added to the site on the 19th May.

If you've got any questions about the items in the release, please feel free to ask. Please feel free to share with any customers so they're aware of the upcoming changes.

New Features

Enable Extension Requests for External Services

We have recently released the ability for learners to request an extension on the due date for each of their units. Currently, this feature is only available on Main EQUAL. This has been changed to allow learners who are on "external" projects to request an extension if:

• The learner is marked as an External Learner (that is, they initially appear on Main EQUAL and then are made visible to the Third Party)
• The project has the "LSA Services Provided by External" box checked

Crossreferencing Field

It is now possible to track whether Crossreferencing has been completed by a learner. This appears on the QA tab of a learner.

Add ability to relate courses to Main EQUAL courses

As part of a long running development to improve the efficiency of assigning learners to projects, it is now possible to mark a course as "reimplementing" another course. This is primarily useful for external projects where the tenancy has a slightly different version of the course (e.g. to remove TSN branding).

Cloning a course will automatically set this field, as we expect this to be the right approach in most cases.

Bug Fixes

• The IdentifyImage component does not show the image on tenancies when the tutor is marking them. This has been corrected
• Learner Groups did not appear when enrolling learners manually if one of the potential tutors for those groups did not have any courses. This has been corrected
• There existed a path where a learner could log into the system without passing a 2 factor authentication challenge through the placeholder enrolment process. This has been corrected.