Engineers have performed smoke tests and are content.

Maintenance ended

Code deployment is currently in progress

The EQUAL Dev team are planning a release on the 1st May during the day. There is no expected downtime during this release.

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
Initial implementation of AI marking
In a previous release, we added the infrastructure around AI marking. This release is an initial implementation of the generation of the feedback in a format that would allow assessors to use this feedback.

This feature is still in an alpha state, and will only be available to specific assessors and on specific courses. We will be refining this feature during the coming months.

Accessing recordings for cohorts that have been renamed
Infrequently a cohort needs to be renamed after enrolment. This can then mean that the recording accessing feature fails to find the recording.

This release adds an additional check to make sure that should allow the system to provide access to all recordings.

Add ability to search by cohort
This release adds the ability for the enrolment and submissions search to search by the cohort that a learner is enrolled on.

Automatically generate certificates for tutor marked course
Currently, the system will only generate a certificate for the learner if they are on an Auto Marked course. This release adds the ability to automatically generate a certificate on a Tutor Marked course.

This should only happen where TSN is marked as the awarding body, and the course has been set up to generate the certificate.

Bug Fixes
In the External Submissions search in the finance area, if you did not provide a date then the page would error. This has been corrected.
The Sales Employers / Sales Leads page had a layout issue. This has been corrected.
Previously when a Bootcamp Live Learning Session was cancelled, the calendar entry for the learner would still exist. This has been corrected.
Internal
These do not need to be included with customers, but are mentioned for completeness

The "Assessor Services Provided By External" project setting is used to show a warning when looking at the submissions for an external learner. This behaviour has been corrected so it only shows on Main EQUAL if the flag is not checked