maintenance has been successful

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

20th November 2025
The EQUAL Dev team are planning a release on Thursday the 20th November at 12pm.

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
EQUAL Sigma and Sigma Sandbox
We are continuing with our work refining the Sigma tool. In this release there is:

Preventing re-submissions with no eligible question types from showing the sigma feedback tool

Preventing cases of issues causing "Your sandbox tests have failed to create due to missing questions" on sigma sandbox by preventing submissions with no eligible questions from being selectable.

Changed the Prompt version input on sigma sandbox to a dropdown.

Added a new option to tutor edit pages, “EQUAL Sigma Assessor”. This gives the tutor access to the EQUAL sigma tool. Any existing TSN assessors will automatically have this selected.

Fixed an issue where duplicate question labels were causing EQUAL Sigma to error

Accessibility Audit Fixes
With this release we have added some further accessibility fixes following our WCAG Audit:

Added aria labels to carousel navigation on the course player

Updated mobile aria labels on mobile sidebar

Assessment refer override
In this release we have added a new tenancy feature, “Allow override of Automatic Refer outcomes”. This is defaulted to false, but can be enabled. Once enabled an assessor on that site will have the option to set a submission to pass, even if there is a referred question within it.

Bulk Finance Rates Tool
This release adds a new tool to the finance area. This tool will provide the user with a CSV template, which they can then update any payment rate values on. They can then upload that updated template which will provide them with a view of any changes that will happen. Which can then be accepted to bulk update those payment rates.