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Get the lowdown on our new flagship feature: Surveys, which helps us land as your Training Improvement Engine.You’ll also notice that hand-in assignments are available to a pool of instructors for grading and find a few other cool updates. All these changes will be available from the 8th of August 2023.

The Survey feature

<h3>The Survey Feature</h3>Continuous iterative improvement in small incremental steps sounds great on paper, but when it comes to actually implementing them into a learning journey, you of course have to know what and where to improve.The challengeAs the management guru Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can&#039;t measure it, you can&#039;t manage it.” — so the first step before improving learning journeys is to find out what it lacks.Gathering feedback from learners while possible with the evaluation questions, doesn’t fill the gap since they do not place the feedback in an overview or within context to derive meaningful insights out of it.The goalWith the survey feature, you can set up well-defined surveys that can be repeated in multiple templates and learning journeys and used to gauge feedback from your learners.If you want to know how well your training is performing, or what your learners actually think of your brand and offerings, or even why you hear positive feedback about instructor A and not instructor B, you can do so and validate your assumptions.

Working with surveys

<h3>Working with Surveys</h3><a target="_blank" href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70658">Surveys</a> are one step ahead of the evaluation activity that we have within the platform. How?<ul><li>You can build a survey with the right goal in mind. A dedicated professional (apart from the training designer or instructor) with the right expertise can focus on creating a well thought-out set of questions.</li><li>The survey is not bound to a specific template or learning journey. So, gather feedback from a wider aperture and easily visualise where things are working well and where improvements can be made.</li><li>All results are collected in one overview.</li></ul>Create and manage surveysWith the Surveys feature, you can create surveys based on your role and rights and manage the content easily—create a new content library or rely on an existing one. Since surveys use the same evaluation questions and content parts from the content libraries, you can efficiently re-use your content!Additional permission for administratorsIn order to keep things clear and allow for division of labour, you’ll find two new permissions within the administrator role. The main one allows users to see results from surveys and the secondary permission lets certain users create and manage the surveys.The new survey activityWith this release, you’ll find a new survey activity type for the templates (and learning journeys). Learning designers can select the pre-defined survey (created by the survey expert) and add it to an activity at the template level.In order to keep things clear and fit the purpose of the activity type better, we’ve renamed the ‘Inquiry’ activity type to ‘Questionnaire’.Viewing the resultsOf course there’s a place where you can easily process the feedback!You’ll find one overview with all the results, per survey, featuring the multiple choice, multiple response, as well as matrix and essay questions.Templates to get you startedTrouble formulating the right questions of your survey? We got your back—you’ll find a new template with predefined questions to immediately use within a survey.

Learn all about the Survey feature in our knowledge base

Hand-in assignments

<h3>Hand-in assignments visible to all instructors</h3>When the learner hands in an assignment for assessment, usually they would have to pick an instructor of their choice.We’ve changed that around so that the hand-in and video hand-in assignments behave like all the other activities—available for all instructors to assess (the first available instructor is able to pick up the assessment for grading).

Reach the course dashboard

<h3>Reach the course dashboard from learners’ results page</h3>Ever notice that your instructors hit a dead end when they land on the learner results page and have nowhere to navigate from there? Ideally they should be led to the course dashboard from the results page and begin shadowing and offer feedback to learners&#039; questions—and now this is possible!

Small yet powerful

<h3>Small yet powerful</h3>As always, we do have a few smaller updates that pack a punch nonetheless.Toggle template notificationsIt is now easier and faster to work with notifications with the ON/OFF toggle on the notification overview page.Filter results by ‘active learners’ Wouldn’t it be very convenient to run a report on the number of learners per course and their subscription status? By focusing only on active learners for a course, it becomes very easy to visualise the ROI of your offerings. We’ve added the value ‘state of subscription’ to the reporting engine to help you get this information.Upload .SVG images in courses, activities and productsUpload your icons and logos as .SVG files for courses, products and activities; ensuring the highest resolution!No autoplay for videosIn order to ensure the best experience for learners within the aNewSpring environment, we will remove the autoplay feature in the content types like, video, hihaho, vimeo and so on.Send learners directly to the access codes pageWhile the access code page has its own link, it leads the learner to the general login page. With this update, we make it easy for you to link your learners directly to the access code page so they can start learning even faster.Maths, no problemAdd mathematical formulae in your content with the MathJax plugin in the CKEditor. You learners can also respond with mathematical equations without the need for any special coding.

Do you want to read everything we have added? Take a look at the Release Notes:<ul><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181630">Organisations</a></li><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal-trainer.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181630">Trainers</a></li></ul>Some of these features are available for aNewSpring for Trainers and all of them for aNewSpring for Organisations.If you have any questions regarding the release, do not hesitate to contact our <a target="_blank" href="mailto:support@anewspring.com">Support Heroes</a>!

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Release 101: Get the lowdown on Surveys within aNewSpring

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One hundred. A milestone. One that we are very proud of at aNewSpring.You’ll notice in this release that the devil is in the details — the finishing touch to bundles, collapse blocks for large designs and additional accessibility in line with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) lay the foundations for big projects we intend to tackle next year. Let’s dive in.All of these changes took effect on 23 May 2023.

<h3>A fitting finish for bundles</h3>With this update, you can choose to send learners a notification when courses are added to a bundle.Since the email indicates that they will be subscribed to a course inside a bundle, you can set up the email to make it clear where the learner can find their new course.

Collapse blocks

Designing for experience

When editing a template, it is natural for users to create several blocks and activities with their course content.The problem begins when the learning journey becomes quite large, taking you quite a few scrolls to reach the end. Now, with expand or collapse blocks, the hierarchy between blocks and activities is clear, making it easier to manage the content of the learning journey.As a cool addition, we also made it possible to hide the index in an activity. It typically shows the content within the activity with the question or content part name. However, we noticed that it sometimes contains sensitive information that isn’t necessary for learners. Now, by having the option to hide it, you control the narrative!

Bringing structure to content libraries

We’ve made it possible to search and filter for content that you are looking for through tagging within the content library.

Moderation

<h3>Moderation from a learner standpoint</h3>A few releases back, we introduced the moderation capability allowing you to have a ‘moderator’ following course progress and reviewing assessments performed by your instructors.We’ve added a ‘learner-centred’ flow allowing moderators to focus on the assessments per learner.

Keyboard operability

<h3>Leave your mouse behind!</h3>Accessibility has been an important theme as far as updates to our platform have been concerned. In order to comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 guidelines, we focused on keyboard operability, specifically for the learner interface.It is possible for learners to control content parts, answer some of the questions (fill-in-the-blanks and matching questions), join discussions and view results with just a keyboard.

Do you want to read everything we have added? Take a look at the Release Notes:<ul><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181492">Organisations</a></li><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal-trainer.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181491">Trainers</a></li></ul>Some of these features are available for aNewSpring for Trainers and all of them for aNewSpring for Organisations.If you have any questions regarding the release, do not hesitate to contact our <a target="_blank" href="mailto:support@anewspring.com">Support Heroes</a>!

You’ll notice in this release that the devil is in the details — the finishing touch to bundles, collapse blocks for large designs and additional accessibility in line with WCAG lay the foundations.

Release 100: We couldn’t have timed it better!

Do you ever feel like you’re caught between spreadsheets during the first quarter of the year? With all the goals and planning, it might seem like you’ve got more problems than solutions on the horizon.We see you. And feel you. Sit back, relax those tense shoulders and take a deep breath. This is Release 99 from aNewSpring — a simple one, because we don’t want to be adding too much to your full plate.Dive in to learn everything about bundles (we have quite the primer for it) and how we approach accessibility by complying with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Besides that, user experience is a strong focus for us, so you’ll find a quick update or two about making things convenient for you.All of these changes will take effect on 14 March 2023.

Bundles

<h3>Bundles of joy, oodles of fun</h3>With this release, we are graduating our ‘Bundles’ feature out of Beta! As a preamble to that, read on to learn more about why we introduced the feature, what improvements have been made and what goes live this time around as well.The whyFor learners who are subscribed to a large number of learning journeys, the homepage can feel overwhelming. Having tags and filters to sift through them helps, but we felt the need for something more to bring structure in a clear manner.Thus, ‘Bundles’ were conceived to offer more flexibility and freedom in how you structure learning journeys in aNewSpring. They make it possible to group multiple journeys together, optionally order and present them to your learners. It allows you to cluster several learning journeys, providing a better overview for the learner. To elaborate with examples, you could build bundles of learning journeys per year, per module or even a custom one for all the optional learning journeys a learner can choose to enrol to.

The finer detailsThe core capabilities of the feature involve being able to create bundles of courses, place templates within them, manage sub-environments and adding learners into the bundle courses. On top of that, we’ve been very intentional with the incremental improvements to the bundles feature.Some of the finer details we’ve added over the past few releases have been around:<ul><li>Conditional progress</li></ul>Apply conditions to a bundle, thereby unlocking sections in the program for learners as they progress through the bundle course. It is also then possible to earn a ‘bundle certificate’, by placing the certificate in a course that’s unlocked once everything is completed!<ul><li>Enrollment through API</li></ul>Enrol learners via API. This is especially useful if you perform subscriptions via API.With this release, there’s something new to look forward to:<ul><li>Flexibility</li></ul>Add courses to (or remove them from) active bundles. This way, the course stays updated and fresh.<ul><li>Enrol learner groups</li></ul>Add learner groups to bundle courses. This essentially opens up another channel of providing learners access to a bundle course. If you use groups to provide training to learners with the same function, skills or tasks, this capability could come in handy. The icing on the cake? It is also possible to do this via API.

<ul><li>More flexibility with templates</li></ul>Designers can add templates to bundles and administrators can add courses to bundles, even when they’re already in use by learners. This addition provides more control and flexibility to put together new courses in already existing and active bundles.In the week following this release, you will also be able to remove templates from a bundle, even if there are bundle courses attached to it. As an administrator, you can then manage the learner’s subscriptions to the courses that are about to be removed from the bundle in the best way possible.With powerful flexibility such as this, you can always improve or add to your offerings!Learn more on our <a target="_blank" href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70548">support site</a>.

<h3>Navigating with a keyboard</h3>Accessibility has been an important theme as far as updates to our platform have been concerned. In order to comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 guidelines, we focused on keyboard operability, specifically for the learner interface.

A short demo

<ul><li>Logging in and using the catalogue are possible with just the keyboard:</li><li>Some components, like the buttons, text-fields, tabs, and so on are operable with the keyboard. Learners can navigate through their learning environment, in a logical way, by pressing certain keyboard keys including ‘Tab’ and ‘Enter’.</li><li>Besides these actions, we also show the user exactly what they should focus on.</li></ul>Learn more on our <a target="_blank" href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70649">support site</a>.

A few quick wins

<h3>A few quick wins</h3><ul><li>Hand-in files open in a fresh new tab</li></ul>For your instructors to grade an assignment that has been submitted, it is important to be able to view the assignment. So far, assignments were set to download by default. This wasn’t the best user experience, since instructors would then have to delete the file if it contains confidential information.Opening the assignment in another tab is more user-friendly. This way, the instructor can view it before deciding whether to download it.<ul><li>A shiny new PDF viewer</li></ul>That’s right, we now have an additional way to view PDF documents within the plus editor.The most important thing to note is that learners don’t need to always download content in order to view the files. Along with restricting downloads, it also performs faster!<ul><li>Add learners to courses easily</li></ul>Earlier, administrators had to navigate to another page to add learners to courses. As an improvement to this roundabout and outdated flow, we now let administrators add learners via a pop-up window that allows them to stay in the flow of activity they were performing. What’s more, we’ve boosted the performance as well, so this action is accomplished faster!<ul><li>See where events are ‘in use’ in the event groups overview</li></ul>The ‘In use’ column on the events tab shows both the courses and activities where the event has been added. So, we’ve included the ‘In use’ column to the event groups overview for greater convenience and clarity.

Do you want to read everything we have added? Take a look at the Release Notes:<ul><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181359">Organisations</a></li><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181357">Trainers</a></li></ul>Some of these features are available for aNewSpring for Trainers and all of them for aNewSpring for Organisations.If you have any questions regarding the release, do not hesitate to contact our <a target="_blank" href="mailto:support@anewspring.com">Support Heroes</a>!

Dive in to learn everything about bundles (we have quite the primer for it) and how we approach accessibility by complying with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Release 99: You’ve got 99 problems, but this release ain’t one!

In this release, which goes live on 3 January 2023, there will be changes for learners and the backend of the platform.This release brings together styling improvements that will deliver better learning experiences. Also, you will find out how you can instantly put together a training program that looks professional and polished. Besides that, you can see more details about events and manage them better, and keep instructors and moderators more engaged through moderating assessments.Let’s dive into the details!

Readability & accessibility

<h3>Changes for learners</h3>An easy and subtle glow upLearners will notice small visual adjustments in the existing elements, to increase the readability and accessibility of the learning environments.We’re adding greater spacing between certain elements, such as the advice bar, activities and widgets in the learning journey. We’re also resizing certain elements, especially the activities, widgets and buttons. Learners will notice some extra space on the sides of the course tiles in the mobile interface.

Loon & feel

<h3>Changes for the backend</h3>Transform the look &amp; feel of your learning environmentThe first of those changes has to do with the redesign of the standard look &amp; feel editor. Customers often had to invest a lot of time into creating a good look &amp; feel of their learning environment — there were a lot of settings allowing for flexibility but it was pretty time-consuming. In addition, the standard look &amp; feel was set up several years back and, therefore, quite dated.In addition to the modern visual elements and wow factors, we want to help our customers to begin with a nicely styled environment. So, all new environments will open up with a look &amp; feel based off of one of our themes.What are themes, you ask?We’ve put together three different, predefined themes that can help you create nice looking courses easily, reducing the time needed to create your own look &amp; feel, that fits your brand to a T! With these available within all environments, it becomes super easy to pick a theme, change colours and more at a single click of a button, since most other fields are pre-populated.

<h3>Manage events smoothly with more details about them</h3>With this release, we are showing more useful information about the events, making it easier to manage them for each of your learners.With this update, we are getting a little more learner-focused when it comes to events. You can see an overview of all the events a specific learner is enrolled for. Administrators can also see the course that the event is a part of.As things stand today, you can see which learners are subscribed to an event. However, it isn’t obvious the other way around. This changes with the upcoming release, enabling you to see all the events that a single learner is subscribed to. It will even be possible to unsubscribe that learner from those events.As an administrator, this is a useful overview to manage learners when there are a lot of events within a course.Learn more on our <a href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70498">support site</a>.

Moderators

<h3>Nudge your moderators to take action</h3>This update adds a few finishing touches to the moderator role that went live in our previous release cycle. These ‘touches’ render the feature more consistent and actionable.First off, there are small UX related improvements. One example is a status button that is colour coded and shows moderators and instructors the remaining actions:<ul><li>For moderators, a blue “Moderate” button indicates there are items to moderate. Is this button white? Then there is nothing (new) available to moderate.</li><li>For instructors, we show a count of the number of moderated assessments toward their existing counter for remaining to-do actions.</li></ul>To enable moderators and instructors to perform their roles better, notifications are sent out when an assessment has to be moderated or when the instructor has made changes to the reviewed assessment. Proactively communicating these updates to them outside the learning platform helps the moderation progress faster.In addition, these notifications also work their way into the moderator’s dashboard. For instance, icons will show what still needs to be done and the ‘to-do’ column will be updated. This way, the moderator intuitively knows exactly what to do.

Lastly, administrators are able to export the progress and statistics of the entire moderation flow. By doing so, they are able to see how much a learner has scored on an activity, who assessed them, who moderated the assessment, and on which date the activities were completed. The data can be exported per template, per course or via the instructor dashboard. This makes it very easy to submit information to a third party stakeholder.Learn more on our <a href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70644">support site</a>.

<h3>A few smaller tweaks</h3><ul><li>Access code availability</li></ul>Moving forward, the access code option can be enabled only for those learners who are logged out, instead of having it enabled for both logged-in and logged-out learners.<ul><li>Archive users via API</li></ul>We’re adding the ability to archive users via the ‘addOrUpdateUser’ and ‘updateUser’ API calls. This way, you can ensure they don’t use up licences unnecessarily without jumping into the learning platform each time.<ul><li>Explanation for Question ID</li></ul>We’ve heard from users that a lot of authors don’t understand what the ID for questions are for. To clarify that, we added an explanation at the ‘create question’ step.<ul><li>Ability to edit event-related emails</li></ul>You can edit the contents of the email that learners receive when un-enrolling from events and when they’re being transferred to another event.

Do you want to read everything we have added? Take a look at the Release Notes:<ul><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181284">Organisations</a></li><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal-trainer.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000181286">Trainers</a></li></ul>Some of these features are available for aNewSpring for Trainers and all of them for aNewSpring for Organisations.If you have any questions regarding the release, do not hesitate to contact our <a target="_blank" href="mailto:support@anewspring.com">Support Heroes</a>!

In this release, which goes live on 3 January 2023, there will be changes for learners and the backend of the platform.

Release 98: A fresh new look with a side of improved user experience!

In the next release, on 16 March 2021, we will make room for adapting assessment terms, adding feedback fields and expanding adaptivity. A step in the right direction to add layers and not only focus on a final assessment. Anyway, this makes us very happy. You too? We also love feedback, so please let us know <a target="_blank" href="mailto:support@anewspring.com">what you think</a>!

Adapting assessment terms

<h3>Adapting assessment terms to you</h3>When you assess someone, you want to assess in a way that really fits you. You would like to see your own identity as the assessor or your organisation reflected. You could do this by choosing your own colours for the failed or passed results. It doesn’t have to be red or green anymore; you decide. You can also change the terms failed and passed to really reflect the assessment you have in mind.

More information can be found on <a target="_blank" href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70537">our support site</a>.

How to adjust rating terms

Extra feedback fields

<h3>Extra feedback fields for higher learning efficiency</h3>We don&#039;t only look at the judgement of assessment; the road to it is just as important. An assessment can be supported by feedback. We know that participants can learn from feedback, so we have added extra feedback fields. If you use assessment criteria, then you get a feedback field for each assessment criterion so that instructors can better explain how they came to the assessment.

How to use feedback fields

Adaptive blocks

<h3>A new look for the adaptive blocks</h3>Offering learners a learning journey that adapts to their level, that is what our adaptivity is designed for. To make it clearer to the learners where they stand, we offer the possibility to display the adaptive blocks differently.Whereas in the current situation the activities are central to the learning journey, the learners can now see the learning objectives and can request the activities for each objective in order to work on that specific objective.

Read more information on learning objectives on <a target="_blank" href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70539">our support site</a>.

How to set it up

We have also added a means to better determine the order in which learners go through an adaptive learning journey in advance. We have done this by adding new conditions at activity- and block level that are released when a certain score is achieved on one or more learning objectives. This way, learners follow a learning journey at their own pace, but in a sequence determined by you.For example, in an organisation it could be that the learner first has to achieve the basic learning objectives in order to proceed to the expert learning objectives. The advantage of this is that learners will have achieved certain knowledge first, before moving on to the advanced content.

Find more information about conditions on <a target="_blank" href="https://support.anewspring.com/en/articles/70542">our support site</a>.

How to use it

Integrations

<h3>Integrations made simpler and faster</h3><a target="_blank" href="/services/integrate">Integrations</a> with aNewSpring and other systems have always been a priority for customers. It allows customers to create a learning ecosystem by combining the best tools out there. You could already use our freely available API to connect with other software tools.To make that easier for you we’ve created the Integration Service. What that entails is that we can now create any integrations for you as a service. We’ll also take care of updates and maintenance. The only thing you have to do to get started is to send a quick note to <a href="mailto:jeroen@anewspring.nl">jeroen@anewspring.nl</a>.<h3>See live how aNewSpring is performing</h3>We would like to be transparent about the availability and performance of the aNewSpring platform. With our new <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/aNewSpring_Ping">twitterpage</a> we want to keep you informed about any availability interruptions and other possible performance issues of the aNewSpring platform. Stay up to date via <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/aNewSpring_Ping">@aNewSpring_Ping</a>.

Other updates

<h3>What else is new?</h3><ul><li>We now also offer the backend of aNewSpring in German.</li><li>The form and reflection activities may indicate an estimated duration of activity.</li><li>In the report engine it is possible to filter on the intermediate assessment of the hand-in assignment and video hand-in assignment activities.</li></ul>

Do you want to read everything we have added? Take a look at the Release Notes:<ul><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000179943">Organisations</a></li><li>Release Notes for <a target="_blank" href="https://portal.anewspring.com/en/support/discussions/topics/3000179944">Trainers</a></li></ul>Some of these features are available for aNewSpring for Trainers and all of them for aNewSpring for Organisations.If you have any questions regarding the release, do not hesitate to contact our <a target="_blank" href="mailto:support@anewspring.com">Support Heroes</a>!

In the next release, on 16 March 2021, we will make room for adapting assessment terms, adding feedback fields and expanding adaptivity.

Release 101: Get the lowdown on Surveys within aNewSpring

Release notes

Release 100: We couldn’t have timed it better!

Release 99: You’ve got 99 problems, but this release ain’t one!

Release 98: A fresh new look with a side of improved user experience!

Release 89: Assessment and adaptivity

Release 101: Get the lowdown on Surveys within aNewSpring