Release 86:
Let’s brighten up the instructor experience
Release 86:
In our release, on August 10th 2020, we will brighten up the instructor experience by giving them an optimised and clear dashboard. We will also add functionalities to the events and optimise the general usability of the aNewSpring platform. We love feedback, so please let us know what you think of this new release!
Clear dashboard for instructors
In the previous release, we already made optimisations to the navigation of the instructors. For this release, we focused more on all the different actions instructors will carry out. We want to make sure it is clear for all where those actions can be done.
Some functionalities in the ‘old’ overview could be hard to find sometimes. We now moved the widely used functionalities to tabs, so that they are more present in the overview. Incoming messages and work to assess are shown at the top of the page, with the well known red dots as a notification for new messages.
In the video below I will show you this new dashboard.
More information can be found on our support site.
Connecting events to each other
While talking to our customers, we found that it can be very useful to connect events to each other. Sometimes different events or meetings are part of a series or a set. With the new connected events, a learner who enrolled himself for meeting 1, will also automatically be enrolled for all of the other meetings that are connected to that event.
After the new release you can create these connected events. You do this by grouping the events. An event can only be put in one event group at the same time.
I will show you how to group the events in the video below.
More information can be found on our support site.
Events in the catalog
Before, it was only possible for a learner to see the details of an event when they were taking part in a learning journey, after he/she added or purchased a learning journey. It can happen that the events are already full, or are set at a location where you are not able to attend. To prevent these problems, we’ve now made these details visible before you add or buy a learning journey.
More information can be found on our support site.
What else is new?
- Password policy has changed. All new passwords need to have at least 8 characters.
- Importing users is now also available for aNewSpring for Trainers.
- Importing users is moved to the +User button. You can click on the arrow next to the button and also find the option to import anonymous users.
- When importing users, you can now also choose a time-zone for that user.
- Managing content for aNewSpring for Trainers users, is moved. It is moved to the More tab on the right side of the page where you edit the template. See the screenshot below.
- Small changes in the template settings. From now on, turning on a template functionality will result in all sub options being selected as well. Before you had to select all these sub options separately.
- Your previous place in a table will now be remembered. Did you end at page 8 of the event overview? Next time you will start directly from that place.
You can find the complete release notes here:
- https://portal.anewspring.com/support/discussions/topics/3000179251 (for Organisations) or
- https://portal.anewspring.com/support/discussions/topics/3000179254 (for Trainers).
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 support heroes!
Stefan van den Tol
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