Bug Report: Personal & Team Calendar Entries Visible to All

The recent patch applied to the ANGEL server (July 2009 patch plus hotfix and security patch) has caused an issue with personal entries in the ANGEL Calendar. Personal entries created by an instructor are now visible to all students in that course. Students can also see all team entries, whether or not they are on the team for which the entry was intended. ANGEL is aware of the issue and is working on a fix; however, there is currently no workaround. We suggest that instructors remove all personal entries from their course calendars until this issue has been resolved.

ANGEL 7.3 Bug Fixes in July Patch & Hotfix

JCCC will apply a series of patches (July 2009 plus the subsequent hotfix) to our ANGEL server on Monday, September 21, 2009. These patches have been tested on campus by staff in the Educational Technology Center and the Information Services Branch. The following indicates those items that have been fixed, per our testing. The list also includes some problems that we discovered during testing (they'll be reported to ANGEL) as well as some issues that we anticipated would be fixed but were not. Items in red may be critical issues to you depending on which tools you use in your course.

Items that Are Fixed:

1. Assessments with questions linked from a LOR can be exported into another course. Note: This works with questions copied from the LOR, but a Question Pool that draws from the LOR disappears from the assessment when exported. Copy Course does work, however.
2. When multiple questions are displayed in an assessment, they appear in the proper order with question one visible at the top of the screen.
3. Hitting the Enter key while taking an assessment does not result in loss of assessment responses. Note: hitting the Enter key submits the quiz, but gives the student the option of canceling before submission.
4. Students can see personal events in Today's Calendar Nugget. Note: A student can create a “personal” entry, which is all that students can create anyway. The entry doesn't show up in the course, because the entry is “personal.” It does show up on the Calendar nugget on the ANGEL home page of the user who created it.
5. Private Team Journal Malfunction: Private teams can no longer see posts from other private teams in which they are not members . Note: This has another improvement - now when students post there is a drop-down (in a more obvious place than previously) that lets them select the team in which they are a member (if they are members of more than one team in a course). If you have the access set correctly, including the Read/Post/Reply permissions on the Post Permission tab, then there is only one team listed, unless you add the student to more than one team and give access/permissions to those teams .
6. Student's email address is not visible in Discussion Forum post if their personal information is set to restrict the email address. Note: This works when the student deletes their email address in personal preferences; that is, if email information exists in a student's profile, it will be accessible from posts. Removing info from the profile doesn't seem to qualify as restricting, as implied, but that’s how it works.
7. The default sort order in Grade Book is alphabetical.
8. When new courses are created for a faculty member, those courses automatically have access to the instructor’s personal LOR.
9. When an email message is sent to multiple recipients, they all get the message.
10. When Milestone entries are edited, they no longer are duplicated and if one of the duplicates is deleted, all entries are no longer deleted. In other words, creating, editing and deleting Milestones works as you’d expect.
11. You can search within the Course Roster by login name, user first name or user last name. Note: you cannot search by first and last name at the same time.
12. Results from SoftChalk generated SCORM module quizzes are successfully posted to the Grade Book without generating an error message. (See pages 10-17 of SoftChalk manual for details at http://www.softchalk.com/pdf/lms_angel7_3.pdf)

Items that Are Not Fixed:

1. When the instructor grades an assignment and checks the box to send an email, if the student replies to the email, the instructor does not receive the email. Note: The reply message isn't validly addressed; if it goes anywhere, it's not to the instructor(s).
2. Desktop Sharing function does not work.
3. You cannot generate a printable list of all drop box submissions except by using the Browser Print feature.
4. You cannot generate a printable version of each submission in the drop box except by using the Browser Print feature.
5. Print PDF (Grade Book) function works on Macintosh with a caveat: the print function generates a file with the .aspx extension which will not open in Acrobat Reader. Changing the extension to .pdf makes file readable in Acrobat Reader.
6. Using View Grades > Find Student in the Gradebook does not work. Note: We stumbled across bug in our testing. If you select Find Student in the second drop-down under View Grades in the Gradebook, then click Search in the window that pops up, and then click on a user's name; nothing happens.
7. If you import an ANGEL archive into a new course (using Import > Content Package) with the "overwrite existing content" box checked, the import still duplicates all content.
8. When page content exceeds the viewable area of a browser window (in certain browsers only) and scrollbars are needed to scroll content, the scrollbars are not visible in the window and user cannot scroll. Note: On Firefox 2 and Firefox 3.5 part of the content is hidden but this works fine in Internet Explorer 7.
9. The ANGEL Print function does not print the entire page of content, just the portion displayed in the browser window.
10. The Roster does not print in alphabetical order

Other:

1. Though we have not tested it fully, it appears that Internet Explorer 8 is now supported.
2. Macintosh users cannot publish from Respondus to ANGEL course, because there is no Mac version of Respondus.