The new Discover tool allows them to search for active courses and self-enroll. Depending on your organization’s needs, Discover may be a suitable replacement for Course Catalog and the Self-Registration tool.

From the navbar, learners click Discover, and then search for active courses by entering terms that match course titles and descriptions. Only courses that allow self-enrollment (configured by course administrators or instructors) appear in the search results.

NOTE: The Discover tool replaces Self-Enrol. Instructors will have to contact Avenue support to complete self-enrollment for a course. Courses that are offered through Registrar’s will not be able to be made self-enrolling.

Previously, different tools and features within Avenue to Learn used different logic for determining user progress through Content topics. Now, the logic has been consolidated so that it is calculated in the same way across the platform.

Content must meet three criteria to be included in the user progress:

• The learner must have access to the content
• The content must be marked with a completion method of Required Automatic or Required Manual
• The content is not exempt

When content does not meet these conditions, the topics are not included in the calculation of the learner’s progress.

These changes affect the following areas of Avenue to Learn:

• The Learner Usage Advanced Data Set now calculates Content progress based on the criteria above.
• Class Progress has a new Content Completed graph to represent completed content. The current content-related column is being renamed from Content to Content Visited.
• The Content sections of the User Progress tool have several changes:
  • In the Content section of the Summary page and in the Content detail page, the Visits graph is being replaced by the Content Completed graph.
  • The progress on a module now reflects the number of completed and required topics in all levels below the module. Previously, the module progress reflected the number of completed topics immediately inside the module and the number of completed sub-modules. The new progress percentage and number is an actual reflection of how far the learner has progressed through the module.
  • The Topics Visited statistics on the left side of the page now include a denominator. The data represents the number of unique topics that the user visited. The denominator indicates the total number of topics that the student can access. In addition, the #Visits column is now renamed to Total Visits.

The New SCORM is the foundational platform piece that is a collection of standards that outlines how online learning materials and learning management systems should interact with one another. The New SCORM also tracks interaction data. To increase the benefit of the new SCORM, the following features have been developed. Note: these features do not apply to the legacy SCORM solution:

• When learners who have completed a SCORM object go back into that object, they are now prompted whether they want to re-take (removes their existing score and completion flag), or just review (does not remove the existing score and completion flag).
• SCORM objects can now be bulk uploaded to the Content Service. From there, instructors can link the objects to one or more courses.
• By default, the Content Player navigation used by SCORM objects is turned off, however, it can be turned on for SCORM objects that do not have built-in navigation.
• Different levels of access are now available through various permissions. These levels of access provide multi-administrator support to upload, edit, and share SCORM objects.
• Completion tracking now ensures that the ILP Core check mark appears after a learner has completed the SCORM content. Note: The check mark only appears if the SCORM object is programmed with a Completion Event.
• The new SCORM solution provides an option to align Grades with a score choice, such as the highest score or the most recent score
• In the new SCORM solution, when a user links a SCORM object to a course, they have the option of also creating a grade item. In the legacy SCORM solution, grade items were created when the SCORM object was opened.

This feature provides instructors the option to save feedback as a draft on discussions associated with rubrics before publishing it to learners. Now, when instructors add feedback for discussions with rubrics, the Save Draft and Publish buttons display. This feature extends existing Save Draft and Publish options available in other assessment tools to discussions that are only associated with a rubric.

Note that if a discussion topic is associated with more than one rubric, then both the rubrics are now visible in the same pop-up dialogue. Previously, the rubrics had to be opened individually to complete evaluation. This change also benefits the use case where a discussion topic was evaluated using a learning objective.

Arithmetic and Significant Figures questions in quizzes now round up from .5 by default. Previously these types of questions were rounded down from .5. Past quiz attempt scores are not affected by this change.

When instructors use the updated rubrics grading experience with Discussions, the following workflows present the same assessment experience:

• if a rubric is attached to a discussion that is not associated with a grade item
• if a rubric is attached to a discussion and associated with a grade item, but the instructor clicks on the rubric name to assess instead of topic score

In these workflows, the same assessment screen displays, with the details, score, feedback, post information, and all rubrics available to grade.