Yale Center for Teaching and Learning

Release Notes: January 2019

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The following Mid-Semester Feedback feature updates and bug fixes were released January 2019.

 

Updated Features:

  • Instructor Tool

    • Tool Settings

      • Tool available to instructors prior to the beginning of the term (tool visible in Spring 2019 courses as of January 1st, 2019).

      • Instructors can turn off the survey by either clicking the disable button in the Mid-Semester Feedback Instructor tool or by hiding the tool from the course navigation bar.

      • Instructors may toggle between disabling/enabling the survey from within the Mid-Semester Feedback Instructor tool.

    • Creating Questions

      • Default questions are optional - instructors may choose whether or not to use any/all of the default questions.

      • Instructors can add up to 4 custom questions to each course survey.

    • Viewing Submissions

      • The “View Submission” list will show an indicator when there are 0 submissions.

      • When viewing an individual student submission, instructors will see an indicator when a student has left and answer blank.

  • Student Tool

    • Resolve an issue where some student submissions with unanswered questions received an error.

    • Add additional instructions on the survey to let students know they should complete the survey once for each course.

    • Post the title of the course within the survey.

Bug Fixes:

  • Student Tool

    • Resolve an issue where some student submissions with unanswered questions received an error.