Foundry Release Notes

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On this page we describe the  functional enhancements and bug fixes for the Foundry application. We include the date on which the update was made available to our customer school sites. 

To read more detail about the individual functionality that we refer to, please visit the articles in our Help Center.

If you have ideas for improvement or new functionality for Foundry, we invite you to share your suggestions with us by emailing us at [e-mail].

August 23, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancements for Foundry in this week's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Learning Plans: Add the ability to see the targets so as a Foundry admin I can see them before selecting them to be part of the Learning Plan.	We have added the ability to selectively add and remove both subject groups and learning targets from your Learning Target Set when you design your Learning Plans. This is applicable only to new Learning Plans. Once an evaluation has been performed on a learning target, no further modifications to include/exclude learning targets or subject groups will be possible.
Show the number of selected targets without opening the subjectGroup	We have added a count to the Subject Group level that reflects the total number of targets required within each Subject Group. It is no longer necessary to open the subject group to count the number of required targets.
When I use Skill targets, I need to be able to evaluate them and assign grades to the evaluation.	We have added the ability to evaluate Skills targets included in the student's experience with grades in the 'Skills' evaluation section of the 'evaluate the experience' page of Foundry.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed as part of this update to Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Dates on learning plans on live school sites are not correct - In some scenarios a start date was entered correctly, but was replaced by a start date which shows next year	Some advisors experienced inconsistent dates for date range of a learning plan (for example). We found a flaw in the logic that determines the correct date and assigns from-to dates. This is now working correctly and consistently.
Some schools that are working on having students develop their own Personal Learning Plan report that the second and on goal entered shows as strikethrough format, meaning it has been completed.	We reviewed the logic for adding goals in the PLP and corrected item addition logic that was not function correctly.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of August 23, 2019.

 

June 3, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancements for Foundry in this week's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Add default skill choice to user add edit in admin	We added the option to indicate a default skill targets plan. If your school makes use of multiple Skills Target Plans, your default plan will be the plan shown in the Performance page Heatmap by default.
Add default skill choice to batch user add edit in admin	We added the ability to change skills target plans for multiple students at the same time ('batch edit'). As always in batch edit mode, please be sure to check the small box in front of the item you intend to modify, in order for the process to apply the changes.
Show Individual Student on top of heatmap page	We made it easier to identify the student that the heatmap applies to, by adding the student name at top of the heatmap page.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed as part of this update to Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Send a message as an Advisor to a group receives an error	We addressed a bug in the messaging system that prevented successful sending of messages to more than 1 user simultaneously.
Advisor approved a project, did not close the window, clicking 'x' option received error	We addressed a bug that caused an error when the advisor closes the popup window to confirm a submitted experience proposal by using the 'x' in the upper right hand side of the popup.
Heatmap columns not always adjusting to maximum width	We addressed an annoying bug that would prevent the heatmap to auto adjust to maximum available width when switching between targets and skills.
Quick Actions: Add Calendar does not display any calendars or users to choose	We corrected a bug that prevented the add a calendar event selection popup window from displaying the available calendar options to which to add the event.
Paladin: Advisor; Evaluation Assess student link receives server 500 error	We corrected a bug that in certain situations was creating an error when clicking the 'assess student' link in the evaluation screen.
When What's up page loads (summary) all the tasks,etc get called 3 separate times in a row-summary count functions in a row	Some advisors noticed less than acceptable response time for the 'what's up?' column items on the MyWork page. We investigated that reason for the long processing times and eliminated the unnecessary steps.
Advisor, What's Up column	We corrected a bug that would cause Verifying tasks to only verify in a group of tasks, not on individual tasks. In addition, the number count does not decrease for individual tasks, and Foundry does not take the task off the What's Up list of 'tasks waiting to be verified'. This is now processing individual tasks properly.
Student: Action menus beneath cards have "Evaluate" -- is on prod also	in the student role, experience menu cards showed an 'evaluate' option, which should not be available to students. We corrected this bug by removing the option from the list of menu items.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of June 3, 2019.

 

May 13, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancements for Foundry in this week's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Advisor role: move 'Saved Request' to the 'What's up?' column	We're working on places where we can streamline the advisor workflows in Foundry. As a small step in that direction we have moved the 'Saved Requests' function to the What's Up? column so that all daily administrative tasks can be launched from the same location on your dashboard.
Starting a time log or other experience products from the Work tab should have the project already filled in.	We corrected an issue that would require the student or advisor to select an experience to associate with a time log, journal and other evidence products, even though the creation of the work evidence was started from within the experience 'Work' tab.
Updating the date range of an individual plan disconnects it from the template, it should stay connected.	We improved the connection between the Learning Plan Template and the date range it applies to. If the date range is edited (different start or end date) it will remain connected to the Learning Plan template, so that results in the Performance page charts will cover the correct date range.
The date range of a User Learning Plan needs to overwrite the date range of the Learning Plan Template.	If a personal Learning Plan is created for an individual student, the date range entered for the Personal Plan will now consistently take precedent over the date range of the general Learning Plan Template for all students assigned to it. Evaluation data on the Performance pages will show according to the personal Learning Plan date range.
Start of the Form Update	We have made further enhancements to the processing of time log requests. These forms and the dashboard for it are now loading data faster, resulting in less wait time for the user.
The What's Up? column item counts are inconsistent	We have reviewed how the items waiting for review in the What's Up? column are calculated. We made some enhancements to the processing of relevant items and improved the efficiency of the process, so counts are now correct and present faster on the screen for the user.
Skills piechart don't show green.	We enhanced the chart presentation in the Performance pages to include marks that are (not yet) used in any evaluations. This will help the user with a more complete reference base for the results shown in the graphs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed as part of this update to Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Save create time log and log more time	We corrected an issue with the Time Log form that didn't reset the Time Log form after saving. It is now working properly, so multiple Time Logs can be filed using the 'save and log more' option.
Student Pie chart not accurate	We corrected an issue with processing of credits for the Pie Chart for individual students. In some situations, incorrect dates were used for retrieval of relevant evaluations. This is now fixed and the data is showing correctly in the Pie Chart.
I am having difficulty deleting duplicate 'saved requests' from the My Learning Opportunities list.	We made several enhancements to this functionality and reviewed this scenario as part of that effort. It has been thoroughly tested and is working as intended.
in Advisor role clicking on Journals appears not to respond because retrieval of information takes a long time without user feedback	We reviewed the processing of the Journal items in Foundry and found that improvements could be made to the efficiency of the process. This has now been completed and will show in much faster response time to the user.
Inconsistent number of journals awaiting replies in What's Up?	We found a bug in the processing of updates to Journals which resulted in the count not being updated in the What's Up? column. This is now corrected.
Time log, Save and log more seems to not be saving the entered information	The process of saving the time log information entered was determined to be taking a longer than desired time. We reviewed the processing logic and made significant enhancements so that the actual indication of completion of saving the data will now be seen much quicker, avoiding confusing and duplicate entry of data.
Adding personal goal autocompletes the goal	After a user reported this bug, we reviewed and addressed the relevant sections of Foundry that were causing this unexpected behavior.
Filtering a student on my students page reduced the shown users to a single page. This is not happening on experiences or my work.	We identified a bug in the paging of student records on the students page (advisor role). In a specific scenario, only the first 9 student cards would be displayed. The cause was researched and identified. Scrolling through student cards is now working as expected.
Adding a time log from within a project forces me choose an experience to connect to, instead of my project title already being known.	In certain scenarios, starting a time log from within the students experience would not pre-select the project title as is expected. This issue was researched and resolved. Now, starting a time log and other evidence from within a project context will automatically load the project title in the appropriate field on the form.
what's up Experiences ready to be evaluated, opening messages receives error	Users reported encountering an error message when clicking on the 'experiences to be evaluated' option on the My Work page. We researched this and made the appropriate corrections.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of May 13, 2019.

 

May 10, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included no functional enhancements for Foundry in this week's update.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed as part of this update to Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
requesting a 'Journal awaiting reply' is not responsive	We identified a bug on the advisor My Work page that caused the journals not to open so that they cold be reviewed. This has now been resolved and the journals can be accessed again.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of May 10, 2019.

May 8, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this week's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Investigate if users still use Admin: 'Add Transfer Record" to add transfer records.. If not used, Hide button in Admin.	We simplified the workflow for transfer records. We removed the creation of transfer records as part of the user profile setup in the Admin section. It is now only accomplished through the use of a form, the transfer record form.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed as part of this update to Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Removing a scale from the list of scales does remove them, they come back after clicking back in.	We determined that Foundry was not properly emptying its memory of 'what had been there before', so it would present the data again, even though the deletion process was correctly completed. We changed the approach to emptying the memory during processing, so this confusion won't happen in the future.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of May 8, 2019.

 

April 26, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this week's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
de-commission the Performance Overview page.	Now that the student progress information contained in the Performance section Overview page is available in dynamic form in other Performance pages, we have discontinued the historical Overview page.

 

 

Bug Fixes

We did not include any corrections to reported bugs in this update to Foundry.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of April 26, 2019.

March 7, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this week's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
'Approve' in Search Experiences is auto checked. Please change this to having no status checked so the default search is all inclusive.	The search function for searching Experiences was using 'approved' status by default. after receiving feedback and researching the way teachers use this search, we removed the default setting. Users can now start a search that includes any status, or refine as needed.
Advisors do not always want to see target evaluation detail. This indicates the need for something between 'More' and 'All'. Advisors want to see all the targets and not the detail.	We further refined the amount of information showing in the performance page 'Pie Chart' and 'Credit' tabs. We introduced the concept of 'All -' which lets the user visually remove the result data from the full 'All' listing.
Provide a way to search for projects with 'in progress' targets.	We updated the Performance page for 'Pie Chart' with a further filtering and searching enhancement. It is now possible to search for learning targets that are still 'in progress' and are associated with a learning experience.
Update the Foundry Forms admin user Interface	We took the first step in a full update of the forms section of Foundry. The interface for accessing forms to create, edit etc. for the Admin role is now consistent with other top level pages in this part of Foundry. We have planned a multi step approach to address remaining upgrades and conversions of forms to be completed over the next couple of months.
Add success/error messages for forms in new forms page	As part of the migration of the top level 'forms' area in the admin role, we added action confirmation or error information messages for the user.
Create new PF6 version of export for .pff (foundry form) files.	We updated the export process for Foundry Forms (.pff) to work in the new environment of Foundry. Forms can be shared with other Foundry users by exporting and importing, as long as the file has the '.pff' extension.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs were fixed as part of this update to Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
project filtering doesn't always show correct results	We identified some instances when the project filtering in the Performance pages was not delivering correct results (projects included that should have been filtered out). We refined the filtering mechanism to produce accurate results.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of March 7, 2019.

March 1, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We did not include functionality enhancements for Foundry in this weekend's update.

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Performance Page PieChart and Credits listings are Missing Subject Groups	Foundry was not including all use cases in the calculation for what should be shown in the listing. We addressed this issue and now all the appropriate subject groups are showing correctly.
Re-assignment of appropriate evaluator is not showing in the preview MCCC report	We fixed a bug in the processing of these requests for changing the assignment of evaluating advisor on the student experience.
MCCC student course codes for use in reporting to MDE have changed	Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has modified some course codes in their system, which requires an update to the MCCC process in Foundry.
Performance page change per customer suggestions	We adjusted the default view upon first time entering the Performance page tab to 'Hide' for all users.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of March 1, 2019.

February 17, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this weekend's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Showing Pie Chart in the Performance page is very slow on chromebook	After receiving reports of certain Foundry elements being unusually slow to refresh on the screen, we researched this Chromebook specific situation. We analyzed the logic in relation to the Chromebook device specific environment and made a number of modifications that reduce the processing time to within acceptable response time criteria for Foundry.
Extend performance Credit tab with grades and Done and ToDo button like pie. Also add selection per credit (overview as well as detail	We introduced the filter approach available in the Pie Chart tab to the Credits tab in the Performance Page. An advisor or student can now make use of pre-established filter options to: a) quickly extend the available list down to all Content Targets and b) filter the list for completed or to be done targets. The Content Targets will now show GPA in the same format as on the Summary Transcript.
Grades on Transcript Reports	We researched the absence of GPA listing at the Subject Group level in the Summary Transcript report and addressed the report generation process flow that was not including this information from the system.
Add 'student address' custom attribute field into top-right corner of the Summary Transcript	We made the ability to add custom fields to Summary Transcript and Detail Transcript consistent and more intuitive.
Response time while typing should be such that smooth showing of typed text occurs.	Some users have reported that Foundry doesn't visually show typing progress fast enough when using a Chromebook computer. Users have to 'wait for the computer to catch up with the typing'. We changed that way Foundry manages interaction with the browser window to improve the visual tracking speed when typing.
Heat map shall have pre-defined filters for quick switching of major insight views.	We added the same Hide and All pre-set filters that are found on the 'Pie-Chart' and 'Credit' pages. The user can now quickly switch between a 'Subject' view and a detail 'Content Target' and 'Skill Target' view.

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Performance page: bar graph numbers are not visible initially in the gray area. The numbers become visible when clicking into 'Done' and 'To Do'	We refined the processing for display of evaluation data so that visibility is improved in the progress bars, avoiding the need for clicking into the bar to see information.
Clicking on a project title in the Credits tab under Performance does not open the project detail. Foundry shows an error message.	We identified a bug in the presentation code and corrected it so that clicking on any project title in the credits listing will open the project plan.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of February 17, 2019.

January 7, 2019

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this weekend's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Improve the connectivity for unreliable network connections	We enhanced the workings of the browser testing its network connection to the Foundry server. Users will now get a notification if network connection issues are interfering with accessing application and data. If Foundry encounters multiple connectivity issues it will inform the user that it is going to log out, so that the connection can be completely re-initiated.
Selections from Performance page are 'remembered' when clicking into other student.	We reduced the number of steps an advisor needs to take when switching between students on the Performance pages. Now, when moving from one student to another, Foundry will 'remember' what the advisor selections were, so that these same selections will be shown upon return to that student.

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
On the Performance page: Skills Circle graph not displaying 'All Subjects", does display individual subjects	We identified an issue with the Pie Chart graph in the performance page. 'Attempted' targets were showing, which is not appropriate. We addressed the bug that was causing that.
When a student adds a time log from within an experience, the experience should be already connected.	We corrected a bug in the new time log form which wouldn't display which experience the time log is associated with, if the student generated the time log entry from with the experience.
'In Progress' credits show for completed projects, 'in Progress' credits should not show when a project completes	We adjusted the processing of 'in progress credits' in the performance page and transcripts to no longer show once the associated project is completed.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of today.

December 16, 2018

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this weekend's update.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Enhancement of Login User Experience	We addressed various aspects of the Foundry software architecture to enable current and future enhancements to login for all users. The current update simplifies the login process for all users. Any user can now login just once using a single login screen, regardless of their role. Users with more than one role can navigate between roles without logging out.

October November 2, 2018

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Advanced Course Code Report	We addressed an issue with the MN Course Code Reporting process. Certain categories of evaluations from prior years showed in the selected reporting year Course Code report. This has been addressed.

October October 19, 2018

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Advisor and student are no able to see a list of all experiences for the student when clicking on "More experiences"	We addressed an issue with loading additional experiences in a new window when student or advisor used the 'more experiences' button to see all experiences for the student.

 

October 13, 2018

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this release.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
Time Log Results dashboard: present results with 'This Form Only' unchecked as default	We refined the presentation of time submitted through the Time Logs. The Time Submitted dashboard now shows all time from all available time log forms used upon opening the individual student dashboard for time. Users can subsequently filter the results to fewer items by using the available filters, including the ''this form only' option.

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Inactive subjects appearing in Performance Review	We addressed this inadvertent appearance of Subjects that are not part of the current active Learning Target Set in our continuing enhancement of the Performance page charts and graphs.
main navigation dropdown menus are sometimes obstructed by alerts that appear to behave randomly. when closing the menu.	Usability for all our users is very important to their success. We reviewed and refined the interaction of the various elements on the page as part of our ongoing effort to optimize the experience of our users.
Requested projects from Students are not showing up in the Notifications for the Advisor	We addressed a bug in the notifications that prevented a notification for a requested project to show in the notifications for the advisor. this is now consistent once again with the list of requested projects shown in the 'What's Up?' column on the Advisor dashboard.
Credit discrepancy in Summary Report	We received some reports that indicated a discrepancy in the 'credit remaining' report for student's earned credit. We researched the cause of that and addressed it. It is now functioning as designed again.
User should be able to see a preview of an Imported Form	When a user imports a Foundry Form into the school site, she should be presented with a preview of what the form will look like. We noticed that that was not happening, we our developers addressed that. It is now working properly again.

 

October 5, 2018

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this release.

Item Description	Description of the enhancement
admin/advisor drop down menus do not work consistently.	We addressed an inconsistency related to how drop down menus behaved in the admin and advisor roles of Foundry. Now, only 1 menu will be open at the same time and the active drop down menu will not stay open when the user clicks anywhere else on the screen.

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Advanced Course Code Spreadsheet is not showing correct data in some columns	As part of the preparation for our MN school customer reporting 2017-18 student results to MN Dept. of Ed, we reviewed and updated the MN Course Code report.
Time Log Filters should narrow down search results for relevant Time Logs	Filters in the newly enhanced Time Log functionality were not properly filtering for specific Time Logs. We addressed the issue and made an improve filter set available to all customer sites.

 

September 21, 2018

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this release.

Item description	Description of the enhancement
Reincorporate the Experience Warehouse for Foundry	At the request of several customers we re-introduced the 'Experience Warehouse' in Foundry. Functionality has been tested to work as in previous versions of Foundry, but with updated technology and security rules applied. Both advisors and students have access to Experiences listed in the Warehouse for assignment .
Add a "badge" to appropriate project cards to indicate privacy restrictions applied.	As part of the enhancements we implemented that make use of the additional privacy functionality optional, we introduce a 'badge' on the experience card which will inform the user that the experience has applied the more restrictive visibility options.
Filter irrelevant project groups out of presentation	In certain situations, Foundry would show projects that had no evaluations or plans against them. We refined the filters that are used to determine the showing of relevant projects to avoid confusion.
Remove "Connect To Experience" if selecting through experience actions	We received feedback from some customers indicating that their school is currently not (yet) applying privacy restrictions to individual student experiences. We added to ability to opt out of using that functionality.
Privacy: Include functionality to enable schools to work with less restrictive visibility for individual Experiences.	We received feedback from some customers indicating that their school is currently not (yet) applying privacy restrictions to individual student experiences. We added to ability to opt out of using that functionality.
Incorporate detailed data structure in piechart so that it requires less clicking to get the detail information.	We made enhancements to the mechanism that retrieves data from Foundry to present in the 'Pie Chart' page so that same level of detail can be available as on the 'Overview Page'.
Add checkbox to project form to select additional visibility restriction	We added the option to determine for each individual Experience proposal if visibility restriction rules should apply by adding a check box at the bottom of the proposal form.
Adjust privacy settings mechanism and tell user if she does not have access to a specific experience.	We created messaging to alert Foundry users if their privacy settings do not allow them to view an experience they clicked on.
Add option to enable school wide use of experience level visibility rules in school settings.	We provided the option for schools to choose the use of enhanced privacy rules for student experiences in the school's 'school settings' page.

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Item description	How we addressed the issue
Student can't add a new calendar	We found a bug in the calendar mechanism that prevented students from adding a new calendar in their account. This has been addressed is now working properly.
Assigning a student to a result with active experience causes error	We found a bug in the mechanism that is used to assign students to an experience. If the experience was already in 'Active' state, assigning an additional student would cause an error. We addressed this issue.
The calendar 'save' button is not visibly saving (no visual feedback)	We noticed that the button 'save' on the calendar 'add an event' as well as the 'add a task' forms were not providing feedback about the successful saving of entered information. We fixed that bug in these two pages, as well as on other similar forms we noticed it.
After editing and saving a project plan form, some advisors are logged and have to log back in.	Some Advisors reported that they were experiencing a forced log out after editing and saving an Experience proposal form. We researched this issue and corrected the logic that would cause this in specific circumstances.
Parent Portal should show full student dashboard information	Some schools report that parents logging in to the parent portal to review their student's progress were not presented with the full breadth of the Pie Chart and other graphs. We researched this and corrected some issues with access for the parent role.
Our calendar is not usable because it doesn't seem to handle timezone very well	We received reports from several schools indicating that the management of time zones for the Foundry calendar was not functioning correctly. Our developers reviewed the issue and developed several improvements to support our growing international presence among our customers.
Time on database	Our calendar functionality was not handling time zone and date line changes correctly. We worked with our school customer in Cambodia to identify the issues and developed corrections. The calendar now manages changes in time zone due to travel etc. transparently.

 

September 9, 2018

Functional Enhancements

We included the following enhancement for Foundry in this release.

We noticed that function to create a history of modifications was not working properly.

After thorough investigation we identified a communication issue between system components . The temporary interruption of the logging function has been addressed.

 

Bug Fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Students are not able to use the Search for Examples feature	We discovered that when students are logged in, they are unable to search for example experience proposals. This is now corrected.
Admin logged in to Foundry receive an error when trying to save a newly created group	We investigated the bug that causes this and made the required corrections. Saving a newly created group is now working as expected.
Detailed transcript does not run, an error message is presented	A bug was reported to us in the generation of the detail transcript. We found the issue and correct the software responsible for this.
On the Groups form, the ability to hide inactive groups is not working properly.	We responded to this bug reported by one of our customer and addressed the issue. It is now possible again to hide groups that are currently not active.
On the Performance page the heat map graphic student data is not refreshing	We noticed that the student performance data in the Heat Map graphic was not refreshing after modifications. This has now been researched, corrected and tested and made available to live sites.

September 7, 2018

Functional Enhancements

We introduced the following enhancements to Foundry.

Time log form needs to associate with users and experiences like project/journal forms	We expanded the functionality on the Log Time forms so that a student can connect the logged time to an experience.
Make default time log form editable from batch edit	We expanded the ability to assign multiple 'Log Time' forms in the user profile as well as indicate a default form that is not the standard form shipped with Foundry. This is now also available when editing multiple users simultaneously, so called 'batch edit'.
Project Warehouse projects	We are making available the ability to 'publish' successful Foundry Experience plans to a Foundry Warehouse where they can subsequently be accessed and assigned to a selection of students.
Experience proposal form needs to have a separate option for selecting students vs. advisors into the proposed experience.	We added the ability for the proposal writer to distinguish between students only, advisors or coaches only or all on the advisor group.

 

 

 

Bug fixes

We corrected these bugs in Foundry.

Coach role functionality review and update	We reviewed and updated the Coach role in Foundry to enable parents, mentors and others to support students in their authentic learning.We corrected an issue with some popup forms didn't close as expected when clicking on the 'save' or similar option buttons
Modal windows don't close when clicking 'create'  have to click cancel after selection- journals, results	We corrected an issue with some popup forms didn't close as expected when clicking on the 'save' or similar option buttons
Student journal form needs to have the option to publish to the Foundry Warehouse	We enabled the ability to publish a 'journal' form to the Foundry Warehouse for use by others.
Student journal: Send for Review goes to page within a page	We investigated an issue with student journals that cause the journal to not present properly in the browser.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of today.

August 25, 2018

Functional Enhancements

No function enhancements are included in this release.

Bug fixes

The following bugs were addressed in this release.

Student: Quick Actions: Add Calendar event allows access to others' calendars, could add events.

We corrected a situation that allowed a student to add a calendar event for another student when using the 'Add Calendar Event' option. The student is now only able to add events to his/her own calendar.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of today.

August 21, 2018

Functional Enhancements

The following enhancements were included in the August 21 update for all schools

HeatMap still not consistently displaying the same information when switching from Group user to individual user  presentation.	Updated the Heatmap to use the same individualization as in the other performance pages.
Owner name in plan proposal selection box is hard to recognize	We made some modifications to the text formatting in the owner selection box on the experience proposal form to make the group information more readable. Owner names are now 'bolded' and additional advisors are in italics.
Selecting project owner from student side should be restricted to one selection.	Project owner from student side is restricted to one owner selection per project proposal.

 

 

 

 

Bug fixes

The following bugs were reported and addressed with the August 21 update.

Foundry shows "Never Logged In" even when student has previously logged in	In some situations, Foundry indicated that a student had never logged in, even though the student had.
Time logs should not be an option when time logs are not chosen from Admin as an option (mc2)	For some schools the option to not use time log functionality was not working, so that students would still see the option available to them for use.
Some advisors receive an error in evaluations using the bulk assigning grades functionality	We addressed a bug that would prevent advisors from assigning credit to multiple  students at once.
The MCCC report needs to be updated to work with the MDE reporting requirements	We have adjusted how the Minnesota Course Code reporting process functions as a result of technology modifications the MN Department of Education made

 

August 17, 2018

Functional Enhancements

The following enhancements were included in the August 17 update for all schools

Make 'Withdraw Submission" not require a comment	We removed the requirement for an advisor to add a comment when  selecting the 'Not done yet' option for a submitted project.
Relabel the Performance "Reset Cache" Button	We relabeled the menu option under Performance Actions on the Performance Page to be more meaningful to the user.
Completed projects still show Learning Targets that are 'in progress'.	The functionality of project evaluation has been enhanced to cause all targets in a project to be cancelled (not counted) regardless of their evaluation state, if a project is cancelled instead of completed.

 

Bug fixes

The following bugs were reported and addressed with the August 17 update.

Error when saving an edited requested project.	Some advisors reported not being able to save a requested student project. We found resolved the issue and all project proposals will now be saved correctly.
It is not possible to save a credit.	In some cases it wasn't possible to save edits to a previously recorded credit because the credit was not shown on the screen
In the performance page, credits sometimes show a full green bar with no value.	We adjusted how Foundry communicates student results to the browser.
Can't properly build a transcript	Some schools reported not being able to  generate detail transcripts. After updating a software tool that we use to build our transcripts, advisors can now successfully produce transcripts again.
The 'All My Students' Group in performance is not showing.	We fixed an inconsistency that would cause the 'All My Students' group not to be showing in the list options, or show without a proper name.

All corrections and enhancements are available to all customers as of today.

On August 1 2018 we updated our approach to communicating Release Notes. For information about releases prior to August 1, please visit the earlier Release Information page.

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