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NexPort Solutions is proud to announce that we have release version 5.4.0 of NexPort Campus. This release introduces a number of performance enhancements as well as enhancements to the NexPort WebApi and the NexPort WebHooks. We have also expanded the flexibility of our system by introdcuing custom enrollment fields that can be defined at an organization level and used to collect your organizations unique information requirements for each enrollment. In previous versions a mastery score could be defined for each assignment. In 5.4.0, curricullm developers can now set a mastery score on an entire section and the system will obey that mastery score when grading a completed enrollment. 5.4.0 continues to improve upon our exceptionally friendly user interface. We've made the classroom view friendlier for students on mobile devices by seperating the assignment listing into it's own scrolling area. With each release we intend to continue to refine to user experience for mobile students. Finally, NexPort Campus 5.4.0 introduces many bug fixes for minor problems. We continue to make our partner's and student's success our first priority and look forward to many more successful releases. Please look below for a full listing of enhancements, new features and bug fixes in 5.5.0. Full Release NotesAbout NexPort SolutionsNexPort Solutions, a division of Darwin Global LLC, is a systems and software engineering company that provides innovative, cost-effective training solutions and support for federal, state and local government, as well as the private sector.
NexPort Solutions is currently servicing students in partnership with the following organizations: Smart Horizons Career Online Education, Florida Department of Corrections, Cengage Learning/Gale/ed2go, Advanced Systems Technology, Smart Horizons, Cameron University, Hondros Learning, Walmart, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and the State of NJ Library System. For more information on NexPort Solutions, please visit http://www.nexportsolutions.com/. OKLAHOMA CITY - Sep. 22, 2015 – NexPort Solutions released several minor enhancements with today’s release of NexPort Campus version 5.3.3.
Version 5.3.3 includes additional fields for use in both certificates and site-wide VTL templates (group pages, assignment descriptions, etc) as well as additional information display in administrative listings for sections and catalogs. The new fields include:
Example: 2009-06-15T13:45:30 -> Monday, June 15, 2009 1:45 PM CST VTL: enrollment.completiondate.fulldate_tz Certificates: enrollmentCompletionDate.fulldate_tz Example: 2009-06-15T13:45:30 -> 6/15/2009 1:45 PM CDT VTL: enrollment.completiondate.shortdatetime_tz Certificate: enrollmentCompletionDate.shortdatetime_tz Example: CDT VTL: enrollment.completiondate.timezone_abbr Certificate: enrollmentCompletionDate.timezone_abbr The new data in listings include the addition of the Unique Name in administrative listings of sections. This point release is the result of NexPort Solutions dedication to Continuous Improvement and our desire to meet our customers evolving needs. OKLAHOMA CITY - Aug. 11, 2015 – NexPort Solutions Group issued several new enhancements and features with today’s release of NexPort Campus version 5.3.0. NexPort Campus users are now able to assign a Primary Instructor Role. Primary instructors can be specified when a section has more than one instructor, allowing the primary instructor to alter settings other instructors cannot. Students can learn about their instructors with biographical information on the instructor’s profile, which is now viewable in the student’s classroom. Students may also message their instructor directly via the classroom by clicking on the instructor’s name, making communication to their instructor simple and accessible. In this release, instructors also received the ability to add assignment headers to the classroom, allowing instructors the ability to easily organize their assignments. Instructors can also make this viewable to only themselves or viewable to the students, as well. This can all be managed in the instructor’s classroom. Enhancements to the testing feature were also implemented in the NexPort Campus 5.3.0 release. Multi-choice questions and 5-point scale question types for question bank bulk upload are now available to users creating tests. Administrators with the Academic Override Permission can also authorize students to retake a test. Features were also developed for customer service. Customer service representatives for your organization are now able to impersonate a user with the Login As feature. This allows customer service to view what the user is seeing and help them navigate and resolve the issue in a timely manner. Full Release NotesHere are the full release notes, by case, for 5.3.0:
62977: Curriculum developers should be able to mark a single instructor as the "primary" instructor for a section.Curriculum developers can now mark a single instructor as the "primary" instructor for a section. The primary instructor will be displayed to the student in the instructor profile. 62876: Training Plan Authors should be able to hide the display of the GPA in the student view... 63656: Webservice should allow remote systems to edit custom enrollment fieldsAllows customers' remote systems to edit the values of custom enrollment fields. 63384: Web API should allow the Access Expiration to be set on Individual Invoice ItemsAllows customers' remote systems to set an access expiration on invoice items. 63386: GetSectionEnrollments and GetTrainingPlanEnrollments needs OPTIONAL orgId, syllabusID, EnrollmentID, syllabusUniqueName fieldsGetSectionEnrollments and GetTrainingPlanEnrollments can have their results filtered by organization id, syllabus id, enrollment id, and/or syllabus unique name. 61811: Ed2go Service Job should send a friendly message rejection when a datetime is in an invalid formatThe Ed2go service will now receive a friendly message when the expiration datetime is in the wrong format. 66722: Students should be able to view the Instructor Profile From the ClassroomIf turned on, students can see the primary instructor's profile AND message them. 65242: Question Bank Bulk Upload should support the 5 point scale question typeQuestion Bank Bulk Upload now supports the 5 point scale question type 65218: Question Bank Bulk Upload Sheet needs to support Multi Choice QuestionsQuestion Bank Bulk Upload Sheet now supports Multi Choice Questions 65793: Web API requires a method for listing ALL subscriptions a user hasAllows customers' remote systems to retrieve a list of subscriptions for a user. 65794: WebApi requires a method for searching Users by a search term (GetUsers)Allows customers' remote systems to search for users based on a given search term. 65708: Admin should be able to see and edit Test Details in the Enrollment EditorAdmins can now see and edit a student's Test Details in the Enrollment Editor 64489: Admins need to be able to see the Assignment Mastery Score in the Enrollment ViewAdministrators can now see the assignment mastery score in both the enrollments breakdown and the assignment academic tools tabs. 61834: Administrators with Academic Override Permission should be able to Authorize Students to Re-Take Failed TestsAcademic Override Admins can now allow test re-takes as well as the instructor. 57799: Add assignment headers that can Group Assignments and Can be expanded/CollapsedAssignments can now be grouped under collapsible headings in the section classroom 63387: Web API should allow dropping existing enrollmentsAllows customers' remote systems to drop and delete enrollments. 63491: Provide ability to specify different title to display to students than the one inside the courseware SCORM packageSCORM Courseware assignments may now have a title that differs from the course-ware title 62504: Add Instructor information to assignment template fieldsThe templates used for assignment description and title can now include templated Instructor Info 1668: Customer Service needs to be able to impersonate a student loginAdministrators can now login as other users. 62696: Curriculum Developers need the ability to duplicate an existing SectionAdded a wizard that allows admins to copy a section from an existing section 60851: API Should allow updating the User's Profile and Contact InfoAllows customers' remote systems to edit a user's name, email, and other contact information. 63849: Webservice should allow ability to disable a user's accessAllows customers' remote systems to disable a user's subscription in an organization. 63850: Webservice should allow retrieval of user contact field valuesAllows customers' remote systems to retrieve a user's contact information. 63709: Add a GetCatalogs method that returns a list of Catalog Ids and additional informationAllows customers' remote systems to retrieve a list of catalogs that are shared to an organization. NexPort Solutions released NexPort Campus v5.2.0 Thursday, offering a new WebApi, user interface enhancements and performance improvements that increased the general performance of the system, as well as several new features. In addition, NexPort is moving its underlying architecture away from Monorail MVC to the Microsoft MVC framework. Engineers have increased the speed of NexPort Campus by removing legacy code and refining the NexPort indexing engine.
Using the new NexPort WebApi, clients can now integrate their existing applications, websites and other systems directly with NexPort Campus. The NexPort WebApi is a secure, JSON based API. It is fully documented and provides access to many of the administrative and reporting features in NexPort Campus. Additional WebApi methods will be introduced in v.5.3.0. New features in this release also included ad hoc invoicing. Ad hoc invoicing means that administrators can now create and manage invoices. NexPort Campus’ Invoicing System is a key part of the newly introduced Point-of-Sale (PoS) model. The PoS model is designed to augment the existing Organizational model, allowing students to receive enrollments through a purchasing system, as well as the standard group membership system. Custom enrollment fields were also introduced in 5.2.0. Custom enrollments provide administrators and other users with permission to gather information for enrollments via the student input assignment in the classroom. Students will answer the questions, sending that information directly to the respective instructor or administrator requesting the information. The student input assignment also allows administrators and/or instructors to securely gather data for certificates and user profiles. While custom profile fields are not a new feature to v5.2.0, enhancements were made that introduced new profile field types. A new audit log feature tracks any action taken on the fields. Enhancements to tests and question banks provided users the ability to upload test questions in bulk from a supported file type, making the process of creating tests simpler and quicker. Tests can also now contain open-ended response questions and user-defined question IDs (a unique identifier for searching and sorting). Administrators can use tests from the current organization or a parent, as well. In addition, instructors can add feedback to test questions. This feedback can be shown either after each question is answered or at the end of the exam. Finally, NexPort Campus 5.2.0 represents NexPort Solutions’ continued commitment to providing our customers with the tools and technologies they require to meet the constantly evolving needs of their students. About NexPort Campus NexPort Campus is a secure, hosted learning and knowledge management system. NexPort Campus also supports interactive engagement within learning communities through the use of videos, organization-wide calendar, shared documents, organization-wide web pages and threaded discussions. Additional system features include data interoperability with external systems, secure digital libraries with subscriber-only access and an integrated Student Information System (SIS). NexPort Campus also allows clients to provide their learners with customized, on-demand training and education environment. Clients operate within their own branded portals to deliver their unique content and services independently of each other. Customers may subdivide their portals to establish and manage subordinate secure portals for their customers, subsidiaries or divisions. Each portal provides privacy protection and security. Your custom portal can be setup with Secure Sockets Layer technology (128-bit encryption) and a custom domain. Based out of Oklahoma City, NexPort Solutions Group enables educators and learners to use NexPort Campus to create, organize and hold webmeetings using NexPort Solutions Group’s own NexMeeting. NexMeeting promotes virtual learning, providing users with the ability to share desktops, hold conversations using headset and telephonic audio, survey meeting participants and share videos, PowerPoint slides, photos and documents using the whiteboard. About NexPort Solutions Group NexPort Solutions Group is a division of Darwin Global LLC, a systems and software engineering company that provides innovative, cost-effective training solutions and support for federal, state and local government, as well as the private sector. Media Contact: Darcy Delaney Communications and Public Relations Specialist Darwin Global Enterprises 405-217-4060 www.nexportsolutions.com OKLAHOMA CITY – Nov. 4, 2014 – NexPort Solutions Group released its latest version of NexPort Campus today. This release fixes 193 bugs and introduces 65 new features and enhancements. NexPort Campus 5.1 and the 5.1.1 point release improves performance and provides new features to organization administrators, system operators and instructors, including creating, and managing.
New Features Select clients have been allowed to test the new invoicing features in NexPort Campus. The invoicing features will allow organizations to grant enrollments to students, using invoices that represent real-world monetary transactions. System operators, and administrators in these select organizations, now have the ability to create adhoc invoices to better serve their organizations’ needs. Not only can users customize invoices for billing, but administrators and other authorized users can also modify the expiration date and training available date on enrollments. Organization administrators can also lock the enrollment expiration date and date available to students. This new feature prevents enrollment changes from altering dates set for users. The invoicing features are the first step in a full Point of Sale implementation in NexPort Campus. In addition to enrollment and invoicing features, NexPort engineers also introduced the ability for administrators to impersonate a student using SCORM courseware, allowing administrators to see first-hand any issues the student might have. This provides them with the ability to reproduce and troubleshoot any complications a student might encounter. Permissions have also been enhanced in the 5.1 release. Administrators with the new “Add Users” permission may add new users directly into NexPort Campus without requiring sysop permissions. In addition, both customer service and organization administrators can delete users if needed. A system status page was also added to display the current status of all required services for NexPort Campus. Finally, users can now upload images directly to most fields that support rich-text or HTML input. This includes test questions, allowing for image-based questions on any exam built within NexPort Campus. Images uploaded to NexPort are stored and tracked in an organization-wide Media Library. Media Library images can be managed, updated and deleted from the Documents area of Group Management. Performance Enhancements NexPort software engineers updated several features to increase speed and capacity within the LMS.
About NexPort Campus NexPort Campus is a secure, hosted learning and knowledge management system. NexPort Campus also supports interactive engagement within learning communities through the use of videos, organization-wide calendar, shared documents, organization-wide webpages and threaded discussions. Additional system features include data interoperability with external systems, secure digital libraries with subscriber-only access and an integrated Student Information System (SIS). NexPort Campus also allows clients to provide their learners with customized, on-demand training and education environment. Clients operate within their own branded portals to deliver their unique content and services independently of each other. Customers may subdivide their portals to establish and manage subordinate secure portals for their customers, subsidiaries or divisions. Each portal provides privacy protection and security. Your custom portal can be setup with Secure Sockets Layer technology (128-bit encryption) and a custom domain. NexPort Solutions Group enables educators and learners to use NexPort Campus to create, organize and hold webmeetings using NexPort Solutions Group’s own NexMeeting. NexMeeting promotes virtual learning, providing users with the ability to share desktops, hold conversations using headset and telephonic audio, survey meeting participants and share videos, PowerPoint slides, photos and documents using the whiteboard. About NexPort Solutions Group NexPort Solutions Group is a division of Darwin Global Enterprises, a systems and software engineering company that provides innovative, cost-effective training solutions and support for federal, state and local government, as well as the private sector. OKLAHOMA CITY — July 23, 2014 — NexPort Reporting Services users can now create customizable dashboards, allowing administrators to share reports with users. New dashboard features, as well as several bug fixes were implemented in the 1.2 NRS release today.
OKLAHOMA CITY – September 13, 2013 – NexPort Solutions Group today released NexPort Campus version 5.0, which includes 320 bug fixes and performance improvements, 17 enhancements and a new writing assignment feature. This release features an easy-to-navigate NexPort Campus with faster loading time and new writing assignments UI to make NexPort more user-friendly and intuitive.
Technical Enhancements NexPort engineers provided an extensive amount of work toward version 5.0 on technical enhancements, with the main enhancement being that of removing the dependency on Castle:ActiveRecord from the data access layer. "Castle ActiveRecord is an open source Object Relational Mapper (ORM) that has provided a strong and flexible Data Access Layer for NexPort since version 1,” said Dan Pupek, NexPort Solutions Group Chief Systems Architect. “Two factors have driven our decision to no longer use ActiveRecord. First, ActiveRecord has become an obsolete project and is no longer supported by its community. We were not willing to fork our own version. Second, ActiveRecord was merely an abstraction layer on top of a more robust ORM called Nhibernate. Moving forward, NexPort will use Nhibernate directly." Engineers also made the transition to Couchbase for data caching. This provides a faster loading time for NexPort Campus. "Since version 3, we have used Memcached to provide a data-caching layer between NexPort and the database server,” Pupek said. “This data caching speeds up the site by relieving the database server of some of its work. As of version 5.0, NexPort will use Couchbase or caching. Couchbase is a modern 64-bit Memchached implementation that supports higher speed access and simplified clustering. "Both of these moves from ActiveRecord and from Memcached will keep our technology relevant, allow us to expand more quickly and provide additional performance for future capacity requirements," Pupek said. Performance Enhancements Version 5.0 provides performance enhancements to force enrollments and user upload, cutting wait time for both the administrator and the student significantly. This release also sends users with quicker results for force enrollments on groups with a large number of memberships, with administrators providing enrollments to students more quickly than previous versions of NexPort Campus. A second performance enhancement provides administrators the ability to be more efficient when executing user upload. Bulk user upload is now processed in the background, meaning administrators no longer have to wait for the upload to complete. Instead, they will receive an email notice when the action has been completed. General Enhancements NexPort Campus version 5.0 improves the user experience through enhancements to our rich text editor and writing assignments as well as improved customer support messaging and improved student enrollments. First, assignment titles now support using rich text with a fully functional rich text editor, with question fields of writing assignments being able to be saved as rich text. Both of these provide versatility for administrators and instructors. Next, this release implements a new look for writing assignments for students and instructors. NexPort furnishes a more polished version of writing assignment, with the ability for requests for submissions and multiple drafts to be submitted from the student, as well as the system producing and distributing emails. Once the student has completed the draft, the instructor will receive an email notification. When the instructor provides feedback, NexPort Campus will generate an email notice to the student. “The writing assignment user interface changes were brought about because of two ideas: We wanted to improve usability and streamline the functionality to eventually allow administrators to specify their own look and feel for the site,” said Brette Forinash, NexPort Solutions Senior Software Engineer. “The sleek new interface will allow students to focus on their work without being distracted by coloring schemes or awkward alignment.” NexPort Campus version 5.0 also provides customers with improved technical support. A template for customer service representatives allows NexPort users with the ability to respond to a customer support message that asks specific questions customized to help specifically with their current issue. Customer service can then reply with a more precise response to the user. A fourth enhancement allows administrators to enroll students directly into a course from the enrollments tab in the user profile, providing a more streamlined process for administrators and other system operators. Major Bugs Fixes NexPort users not only received numerous enhancements with this release, but various bugs were resolved and performance improvements were conducted during this release. In the past, the NexPort server had timed-out when adding more than 380 question banks to a NexPort test. This is no longer the case, allowing NexPort users to upload as many question banks as necessary with no glitch in the system. Users are also able to access manage groups when preferences are corrupted. This was previously a dilemma for NexPort users. Group management preferences now use two specific tables to keep track of preferences and recent groups. Administrators are also able to use the bulk uploading users feature with welcome letters, CC and BCC emails without receiving an error message. This release was designed to provide quicker results for administrators, and thus, students. It was centered on supplying backend fixes that users do not necessarily see, but they deal with every day in NexPort. This release presents users with a cleaner version of NexPort Campus that is easier to navigate without error, making our users’ experience effortless. About NexPort Campus NexPort Campus is a secure, hosted learning and knowledge management system. NexPort Campus also supports interactive engagement within learning communities through the use of videos, organization-wide calendar, shared documents, organization-wide webpages and threaded discussions. Additional system features include data interoperability with external systems, secure digital libraries with subscriber-only access and an integrated Sudent Information System (SIS). NexPort Campus also allows clients to provide their learners with customized, on-demand training and education environment. Clients operate within their own branded portals to deliver their unique content and services independently of each other. Customers may subdivide their portals to establish and manage subordinate secure portals for their customers, subsidiaries or divisions. Each portal provides privacy protection and security. Your custom portal can be setup with Secure Sockets Layer technology (128-bit encryption) and a custom domain. NexPort Solutions Group enables educators and learners to use NexPort Campus to create, organize and hold webmeetings using NexPort Solutions Group’s own NexMeeting. NexMeeting promotes virtual learning, providing users with the ability to share desktops, hold conversations using headset and telephonic audio, survey meeting participants and share videos, PowerPoint slides, photos and documents using the whiteboard. About NexPort Solutions Group NexPort Solutions Group is a division of Darwin Global Enterprises, a systems and software engineering company that provides innovative, cost-effective training solutions and support for federal, state and local government, as well as the private sector. |
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