Smaller Changes (Potpourri)

Smaller Changes (Potpourri)#

New Problem Visibility Setting#

With the new problem visibility option, Never show individual assessment results, but show overall assessment results after due date, learners do not see question-level correctness or scores before or after the due date. However, once the due date passes, they can see their overall score for the subsection on the Progress page.

If either “Show When Subsection is Past Due” or “Never show individual assessment results, but show overall assessment results after due date” has been selected, and the due date is in the future, a banner message will appear on the progress page with the message “Some assignment scores are not yet included in your total grade. These grades will be released by {dueDate}.”

The banner appears at the top of the learner's progress page, directly below the banner that indicates whether or not the learner is currently passing the course.

Forum Moderation & Spam Prevention Features#

In the Ulmo release, five new features to remediate forums spam and abuse have been introduced.

  1. A tooltip has been added when hovering over any Forums username, which shows their role in the course. This helps learners identify official posts and reduces the effect of fake authority names.

    The tooltips say:

    • “Learner - Taking the course just like you” displays for all learners

    • “Staff - Part of the team that runs this course” displays for all course staff

    • “Moderator - Part of the team that runs this course” displays for all course moderators

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    Mouse-over on usernames shows tooltips that explains their role#

Note

The following four features are not enabled by default. Site operators should see the Configuring Forum Moderation & Spam Prevention Features section of the Operators Release Notes to learn more.

  1. Preventing harmful content from being viewed: A configurable feature was added that replaces content containing certain strings with a custom message.

  2. reCAPTCHA was added to the forum content creation API to prevent automated posting. It does not apply to users who have a course or forum role, or whose accounts are more than one month old.

  3. A rate limit was added to forums content creation, to limit the number of posts a single author can add within a set period of time.

  4. Given almost all spam accounts use unverified or random email addresses, a feature was built to limit forums posts to only those with verified accounts.

    Turning this on runs the risk of reducing engagement by adding friction for genuine learners, and it has been seen that spammers can work around this limitation.

Maintenance chart

Review Date

Working Group Reviewer

Release

Test situation

2025-12-18

Product WG

Ulmo

Pass
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