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2021 - Boötes
Boötes is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. The name comes from the Greek Βοώτης, Boōtēs 'herdsman' or 'plowman' (literally, 'ox-driver'; from βοῦς bous 'cow').
Source: Wikipedia.
Content Platform
- [new feature]Added new .NET v3.1 and v5 stacks.
- [new feature]Confirmation is now shown before removing users from an account.
- [improvement]Sped up Creator course list loading using pagination.
Development Environment
- [new feature]Added syntax highlighting for.razorfiles.
API
- [new feature]Added support for vanilla webhooks.
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2021 - Andromeda
Andromeda is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
Source: Wikipedia.
Development Environment
- [bug fix]Fixed occasional incorrect reporting of out-of-space message.
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2020 - Pterodactylus
Content Creator
New Feature
- Added some packages to the R stack.
Bug Fix:
- Fixed pulling GitHub files in Creator not working sometimes.
Development Environment
New Feature:
- Users are now notified when they have run out of space.
Improvement:
- Drastically increased the speed of large files loading in the code editor.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed downloads not working in some cases.
- Fixed file resets not working in some cases.
Pterodactylus
Pterodactylus was a generalist carnivore that probably fed on a variety of invertebrates.
Source: Wikipedia.
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2020 - Oohkotokia
Content Creator
New Feature:
- Added support for course sections in the Creator.
Bug Fix:
- Fixed some content not loading in the Creator.
Development Environment
Bug Fix:
- Fixed file tabs not reconnecting after a sandbox reloads in-page.
Oohkotokia
Oohkotokia was a large heavily built quadrupedal herbivore found in Montana, United States from 74ma ago that could grow up to 6 m (19.7 ft) long.
Source: Wikipedia.
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New feature: course sections!
For customers with a large amount of content in the Creator, keeping content organized could sometimes be a bit difficult. To address this, we have released a new feature: course sections!
Course sections allow you to organize content inside of a course in the Creator. You can easily add content to a section, move it to a different section, and re-order the sections.
To learn more, head over to the documentation, or give it a try in the Creator!
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2020 - Nedoceratops
Content Creator
New Feature:
- Recently edited content is now displayed on the dashboard.
Bug Fix:
- Fixed tests not being copied to new content correctly.
Development Environment
New Feature:
- Added download links to file backups to project report pages.
Bug Fix:
- Fixed file names in the directory sidebar not aligning sometimes.
Nedoceratops
Nedoceratops (meaning "insufficient horned face") is a controversial genus of ceratopsid herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period Lance Formation of North America. It is known only from a single skull discovered in Wyoming.
Its status is the subject of ongoing debate among paleontologists: some authors consider Nedoceratops a valid, distinct taxon, while others consider it to represent an ontogenetic (growth) stage of Triceratops and thus a synonym.
By Nobu Tamura - CC BY 3.0.
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2020 - Megalosaurus
Content Creator
Improvements:
- Content creators can now no longer change settings in preview mode of a content, to prevent them from accidentally editing the settings for the actual content.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed the stack list in Safari not showing up correctly.
Development Environment
New Features:
- Database names can now be selected by the user when using the SQL results viewer tab.
Improvements:
- The SQL results viewer tab now displays a loading indicator when a query is in progress.
- The underlying performance of project file backups was improved.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed the user interface for the project reset popup.
Learning Environment
Improvements:
- Added checkered background to image test output images.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a number of quiz bugs.
APIs:
- Added the ability to pull historical event data.
Megalosaurus
Megalosaurus (meaning "great lizard") is an extinct genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of Southern England. Although fossils from other areas have been assigned to the genus, the only certain remains of Megalosaurus come from Oxfordshire and date to the late Middle Jurassic.
Source: Wikipedia.
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2020 - Leaellynasaura
Content Creator
New Features:
- If enabled, LTI integrations will now automatically push updates for progress as a user completes tasks, in addition to their grade. To enable, visit your organization's settings page.
- Added a new stack for OWASP JuiceShop. Documentation for how to use it can be found here.
- GitHub files and instructions can now be pulled from non-master branches.
Improvements:
- Deployed new testing frameworks and added documentation for an improved process for testing Jupyter notebooks.
- Upgraded pip/pip3to the latest version in the Python and data science stacks.
- Improved UX for linking GitHub account requirements in content settings.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed GitHub file pulling not deleting all existing files before loading new files.
Development Environment
New Features:
- Added checkerboard background to transparent images in the media viewer.
Improvements:
- Images in the media viewer no longer scale up to maximum height/width.
- Sped up the loading of all icons.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed first file tab not being set as active when the directory sidebar is disabled.
Learning Environment
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed quizzes not loading results.
Leaellynasaura
Leaellynasaura (meaning "Leaellyn's lizard") is a genus of small herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs from the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous (dated to between 118 and 110 million years ago), first discovered in Dinosaur Cove, Australia.
Source: Wikipedia.
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2020 - Khaan
Content Creator
New Features:
- Added the ability to copy courses into your creator account with a single click (details here!).
- Added support for an account "manager" role.
- Added the ability to pull updates to source content for content copies.
- Added a toolbox sidebar inside the Creator to clean up the page and unify the location of a number of different tools.
- Added Jest to HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Node stacks.
Improvements:
- Converted check code editor from a text area to an actual code editor.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed GitHub instructions not syncing for some large courses.
Learning Environment
New Features:
- Added a search bar for the catalog page.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed code patterns are not wrapping in EdgeHTML (note: EdgeHTML is not a supported browser).
API, Reports, & Integrations
New Features:
- Added support for passing custom metadata to the access tokens endpoint (docs here).
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed contents from deleted courses still showing up in API requests.
Khaan
Khaan was an oviraptorid dinosaur that was found in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia and lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, 75-71 million years ago.
Source: Wikipedia.
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Fast and easy course copying
Copying content from a course into the Creator ― once a manual process that required Next Tech's support ― is now possible in a single click. This allows you to quickly sample Next Tech's courses, and more importantly, build your own library of pre-created course material that your account's content creators can use to get started.
Here are the instructions for how to do each of these!
Sampling Next Tech content
To try Next Tech's content, your account admin will first need to check the
Enable Course Copying
option on your organization's page. You will then be shown this button on Next Tech's course pages:
Once you click this button, you will be shown a link that will take you directly to the copied content in the Creator. For larger courses, you may need to wait a moment for the copy to finish.
Using Account Content
This new functionality allows you to create "template" courses content creators on your account can use as a starting point for their own courses. This can help reduce course creation time and illustrate best practices you want your course authors to follow.
To get started, as an account admin or manager, from the course's page in the Creator, click
View in Catalog
. From the catalog page, click Edit Details
, then enable the "Published" option. Account admins, managers, and editors will now be able to see this course in the catalog and copy it into their Creator.Load More
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