March 30th, 2015 – Release Notes

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March 30th, 2015 – Release Notes

New/Improved Grading Features

Word

A new function can determine if students have ignored replacing words that are detected as a misspelling.

Excel

Improved grading of IF Formulas allows alternate acceptable formulas for the value-if-true and value-if-false fields.

Bug Fixes and Project Improvements

Excel

2013 In Practice – Guided Project 1-2 – Canadian phone number format has been added as an acceptable selection.

2013 Skills Approach – Challenge Yourself 6.4 – Additional acceptable formulas have been added.

Word

Word 2013 In Practice – Independent Project 11-4 –Canadian phone number format has been added as an acceptable selection.

The following projects were improved by replacing grading that searched for document elements based on paragraph numbers to search for elements based on surrounding text:

• 2013 Capstone – Level 1 Writing a Research Paper (Mac Supported)

• 2013 Capstone – Level 2 Writing a Research Paper (Mac Supported)

• 2013 Capstone – Level 3 Writing a Research Paper (Mac Supported)

• 2013 ProjectLearn – Work It Out 2B-E3

• 2013 ProjectLearn – Work It Out 4A-E3

• 2013 GA State Standards – Work It Out 2B-E3

• O’Leary 2013 – Lab 1-1 Asking For Input Flyer

• O’Leary 2013 – Lab 1-2 Promoting Celebrate Bikes Sunday

• O’Leary 2013 – Lab 2-2 Dog Park Rules

• O’Leary 2013 – Lab 3-2 Creating a Table

• 2013 Skills Approach – Challenge Yourself 6.3

PowerPoint

2013 In Practice – Independent Project 2-6 Improved picture grading to allow for a small variance in picture sizes.

Access

2013 Capstone – Level 3 Working with a Sales Database – Added grading for report date format, report page number text alignment, and split form source fields.