Creator+/H5P – New content picker in Authoring tools menu | New
To enhance visibility, discoverability, and usability, instructors now have direct access to H5P content types through a new picker in the Authoring Tools menu.
Selecting H5P Interactives from the menu now opens a modal dialog in Falcon Online, allowing instructors to filter, search, and select H5P content types more efficiently.
Previously, instructors selected H5P Interactives from the Creator+ Page menu options. This opened the H5P content management screen, where instructors had to select Add content to access the list of H5P Interactives, then choose a content type to begin creating.
Figure: Creator+ Page editor showcasing available options for creating and managing H5P interactive content.
Figure: The H5P interface displays a list of available interactive activities, including options like Fill in the Blanks, Crossword, Dictation, and more.
Homepage Widget Expansion Pack – Instagram, LinkedIn, and email links supported in the Single Profile widget | Updated
This release enhances the Single Profile widget to support additional social media options: Instagram, LinkedIn, and email.
In Edit mode, users can configure three new input fields in the footer of the Single Profile widget form. Each field includes a label, an icon, and a placeholder. Input validation ensures proper formatting for URLs and email addresses, and the form cannot be saved if an invalid value is entered.
When a user clicks a social media icon, the link opens in a new browser tab, or for email, in the user’s default email client.
Icons display in the widget footer only if their corresponding links are provided. When all available links are included, icons automatically adjust to span one, two, or three rows, depending on the widget’s width.
Figure: The Single Profile widget showing options to connect with additional social media platforms.
Homepage Widget Expansion Pack – Improved Completion Reporting in Content Navigator Widget | Updated
To improve consistency across Falcon Online tools and ensure accurate learner progress tracking, the Content Navigator widget now determines module completion using topic completion status.
Previously, the widget relied on a topic’s visited state and did not recognize manual completions. Manual completion topics are marked complete in the Content tool and now display accurately in the widget. This behavior aligns with completion tracking in the Content tool.
Assignments — Annotation availability awareness enhancements in assignment creation | New
Annotations are only supported for File and File or Text Assignment Types. They are not supported for Text, Observed, or On Paper Assignment types. In response to requests from instructors for clearer indicators of which types of assignments support Annotations, we’ve enhanced the assignment creation experience with better tool tips, visual cues, and on-screen guidance.
New informational tool tip
To make it easier for instructors to understand what the Annotations tool does and which types of assignments you can use it with, a new informational tool tip now appears beside the existing Annotations check box in the interface for creating assignments.
When you hover over the new information ( ? ) button, a tool tip displays Annotation Tools help.
Figure: New Annotation Tools help tool tip.
Clicking the information ( ? ) button opens a pop-up window that explains what the Annotations tool does, and which types of assignments you can use it with. The text in the new window is as follows:
Figure: New Annotation Tools informational pop-up window.
Clear visual indicators make it easy to identify which assignment types support Annotations
To make it easier to immediately understand whether you can use Annotations on an assignment, the Annotations check box now appears disabled (grayed out) for non-file type assignments, such as Text, Observed, or On Paper assignments.
Figure: Visual cues indicate when Annotation Tools are not available for an assignment type.
Guidance for non-file Assignment types
When you cannot enable Annotations for an assignment because the type is Text, On paper, or Observed in person, hovering over the Annotations check box displays the following message:
Figure: New on-screen guidance shows when Annotation settings are locked because the assignment type is not File or File or Text.
Guidance displayed for assignments after submissions are received
When you cannot enable Annotations for an assignment because learners already made submissions while the setting was disabled, hovering over the Annotations check box displays the following message:
Figure: New on-screen guidance shows when Annotation settings are locked because learners made submissions for the assignment while Annotations were disabled.
Assignments — Improved assignment type selection interface | Updated
An improvement in usability makes it easier to select the correct assignment type when you create an assignment.
Previous behavior
Previously, instructors used radio buttons to specify whether an assignment was for a Group or an Individual.
New drop-down menu for selecting Assignment type
A new drop-down menu for selecting the Assignment Type modernizes the interface and lays the groundwork for future enhancements to the Assignments tool.
Figure: New drop-down menu with Individual Assignment Type selected.
Grades – Comments and Assessments column always visible to learners | Updated
Learners can now always see the Comments and Assessments column in Grades, ensuring that feedback and links to assessments are consistently visible. The column is no longer conditionally displayed, supporting additional links from tools such as Rubrics, Assignments, and Quizzes.
This update supports future enhancements that add information to learner feedback in Grades.
Previously, the column only appeared when a grade item included feedback.
Figure: Comments and Assessments column now appears consistently to learners in Grades.
Media Library – Improved Media Library to help better organize and manage your course assets| Updated
This release introduces several new features to improve the capabilities of the Media Library and allow users to have a wider variety of assets that can be reused in their courses.
These improvements include:
- Add Images, Office Documents, PDFs, and SCORM packages directly to Media Library for re-use across your courses.
- Use Media Library’s new Manage Versions menu to upload and manage a new version of your asset.
- Create folders to better organize your assets by type, subject, or however you’d like.
- Share a folder with another user by adding them to a folder as a collaborator.
The following file types can be uploaded to Media Library:
- Video: .mp4, .avi, .f4v, .flv, .m4v, .mov, .webm, .wmv, and the ability to optimize for streaming (2GB max and up to 720p output)
- Audio: .mp3, .m4a, .ogg, .wav, .wma (1GB max)
- Document: .doc, .docx, .odt, .xls, .xlsx, .rtf, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx, .odp
- Image: .jpg, .jpeg, .png
- Course Package: .zip (SCORM Only)
Figure: Create Folder window in Media Library with options to save or cancel.
Quizzes – Hide Quiz Question Points | Updated
Instructors can now hide the point value for quiz questions to ensure learners focus on all questions equally, without the risk of inferring the number of correct answers based on point value. This feature is particularly useful in scenarios like employee training and association quizzes.
The new feature helps with the following:
- Avoiding Hints in Multi-Select and Written Response Questions. Hiding point values prevents learners from guessing the number of expected answers based on the score, promoting a more consistent effort across all question types.
- Diagnostic Assessments. This option is beneficial for assessments like subject knowledge audits or start-of-term baseline knowledge checks, where the purpose is to gauge understanding rather than focus on scoring.
- Encouraging Equal Effort Across Questions. By hiding point values, learners are less likely to prioritize certain questions over others based on points. Hiding point values ensures a balanced effort and enables the inclusion of control or bonus questions without indicating their significance.
A new option is available within the Timing & Display section when creating or editing a quiz.
Figure: From the Edit Quiz page, under Timing & Display, select Hide question point values to prevent learners from seeing individual question scores.
This feature implements the following PIE items:
- D2934 (Hide point value of quiz questions)
- D10418 (Option to hide point value of quiz questions and show linked Learning Outcomes)
Previously, point values for quiz questions were always visible to learners.
Quizzes – Improved visibility for insufficient question pools | Updated
With this release, instructors can now see a status indicator when a question pool has insufficient questions, allowing them to resolve the issue before learners begin a quiz attempt.
If a quiz attempts to draw more questions than are available in a question pool (for example, 12 questions requested but only 10 available), the interface now displays a warning indicator.
This update adds visual warnings in the following areas:
- The Grading view: If learners have already completed a quiz containing an affected pool, messaging displays in the grading evaluation experience.
Figure: When grading a quiz, an error message appears indicating the question pool is exhausted.
- The Manage Quizzes page: A status indicator flags quizzes with insufficient question pools.
Figure: In the Manage Quizzes tab, a red warning icon appears beside a quiz name. Instructors can review quiz settings to resolve the issue.
- The Edit Quiz page (Quiz Builder): A warning icon appears directly on the affected question pool.
Figure: The Edit Quiz page displays a Question Pool with an error state, labeled Invalid Question Pool.
- The Course Import and Course Copy workflows: Validation now prevents importing or copying pools with an insufficient number of questions.
Previously, no visual indicators identified when question pools contained too few questions, and these could be imported or copied without warning.
This continuous delivery update is scheduled for October 24th.
Please refer to the Falcon Online for Faculty InfoGuide for additional information on all the Falcon Online tools.
Faith Testerman
Coordinator IV - IT Instructional Resources
Faith.Testerman@DaytonaState.edu
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