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Author Workbench - You can now add multiple labs at a time to your course
Curator - Improved Distribution Network
Curator - Portals are now only sent items they are entitled to
Bundles hold can now include learning paths
Author Workbench - Cannot filter by tool type when adding a lab to your course
Author Workbench - Cover image file names can exceed the limit
Author Workbench - Error message when trying to add a person to an organization
Author Workbench - Some courses are showing incorrect enrollments, ratings and review counts
Catalog - The number of Learning paths in the Learning Paths tab label is wrong
Author Workbench - Duplicating a course doesn't copy everything
\nWhen duplicating a course, labs and assignments get successfully duplicated, but videos, and some course settings aren't copied.
\nAuthor Workbench - Failed labs creation doesn't return an error
\nWhen creating a new lab in a course or guided project and our system encounters an error, users are not told an error occurred and are instead left on the lab creation screen.
\nAuthor Workbench - JupyterLab and JupyterLite don't always load with the latest edits
\nAuthor Workbench - Labs can have no ownership, which causes errors
\nAuthor Workbench - Sorting labs by \"tool\" while a tool type filter is selected results in an error
\nAuthor Workbench - Transcripts are failing to generate
\nCatalog - Coursera and edX course cards should be clearer in communicating their meaning
\nCatalog - Learning Paths have an overwhelming number of skills shown
\nAn error is shown when launching Mark from edX.org
\nAuthor Workbench - Performance tab shows \"Content missing\"
\nIn rare cases, right after a course is published authors may have seen \"Content missing\" in the performance tab. This has been replaced with a more informative message saying the course is still being published.
\nThe JupyterLite notebook template is updated
\nAlong with fixing some pre-installed extensions and packages, the notebook template for JupyterLite labs has now been updated with the latest best practices.
\nAuthor Workbench - It's now easier to embed images in your instructions
\n\nJupyterLab - The notebook template is now updated
\nThe JupyterLab notebook template has been updated with the latest best practices.
\nFaculty - Content Performance Management in Author Workbench
Author Workbench - Performance Management Improvements
Author Workbench - You can now select a date range to view your course/project's performance
Author Workbench - 500 error page when you try to upload a video
Author Workbench - Empty state missing on My Organization page
Author Workbench - A new Calendar and List view to visualize content release dates is now available in the new \"Roadmap\" page
\nHead to https://author.skills.network/roadmap to visualize your content roadmap.
\nAuthor Workbench - When creating a new lab, you can now specify what version of a lab tool you want to use
\nAuthor Workbench - When editing an existing lab, you can now change the versions of the tools used
\nWhen creating a new version of a lab, you can now change the tool version as well. For example, you can now update your labs that use Cloud IDE 1.0 to use Cloud IDE 2.0.
\nAuthor Workbench - A new major version of Skills Network JupyterLab is available
\nWhen you create new JupyterLab lab on Author Workbench, you will get our new version of JupyterLab by default. This new version loads faster and has the latest version of Python (3.12) available.\nIt also provides free access to OpenAI and watsonx.ai LLMs (subject to a quota) so you can teach your learners how to build with LLMs without requiring them to go through a sign-up process.
\nAuthor Workbench - \"Leaving Organization\" modal pops up after you invite someone to your organization
\nAuthor Workbench - Author record does not include articles/tutorials/videos contributions
\nYou can now sort members of your organization by articles/tutorials/videos contributions.
\nAuthor Workbench - Broken sign out button in onboarding
\nAuthor Workbench - Cannot edit certain labs and see white screen instead
\nAuthor Workbench - Social Links in the footer page link to CognitiveClass socials instead of Skills Network socials
\nJupyterLite - You are unable to publish your lab
\nAuthor Workbench - Tai's responses are now fine-tuned to the contents of your lab
\nTai is more knowledgable and helpful with the ability to read your lab instructions! When learners are having a conversation with Tai in their lab, Tai is able to retrieve relevant lab instructions and include those information in its response. Most courses should have access to this feature - otherwise make sure to set up the lab within the course properly embedded (see image below).\n
\nAuthor Workbench - You can now easily navigate to your organizations from any page
\nIf you are a member of any organizations, you can now easily navigate to your organizations' pages in the top-right hand corner, right beside your profile picture.
\nCatalog - Added a loading spinner
Catalog - Asset card's review section has a new look
We've made it easier for you to check asset ratings! Instead of hovering over star ratings, you can now quickly see the rating at a glance in text directly on the asset card. We've revamped these cards for a cleaner and more detailed look, also addressing accessibility concerns.
Author Workbench - Cannot create new assignments for courses
Author Workbench - Pagination does not work past page 2
Author Workbench - Clicking My Profile leads to page that feels unrelated
Catalog - Not seeing \"Learn on Coursera\" button when opened from Author Page
Catalog - Filtering the catalog while on later page results can get you stuck
When filtering our catalog you may navigate to a later page of results. If you then further filtered your search such that there are fewer pages of results, you may have gotten stuck on a page with no results. This is no longer the case and you will find yourself on the first page of results.