Release Notes for Training and Development Manager

TDM 2.5 | Released August 31, 2023

Key Features

• User Interface
  • Improved UI Features in Administrator Screens, including
    • Various tables (such as Instructor Management and Certificate Management) can be sorted by column.
      
    • A list of offerings available for each course has been added to the Course Management screen.
      
    • Search capability is available for Management screens.
      
  • Catalog Tile and Search Improvements
    • Searching the catalog will search the name, categories, instructor name, and ID.
    • Course Tiles show the Name, Summary, and Instructor Profile Photos in a cleaner display.
      
• Course media settings
  Offering media settings will now be inherited from the parent course unless they are overwritten.
• Learner Enrollment
  • An email template for notifying learners that they have been enrolled in a managed enrollment course has been added.
    
  • Offering managers can specify email addresses to send notifications that learners have enrolled in a managed enrollment offering.
    
  • An email template for notifying specified people that learners have enrolled in a managed enrollment offering has been added.
• Payment
  Administrators can access payment history to search for payments.
  

Various bug fixes and updates, including:

• An issue with dates displaying incorrectly has been resolved.
• A security patch.
• The role picker works with over 100 roles with paginated data.
• Text changes.
• An update that resulted in changes to the TDM URL.

TDM 2.4 | Released July 18, 2023

Key Features

• Course creation
  A Create Offering button has been added to the Create Course screen to streamline the Course and Offering creation workflow.
• Learner Enrollment
  The Offering Manager can create Denied Access Enrollment offerings that will allow learners to enroll in an offering but not access it until an administrator or instructor approves them.
• Learner Sign In
  Learners with an account can Sign In from the Sign Up peek panel.
• Payment Codes
  Payment codes can be created to apply to specific courses or specific users.
• User Interface
  An overlay appears when a user's session has expired.

Various bug fixes, including

• The Homepage header is now responsive.
• The User is taken to the Sign In screen after Sign Up validation.

These improvements impact administrators, instructors, and learners.

TDM 2.3 | Released June 6, 2023

Key Features

• Homepage
  • A toggle allows you to turn the homepage on or off.
  • You can add a heading to the Introduction and Footer sections of the homepage.
  • You can add an unlimited number of links to the Footer section of the homepage.
  • You can configure the homepage in multiple languages.
• Payment codes (initial release)
  • Administrators can create and update payment codes.
  • Learners can pay for courses with payment codes.
• Progress tool updates
  • The progress tool contains more explanatory text and a link to help documentation.
  • Each gradable item shows the maximum number of points available.
• Institutional hierarchy (first release)
  • TDM recognizes whether courses and users are in a node.
  • Users who are in a node can only see courses in the same node.
  • You can select an institutional node template when creating courses and offerings.
• Payment Gateway
  • TouchNet has been added as a Payment Service Provider.
  • Cybersource has been added as a Payment Service Provider.

Various bug fixes, including

• Achieved certificates no longer appear on the Obtainable certificates tab.
• Sign up now works correctly in the Firefox browser.

These improvements impact administrators, instructors, and learners.

TDM 2.2 | Released April 18, 2023

Key Features

• Progress Tool
  • Instructors can use the new progress tool to define progress in a Blackboard Learn course or directly through an Offering based on grade columns. Grade columns are assigned a percentage value and a minimum grade required for that grade value to count toward progress.
    
    For example, this course will show as 50% complete when a student has earned at least 5 points on Test 1, 50% complete when the student has earned at least 5 points on Test 2, and 100% complete when both minimum requirements have been met.
    
  • Learners can view progress in their courses on the dashboard, in a third tab next to Courses and Certificates.
    
• The Payment Gateway
  • Future payment service providers and codes will be allowed.
  • Learner payment flow has been improved with a simplified one-page layout that is fully localized and mobile- and tablet-friendly.
  • Administrative configuration under Platform Extensions Manager has been improved so it is easier to enable a payment service provider in the Payment Gateway.
• Enrollment
  The Learner workflow for enrolling in or purchasing Offerings when Learners are not signed in to TDM has been simplified and now resembles that from TDM v.1.
  • Learners will see an "Enroll Now" or "Buy Now" button whether or not they are signed in to TDM. If Learners click on the button, they are taken through a workflow for either signing in if they have an account or creating an account if they do not.
  • Once they have completed the sign up or sign in process, Learners are returned to the same peek panel where they can now select the "Enroll Now" or "Buy Now" button to enroll in or purchase the course.
• Reporting
  A Reporting tab has been added to the Administration area that contains a link to launch the TDM Reports Menu.
  

Various bug fixes, including

• Upcoming courses are no longer displayed on the Active Courses tab on the Dashboard.
• Management roles can no longer add the same language more than once to TDM items.
• Management roles can no longer add TDM items with duplicate IDs.
• All dates are consistent with Blackboard Learn instances.

These improvements impact administrators, instructors, and learners.

TDM 2.1 | Released February 21, 2023

Key Features:

• Session times should now last one full hour based on launching TDM and moving from extension to extension.
• A certificate can now be assigned from the Edit Offering screen once an Offering has been created.
• A "Continuous Course" filter has been added to the filter options available when searching the catalog.

Various bug fixes, including:

• A Terms and Conditions link can now be defined on the sign up form.
• The homepage settings can store more text and images.
• Translation and wording fixes have been made.

These improvements impact administrators, instructors, and learners.