Lectora Online 4.6

Released on: 

January 31, 2020

Supported Browsers:

Authoring: Internet Explorer 11+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Published Content: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

 

This Lectora Online release includes the following updates and fixes:

New Features:

Media Enhancements

• Improved Audio/Video Events Editor: Create events and select the action to trigger all within the same dialog at the same time.
• Set Time Action for Audio and Video: Trigger an action to skip to a specific time in a media file.

Use Web Windows More Effectively

• Use Display Page Action with Web Windows: Perfect for synchronizing video and text changes all on one page.
• Web Windows Scale Pages Dynamically: Ensures the content of a page will fit properly in a Web Window.

Import PowerPoint Update

• Import PowerPoint Slides from the Tools Ribbon: Insert and convert a PPT file directly into a currently opened title.

Issues Fixed:

• LO-6887: Header tags h3-h6 contain a second empty <hx></hx> pair in the HTML
• LO-6874: AICC Publish fix to ensure status is saved when user closes the browser window in Chrome 80+
• LO-6915: xAPI fix to read homePage and name properties from the account object at launch time

Lectora Online 4.5

Released on:  

November 8, 2019

Supported Browsers:

Authoring: Internet Explorer 11+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Published Content: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

 

This Lectora Online release includes the following updates and fixes:

New Features:

• Text to Speech: generate MP3s for narration and synchronized closed captions
• Accessibility Enhancement: Screen readers will read initially hidden text when shown
• Format Painter: Copy style properties from object to object
• Entry Field Styles:  Apply margins, borders, and border styles
• Border Rounding: Set square, rounded, or round borders for images, text blocks, and entry fields
• Zoom: Zoom in or out on the page for more precise designing
• Collapse the Ribbon Bar: minimize the ribbon to view more of the content area

Issues Fixed:

Usability

• Performance improvements to moving, sizing, rotating and selecting objects across onto and off the page border
• Autosave will not interrupt some user actions such as moving, sizing, selecting objects
• Post publish operations like FTP will no longer timeout on larger titles 
• Delete and arrow keys now work when the publish dialog is open
• FTP credentials are verified before publishing
• Refreshed dialogs for a more modern look and feel

Text

• Text wrapping now works properly across responsive views
• Fixed text block selection and editing issues

Objects

• Fixed issue were text on buttons was incorrectly overridden on mobile responsive views
• Fixed undo issues

Questions/Tests/Surveys/Forms

• Question creator dialog no longer loses some edits  
• Fixed issue where drag and drop questions would lose drop zones in lower views

Translations

• Text button names are now included in translation exports

LMS

• Fixed formatting issue with SCORM cmi.interactions, made lowercase per specification
• Actor objectType now specified when returning the actor in xAPI state and statement messages

Lectora Online 4.4.3

Released on:  

August 24, 2019

Supported Browsers:

Authoring: Internet Explorer 11+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Published Content: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

 

This Lectora Online release includes the following updates and fixes:

New Features:

Image Editor

• Replaced Pixlr with Ribbet image editor as the embedded editor (LO-6515)

Issues Fixed:

Actions

• MoveTo can now move a group that contains a form (LO-6603)

Objects

• Fixed an issue with anchor position and iOS when publishing without seamless play  (LO-6664)
• Text imported from Lectora Desktop spacing issues fixed (also ask support for utilities) (LO-6683)

Lectora Online 4.4.2

Released on:  

July 12, 2019

Supported Browsers:

Authoring: Internet Explorer 11+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Published Content: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

 

This Lectora Online release includes the following updates and fixes:

New Features:

508/WCAG

• Add publish strings for Status Indicators in a TOC for screen-readers (LO-6618)

Actions

• Action condition dialog shows Object or Question name when selecting a variable (LO-6617)

Objects

• Menus now work on mobile, submenus do not go away (172169,172169) (LO-6602)

 

Issues Fixed:

Application

• Fixed issues with renaming a repository directory (LO-6631)

508/WCAG

• Edge and IE11 – closed caption text background not being displayed properly (LO-6339)

Variables

• Undo Checkout fixes for variables (LO-4482)

Media

• AutoStart on FF and Safari not working if media is on the first page (LO-6608)

Objects

• Status Indicators in a TOC are not read by screen-reader (LO-6618)

Publish

• Safari 1004 error in the publisher when trying to publish (173763) (LO-6616)
• Anchor position objects don’t show up in mobile after publishing with the Seamless Play option selected (LO-6433)

Text

• Removed option to show paragraph formatting (172515) (LO-6523)

Lectora Online 4.4.1

Released on:  

May 25, 2019

Supported Browsers:

Authoring: Internet Explorer 11+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Published Content: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

 

This Lectora Online release includes the following updates and fixes:

Issues Fixed:

 Media

• Fix for media events being removed when the time or name of an event was changed (LO-6607)

Lectora Online 4.4

Released on:  

May 10, 2019

Supported Browsers:

Authoring: Internet Explorer 11+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Published Content: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

 

This Lectora Online release includes the following updates and fixes:

New Features:

New Landing Page

• A new landing page was put in place to create a unified product experience

New Plans

• Lectora Online now offers different level subscription plans: Free, Starter, Professional, Team and Enterprise.

eCommerce

• Allow self-service for subscriptions and plan management

 

Issues Fixed:

 Media

• Audio/Video event names were not being saved, events lost, etc (LO-6499)

Objects

• Visual and functional improvements to <hidden objects> in the Title Explorer (LO-6526)
• Shape and Button Text can be edited when object not checked out (LO-6296)
• Stock buttons should be created with maintain ratio selected (LO-6409)

Questions/Tests/Surveys/Forms

• Prevent runtime errors when objects are moved of the page in some views (LO-6565)

Lectora Online 4.3.1

Released on:

January 25, 2019

Supported Browsers:

Authoring: Internet Explorer 10+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Published Content: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Issues Fixed:

LO-6375 Question choice text loses label object associated on lower views

LO-4645 Export to Word missing textual items

LO-6367 Table of Contents is not showing in Tree View.

LO-6393 Audio caption with black background doesn’t display correctly

LO-6377 Controls for Audio closed captioning are incorrectly enabled for Video

LO-6340 Controls on the Add Captions dialog should be disabled if a caption file isn’t selected in the Caption File drop-down

LO-6387 Audio container DIV should not set tab index

LO-6384 Editing button text has an issue where focus is lost when mouse goes outside

LO-6383 Error publishing to ReviewLink if using HTTP

LO-6374 Publish to ReviewLink is not updating New or Not OK issue status to Fixed

LO-6369 CourseMill tracking status not being retained between sessions

LO-6365 If Question Attempts is selected by author auto-select value should persist

LO-6358 In Templates, the Label For on Text Blocks for Questions is corrupted

LO-6298 Responsive Course Disabled Views are still published (making publish take longer than necessary)

LO-6221 Resource Manager: Remove All does not indicate completion or status

LO-6215 Forgot your password feature is case sensitive for User Id

LO-6199 Embedded image does not stay hidden when a device is rotated or view changes

LO-6049 Shapes hidden with visibility indicators do not hide adorners

LO-5959 Tomcat 9 Optional Platform Update

LO-5947 Objects are not editable after undo-checkout and a checkout