The Official Blog for LifterLMS Contributors

• Course and Membership instructor metabox search field now correctly states “Select an Instructor” instead of previous “Select a Student”
• Added missing translation for “Select a Student” on admin panel student selection search fields
• Fix issue causing reporting export CSVs to throw a SYLK interpretation error when opened in Excel
• Fix issue causing drafted courses and memberships to be published when the “Update” button is clicked to save changes
• Remove use of PHP 7.2 deprecated create_function
• Fix errors resulting from quiz questions which have been deleted
• Fix issue causing current date / time to display as the End Date for incomplete quiz attempts on quiz reporting screens

Template Updates

• templates/admin/reporting/tabs/quizzes/attempt.php
• templates/quiz/results-attempt-questions-list.php

• Fixed issue preventing lesson video and audio embeds from being removed when using the course builder settings editor
• Fixed issue causing question images to lose the image source
• Updated student management table for courses and memberships to show the name (and a link to the user profile) of the site user who manually enrolled the student.
• Add “All Time” reporting to various reporting filters
• Added API for builder fields to enable multiple select fields
• Fix memory leak related to assignments rendering on course builder
• Fix issue causing course progress and enrollment checks to incorrectly display progress data cached for other users
• Lesson progression actions (Mark Complete & Take Quiz buttons) will now always display to users with edit capabilities regardless of enrollment status

Template Updates

• templates/course/complete-lesson-link.php
• templates/course/outline-list-small.php

• Refactored lesson completion methods to allow 3rd party customization of lesson completion behavior via filters and hooks.
• Remove duplicate lesson completion notice implemented. Only popover notifications will display now instead of popovers and inline messages.
• Object completion will now automatically prevent multiple records of completion from being recorded for a single object.
• Lesson Mark Complete button and lessons completed by quiz now utilizes a generic trigger to mark lessons as complete: llms_trigger_lesson_completion.
• Removed several unused functions from frontend forms class
• Moved lesson completion form controllers to their own class

Templates updates

• templates/course/complete-lesson-link.php

Builder Updates

• Moved action buttons for each lesson (for opening quiz and lesson editor) to be static below the lesson title as opposed to only being visible on hover
• Added new audio and video status indicator icons for each lesson
• Various status indicator icons will now have different icons in addition to different colors depending on their state
• Replaced “pencil” icons that open the WordPress post editor with a small “WP” icon
• Added several actions and filters to backend functions so that 3rd parties can hook into builder saves
• Added lesson settings editing to the builder. Lesson settings can now be updated from settings metaboxes on the lesson post edit screen AND on the builder.
• Added prerequisite validation for lessons to prevent accidental impossible prerequisite creating (eg: Lesson 5 can never be a prerequisite for Lesson 4)
• Added functions and filters to allow 3rd parties to add custom fields to the builder. For more details see an example.
• Fixed issue causing changes made in “Text” mode on content editors wouldn’t trigger save events
• Fixed issue causing lesson prerequisites to not properly display on the course builder
• Fixed CSS z-index issues related to builder field tooltip displays
• Removed unused Javascript dependencies

Bug Fixes

• Fixed typo on filter on quiz question image getter function

Updates

• Performance improvements made to database queries and functions related to student enrollment status and student course progress queries. Thanks to @mte90 for raising issues and testing solutions related to these updates and changes!
• Added PHP Requires plugin header (5.6 minimum)
• Added HTTP User Agent data to the system report
• LifterLMS Assignments Beta is imminent and this release adds functionality to the Builder which will be extended by Assignments upon when availability