Tabula version 36 was released on Thursday 16th May 2013. The main visible improvements and changes are:

Module assistants

We've added a new role to Coursework Management called a 'Module Assistant'. This is designed to be a role that can do a little bit less than a 'Module Manager'.

Specifically, a Module Assistant cannot:

• Archive or Delete assignments
• Manage the permissions for a module
• Delete submissions
• Publish/release feedback

To add a Module Assistant, go to the "Module Permissions" screen in the same way as a Module Manager; you can then choose whether to add/remove a module manager or assistant.

Senior tutors

We've added a 'Senior Tutor' role to Student profiles. A 'Senior Tutor' can see everything that a student's personal tutor could see, for each student in that department.

We plan to expand this role in future releases to allow it to manage personal tutors for a department.

To add a Senior tutor for a department, a Departmental Administrator can click the 'Manage' dropdown in the Student Profiles component of Tabula.

General improvements and fixes

• For the Summary-style submission/feedback screen, we've moved the order of actions around so that checking submissions for plagiarism happens before downloading them for marking
• We've added a new 'submissions not downloaded' filter to the submission/feedback screen
• Feedback reports now display the number of pieces of feedback that are still outstanding (i.e. not uploaded)
• Departmental Administrators can now see information about personal tutor meetings (however they cannot see the record of the meeting - just the date and time and who it was between)
• You can now delete un-approved meeting records (for example, if it's created against the wrong student)
• A bug that caused the filter on the submission/feedback page to not work has been fixed
• A bug that caused a student to receive an error if they double-clicked on the "Submit" button for an assignment has been fixed
• A very rare error that happened when viewing lots of student photos, or searching many student profiles has been fixed