TestHound Release Notes

This section contains product release notes. As TestHound is updated, these release notes will help users understand what changes to the product were made and will contain the date of the release into production.

  • Fixed an issue causing the Download Vendor File Button to be unavailable

  • Fixed an issue causing page to display an error when clicking on student names from the District > Student view

  • 23-24 Accommodation Updates- The new online accommodations have been injected into all Texas districts.  The accommodations include Word Prediction, Spell Check, and Proctored Administration.

  • All updates were related to internal work or work on SSO

  • Fixed an issue causing Performance Tracker files to not work

  • All updates were related to internal work or work on SSO

New Features/Updates {Value Added to Customers}

NCES Update existing campus and district- created a page with all of the NCES data for states and districts for TestHound.

System Admin/Adding District Updates- Added a new field in the system admin to store the District NCES number.

Convert Test Administrators Page to Blazor Web Assembly- Converted the Test Administrator page to the Blazor Web Assembly Project.

Spike User data and membership table/replace with Tokens- Conducted a spike story to identify all of the references to the database for users or the membership table in Classic TestHound.

{Spike} Classic TH query search-Conducted a spike to identify the items that query forms authentication.  That data will need to be moved to Okta.

Determine Representation of Identified Information in OKTA- evaluated the information needing to be in Okta to determine what should be represented by groups versus profile values.

Implement TestHound Logout Functionality with OKTA SSO- Added the ability to logout of OKTA onto the sign in page.

System Admin/Campus Updates- Added a new field in the system admin to store the NCES campus ID number

Implement grid Control Styling into Blazor Project- Implemented Grid Control Styling into the new TestHound Blazor page.

New Accommodations Page/Grid- Created a new Accommodations page in the new TestHound Blazor page.

New Test Admin Page/Integration Tests- Added integration tests to the New TestHound Test Administrator Blazor page.

Preliminary Results File Template- TX- created a new template to be able to ingest and process the preliminary test results file for Texas districts.

Spike/User Management in Okta- conducted a spike to address user management in Okta, evaluated SDKs and libraries, researched integration patterns and approaches for adding TestHound users to Okta, investigated Okta API endpoints

Remove unnecessary membership subtasks- identified and removed sunset areas of TestHound that don’t need to be updated with calls to OKTA.

UI/Texas Preliminary EOC- Modified Performance Tracker, Upload Test Results, to include the new Preliminary CRS EOC file option.

TX/Process Preliminary File- In Texas, the vendor Cambium, released a preliminary test results layout that was considerably different than the expected Test Results file.  A new file processing format was added into Performance Tracker to allow the uploading of these files so the results can be used in building test sessions for summer testing.

Bug

eSPED files not processing-Esped had an issue resulting in them sending blank files.  The blank files triggered Auto Pilot to halt all file processing upon the detection of the file errors.  Cleaned out the blank files to allow all other vendor files to process and then added a method to skip over the blank files so Auto Pilot file processing is not interrupted.

 

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