What's new in ESCV 2.4.0
Jan 4, 2024
- Added: interactive proofreading of recognised answers by means of preexisting menu item "Assessment / Selected questionnaire / Show answers' sheet".
- Added: info on selected test in the "Assess questionnaires" button of the main window, through right click.
- Added: table of statistics (in reports providing it) even for questionnaires with manually overwritten marks.
- Bugfix: loading a marks column from CSV file wrongly managed empty lines.
- Bugfix: ESCV could not be able to run on obsolete versions of Windows.
- Bugfix: HTML files can now be created even without setting up the FTP server.
- Bugfix: menu item "Test / Questionnaires / Delete test" is always visible and it is enabled even right after the creation of a test now.
- Minor amendments and cosmetic changes.
New in ESCV 2.3.2 (Jan 21, 2023)
- Added: merging of questionnaires into a single two-sided PDF file, through PDFtk Server.
- Bugfix: enabling of menu item "Test / Categories / Paste copied categories" was not correctly managed.
- Bugfix: changing category of a question did not enable "Save archive" button.
- Bugfix: students' list was not updated on the fly after applying changes with an application not started by ESCV.
- Removed: menu item "Test / Questionnaires / Frame automatic answers' grid".
- Removed: Sumatra PDF (which is still usable as plug-in).
- Removed: Newtonsoft Json.NET library.
New in ESCV 2.3.1 (Jun 20, 2022)
- Added: menu item "Test / Questionnaires / Frame automatic answers' grid".
- Added: menu item "[ -> LaTeX compiler time-out (click to show latest compiled file) ]", visible only when appropriate.
- Improved: "Paste copied categories" now works even between different instances of ESCV.
- Bugfix: disabled cut&paste of categories in formerly compiled tests.
- Bugfix: opening a file not registered in Windows raised a fatal exception.
- Minor amendments and cosmetic changes.
New in ESCV 2.3.0 (Jan 20, 2022)
- Added: menu item "Averages / Save records of selected students...".
- Added: menu item "Averages / Edit records template".
- Added: menu item "Options / Set archive and test width ratio...".
- Added: management of averages independent from students' ID number (averages computed with superseded versions of ESCV will need to be recomputed, after deleting the files "Averages.xml" in the folders of the courses).
- Added: number of used questions in copy&paste of categories for new tests.
- Added: automatic sending of files ".htaccess" and ".htpasswd" on FTP server.
- Bugfix: test data published on FTP server could be not updated.
- Bugfix: swapping the right answer with a wrong one did not update the archive.
- Bugfix: statistical indexes of assessments were not updated in real time.
- Removed: combo boxes "Manage archives and tests / Term:" e "Manage archives and tests / Number:" (replaced by menu item "Test / Test term and number...").
- Removed: table column "Assess questionnaires / Reason" (replaced by "Note", independent from "Bonus/penalty").
- Removed: LaTeX parameter "Title" (replaced by "TestTitle").
- Minor amendments and cosmetic changes.
New in ESCV 2.2.1 (Jun 10, 2021)
- Bugfix: switching to a new test sometimes caused unexpected outcomes.
- Bugfix: "Compile selected questions" always showed test questions, when available.
- Bugfix: adding categories of questions to a test now updates any preexisting questions.
- Bugfix: the list of questions included in the test was not shown accurately.
- Bugfix: categories whose names are too long are now printed on several lines, in the report.
- Bugfix: any warnings' tooltip will be closed before opening the LaTeX editor.
- Bugfix: maximum height of secondary windows is now around 600 points.
- Bugfix: maximum length of category names is 72 characters from now on; </> will always be converted into <|>.
New in ESCV 2.2.0 (May 4, 2021)
- Added: menu item "Assessment / Publish only assessed questionnaires".
- Added: menu item "Averages / Load marks column from CSV file...".
- Added: menu item "Averages / Remove selected column".
- Bugfix: opening the window "Search question in questionnaires..." in an anonymous test raised a fatal exception.
- Bugfix: now the window "Search question in questionnaires" is non modal.
- Bugfix: marks are now rounded down in order to exactly fit the settings.
- Bugfix: compensation was underestimated or miscalculated for scores in the lowest range.
- Bugfix: compensation was applied only to students with a customised educational plan.
- Bugfix: compensation can not be negative or grater than the theoretical maximum score any more.
- Bugfix: assessing only one questionnaire did not update the status of the test.
- Minor cosmetic changes.
New in ESCV 2.1.0 (Mar 20, 2021)
- Added: importation of answers acquired through a smartphone or a tablet.
- Added: menu item "Test / Questionnaire / Create a named copy of the questionnaires...".
- Added: menu item "Assessment / Selected questionnaire / Show questionnaire".
- Added: menu items "Assessment / Selected questionnaire / Show answers' sheet" in all available formats.
- Added: complete English translation of documentation and support files.
- Bugfix: showing a preview could corrupt the number of anonymous questionnaire with compensation to be created.
- Bugfix: the students' list was corrupted on changing language.
- Bugfix: weighted averages were sometimes wrongly computed. The entire module has been rewritten from scratch: any preexisting data will have to be regenerated.
- Bugfix: starting or stopping a nonexistent camera crashed ESCV.
- Bugfix: question's category, students' names and IDs were not shown in "Search question in questionnaires" window.
- Removed: menu item "Assessment / Set images' source / Remote images" (replaced by "Assessment / Set data source / Android device").
- Removed: automatic conversion of some special characters into LaTeX or HTML commands.
- Minor cosmetic changes and fixes.
New in ESCV 2.0.0 (Jan 27, 2021)
- Rewritten from scratch as a WPF application. First version publicly released.