This page contains list of releases and changes for the Practique Server software.
New features
PRAC-878: Practique Server Status page
Status page provides means for IT services to monitor Practique Server status and status of it's sub services. Status page can be provided in various formats so that integration with different types of monitoring tools is possible. For full documentation please see Practique Server Monitoring.
Fixes
PRAC-887, PSD-199 & PRAC-878: Monitoring & Recovery of the Database server and iPad communication
Under certain circumstances (server restart, maintenance, etc...) it was possible that the underlying Practique Server Database connection has been lost while status indicator for WSI (top right corner of the screen) still indicated fully working state. This caused issue with communication between iPad and Server. Manifestation of the issue was that iPad indicated that it is waiting for Server to respond but it never received the response.
We have improved monitoring and auto-recovery for the Database server within Practique so that the WSI indicator does provide accurate information. Also we have incorporated auto-recovery in case that the problem with the database is temporary.
The same status indication is now provided by the Practique Server Status page.
PRAC-877: Written, Student logins for Practique for iPad has been truncated when containing both numbers and letters
Certain format of Candidate IDs has been transformed unexpectedly by Practique which caused problems for Candidates to log-in into Practique for iPad application. For example when Candidate has been imported with ID of 'XY1230Z' Practique would schedule such Candidate into the exam with iPad password of '1230' which would be unexpected.
This has now been fixed and Practique always uses Candidate ID field as iPad password, so 'XY1230Z' from above example.
Security
PRAC-890: Clickjacking protection enabled
We have enabled security feature for the application server protecting it from the Clickjacking attacks. For more information about Clickjacking please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking.
Fixes
PRAC-843, PSD-176: OSCE, Candidate Feedback Reports did not reflect correctly pass/fail for the candidate under certain conditions
When exam results has been processed and Minimum items to pass settings has been set to value other then 0 on the Set Standard screen then Candidate Feedback Reports have been generated with false Pass for the Candidates who had been failed due to the Minimum items to pass settings. Results on the Set Standard & statistics for an exam have always been calculated correctly.
Candidate Feedback Report generator has been fixed to accurately reflect settings from the Set Standard screen.
PRAC-863: OSCE, Options to customise Candidate Feedback Reports were not taken into account when generating the report
This issue only applies to reports generated for OSCE exams. Candidate Feedback Report provides customisation options to show or hide various information such as:
Unfortunately all options in italic have been ignored by the report generator and produced the same results regardless of the user selected settings. This is now fixed and report customisation works as expected.
Fixes
PSD-112: Problems importing SBA questions using CSV and XLSX formats
It is now possible to import CSV files on MS Windows platform without problems as well as XLSX files (correct format assumed).
Described problems here are connected to certain MS Windows platform and CSV/XLSX files with not entirely correct format.
Fixes
PSD-130: OSCE Reporting: Station Cut Score graph has been improved:
PSD-83,PSD-143: OSCE: Edit mark screen has been improved in order to accomodate for longer examiner text feedback.
It is now possible to comfortably review the text feedback provided by examiners. Also the height of the text boxes is set to fit the text to minimise scrolling and put all content on screen.
Fixes
PSD-170, PSD-152: Additional fix for the Special characters issue.
Previous fix introduced in 4.1.4 didn't solve the issue with special characters completely and throughout the system.
Fixes
PSD-170, PSD-152: Inputing special characters such as Emoji, Currency symbols and other special characters result in Marksheet rejection by the Server and synchronisation errors on the iPads.
Changes has been made to the Marksheet processing on the Server to correctly accept input from iPads including special characters.
PSD-129: Fixed display of missing “Passing criteria” statement on the OSCE Candidate feedback report.
PSD-112: Fixed import of the Written exam SBA Items using Microsoft Excel (XLSX) format
It was not possible to import XLXS files if any of the columns in the source XLSX file were empty or the XLSX file contained empty rows. Please refer to release notes for 4.1.6 for more details.
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