New features - 2025 in Ortrac : Orzone AB

This article contains all new features releases 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Release date: 11/9/2025

WBA: Course admins may now opt to publish details (name and email) on placed students to workplace staff
WBA: It is now possible to list all users not currently associated with any workplace
Bugfix: Fix potential memory leak in preview pdf
WBA: "vfu" added as a supported route to Wba controller. "wba" and "vfu" can be used interchangably in controller segment of url.
WBA managers now have a new dedicated sign in page
Bugfix: "Edit content" button not always working for local content
Bugfix: Fixed some instances where progress measures in modules were not set up to be calculated

CandidateResponse Log now logs IP address of each individual response
Bugfix in primary content sometimes not showing
Bugfix in assessor login portal when used by wba admins
Bugfix: Settings button wasn't visible for orzone admins in non-editable tag categories (release Sept 4th)
API now includes candidate ID and extended demography when enumerating students in a given course instance (Note: For API)
Bugfix: Swedish characters in grading scale didn't render properly in progress measures due to encoding issue
Added link to QTI-JSON converter tool in question banking menu (Import questions from QTI (Inspera, Canvas) and json (wiseflow)
Extended exam session client detals in exam analytics
WBA Limited access accounts now default to Swedish locale and Western Europe time zone when displaying dates
Switched to public version of AI grading API

WBA Placement groups now support setting multiple accreditation requirements
Bugfix: AI Question feedback panels were always showing, even when there were no suggestions pertaining to that panel
AI Question feedback: Increased height of suggested body, and added newline support
Bugfix: AI Question feedback api didn't pass language param
Exam list for teachers has been updated to a table view, for enhanced overview
Go to course button that appears when filtering My activities for a specific course is now visible from start if user has access to one course instance only.
My activities page may now show important system announcements
Archive of past system announcements is now available alongside release notes
API now includes group membership when enumerating students in a given course instance

Bugfix: AI event log logged some events in local time, obfuscating timeline
Info on semester added to authoring context in Ortrac3 API
Bugfix in View summary for OSCE station
AI Assist may now provide feedback when creating questions of type Single best answer (subject to configuration; contact Orzone for guidance on getting started)
Form response lists now show submitting IP address for each submission
WBA: E-mail is now validated when adding staff to a workplace
WBA admins may now change staff e-mail addresses

New form settings layout: Behaviour settings, layout settings and tag settings are now behind collapsible headers for increased readability. New help buttons explain all settings in greater detail
New layout setting: Compact rendering. Merges consecutive single item evaluation questions of the same rating scale into one question, making them present in a manner similar to choice matrix questions.
New layout setting: Choice matrix labels above items. Allows finer control of how choice matrix questions are presented, to enable them to align better with other types of evaluation questions
Name of logged in user is now shown in page header at all times
Bugfix in Clarity ID viewer.
Bugfix: Local learning content was showing in global info boxes
Bugfix: Fixed encoding issue in ExamSync API. Implemented logging

Every save of question evaluation (essay grading) now stores the time the page was loaded, to enable calculating time taken (createddate - startdate)
User API updates: Remove students from course now sets the student as cancelled if remove is prohibited
Select context window now indicates past courses with a dampened colour
Minor bugfixes
Bugfix: Use of special untagged-tag breaks exam layout
Bugfix: OSCE Candidate list was not sortable by IdCode
Bugfix: Merge candidates broke when there were entries in ComponentGrade table (i.e. all events with modules)

Orzone tool to debug why a specific form evaluation is not counting towards a specific progress item
AI Grading of essay questions (config and privileges required. Make public announcement once we're happy with how the API works)
New options to manage anonymous forms for admins with elevated privileges
New view application privilege
URLs in demography fields now clickable in details card
Internal note on anonymous forms privilege: New priv, anonymous form super admin, may view summary below threshold, and has access to limited version of list submissions that only allows delete by candidate, without seeing evaluation