August 2020

campusM Quick Polls (iOS, Android, Web App)

Coming to your Preview Environment on the week of July 13, 2020, we are excited to announce our campusM Quick Polls applet that allows you to create short, single question, multiple choice polls to distribute to your users to answer. This first release enables you to:

• Create and manage your Quick Polls with multiple choice responses
• Provide response text on a poll-by-poll basis or by individual response basis
• Distribute to students based on their roles
• Send users a notification to alert them to a new available Quick Poll
• View the aggregated results in App Manager
• Download individual results through a secure API
• Deployable menu option to enable users to access their open Quick Polls and a history of their responses to answers from previous Quick Polls

campusM Quick Polls was developed as a direct result of the feedback customers gave us about being able to understand student sentiment during the current pandemic, as students adjust to the new restrictions and procedures. This applet can also be used to identify students who have self-identified that they have COVID19 symptoms and are self-isolating as part of an institution's tracing strategy.

The Quick Poll release for August 2020 is phase 1 of this development. Phase 2, scheduled for September 2020, will add the ability to schedule multiple instances of the same poll, so you can ask the same question on a regular basis to determine changes in sentiment, for example. We will also add the ability to link out to an internal or external URL following a response and/or change the users roles based on their response. We anticipate that these changes will add significant enhancements that will broaden usage significantly.

Open Quick Polls and walkthrough for responding to a question and the supporting customizable response text:

View historic responses to previous Quick Polls and access support information through the Quick Polls interface:

We will release dedicated documentation on the use and deployment of Quick Polls when it is released to the Preview Environment.

URL Links in Timetables/Calendars (AUGUST 2020 HOTFIX ADDITION) (iOS, Android, Web App)

You can now add an online meeting URL to timetable event data for displaying in the campusM calendar. This can be in addition to a physical location to support hybrid teaching arrangement that may be in place for some institutions.

The following fields were added for the Timetable product integration for RESTful API for JSON, XML, iCal and Eveoh MyTimetable (and can be utilized with non-Product integration timetable services following changes to the Connect Layer services):

• Meeting – A flag that indicates if a meeting link is included
• Meeting URL – The URL of the meeting for the event
• Meeting URL Description – The description of the meeting URL

For more information on the Timetable product integration, see Timetable.

New Product Integration – Dynamic Lists (iOS, Android, Web App)

The new Dynamic Lists product integration allows you to curate interactive lists for your students to view and manage.

The Dynamic Lists product integration can be created with an API or you can manually create lists using the App Manager interface. Lists can be organized into categories, with list items within each category having additional information or links to other resources. We have also created a live tile on the homepage that provides a quick view of the top items within each category (depending on configuration).

As with all Product Integrations, you can configure many elements of the experience.

For further information on the Dynamic Lists product integration including user experience, configuration, and prerequisite details, see List.

New Product Integration – Blackboard (iOS, Android, Web App)

The new Blackboard product integration allows students, lecturers, and other users to view their Blackboard information, including course content and grades.

As with all Product Integrations, you can configure many elements of the experience.

For further information on the Blackboard product integration including user experience, configuration, and prerequisite details, see Blackboard.

Product Integration Changes and Enhancements

campusM Attendance – Enhancement to Check-in Report API

The new fetchBy optional parameter was added for the Attendance product integration Check-in Report API to identify if the startDate and endDate parameters passed in the request refer to the start and end date/time of the check-in transactions saved to the cloud rather than the event start and end range. This makes it easier to retrieve all check-in records through the API gateway when extracting data on a regular basis and include offline check-ins that may have been logged outside of the session time range. For more information, see the Developer's Network.

Android Platform and API Level Update (Android App)

The campusM Android native app was updated to support the latest Android platform and API level (Android10, API Level 29) as part of our ongoing commitment to maintain the campusM platform and ensure that the best experience, stability, and resiliency is provided to end-users.