{"id":2881,"date":"2019-07-10T18:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=knowledge_base&#038;p=2881"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:14:37","slug":"stepstone-version-1-8-release-date-9-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/stepstone-version-1-8-release-date-9-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"StepStone Version 1.8 release date 7\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/new_stepstone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/new_stepstone.png 748w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/new_stepstone-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/new_stepstone-710x271.png 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><strong><br \/>New Features for version 1.8<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expanded Intro and Conclusion Step Information Layout Options\n<ul>\n<li>Intro and Conclusion steps now have all common information layout options available (previously locked into just \u201cIntro\u201d or \u201cConclusion\u201d layouts, respectively.)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0MultiMedia Grids\n<ul>\n<li>Info layout type with grid of multimedia launchers now available.\u00a0 Similar to singular media launcher info layouts, media grids currently allow an arbitrary number of launchable media grid \u201cblocks\u201d, including a zooming image launcher, a PDF document launcher, and a Vimeo\/YouTube launcher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Matching Assessment\n<ul>\n<li>Provides a \u201cstack\u201d of independent matching groups, each with a question\/match-statement and a list of available options from which the learner selects the best option.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Can be used to create a single, compact step assessment that provides the equivalent of multiple, funneled-scoring SAMC-type assessments.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the common feedback text and media results, matching assessments provide optional, independently-toggled, detailed feedback elements to learners based on matching results (selection status, selection information, correct-choice information, and granular feedback info per-match-group).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ranking Assessment\n<ul>\n<li>Provides a \u201cstack\u201d of identical, optionally-randomized selection lists for learners to rank and order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>Bug Fixes and Improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improvements to LMS communications with packaged SCORM modules.<\/li>\n<li>Media uploads that fail to complete should no longer lock up the authoring tools, and are indicated in the upload process panel.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to multimedia interactions, navigation in the StepStone Player.<\/li>\n<li>ADA\/Assistive improvements to YouTube embedded player (assistive control strip) and Write-In Field List step assessments.<\/li>\n<li>Additional ADA Descriptive text fields for pertinent elements are now available.<\/li>\n<li>Introduction step erroneously allowed step assessment; this is now removed.<\/li>\n<li>Assessment layout-type swapping improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to the sign-in screen password recovery system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Features for version 1.8 Expanded Intro and Conclusion Step Information Layout Options Intro and Conclusion steps now have all common information layout options available (previously locked into just \u201cIntro\u201d or \u201cConclusion\u201d layouts, respectively.) \u00a0MultiMedia Grids Info layout type with grid of multimedia launchers now available.\u00a0 Similar to singular media launcher info layouts, media grids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-release-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamucet.org\/stepstone\/knowledgebase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}