What's New in 4.38?
Welcome to the ebs 4.38 release, our first release of 2022 and another packed full of both general improvements and new innovative functions. This release delivers lots of updates across the product set and sees us release the second part of our self-service attendance reporting module following the successful take up of self-service absence reporting in 2021.
Our new ILP was released in ebs 4.37 and this release sees us act on feedback from the growing number of customers that have taken the module into production, the general feedback is that in ILP we have an exceptional new module with user experience for both the learner and tutor at the heart of the design. Implementations continue throughout 2022 with a view to all existing ILP customers being moved over by April 2023. There is a lot of supporting collateral and webinars to go along with the launch of ILP, and we encourage all customers to review these and consider how the module could revolutionise your teaching and learning delivery.
In addition to these headline items, 4.38 sees a range of significant updates, including:
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Further development of the parent hub, providing the basis for parent interactions with all stages of the learner journey
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Updates to the learner hub including new Contacts and Documents pages
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Feedback based developments to the new ontrack reports cradle, allowing customers to migrate from the legacy reports cradle to a new improved interface
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Updates to the interviews function, allowing a student to self-serve the cancellation and rebooking of interviews
With the release of our new ILP and reports cradle, we have issued de-support notices for their predecessors. All customers should review these notices and ensure they have a plan to move to the new versions in plenty of time.
The ebs Online Help continues to develop and we continue to embed videos into the online help pages. As with the previous release, users of ebs: central will be prompted to view the release notes post-upgrade. All changes are documented in the release notes, which we recommend all customers read as they contain key information with regards to product updates and how you can make use of them.
We’d like to take the opportunity to once again thank our beta testers who have provided feedback on the beta release in the last few weeks and we ask all customers to consider being a beta tester for future releases. Please keep your eye on Tribal Communities for more information.
This is the first of three planned releases for 2022 and each release contains functionality that we consider useful to all customers. We encourage all customers who have not adopted new functionality in previous releases to review release packs for all recent major releases to ensure that you are making the most of ebs functionality. We would like to thank all customers who provide feedback to us and we look forward to engaging with you further as we shape our next releases of ebs.
- Mike Fisher, Head of Product Management