Just got my hands on New Evolve and it looks great. Feels more like a modern web design tool than an e-learning tool - which I like. Especially like that there is something akin to an undo button!
One thing I noticed is that if you want to include an assessment, the only option seems to be to include every question in a course. That’s going to be a pretty big issue because many courses will use exploratory or low-stakes questions for most of the course and then have a separate set of assessment questions. In Old Evolve you can specify which questions are part of the assessment. Are there plans to bring that feature into new Evolve? (Or have I just not found that setting yet?)
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For ‘exploratory’ questions (we’re calling them ‘ungraded’) that’s functionality we’ll be releasing next week. They won’t be included in the assessment - given that they have no ‘right’ answer.
As for being able to choose which (non-exploratory) questions are included, I’ll raise that as a feature request.
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Not sure if you spotted this but every time you make a ‘destructive’ change to a course (like delete an element, section etc) Evolve automatically makes a backup for you… and you can manually create backups whenever you need too.
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Say WHAT NOW!!?
I knew about setting up auto-backups, but I thought they were daily backups rather than intelligent ones. Good to know - thanks Matt!
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That sounds good - I will check it out once it’s released. Thanks Matt
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Yeah, this seemed like the better option to go with for new Evolve. Bear in mind they are only kept for 30 days, though.
If you want a long-term copy of an auto-backup you can just rename it and it becomes a ‘manual’ backup.
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