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2024 Diary view of major features

2024 Diary view of major features

Below is a brief summary of features that we have released over the last few months, all of the work is also outlined in the New Features section, or in the version related release notes.

Release Month

Version

Summary of key Features

January

5.17.0

Apprentice Dashboard - a new dashboard to give apprentices better visibility on their journey.

Assessment Milestone Enhancements- ability to assign a milestone to a user in epPRO. Integrated with My ToDos’s. Notification for milestone being assigned/unassigned/cancelled.

Role Switching - User account switching has been introduced into epaPRO to allow users who perform multiple business roles to switch seamlessly between their accounts.

New Skilltech & epaPRO Branding

 

February

5.18.0

Apprentice Dashboard Milestones - We have added the ability for apprentices to upload to milestones they are assigned.

Ofqual - Categorised Reasonable Adjustments - we have extended epaPRO to add a more structured entry of reasonable adjustments and special considerations. We support Ofqual’s Pre-Agreed and Post-Mark adjustments and also provide reports for each. The new functionality has been developed with Ofqual’s specification in-mind, but additional fields have also been added for EPAO specific data

March

5.19.0

Redesign to Main Contracts screen (better user experience) -We have redesigned the contracts screens within epaPRO to give a more user friendly experience when creating and managing contracts. This includes updates to the listing screen, create screen and editing screen for contracts.

April

5.20.0

5.21.0

Communication - Allow users to control the Subject recipient type, separately from their "user type" recipient -

We have extended the user-based configuration of communication to allow for different settings depending on if the user is the “subject” of the communication (e.g. EPA assigned to an apprentice) vs a non-subject recipient (e.g. the EPAM of the EPA assigned to an apprentice). Allowing for more fine-grained control for each user. For example, an EPAM may want to receive their “subject” communication via SMS as it relates to work they need to do, vs, receiving non-subject communication via Email or In-App notification as it may relate to EPAs they manage

Assessment Elements - Added the ability to work by EPA’s being able to accept or reject allocations at the component level - The ability for EPA(M) users to accept or reject assessment element bookings has been added into epaPRO.

May

5.22.0

Assessment Elements - Cancelled status - Add cancelling of elements to suspended status when performing a change of circumstance - Adds the ability for elements without results to be cancelled when suspending via change of circumstance.

Users - Assign default roles by user type on user creation. - Introduces the ability to configure default roles assigned on user creation by user type.

June

5.23.0

Assessment Booking - New Screen and Process - An entirely new assessment booking process has been implemented. This new process allows you or one of your providers to make bookings, manage pending bookings, handle rejected bookings or rebook assessments that require a resit.

July

5.24.0

EPA(M) - RAG Ratings - Various enhancements - Enhanced the EPA(M) RAG ratings functionality with various improvements / permissions.

August

5.25.0

Assessment Milestone Reminders, Apprentice Files - New permission to allow internal users to toggle file visibility & Optional Pronouns

September

5.26.0

Apprentice Dashboard - Add ability to toggle the visibility of results to apprentices - Added the ability to show the obtained grade against a component from within the apprentice dashboard, configurable on a per-provider basis. Reasonable Adjustments - Phase 2 - added a new processing screen for Reasonable Adjustments, which can be located under the Issue Management menu.

October

5.27.0

Communication templates - custom footer - We have added functionality to allow a custom email footer to be defined.

November

5.28.0

Results/Certifications - Result Releasing - An optional extra stage has been added to epaPRO to delay the releasing of results/certifications to the public. This work also comes with SLA enhancements.

December

5.29.0

Addition of Cohort filter - this has been added into a lot of screens.
Internal Upgrades of Laravel & PHP