Changelog

Sensei 4.0 is here! This is a major release, which includes a new theme for your courses and a rework of the WordPress dashboard menu navigation. Read the announcement post here.

• New: The menus for Courses, Lessons and all Sensei-related pages in the WordPress dashboard have been combined into one Sensei menu.
  • Update menu structure #4618
  • Fix lesson ordering #4708
  • Fix menu highlighting for Student Management pages #4717
  • Fix persistence of menu highlights #4722
  • Add indicator to Grading menu that displays the number of ungraded quizzes #4671
  • Move Import and Export to the Tools page #4634
  • Update courses page navigation #4672
  • Add a students column to the courses list table #4663
  • Consolidate course module columns #4646
  • Add usage tracking for Sensei LMS submenus #4695
  • Add a “more” link to the course modules column #4666
  • Lessons page submenu items #4687
  • Add custom navigation to Questions menu item #4692
  • Update settings URL when changing a tab #4699
  • Update modules navigation #4693
  • Fix incorrect menu being highlighted on Lessons page #4700
  • Hide custom header when editing taxonomies #4707
  • Fix menu highlighting for Grading pages #4714
  • Add course type to analysis links #4712
• New: Learning Mode, a new course theme option for a distraction-free learner experience.
  • Add blocks from quiz template #4647
  • Hide admin bar for non editor users on learning mode pages. #4652
  • Update color customization #4650
  • Fix/learning mode a11y #4665
  • Add site logo block fallback #4655
  • Fix quiz buttons styles #4676
  • Add “New” badge to Learning Mode #4681
  • Fix various course theme styling issues #4670
  • Fix font and content styling issues #4698
  • Update Learning Mode texts #4690
  • Fix responsive styles and tweak prev/next links #4684
  • Improve focus mode toggle button #4706
  • Improve admin notice button alignment #4713
  • Use course theme in the editor when needed #4697
  • Fix template post type filtering #4716
  • Fix block spacing when using course theme in the editor #4719
  • Update learning mode banner copy #4723
  • Add quiz progress bar and exit course blocks #4668
  • Fix quiz question number on learning mode #4679
  • Fix collapsible height with a loaded font #4677
  • Fix preview learning mode in a course with disabled learning mode #4678
• Remove deprecated functionality #4667
• Fix quiz answer notes issues #4685

• Fix: Quiz block not rendering in certain cases #4657
• Fix: PHP notice when retrieving some of the settings #4658

• Fix: Fix PHP 7.0 and 7.1 compatibility

• New: Quiz Pagination
  • Add toolbar pagination settings #4429
  • Implement the quiz pagination backend #4492
  • Implement the quiz pagination frontend #4502
  • Save the quiz pagination form state between pages #4521
  • Reorganize quiz pagination settings #4523
  • Rename CourseProgress to more generic ProgressBar #4572
  • Make the quiz buttons consistent #4579
  • Add a button to the quiz block that opens the quiz settings #4597
  • Frontend for progress bar related to pagination #4606
  • Remove quiz pagination feature flag #4610
  • Update design of progress bar #4620
  • Show pagination progress bar in lesson edit view #4625
  • Add quiz button color settings #4629
  • Fix quiz settings link not centered on Astra #4635
  • Fix lesson course metabox request infinite loop #4637
  • Minor tweaks to quiz and video settings #4639
• New: Video-based Course Progression
  • Add Video-Based Course Progression settings #4519
  • Extend standard YouTube embed block #4546
  • Extend standard Vimeo video embed #4561
  • Extend standard video block #4562
  • Add VideoPress extension #4573
  • Add a 3-second delay before autocompleting the lesson #4611
  • Add styles for the disabled button in the lesson template #4612
  • Add Video settings panel to the lesson sidebar #4624
  • Remove video based course progression feature flag #4627
  • Check pause method exists for given object #4628
• New: Grading display filter for custom question types #4415
• New: Add course navigation extra icons #4577
• New: Add filters and actions to support quiz timer #4594
• New: Add course theme notice #4616
• Tweak: Make the lesson prerequisite metabox dropdown show lessons from the selected course #4410
• Tweak: Refresh the module selection after changing the course #4421
• Tweak: Tweak wording for incomplete quiz question warning #4474
• Tweak: Renamed learner -> student in all user-facing occurrences #4501
• Tweak: Improve wording of the lessons prerequisite metabox #4507
• Tweak: Allow only before or after text on the gap question #4533
• Tweak: Add “by default” sort order to Courses archive page #4534
• Tweak: Hide incomplete questions in preview mode #4543
• Tweak: Change icons folder #4578
• Tweak: Remove quizStructureStore filter #4598
• Fix: Update quiz status and title on lesson update #4359
• Fix: Restrict the order lessons menu to teachers, authors, and above #4452
• Fix: Fix sidebar icon not picking up admin scheme colors #4471
• Fix: Add check so that Authors can only order their own lessons #4475
• Fix: Fix invalid type issue when questions options empty #4491
• Fix: Fix npm 8 issues #4506
• Fix: WP_User_Query can’t be called with ‘who’ parameter in WP versions >= 5.9.0 #4513
• Fix: Casting lesson_length value to integer in the backend #4525
• Fix: Remove ID attribute to prevent duplication #4526
• Fix: Fix multiple pages due to page breaks in unsupported Sensei themes [#4527] https://github.com/Automattic/sensei/pull/4527)
• Fix: Fix Lesson template when creating a new lesson through WP-admin menu #4557
• Fix: Fix course theme start lesson #4580
• Fix: Fix grade message with decimals #4602
• Fix: Fix comments pagination on lesson page #4609
• Fix: Return wp_nonce_field result instead of outputting it immediately #4641

• New: Answer feedback improvements
  • Add answer feedback editor settings #4344
  • Update answer feedback display to use new options #4349
  • Revitalisation of Answer Feedback #4313
  • Update grading screen with answer feedback changes #4427
  • Refine answer feedback blocks #4354
  • Re-style answer feedback frontend #4408
• Fix: Remove pagination from legacy course results page #4328
• Fix: Update Quiz title when parent Lesson title is updated. #4292 #4331
• Fix: Add is_array check to avoid warnings #4340
• Tweak: Remove experimental rest api #4191
• Tweak: Remove old WP version checks #4194
• Fix: Do not show “View results” in course summary if course is not complete #4330
• Fix: Omit className attribute from quiz structure sync #4347
• Fix: Fix is_sensei() false positives #4343
• Fix: Fix PHPCS issues #4352
• Fix: Fix random order for new questions with multiple choice #4356
• Fix: Fix custom URL slug for course results link #4358
• Tweak: Add a custom appender in course outline block #4350
• Fix: Use flexbox to display the analysis page correctly on wide and narrow screens #4360
• Fix: Fix random order for new questions with multiple choice #4364
• Fix: $taxonomies can be null, don’t always treat it as an array #4329
• Fix: Fix single page blocks script loading on the front-end #4402
• Fix: Fix PHP linter throws an error when the project folder has spaces #4403
• Tweak: Add course ID class to lesson pages #4388
• Tweak: Update README.md to link to senseilms.com #4418
• Fix: Load less User data for Teacher metabox #4417
• Tweak: Add quiz block in the lessons when the block is not there #4420
• Tweak: Update readme.txt with new description content #4423
• Fix: Fix missing space for ‘Extensions’ heading #4424
• Tweak: Improve performance on course ordering #4422
• Fix: Fix course complete emails not being sent #4425