Category: Release Notes

Release specific documentation for the Learning Center

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Coaches News Referees Release Notes

Release Notes 2023.03

What’s New

  • On the user profile background check block, we added a downloadable PDF of the background check consent form.
  • In the classroom assignments tab, we added a progress bar above the assignment timeline. This bar will include completed assignments, remaining assignments, and an overall percentage of completion.
  • On the user profile page, we added a “group” tab for all non-course groups. This tab will show all groups user is a member or leader of and the date they were added.

What’s updated

  • We have extended the certification API to include total years as a referee license holder.
  • New dashboard widget for referee administrators labeled Referee Attrition. Please contact the referee department for further information.

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Coaches News Referees Release Notes

Release Notes 2023.02

What’s new

We are pleased to introduce the dashboard. The dashboard allows users to view upcoming actionable items in one place. This currently includes unread chat, expiring license and compliance. New widgets will be added in future releases.

  • To navigate, after login click on desired discipline -> on the right hover over name -> Click on “Dashboard”.

What’s Updated

Users can update their gender on their profile. To update:

  • Hover over your name,
  • Click on profile,
  • Click on the red “Update Profile” icon
  • Look for gender, update your choice and click save.
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News Release Notes

Release Notes 2023.01

Global

What’s new

  • Safeguarding- This new page provides risk management tasks in one location including Safesport training, U.S. Soccer’s Introduction to Safe and Healthy Playing Environments, U.S. Soccer’s code of conduct, and a quick link to keep your profile information up to date. This page can be accessed through the home landing page, as well as the “My Courses” tab. For referee users, the background screening will also appear in their safeguarding page.
  • Introduction to Safe and Healthy Playing Environment – on the user profile, we have split the “Safety” block. Users will have a different block for SafeSport and Introduction to Safe and Healthy Playing Environments. A “Where is my certificate” tooltip has been added in the Introduction to Safe and Healthy Playing Environments block.
  • Info/resources page- We have implemented new sort and filter options on this page. These include defaulting the sort order to descending by publish date, allowing sort by publish date or filename, and a filename text search.

What’s Updated

  • Sign Up page – The account sign up process has been simplified to decrease accidental parent registrations for a child or spouse.
  • Mobile usability – Updates have been made to the course search and candidate assignment list.
  • The candidate assignment list has also been updated on the desktop version.

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Coaches News Referees Release Notes

Release Notes 2022.05

Global

What’s new

  • Added a checkbox to confirm no middle name when submitting a background screening
  • The Info/hosts menu is now visible to the public without logging into the Learning Center

What’s Updated

  • The instructions for resetting a password have been improved
  • For application-based courses, when a user is not eligible, there will be a pop-up stating what specific requirements they do not meet.
  • Users can now freely edit their middle name on their profile
  • In courses, each assignment block in the assignment tab are now fully clickable to improve user experience on mobile
  • The menu buttons have been made more obvious in the mobile site

Coaches

  • In assignments, session plans may now only be submitted as PDFs.
  • A background screening block now appears on the user profile. Coaches are not required to complete a background screening in the Learning Center at this time.
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Coaches News Referees Release Notes

Release Notes 2022.04

Global

What’s new

  • We are excited to introduce new landing pages. These posts include any news or announcements related to coaching education and the referee program.
  • We have implemented interactive tooltips for available courses.
  • In courses, in the group discussion thread, there will now be the capability to tag messages as important. In this case an exclamation mark icon will appear, as well as the ability to filter the messages by only those marked with is icon.

What’s Updated

  • We have made improvements to the UI in applications and assignments to make it easier for users.
  • Notifications: for events that have already ended users will get a message that says “the event has ended”.
  • We have added a feature to allow applicants to request permission to review their application when the status of the application is ”submitted”, “ready for review” or ”reviewed”.
  • We have added more filters to the group libraries in courses so users can find files more easily.
  • The course details button has been made more visible to help users understand that they can click this icon to learn more about a specific course.
  • Quizzes will show both the question and answer when answered incorrectly so users can review.
  • In the course assignments tab, where an icon indicates the type of assignment, we have added text to make it clearer.
  • In all course classrooms, we have made the general contact email address more visible.

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Coaches News Referees Release Notes

Release notes 2022.03

Global

What’s New

  • We are happy to introduce a digital ID card that is located on your LC profile. The ID card will display your name, USSF ID, the date the carded was generated and QR code that leads to the directory. This card is PDF downloadable.
  • We have added the ability for course administrator to reuse locations from past courses.

What’s updated

  • In course classroom, adjustments to the language in the ‘compliance assignment’ were made to make it clearer, to candidates, what happens if those assignments expire before the course is complete.
  • In the calendar view, we have replaced “course event” to the event title.
  • We have discontinued the ability to open past completed records of safety assignments in the archive. This includes SafeSport and intro to safety. There will be a warning message for those that want to access that information again.
  • The email requestor for a potential profile merge will receive an email if the request is canceled.
  • In the registration modal, there is now a clear message and checkbox with the cancellation and refund policy.
  • Profiles with no updates within 6 months will get a popup indicating if there are any changes they would like to make.

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Release Notes

Release Notes – 2022.02

Global

What’s New

  • The notification center will now notify you when there are chat video calls, you have any course surveys, if you are awarded a scholarship, if you have an upcoming event on a course or group calendar, when your assignments are due and for unread messages.

What’s Updated

  • Improved visibility for verified email addresses by adding a checkmark and a tooltip displaying the time it was verified.
  • In the supervised course list and admin course list there is now a filter to allow search by course number.
  • Added text to the welcome email which includes adding notifications@learning.ussoccer.org to your safe senders. This address is where all auto emails from the LC will come from.
  • We have added calendar functionality in standalone groups.
  • We have added help text to reports to give a better understanding of what the report includes, and how it is filtered.

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Coaches Referees Release Notes

Release Notes – 2022.01

Global

What’s New

  • We are pleased to announce that with the release of 2022.01, the Learning Center has added a Public Directory. In the directory you will be able to search coaches and referees who have active licenses. The directory can be found at the top navigation bar on the homepage. We strongly encourage everyone to read the information here for more details and FAQs: https://cms.ussdlc.com/u-s-soccer-directory/
  • We have also added a notification center, this can be found on the top navigation bar, shown as a bell. Currently, only notifications regarding safety courses will appear. More notifications may be added in future releases.

What’s Updated

  • We’ve added a dedicated section for “My Applications” to provide better instructions and process tracking for users applying to courses.
  • There is now an option to create recurring events in course calendars.
  • The option to enter a middle name in the sign-up form is now available.
  • We have added additional backend resources to make reports more reliable.
  • The roster report can now be downloaded in course editor so it is easier to access for course administrators
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Coaches Referees Release Notes Safeguarding

Release Notes – 2021.05

Global

What’s New

  • We are pleased to announce that with the release of 2021.05, the Learning Center is now integrated with the new Learning Management System (Absorb) at the U.S. Center for SafeSport. While the primary work is complete, there will be some data processing that continues through this week, and we strongly encourage everyone to read the information here for more details and FAQs: SafeSport Transition
  • We have introduced a new directory for members who hold courses via the Learning Center. You’ll find it under the Info–>Hosts main menu. Member admins also have the ability to update this information as needed.

What’s Updated

  • We have improved the logic / messaging around the Introduction to Safe and Healthy Playing Environments course to to make it clearer when that needs to be re-taken and to prevent erroneous error messages from being displayed. As a reminder, that training is good for 365 days from the date is completed, and must be retaken to remain active on your profile.
  • Calendar events now show the timezone in which the event is scheduled.
  • The classroom assignment matrix has been updated with new colors and shading to make it clearer what status each assignment is in.
  • Assignments now respect the order in which they appear in the evaluation as a primary sort (when there are no due dates) or as a secondary sort (when multiple assignments share the same due date).
  • The “chatbot” features of the Learning Center have been deprecated, and users can link directly to the FAQs via the Help menu.

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Coaches Referees Release Notes

Release Notes – 2021.04

Global

What’s New

  • We are pleased to announce that with the release of 2021.05, the Learning Center is now integrated with the new Learning Management System (Absorb) at the U.S. Center for SafeSport. While the primary work is complete, there will be some data processing that continues through this week, and we strongly encourage everyone to read the information here for more details and FAQs: SafeSport Transition
  • We have introduced a new directory for members who hold courses via the Learning Center. You’ll find it under the Info–>Hosts main menu. Member admins also have the ability to update this information as needed.

What’s Updated

  • We have improved the logic / messaging around the Introduction to Safe and Healthy Playing Environments course to to make it clearer when that needs to be re-taken and to prevent erroneous error messages from being displayed. As a reminder, that training is good for 365 days from the date is completed, and must be retaken to remain active on your profile.
  • Calendar events now show the timezone in which the event is scheduled.
  • The classroom assignment matrix has been updated with new colors and shading to make it clearer what status each assignment is in.
  • Assignments now respect the order in which they appear in the evaluation as a primary sort (when there are no due dates) or as a secondary sort (when multiple assignments share the same due date).
  • The “chatbot” features of the Learning Center have been deprecated, and users can link directly to the FAQs via the Help menu.