06 April - Custom welcome message

This article is from before the rebranding to SelfGuide. Text and images can include the old product name ProductivityPerformer or its abbreviation PP.

All organizations have their own idea and vision by using SelfGuide. Use a custom welcome message to inform users about these ideas and empower them use the content to improve their skills. Read more about the custom welcome message and other changes below.

Custom welcome message

Getting users along with your idea and vision helps to increase the usage of SelfGuide and, derived also the added value for the organization. The new Home window now contains the possibility to show a customized welcome message to users. To customize the welcome message, Admin users do have new options in the settings window.

Sections in a Course module (preview)

To further improve the Course usages, modules are being updated to a new structure. In the new structure, modules contain a title, a description and a list of sections. Sections within a module contain a title, a description and a list of instruction. So basically, a new level of content has been added to give editors more freedom in compiling the course. This new structure is ready to be used in preview and will become available in the upcoming weeks.

Changes in this release:

  • Bugfix in the removal of modules
  • Styling updates

Curious about the usage of sections? An example course using the new section functionality is available: https://open.selfguide.com/guest?page=/courses/ba4740a6-3074-4ec6-b4fe-63803ae4895b/module/course_preface

We plan to remove the preview in the upcoming release (week 16 or 17).

Mix Instructions and Exercises in a Course (preview)

With the section feature available in preview, we did continue working on the Course so Instructions and Exercises can be mixed within a section. This functionality enables editors to guide users between getting knowledge by reading Instructions and practicing the gained knowledge using Exercises.

Are you interested and do you want to learn more about this new functionality, contact gert.kienhuis@poldervalley.com.

SelfGuide Recorder flagged as malware

Unfortunately, the SelfGuide Recorder is sometimes flagged as malware! Depending on the anti-virus configuration of the user:

  • there is no issue at all
  • an alert is shown and the SelfGuide Recorder can be used as normal
  • or the SelfGuide Recorder can not be used because a specific file is removed by the anti-virus software.

This malware alert is a false positive!

More information about this issue can be found on the status page.