Release notes for 2025-04-17

Rainbow Classroom 2.7.8

New features

• Added separate Edit Participants List options for Teachers, Students, and Guests (User Role).
• Teachers can now be enrolled in a class as students and will have all student-related permissions in that specific class (User Role).
• User can now change the role of the existing students/guest and convert them to teacher by changing the role on edit.
• Enabled Mass Provisioning Job Scheduling for Moodle, Open LMS, and Canvas-based organizations.
• Introduced License Management in Mass Provisioning for Moodle, Open LMS, and Canvas-based organizations.
• Jobs can now be archived, and users must archive a job before deleting it.
• Added support for the Plus (+) icon in email address formats when creating a user.
• Introduced Flowchart Feature with custom templates, library items and screenshot capture functionality.
• Talking Time Stats now associated with attendance sessions.
• Rainbow Recording Ecosystem integrated for improved recording management, allowing users to play, download, and share recordings as a single file.
• Recordings can now be Grouped by Classes for better organization and management.
• Task Management feature enabled and available for all organizations.
• Storage Consumption Details now visible at the class level for shared files.
• Added the ability to Free Storage Space via the files modal.
• Users can now Duplicate Tasks by creating a copy.

Main fixes

• Fixed Attendance Log and Time issues.
• Fixed functional issues in Exam Rooms and Breakout Rooms.
• Improved the recording behavior during live sessions by disabling the recording icon once a Host or Co-host starts recording.
• Set default student permissions to true within class settings.
• Fixed missing participants in the right-side overlay for Exam Rooms; also removed unintended proctoring users.
• Resolved file download issues for course material in Exam Room.
• Reworked the mic mute/unmute logic to reflect real-time Rainbow mute state.
• Corrected inaccurate total joined time in Attendance.
• Addressed an issue where course material during a conference session were not seen..
• Synced student and guest roles in class data across Mass Provisioning and RPT tools.
• Guest role handling corrected to ensure appropriate permissions are applied.
• Fixed a UI overlap issue with the Exam Room join button.
• Updated the default French and Spanish language packs used in the Rainbow Classroom and Management Center.
• Applied translations for newly added labels in French and Spanish across all existing organizations.
• Updated the French and Spanish entries in the database to ensure new organizations automatically use the latest translations.
• Resolved an issue where users couldn’t play recordings during an ongoing live session.
• Updated all provisioning jobs to use UTC for time tracking.
• Standardized server and job time comparisons using UTC format.
• Improved the recording behavior during live sessions by disabling the recording icon once a Host or Co-host starts recording.
• Updated the Talking Time icon in the right-side overlay for better visual alignment.
• Added support to update user roles and subscription details via the /user/update API endpoint.
• Introduced a new dropdown option that allows Students and Guests to change their role to Teacher and update their license accordingly.
• Removed the Subscription column from the Pre-Enrollment Class DataType.
• Updated the RPT ZIP package with the latest version of files.
• Implemented the GetAdminFileTempUrl query to securely retrieve file URLs from the backend.