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Surpass Publisher Changelog

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Coming soon: Surpass Publisher Release 1.8 (ETA: 2025 Q2)

IMPORTANT: This release is still in development and is therefore subject to change.

New

  • You can now download previous versions of the Surpass Publisher from the Surpass Publisher installer page (37238).

Improved

  • Various improvements to publishing items in spreadsheet format, including:
    • Publishing tags is no longer a separate process to publishing items.
    • Item types, including survey item types, are separated by sheet in the spreadsheet.
    • The data included in the spreadsheet is now configurable, giving you more flexibility (52621).
  • When publishing items in any format, choosing a subset of tags in the Tag Configuration step now uses a ‘contains’ search (52982).
  • You can now view the progress of the exporting process in Export Scripts, and choose to Stop exporting if required (46577).
  • Users who do not have centre-level permissions can only filter (and export) scripts by subject, test, and test form, rather than not being able to export any scripts (55199).
  • The format of candidate details in exported scripts has been updated to begin with and capitalise the candidate’s surname, and capitalise the candidate’s unique reference code (51370).

Fixed

  • An attempt to retrieve unsupported item types is no longer made when publishing items for Pearson VUE, improving the performance of the publishing process (52981).
  • When publishing items for Pearson VUE, <br> tags are replaced with <p> tags instead of being removed (55694).
  • Bad unicode characters no longer cause publishing items in spreadsheet format to fail, but are sanitised instead (55201).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.7 (January 2025)

New

  • New options in the Export Scripts screen include the ability to:
    • Anonymise exported scripts, either partially (keycodes are included) or fully (no identifying information is included), using an anonymisation CSV for reference (49730).
    • Exclude computer-marked questions, basic pages, and survey items from the export (49731).
    • Exclude item names, identifiers, and item types from the export (51350).
    • Export all scripts in one file or export each script in a separate file (51349).

Fixed

  • An issue with Multiple Choice questions not displaying in exported scripts properly (51394).
  • Unattempted Essay questions and tests made up of one section containing a Managed File Attach question no longer cause script export failures (50665, 52987).
  • Custom Question Types are now handled as unsupported item types when publishing items, rather than as basic pages (51379).
  • You can now log in to the Surpass Publisher with a user account that has any Surpass permission, as expected (51348).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.6 (October 2024)

New

  • You can now export candidates’ scripts in the Surpass Publisher, including the candidate’s details, the correct answer and the candidate’s score for each question, in a ‘Test Result Overview’ HTML file (41826, 48083).

Improved

  • You can now give an exam name and identifier when publishing items for Pearson VUE, which are included in the exported Assessment XML file (28612).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.5 (July 2024)

New

  • A new Enable Zoom Options setting when publishing items for Pearson VUE desktop edition lets you enable the ability for candidates to zoom on embedded media (30689, 37277).
  • When publishing items for Pearson VUE desktop edition, a new Enable Default Hotkeys setting lets you enable default hotkeys (A, B, C, etc., which are the default ident values in the Items XML) for Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, and Either/Or question answer options (25738).

Improved

  • Searching for an item list now returns all matching item lists (based on item list reference and your user permissions) in a drop-down list in real-time, and every item in a selected list is loaded into the item grid rather than just the first 50 items (39324, 35255).
  • The Mark column when publishing items in spreadsheet format is now labelled Score (36658).
  • Surpass Publisher no longer launches into an already-maximised window (36660).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.4 (January 2024)

New

  • The Surpass Publisher has been redesigned to include togglable menus and a Settings screen in which you can view and check for updates (24796).
  • Tag values can now be configured as reporting groups to measure candidate performance when publishing for Pearson VUE (25708).
  • You can now find extensive Surpass Publisher documentation in a new Publisher section of the Surpass Help Site (34779).

Fixed

  • An issue with the display of SVG files in the browser edition of Pearson VUE (25414).
  • The option to set items as non-scored now works correctly (35214).
  • Angle brackets now display correctly in tables in the browser edition of Pearson VUE (24839).
  • If a retrieved item list contains more than 50 items, all items are selected by default rather than just the first 50 (35092).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.3 (November 2023)

New

  • A new Tag Configuration step when publishing items lets you choose which tag groups to include in a package (23130).

Improved

  • Inline images are now hosted in the Media Deployer when publishing for the browser edition of Pearson VUE (24759).
  • When using the Spreadsheet – tags publishing format, item marks can now be viewed in the exported XLSX file (31966).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.2 (August 2023)

New

  • The target width and height of the test driver on candidate devices can now be configured, as can the maximum height of images and videos (25745).
  • Publishing can now be stopped, which is useful in the event a large item list is being published mistakenly (25911).
  • A readme TXT file containing the published package’s configured settings can now be found in the published ZIP folder (27628).
  • Font family, size, colour, and margins can now be removed from item text (27973, 28854).
  • Items can now be set to non-scored (27951).

Fixed

  • Item lists made up of item sets can now be published as expected (26720).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.1 (July 2023)

New

  • A new Spreadsheet – tags export option lets you publish items and their tags (25915).

Improved

  • The connected Surpass Platform instance is now displayed in the application’s title bar (25755).
  • The progress of the publishing process is now visible (24756).
  • Tag groups with the same name are now merged together in the items XML file (26689).
  • Answer option identifiers now follow A-Z format in the items XML file instead of using their Surpass component identifier (26981).

Surpass Publisher Release 1.0 (June 2023)