Release Note
Release Version: 3.6.5
February, 2021
Here’s what Diksha 3.6.5 release brings to you:
Currently, States face a huge challenge managing and tracking their learning programs to achieve projected program goals.
With DIKSHA’s 3.6.5 release, the aim is to ease the tasks of field learning partners, and program and project administrators, by enabling them to:
Onboard school leaders like BEOs, DEOs, CRPs, HMs etc.
provide content that will help administrators to better manage learning programs (access to content relevant to their role and location)
track the progress of projects and programs,
view reports and track their progress
undertake surveys to get feedback
capture their observations from the field. Eg: Classroom observation
Version Number | Original / Modified | Authored / Modified By | Date |
1.0 | Original | Documentation Team | 12th Feb, 21 |
Project | Release Date | Release Version |
Diksha mobile app | 12th Feb, 2021 | V 3.6.5 |
About this document
Scope
This document provides details of features and enhancements made to the release version 3.6.5 of DIKSHA mobile app on February 12th, 2021
Intended Audience
These release note provide useful information to:
State Administrators
School Leaders
Program Managers
Diksha PMU
Document Structure
Readers of this document can find specific information on DIKSHA’s app 3.6.5 which focuses on ‘manage learn’ use cases at the consumption side.
The document also consists of the list of known issues reported as a part of this release.
New User Login - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | New Role ‘Leader’ added | A new role ‘Leader’ is added to the page displaying roles along with teachers, students and others. Note: Users of ML will select the Leader role | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
2 | Page to choose ‘Board’ added | New users will be asked to select their board/state they belong to | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
3 | New page for ‘Sub Persona’ added | New users will get a page to choose their sub role from the drop down list Sub Personas are state roles in the education system. | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Existing User Login - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | New Profile Page | Existing users who are school administrators/leaders will change their role to Leader and select sub persona from profile page Once the role as leader is selected, users will have access to new homescreen | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
New Home Screen for Leaders - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
Once the users have declared themselves as leaders and filled the mandatory details of board and sub persona, they are directed to the Home Screen
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | New Tiles on Home Screen | Users will see six new tiles on the home screen: Programs, Project, Observation, Survey, Courses and Reports | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Programs - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | Programs tile on the homescreen |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Projects - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | Projects tile on the homescreen |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
2 | Edit Project Details | Users will be able to edit the title description, categories and other details of the project if needed | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
3 | Add/Edit Tasks and Subtasks | Users can add and edit tasks and sub tasks to their projects Note: Tasks should be editable by the creator at the backend | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
4 | Track progress of Project | Users can easily change the status of the tasks and sub tasks from not started to in progress to completed. This will help the users to keep the track of the project status | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
5 | Add evidences | Users can now add evidences for their tasks and projects | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
6 | Learning Resources | Users will have access to learning resources attached within the project or in a task | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
7 | Sync Project | Users can easily sync their projects by clicking on the cloud icon on the project page. Synced Project reflects green cloud icon. | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
8 | Project Reports |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Observation - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | Observations tile on the homescreen |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
2 | Observation forms as Links | Users can also take observation forms via link | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
3 | Question Map | Users can easily access questions in the form through the question map | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
4 | Add Evidences and Remarks | Users can now add evidences and remarks for the observation form that they are taking | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
5 | Objective questions and open ended questions | Observation form can be a mix of objective questions as well as open ended questions | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Multiple Instances | Users can create multiple instances of the observation form | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins | |
6 | Hint and Tip in questionnaire | Users now have ease in filing the form as they have access to hints and tips for the questions | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
7 | Offline mode | Users can easily fill and save the responses in the form without internet connectivity. Note: Users need internet to submit the form. | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
8 | Preview Form | Users have option to preview and edit the form before they finally submit it | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
9 | Observation Reports |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Surveys - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | Survey tile on the homescreen |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
2 | Survey as Links | Users can also take survey via link | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
3 | Preview Survey | Users will have access to the surveys that they have filled and submitted | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
4 | Survey Reports to users |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
5 | Survey Reports of users | Creator of the survey gets collated report for all the survey submissions | School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Courses - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | Course tile on the homescreen |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Reports - Consumption
New features and Enhancements
No. | Features | Description | Roles Impacted |
1 | Reports tile on the homescreen |
| School Leaders, Instructional Leaders, State admins |
Known issues and suggested solutions
Note : This release has two known issues that are being worked on and have workaround
No. | Description |
1 | Minor UI issues are seen in bottom navigation and in switching user profile from teacher to leader and vice versa - SB 23329 |
2 | Missing ‘Edit button’ in the profile page that allows user to edit their role, sub role and other details. - SC 2234 |