By: Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology

We've been hard at work building new features and fixes to enhance your experience using the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and we're excited to share our latest updates with you!

Today you'll find new features and improvements including new National Core Arts Standards and updates to Collections, Collections Embedded in Other Websites, and Group Profile Pages. Find information about these and other updates below.

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We focus our improvements and new features on what would be most helpful to users like you, so please keep sharing your suggestions with us.

New and Updated Features

1. National Core Arts Standards added; collection authors may now tag collections with National Core Arts Standards. Learn more about these standards at www.nationalartsstandards.org.

Collections

1. Fixed issue preventing collection authors from zooming into, zooming out of, and locking a view of a resource while viewing a resource in edit mode
2. Added alert about publishing a duplicate collection when a user attempts to publish a copied collection to which they have have not made any changes
3. Fixed bug preventing the publisher of an unpublished collection from displaying in the edit mode of a collection
4. Fixed bug preventing collection authors from deleting a question in a standalone quiz
5. Fix to screen showing copies of collections
6. Improved display of hotspots
7. Fixed issue wherein adding a resource to a collection caused a blank tab to open
8. Fixed issue preventing questions from being deleted in a Canvas standalone feature

Collections Embedded in Other Websites

1. Fixed display and legibility issues with titles, fonts, spacing, and icons
2. Fixed issues with titles covering resources, navigation arrows, and YouTube video controls
3. Improved hotspot display and functionality
4. Fixed issue with information panel not displaying for quiz questions and info/text
5. Fixed issue with uploaded website resources displaying incorrectly
6. Fixed issue preventing the locked zoom level for a resource in a collection from displaying the same level of zoom in an embedded collection
7. Redirected links from resources in embedded collections to those resources in the collection on the Learning Lab

My Favorites

1. Fixed issue regarding incorrect numbers in My Favorites

Group Profile Pages

1. Fixed functionality issues with Group Profile Pages embedded on websites using iframes
2. Fixed bugs in embedded Group Profile Pages preventing collections from loading and requesting users to log in
3. Set the following links from embedded Group Profile Pages to open in a new tab: Log In, Sign Up, Add to Favorite, a collection in a Collections Blocks or the All Collections tab, a resource in the All Resources tab
4. Fixed block padding
5. Fixed display issues in Collections Blocks set to List View
6. Added ability for Group Profile Page editors to add anchors to blocks on their page using tags in the HTML editor, to share links specific to a block on the page

General Fixes

1. Fix to screentips in onboarding tour

Releases 2.69 and 2.70

Image: Machinery (Abstract #2), by Paul Kelpe

The shadowed worker in this painting appears to be controlling the structure, suggesting man's essential role in industry and his ability to create massive, powerful machines. During the Depression, many artists celebrated human achievements in this way, to emphasize the importance of the working class and to boost morale. In 1934, Paul Kelpe worked for the Public Works of Art Project. The program did not accept abstract art, so he incorporated realistic elements such as figures, wheels, and buildings into his compositions. These images were still not "representational enough," however, and he soon gave up trying to please his bosses.

Smithsonian American Art Museum