Instructors can now add Office 365 groups to their courses through the Course Hub, which gives them a space in that service with access to Microsoft OneDrive, Sharepoint, Email groups, calendaring, all of the other Office 365 apps and permissions automatically set to include all course participants synced from Banner.

Updates

• Drupal field_permissions 8.x-1.0-rc2
• WordPress enhanced-tooltipglossary plugin 3.6.7
• WordPress hemingway theme 1.71
• WordPress hueman theme 3.4.11
• WordPress inline-footnotes plugin 2.3.0
• WordPress nextgen-gallery plugin 3.1.4
• WordPress the-events-calendar plugin 4.7.3
• WordPress twentyeleven theme 3.0
• WordPress twentyfifteen theme 2.2
• WordPress twentyfourteen theme 2.4
• WordPress twentyseventeen theme 1.9
• WordPress twentysixteen theme 1.7
• WordPress twentyten theme 2.7
• WordPress twentythirteen theme 2.6
• WordPress twentytwelve theme 2.7
• WordPress wp-postratings plugin 1.86.1
• WordPress wp-postviews plugin 1.76.1

Fixes and Tweaks

• Fixed an issue where duplicate entries of a meta data field were added to posts on the MiddSTART site every time a project was viewed, causing the options list for that post to exceed the maximum number of entries and preventing comments from appearing.
• Added a login link to the global footer of the new Drupal 8 site designs.
• Course descriptions in the Course Catalog will now begin in bold for items even if the first character in the description is not a word.

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Creating a new “Offices” site for institution-wide anchor functions.
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.