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Latest updates on European School Education Platform development

In this article you can find the latest information regarding platform development status. The article will be updated on a regular basis. Latest version: 7 December 2023

1 - Development of functionalities (Release 1.33) 

 

New features:

  • [NSO] Creation of events, management of participants and certificates.
  • [Report] Report system for webinars, courses, events, Groups and their content, TwinSpaces content, organisations, users’ profiles, Rooms and feeds.
  • [Main platform] Navigate the content through tags and advanced search for the whole platform content.  

 

Enhancements:

  • [Organisation] Correction of the admin rights declaration when a user creates a new organisation.
  • [Events] Mandatory but empty fields are now highlighted when saving an event.
  • [TwinSpace] Removed the risk of deleting or archiving a TwinSpace when editing it.
  • [TwinSpace] Published posts in Teacher bulletin can now be read completely even if they contain long texts. 
  • [Networking - Postings] Comments on postings are now visible after the expiration date.

 

Issues fixed:

  • [TwinSpace] Project members of a TwinSpace cannot access tab 'Pages' because they get notified an error message.
  • [TwinSpace] Chatroom is not accessible.
  • [TwinSpace] Pupils cannot reply to forum threads.
  • [TwinSpaces] Correction of the roles when adding a member to TwinSpaces who has not been registered to the platform yet.
  • [eTwinning] Correction of comments that cannot be deleted on eTwinning feeds.
  • [eTwinning] Correction of users that cannot be reinvited to join a project.
  • [TwinSpace/Group] “Add new member” pop-up should be bigger.

 

 

2 - Future releases

 

More information coming up soon
 

 

3 - Anti-spam measures

 

Several measures have been taken to fight against the cyber-attacks that were targeting the Platform.
 

  • User profiles: e.g. only validated users can make their profile page visible to other users, limiting PDF upload capacity and applying a stricter enrolment process for student teachers.
  • Organisation profiles: e.g. applying a stricter organisation validation process, limiting the number of organisations per user, and reducing profile visibility in search engines. 
  • Postings and Courses: they can be created only by validated users (eTwinners) or after the organisation has been ‘sanity checked’. If the organisation has not been checked yet, the user will receive a message with the link to request the ‘sanity check’.  
  • User-generated content: e.g. limiting formatting options and applying daily limits.
  • General and specific measures taken at the level of the europa.eu infrastructure.

 

The anti-spam measures have been further developed and will be applied on ongoing basis.

 

 

4 - Performance issue

 

The platform experienced slower performance during February and March 2023, meaning page response time was much slower than normal. After thorough investigation, specific measures (also related to countering spam attacks) have been taken.
 
The overall Platform speed is currently at a normal level (with some isolated issues for certain pages with heavy queries). Further actions are being taken to optimise performance (database and indexing optimisation, improved scalability of the infrastructure, optimisation of queries, etc.).

 

 

5 - Support

 

More information about the platform development is provided in questions and answers.

 

If you need further support: