Signup Sheets Tool Rebuilt for Speed
The Signup Sheets tool is indispensable in classes where students need to sign up for specific presentation dates/times, office hours, or when students need to self-select into groups.
The CoursePlus team looked at multiple ways of optimizing both the back- and front-end code for the Signup Sheets tool to make it work better for larger courses with heavy simultaneous use. The team also decided that this was another tool that could benefit from an interface refresh to bring it in line with the new user interface experience rolling out across CoursePlus.
The rebuilt Signup Sheets tool has improved page load times across class sizes. It performs much better under heavy simultaneous load, and page load times for large classes with many signup sheets (200+ signups on 10 or more individual sheets) are significantly reduced. The rebuilt tool also uses the new CoursePlus user interface experience, making the small details of using the tool more consistent with many other tools in CoursePlus.
The CoursePlus team added one long-requested feature to the Signup Sheets tool during this rebuild: the ability to export all Signup Sheets to Excel format with a single click. This new feature replaces the old export to Excel feature, which was limited to a single sheet at a time. The only option available now is to export all Signup Sheet data to Excel, with a separate Excel worksheet for each Signup Sheet in the course in the resulting Excel file.
As always, if you have questions about these changes, please reach out to the CTL Help team, and we will be happy to answer any questions you might have.