In order to comply with data sovereignty laws, some schools and universities will require vendors to store student data in a particular region. Even if it's not the law of the land, many schools will adopt this policy as they believe it will provide more security in the long term. After a data storage region is selected, all personally-identifiable information for that school or university is stored in the correct region - geographically isolated from data in other regions.
- We have introduced two new data storage regions: Germany and Australia.
- There are now four regions total: US, Canada, Germany, and Australia.
- Germany is in the EU so it provides a good option for EU schools and universities.
- Administrators can select their desired region during the administrator onboarding flow.
API Updates
- Fixed some issues with how Schoology submissions were handled in V1 linked sections.
- Fixed an issue with LTI 1.3 submissions paging.
- Improved a really slow database query when assigning to individual students in V1.
Dashboard Updates
- Added better compression to dashboard static assets to improve load times.