{"id":670,"date":"2018-02-15T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/?p=670"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:43:40","slug":"judgeapps-updates-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/judgeapps\/2018\/02\/15\/judgeapps-updates-january-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"JudgeApps Updates \u2013 January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hello again!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve been getting positive feedback about this blog, and we would like to thank you. We really appreciate it. One of the goals we set for it is to be able to create a more regular schedule to avoid big delays and to let us go into more detail about changes. To do so, we\u2019ve added a new team member. Please welcome <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/59287293' >Alon Luski<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=59287293&size=200'><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s stop talking about us, and start talking about the good stuff\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exams<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being the main focus for the last couple of months, and one of the most important areas in the judge program, exams are getting the spotlight yet again. If you missed the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/forum\/topic\/40876\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announcement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the most exciting news is that L1 practice and certification exams, as well as the preliminary L3 exam, are now live! Several GPs during the month of January offered L1 testing using the exams created on JudgeApps, and we\u2019re starting to get dozens of new judges via this exam, as well as feedback from test takers. More test types are in the works, and should be available soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have also added some quality of life features, both for exam takers and exam admins (that is, the team in charge of a specific exam type). As an exam taker, you will now get a warning if you try to leave an exam without submitting it. This should prevent losing all your progress unintentionally. (If you choose to leave anyway, your answers will be deleted, but the timer doesn\u2019t pause and will eventually run out, so you shouldn\u2019t start an exam you don\u2019t intend to finish.) Exam admins can now get some statistics so they have a better idea on the performance of the exams (and questions) they\u2019re managing. Exams can also be shared with RCs and admins for review in case of a suspected problem with the exam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Question translations got some attention as well: until this point, translation didn\u2019t support cards with no rules text. Now, all cards will be translated, regardless of if they have rules text or not (they still have a name \ud83d\ude09 ). In addition, we\u2019ve added Simplified Chinese to the list of languages where citations for rules and policy can link to localized resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exam-related bug fixes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The implementation of randomizing questions\u2019 answer order allowed, in rare cases, for the answers to be ordered differently in the online and printed versions of the same exam, causing correct answers to be marked incorrect once entered. This was fixed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creating several exams of the same type without opening them allowed people bypass the cooldown. This is no longer the case.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The black background on the answer key wasn\u2019t always aligned with the answers on the other side of the page once printed. It is now.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hidden Location Improvements<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve been reviewing our policies around user privacy. While we can\u2019t share everything we\u2019ve been working on, we wanted to share two security-related improvements: <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When searching for judges, users with a hidden location will now be sorted after all other users who match the same search parameters, to prevent their locations from being easily inferred (if, for example, Jane Doe appears between two users from New York, NY, United States, it would have been easy to conclude where she\u2019s from). We thank <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/9209366657' >Joe Klopchic<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=9209366657&size=200'><\/span><\/span> for noticing this.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previously, users\u2019 locations were always listed in CSV files that event admins can export from JudgeApps, even if that user had chosen to hide their location. We\u2019ve decided to now hide this information in the exported file as well. (The region will still be shown, but no city, state, and country.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Personal information is one of our major concerns, and we\u2019re always looking for more ways to keep it safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have any questions, problems or great ideas, remember: the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/feedback\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">feedback<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> form is only one click away!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the passing month we worked even more on exams, added measures to better secure your information, and added a new staff member to the writing team. 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