We regularly release a minor update for iQualify. Minor updates mainly fix bugs. They may also contain minor functional changes. These are improvements that make using iQualify even easier and can be used without explanation. Larger functional changes are made available in a major update. Release 6.1.0 is a minor release in which an important feature has been added and a number of bugs have been fixed. Curious about what has changed in release 6.1.0? We've summarised it for you on this page. Check status.infoland.nl to see when version 6.1.0 will be released.
Logging in with SAML on the management website
With this release, it has become possible for the management website to perform authentication via a so-called SAML service. This means that authenticating a user is not performed by iQualify but by an external service. As a user, the experience is then often more pleasant because you login with your known account from your own organisation to a page that is also managed by your organisation. It may also be that you are already authenticated and therefore do not need to log in at all. This was always possible for the student website, now it is also possible for the management website.
A different SAML service may be set up for the management website than for the student website. You can contact Infoland's service desk to have it implemented. For this, you need to provide two items:
- Entity ID
- Metadata location URL
Furthermore, you can specify whether authentication should be enforced on every login attempt.
SURFconext with support for SURFSecureID
SAML's standard allows for authentication with a so-called level of assurance. This allows you to specify the security strength with which authentication is performed. It can be just a username and password, but it can also be that an additional measure is required. SURF uses these levels in the SURFSecureID service. iQualify now also supports this for the management website. So this applies to SURFSecureID but also to other authentication services that support it.
Four levels are distinguished. Starting from Level 2, iQualify treats the logged-in user as if they were logged in with 2-step authentication. There are customised scenarios where functionality only works when a user is logged in with 2-step authentication. For that functionality, it now works even when the user is logged in using SAML authentication with at least Level 2.
For SURFSecureID:
Level 1: No additional Level of Assurance
Level 2: Password + SoftToken (e.g. via SMS or app on phone)
Level 3: Password + Hardware token
Level 4: Not used
Bug fixes:
- 64751: Subscriptions are used to share materials (questions, question pools, tests, media) between organisations. When a subscription was set up (by Infoland), permissions for existing subscriptions were removed.
- 64339: The "Test Questions" report showed test questions in an incorrect and strange order when more than one test was shown in the report.
- 64311*: For certificates with numbers, sometimes the number was not shown on the certificate.
- 64258*: Large excel reports crashed and displayed a timeout message.
* Already released in interim hotfix.
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