Bulk Updates is a feature that allows for multiple pieces of documentation to have updates made to them at one time. Enabling bulk updates in your lab class allows you to Approve, Reject, Return, and add comments to many labs at once.
Warning: Using bulk updates can be efficient for making simultaneous changes, but it carries the risk of unintended consequences or errors due to the wide-ranging impact of the updates.
B. Functionality of Bulk Updates within Labs
A. Enabling Bulk Updates
Note: To enable this feature, you must have an Administrator role or be added to the cohort as a Cohort Admin.
1. Edit the cohort. You can do this through your School Admin role or the dashboard. The directions below use the dashboard route.
- From the main my.platinumed dashboard, click the dropdown on the grey and black tile Manage Cohorts.
- Locate the cohort you would like to enable Bulk Updates in the Lab class.
- Click edit under the Actions column.
2. Click the Platinum Planner tab.
3. Click the Classes tab.
4. Edit the lab class you would like to enable Bulk Updates in.
5. Click the checkbox: Enable bulk updates.
Note: you will see the warning, "Using bulk updates can be efficient for making simultaneous changes, but it carries the risk of unintended consequences or errors due to the wide-ranging impact of the updates."
6. Save.
B. Functionality of Bulk Updates within Labs
1. Begin in your Instructor role.
2. In the red toolbar, select Labs, then click Manage Student Documentation.
3. Click the Ready to Review column.
4. You can check the individual labs you would like to bulk update or check the box at the top of the column to check all the labs at once.
5. Click Bulk Update above the Actions column.
- If you see a Warning at the top of the page, it indicates one or more of the labs have warning indications. There will be an exclamation point indicating which labs have warnings in them. Click Remove to pull all the labs with warnings from the bulk update.
- Click the dropdowns to view the details of the lab. If there are any warnings, they will be listed above the details.
6. You can then add Comments if desired.
7. Select Return, Reject, or Approve.
- Return: Return the documentation to the student.
- Reject: Eliminate documentation about the student's progress.
- Approve: accepting the documentation to be added to the student's progress.
Note: The options for Bulk Updates will vary depending on the selected tab in the documentation data table.