Last night, Salesforce applied the Spring 24 release to some of their servers, with the remainder to follow next weekend. The release includes a minor change affecting the labs, particularly the grading of Lab 1b.
In the new release, the name of the Marketing app, which we use frequently in the labs, has been changed to "Marketing CRM Custom" to distinguish it from some other new Marketing features Salesforce is introducing in this release.
From what we can tell today, students whose accounts have updated to the new release have been recognizing that the Marketing CRM Custom app is the one to use when the instructions say Marketing app. None of the other choices are close so it's not ambiguous. But we are scrambling a new version of Lab 1a that will clarify this across all the labs and we should have it posted in a day or two.
But, more importantly - in the meantime, the grader app is deducting 3 pts from Lab 1b (Checkpoint 1) for the updated accounts because it is not recognizing the Marketing app name change. We are scrambling a new patched version of the grader app which should also be ready in a day or two.
But for now, we are recommending instructors let students know that if their account shows the app titled Marketing CRM Custom, then they can only score 97% on Lab 1b, even when they do everything correctly. The grader will incorrectly list an error saying that the Pitch tab has not been added to the Marketing app.
We have addressed this in the Help FAQ at MaxzPlace. And we ask instructors to please interpret 97% as 100% for Lab 1b for these students. If a student has a 97%, it can be safely assumed they deserve 100% for now, until we get the grader app patched for this.
Thank you, as always, for your understanding and patience as we scramble to evolve the labs along with Salesforce. We will post updates as we make them.