Keep up to date with the new features we add to our app.
September 9, 2024 - New password rules
Impacted Users: All users
Category: Security
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
We've prevented the use of a number of weak passwords.
September 6, 2024 - Progress tests are now called unit checks
Impacted Users: All users
Category: Clarity/Consistency
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Related Article: How can I assign a unit check to my students?
Change:
Progress tests are now called unit checks.
August 28, 2024 - Improved Standards Filters
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Clarity/Consistency
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
Three key changes:
- Updated the style of the standards filters
- Added the word 'filters' to make the UI more clear that it is a filter menu
- Removed the general filters (Absolute Beginner, Beginner, etc.) from the filtering level component and from anywhere else we display the level
August 13, 2024 - Frozen 'Student Name' column in Student Management
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
The 'Student Name' column is now frozen in Student Management, allowing teachers to scroll to view additional statuses and scores for additional homework and assessments while still being able to view student names.
August 1, 2024 - Additional Pre-Populated Courses (12 courses)
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers
Category: Automation
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
New Pre-Populated Courses for lessons added in 2024: General English for Newcomers, Classroom Language and Skills, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Civics and Citizenship, Literacy, Speaking for Newcomers 1, Reading for Newcomers 1, Speaking for Newcomers 2 and Reading for Newcomers 2.
June 19, 2024 - Reduced a step when assigning a student to a new class
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers
Category: Automation
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
In the enterprise management panel, when a student is added to a class, the existing class teacher(s) will become the teacher(s) of the student automatically.
June 12, 2024 - Improved Homework UI
Impacted Users: Students
Category: Clarity/Consistency
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
The "View Summary" button has been changed to "View Slides" in Homework.
June 6, 2024 - Bulk remove teachers in the Enterprise Management Panel
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
A new 'Remove teachers' option in the bulk actions menu allows enterprise managers to remove multiple teachers quickly.
June 5, 2024 - Assign placement tests to an entire class as a teacher
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Related Article: TBD
Change:
A new 'Classes' option when assigning placement tests allows teachers to send multiple placement tests out quickly.
May 6, 2024 - Show or hide students in Student Management
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Related Article: How can I learn about the Student Management section?
Change:
Teachers can now show or hide students in the Student Management section by clicking on the new disclosure triangle button.
May 6, 2024 - Display placement tests to multiple students on the same day in the same column in Class Management
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Related Article: TBD
Change:
Previously, when viewing assigned placement tests from Class Management, tests assigned to multiple students on the same day would create additional columns. Moving forward, if a test is assigned on the same day, it will be listed in a single column.
March 28, 2024 - Removed the ability to manage auto release answer key and homework auto scoring and turned them both ON by default.
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers, teachers
Category: Automation
Type: Sunset 🔴
Change:
Enterprise managers and teachers can no longer manage auto release answer key and homework auto scoring; they are turned ON by default.
March 28, 2024 - Enroll students (or a class) while in a lesson
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Related Article: How can I learn about the classroom?
Change:
Teachers can now enroll students (or a class) after a lesson has already been launched.
March 21, 2024 - Set and manage a participation score for students
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Data and Reporting
Type: New Feature 🚀
Related Article: How can I add and manage participation scores for my students?
Change:
Participation scoring is the metric used to assess a student's active involvement and engagement during sessions. The aim is to submit a participation score during or after each lesson, so that at the end of the semester, course, or year you can assign an accurate final grade. Participation scoring only works with students who are part of a class.
March 11, 2024 - If no score is available, the 'Score' column in the student progress data export will be blank
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
In the Enterprise Management Panel, the 'Score' column in the student progress data export will be blank if no score is available. Previously, it displayed a score of zero ('0').
March 4, 2024 - New ‘Score’ column in the student homework history export
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
In the Enterprise Management Panel, enterprise managers can now view homework scores in the student homework history export.
March 1, 2024 - Select all teachers, students or classes in the Enterprise Management Panel
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
Enterprise managers can now select all teachers, students, or classes in the Enterprise Management Panel with one click.
February 5, 2024 - Improved search results in the lesson library
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Clarity/Consistency
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
When a search result returns multiple lessons from the same module, we display them in sequence.
January 15, 2024 - Transfer students who registered as a teacher
Impacted Users: Enterprise managers, teachers
Category: Quality of life
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
Students who accidentally sign up for teacher accounts can now be transferred to the correct account as long as they (the student) are on a free plan.
January 2, 2024 - Removed the ability to create student accounts while launching a lesson
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Clarity/Consistency
Type: Sunset 🔴
Change:
Teachers can no longer create student accounts from the modal that appears after launching a lesson. Teachers can continue to create student accounts via the 'Add Students' button in Student Management.
January 2, 2024 - Display the year for assessments and homework on student profile pages
Impacted Users: Teachers
Category: Clarity/Consistency
Type: Feature Enhancement 🔍
Change:
We now include the year in the date stamp after clicking homework (or assessment) assignment history in the Actions menu.