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April 18, 2025

Inline Entry questions have a new response type called Extended Text Entry for when your student's responses need to be more than a word or two. Extended Text Entry is an inline, plain text, manually scored, long-form response that's great for providing students a place to demonstrate knowledge through multiple open response prompts all within a single question.

New

  • Inline Entry question type has Extended Text Entry as an input type.

Fixed

  • maxUsage setting has been removed from unsupported question types.

  • Reveal Key displays correctly for Inline Entry gaps when the gap wraps onto a new line.


March 31, 2025

New

  • The Vocabulary browser sidebar contains links to all units the term is used in.

  • Courses can have a Vendor ID.

  • Admins can generate REST API tokens in Workspace Settings.

Improved

  • When adding vocabulary to a unit, the auto-complete contains the bank the suggested term is in.

  • When adding vocabulary to a unit, the auto-complete includes a button to Show All Results.

  • More search operations are case-insensitive.

Fixed

  • Exam exports are QTI 2.1 and 2.2 conformant.


March 27, 2025

Improved

  • Inline Text Entry input fields expand to fit their contents when using Check answer or Reveal key.


March 25, 2025

New

  • Graphic Gap Match items can use text tokens as well a graphic tokens.

Improved

  • Math is rendered more consistently between authoring, preview, and delivery.


March 13, 2025

New

  • When the primary translation of an item is edited a Translation Review alert is generated for each secondary translation.


March 5, 2025

Fixed

  • Duplicate files in Shared Media are only blocked from upload when uploading to the same bank.

  • A few minor typos in some UI.


February 13, 2025

New

  • QTI exports can be in 2.1 or 2.2 format.

Improved

  • Users with the Viewer role have dramatically reduced UI to clarify what functionality is actually available to the Viewer role.

Fixed

  • Reveal key no longer crashes the app on certain question types.

  • A few inconsistencies with how scoring and correct answer information is displayed have been resolved.


December 12, 2024

New

  • Inline Text: Numeric Entry has a setting for required precision allowing item authors to require an exact number of digits after the decimal.

  • Inline Text: Text Entry has settings for “contains” and “exact match” allowing item authors to control how strictly a response should be scored. Note that leading and trailing spaces are always trimmed.

  • Inline Text: Text Entry has a setting for “ignore capitalization”, allowing item authors to control if capitalization effects how a response should be scored.

Improved

  • Inline Text: Numeric Entry scores numeric input in a more strict and predictable way.

  • Inline Text: Text Entry scores text input in a more strict and predictable way.

  • Truncated standards in the sidebar have a tooltip to show the full standard text.


November 25, 2024

Improved

  • Due dates on tasks can be edited.

Fixed

  • Item previews show shuffle when enabled.


October 4, 2024

Improved

  • Cartesian Graph, Cartesian Inequality, and Number Line item types support explicit precision in the settings.

Fixed

  • Editor no longer crashes when an invalid URL is in the content.

  • Some metadata was not storing no selection properly in the database.


September 25, 2024

New

  • App Users and App Usage reports have been added to Operations. (Only applicable if your workspace licenses an app to other workspaces.)

Improved

  • Help link has been added to the global navigation.

Fixed

  • Admins can edit user details.


August 14, 2024

Improved

  • Fraction Model (Shade) question type supports multi-select for student responses.

Fixed

  • Gap match options are displayed inline in the preview and assessment player.


July 8, 2024

Fixed

  • Duplicate Duration field on units has been removed.


June 29, 2024

Improved

  • Search handles partial search terms better.

Fixed

  • Filters in the item browser portion of the task UI are consistent with the main item browser.


June 14, 2024

You know what language your vocabulary term is in, and now everyone will know thanks to the language metadata field! Vocabulary terms also support optional ✨ rich formatting ✨ for when words alone don't say it all.

New

  • Vocabulary has language as a metadata field.

  • Vocabulary can have formatted text.

Fixed

  • Math entry can be used for partial (i.e. mathematically invalid) input and scoring.

  • Disabled users no longer receive notification emails.


June 5, 2024

Fixed

  • QTI exports contain correct object type of image/png.


May 20, 2024

Courses, Units, and Vocabulary all support the language metadata field for better sorting and more meaningful relationships between content. And our QTI conformance is more conformant.

Improved

  • HTML is encoded as XHTML in QTI exports.

  • All content styles are bundled with QTI exports.

  • Reports and QTI exports now support much larger banks.

  • Rejected vocabulary will not be suggested when adding vocabulary in the unit editor

  • Added language select in Unit Editor, Course Editor, and Vocabulary Editor

  • Users can sort resources by name (previously only updatedAt was supported)

  • Users can save sort and list style preferences in Resource browser

Fixed

  • Empty createdBy column in the Metadata Export has data again.

  • Vocabulary auto-complete returns in best-match order.


May 10, 2024

Improved

  • Exports are faster and support even larger data sets.

  • Fraction Model questions support a larger range of correct answers.

Fixed

  • Several minor formatting issues with QTI exports have been resolved.

  • Previewing items on exams no longer shows some content duplicated.

  • Exams are capped at 100 items to prevent


April 29, 2024

Improved

  • Aligning items to units now has type-to-search.

Fixed

  • An unclickable button in the RCE is clickable again.

  • Duplicated standard alignments have been removed.


April 17, 2024

Courses can now have more than one objective scope attached to support accelerated courses covering standards from more than one set of standards. How many grades worth of standards can be covered in one academic year? That's up to you!

New

  • Courses can have multiple objective scopes.

  • Admins can attach resources to courses for their workspace, and shared workspaces.

Improved

  • Errant spaces are trimmed from login and registration forms.

  • Standards are grouped by objective scope in the unit editor.

Fixed

  • All courses are available in the course selector metadata field.

  • Performance assessments display aligned standards in scope and sequence order instead of order added.


March 10, 2024

Fixed

  • An error in the question player no longer crashes the activity.

  • Blockquotes display consistently in all views.

  • Table styles export to QTI more accurately.


March 2, 2024

Improved

  • Status label colors have been slightly tweaked to improve readability.

  • List padding has been reduced to improve readability of deeply nested lists.

  • Bullet styles rotate up to 10 levels of nesting.

Fixed

  • Auto-reveal key displays correctly when previewing items.

  • Score for Math Gaps displays properly.

  • Some labels in the Unit editor have been updated to be consistent.


February 3, 2024

The new Rich Content Editor is here to help you author beautiful, portable content easily! Some buttons and icons have updated styles for clarity. A few confusing behaviors like unexpected saving and links showing incorrect titles have been fixed. And there is an error message for certain edges cases that we hope you never actually see for yourself, but trust us; it’s there.

New

  • The Rich Content Editor has been updated with a better UI, and new functionality for authoring new content, and cleaning up imported content.

  • Better error handling in cases of an app failure.

  • More modals remember filter selections on subsequent uses.

Improved

  • Some button styles have been updated, and some icons are now larger.

  • Save button changes from disabled-grey to available-blue when editing content.

Fixed

  • Stopped an unexpected Save from triggering while navigating exam items.

  • Items with invalid subjects no longer cause crashes.

  • Renaming a Performance Assessment displays correctly in editors.

  • Auto-reveal key while previewing assessment items displays correct answer as expected.


January 16, 2024

New

  • A warning is displayed when multiple people try to edit the same content at the same time.

  • Additional fields for TCR content are available for Units.


January 15, 2024

Improved

  • Text underline has been lowered to prevent underlines from crossing descenders.

Fixed

  • Improved handling and display of courses with 100+ resources.

  • Course codes are limited to two characters.


January 14, 2024

Improved

  • The current Course displays when editing a Unit.

Fixed

  • Browser no longer crashes when loading empty Courses or Units.


January 5, 2024

New

  • A warning is shown when attempting to upload duplicate files.

Improved

  • Media embeds can be resized with drag handled or by entering width directly.

Fixed

  • SplitPane no longer blocks scroll bar.

  • Better navigation in and out of links within the RCE.

  • Opening a task now opens a navigation tab

  • Links to Shared Media in content open as expected.

  • Title bar with easy-close icon is now displayed in the resource picker modal

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