Student Manipulative: Manipulative rotation
Users can rotate manipulatives, laying the groundwork for future transformation features.
Student Manipulative: Quick Hint
Students can now ask Lava for a hint with a single click
Student Manipulative: Floating sidebar
The sidebar now only takes up as much space as the question length, creating more room on the drawboard.
Shuffle Problems 🔀
Teachers can now shuffle problems in assignments and quizzes to keep students engaged and help prevent cheating. Each student sees the same set of problems, but in a randomized order unique to them. Shuffle is enabled in the Reorder Problems modal in CAF and can be turned on or off when editing an assignment. The heatmap still shows the original problem order, and when a quiz is stopped and answers are shown, student problem orders reset to the original. To use it, go to CAF, select problems, click the ✏️ icon, toggle Shuffle on, save, and assign the activity to students.
Auto-Crop Student Solutions ✂️
Students can now auto-scan their papers when submitting work, making uploads easier, neater, and more private. Student faces are automatically cropped out, and they no longer need to hold the paper and press “take photo,” which helps produce higher-quality images. To use it, students just start photo upload mode in Show Your Solution. It works best on vertical white papers with minimal hand coverage.
Voice Recording for Show Your Work 🎤
Students can now record their voice while solving problems! The voice button appears in the top left of the canvas, and when students submit their solution, their voice is attached. Teachers can see which solutions have voice recordings, play them back, and even view a transcript. This is version 1, focused on “Show Your Work.” Future updates will let students draw and talk at the same time, use voice input for Lava help, and potentially submit answers by voice.
Showing Standards on Problems 📚
Now when you open a problem from the Heatmap, all related standards are displayed right on the problem card. Problems with multiple standards will show them all, making it easier than ever to connect lessons to learning goals.