What's new in version 12.3 (April 2025)

User Account Registration Update

Regions now have the option to require both Email and Phone Number as mandatory fields during user registration.

New Privacy Policy – Korea Region

The new privacy policy is now implemented across the following platforms for all new and existing users in Korea:

• School Portal
• Parent and Student Sites
• GS & LS Student Apps

Updated Privacy Policy – Russia Region

An updated privacy policy is now implemented for new users in Russia on the following platforms:

• School Portal
• Parent and Student Sites
• GS & LS Student Apps

New Terms of Agreement – Vietnam Region

New Terms of Agreement have been introduced for new School Admin and Teacher users in Vietnam, applicable on the School Portal.

Connect Site and App Enhancements

Ongoing improvements and fixes include:

• Connectivity and session management issues
• Audio and video performance
• Functional bugs
• General performance optimizations

What's new in version 12.2 (October 2024)

GrapeSEED School and Parent Portal

• GrapeSEED Nexus License Configuration at Campus Level: On the School Portal, GrapeSEED Nexus licenses can now be configured not only at the School level but also at the Campus level, allowing countries to tailor licensing options based on their specific license and business models. Only Regional Admins and Account Managers have access to modify this setting at the Campus level.
• Privacy Policy: The privacy policy functionality and registration process have been updated for users in Russia when logging into the School or Parent Portal.
• Device Count for App Installation and Usage: Update of the Devices List and User Profile to provide accurate data and additional information about the devices being used from the user.
• Bug Fixes and Updates: Various bug fixes and updates have been implemented to improve performance.

GrapeSEED Nexus App v3.0.3

• Future Classes: Teachers can now access future classes in GrapeSEED Nexus, in addition to their current active classes. This allows them to download and prepare for upcoming units up to two weeks before the class begins.
• Practice Mode in GrapeSEED Nexus: Teachers can now use 'Practice Mode' for up to two weeks, even if no students are assigned to their Nexus classes.
• Student English Names: Teachers can now view the English names of students during a Progress Check session.
• Swipe Capability in Full-Screen Mode: A new swipe feature has been added to the GrapeSEED Nexus app in full-screen mode, enabling teachers to swipe through component cards instead of using the blue arrows.
• Update on Casting GrapeSEED Nexus: The additional tool for casting GrapeSEED Nexus to Windows-based devices is now available under the updated name: GrapeSEED Nexus Casting.
• Bug Fixes and Compatibility Updates: Various bug fixes and updates have been implemented to improve app performance and compatibility.

GrapeSEED Connect App v4.0.2

• Zoom Options: Zoom options are now available in the student interface during Independent Mode, allowing students to comfortably view and engage with the content.
• Text Alignment on the Whiteboard: Text written by teachers is now left-aligned by default.
• Bug Fixes and Compatibility Updates: Various bug fixes and updates have been made to enhance app performance and compatibility.

GrapeSEED Student App v12.0.4

• Activity Path: Improvements have been made to the Activity Path and Repeated Exposure and Practice (REP) features to enhance the user experience. These updates include adjustments to the pulsating effect algorithm, access to both current and previous units aligned with lesson plans and schedules, as well as the ability to view and replay 40 completed playlists from previous units.
• Device Count Updates: The GrapeSEED Student App now accurately registers device usage and app installations.
• Privacy Policy: Updated the privacy policy functionality and content for China users.
• Bug Fixes and Compatibility Updates: Various bug fixes and updates have been implemented to improve app performance and compatibility.

LittleSEED Student App v1.0.4

• Device Count Updates: The Little Student App now accurately registers device usage and app installations.
• Privacy Policy: Updated the privacy policy functionality and content for China users.
• Bug Fixes and Compatibility Updates: Various bug fixes and updates have been implemented to improve app performance and compatibility.

What's new in version 12.0 (April 2024)

GrapeSEED Student App

• The application has evolved from the former GrapeSEED App v11 to a specialized platform tailored exclusively for GrapeSEED students aged 4-12 years old and their designated curriculum.
• Introducing of the new Activity Path feature, that replaces the card-flipping experience while preserving all the functionalities of Repeated Exposure and Practice (REP Online). This offers children an interactive way to engage with designated playlists and content.
• The Reader’s content components, along with Focus Word integration, are now accessible on both the GrapeSEED Student App and website for Units 11-20.
• A new interaction model has been introduced for Jonny Bear AI Talk Time conversations, utilizing the push-to-talk feature in the microphone.
• The new Playback Mode feature has been integrated into the Family Settings, offering two methods of accessing content: "Streaming from Internet" or "Downloading to the device.” Fresh content is now accessible in High Resolution for streaming and Low Resolution for download.
• The "Download Manager" settings have been enhanced with additional features, offering users the flexibility to remove specific content and providing instant updates on the overall capacity downloaded on their device.
• Access management has been elevated to exclusively permit authorized users with GrapeSEED curriculum access to utilize the application.
• Historical data and information from the previous GrapeSEED App v11 will be retained and accessible through the new app for respective users and accounts.
• Parents and users holding existing GrapeSEED App accounts can seamlessly access the new app without the necessity for account renewal.

LittleSEED Student App

• The new application has evolved from the former GrapeSEED App v11 into a distinct and specialized platform exclusively for LittleSEED students aged 3 years old (36-48 months) and their designated curriculum.
• The key features and functionalities of the former GrapeSEED App v11 have been retained in the new LittleSEED Student App.
• User Interface (UI) Design: New UI elements and logo for the app are being introduced in alignment with the latest design, ensuring a visually appealing and modern interface.
• The new Playback Mode feature has been integrated into the Family Settings, offering two methods of accessing content: "Streaming from Internet" or "Downloading to the device.” Fresh content is now accessible in High Resolution for streaming and Low Resolution for download.
• The "Download Manager" settings have been enhanced with additional features, offering users the flexibility to remove specific content and providing instant updates on the overall capacity downloaded on their device.
• Access management has been enhanced to permit only authorized users (parents) with access to the LittleSEED curriculum to utilize the application.
• Historical data and information from the previous GrapeSEED App v11 will be retained and accessible through the new app for respective users and accounts.
• Parents holding existing LittleSEED license accounts can seamlessly access the new app without the requirement for account renewal.

Nexus App

• An innovative casting approach that relies on a personal computer and the new Nexus Windows App utility. Casting preferences are set within Nexus App Settings, allowing users to choose between “Casting Provider” options: Chromecast or Window App.
• Enhanced zooming options and font size adjustments for the teaching instructions
• Enhanced alignment and visibility of teaching instructional bullet points.
• The selected annotation tool now persists while the teacher engages in other app activities.
• Next teaching component titles are displayed on-screen to keep the teacher informed.

Connect Site

• Improved eraser functionality enables teachers to selectively erase specific parts of their writing or drawing.
• Newly introduced features in the Text tools allow teachers to select font type, color, and text size, enabling them to adjust and emphasize information during teaching sessions.
• In Team mode, teachers can now mute/unmute all members of a team.
• Teaching instructions are now presented with bullet points, making them distinct and easily understandable.
• Teachers can now provide direct feedback on their experience with the app through an automated embedded survey at the end of each session.

What's New in version 11.0 - GrapeSEED School Admins and Teachers

What's new in version 11.0 (January 2024)

School Site

• Introduction of Curriculum Type and New License Types to the School and Class level.
• Changed GrapeSEED Connect and Nexus access permission. How to Grant Access to GrapeSEED Products
• Changed Talk time access permission. How to Grant Access to Talk Time
• Changed Lesson Plan Version Names
• Introduction of Exit Survey for Parents.
• Removed Lesson Videos from the School site.
• Cumulative View in Bulk Material Ordering.
• User Search by Phone number is included in the quick search.
• Tags can be added for campus and class entities.
• Added Student App Usage columns on the class page.
• Upgraded Link manager
  • Links can be added to Report and Training site.
• Reports
  • Added Region, School, Campus, and Class Name to the Digital Student REP Report.

Student App

• Privacy Policy in Student app.
• "Send logs" feature is added.
• Test mode implementation.

Nexus App

• Enhancements in Nexus
  • Upgraded "Progress Check" behavior.
  • Component type in the lesson plan.

Connect Site

• Upgraded user interface and improved performance.
• Added new Team functionality.
• One-on-one and Independent mode in GS Connect.

What's new in version 10.0 (July 2023)

School Site

• GrapeSEED Connect and Nexus access permission on the User Details page How to Grant Access to GrapeSEED Products
• License History screen
  • Removed or moved student names are displayed in the Notes column.
• Pending Changes and Change History screens
  • Student Name is displayed in the Detail and Notes columns.
  • The message about student removal and updated license count is merged in the ‘Detail’ column.
• Extended Coach privileges
  • The coaches are able to view all the teachers if they go into the respective schools but when creating a new visitation, they are only able to select the teacher belonging to that school.
  • The coach are able to see the teacher details screen for all the teachers.
  • The coach are able to chat with all the teachers depending upon the visitation and also view the chat history.
• The default value of the new class term start date/end date is set to blank.
• Schools are notified when a Region admin or Account manager uploads a new invoice.
• Move and Promote page
  • Reorganized Active/Inactive toggle bar
• Account Manager Dashboard
  • Account Managers can view future classes on the dashboard like School admins.
• Adjust License
  • Changes in Default billing period
• Edit User screen
  • Addition of Last login field
• Simplified Lesson Plan number tracking
  • On the dashboard, unit plans are displayed from a hyperlink in the ‘Unit’ column.
• Users can copy the grid data and paste it on a notepad, word document, or Excel sheet.
• Notifications
  • Bell icon and notification count are added in the header
  • HTML features in add notification How to Add A Notification
  • Sending message to large audience in batches. For an audience of more than 3,000, the message will be sent in the batches of 900 at an interval of 15 mins on the scheduled date at UTC 00:00.
• Create Survey
  • Addition of "User statictics"
• Teacher support
  • Question Mark in place of '0' and 'Null' lesson number values.
• Region Setting page
  • Addition of terms of use agreement setting
• Reports
  • Real-time data exports from the School Count Report
  • Addition of total days to Digital Student REP Log

Student App

• Extended subcription notification to Parents.
• Playlist coverage information
• Improved in-app audio sounds
• Talk Time speed control
• Static playlist removed
• New badges

Nexus App

• Nexus Initial Limited Release Nexus Guide

Connect Site

• Zoom and Agora platform for connect session How to Start a GrapeSEED Connect Class Session
• Helpers in GS Connect How to Start a GrapeSEED Connect Class Session as Helper
• Hardware change is now possible mid-session
• Connect session from one device at a time
• Mandatory mic and camera permissions
• Optional components in Lesson plan

What's New in version 9.0 - GrapeSEED School Admins and Teachers

• Provided instructions on how to change app/website permissions read more

School Site

• Material Orders Teacher Material Requests School/Campus Material Requests
  • “New Unit Notification” now occurs 3 weeks prior to the next unit
  • Toast notification upon order submission
  • Combined address fields
  • Configurable default quantity for products
  • Rearranged UI for Material requests
  • Material Order Terms Agreement feature
  • Auto-complete for dropdowns
• Billing/Invoicing School License History
  • Document slot on the License History page for Schools
• Coaching Support flow Teacher Flow
  • Showing the teacher name in the Teacher Support
  • Notifying coaches when a teacher submits an LVA
  • Linking Local Content within a feedback form
  • Link directly to support questionnaire from notification/email
• Assigning Teachers directly from their School master list pages Teacher Assignment
• Invitation related changes
  • Parents will no longer be notified upon re-activation of a student (extended subscription/disabled account being added to an active class)
  • Invitation codes for an un-activated student account will stay associated with that student when they are moved or promoted to a different class
  • Notifications to teachers and coaches when they are associated with a new class/school will now handle multiple new associations in one notification
• Move/Promote read more
  • We will now allow students to be promoted from an inactive class to a future class.
  • A Select-all option is available now when moving/promoting students from one class to another

Student App

• Improvements to Talk Time Animations and experience
• Introduced 20 new Puzzles
• New Puzzles and dynamic puzzle piece awards.
• Reorganized Unit selection page.
• New App security feature blocking screenshots and screen recording is mentioned in this video as well.
• Provided instructions on how to change app/website permissions read more

Connect Site

• Dashboard Connect Guide
  • Default setting feature (microphone, video, speakers)
  • Select speaker device/Test speakers feature
  • Updated header contains resources and help/documentation
• Class Session read more
  • Unit/Lesson notation now contains a “|” rather than a “:”
  • Unit/Lesson is now a link that opens a popup to change unit/lesson number of a session without leaving the session.
  • Teaching Instructions can be pinned and resized so that they don’t need to be hovered. They also have a scroll bar if needed to view all the instructions.
  • Navigation button updated to be more intuitive.
  • Zoom in and out on the displayed content.
  • Target designation Preview feature, allowing teacher to see the targets without showing them to the students.
  • Automatically force mute all students on teacher disconnection.

What's New in version 8.0 - GrapeSEED School Admins and Teachers

• You may now move and promote students individually to current or future classes. read more
• You may now edit class times read more
• You may now view review links following training lessons and add attachments to your Lesson Videos. read more
• You may now add attachments to lesson videos read more
• You may now view review links after completing training videos read more
• You may now access parent contact information from the student details page read more

What's New in version 7.0 - GrapeSEED School Admins and Teachers

• Provision to add notes while moving students from one class to another. The notes will be viewable from License History form. read more
• Unit Plan report to list the start dates of each unit in tabular format at class level read more
• Vocabulary Picture Card Randomization via the Lesson Viewer read more
• Provision to link video files instead of uploading them during Lesson Video Analysis read more
• Easy way to capture shareable hyperlinks for courses or videos from within the Teacher Training site read more
• Enhanced 'Edit License' functionality read more
• Updated Field list for Student Registration read more
• Improved UI/UX for teacher while working with coach on support task read more
• School/campus admins can now subscribe to 'upcoming unit' notification read more
• Teachers to receive notification when assigned to class read more

Moving Students Notes Details

Oftentimes, when a student is moved from one class to another, the user may wish to provide some notes as to why the student is being moved that will be relevant for their future class. You may now add notes when moving students between classes, and you may read these notes on the License History form.

To add notes while moving students, navigate to the class page of the student you wish to move. Click on the number next to Student Count on the class page. This will open the 'Edit Class License Count' page. Click on Move Students in the top right corner to open the form.

This will open the 'Move Students' page. At the bottom of the page, enter any notes you would like to accompany the moved student to their new class into the Notes form field.

Unit Plan Report Details

The 'Unit Plan Report' is a new report available on the Reports.GrapeSEED website that allows System Administrators to view every active unit plan and its details filtered by their region, school, and campus. To populate the list, select your region, school, and campus from the drop down menus next to Region, School, and Campus on the top of the screen. When you are satisfied with your selections, click on Apply.

This will create a table of each class with an active unit plan along with the following details:

• School
• Campus
• Class
• Teacher
• License
• Lessons per week
• Age
• Student count
• Current unit
• Current unit start date
• Planned unit
• App state
• Planned unit start date
• Planned unit end date
• Lesson number

VPC Randomization Details

The students could benefit from controlled randomization of vocabulary picture cards in Lesson Viewer for lesson 14 and later in all the units. When teachers present materials from Lesson 14 onward using the Lesson Viewer, the VPC cards, grouped together and multiple times (sections) in a lesson. This preserves the order of the sections, however actual vocabulary cards in a section are randomized to ensure GrapeSEED's steady progression of learning. Therefore, the child has a random chance to see each vocabulary picture card as the first card in a sequence, but it will always follow its natural order.

Improved License Management Details

The improved 'Edit License' functionality at class level will now trigger license decrease dialogue when a student is removed to allow users to adjust the license count as well.

Changed Field Set Storing Student Details

During student registration, you must enter certain information about students. There are now required and non required form fields with regard to this information. Form fields with a red asterisk are required for registration, while form fields without are not.

Required student details:

• Name
• English Name

Non-required student details:

• Date of Birth
• Gender

Upcoming Unit Notification Details

School administrators may now enable 'Upcoming Unit' notifications. 'Upcoming Unit' notifications will email school administrators each time a new unit in a class is upcoming, sent as a weekly reminder. To enable 'Upcoming Unit' notifications, click on your profile name on the top right side of the top menu bar and select Edit Profile. From the 'My Profile' page, select Email Notification Setting.

From the 'Email Notification Settings' right hand side bar, place a check mark in the box next to Upcoming Unit. When you are satisfied with your selections, click on Save. To cancel, click on Cancel.

Class Assignment Notification Details

School administrators may now enable 'Class Assignment' notifications. 'Class Assignment' notifications will email teachers each time they are assigned a new class. To enable 'Class Assignment' notifications, click on your profile name on the top right side of the top menu bar and select Edit Profile. From the 'My Profile' page, select Email Notification Setting.

From the 'Email Notification Settings' right hand side bar, place a check mark in the box next to Class Assignment. When you are satisfied with your selections, click on Save. To cancel, click on Cancel.

Coach Support Task Details

The user interfaces for both coach and teacher has been updated to show required information in the most optimized fashion while setting up the support task. The fields with no inputs will be hidden/collapsed in the form to show applicable data only. The form and text sizes has been updated to make it relevant and accept large multi-line inputs from the user. The buttons have been updated so you may respond and take action with a single click.

Now coaches will be able to identify and distinguish between 'main' and 'other' teachers for a certain class while scheduling invitations.

Uploading Third Party Video URL Details

During certain stages in the visitation process, you may be given the option to upload videos for the teacher to see. Click on 'View Details' next to a visitation to open the 'Visitation Page'. From here, you will find a table of teachers, with class information, and status.

Click on Upload on the right side of the page. This will open a pop up window. In the pop up window you may upload the video directly by clicking on the Upload field and selecting the file you wish to upload.

You may also upload videos as outside links to third party websites, like YouTube, Vimeo, and others. To do so, paste the link you would like to share in the Link form field. When you are satisfied, click on Save. To cancel, click on Cancel.