What's new in version 9.0 (December 2022)

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 Region Admin/Account Manager License History
    • Document slot on the License History page for Schools
  • Coaching Support flow Teacher Flow Coach 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
  • Region wide Reward Points system read more
  • Assigning Teachers and Coaches directly from their School/Region master list pages Teacher Assignment Coach 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
  • CIMS/Pending Changes Page read more
    • Users can be assigned to CIMS events as “Owner”

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

Content Site

  • Dynamic Lesson Plans
  • Connect Reports read more
    • Attendance Log – Shows all users that have attended connect sessions.
    • Session Log – Shows all sessions of Connect that have been run and related data.

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