Gradebook Placeholders

In order to help with gradebook organization, we have added the ability for teachers to use grade placeholders in individual grade cells. These placeholders have no effect on the final or grading period grades, but can be used to keep track of who is excused from specific assignments.

Assessment Submission Review

Until now, teachers had to choose between not allowing students so see their responses to an assessment or revealing the correct answers. Teachers can now choose to show students how they performed without giving away the correct answer, allowing them to re-take the test/quiz. To use this submission review mode, select “Yes” for “View Submissions” on the assessment settings tab.

Resource Sharing

In addition to having the ability to share resources with people in your network, users who have the “Allow user to share collections” permission can now choose to share a collection with anyone in his/her school.

Flash Uploader Fallback

We use a flash uploader to allow multiple uploads at a time and to show upload progress. However, users with certain setups might experience…

Less than a week after our last release, we have a number of new features and exciting improvements for you.

Edit Update Attachments

Users can delete or add attachments to existing updates, in addition to editing the update text. To remove attachments, click on the “x” next to the attachment you would like to delete. Adding attachments can be done from the edit popup.

Create Templates in Resources

Teachers now have the ability to create course content directly from the resources area. Discussions, tests, pages, and assignments can be created and edited without having to first import from or save to a course.

Test/Quiz Attachments

Attachments can be added to assessments in the same way they can be added to assignments. This can be useful for equation sheets or other reference materials that students need to see throughout the exam.

Published vs. Unpublished Grades

Courses that have unpublished materials will show a different grade to students than to teachers. The two grades can now be seen side-by-side directly from the gradebook. If a final or grading period grade is affected by unpublished assignments, the corner of the grading period…