Release Notes

Your School Calendar now shows what's actually happening on each day.

The School Calendar already knew your school year, quarters, meeting days, and
closures. Now it can show what's dated everywhere else in NavEd, right on the
day it happens: student birthdays, club and elective sign-up windows, form
deadlines, and more. A busy day shows a few at a glance, with a click to see
the rest.

Everyone who looks at the calendar picks which of these to show, and NavEd
remembers that choice from one visit to the next. Teachers can now open the
School Calendar too, so the whole staff sees the shape of the year, not just
admins. Setting up the school's calendar itself is still an admin job.

Tell NavEd which days your school meets, and which days it's closed.

Every school's calendar is its own: two or three days a week for a co-op, a
holiday break, a snow day. There's a new School Calendar page, under Academic
in the sidebar, where an admin can set the school's meeting days and mark
dates as closed.

Take Attendance now checks that calendar. If you open it for a day that falls
outside your meeting days or during a closure, it lets you know, but it never
stops you from saving. Attendance always saves exactly the way it does today.

Nothing about your school's calendar or attendance changes until an admin
visits the School Calendar page and sets it up.

You can give a student a sign in email while you are adding them.

The Add Student page has a new Sign in Access section. Fill in an email and the
student can sign in; leave it blank and nothing changes. Most students,
especially younger ones, are added without one and that is exactly right.

When you do add an address, NavEd offers to email that student a link to set
their own password, so you are not left with a student who has an email on file
but still no way in. You can switch that off if you would rather hand them a
password yourself.

The same offer now appears on the Set Sign in Email screen the first time you
give an existing student an address.

The assignments you add every week now come first in the gradebook.

On a subject's Gradebook tab, the Regular Assignments section used to sit below
Midterm and Final, so a teacher scrolled past two exam sections to reach the one
they add to most often. It now sits above them.

Nothing you have already entered changed. Only the order of the sections on the
page.

Parents and school admins get one button for a student's account.

Changing the email a student signs in with, or sending them a password reset
link, used to sit in the last tab of a nine tab strip. Whoever is allowed to
change those things now gets one button on the student's profile that opens
all of them, and on a phone it stays pinned near the bottom of the screen no
matter how far you scroll.

If a student has no sign in email yet, the same panel says so plainly and
offers to set one.

Your school can now clear a stuck club fee payment itself.

When a family opens the club fee payment page and closes it part way through,
the roster now shows that a payment is still open and when it was started,
instead of the same "Pending" label that every unpaid fee used to get.

Anyone on your staff who manages the roster can then reset that payment so the
family can start again straight away, instead of waiting for it to clear on its
own. A fee that has already been paid cannot be reset.

Saving a student whose sign-in account was removed now works.

If a student's sign-in account had been removed, saving changes to that student
failed with a generic error, and so did setting them a new sign-in email or
using a mailed email-change link. Those now go through, or say plainly what is
missing and who to email, and nothing already on file for the student is
erased. Separately, a parent whose dashboard cannot load now sees plain
language instead of technical wording.

You can edit a form after you publish it.

Publishing a form used to freeze it for good. A typo spotted after the first
family replied could never be fixed, and the only way out was to build the form
again and send everyone a new link. You can now reword questions, add new ones,
reorder them and change the settings on a form that is already live.

What we hold onto is the answers families have already given. A question that
has answers can be reworded but not deleted, and its type cannot be swapped,
because that would make an answer on file mean something it never meant. Prices
work the same way: they stay editable right up until a family actually pays.

Exported spreadsheets show the right answers.

If a form had two questions with the same name, only one of the answers made it
into the download and the other was missing entirely, with no sign anything was
wrong. Both answers are there now, in two columns you can tell apart.

An "&" in a question or an answer choice showed up as a jumble of characters on
the form and in the download. It reads as "&" again.

When a family ticked several boxes and one of the choices had a comma in it,
the download ran the answers together so you could not tell where one ended.
Those answers are now readable.

Lesson steps that asked for work but accepted nothing now work.

If a unit was built for you by Claude and a step asked students to turn
something in without saying what kind of file, students saw every option greyed
out and could not finish the step or the unit. Those steps now accept any kind
of work, which is what the rest of NavEd already assumed.

Lesson links behave the way teachers expect.

Starting a video part way through now works. If you copy a link from YouTube's
share button with a start time like 2:30, the video begins there instead of at
the beginning.

Pasting a link without the "https://" in front of it used to save and then do
nothing when a student clicked it. Those links work now.

Two ways a form could ask a question nobody could answer are closed.

A multiple choice question with no options added yet could be published. Families
then saw the question with nothing to pick, and the form could not be submitted
at all. Publishing now tells you which question still needs options.

A Yes/No question marked required was not actually required, and a form left
unanswered recorded a "No" the family never gave. Yes and No are now two clear
choices, a required one has to be answered before the form will send, and
leaving an optional one alone records nothing instead of inventing an answer.

Videos in a lesson play now.

A video attached to a lesson step was showing a grey error box instead of playing.
This was every video, and it was on the student's own page as well as the teacher
preview. Paste the link YouTube, Vimeo or Loom hands you and it plays. If a link
is one we cannot play in the page, the step now shows a button that opens it in a
new tab instead of a broken box.

There is now a "See it as a student" button in the lesson builder.

Opening the student view meant spotting a small eye icon on a step, with nothing
on it to say what it did. The bar at the bottom of the lesson builder now has a
button that says "See it as a student" and opens the first step of your unit the
way a student sees it, in a new tab. The button on each step says what it does
now too, and opens that step.

The step and graded counts at the top of the builder, and the ones in that same
bottom bar, were showing a row of dots instead of numbers. They show the real
counts now, and they keep up as you work.

On a tablet or phone, the bar at the bottom of the lesson builder was sitting
underneath the row of buttons along the bottom of the screen, which could put
Publish out of reach. It sits above it now.

You can now write down what students need to bring.

Every lesson step can carry a short list of materials, and students see it as a
"What You'll Need" card on the step. If a unit was built for you by Claude it may
already have these filled in, and until now there was no way to see or change
them. There is a "Students will need" line on each step in the lesson builder.

"See it as a student" now opens the real lesson page.

The preview panel beside the lesson builder was a narrow column that showed a
video as a line of text, an attached worksheet as grey text you could not click,
and nothing at all for how work gets turned in, which file types you allow, which
grades a step is for, or what materials students need. It also said it updated as
you typed, which it did not.

The eye button on each step now opens the actual student page in a new tab, at
full size. It is the same page a child sees, so a video is a real video, an
attached file is a real download, and if you switch off "video" as a way to turn
work in, you can see the greyed out tile the child will get. You can also choose
which grade to look through the eyes of, which matters when a step is set for
some grades and not others.

With the panel gone, the builder itself now uses the full width of the page.

Turn a step into "turned in during class" right from the lesson builder.

Some work is collected in person instead of uploaded, like a paper handed
in during class. Every step in the lesson builder now starts with a simple
question: "How does this get turned in?" Leave it as "Uploaded to NavEd"
(the default, and how every step has always worked) or switch it to
"Turned in during class" to skip the file-type setup entirely. Students on
a "turned in during class" step see a plain note to hand their work to
their teacher instead of a file-upload button, with a small option to send
it in anyway if they're out sick.

Clearer explanation of grade levels, grading, and grading periods in NavEd Lessons.

The curriculum builder guide now explains the difference between a step's
grade level, the "Counts for a grade" toggle, and the grading period an
assignment lands in. It also covers what to do if grading a step fails
because your school hasn't set up a grading period yet.

Groundwork for marking work turned in during class in NavEd Lessons.

Some classes collect work in person instead of as an upload. Until now,
that work showed as "not submitted" forever, with no way for a teacher to
mark it received. NavEd Lessons can now track a lesson step as turned in
during class, with a simple checklist so a teacher can mark who has turned
work in. Nothing changes for any existing step, and this isn't self-serve
yet: reach out and we can turn it on for a class while we build the full
option into the unit builder.

If part of a page does not load, NavEd now tells you instead of leaving a button that quietly does nothing.

In the unit builder, a small hiccup loading one part of the page could
sometimes stop the rest of the page's controls from working, with no
warning shown. Now each part of the page loads on its own, so one hiccup
can't take down the others, and if anything does not load you'll see a
plain notice on the page. Refreshing usually fixes it.

Changing a student's sign-in email is now more reliable.

Setting or correcting a student's sign-in email from their profile no
longer shows a "something went wrong" error after the change actually
succeeded. The email address updates and a clear confirmation appears
every time.

Schools can now set a student's sign-in email themselves.

Open a student's profile, go to Settings, and you'll find Account Management.
From there you can add a sign-in email for a student who doesn't have one yet,
or correct one that was typed wrong. The change takes effect right away, and
the Send Password Reset button next to it gets the student into their account.
If the address is already in use somewhere, you'll see a clear message and
nothing changes.

If someone already made an account before you invited them, your invitation now works instead of being turned away.

Inviting a person whose email already had a NavEd account (for example, from
signing in with Google before ever being invited) used to be refused outright.
Now that account can be invited and simply adds your school once they accept.

See at a glance who hasn't signed in yet, and send them a sign-in link.

Parent and staff accounts now show when someone has never signed in, right on
the Parents and Staff lists. If they haven't, you can send them a sign-in link
from that same row. On the Parents list, a new "Never signed in" filter lets
you jump straight to that group instead of scanning the whole roster.

You can now print your student roster.

There's a new Print Roster button on the Students page, next to Export CSV. It
prints just the roster itself: no sidebar, no buttons, and the column headers
repeat at the top of every page. Whatever you have on screen is what prints, so
search for a grade level or turn columns on and off first and the printout
follows. Available to teachers and admins alike.

Clearer help for parents setting up a child's login

The help center now answers "how do I add or change my child's email address?" directly, with the
steps to find the Settings tab on the student's page, on a computer and on a phone. The parent
guides that pointed to the wrong place have been corrected.

Password reset now tells you the truth when a student has no email address.

If you asked us to send a password reset to a student who does not have an
email address saved yet, we used to say the email had been sent. Now we say
plainly that there is no address on file, so you know to add one first.