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Try a turn-in before your students do. On See as student, you can now
add real photos or PDFs and turn them in. You see the card a student would
see and can open the PDF you would get. Nothing is saved or sent.
Change what you sent, before it's reviewed. If you turned in work and
forgot a page, you can now open it again, add, remove, or reorder pages,
and save a new version, as long as your teacher hasn't started reviewing
it. Teachers see the newest version, with the earlier one kept in its
history.
Turn in more than one page. Students can now add several photos or PDFs
to one assignment, put them in order, and turn them in together. Teachers
get one file with every page and can mark up each page. Works for Lessons
steps and gradebook assignments.
A student can now tap the "Lessons" tag on a class page to open the lesson.
On a subject's classwork page, an assignment tied to a NavEd Lessons step
showed a teal "Lessons" tag, but tapping it did nothing. The whole card is
now a link straight to that step, so a student can get to their work and
turn it in from there. Teachers still see the same settings screen as
before when they tap a card.
Two fixes to turning in work and reading feedback.
On a phone, the assignment's instructions now show above the "Turn in your
work" and History sections, so a student reads what to do before they see
where to send it. And on a note that highlights part of a sentence, the
number badge now sits right after the highlighted words instead of
floating over the middle of them.
The "Students turn this in" toggle no longer sits on top of its own label.
In the assignment settings drawer, the on/off switch for "Students turn
this in" used to render over the first letters of the label instead of
next to it. The switch and its label now sit side by side, matching the
toggles used everywhere else in the app.
Turning in an assignment now shows the right main button on a computer
and on a phone.
On a computer, "Choose a file" is now the main button when turning in a
gradebook assignment, with "Type an answer" next to it. On a phone,
"Take a photo" is the main button, stacked above "Choose a file" and
"Type an answer." Only the ways a teacher actually turned on for that
assignment show up.
Send back and Approve match on Word files and typed answers now, same as PDFs and photos.
The teacher annotator showed "Send back" and "Approve" in different colors
on Word files and typed answers than it did on PDFs and photos. Both now
use the same teal buttons everywhere.
"Upload a new version" is easier to tap on the notes page.
A student sent back with notes saw an "Upload a new version" button that
was too short to comfortably tap. It's now a full-size button, matching
the rest of the app.
Highlighting a PDF now opens the comment box, same as a Word file or typed answer.
Tapping a sentence with the Highlight tool on a PDF submission drew the
highlight but never opened a place to type a comment. It now opens right
away, matching Word and typed answers, and the comment saves into that
highlight's row in the panel.
A new gradebook assignment now shows "0 turned in" instead of "N/A turned in."
The column header for a gradebook assignment that collects student work
read "N/A turned in" until the first student turned something in. It now
correctly reads "0 turned in" as soon as the assignment is created.
Gradebook assignments can now collect student work.
Turning in work for a gradebook assignment now happens on the same page
students use for NavEd Lessons steps. It shows a drop area for a file on a
computer, and puts "Take a photo" first on a phone. Reviewing a student's
turned-in work now shows every earlier version and lets a teacher move
straight to the next student waiting on the same assignment.
Highlight tools are easier to tap on a tablet or phone, and you can now
comment on a highlighted typed answer.
The Highlight and Red pen buttons on a Word file or typed answer were a bit
small to tap reliably on a tablet or phone. They're bigger now. Tapping a
sentence in a typed answer to highlight and comment on it also works now;
it used to do nothing if you tapped anywhere below the last line.
Behind-the-scenes improvement to an internal test tool.
Behind-the-scenes fix to an internal test tool.
Gradebook now shows "Not assigned" for other grades even with old missing marks.
A step aimed at one grade level could still show as a red missing cell for a
student in a different grade if an old missing mark was left on their
record. The gradebook, and the By category detail view, now show "Not
assigned" the way they should.
Highlighting on a Word file now works reliably, and a second highlight
can be added.
Highlighting a sentence on a Word file sometimes grabbed the wrong words
when the paragraph before it had no ending punctuation, and a second
highlight on the same file could get stuck without a way to add its
comment. Both are fixed. Every highlight on a Word file also now shows its
number correctly next to its comment.
A teacher reviewing work on a phone can now see and tap everything in the history panel, and the compare view is clearer.
The approved status label, the Compare versions button, and the version
picker in the submission history panel used to run off the edge of the
screen on a phone. All three now fit and can be tapped. When there are
only two versions to compare, the picker is now two simple tabs instead
of a From/To chooser. The note under a version a teacher sent back now
reads "Your note when you sent it back," and the version they approved
is labeled "Approved."
Fixed a few rough edges in the new Assignment settings drawer.
Saving without a due date now shows "Pick a due date" next to the field
instead of the browser's own pop-up. A Lessons step's grading summary now
shows its points and due date instead of a blank line. The "New
assignment" button is easier to tap on a phone.
Record media consent now sits at the end of the student roster's bulk action bar.
When you select students on the roster, Record media consent now appears after
Deactivate, Activate, and Delete, so the bulk actions read in a consistent order.
Fixed layout sizing on the new submission compare and markup screens.
The compare drawer and a few other new screens were sized wrong because a
style update had not been rebuilt into the site's stylesheet. They now
show at the intended size.
Anchored feedback: long comments in Chinese or Japanese now wrap on the notes page.
A comment written in Chinese or Japanese that ran several sentences long
used to print as a single line past the edge of the "Notes from your
teacher" page. It now wraps like any other comment, so the whole thing
prints and stays readable.
A comment can now point at the exact spot it's about.
A teacher can highlight the exact words a comment is about on a Word file
or a typed answer, and any red-pen mark on a PDF or photo can now carry a
comment too. Every highlighted or commented spot gets a number. The
student sees a numbered list of what to fix next to their own work, and
tapping an item scrolls to that spot and lights it up, on every file type.
Parents can see the same notes, read only, from their child's Portfolio
tab. Comments written in Chinese or Japanese print on the notes page too.
Gradebook loads faster for subjects with a lot of assignments.
The Gradebook tab's Assignment Stats table now pulls its highest, lowest,
and average scores in one trip instead of one trip per assignment, so a
quarter with many assignments loads as fast as one with a few.
A failed Assignment settings panel now shows its error in the page, not a browser popup.
If the Assignment settings panel cannot open (for example, a permission problem),
the error now appears as a normal on-page message instead of a blocking browser
alert box.
Old gradebook links now open the current Gradebook tab, and a class card never opens to a dead end.
A bookmarked or saved link to the old gradebook page now takes you straight to the
same subject's Gradebook tab. A staff member viewing a class they do not teach no
longer sees a clickable assignment card that goes nowhere.
Assignment instructions now show to students and parents.
Instructions you write for a gradebook assignment in the Assignment settings
panel now appear on the assignment card in the class's Classwork tab. Before
this, instructions saved there were not shown anywhere.
One Assignment settings panel, opened from the gradebook or from a Lessons step.
Creating or editing an assignment now opens the same settings panel whether you
start from the Gradebook tab's New assignment button or from a NavEd Lessons
step's "Counts for a grade" toggle. Set the title, due date, points, category,
and who it's for once, in either place, and both stay the same. A Lessons step
you grade now asks for a real due date instead of filing it under today's date
automatically. Grade-level targeting now works the same way everywhere,
including for gradebook-only assignments: work aimed at one grade level no
longer shows as missing for students in other grades.
Markup tool: a save error message clears once the save actually goes through.
If a page hit the mark cap or a validation problem and you fixed it, the
red error note used to stay on screen even after the next save succeeded.
Now it clears as soon as your marks save.
Markup tool: smaller saves, and Back always keeps your marks.
A few reliability fixes to the new markup tool. A heavily marked-up page now
saves in less space, so it doesn't get stuck. If a save can't go through,
you see a plain explanation instead of an endless retry. Going Back to the
review grid now waits for your last marks to save first.
Mark up a student's PDF or photo like a red pen, then send it back.
Reviewing a PDF or photo submission in Lessons now has a Mark up option.
Draw with a pen, circle things, drop a short note, or stamp a quick point
value right on the page, then send it back or approve it with your marks
attached. The student sees the marked-up copy with their feedback, and
their original file is never changed. Word and PowerPoint files aren't
supported here yet: download, mark up, and attach as before.
Record media consent for several students at once.
Admins can now record media consent for a group of students from People >
Students. Select them, choose Record media consent, and confirm. Students
who already have consent on file keep their original record. Selecting
students on the roster now works on phones too.
Teachers can now open a step after it's approved and see every version.
Reviewing a student's work in Lessons now shows a full history: the
original version, every note you sent back, and every resubmission, in
order, even after the work is approved. Approved and sent-back steps are
clickable again so you can always find what a student turned in and what
you told them. A new Compare versions view lets you see two versions side
by side with the changes highlighted.
Fixed: work aimed at one grade level no longer shows as missing for other grades.
Lessons steps aimed at certain grade levels no longer show up as missing work for
students in other grades. The gradebook shows those students as Not assigned, and
Analytics, parent views, and badges no longer count it against them.
Fixed: View Attendance now lists every student in the cohort.
A student added to a cohort after attendance was taken used to be missing from View
Attendance for that day. Now every student in the cohort appears. Anyone not marked yet is
listed first as Not marked, with a link to mark them in Take Attendance, and a new Not
marked count sits next to Present, Absent and Late.
Fixed: choosing a student on Enroll by Student shows their current classes again.
When you picked a student from the search box on Subjects, Enroll by Student, their
current classes were not checked, so saving could remove classes they were still taking.
Their classes now load as soon as you pick them. If the list has not loaded for the
student you picked, Assign Subjects asks you to choose the student again instead of saving.
Fixed: opening someone else's invitation no longer changes your own account.
If you were signed in and opened an invitation sent to a different email address, NavEd
could apply that invitation to the account you were signed in with. Now you see a short
message naming the address the invitation was sent to, and nothing about your account
changes. Sign out and open the link again to accept it as the invited person.
See each student's grades by category.
The Gradebook tab has a new By category view: one column per assignment
category with each student's average, their overall grade, and the class
average. Click a number to see the assignments behind it.
Fixed: the payments link on the form-builder page now works.
If your school had not yet connected Stripe, the "finish setting up
payments" link on the form template page led to an error page instead of
anywhere useful. It now takes you straight to the payment settings page,
where the button to connect Stripe actually lives.
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