See what's new in NavEd. Product updates, new features, and improvements for micro school, co-op, and small school management.
A cleaner look for adding class materials and descriptions.
The "Add Class Material," "Edit Material," and "Edit Class Description" forms on the Class Hub have a refreshed look — clearer field labels, easier-to-scan sections, and a tidier file-upload picker. Same quick steps, just easier on the eyes.
Fixed: the Publish button in the lesson builder could be hidden behind the help bubble.
In the NavEd Lessons builder, the "Ask NavEd" and "Feedback" buttons could sit right on top of the Publish button, making it hard to click. Publish is now always reachable. We also improved reliability for schools who install NavEd as an app on their device.
Fixed: an old School Settings link now takes you to the right place.
School Settings now lives in one place. Any old bookmark or link to the previous settings page now takes you straight there instead of showing a blank screen.
Cleaner sidebar navigation.
Features that aren't part of your school's current plan no longer sit greyed-out throughout your menu. Admins now find them in a tidy "Unlock more" section at the bottom of the sidebar, and every menu row -- including plan badges -- now displays fully instead of getting clipped at the edge of the menu. Staff, students, and parents simply see the menu items their school has — nothing more.
New: school-wide AI controls.
School administrators can decide exactly how AI is used at their school — or turn it off entirely. In School Settings, a new AI section has one switch that turns off every AI feature in NavEd for your whole school, plus individual controls for administrators, staff, students, and parents. AI features are off for students and parents by default — turning them on is each school's choice. Turning AI off also immediately disconnects any external AI tools connected to your school's account. Available on every plan.
Faster: the New Unit page now loads instantly for schools with many classes.
Creating a new curriculum unit now loads instantly, even for schools with hundreds of classes.
Changing or removing a student's elective no longer resets your screen.
After changing or removing a student's elective, you now stay on that student's enrollment screen instead of starting over.
Build curriculum by hand in NavEd Lessons — no AI required.
Create a unit, add weeks and steps, rename anything, and publish it to your students, all by hand. Connecting Claude remains available as an optional way to import a full outline instead.
Fixed a warning popup on the Electives overview, and tightened up its layout.
Viewing the Electives Overview & Rosters tab for a school year with no elective enrollments yet no longer triggers a browser warning popup. We also added breathing room between the summary cards on that page so they no longer sit flush against each other.
Ask Atlas is now an admin & teacher tool.
The Atlas documentation assistant now appears only for school administrators and teachers — students and parents no longer see it. This gives schools a firm guarantee about who can use AI features in NavEd.
Fixed: adding or editing class materials, banner images, and class descriptions could show a dark screen that required a refresh.
The windows for these actions now open and close reliably every time, on the class page's Materials and Settings tabs.
A class can now serve more than one grade level.
Set up a course like Precalculus once and enroll students from both 11th and 12th grade, instead of creating a duplicate class for each grade. New enrollment pages automatically suggest students from every grade the class serves.
Switch or remove a student's elective right from the Enroll Students screen.
School admins can now change a student's elective for a time block, or remove it entirely, without leaving the enrollment screen or opening the class roster first.
Filter the enrollment checklist by grade level.
When enrolling students into a class, you can now filter the student list by grade level, right alongside the existing name search. Select All now applies to just the students currently shown, so you can narrow to one grade and enroll that whole group in a couple of clicks.
Saving a class roster now keeps you right where you were.
After saving changes to a class roster, you now return to the same class and school year you were working on, with a confirmation message, instead of a blank page.
Clarified how NavEd picks your current school year and term.
The Academic Year Management feature page previously implied there was a manual switch to "set" the active year. There isn't one: once your years and terms have dates, NavEd automatically shows teachers and students the current year and quarter based on today's date. No action needed, just clearer wording.
Ask NavEd's answers are even cleaner about who can do what.
If you already have permission to do something, Ask NavEd's answer now sticks strictly to your steps — no more leftover notes about restrictions that apply to other roles.
Ask NavEd got smarter about hard questions — and its "Take me there" shortcut actually shows up now.
Early on, Ask NavEd sometimes gave up on multi-step questions — like "how do I switch a student's elective?" — with a generic "I'm not sure" instead of a real answer. It also rarely offered the "Take me there" shortcut, even when there was an obvious page to jump straight to. Both are fixed: Ask NavEd now has more room to work through harder questions, and reliably links you to the right screen when one exists.
We also tightened up the answers themselves. If you already have permission to do something, Ask NavEd now just tells you how — no more unnecessary notes about who's allowed.
Ask NavEd's answers now get an extra safety check before you see them.
Every answer from the new Ask NavEd help assistant is now double-checked before it's shown to you, so it can never accidentally include technical or internal system details — just plain, everyday instructions. Extra protection for a feature that just shipped to every user on every page.
Introducing "Ask NavEd," a new in-app help assistant.
Look for the "Ask NavEd" button in the corner of any page. Ask it an everyday "how do I...?" question and it answers right there and links you straight to the right screen — no digging through menus, no waiting on an email reply. Available to everyone, on every page.
Heads of school can now only see their own school's data.
School administrator access is now scoped to the school it was set up for, matching the same rule already in place for teachers and other staff.
Connect AI can now read a school's student roster — but only once a school turns that on.
This is the first part of Connect AI that can see student names at all, and it stays deliberately narrow: a student's name, grade level, and whether they're currently enrolled — nothing else. No birthdates, no addresses, no contact details, no grades. Every school starts with this switched off, separate from the existing Connect AI switch, and a teacher only ever sees the students they actually teach. Groundwork for eventually letting an AI assistant answer everyday questions like "who's in my class" — never turned on without a school choosing to.
Connect AI's file-attachment tool now only fetches files from real public web addresses.
Curriculum file attachments fetched by link now go through stricter checks before the file is downloaded — only ordinary public web addresses are allowed, and any blocked or unusual attempt is recorded, just like every other Connect AI action. Extra protection ahead of any future AI features that would read student information.
Any future Connect AI access to student information will require a separate, explicit switch.
Connect AI's curriculum tools and any future student-information tools are now controlled by fully independent switches — turning one on will never automatically turn on the other. Nothing changes about what Connect AI can see today; this is groundwork so that if we ever add AI features that read student data, each school chooses that separately and it stays off until a school turns it on.
Connect AI connections now automatically slow down instead of allowing unlimited requests.
Each Connect AI connection is now limited to a reasonable number of requests per minute. If a connection is ever compromised or something misbehaves and starts making requests too fast, it's automatically and briefly throttled rather than able to pull data without limit. Extra protection ahead of any future AI features that would read student information.
Connect AI now keeps a record of everything it reads, not just what it changes.
Until now, Connect AI logged every change an AI assistant made to your curriculum, but not what it looked at. Every read is now recorded too — including which teacher's connection it came from — so there's a full trail of who saw what and when. Extra protection ahead of any future AI features that would read student information.
Connect AI access now automatically expires and turns off if the person who set it up leaves.
Connections created through Connect AI now expire on their own after a few months, and stop working immediately if the staff member who created the connection is deactivated. Extra protection ahead of any future AI features that would read student information.
Teachers can only change grades, assignments, and grading categories for their own classes.
Editing or deleting an assignment, changing a grading category's weight, and saving grades from the class roster now all require that teacher to actually teach that class, matching the same rule already in place for entering individual grades.
Teachers can now only enter or change grades for their own classes.
Saving or editing a grade now requires that teacher to actually teach that class, matching the same rule already in place on the student's profile page and class gradebooks.
Class gradebooks and student search now show teachers only the students and classes they teach.
A teacher's view of a class's gradebook, grade analytics, and student search results now requires that teacher to actually teach that class or student, matching the same rule already in place on the student's profile page.
Report cards and transcripts now open only to a student's current teachers, their family, and school admins.
A teacher's access to a student's report card PDF and transcript now requires that teacher to actually teach that student this school year, matching the same rule already in place on the student's profile page.
A student's own teacher now sees that student's complete academic record on the student's profile page.
Once a teacher opens the profile of a student they actually teach, they now see that student's full grades and coursework, not just the classes they personally teach.
Student attendance pages now open only to a student's own teachers, their family, and school admins.
A staff member's view of a student's attendance history now requires that staff member to actually teach that student this school year, matching the same rule already in place on the student's profile page.
Student profiles now open only to a student's own teachers, their family, and school admins.
A teacher's view of a student's full profile page (grades, GPA, family contact info, coursework, and attendance) now requires that teacher to actually teach that student this school year. Teachers can still browse the shared student roster (name and grade level) as before.
Teachers now see gradebook details only for students in their own classes.
When a teacher opens a student's profile, the grades and subjects shown now match the classes that teacher actually teaches that student, instead of showing every subject and grade on the student's record.
Continued behind-the-scenes work on how NavEd decides who sees which students.
More internal groundwork to make student visibility consistent across every page, this time on the student profile page. Nothing changes in how you work today, we'll let you know if anything does.
Continued behind-the-scenes work on how NavEd decides who sees which students.
More internal groundwork on the grades page, this time making sure grades from past grading periods keep showing up correctly. Nothing changes in how you work today, we'll let you know if anything does.
Continued behind-the-scenes work on how NavEd decides who sees which students.
More internal groundwork to make student visibility consistent across every page, this time on the grades page. Nothing changes in how you work today, we'll let you know if anything does.
Atlas finds answers anywhere in an article, not just the title.
Atlas, NavEd's built-in help assistant, previously only checked an article's title and short summary when looking for an answer — so it could miss information that was there, just further down the page, and tell you it didn't have an answer when it actually did. Atlas now reads the whole article, so it can find and reference the right answer no matter where it appears.
A small behind-the-scenes improvement to our internal product analytics.
Nothing changes in how NavEd looks or works today.
Entering grades is more forgiving.
If you typed a grade with a percent sign, like "95%", the gradebook used to reject the whole save and show a confusing message. Now it simply reads "95%" as 95, so your grades save the way you'd expect.
You can now also enter letter grades. Type "A" or "B+" and the gradebook records it using the middle of that grade's range from your school's grading scale, so you can grade the way that feels natural to you.
We also made the message clearer when an entry genuinely can't be read as a grade, and added a short reminder right above the gradebook so you always know what to type: a number (like 95 or 95%), a letter grade, or E for excused and M for missing.
Easier way to change a student's elective.
Each enrolled elective now has a "Change Elective" button that takes you straight to that class's roster, so you no longer have to go hunting through Subjects to move a student.
Fixed: items that should have been hidden were showing.
Some labels and notices were appearing when they shouldn't have, including a blank medical-alert box on student profiles and a "Public" tag on private clubs. They now show only when they apply.
Missing icons are back.
A number of icons throughout the app weren't appearing, leaving blank spaces next to buttons and labels. They now display correctly.
Dark mode now matches the refreshed design.
If your device is set to dark mode, NavEd now follows it properly, with readable text and buttons throughout. You can also pick light or dark yourself from your profile menu at any time.
Continued polish on the refreshed look.
More refinements to the new design ahead of its rollout, cleaner layouts and smoother interactions. Nothing changes in how the app works today.
Behind-the-scenes work on how NavEd decides who sees which students.
Internal groundwork to make student visibility consistent across every page. Nothing changes in how you work today, we'll let you know if anything does.
A refreshed look across NavEd.
We're rolling out a cleaner, warmer, more consistent design throughout the app, easier to read, calmer to work in, and the same on every screen. Everything works exactly as before; only the styling has changed.
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