See what's new in NavEd. Product updates, new features, and improvements for micro school, co-op, and small school management.
Teachers can now attach a video to their feedback.
When you review a student's work in NavEd Lessons, the feedback attachment now accepts video — record a quick walkthrough as an mp4, mov, or webm clip and send it back with your note. Documents and images still work just as before. Student work submissions remain documents and images only.
A new Materials tab gives in-person staff the week's supply list at a glance.
NavEd Lessons review now has a second tab. Open a unit and switch to Materials to see a read-only, printable-style supply list for the selected week: each step with the materials it needs and a quick "for N students" headcount, so a classroom aide can prep without knowing the curriculum. The same week picker is there, and a small read-only strip shows where each student is on the week's steps. Switch back to Circles any time to review and grade.
Teachers can now review work, send it back, and approve it — right from the grid.
NavEd Lessons closes the loop. Tap any blue circle on the review grid and a panel slides in over the grid with the student's submitted work — photo, video, or file — without leaving the page. Add a note and either approve the work or send it back for another try. A note is required when you send work back, so students always know what to fix, and you can attach a file or even a quick video to your feedback. The moment you act, the circle updates and the panel jumps to the next student waiting on you, then closes when you've cleared the queue. Approving a step that's tied to the gradebook records the score automatically.
Everyone stays in the loop: teachers are notified when a student turns in work or sends back a fix, and students are notified the moment you leave feedback. Families are kept informed too, when the unit is set to share with parents.
Teachers can now see who's turned in what at a glance.
NavEd Lessons has a new review view for teachers and administrators. Pick a unit and you'll see a simple grid: one row per student, one column per step, and a colored circle showing each student's status — gray for not started, blue for turned in and waiting on you, red for sent back, and green for approved. Read-only steps a student marked done show a checkmark. The view opens to the busiest week first, and you can switch weeks with a dropdown or the arrows. On a phone, the grid becomes a tidy list you can tap to expand for each student.
A new notification bell keeps everyone in the loop.
There's now a bell in the top bar wherever you are in NavEd. A small badge shows how many new notifications you have, and opening the bell shows them newest-first with a quick link to take you straight to whatever needs your attention. Open the bell and the badge clears, so it's easy to see at a glance when something new has come in.
Students can now work through their lessons in NavEd.
NavEd Lessons now has a full student experience. Students see the published units for the classes they're enrolled in, open a unit to its current section, and move through it step by step. Younger learners get a simplified, full-screen view with big, easy-to-tap tiles, while older students get a more detailed layout — automatically, based on how each unit is set up.
When a step asks for work, students can turn it in right from their phone or tablet in just a couple of taps — snap a photo, record a video, or upload a file. A "Continue your lesson" card on their dashboard takes them straight back to where they left off. If they get stuck, an "I'm Stuck" button lets their teacher know they need a hand, and steps that are just for reading or watching can be marked done.
And when a teacher sends work back with feedback, the student sees the note right on the step alongside what they turned in before, and can send a fixed version without losing their earlier try.
Groundwork for NavEd Lessons — coming soon.
We've started building NavEd Lessons, a new way to deliver curriculum and run a student submission-and-feedback loop right inside NavEd. This first step lays the foundation; the feature isn't available yet, and there's no change to your experience today.
Build curriculum units in a visual builder — and connect Claude to import them.
Schools on a paid plan with NavEd Lessons can now build curriculum units in a visual builder: drag sections and steps to reorder them, edit titles and instructions right in place, and attach files, links, and videos to any step. A live preview shows how a step looks to students as you work. Administrators can also connect Claude to NavEd Lessons and describe the unit they want in plain language — imported units arrive as drafts for you to review and publish.
Connect curriculum tools to your school with secure API tokens.
Schools on a paid plan can now create and revoke secure curriculum API tokens. Each token lets you connect an outside curriculum tool to your school, and is shown only once when you create it — so you can copy it somewhere safe and revoke it at any time if it's no longer needed.
NavEd Lessons is coming to paid plans.
NavEd Lessons — a new way to deliver curriculum and run a student submission-and-feedback loop inside NavEd — will be available on paid plans. It isn't switched on for any school yet, so there's no change to your experience today.
Clearer help when a password reset email doesn't arrive.
The "Check your email" screen now explains what to do if the reset email never shows up — including a reminder to use the email address tied to your account, and a quick way to try again with a different address you may have signed up with.
Improved help documentation.
We're reviewing and expanding NavEd's in-app help so every page has accurate, up-to-date guidance for each role — administrators, teachers, students, and parents.
Several under-the-hood reliability fixes.
Signup analytics improvement.
The signup page now keeps better track of which campaign or link brought a visitor in, so we can understand what's helping new schools find NavEd. No change to the signup experience itself.
Fix: teacher dropdowns now show only your own school's staff.
When assigning a teacher to a subject or a staff member to a cohort, the selection list could include names of people from other schools. Those lists are now limited to your school's own staff, and a teacher assignment is always confirmed against your school before it's saved.
Club registration payment wording now reads correctly for every school.
The payment confirmation on the club sign-up page now refers simply to "my account" instead of naming a specific school, so the text is accurate no matter which school a family is registering with.
Club sign-up now reminds families that registration fees are non-refundable.
The payment box on the club registration page now clearly states that registration fees are non-refundable, so parents see the policy before they pay.
Fix: guest club & form payments now actually confirm after a successful charge.
A guest could pay successfully (card charged) and see the "registered" page, but the registration could stay on "payment pending" with no transaction recorded — because the webhook that confirms the payment failed when the school had a connected Stripe account. Guest/form charges are destination charges that live on the platform, but the confirmation handler was re-reading the Checkout Session on the connected account, where it doesn't exist, and aborting. Fixed: it now reads in platform context, so the registration flips to confirmed and the payment is recorded.
Fix: guest club checkout no longer says "online payments are not yet set up" for verified schools.
A school whose Stripe account was fully verified could still see "Online payments are not yet set up for this school" at the guest checkout step. The check only accepted the intermediate "complete" onboarding state and rejected the fully-enabled "verified" state. It now accepts both, so a verified school can take guest payments.
See payments that are still in progress on your Payments dashboard.
Your Payments dashboard now has a "Pending / awaiting payment" section showing registrations and form submissions where the payment was started but not yet completed — so an in-flight or abandoned payment is visible instead of silently missing. Each row shows who, what, the amount, and how long it's been pending; anything over an hour is flagged as likely abandoned. The pending total now includes guest club registrations too, not just forms.
Fix: guest club & form payments now confirm reliably after checkout.
When a family paid for a public club registration (or a NavEd form), the charge succeeded at Stripe but the registration could stay stuck on "payment pending" and never show in your Payments dashboard. These one-time payments are destination charges whose completion event arrives at the platform (billing) webhook, which had no code to confirm them — only the (unprovisioned) Connect webhook did. The billing webhook now routes those events to the right handler, so a completed payment flips the registration to confirmed and records the transaction.
Sharper Google search listings for blog posts and the free attendance tracker.
We tightened the titles and descriptions that show up in Google search results so they no longer get cut off mid-sentence — making NavEd easier to find for new families.
Turn a club's public sign-up page on or off yourself.
Each club on your Clubs list now has a Public page on/off toggle. Flip it on to open that club to public guest sign-ups (the "Public" badge and "Copy public link" button appear instantly); flip it off to take it private again — no need to ask us. Toggling public only controls whether the page is reachable; it doesn't change your registration dates or capacity.
Fix: completing annual Checkout no longer accidentally double-subscribes the customer with a monthly plan.
Fix: annual checkout no longer silently fails after a successful purchase.
After completing the annual Checkout, the payment handler was crashing due to an internal error, so your free student limit was never lifted and your subscription plan was never updated. The billing page would then create a duplicate monthly subscription, double-charging customers and showing "You're on the None plan." This is now fixed.
Fix: production deploy no longer fails with "column billing_cycle already exists".
New: Annual pricing now visible on the public pricing page.
The pricing calculator at nav.education/pricing-calculator/ now shows a Monthly/Yearly toggle. Switch to Yearly to see our flat-rate annual plans — Microschool ($99/year, up to 15 students), School ($299/year, up to 40 students), and Co-op ($699/year, up to 100 students) — with all 26 features included in every tier. The existing monthly per-student calculator is unchanged.
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