See what's new in NavEd. Product updates, new features, and improvements for micro school, co-op, and small school management.
The student picker on the Electives page now searches, and stops throwing a browser error.
Enrolling a student in an elective showed a plain list of every student with no way to search, and the page silently failed to load a script it needed. The picker now searches like it does everywhere else in NavEd, and the page loads clean.
There's now a page you can send someone about accommodations.
If a student gets extra time, a quiet room, or notes ahead of class, NavEd keeps that on the same roster teachers already open, and one tap records that it was provided. Until now there was nothing public explaining it. There is a page for it now at nav.education/features/accommodations/, and it is linked from the features list.
It is free on every plan, including the free one.
Help articles for turning AI on or off at your school, and for Ask NavEd.
Your school's AI section, where an administrator can turn AI off for the whole school or for
just one role, now has a help article walking through exactly where it lives and how to use
it. There are new articles for Ask NavEd too, NavEd's built-in help chat, covering how to ask
a question and, for administrators, how to make a change by describing it and confirming it
before anything happens.
The old floating "Ask Atlas" chat button, retired for a while now and no longer reachable by
anyone, is fully gone, including the leftover marker in the page code that used to hide it.
Its help articles now point you to Ask NavEd instead.
The NavEd Network has a page explaining how buying a course works.
If you have bought a place in a course, or you are thinking about it, there is now a How it works page in the Network header and footer. It answers the questions families actually ask: where your child signs in and why it is not nav.education, what to do if the set-password email is lost or has expired, which emails we send you and which we do not, and what happens to your own school account if you have one.
The short version, which the page says plainly: you are buying your child a place in that teacher's course, taught by her, in her own workspace. No course is copied into anyone else's account.
The "write about this course" link on a Network receipt works now. If you bought through network.nav.education, that link used to break the whole receipt page. Fixed.
The copyright page and the buyer terms are linked from the Network footer. Both existed and could only be found by typing the address.
New help for teachers selling on the Network: how to change your public name, photo and bio, what to do when a listing is sent back or an account is paused, and what happens when a copyright notice names your course.
New help for everyone else: archiving a NavEd Lessons unit, opening lesson files and announcement attachments without downloading them, and a parent guide to both.
Attendance is free on every plan, and mastery marks read the same on every screen.
Attendance used to sit behind a plan. It does not any more, on any plan. Taking attendance,
the attendance dashboard, the reports, and letting parents record their own children on the
days they learn at home are all free in NavEd now, forever. Nothing changes for schools
already using it. A school that could not reach it before will find Attendance in the sidebar,
and the switch for at-home days on the Cohort Management tab.
A teacher who marks work MA, PR or NI in the class gradebook used to see it come back as M, P
or N on the student's own grades page and in the Student Hub, and the column tooltip taught
the short version. It now says MA, PR and NI on every screen, which is what the teacher
typed.
New guides, too: accommodations for administrators, teachers and families, recording at-home
attendance, and emailing families from the gradebook. Mastery marks, choosing who an
assignment is for, and the assignment notes panel are now written up in the grade and
assignment guides.
Two guides were also wrong and are fixed. The staff guide said only administrators could
create a class; teachers have been able to add their own since August, and it now says so and
shows how. The administrator guide said a class belongs to one grade level; a class can serve
several.
There is now a page explaining transcripts, and it says out loud that they are free.
Transcripts had no page of their own on nav.education, so a school shopping for exactly that had nothing to land on. There is one now, at Features, Transcripts. It answers the question most people actually arrive with, which is whether a college will take a transcript a small school made itself, and it shows a worked example with courses grouped by year, credits, letter grades, a per-year and cumulative GPA and a signature line. Issuing a transcript is free on every plan, including the plan that costs nothing, and the page says so.
The free transcript builder guides now cover three things they had been silent about: marking a course as concurrent or dual enrollment, putting a high-school-credit course a student took in 8th grade on the transcript, and adding standardized test scores. They also correct an old answer that said the tool converts a percentage into a letter grade. It does not; there is a reference chart you read instead.
Three other feature pages picked up things that had shipped but were never described: year-end promotion with its preview, public club sign-up for families with no NavEd account, and the Portfolio tab that collects a student's submitted work.
Two smaller fixes: the school settings guides listed the wrong image formats for a logo (SVG was never accepted, GIF and WebP always were), and the free-tool guides had nine duplicate copies of themselves that competed with the originals in search. The duplicates are gone and the links between the surviving guides work again.
Tuition plans and e-signatures are correctly priced, and new help docs cover tuition, signatures, service hours, form templates, and club payments.
Tuition plans and electronic signatures are bundled with NavEd Forms on every paid plan. Both were mistakenly shown as a higher-tier feature on the public site; that's fixed everywhere it showed up.
New help docs walk through setting up a tuition plan, collecting a payment, paying an installment as a parent, adding a signature field to a form, tracking service hours, and starting a form from one of the nine ready-made templates. The club payment docs now match what the roster and family confirmation pages actually show, and the public form links doc no longer says a payment field blocks a public form. It doesn't.
The Add and Edit Cohort staff picker keeps its search, and the tuition household form now matches the rest of the app.
Both forms now use the same required-field styling as the rest of NavEd. Add and Edit Cohort still let you search for staff by name. Adding a household to a tuition plan still lets you pick more than one child and choose who pays, with no change to how either is saved.
The "add a subject" confirmation no longer tells you to go enroll students.
Creating a subject can now take you back to a lesson you were building instead of to the enroll students page, so the message you saw on success sometimes pointed you somewhere you weren't going. It now just confirms the subject was added.
Tuition plans and elective enrollment periods now tell you when there's nothing to pick.
Setting up a tuition plan or an elective enrollment period could show a school year dropdown with nothing in it, with no way to tell what to do next. Both now show a plain message and a link to add a school year instead.
The teacher search box on Manage Subjects now works every time you open a row.
Clicking Edit on a subject to change its teacher used to give you a plain dropdown the first time, because the searchable version never started up while the row was hidden. It now starts up the moment you open the row, so the search box works right away.
Some dropdowns now tell you what's missing instead of showing an empty list.
Add Elective, Add Club, Edit Club, and Club Registration now show a clear message with a link to fix things when a required dropdown has nothing to pick from, like Staff or Session Year. Before this, those forms could show an empty dropdown with no way to tell what needed to be set up first.
Finding a student in a long list just got easier, on two more pages.
Enroll by Student (Subjects) and the Electives enrollment picker both had a plain dropdown of every student in the school. Both now let you type a name to search instead of scrolling, matching the searchable picker already on Add Cohort and Edit Cohort.
Class edit and grade saving now show a plain message when something goes wrong.
If saving a class edit or a gradebook change failed, you used to see a raw technical error on screen. Now you see a clear, plain-language message instead, and we still get the full details on our end to fix it.
The empty Lessons tab now offers two ways to start.
Open the Lessons tab for a class with nothing in it yet, and you'll see two options side by side: build the first unit yourself, or send us what you already have and we'll build it out for you (a paid offer, $399 a subject).
Both are always there together. Neither shows up once a class already has units.
NavEd Lessons is now included on every plan.
Building curriculum units, publishing them for students, and grading what comes back used to require Premium. It doesn't anymore. Every school, on every plan, now has NavEd Lessons unlocked.
The "Connect AI" option that used to sit next to it is gone. Nobody had set one up, so nothing changes for anyone currently using NavEd Lessons.
Save and Update Cohort no longer sit stuck and unclickable.
Adding or editing a cohort used to disable the Save (or Update) button the moment the student list dropped to zero, even after you had already filled in the name and picked a staff member. Nothing on the page said why it wouldn't click. Both buttons are now always clickable, and if you try to save without checking a student, a message tells you so.
Every class has a Lessons tab now, even before you've built anything.
Open a class and you'll find a new Lessons tab next to Materials. Before this, the only way into NavEd Lessons from a class was a small link that only appeared once a unit already existed there, so a brand new class had no way in at all. The tab is there from day one: click it to add your first unit, or to see every unit already built for that class.
Only shows up on schools that have NavEd Lessons turned on.
Creating a subject from the "build a lesson unit" screen sends you back to it.
Starting a new lesson unit with no subjects yet offered a "Create a subject" link. Using it always dropped you on the enroll-students page instead, with no way back to the unit you were building. That link now returns you to the unit form, with the subject you just created already selected.
Every other way of adding a subject, including the usual setup checklist, is unchanged and still goes to enroll students.
The curriculum-transcription buttons now go straight to checkout.
Send us a subject, three subjects, or six now takes you to a real payment page instead of opening an email draft. Each price has its own button that goes to that price's own checkout.
On a Network seller's own empty Lessons page, the free-for-now offer now sends you to a real $0 checkout instead of the $399 one, so the button matches the words next to it. When we turn that offer off, both the words and the button switch back to the ordinary $399 checkout together.
The public curriculum-transcription page no longer tells a Network seller the offer is free right next to three paid buttons. It now points them to their Workspace, where the free offer actually is, and that sentence disappears the day the free offer does.
A way to have us load your existing curriculum into NavEd for you.
If your course already exists somewhere else, a Drive folder, a stack of Google Docs, a decade of Word files, you can now send it to us and we will build it out in NavEd, subject by subject, and hand it back to you unpublished so you can review it first.
Pricing is flat and does not change with how big a subject is: $399 for one subject, $999 for three, $1,799 for six. More than six, we quote it. If you are selling on the NavEd Network, this is free for you right now, and we will say so here before that ever changes.
You can read about it on the new feature page, and Network sellers with an empty Lessons workspace now see the option there too.
Adding a cohort's staff member and student roster is easier to search.
For Add Cohort and Edit Cohort, the Responsible Staff field looked like it let you search by name, but nothing happened when you tried typing into it. It now actually works: click it and start typing a name to narrow the list.
The student checklist below it also has a working search box now, so building or editing a cohort with a long class roster means typing a few letters instead of scrolling the whole list to find who you need.
Nothing about how you save a cohort has changed.
Adding a subject no longer makes you pick your school year from a list of one.
We fixed a problem where adding a subject could quietly fail to save if your school had only one grade level, teacher, or school year set up. A dropdown with only one possible school year now fills itself in, so you are not clicking a button that does nothing.
If your school has not set up a grade level or a teacher yet, the Add Subject page now tells you what is missing and gives you a button to go set it up, instead of showing a dropdown with nothing in it.
We also fixed the Enroll Students in Subjects page, which could show a raw technical error if the student box was left on its placeholder. It now asks you to choose a student.
Fixed the small panel that opens when you click a person in the search box at the top of the page.
It kept showing a spinning loading circle even after their details had finished loading, so there was no way to tell whether it was still working. The circle now disappears as soon as the details are on screen.
Adding a student no longer makes you pick your school from a list of one.
The Add Student form had a required School dropdown that started on "Select School". A school on NavEd only ever has one school profile, so there was never a choice to make, but you still had to open the box and pick it for every student you added.
If you missed it, nothing happened. The page did not save, and it did not tell you why. You would fill the form again, click Add Student again, and get the same silence. Your school is now filled in for you, and so are your academic year and grade level when your school only has one of them.
Found because a school owner told us she could add her first child and then could not add her other two.
The free transcript builder now has a place for standardized test scores.
A homeschool transcript is written by the student's own parent. A standardized score is the one line on it that somebody else issued, which is why families kept asking where to put it. There is now a Standardized Testing section in the builder: enter the test, when it was taken, and the score, up to eight of them. They print in their own section near the bottom of the transcript, under the academic summary.
The school address is now two lines instead of one, so a street address and a city, state and ZIP no longer have to share a single line.
One thing to expect: the testing section takes real space on the page. A transcript that just fit on one page may take a second one once you add scores, and when that happens the summary, the testing section and the signature move to the new page together. That is deliberate. Crowding the certification and signature at the bottom of the page, or splitting them away from the summary, would make the document look worse to the college reading it.
Asked for by a parent using the free builder.
Teachers can now leave a note on a grade without leaving the gradebook.
Open a class gradebook and every assignment column header now has a notes button. It opens a panel listing each student the assignment was given to, with their grade and a box to write in. A teacher can go down the whole class in one pass, saying why a grade is what it is, instead of opening each student's page one at a time.
The notes are the same ones that already appear on a student's own grades page, so a student and their family can read what their teacher wrote.
One rule worth knowing: a note attaches to a grade. If a student has no grade for that assignment yet, their box is turned off and says so. Enter the grade first, then the note.
Asked for by a teacher at Compass.
You can now export photo authorization for your whole roster.
Families answer the photo and video permission question on their enrollment application, but there was no way to get those answers out of NavEd for more than one student at a time. Students now has a Photo Authorization column in the column picker, and it comes down with the CSV export like any other column. A student shows Yes or No from their most recent application, and N/A when there is no application on file for them. N/A is not a no. It means NavEd has no answer recorded, so treat it as a question still to ask.
Two things this column does not read yet: consent collected through a Form rather than through the enrollment application, and consent recorded outside NavEd. Both show as N/A. If your school collects photo permission on a form, keep using that form as your source until we connect the two.
The NavEd Network page's questions and answers now read like a page, not a wall of text.
The six questions we added to nav.education/features/sell_curriculum/ last release rendered as plain stacked headings with no styling. They now sit in cards you can read at a glance. The nine common questions at the bottom are now a click-to-open list, so you can scan the questions and open the one you have, the same pattern already used for "What's included" elsewhere on the page.
The copyright notices page now says what actually happens, and the top menu got shorter.
The page at nav.education/network/dmca/ was still carrying draft wording. It now names our designated agent and registration, and walks through both sides: what a copyright notice needs to contain, what we do when one arrives, and what a teacher can do if her course gets paused. Sending a notice does not take anything down on its own. A person reads it, and a family who already bought a course keeps her access unless we confirm the material has to come down.
The top menu on the public site was running to eight items and wrapping onto two lines on smaller laptops. Blog and Contact moved down to the footer, where they already were. The phone menu still lists everything.
The NavEd Network page now answers the questions people actually ask before they list a course.
The page at nav.education/features/sell_curriculum/ used to be a short summary and a list of features. It now explains, in plain sentences, what a listing is, what happens after a family buys, what it costs, whether you can sell the same course elsewhere, and who owns the material and the records. There is a common questions section at the bottom covering payouts, unlisting, and what a buyer needs.
My Courses no longer offers a button that goes nowhere while your application is being read.
A brand-new seller's My Courses page showed "List a course" as its one big button, and listing does not open until we have written back about your application, so the button led to a dead page. It now points you at NavEd Lessons, where the work actually is, and says plainly that the page for setting a price and publishing shows up here once we have written back.
On the new unit screen, the note under "how many to start with" now reads as an ordinary sentence. And on the shorter NavEd Network pages, the footer now sits at the bottom of the window instead of halfway up it.
If you teach on the NavEd Network, your Workspace now opens on your own home page.
A teaching Workspace used to open on a school dashboard: zero students, zero subjects, zero staff, and a sidebar full of school records you never asked for. It now opens on your Home, which shows your courses, your learners and what is waiting on you. My Courses is there from the day you sign up, not only once your application has been approved.
The sidebar lost the parts that were never yours to run: the school dashboard, sessions, academic grades, parents, users, staff and invites. NavEd Lessons, Subjects, Grades, Transcripts, Reports and your Business menu all stay exactly where they were.
Every Workspace now starts with a subject, named from what you told us you teach. Before this, building your first unit ended on a screen telling you to ask an administrator to assign you a subject, and you are the administrator.
If you ever start taking on other teachers, or families who need records kept, School tools at Settings turns the school side of NavEd on. Your courses, your learners and your records stay exactly where they are, and turning it on does not change what you pay.
The last two NavEd Network pages joined the rest of it.
The page you watch while your Workspace is being built, and the page that shows when teacher signups are not open, still carried the old NavEd Network colours and fonts. They now carry the same header and footer as the catalogue, the course pages and the signup form, so signing up no longer takes you through three different looking pages in thirty seconds.
Part of NavEd in the footer also now takes you to the site you are already on rather than always to nav.education.
The NavEd Network pages now look like the rest of NavEd.
The course catalogue, a course page, your order page and the teacher signup page were each styled differently, and the signup page used its own colours and its own fonts. They now share one header and one footer with the same colours and type as everywhere else in NavEd.
The header carries the NavEd Network name, Browse courses, For teachers and Log in. The footer carries Part of NavEd, Privacy and Terms. Every one of those links works whether you reached the page at nav.education or at network.nav.education.
Nothing about signing up changed. Same questions, same order, same agreement step.
You can now write about a course you bought, from your order page.
If you bought a course on the NavEd Network, your order page has a link to write about it. It shows up once your child's place is set up, and it goes away once you have written something. You do not have to write anything, and nobody will ask you again.
What you write goes on the course page for other families deciding about the same teacher. Your order page stays private to you.
If you are suspended or turned down, Your Records is now where you would look for it.
Downloading your own courses and records has worked at any account status since yesterday, but the Your Records link under Business only showed once you were approved. If your account was suspended, or your application did not go through, the page still worked and nothing pointed you to it.
Your Records is now in your menu no matter what your status is. The email that tells you about a suspension or a rejection carries the same link, and so does the page where you can ask us to look again. Your courses and your records are yours whether you stay on the Network or not.
Three fixes to the seller records download, one of them a file that was missing from it.
The cover image you uploaded for a course was named in the archive but was not actually in it. That picture is stored in a different place from the rest of a course's files, and the download was looking in the wrong one. It is in there now.
If something goes wrong while the archive is being built, you now get a whole file that tells you what is missing, rather than a download that stops partway. Any file that could not be read is listed in manifest.json under files_we_could_not_read, and that list is normally empty. Before this, a storage problem ended the download mid-file and there was nothing in the result to tell you it had happened.
A review is written by a buyer, and a spreadsheet treats text starting with an equals sign as a formula to run. Review text in records/reviews.csv is now written so your spreadsheet shows it as words. Nothing was removed, so you still see exactly what was written, and it now sits next to your earnings without doing anything to them. Amounts are untouched: a refund is still a negative number your accountant can add up.
If you sell on the NavEd Network, you can now download everything you have there.
The seller terms say your own material and your own records are yours, and that getting them out is free, always. Until today there was nowhere to do it. There is now, under Business, Your Records.
You get one file. Inside it are the courses you wrote, section by section and step by step, with the worksheets, rubrics and cover images you uploaded. Alongside them are your listings and the prices you set, every sale with what the family paid, what NavEd took, what the card cost and what reached you, every payout to your bank, the reviews of your courses, your replies to them, and who enrolled and how far they got. The sales and payout files are what an accountant or a tax preparer will ask you for.
What is not in it: anything belonging to the families who bought from you. No parent names, no email addresses, no learner contact details, and nothing a learner submitted. Each learner appears by first name and last initial, which is enough for you to match an enrolment to a child you taught.
There is no charge and no limit on how often you do it. If your account is suspended, or your application is still being read, you can still download your records.
Your NavEd Network earnings now leave Stripe on the 7 day schedule the terms name.
The buyer terms tell a family that the teacher's share reaches her on a 7 day rolling schedule through Stripe. NavEd was not setting that schedule when it created a seller's Stripe account, so what actually applied was whatever Stripe's own default was for the platform, and it was never written down anywhere a person could check. Now the schedule is set on the account at the moment it is created: a payout every day, carrying the money from sales that settled 7 days earlier. That is what the sentence a family reads before she pays has always said, and now it is what happens.
If you already connected a bank account before today, your schedule is unchanged until somebody here runs the correction deliberately. Nothing about it moved on its own, because the day your money arrives is not something that should change while you are not looking.
The NavEd Network seller and buyer terms now name the address that reaches a person.
Both documents finished by telling you to write to an old support address that nobody reads. The address is [email protected]. Because a seller's signup records the exact version of the terms she was shown, and an order records the version that applied the day it was paid, the correction is published as a new version of each document rather than a change to the old one. The older versions stay readable at their own addresses, showing exactly what they showed.
The address to write to is now [email protected].
Every page and email that told you where to send a question, from the seller decision emails to the NavEd Network beta card, pointed at an old support address. The address to write to is now [email protected].
An email when a NavEd Network payout does not reach your bank, and payout amounts written in your own currency.
A payout can be sent and then come back, usually because an account or routing number has changed. Until now that happened silently: the money went back to your NavEd Network balance and nothing told you. Now you get an email when it happens, with the amount, whatever your bank said about why, and where to check the details on file. It is sent once per payout. A payout that was reported as on its way and then bounced gets both emails, because the second one is the one you need.
The payout emails also print the amount in the currency it was actually paid in. Before, every figure carried a dollar sign whatever the currency was, and an amount in yen or won was divided by a hundred before you saw it.
Nothing changes for a school collecting tuition. Those payouts work exactly as they did.
The Network review queues now say when somebody is waiting.
Four queues at NavEd hold work that a person here has to read: a teacher who signed up to sell, a course submitted for review, a copyright notice, and a review or seller reply held for a look. Until now the only way to find out any of them had something in it was to open all four and check. Three things changed. A Slack message goes out the moment somebody lands in one of them, with a link straight to the queue. Each entry in the Super Admin menu carries the number waiting, and no number at all when the queue is empty. A digest email goes out once a day naming what is waiting and how long the oldest item has been there, and it is not sent on a day when all four queues are empty. This is internal to NavEd, and nothing about submitting a course, applying to sell or filing a copyright notice has changed.
The nine "Find Your School" pages each open in their own voice now.
The headline sentence under each page title had drifted into the same shape nine times over, so a reader moving between two pages saw the same sentence with different nouns in it. Each one has been rewritten from scratch: some are a single line, some are three, and each one names what that kind of school actually deals with instead of listing the same features again. The headline no longer repeats the paragraph sitting directly beneath it.
The small private academies page had lost its note that keeping records, issuing a transcript, taking attendance, enrolling a student, and getting your own data back out are never behind a paywall. That is back. And the Classical Conversations page now uses the same wording for that promise as every other page.
An email when a NavEd Network payout is on its way to your bank.
If you sell a course on the Network, you had to open your earnings page to find out that money had been sent. Now, when Stripe pays out to your bank account, NavEd emails you: the amount, and the day Stripe expects it to land. One email per payout. If the same payout is reported to us twice, you still hear about it once. The list of which orders a payout covers is still on your earnings page under Business, which reads live from Stripe.
Nothing changes for a school collecting tuition. Those payouts work exactly as they did.
The page about selling a course now says where listing stands.
If you read the page about listing a course on the NavEd Network, it finished with a "Start selling" button that could not take you anywhere. Listing is not open yet, and the button answered with a refusal that explained nothing. The button is gone, and in its place the page tells you plainly that the Network is in beta and that listing is not open to anyone yet. It carries no date, because there is not one we could stand behind. If you want to be ready for it, the card points you at NavEd Lessons, which is where the course itself gets built. When listing opens, the button comes back and the card goes away.
The subject filter on the course list now reads the way the level filter does.
The subject dropdown above the Network course list showed each subject exactly as the teacher had typed it into her own form, so "english" and "science" sat in lowercase beside a level dropdown reading "Early Elementary". Subjects now read as titles, whatever a teacher types, and a name she capitalised herself is left alone, so STEM and ASL stay as they are. Where two teachers typed the same subject with different capitals, the filter offered it twice; it is now offered once, and it finds the same courses it always did. Nothing about what a teacher types, or about how the filter searches, has changed.
Two smaller things on the same pass. The "Slow connection detected" notice was appearing for people whose browser was reporting a fast connection at the same moment, because it trusted a reading that measures how much a page happened to download rather than how fast the connection is. It now waits for the browser's own verdict. And on Teaching, an empty count in the student grid is announced as "none" by a screen reader instead of being read out as a dash.
The course list now says what it is, for a parent who has never heard of us.
network.nav.education opens on the list of courses, so it is the first thing a family sees. It used to start with a page title and a search box, which tells you nothing if you arrived from a link a friend sent you. It now opens with a plain sentence: find a course built by a teacher, wherever that teacher is. Underneath it says who lists courses here, which is teachers from co-ops, microschools, hybrid and university-model schools, classical and private schools, and families teaching at home. The search box sits right under it.
Two other things changed for a family arriving early. While only a handful of courses are listed, the page says so in words above the results, so a short list reads as a new catalogue rather than a broken one. If nothing is listed yet, or your search finds nothing, the page tells you which of the two it is instead of leaving you to guess. A course page now carries a link back to all courses, so you can open one and get back. And a link pasted into a message shows a title and a description instead of a bare address.
Easier to scan "This is you if" list on the school-type pages.
The recognition list near the top of each "Find Your School" page now reads as a real bulleted list, with more room between lines, instead of a dense paragraph.
Fixed a broken link and cleaned up the "Find Your School" pages.
The hybrid schools page pointed readers at a page that did not exist. That link is fixed. A few stray symbols that were showing up as raw text in the wording have been cleared, the nine opening lines have been rewritten so each one reads differently, and the promise about what stays free is now worded the same way everywhere it appears.
Each "Find Your School" page now opens by naming what that school actually deals with.
The nine pages under "Find Your School" used to share one identical opening sentence. Each one now opens with a line written for that kind of school: what a co-op coordinator carries, what a microschool founder does after hours, what a university-model transcript has to hold up to. The list page's headline now reads "Built for the school you chose to build."
A teacher who is turned down or paused now gets the way to reply in the same email.
The page where a teacher can ask us to look at a Network decision again already worked, but nothing linked to it, so she could only reach it if somebody sent her the address. The email telling her a Network application was turned down, and the email telling her her courses have come off the catalogue, now carry a button straight to that page on her own school's address, where she is already signed in. The reason a person wrote down is in the email with it. Replying to the email still reaches the same people. Retrying a decision does not send her a second copy.
A second way into the NavEd Network, at the bottom of the page.
The menu link to the Network shipped, but a visitor who scrolls straight past the menu had no second chance to find it. The footer now carries the same two links, Browse courses and Sell a course you built, in the Product column of every marketing page. Same destinations as the menu, same rule: while the Network is off, neither link appears.
The Network's own address now opens the list of courses.
Typing network.nav.education used to land you on a page that was not the courses. It now takes you straight to the course list, so the short address you would say out loud is the one that shows a family what there is to learn. Everything else on the Network is unchanged: course pages, enrolling and your own order page all work exactly as before, and any link you have already saved still goes where it always did.
A way into the NavEd Network from the main menu.
The Network had no route in from the site. A family could only reach a course through a link a teacher sent her personally. There is now a Network item in the main menu, on desktop and on mobile. A family goes straight to the courses teachers have built and opened to any family. A teacher finds the page explaining what listing a course involves, which is free to list, with NavEd keeping 3 percent when it sells.
Layout and wording fixes across the Network screens, and two more queues in the Super Admin menu.
The copyright notice form ran off the side of a phone screen: the two statements you tick now wrap properly at every width. The note a teacher gets back when a course is sent to her drafts stacked sideways on a phone and pushed the page off to the right, and now reads down the page as it was meant to. Course reviews and copyright notices are now in the Super Admin menu next to the other Network queues, so neither needs a typed address to reach. Three lines of copy lost their em dashes, including the message a student sees after tapping "I'm Stuck".
A plan change now waits until the payment has actually gone through.
Some ways of paying, like a bank debit, take a few days to clear. NavEd used to set up the new plan the moment checkout finished, before the money had arrived. Now it waits, and the plan, the student limit and everything the plan includes all switch on together, the moment the payment clears. The same is true of a club seat, a fee, a form and a tuition payment: each one is confirmed once the money is really there. Paying by card is unchanged and still takes effect straight away.
Network purchases, refunds, reviews and course decisions now email the people they happen to.
A family who buys a course on the NavEd Network gets a receipt with a link back to her own order page. A teacher is told when her first sale lands, when a sale of hers is refunded, when a family reviews one of her courses, and when a course she submitted has been read. A refund now tells both the family and the teacher. None of these emails ask anyone to log in, and a redelivered payment cannot produce a second receipt.
The Network course list no longer offers a filter for a course it can't show.
When a teacher's Network account is paused, her courses come off the public course list right away. The subject she had typed was still being offered in the filter dropdown above the list, so a visitor could choose a subject and land on an empty page. The dropdown now lists only subjects you can actually browse.
A home screen for what you sell on the Network.
If you sell courses on the NavEd Network, there's now a home screen for it. It shows how many students are active, how many of your courses are live, and what you sold this month.
Copy a section, copy a step, or add several sections at once.
Building a unit no longer means rebuilding every section by hand. You can now copy a section or a single step and get your own independent copy to edit, and add several new sections to a unit in one move. The unit list is also grouped by subject now, with a search box so you can find the one you want.
A course purchase can no longer create a second student account for the same child.
When a payment provider sent the same purchase notice twice at once, both copies could set up the child's account before either finished, leaving a spare account nobody could sign in to and a chance the sign-in details a parent was emailed belonged to the wrong one. Only one copy of a notice now sets up the child, and the other one stops without changing anything. Parents already sent their details keep them, and nothing about an existing purchase changes.
A just-approved circle now reads "Approved" when you hover it.
On the teaching dashboard, a circle you had just approved or sent back kept showing its old label on hover, and could not be clicked again until the page was reloaded. It now updates properly and stays clickable.
Teachers can now clear a raised hand once they've helped.
When a student taps "I'm Stuck" on a lesson step, her teacher's review board now shows an "Asked For Help" queue naming who needs a hand and with what. Once the teacher has helped, in class or otherwise, one click marks it handled and clears it from the queue.
"I'm Stuck" now reaches the Asked For Help queue, and a course sent back says why.
When a student taps "I'm Stuck" on a lesson step, that ask now shows up in the Asked For Help queue on your teaching board as well as arriving by email. Tapping it twice on the same step shows once, and if the student works the step out on their own it comes off the queue by itself.
On NavEd Network, a course that was sent back for changes now carries the reviewer's note on the course's own page, beside the status, with the button to send it back for review right underneath it.
Your earnings statement now shows which sale each payout covered.
The seller earnings statement on NavEd Network now matches each recent payout to the sale it paid you for. If a refund comes in after that sale was already paid out, the statement says so in plain words, instead of just showing a negative balance with no explanation.
A teacher's earnings screen now adds up, and a refund now takes back the access it paid for.
The refund figure on a teacher's earnings screen now shows what actually came back out of her balance, and it appears on the screen instead of being left out, so the numbers along the top subtract to the total beside them. It matches the amount the refund notice further down the page already reported, so one refund is no longer two different figures on one page.
Three things behind the screen were also fixed. A refund now always removes the course access it paid for, even when another teacher's student happens to share the same internal number. A purchase can no longer be recorded twice if the payment provider sends the same notice twice. And a course is no longer opened up on a payment that has been started but not yet cleared.
The NavEd Network "Learners" menu link is back, and course review queues now have a way in.
A menu-building bug had silently erased the "Learners" link from every approved seller's Business menu, so it never showed up at all. It's fixed. The seller and course review queues, previously reachable only by typing their address directly, are now on the Super Admin menu. The Network signup page's live "is this email available" check, wired up but never turned on, now actually runs.
A place to report a course that copies your work, and a way for the seller to answer.
If you believe a course on the NavEd Network uses your copyrighted work without permission, there's now a page for that: a copyright notice you can file without a NavEd account. Every notice reaches a person at NavEd and is recorded, and filing one never takes a course down by itself. A person looks at it first, and can pause the listing while that happens. If you're the teacher who listed the course and it gets paused, you can write back and ask for it to be restored, and it goes back up if the notice is withdrawn or your answer settles it. If a course is confirmed to infringe, it comes down for good, and every family who already bought it is refunded and told plainly what happened, not left to notice on her own.
A review or reply that was waiting for a look now gets one.
A seller's reply to a review is always held before it goes public, and so is a review that looks like it's carrying a phone number or email address instead of feedback about the course. Until now there was nowhere for anyone at NavEd to actually approve or reject one, so a held review or reply had nowhere to go. There's a queue for that now, and a review that's already live can still be taken down if it turns out to be abusive rather than simply critical.
Approving or sending back a student's work no longer freezes the page.
On the teaching dashboard, clicking "Approve" or "Send Back" could lock up the browser tab. The work was always saved, but the page stopped responding and reloading it did not help until the tab was closed. Reviewing now finishes cleanly and the page stays responsive.
Enrollment application forms now show your own school's name.
Every school's enrollment application form now speaks in your school's own name and links families to your own handbook, if you've added one, instead of another school's. The wording on a few questions was also made to fit any kind of school, not just one.
The "Free Tools" menu now works fully from a keyboard, just like "Find Your School".
Tabbing to it now opens the list of free tools instead of skipping past it, the menu closes cleanly on Escape, and a screen reader now hears the menu's true open or closed state instead of never being told anything at all.
Cleaner illustrations on the school-type pages.
The drawn screens under each kind of school NavEd serves no longer carry a caption underneath. The illustrations speak for themselves.
The student's name now stays in view on the applications page.
On the applications list, the student's name (and the tools for reviewing or correcting how it's split) now stay visible on the left as you scroll through the rest of an application's details, instead of being scrolled out of sight.
Small polish on the new "Find Your School" pages.
The headline on the school-type list page now lines up with the cards below
it, and the "See how NavEd fits" links line up across a row. On the
Montessori page, the note about the gradebook's current mastery-marking
limit now reads as a calm footnote instead of a warning, without changing
what it says.
The "Find Your School" menu now works fully from a keyboard.
Tabbing to it now opens the list of school types instead of skipping past
it, the menu closes cleanly on Escape, and a screen reader now hears the
menu's true open or closed state instead of always being told it is open.
Cleaner photos on the school-type pages.
The pages describing each kind of school NavEd serves no longer show a caption under every photo. The photos speak for themselves.
See the name before it is saved, and change how it is split.
Every application now shows the first and last name that will go on the student's record, right under the name the family submitted. If a name has more than two words, you can change how it is split before you accept the application, and NavEd keeps the full submitted name on the application either way. Accepting applications now shows you the list of names first, so you can read them before anyone is enrolled. If you correct a name for a child who is already on your roster, that correction reaches their record too.
NavEd's website now has a page for every kind of school it serves.
There are nine kinds in all, and Montessori schools were added. Find them
under the new "Find Your School" menu at the top of the site, or from the
list of school types on the homepage, where each name is now a link. Each
page is written for that kind of school in its own words, and says plainly
what NavEd does and what it does not do yet.
A student's full name is saved correctly when their application is approved, even with a suffix like Jr. or III.
A student whose name included a generational suffix could be saved under the wrong name after their application was approved: the suffix could replace the family's actual last name entirely, making the student hard or impossible to find afterward. Names like this are now saved the way the family entered them.
Buying a course on the NavEd Network now ends where it should: a receipt, not a dead page.
A family who bought a course was sent, after paying, to a page that did not
exist. She had no login by design, so a 404 was the whole end of her purchase.
There is a confirmation page now, reachable by the private link in her order
and nothing else. It shows what she bought, who teaches it, which child it is
for, what she paid, and where to write if something is wrong.
A course can be refunded. Refunds were being written against a Stripe
charge the platform had never recorded, so every attempt was refused. The
charge is recorded at the moment of sale now, and an older order that is
missing one recovers it before the refund goes out.
A payment that cannot be completed is no longer reported to Stripe as
finished. If something goes wrong between the card clearing and the child
getting her place, Stripe is told the delivery failed and tries again on its
own schedule, until it works. Before, the money was taken, the seat was never
given, and nothing tried a second time.
Refunding one course no longer takes away another one. A family who bought
two courses from the same teacher and refunded one kept losing both. Access is
now worked out per course in both directions, and two courses that would share
one enrollment cannot both go live: the teacher is told why, and what to change.
The earnings page shows what a seller actually kept. A month with $126 in
sales and a $68 refund was reporting a net of minus $9.71. The refund was being
taken off twice. It reads $53.98 now, which is the money in her account, and
the table footer adds up to the same figure by hand.
A family can now leave a review after taking a course on the NavEd Network.
A rating and a short review attach to the course, never to the teacher. There
is no seller profile score anywhere, and a rating never changes where a
course appears in search. A family reaches the review form through the
private link in her own order, no NavEd account needed.
A course from a seller whose account has been suspended no longer appears in
search results, even if the course itself is still marked live.
A teacher who applies to sell on the NavEd Network now gets an answer.
Until now nothing in NavEd could approve a Network seller. A teacher signed
up, agreed to the terms, and then waited with no way of knowing she was
waiting: the Business menu, payment settings, earnings and publishing were
all simply absent, with no explanation anywhere.
Two things changed. There is now a review screen where NavEd reads each
application and either opens Network selling on that Workspace or writes back
saying why, in words the teacher reads verbatim. And while she waits, her
Workspace tells her so plainly: her application is with us, a person reads
every one by hand, her Workspace is fully hers in the meantime, and nothing
goes on the Network until we have written back.
Seller screens now check who is asking, not just which Workspace they are
looking at.
The earnings statement, Stripe payout setup and course publishing screens
identified a seller by the web address being visited. Anyone else signed in
who reached that address was treated as her. Those screens now check the
signed-in person as well, so only the seller herself can see her earnings,
set up her payouts, or change her own listings.
Two signup endpoints also picked up the request limits they were missing, and
the email check on the seller signup form no longer tells an anonymous caller
why an address is unavailable.
An empty "Business" heading no longer appears in the sidebar for schools that
are not selling on the Network.
A new feature page: what it costs to sell a course on the NavEd Network.
A teacher who has already built a course in NavEd Lessons can now read, in
plain language, what selling it on the NavEd Network actually costs. Listing
a course is free. NavEd keeps 3 percent only when a course sells. The page
walks through what a family sees when they buy, and what the teacher sees
once a student enrolls: who bought it, where they are in the course, and
what they've turned in. The "Start selling" button goes straight to seller
signup.
Feature pages can now also point their own call to action somewhere other
than the standard school signup, for the pages that lead somewhere else
entirely.
The ownership statement a teacher agrees to at signup now points at something she can read.
Before listing a course on NavEd Network, a teacher agrees to one statement:
that the material is hers to sell, and that listing it does not conflict with
an agreement she has with an employer. Her account has always recorded which
version of that statement she agreed to, along with the date and the exact
wording. Until now the version it recorded named no document.
There is a document now, at /network/terms/, and every version of it stays at
its own address. If the wording changes later, what she agreed to does not
change with it: her account keeps pointing at the version she read, and that
version stays published.
The page says plainly what it is. It is a working draft, no lawyer has
reviewed it, and the parts that are not written yet are listed as not written
rather than filled in with wording nobody checked. It says what the ownership
statement does, which is record that she told us the material is hers and
that we asked, and it says what it does not do, which is settle anything
between her and a school she works for.
A family can now say what a NavEd Network course was like, and it stays about the course.
A star rating and a short review attach to the course a family bought, never to the
teacher who taught it. There is no seller profile score anywhere, no ranking, and the
catalogue still lists courses by when they first went live, the same as before. An
average only shows once at least three families have rated a course, so one early
rating never reads as a verdict. A teacher can reply once, publicly, to a review, and a
review from a refunded purchase stays up with a plain note that it was refunded, rather
than quietly disappearing.
The public catalogue and course pages also moved to their own address,
network.nav.education, alongside the pitch deck that already lived there. A shared
course link now opens correctly for a family even when they are logged in to their own
school elsewhere on NavEd.
A seller's own Workspace now has a way to find her own Network tools.
Every NavEd Network screen we had built so far, listing a course for sale,
connecting a payout account, and checking earnings, was reachable only by
typing its address directly. There was no way to find any of it from the
sidebar. A teacher signing up for the Network landed in her Workspace with
nowhere to click.
An approved seller now sees a Business section in her sidebar, with her
course roster, her payment settings, and her earnings, right next to the
teaching tools she already uses. Nobody else sees it: a teacher who has not
been approved to sell sees nothing new, and this never appears as an
upsell or an invitation to apply.
A Workspace's own topbar badge also now reads "Teacher" instead of "HOD"
for the person running it. She is not heading a department. Every school's
own HOD badge is unchanged.
A completed NavEd Network payment now arrives, and a refund takes the seat back.
The step that turns a finished checkout into an enrolled child was written
but was not connected to anything. Stripe can now reach it: a real payment
confirmation lands, the payment is recorded in the teacher's own Workspace,
the child is enrolled, and the order is marked paid, in that order. If the
same confirmation arrives twice, which Stripe does routinely, the second one
changes nothing.
Refunds and disputes are one flow now. A refund returns the money, revokes
access and removes the enrollment, while keeping the child's work and her
account so a later re-purchase picks up where she left off. A dispute revokes
nothing while a bank is still deciding: a child partway through a course does
not lose it over a decision that has not been made.
Two quieter fixes on the same path. A payment confirmation that does not say
what kind of sale it is used to crash several steps later, after the card had
already been charged; it is now refused up front with nothing written and
nothing lost, so a repaired confirmation still goes through. And events about
a teacher's own payout account, including a payout that failed, used to be
dropped without a trace. They now reach her account.
A NavEd Network seller can now see what she's earned.
Every seller with a Stripe Connect account can open a new Earnings page and
see it laid out like a bank statement: gross sales, NavEd's fee, card
processing, and net after refund at the top, then every order underneath
with its date, course, and what she kept from it. A refund stays visible in
the list rather than disappearing, and the totals below the table are a
plain subtraction anyone can check by hand. When her live Stripe balance
runs negative, the page says so plainly and explains that it comes out of
her next sale.
A course page a family can actually reach, watch, and buy from.
Every NavEd Network course now has a real public page: a free sample video
right at the top, the teacher's name and face directly under it, then what
the course covers, its price, and an enroll button. No account needed to
watch the sample or to buy. A family types her name, her email, and her
child's name right on the page, and her child's login arrives by email
after she pays. There's also a plain course catalogue to browse and search,
always ordered by which course went live most recently, never by rating or
sales, because NavEd doesn't rank one teacher against another. Reached only
through a course link a teacher shares; existing schools are unaffected.
A paid NavEd Network course now puts the child in the class.
Finishing checkout used to record the payment and stop there. Now the same
step creates the child's account inside the teacher's own Workspace and
enrolls her in the course she was bought, so she can open it straight away.
Her account lives only in that teacher's Workspace: buying a course never
adds anyone to a school, and a parent who already has a NavEd login at her
own school keeps it exactly as it was. If the same family buys a second
course from the same teacher, it goes to the same child rather than making a
second one, and a payment confirmation that arrives twice changes nothing.
We also added an internal check that finds any order where the money moved
and access did not, so nobody has to notice it themselves.
A way to actually connect a payout account from the NavEd Network Workbench.
The Workbench already told a seller why she couldn't go live yet and offered
a "Connect a way to get paid" button. That button went nowhere. It now opens
real Stripe setup: connect, verify her identity on Stripe's own site, come
back, and the Workbench shows her status plainly. Also added six fields to
the course listing form that existed on paper but nowhere on screen:
subtitle, what students will learn, subject area, grade band (with "All
Levels" as the default, never a category that gates anything), how many
weeks the course runs, and a cover image. Reached only by an already-approved
seller; existing schools are unaffected.
A page for approved NavEd Network sellers to list a course.
Added the screen where an approved seller picks a course she already built,
names it, prices it, and chooses what a family can see for free before
buying. Nothing goes public until she submits it for review. If her payout
account isn't ready yet, going live shows her exactly why in plain language
instead of a broken button. Reached only from a direct link for now; nothing
else changes and existing schools are unaffected.
Groundwork for paying NavEd Network sellers.
Nothing changes on screen yet. Behind the scenes we added the record of a
seller's Stripe payout account and the real check for whether she is ready
to be paid: her Stripe account confirmed, her payouts turned on, a name on
her statement so a buyer recognizes the charge, and her seller application
approved. Until every one of those is true, publishing a course stays
blocked rather than guessing. Existing schools, students and payments are
untouched and keep working exactly as they did.
A signup page for teachers starting a NavEd Network Workspace.
Added the page where a teacher creates her own Workspace to sell a course:
her name, email, password, what she'll teach, her country, and an ownership
acknowledgment she has to read and agree to on its own before she can
continue. Someone who already has a NavEd account at a school can't open a
Workspace with that email yet — she gets a plain explanation why, not an
error. Nothing links to this page yet, and existing schools are unaffected.
Groundwork for teachers selling their own courses on NavEd Network.
Nothing changes on screen yet. Behind the scenes we added the record keeping
a seller's application to sell on NavEd Network will need: her contact
details, her country (required for payouts), her bio and photo, and whether
her application has been reviewed and approved. Existing schools, students
and payments are untouched and keep working exactly as they did.
Duplicating a unit no longer drops its files, and teachers can attach more file types to lessons.
Fixed a bug where copying a unit's rubric or attached files silently failed to
carry them over — a duplicated unit used to look complete but was missing
every attachment. Duplicating a unit is now also wrapped so a failed copy
never leaves a half-finished unit behind. Teachers can now attach a wider
range of document types (spreadsheets, presentations, and more) to a lesson
step, and every attachment is checked to make sure it's really a document
before it's saved.
Groundwork for tracking how far a student got through a unit.
Nothing changes on screen yet. Behind the scenes we added the record keeping a
few things coming later will need: where a student is up to in a unit, a place
for a student to say they are stuck on a step, where they paused a video, and
who first wrote a unit. Existing units, lessons and payments are untouched and
keep working exactly as they did.
Class documents, submissions, and teacher feedback in NavEd Lessons now open right in the page.
PDF and Word files attached to a lesson, a student's turned-in work, or a
teacher's feedback now open in place, with a button to pop them into their own
tab for easier reading. Downloading still works exactly as before.
A few small fixes to attendance and document previews.
On the home page attendance card, parents no longer see a "Confirm attendance"
button for a day that is already fully recorded. The record still shows, so a
parent can see the day is handled, but there is nothing left to press. We also
cleared up a background error that could happen while viewing the Cohort
Management tab, and fixed a document preview that could leave a loading spinner
on screen even after the document had finished loading underneath it.
A quick attendance reminder now shows up right on the home page.
Admins and teachers see a small Attendance card on their home page whenever
something still needs to be recorded for the day, scoped to whatever cohorts
they can actually take attendance for. Nothing to do, nothing to see: the card
only appears when today is a school day and attendance is still outstanding.
Schools with at-home learning days can also turn on a new option, from the
Attendance page's Cohort Management tab, that lets parents record their own
child's attendance for that day, right from the same home page card, including
catching up on a day they missed. A teacher's own record always takes priority
if one already exists for that day. Attendance records a parent recorded are
labeled "Recorded by a parent" wherever a teacher or admin reviews them, so it
is always clear who recorded a given day.
Assignments can now be given to specific students instead of the whole class.
When you create or edit an assignment, choose who it's for. Everyone stays selected by default, so nothing changes unless you narrow it. Students who aren't part of an assignment won't see it, and their families won't be told about it. The "graded" count for an assignment now only counts the students it was actually given to.
Accommodations now live on the roster, not in a separate document.
Teachers can now log accommodations right on the roster they already use for
grades and attendance, so nothing gets forgotten. Families see a plain,
day-by-day record of what was provided.
Word documents posted as class materials now open right in the page.
Click to preview one, or open it in its own tab to keep working from.
Downloading still works exactly as before.
Line items in the Payment & Fees panel of the form builder are easier to read and edit.
Item names, prices, and quantity options no longer get cut off in the side panel.
Club registrations nobody paid for are now clear to everyone, and you can act on them.
When a family starts a club signup and never finishes paying, their own
registration page used to tell them they had already paid. It now shows what is
actually owed, including any card processing fee, with a button to pay whenever
they are ready.
On your roster those registrations used to read "Payment Pending", which
suggested money was on its way. They now read "Not paid yet" with the date the
signup started, so you can tell at a glance that nothing is in transit.
They also have two new buttons. Send payment link emails the family a link to
pay, with the amount stated, for when they lost the original. Remove takes the
registration off the roster and frees the spot. Nothing was ever charged for
these, so there is no refund to issue. Registrations that were paid for still
go through Refund so the family gets their money back.
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