See what's new in NavEd. Product updates, new features, and improvements for micro school, co-op, and homeschool management.
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SEO: Signup page now has a canonical tag.
<link rel="canonical"> tag to the signup page pointing to https://nav.education/signup/Background tasks now recover more reliably on our servers — nothing changes for you.
NavEd runs background jobs that handle things like weekly digest emails and other scheduled work. In rare cases, these jobs would log a brief connection error when our server restarted or deployed, then immediately recover on their own. You'd never notice it, but our monitoring would flag it.
We've tuned how often the background worker checks for new jobs, which reduces unnecessary reconnection attempts and makes it more resilient during those brief infrastructure windows.
Visiting certain pages while logged out now redirects you to login — instead of showing an error.
A handful of pages — including your profile, directory settings, subject documents, and the electives add form — were missing a small but important safeguard. If someone accessed those pages without being logged in (for example, after a session expired or by opening a saved link), they'd see a generic server error instead of being gently redirected to the login page.
This happened because of a code reorganization done a few months ago. When those pages were moved into their own files, the "require login" instruction didn't come along for the ride. We caught it through our production error monitoring and fixed all four pages at once.
If you've ever hit an unexpected error page on NavEd, this is the kind of issue we're constantly hunting down. Everything is working correctly now.
New: Blog post — Free Online Gradebook and Attendance
/blog/free-online-gradebook-and-attendance/ covering NavEd's free gradebook and free attendance tracker tools, how to link them together for roster sync, and when you might need the paid platformThe Sessions page now loads noticeably faster for schools with large academic histories.
When a school accumulates many terms and quarters over the years, visiting the Sessions page was quietly making far more database trips than necessary — one for every quarter on record. A school with 24 quarters was making 24 separate requests just to display session names. It worked, but it was inefficient, and it would only get slower as schools added more history.
We've optimized the Sessions and Reports pages to fetch all the necessary data in a single, efficient request — no matter how many quarters your school has on record. The page renders faster, the server handles the load more gracefully, and you'll see the benefit most if your school has been with NavEd for a while.
Fix: Assignment creation no longer crashes with a 500 error when a duplicate name is used.
Improved: Upgrade flow now takes you to the right place.
Previously, clicking "Upgrade Now" in the upgrade prompt modal sent you to the homepage, where there was nothing to do. The pricing shown in the modal was also outdated (Premium showed $8 instead of $5, Enterprise showed $12 instead of $8). And if a feature was blocked by your subscription tier, you were redirected back to where you came from with no path forward.
Now every upgrade touchpoint in the app leads to the Billing tab, where you can see your current plan, compare tiers, and manage your subscription. The pricing calculator page also shows a "Manage Billing" button for logged-in users instead of the generic "Start Free Trial" link. If you're on a plan without a payment method set up yet, you'll see upgrade/downgrade buttons on the plan comparison cards so you know what's available.
Improved: Subjects page security and access control hardening.
Student roster page: performance cleanup and reliability improvements.
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