Mar 02, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • License manage - homeschools view, fixing teacher email filtering functionality
  • Schoology - When archived Exploros students are imported from Schoology, we unarchive the students and add them to the proper classes
  • Schoology - Update users' first and last names in Exploros upon class import and class sync
  • Onboarding Tours – Make sure pop-ups appear on all screen sizes

Dec 12, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

Hide Correct Answers and Teacher Submission: Teachers can now hide the correct answers for assessment elements and demonstrate how to complete and submit each element.

Site – New Social Studies Courses Page: We have introduced a new page on the site where users can explore all social studies courses, units, and experiences.

Bug Fixes

  • Roster Screen - Previously, when rosters were imported from an external integration, the screen was not scrollable.
  • Schoology - For users signing in with an email, whether imported or synced, we now update the username according to the new format.

Nov 14, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

Reading Groups now defaults to A instead B: When assigning an Experience, with reading groups, the default setup, in the case the reading groups were not defined by the teacher, will be now set to A. Group A receives short summaries that are easier to read, with link access to the full article. The article summaries are all hosted on the Exploros site, which makes them readily available regardless of district whitelisting for websites. For ELL students, the summaries are also easy to translate to other languages or have read aloud, using browser text to speech and Google translate features.

Bug Fixes

  • Profile image no longer drops to a new line when screen width is reduced
  • Edit button roll over area increased to allow easier access
  • Teacher help videos are now accessible to all teachers

Oct 31, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

Class Level Pack Videos: We added the embedded videos per experience to the class level pack.

Bug Fixes

  • Long text with no line brake, "brakes" the table view

Oct 18, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

ClassLink Rostering: We now support rostering wiith ClassLink. Rosters shared by admins will be synced daily.

Hide Correct Answers: Teachers can hide Teacher Notes and correct answers in an assigned experience in order to project their screens to the class. This toggle setting is located in the experience tool bar.

Class Level Pack Sync Between Classes: Teachers can now select if they want the class pack to be synced across their classes that shares the same license. The setting appears under Account Settings > Licenses. There is a checkbox for each license.

Summary Articles updates: The summary articles have a fresh look with a new background and comprehension questions. These questions are only displayed from the class pack. They are not displayed when the summary is accessed from within an experience.

Bug Fixes

  • When the screen width is reduced, the class setting button no longer disappears.
  • Login screen responsiveness issue fixed.
  • Users and Rosters lists now scroll if you choose to view more than 10 entries.
  • Admin users list fixed so that admins no longer appear as a teacher, only as an admin.
  • School email domain checked for exact match.

Sep 10, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

ClassLink SSO: We now support single sign on with ClassLink. Exploros users can use their ClassLink login credentials at the login screen or sign in directly from the ClassLink library. You can read more about the integration here

New Login Screen Design: We changed the layout a bit and added login with ClassLink

Request School in App: In the case a user has no school (except admins) and he somehow logged in to the app, we now requesting the school in the app.

Class Level Pack: Subscribed users, can now see class level pack with all the summary articles that are part of the class license. Teacher can filter, view, save as favorites and share with their class students.

Summary Articles updates: We now have a fresh look to the summary articles, new background and additional comprehension and understating questions. These questions can be accessed from the class pack only.

Bug Fixes

  • Hide Teacher notes should work on the entire experience and not on a single scene
  • Hotspot: Teacher view and student view display differently

Jul 15, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

Getting Started Tour: We added a guided tours for new users. The feature includes three short tours: how to create a class, how to preview a learning experience, and how to get more help. The tours can be activated via the user profile menu.

Class codes in the admin area: The class codes are now displayed in the admin’s seats and license view.

Jun 7, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

Clever SSO: We now support single sign on with Clever. Exploros users can use their Clever login credentials at the login screen or sign in directly from the Clever library.

May 21, 2023

Bug Fixes

  • Notifications no longer appear during ended experiences.
  • Reading group tags now appear correctly on experience cards.
  • Teachers can now post to a wall when the share settings of the wall is set to “share to group.”
  • Last updated text on Class sync is now updated correctly.
  • If a Quiz question is skipped and then answered, the skip no longer counts as the first response in the dashboard.
  • Inline choice options now display properly when the drop-down menu is close to the right edge.
  • Themes have been applied in the app teacher help videos page.

May 7, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

Clever SSO: We now support single sign on with Clever. Exploros users can use their Clever login credentials at the login screen or sign in directly from the Clever library.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed size of experience template card on the main screen
  • Centered Student\Teacher buttons in the Teacher Pack
  • Added scrolling to the class-level license drop-down menu
  • Intercom chat icon now appears in the experience view
  • Fixed text padding in quiz question instructions
  • Inline choice options were truncated when the drop-down menu was too close to the right end
  • Hot spot now supports transparency of all colors

Apr 30, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

Quiz Elements: We now support limiting the possible number of selected answers for all multiple-select type questions – Choice, Multi-part, Hot Text and Hot Spot.

Bug Fixes

  • Wall - Long responses with no line breaks are now supported
  • Fixed broken content pages on the site
  • Fixed the display on exploros.com when the screen width was between 760-990 pixels

Apr 23, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

New STAAR Items: The item types include multiple choice, multipart multiple choice, multiple select, inline choice, hot text (highlight text), hot spot, and drag and drop. Items are versions of past year STAAR questions modified to include the new types. If you are currently subscribed to Exploros, you can assign these tests to students. It's a great way for students to revisit critical STAAR topics and practice STAAR 2.0 item types. If you have not read our article on STAAR prep, we recommend taking a look.

Mar 6, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

New UI in the app: We cleaned up the look and feel of the app, aligned all elements behaviors and gave the app a fresher feel. Among other changes, we updated the share indicators and the submit button, and added color indications for submission fields.

Additional logs on class sync: We now get necessary information on synced users to help troubleshoot issues.

Bug Fixes

  • Quiz area full screen is now resolved
  • Quiz exit/completion issues resolved
  • Google assignments – when assigning to a class with a non-Google user ,the assignment was failing
  • Google class settings were not saving
  • When assigning to multiple classes and one of them was not Google, it was failing the assignments to Google

Jan 29, 2023

New Features and Enhancements

New App Font: As part of renewing the look and fill of the app, we have changed the app font to Helvetica

Co-teachers permissions: We now allow co-teachers to end active experience and reactivate ended experiences that were created by the main teachers

Bug Fixes

  • District admins can now adjust sits in their campuses
  • Save Google Authentication data in a separate data table
  • When removing a co-teacher from a class with active experiences it automatically ends all active experiences that the co-teacher is part of
  • License manage - homeschools view, teacher email filtering is not working

Dec 11, 2022

New Features and Enhancements

Top bar design: The top bar was redesigned to give the app a fresher look.

Themes: The user can now select different themes for the app via the profile settings. Various images and gradient colors can be used as backgrounds for the app main screens.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the database records for co-teachers in assigned experiences
  • Save Google Authentication data in a separate data table
  • Support user trial removal when re-activating a campus subscription
  • Fixed legacy lessons where pack scenes were showing in the wrong order

Aug 17, 2022

New Features and Enhancements

California Student Learning Reports Available: New reports for California Social Studies collections - Ancient Civilizations, Medieval and Early Modern Times, and U.S. History.

New School Year Added to All Reports: 22-23 school year is now available to filter and view in all reports.

Bug Fixes

  • Caching on the front end is not working for text formatting in wall element
  • When a teacher is listed as a student in the class roster, the roster appears empty
  • Student learning status can’t be set back to None

Aug 3, 2022

New Features and Enhancements

California Social Studies Courses and ELA Common Core Curriculum Mapper Tool: We have added the new course mapper tools. You can find the links here.

Ability to add district unique identifiers for students: Districts that use unique identifiers for their students beyond emails and usernames can now request import of these identifiers for existing and new student accounts.

Teacher Dashboard Defaults to First Response: Teachers will now see students’ first responses as default in the experience dashboard.

Adding Teacher Email Information to Admin Level Reports Export: Teachers’ email information is now included in the CSV exports of admin-level reports.

Support Correct Answer View When Elements Are Not Set As Assessed: As a teacher, you can now see correct answers in Image Drag and Drop and Fill in the Blank elements when the elements settings is not set as assessed.

District Admin Student Count: The student count is not based on students’ school ID and not based on licensed students.

Bug Fixes

  • Adding a message on the roster screen when “All your other students” list is empty
  • Clearing student list information from cache when logging out as a teacher
  • Authoring – fixed publish permissions
  • SPIRE STAR Progress report only shows a score of 1st Placement test results in multiple tests

Jun 26, 2022

New Features and Enhancements

Added "Campus Students" list to the class roster screen: Teachers now can see and add students from their campus to their classes from the class roster screen.

Bug Fixes

  • Google users that upload a profile image to Exploros not via google are now missing the profile image
  • We have combined the student and teacher user permissions when sign up\in for the first time
  • Google assignments timing issue is now fixed
  • When ending the experience in Exploros it is not ending in google classroom

Jun 12, 2022

New Features and Enhancements

Reading level data in article summaries: We now display reading grade level and word count for each linked summary in our Social Studies curriculum.

Google permissions update: We now request for permissions based on roles.

Google integration: We now support integration of profile images from Google and passing the experience thumbnail to Google Classroom when assigning a lesson.

Saving non-submitted answers in the app: We now save answers that have not been submitted. When the user tries to leave the scene, a notification appears that the post has not been submitted.

Messaging for non-licensed classes: We added a new bootstrap message when teachers navigate to a non-licensed class.

Adding student to active small groups experiences: We now allow teachers to add students to small group experiences even if the experience has already started.

Co-teacher automatically assigned to all active experiences when joining a class: When a co-teacher joins a class, she will be assigned to all active experience. She will be unassigned if she is removed from the class.

Bug Fixes

  • Large CSV export files from progress reports now show all data
  • Student progress appearance in dashboard edge case fix
  • Authoring – fixed the display of standards set updates
  • Authoring – Fixed real-time updates for standards sets
  • Teachers can now preview from all classes even if they have no classes
  • Modified text on roster screen to indicate when the class was last updated
  • Response dashboard - When retaking a quiz all questions display as skipped in the retake mode; once an answer is submitted it overrides the “skipped” status

Feb 16, 2022

New Features and Enhancements

Unlink from Google: Users can now unlink their accounts from Google in the user settings.

Supporting all assessed elements in quiz: We now support all assessed element types in a quiz.

Auto license class upon creation: Upon creation, classes will automatically be licensed with the campus subscriptions.

Dashboard defaults to last response: The default display in the dashboard is now last responses (replaces first responses as default).

Archived users: Archived users will be removed from rosters and will not be allowed to sign in to the App.

Bug Fixes

  • Can't change start time of a scheduled experience
  • Users trying to sign up with Google, redirecting to the app instead
  • Students directed to the App from Google Classroom assignment without re-login
  • Fixed quiz progress when there are skipped questions

Nov 23, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Active Experience Quiz View Enhancement: The active experience view is now similar to the ended experience view, providing more live information for the teacher. Item heat map, quiz scores, correct answers, etc.

Retake Quiz: We now support retaking of a quiz during an active experience. Teachers can select which students can retake a quiz once the quiz has been submitted.

Bug Fixes

  • Can’t remove student from “All your students”
  • Placement test report – not all scores show up.

Oct 24, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Schoology Integration: We now support Schoology!

  • Single Sign On – Teachers can sign in to Exploros directly via Schoology, using their Schoology accounts.
  • Rostering – Teachers can import from and sync to their Schoology classes.
  • Assignments – Any assignment in Exploros that has been assigned to a Schoology class will automatically appear in the Schoology class as well.
  • Grade pass back - Schoology teachers can now pass Exploros quiz scores to their Classroom gradebook.

Allow Co-Teachers to be connected based on domain and not school ID: Co-teachers are no longer limited to being from the same campus; now they can co-teach based on domain (district) validation.

Bug Fixes

  • No data in TEKS reports for 21-22 school year
  • Student learning report shows duplicate expectations
  • When an existing class is linked with Canvas class, the class settings are missing the assign checkbox
  • When importing a class from Google for the first time, the modal disappears and nothing happens

Aug 1, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

S.P.I.R.E. Placement Test: We added a new element for S.P.I.R.E. STAR program. Placement test allows teachers to test the students’ levels before assigning them into appropriate groups.

Data Studio Database Separation: Data Studio reports are now running on a separate instance of the database.

Database Cleanup: We have removed all unnecessary tables.

Bug Fixes

  • Canvas users are directed to the app login screen in first login - should be logged in instead.

July 19, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Passing Grades to Canvas: Canvas teachers can now pass Exploros quiz scores to their grade book. This feature can be turned on and off via the class settings.

Experiences designed for small groups can be assigned to a single student: We now support homeschools and individual students can learn small groups experiences.

Class Licensing: Moving forward, each class will need to be set up with the campus plans in order for teachers to assign experiences from courses that are part of the plans. The class licensing is part of the class settings.

Bug Fixes

  • Plus button disappeared after licensing a class
  • During Canvas re-authentication, the user needed to refresh in order to sign in to the app
  • Canvas teachers could not import sections they are not part of

July 4, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Home School: We now support home schools, with the creation of new schools and users, and sign up using a homeschool token.

Bug Fixes

  • Authoring - Clean up of scene creation in database
  • Onboarding – End the onboarding flow by directing users to the app

June 13, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Help videos and notifications: We added a new collection of help videos, which can be accessed via the in-app user account menu. Teachers receive notification when new videos are added to the collection.

Bug Fixes

  • When importing a class with multiple teachers from Google Classroom or Canvas, none of the teachers were set as primary teacher. Now the teacher importing the class is set as the primary teacher.

May 11, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Class level settings for sharing assignments with Google or Canvas: We now allow teachers to decide at the class level settings, if they want to share the assignments to Google Classroom and Canvas classes

Passing grades to Google Classroom Gradebook: Google Classroom teachers can now pass Exploros quiz scores to their Classroom gradebook. The score is passed as draft when a student submits the quiz

Bug Fixes

  • Authoring - Pack items were deleted when cloning or publishing an experience

May 2, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

GG4L Integration: We now support rostering via GG4L, including daily syncs.

Ended Experience Notifications: We added a notification counter to the ended experiences section, informing teachers and admins how many experiences have recently ended and are available for viewing.

New Civics Learning Report: We now support teacher and admin learning reports for the Civics course.

Bug Fixes

  • Changed the style of the boxed text
  • Student learning reports fixed for admins

Apr 5, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Co-Teaching: We now support co-teaching. Teachers can join another teacher’s class from the same campus using a class code. We also support importing co-teachers from Google Classroom and Canvas.

Bug Fixes

  • When editing a class name, the name updates on the side menu but not on the top bar
  • When using “End Now,” the Google assignment is not updated in Google Classroom
  • Students cannot be deleted/removed from All Your Other Students list
  • Hide teacher note error in console log

Feb 23, 2021

New Features and Enhancements

Admin Console for Wordly Wise i3000, iSPIRE, and S.P.I.R.E. Star: Admins now have access to the admin console, including seat management and rosters.

Removed seat limit lockout: We no longer lock out accounts when they exceed their seat limits. Instead, we notify via email the users—admins and teacher— that they have reached their seat limit.

Enrollment infrastructure: We have adjusted the infrastructure in order to support co-teaching and roles, a new feature coming soon.

Dec 15, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

Hide\show Teacher Notes: Teachers can now hide the teacher notes when projecting the learning experience.

Bug Fixes

  • iSPIRE extra columns export in mid-level test.

Dec 8, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

iSPIRE and WordlyWise i3000 Progress reports – Export to CSV: Teachers and administrators can now export program progress reports to a CSV file.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent signing up with private emails for CAPS letters as well.
  • Canvas – Support long list of sections.
  • Admin Console fixes:
    • Students no longer appear more than once in the roster screen.
    • CSV import - When a student account already exists, the student is added to the class instead of showing an error.
    • Roster screen - If students are not part of an active class they are no longer shown on the list.

Nov 16, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

Updating assignments status in Google Classroom and Canvas: When a teacher changes the end date or the rostering of an active assignment, it is updated directly in Google Classroom and Canvas.

Bug Fixes

  • Google class sync issues
  • Canvas non-email users support
  • Site preview pages are now showing images correctly

Nov 8, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

Ability to link existing classes to Canvas: Canvas users can now link their existing Exploros classes to their Canvas classes.

Bug Fixes

  • Multiple district reports are now supported in the Reports section.

Oct 18, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

Canvas Integration: We are now supporting Canvas!

  • Single Sign On – Teachers can sign in to Exploros directly via Canvas, using their Canvas accounts.
  • Rostering – Teachers can import from and sync to their Canvas classes
  • Assignments – Any assignment in Exploros that has been assigned to a Canvas class will automatically appear in the Canvas class as well

Google Assignmnets: Any new assignment that will be assigned to a Google class will be visible in Google Classroom

Bug Fixes

  • Google classes import and sync issues – Domain validation, existing students and general fixes to error handling
  • Progress reports – Average responses UI fix

Sep 2, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

New 5th Grade American History Course: American History is an elementary survey of the history of the United States from 1565 to the present. We have released the first 3 units.

Admin Console: We released a new Administrator Console! It has all the same features you had previously, but in a more organized format. Please take a look at this article for a tour of the Admin Console.

Progress Report update:

  • Added Export to CSV functionality
  • Added end date for each experience at the teacher-level reports
  • Added ability for admin to drill down to student-level reports

Bug Fixes

  • Added 2020-2021 school year to all reports
  • Added the Exit Card Expereince to all OER Courses
  • Changed class size limitation to 50

July 12, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

User Trials and Bundles: Any new user receives a trial period for a selected bundle based on subject and user state.

  • Free for thirty days, and
  • Up to five assignments of any experience(s) to one or more classes

During the trial period, all subscription features are active. Exploros dashboards and reports enable real-time and post-teaching Classroom Analytics that provide insights into curriculum progress, student achievement, and learning standard attainment. Once the trial ends, the user can preview the bundle experiences but can no longer assign them to classes.

Students Domain Validation: For all new student accounts, students are now required to use official district domains. Email addresses from public domains are blocked for privacy purposes. Existing student accounts based on public email domains may still be used in existing classes; they cannot be added to new classes. Students who do not have an official district domain (e.g., home-schoolers) must be added in the teacher roster as a student ID without an email address.

Class size limitation: Class size is now limited to 35 students. Most physical classes are limited to 25-30 students in K12. Once Exploros classes are set up to parallel the physical classes, it is easy to transition to remote instruction for the same group of students. In this way, remote and physical classes correspond to the same set of students, and data for the class is kept organized, whether the class is meeting face-to-face, remotely, or a combination of both. By limiting class size, we can also design the interface around a known quantity of students.

USCIS Citizenship Test Review: A new course is now available. USCIS Citizenship Test Review helps students prepare for the USCIS Citizenship Test by reviewing the 100-question bank in context, so that students know the material and don’t just memorize it.

Experience library courses based on the user state: The courses offered in the experience library are now available based on the user’s state.

Bug Fixes

  • Experience library appears empty when accessing from all classes while the teacher has no classes
  • Sign in with Google briefly displays the Exploros login screen before going to the app
  • Added state dropdown menu to onboarding logic for the use case where the user can’t find her school

May 3, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

Live Teacher Streaming Audio and/or Video: To help with remote instruction, we've added live teacher streaming audio and/or video. You can see how it use by watching the video in this article .

Feb 2, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

Digital Citizenship ISTE Student Learning Report: Subscribers can view a report providing student data from the Digital Citizenship course, arranged by ISTE standards for students.

Student progress report data: We now show data from the current school year only

Bug Fixes

  • Real-time fixes -
    • Students signing up with class code appear in the class roster
    • Adding a student to a class from a roster screen updates the class so that it is visible to student
    • Number of participating students correctly updated on experience cards
  • OER Course Catalog choose state drop down was not working when accessing the library list from all classes

Jan 7, 2020

New Features and Enhancements

Realtime communication update: Realtime messaging has been updated to the latest technological stack for faster communication at scale.

Bug Fixes

  • Preview from All Classes now works for all experiences.

Dec 24, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Self-paced mode Teachers can choose to unlock all gates in advance as part of the assignment flow, allowing students to progress at their own pace.

Added ISTE Standards to the database: We now support ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) standards curriculum tagging

Added ability to assign to Google Classroom from All Classes: Google users can now assign to Google Classroom when assigning an experience to multiple classes at the same time.

Bug Fixes

  • Experience Library search results scroll to location if the experience card is not visible on screen.

Nov 21, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Multi-class Assignment: Teachers can now assign an experience to multiple classes in one assignment flow. The start and end dates selected apply to all classes.

Search in Experiences List: Teachers can now search by keyword for a specific experience title in their experiences library.

Bug Fixes

  • Admins dashboard now, shows only experiences that are part of an active subscription.
  • Added experience image to the assign flow.
  • Fixed the progress issue in wall. When teachers change the share settings, students who have already submitted maintain the credit for their progress.

Oct 16, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Analyzer Report: New report for district and campus admins. This report analyzes all the data collected in Exploros and provides a high-level view of what has been taking place in the district/campus and for teachers over the current school year.

World History MS Mapped to Maryland Standards: World History MS Course is now mapped to Maryland standards, including all the relevant reports!

Bug Fixes

  • Pack items order within scenes is now fixed
  • Fixed course order filter in reports to match the course order in the experience list

Sep 15, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Course filter in Summary reports: Users can filter the experiences based on courses.

Student Progress and Student TEKS reports: The reports show archived classes separately in the classes menu.

Bug Fixes

  • Filtering archived class data from teachers and admins in ended experiences list
  • Changing end date of a scheduled experience - Teacher can change the end date of a scheduled experience, in the same manner as for the active one, via the teacher dashboard.
  • Fixed order of expectations in Student Learning reports

Aug 12, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Streamlined Social Studies TEKS Support: We are now supporting streamlined social studies TEKS..

  • Texas courses mapped to new TEKS
  • Experience Cards support the TEKS version
  • Reports support new TEKS version, and previous version for past data

Authoring Database: Restructured our authoring tool database and updated content mechanism, improved performance and onboarding processes.

Rich Text in Wall Element:  Added rich text support in wall element. Users can choose this option from the wall side menu and use basic formatting.

  • Bold, italic, underline
  • Numeric and bulleted list
  • Ability to link

Added 2019-2020 school year to all reports

Bug Fixes

  • Line break in wall element
  • Description mismatch when changing states in list to add OER courses.

July 7, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Student Learning Report: We have added 2 new features -

  • Teachers can now filter by students
  • Experience list per expectation: Teachers and admins can see now which experience is covering each expectation. Teacher can also preview the actual experience.

Bug Fixes

  • Student removal from a class roster when archiving the class

June 19, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

New U.S. History Student Learning Report for teachers, and admins: This new report shows how students are covering the expectations and standards in each unit in U.S. History course.

There are 5 metrics we show per expectation or standards:

  • Participated students
  • Total number of responses
  • Responses per student (RPS)
  • Minutes spent per student (MPS)
  • Average quiz score

Teachers and admins, can filter by schools, teachers, classes, and school year, based on their permissions.

Seat licensing management: District admins can now shift seats from one school to another for iSPIRE AND S.P.I.R.E programs

Bug Fixes

  • Reports loading times improvements

May 19, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Reactivating an Ended Experience: Subscribed users can now reactivate an experience once it has ended.

Reports Data Updates: No longer waiting for the next day! From now on, the data in the reports get updated once the experience has ended.

Maryland Reports: We now have Maryland specific reports for teachers and admins for U.S. History MS.

Bug Fixes

  • Admins can now see standards tiles on the experiences cards
  • Reports labels fixes - alignment and school year on safari.

Apr 21, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Webpack update: Added webpack to allow for easier and consistent code upgrades, front-end loading and optimizations, enable the possibility to switch to a newer framework, improve dev productivity

Bug Fixes

  • Image upload fix in chrome browser for wall, draw and profile image
  • Scrolling issue in experience list is now supported in latest chrome version

Apr 3, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Teacher import for Wordly Wise, iSPIRE and S.P.I.R.E School Admins: This feature allows school admins to create their teacher's accounts. This feature is now added to the already exists ability to create classes and students, and allow the admins to create the entire rosters.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed collapse\expend regression in notes and gates
  • Studet Progress reports now show latest expereinces

February 21, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

New Student Experience Summary report: This new report is available to subscribed OER teachers and can be accessed from the curriculum student progress report by clicking on the student names.
The report is an experience summary report filtered by a student, showing the progress percentage, responses, activity and quiz scores, and time on task. The report can be filtered to show all experiences, only experience with quizzes or to exclude experiences with quizzes.

February 7, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Reports for 8th grade NGSSS Civics MS curriculum: The following new reports have been added to subscribed users of the NGSSS Civics MS curriculum and can be found in the All Classes reports tab:

  • Civics MS NGSSS Student Summary
  • Civics MS NGSSS Details

School and district admins can view the following reports and drill down from them to the class level reports:

  • District/School Civics MS Progress
  • District/School Civics MS NGSSS Summary

Reports for 8th grade GLCE U.S. History MS curriculum The following new reports have been added to subscribed users of the GLCE U.S. History MS curriculum and can be found in the All Classes reports tab:

  • U.S. History MS GLCE Student Summary
  • U.S. History MS GLCE Details

School and district admins can view the following reports and drill down from them to the class level reports:

  • District/School U.S. History MS Progress
  • District/School U.S. History MS Progress

Remove course from library: This new feature allows teachers to remove courses from their library by opening the experience list, moving to the OER Course Catalog tab, hovering over a course that’s currently in the teacher's library and selecting Remove course from Library.

Bug Fixes

  • Users can now sign up using longer emails (up to 150 characters)
  • Values of 100% in the different reports will not longer exceeds their cell borders
  • Standard tiles will not longer overlap with the Small Groups and Reading Groups tiles on experience cards

January 10, 2019

New Features and Enhancements

Fixes to Multi-state tagging: The teacher's school value now indicates the state that they are in, which updates the Add OER Course list automatically to show the most relevant courses. Also, experiences that are not mapped to any standards in a mapped collection no longer show the standard tiles on experience cards in the experience list and the Assigned / Scheduled / Ended tabs.

Frequent Intercom updates: Account information will be updated automatically on set times even if users didn't log in to the app. This will ensure that we have up to date info when we're talking to our users.

Celebrate Freedom Week: This unit was added to the following collections for both subscribed and non-subscribed users:

  • World Cultures MS
  • Texas History MS
  • US History MS
  • Civics MS
  • US History HS

Bug Fixes

  • Scenes no longer appear locked in ended experience if they weren't opened while the experience was still active.
  • Changing the ZIP code value on the website when looking for the teacher's school now updates the search results.

December 27, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Multi-state Standards Tagging: We can now map experiences to several different standard sets, allowing us to support teaching in different states. Currently, we have experiences mapped to TEKS and NGSSS standards, and experiences are being mapped with GCLE standards and will be released in the near future.

State filter when adding OER courses: When opening the Experience List and switching to the Add OER to Library tab, a new State filter was added. By selecting the state the teacher is in, the recommended collection will appear at the top, over the divider, based on the teaching standards of the state. Teachers still have the option to choose collections mapped to other state standards by scrolling down in the list and choosing the desired collection.

Bug Fixes

  • Long Wall posts are no longer cut mid word.

December 2nd, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Update to node.js 10: The system was updated to the latest version which should help improve performance, security, resource consumption and allow usage of new development features.

Adding school as part of the onboarding flow: For all OER onboarding, teacher are now required to enter their school as the first step of the flow.

Bug Fixes

  • Removal of the Summary license from the Account Settings Licenses tab

November 14th, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Civics MS: Units 1-5 of this new curriculum were deployed and can be found free of charge on the website as well as in the app, under the Add OER Course to Library tab of the experience list.

System code changes: These fixes should help remove the load on the app and improve performance.

Bug Fixes

  • Some visual changes were made to the filters of different reports to make them more uniform.
  • Experiences that are started in the past are now marked as starting "now"
  • Pack items that are not mapped to a specific reading groups now appear correctly for both
  • TEKS tiles on experience cards style was change to convey that they are not clickable

October 21, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

School Year report filter: Subscribed users can now see a new filter in the Experience Summary reports, allowing them to filter experiences by school year (starting at August 15th and ending at August 14th of the following year). Admins can also use the school year filter in their curriculum progress and TEKS summary reports.

Bug Fixes

  • A fix was deployed that should prevent icons from disappearing in certain cases.
  • Time on task column now sorts correctly in the Experience Summary reports
  • Content fixes for broken links

September 19, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Permissions inherited from school: With this functionality in place, all of the subscription permissions available for the school will become available for teachers once they update their school value in Account Settings. This includes features like reports, response dashboard, student feedback, Google Drive integration and more.

Bug Fixes

  • Submit button added to EPS sign up pages, verifying the token is active and matches the curriculum.
  • School value is now saved once added and there's no need to refresh the screen.
  • Visual changes were introduced, like revamp of the TEKS tiles on experience cards, screen flash in the login screen, edit menu remains open after selecting an option in active experiences, class name length limit, progress runner icon is no longer cut before an experience has progress and additional small changes
  • Teachers can now assign experiences even if skipping step 2 (student selection), and errors were added if teachers try to assign masters for past dates.
  • Share indicators now appear for students before submitting an answer
  • Cloud element Submit button now appears at all times, and becomes active once text is added to the element

August 19, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Drive integration: Exploros users who have subscriptions and sign in with Google can now add Google Drive attachments to discussion wall posts. Users should click the Add (+) button on the left side of the element, choose Google Drive, and then choose the desired file type and the specific file (docs, spreadsheets, presentation, PDF, images, video, draw). Once selected, the attachment will appear under the wall text field, similar to added images. Once posted, permissions are automatically added to the Drive attachment as follows:

  • Teachers receive edit permissions for all files.
  • Students receive view-only permission for teacher posts.
  • Students receive view-only permission for attachments posted by other students to a wall shared with group.
  • Students from the same small group receive edit permissions for their small group submissions, while students from other groups receive view-only permissions for it.

In case a class has a mix of Google and non-Google users, the non-Google users will see a placeholder with the file name of the attachment, and they will be notified that only Google users can open the file.

LDAP removal: This code change makes sign up, sign in, and password resets faster and more secure.

Response Dashboard improvements: A few changes were added to the Response Dashboard to improve usability:

  • Quiz response indicators now show the last student choice, regardless of the “Show responses” value; they will no longer display the number of attempts.
  • The Quiz response indicator pop-ups now show the quiz question number.

Bug Fixes

  • Students can now log in to the app even if their account is not associated with any class.
  • Previews now show correct answers for Drag and Drop and Fill In The Blanks.
  • Wall posts are now limited to 2,500 characters and truncated after 4 rows to improve Wall usability.

May 27, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Code cleanup: The code was updated to run faster and with less connectivity issues.

TEKS Details adjustments: Changes were made to the TEKS Details report in an effort to make it more accurate and aligned with the TEKS Summary report, the most noticeable of them:

  • Responses are now summed for the standard level instead of being average.
  • Fixes were made to the Students drop down list.
  • Dates were added to the Experiences Taught pop up, to help differentiate between several instances of the same experience

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes to the quiz resolved issues with notifications and premature quiz completion
  • The issue leading to elements appearing out of order at times was resolved
  • Fixes to the Students tab resolved issues with making changes to students in the experience including in Small groups
  • The issue that caused password issues when creating students using the Import feature was resolved as well as the issue that didn't allow to change passwords for these users from the Roster.

May 8, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Quiz results & avg responses on experience cards: Subscribed teachers and students will now be able to see the quiz result and responses on the experience cards of their ended experiences. Admins will also be able to view these tiles on experiences cards belonging to subscribed teachers.

Quiz results for students in assigned experiences: Students completing a quiz in a class of a subscribed teacher will now see their quiz score on the quiz panel immediately after they finish it.

Response dashboard for students in ended experiences: Students of subscribed teachers will see the response dashboard by default in their ended experiences.

Course based permissions: Certain features are now available only when teaching from a subscribed collection such as TEKS, Student Feedback, and Response Dashboard. The subscription pop up has been modified to accommodate both subscribed and non-subscribed users.

Bug Fixes

  • Users are no longer allowed to sign up using the domains gmail.com, yahoo.com, mail.com, outlook.com, icloud.com, inbox.com.
  • Fixes were made to the value in the taught experiences column of the TEKS Details reports and they now also include the end date of an experience, which helps differentiate between experiences if the same one was taught more than once. Also, the TEKS reports have been reconfigured to load faster across the board.
  • Google Sync text was changed to look better on iPad screens
  • Teachers can now use capital letters when using the Import feature in the class roster
  • Fixes to small groups now don't allow moving students from or to groups that made progress

April 12, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Sync Google Classroom Class: Google teachers can now sync their Exploros class with their Google Classroom in its current state, meaning students could be added or removed from the Exploros class. This is done by going to the class roster and clicking on Sync with Google Classroom.

Add OER Courses from the Experience List: Teachers can now add OER courses directly from their experience list without the need to log out. To do so, log in, select any class and open the experience list. Choose the Add OER Course to Library tab, scroll over the desired course and click Add OER Course to Library. Courses the teacher already has will have the text In Library on them.

Bug Fixes

  • Teachers can once again change students' small groups as long as both groups (the one moved from and the one moving to) have yet to progress in the experience
  • The issue that caused problems for some Chromebook users when trying to open the link of assignments posted to Google Classroom from the app has been resolved

April 4, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Post Assignments to Google Classroom: Teachers using Google Classroom can now post assignments directly to their Google Classes by checking the checkbox in step 3 of the assign flow. The posts include a link to the specific experience, or to the app's login page (depending on whether the student was connected to the app when clicking on the link).

Experience Card Images: All levels of all OER curricula now have experience card images, helping to differentiate the experiences appearing in the main screen.

Social Studies Collection: The level of the MS Social Studies and HS Social Studies collections was removed, and the curricula now appear in the following collections: World Cultures, Texas History, US History MS, US History HS, Civics MS.

Website Preview: All OER collection are now available for review in the website's Curriculum page. Users can drill down to the experience level and preview the first scene of the different experiences.

Bug Fixes

  • Notification error was added to students leaving the quiz

March 11, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Data adjustments: Query changes were introduced to improve the validity of quiz scores, number of participating students, progress, average responses and time on task values.

Performance optimization: system refactoring was done to improve all-around app performance

Bug Fixes

  • Editing issues with several elements (like Cloud, Draw, Choice and Poll) were resolved
  • Back button functionality was restored when assigning an experience
  • Student Feedback (Subscription feature) was fixed and now changes to its status update live
  • Navigation in experiences with Teacher Driven Navigation was fixed

February 6, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

EPS District License Management: A view for EPS admins that details the following license information: School (for district admins), Expiration date, Total, used, and available seats, Class name, Teacher name and License name.

Bug Fixes

  • The Draw tool malfunction has been resolved and now operates correctly
  • Clearer user notifications were added in case a user tries to sign up using an email of an existing account
  • The class creation pop up will no longer appear for admins
  • Roster screen clean ups

January 11, 2018

New Features and Enhancements

Class codes: To join a class students will now enter a class code, found in the class roster. The student will be added directly to that class' roster. The teacher has the option to lock a class so no further students can join, or generate a new class code. For further details, please review the following article in the help portal.

Class Roster revamp: The roster screens were redesigned for a more intuitive user experience. Students removed from a class will appear under All Your Other Students, where they can easily be added to any class or removed entirely from the teacher's account. The following improvements were also introduced to the different roster screens:

  • Counters were added to represent the number of students connected to a class and those who are not connected to that class
  • All columns are now sortable by clicking on the column header
  • Student thumbnails appear next to their names

Bug Fixes

  • Quiz skipped questions pop up now appears only when a student has clicked End Test and has skipped one or more questions
  • Quiz will be marked as completed only after the student clicks on End Test
  • A check mark will appear next to the correct answer when a teacher reviews a quiz

December 11, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Quiz: The new quiz replaces the previous Tao dependent system, and preforms faster, avoiding high volume performance issues. In addition, the following features were added:

  • Subscribed teachers will see graded response indicators for each question answered in their Response Dashboard live
  • Subscribed teachers will see the students quiz scores in their Response Dashboard view once students complete the quiz
  • Summary bars were added to the teacher view, displaying the students choices in assigned and ended experiences
  • Incorrect quiz heat map tiles now include an X help differentiate them for color blind users.
  • Students can see quiz scores in their ended experience Dashboard
  • Thumbnails of students who completed the quiz will appear over the Quiz panel

TEKS Enhancements: The following improvements were added to TEKS reports:

  • Admins can drill down to from the district/school level to the class level

October 16, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

TEKS Reports: Subscribers of the Texas Social Studies OER Curriculum now receive TEKS reports at the teacher, school, and district levels. The standards can be filtered by type: Readiness, Supporting, etc. The reports show the following metrics for each TEKS SE:

  • Average quiz item score
  • Average number of related responses
  • Number of breakouts within the SE addressed
  • Time spent on elements teaching the SE

Bug Fixes

  • Teachers can create groups with the same name for different classes.
  • When gates are open, data remains in unsubmitted Draw elements.
  • Student feedback status doesn’t change when experience scheduled.
  • Quiz performance issues addressed.

October 1, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Experience library opens to last location: Within an active session, the experience library now opens to the last active location (when locating an experience, previewing or assigning an experience, etc.). The list resets when the teacher logs out.

Bug Fixes

  • Unsubmitted data disappearing when teacher opens gates: The issue that caused student posts to disappear if they had not yet been submitted when the teacher opened a gate has been resolved.
  • Reading Groups saved: Reading group assignments are now “remembered” for reuse based on the most recent experience assigned per class.
  • Students not started/finished dashboard badges: Now update in real time whenever a student starts or completes the experience.
  • Class name updates: Class name now updates in real time when the teacher changes it in the Class Settings menu.

September 27, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Time On Experience in reports: A new metric has been added to display the time a student spent logged into an experience. The time is paused if a student logs out of the experience and resumed if the student returns to it. The time is final once the experience has ended.

  • Summary report: Time on experience displayed in the last column of the report
  • Progress report: Time on experience displayed in the metric drop-down menu. The background color for the metric in the progress report is gradated from white for 0 minutes to a strong yellow for 60 minutes.

Roster Screen Improvements:

  • Boxes are unchecked after the teacher selects students and chooses Add to Class
  • Success notification appears after adding or removing students from a class, and after removing students from All Students
  • Verification pop-up added before a teacher disconnects students from the teacher account
  • Student table now sortable by clicking on the column header

Bug Fixes

  • Texas OER curriculum: Special characters supported in TEKS text

September 5, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Class Archive: An enhancement for this premium feature, teachers can view archived classes in the Experience Summary Report and the Progress Report by activating “Show Archived Classes.” Archived classes are indicated in the report with a yellow A.

Bug Fixes

  • Regression fix: Response indicators update if an answer is changed.
  • Regression fix: The teacher is prompted to save a group when assigning an experience to a subset of students in a class.
  • Regression fix: The wall share settings do not change when the teacher submits a post.
  • Quiz scores are now the first metric displayed in Progress Reports.
  • Assigning small groups: If a group is empty during assigning, it will be removed instead of alerting the teacher.
  • Summary tiles in the Experience Summary Report no longer exceed the tile limits.
  • The teacher’s Account Settings now includes “Dr.” in the title prefixes.

August 28, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Standards (TEKS) Display on Experience Cards: A premium feature, currently for Texas Middle School Social Studies subscribers, displays the standards covered in the experience on each experience card in the Library and the Active/Ended lists.

  • Click the TEKS arrow to display the student expectations (SE) covered in the experience.
  • Click an SE to display its text and the specific breakouts taught in the experience.

Archive Classes: Teachers can archive a class, for example at the beginning of a new school year. Archiving a class:

  • Removes the class from the class roster list
  • Ends all active experiences for that class
  • Removes all ended experiences for that class from the Ended list, including for the students themselves
  • Optionally teachers can choose to remove the class students from the All Students list

Note that teachers and students can no longer preview any past work from this archived class.

New help portal for teachers: A new help portal, currently for teachers only, allows us to automate some of the help messages in our in-app chat.

Summary tiles for reports: A premium feature, summary tiles were added to the experience summary reports of all levels (district, school, teacher). The tiles show how many experiences were taught by how many teachers to how many students in how many schools generating how many responses.

Bug Fixes

  • Issue causing “connect to teacher” to fail was fixed.
  • Reading groups were removed from student experience cards.

August 8, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Standards Mapping: A premium feature for mapping experience elements to a pre-specified set of state learning standards. In the Authoring Tool, experience authors can select state, grade, subject, and specific standards at the experience level. Then the author can assign each element to a specific micro-standard.

In a September release, the standards covered by an experience will be visible to the teacher and the students. In a later release, there will also be a standards report showing student performance against the standards.

Time On Element: A premium feature for collecting data on how much time students spend on each element in an experience. In an upcoming release, the data will be presented in a premium report.

July 18, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Teacher All Classes Reports: A premium reporting feature for licensed products.

Wall Share Settings: Teachers can now change the share settings of an entire Wall element in an active experience, regardless of how it was set up initially. Teachers are prompted to confirm the change so that they do not accidentally make private posts visible to the entire class.

Quiz Requirement: A change was made in how the quiz requirement is calculated in order to save incomplete tests and to give a truer calculation for the average responses in reporting.

Bug Fixes

  • The missing images in experience Preview mode has been fixed.
  • Some backend updates should enable faster loading times for the app.
  • In the teacher’s Assign Students panel, if student names are truncated, a tool tip gives the full name.
  • Fill in the Blanks element now properly displays special characters.

June 29, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

School License Management View: A premium feature for licensed products.

Full-Screen Assignment Redesign: The experience assignment screen has been redesigned and now appears in a full-screen modal for a cleaner design and flow.

Ended Experiences: All ended experiences are now available to teachers (by clicking “Show more”) and students can see experiences from the past year.

Bug Fixes

  • Quiz Improvements: Multiple fixes to progress calculations and general performance
  • Horizontal scrolling was added to the Curriculum Reports, which allows the user to see all the experiences even when the unit contains many experiences.
  • The Print button is now hidden in all Ended experiences.
  • Choice element fixed to register answers as Partially Correct if they include additional answers other than the correct ones.

June 12, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Passage Differentiation, Phase II: Differentiated passages can now be authored for a pre-defined reading group. When the teacher assigns the experience, s/he assigns each student to the desired reading group. Reading groups are automatically given the relevant passage when clicking an in-scene or pack link.

Bug Fixes

  • Report results improvements
  • Old sessions were migrated to the new, lightweight sessions, which should improve performance.
  • Users logging in using the same device will no longer see the previous user's license views

May 15, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Passage Differentiation, Phase I: This feature enables multiple versions of a document to be assigned to a single link in a scene and the pack for the sake of differentiation (reading level, translations, jigsaw method, etc.).

Bug Fixes

  • Returning to Quiz questions: Users can now go back to previous quiz questions and change their responses (until the test in finished, at that point it will be locked).
  • Response indicators and small groups: Response indicators do not appear for small group members who haven't yet entered the experience. Once a student opens the experience, the progress and elements submitted by the group will update.
  • Sign up issues with email and gmail were resolved.

April 26, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Response Dashboard: This premium feature, available from the Teacher Dashboard, displays response indicators when students submit answers to interactive elements. Student Dashboards display just the individual student’s responses.
Indicator legend:

  • Gray - element is not assessed
  • Red with X - incorrect
  • Blue - partially correct
  • Green - correct

Clicking on response indicators shows a tooltip with the element’s name. If the element is assessed, a score appears next to it. When working with elements set for small groups, response indicators appear for all the students in the small group. With the addition of the Response dashboard, the Posts tab was removed from the Teacher Dashboard, and all the tabs were removed from the Student Dashboard, as they have become redundant.

Bug Fixes

  • Purchased masters clone update: The issue of teachers not receiving the latest version when cloning a purchased master has been resolved.
  • Last scene progress: The issues that caused the last scene to appear as completed even if it contained interactive elements that were not answered has been resolved.
  • Gate issues: Teacher gates are automatically opened in ended experiences.
  • Wall element text will line wrap in cases of a long string with no spaces.

April 19, 2017

Bug Fixes

  • Experiences unregistered progress: An issue with the way the average progress was calculated caused experiences not to move to the Ended tab once they were ended.
  • Experience card student badge: Properly display connected students and their progress in the experience.
  • All Classes reports tab: Display fixed.
  • Performance issues: In the past it took ~30 seconds for the next scene to unlock after the teacher opened the gate if the experience had a lot of gates/students. This issue is now resolved.

March 19, 2017

Bug Fixes

  • Progress fixes: Change in the way progress in the dashboards calculated. It is not based on requirements, but on the last input element that the student has submitted. In addition, the student will not get credits unless they have visited the scene.
  • Student Feedback fixes: The display of student feedback for assessed elements in non-assessed mode is now fixed for Choice, Drag and Drop Text, Drag and Drop Image and Fill In the Blank. Poll no longer counts as an assessed element.
  • Login fixes: Major cleanup in the way Exploros handles login.

March 1, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Teacher Experience Summary Report: This report shows at the class level the experiences taught, numbers of students, average responses, average test scores, etc., and is searchable and sortable.

Student Facing Feedback: This new premium feature allows the students to get immediate automated feedback when answering questions on the following elements: Choice, Drag-Drop (Image and Text), and Fill in the Blanks. If the answer is incorrect or partially correct, a notification appears and the student can retry. The teacher can enable/disable feedback at the experience level from the Dashboard.

Bug Fixes

  • All Classes: “All Experiences” was changed to “All Classes” throughout the app.
  • HTML-5 reading issues: Various text throughout the app was displaying syntax instead of formatted text.
  • Session timeout is now based on an activity service instead of cookies.
  • Tao tests can no longer be taken twice once completed.

January 31, 2017

New Features and Enhancements

Fill In the Blanks: A new element that enables students to type in a short-text answer on their own. The element can be configured for auto-assessment, hint displays, case sensitivity, and multiple correct answers.

Bug Fixes

  • Google integration fixes
  • Tao tests updates
  • Cloud words overlapping
  • Navigation issues
  • Updating some elements to read HTML 5 properly

December 22, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

New Reports:
  • School-Level Experience Summary These reports allow the school administrator to review all the curriculum-specific experiences that were taught in the school. The report can be filtered and sorted.
  • School-Level Social Studies Curriculum Reports: These reports display the school’s curriculum experiences divided by units, and show the progression in it by class. The report is color coded, where darker colors indicate a higher value, for a quick assessment. The report displays 4 layers of information: number of participating students, average responses per students, average percent completed, and average quiz score.

School Value is Read Only: Teachers can now select their school once and then the field will be locked, unless they signed up via token, in which case the school will be set automatically and they will not be able to change it.

Bug Fixes

  • Class creation pop up
  • Progress tab students state
  • UI/UX fixes

November 13, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

Product-specific Reports: For now, Teaching Summary and School Progress Reports

Bug Fixes

  • UI fixes in the new site
  • Google classroom import issues
  • performance issues.

October 20, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

School/District Administrator Dashboard: For now, only Exploros can configure a user as a school administrator.
  • By selecting a school from the left menu, the school administrator can see a school summary view, showing how many teachers are teaching how many experiences to how many students in the school.
  • The School Admin sees the data for all the teachers who have chosen the corresponding school in their account settings.

Teacher Summary Report for School Administrator:
  • This report is available from the School Admin's reports tab.
  • It shows a fully sortable table, detailing which experiences each teacher taught, when taught, to which class, and to how many students.
  • The administrator can click an experience in the table to the Ended experience for review.
The report also shows a graph of all the teachers in the school and how many experiences they have taught. Clicking a teacher's bar chart or name will filter the table to show that teacher's experiences.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the regression preventing a teacher from cloning a purchased master
  • Improvements in various user notifications, including new notifications and new information in existing notifications
  • Various fixes in the license administrator functionality

Septemeber 13, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

License Administration: Once someone is identified in the system as a License Admin, he or she has access to the following features:

  • License View, accessed from the left pane menu. The License Admin can see a summary of how many teachers are currently teaching how many licensed experiences to how many students. The Admin can also review all Ended licensed experiences.
  • Class Roster and License View, accessed from the license details. The Admin can see the seat count for the license and its expiration date. The main table lists all the licensed classes (including classes that were licensed in the past), the teacher associated with each class, the number of students in it, and its current license status. The columns can be sorted by clicking the column headers.

    The Admin can click a specific class to view the roster and to add or remove the license from the class.

  • Student CSV Import, accessed from the license details. The Admin can create multiple new classes associated with teachers under the same subscription plan, and populate them with new student accounts by filling out and uploading a formatted CSV file. Once the process is complete, the Admin can choose to send emails with the import details to all the teachers for whom classes were created.
  • License Pack and Reports. The Admin has access to the Pack and Reports associated with the license. These reports are not yet available.

Bug Fixes

Google Class Import:
  • Existing students are now correctly added to the teacher's All Students list upon import.
  • Multiple classes no longer appear for students if an existing class was imported again.
  • Existing classes are no longer displayed as available for import.
Other Fixes:
  • Various error notifications issues have been fixed.
  • Password Reset issues have been resolved.
  • Student “Connect to Teacher” issues have been resolved.
  • The teacher code and profile image now display properly.

August 14, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

  • Licensing: For publisher or Exploros subscription collections, licenses can now be assigned to specific users upon sign up using subscription tokens. Each subscription is associated with a plan (collection of masters visible only to licensed classes), a school, and a contact person. Each license has a limited number of seats and an expiration date. A license can be added to specific classes upon creation, import, or when editing class settings, and the seat count is updated per number of students on the roster of all the licensed classes using the same token. A licensed class can have a class-level pack.
  • Experience placeholder Assigned card: A placeholder experience card appears under the Assigned tab whenever a user is in the app and has no active experiences.
  • Student Management removed from the Authoring Tool: The student management functionality was moved to the app, so it has been removed from the Authoring Tool. This is one step on the roadmap to integrating the app and the Authoring Tool.
  • pivotEd Authoring: A new Authoring Tool URL was created specifically for pivotEd users (http://authoring-capstone.exploros.com). Licensed pivotEd users can create their own masters and push them to the pivotEd app, and they can clone and edit masters purchased from the pivotEd library.

Bug Fixes

  • Google Classroom import: Numerous bugs fixed.
  • Note in an assigned experience is no longer visible to the student; it is a private annotation for the teacher.

July 12, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

  • In-app student management allows teachers to manage their student roster from within the app. The feature includes:
    • Roster: Teachers can set up and edit class rosters, including multi-student add or remove from the class or from the All Students list (removing the link between the student and the teacher altogether). Teachers can also change student passwords from the roster.
    • Student Import: For cases where students do not have school-based email accounts, teachers can import a student roster by copying and pasting a list, adding the student information manually, or downloading a formatted CSV file and importing it once its filled. Exploros automatically creates the student accounts and adds them to the class.
    • SSO notification: Exploros has developed a Student Single Sign On Best Practices policy, available from the Student Import screen.

Bug Fixes

  • Session timeout: Erratic behavior has been resolved, now appearing much smoother and cleaner.
  • Graphic Organizer: Students can now edit their posts without a workaround.
  • User management in authoring tool: The student list is sortable; click the header of the desired sort key.
  • Profile image updates properly when signing in as a different user on a single device.
  • Teacher Note: Erroneous tool tip removed.
  • iPad, Safari, private mode: User can now log on to Exploros.

May 30, 2016

New Feature in Authoring Tool

Authoring tool now enables student management: class creation and editing, import new student accounts into classes.

May 23, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

  • Ended experiences that have no student work are now archived and do not appear in the Ended experiences list, in order to reduce clutter in the list.
  • Disconnection notifications have been improved across the app for various use cases, such as timeouts or multiple logins.
 

Bug Fixes

  • Horizontal rows of profile images: For elements such as the Graphic Organizer, when the number of students posting exceeds the space to display all profile images in a single row, the overflow profile images now properly align in a second row.
  • Drag-drop editing: Students can now do multiple edits without the element sticking.
  • Profile image display: Minor display bugs fixed so that the images display properly.

May 8, 2016

New Features and Enhancements

  • Account settings have been restructured for better organization and new features. There are now three tabs:
    • Profile for setting title (teachers only), name, and profile image
    • School (teacher only) to link account to school
    • Credentials for reviewing username and resetting password (for accounts not linked to Google)
  • The Settings menu now also displays the private teacher code and links to the Exploros Help and Updates page.
  • Class settings have new Grade and Subject attributes, which are also part of the class creation flow.
  • Lazy loading was added to Ended experiences. For teachers, 10 ended experiences display at a time, and for administrators 50 experiences display. Users can click the “Show more” button to load 10 additional experiences.
  • Experience cards in teacher view display a progress bar and a student counter showing the number of students who have entered the experience/number of invited students.
  • Default profile picture helps the teacher identify students with no profile picture. In this case, Exploros displays the first letters of the student’s first and last names against a background color.
  • Named thumbnails for interactive elements where the profile images for students who have submitted an answer appear along the top of the element (drag-drop, graphic organizer, draw) and the student name is not displayed alongside the profile image. Users can now click on any student thumbnail to display the student name below the thumbnail line. This helps users identify who posted the given response.
 

Bug Fixes

  • Authoring user management: Issues affecting student account import within the Authoring Tool have been fixed and substantial performance enhancements have been implemented.
  • The regression affecting the display of pack materials in legacy experiences has been fixed.
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