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Social Preview: We've introduced a new feature that includes example answers within the preview for each of the social elements. Now, teachers can visualize how the experience will appear in the live classroom. This data is AI-generated using insights from Exploros' past data and is presented to the teacher following a review process.
Preventing Student Name Changes: To enhance consistency and streamline classroom management, we've implemented a restriction preventing students from changing their names and usernames if they were imported from a Learning Management System (LMS). This ensures that imported student data remains intact and aligned with LMS records.
Preview Mode Enhancement: To improve user experience and prevent unintended actions, we have disabled element submissions and the edit button rollover in preview mode. This ensures that users can review content without accidentally making changes.
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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.
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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.
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Class Level Pack Videos: We added the embedded videos per experience to the class level pack.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Schoology Integration: We now support Schoology!
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.
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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.
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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.
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Home School: We now support home schools, with the creation of new schools and users, and sign up using a homeschool token.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hide\show Teacher Notes: Teachers can now hide the teacher notes when projecting the learning experience.
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iSPIRE and WordlyWise i3000 Progress reports – Export to CSV: Teachers and administrators can now export program progress reports to a CSV file.
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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.
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Ability to link existing classes to Canvas: Canvas users can now link their existing Exploros classes to their Canvas classes.
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Canvas Integration: We are now supporting Canvas!
Google Assignmnets: Any new assignment that will be assigned to a Google class will be visible in Google Classroom
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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:
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User Trials and Bundles: Any new user receives a trial period for a selected bundle based on subject and user state.
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.
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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 .
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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
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Realtime communication update: Realtime messaging has been updated to the latest technological stack for faster communication at scale.
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