February 2022 Release Notes
What's New?
"GO TO COURSE" BUTTONS FOR QUICK NAV
REASSIGN FUNCTIONALITY ADDED TO GRADEBOOK
STUDENT GROUPING FEATURE ADDED
"GO TO COURSE" BUTTONS FOR QUICK NAV
We've updated the Gradebook’s functionality to include “Go To Course” buttons that allow a teacher to quickly navigate to the location within the course where an assignment sits.
- From an Assignment card, click Gradebook.
- You are now at the Gradebook Summary screen for that particular assignment, which includes the new Go To Course button.
- Clicking Go To Course brings you to the location within the course for the selected assignment.
Note: You can use the breadcrumb navigation pathway to quickly identify where the assignment sits inside the course (e.g., Module and Topic).
- Alternatively, you could click All Assignments from the Gradebook Summary screen for an assignment.
- You are now viewing the All Assignments screen that includes the new Go To Course button.
- Clicking Go To Course from the All Assignments screen will also bring you to the location within the course for the selected assignment.
Note: Again, you can use the breadcrumb navigation pathway to quickly identify where the assignment sits inside the course.
REASSIGN FUNCTIONALITY ADDED TO GRADEBOOK
We've updated the Gradebook’s functionality to include the ability to reassign an assignment to an individual or groups of students.
- From an Assignment card, click Gradebook.
- You are now at the Gradebook Summary screen for that particular assignment.
To access the Reassign Assignment feature for an individual student, hover over the Submitted date within a row for a particular student to bring up the Unsubmit/Reassign Assignment popup.
- Click Reassign.
- You are now viewing the Assign popup window, with the individual student already selected (e.g., Demo Student G6 01).
You will need to set the Date Range, adjust the Reports & Grading toggles, and add any Student Instructions. Then, click Assign.
Note: You have just created a brand new assignment for the selected student, which will appear on the Assignments dashboard.
- Alternatively, you can reassign an assignment to multiple students.
From the Gradebook Summary screen for an assignment, click All Assignments.
- You are now viewing the All Assignments screen.
- Select the students that you would like to Reassign the assignment to using the checkboxes on the left-hand side.
Note: By selecting students, the Assign and Bulk Update buttons on the right-hand side become active.
- Click Assign.
- You are now viewing the Assign popup window, with the selected students already chosen (e.g., Demo Student G6 01 AND Demo Student G6 02).
You will need to set the Date Range, adjust the Reports & Grading toggles, and add any Student Instructions. Then, click Assign.
Note: You have just created a brand new assignment for each of the selected students, which will appear on the Assignments dashboard.
STUDENT GROUPING FEATURE ADDED
We've updated Classes to include the ability to place students into custom-named groups and then assign lesson materials to those groups.
- From a Class card, click Groups.
- You are now at the Groups screen for that particular class.
Note: On the Groups screen, you are brought to the Active tab that will display any groups that are currently set up. The Archived tab will house any groups that have been archived (saved), but not permanently deleted.
- To add a custom-named group of students, click + Add Groups.
- You are now viewing the Add Group popup window.
To create your custom-named group, enter a unique Group Name, select the students to be included in the group, and if desired, add a Group Description. Then, click Add Group.
- After adding the group, you are brought back to the Groups screen where you will now see your custom-named group added to the Active tab.
Note: You will see ALL students in your class listed. Under the custom-named group column, the
symbol will indicate which students are a part of that group. Students that are not part of the group will remain blank in the custom-named group column.
If needed, you can filter by clicking on the group name and this will sort your students so those in the group appear together.
- Once you have created your custom-named groups, you can now assign lesson materials to those groups.
Navigate to the lesson material you wish to assign. Then, click Assign.
- You are viewing the Assign popup window, with Groups now appearing in the Assign To: section.
- By selecting Groups, an expanded list will appear showing any and all custom-named groups that you have set up.
Note: To see which students are assigned to a particular group, you can hover over the group name and a popup will appear listing each of the students in the group.
- Select the group(s) for which you want to assign the lesson material. Then, set the Date Range, adjust the Reports & Grading toggles, and add any Student Instructions. Finally, click Assign.
Note: You have just created an assignment for the students in your custom-named group.
- From the Assignments dashboard, and on the Assignment card, you will now see the Group: indicator along with a numbered link.
Hovering over the numbered link, you can see the custom-named group(s) the lesson material was assigned to along with a list of the students in the group.
- Additionally, you can now Filter By Group in the Assigned To section on the Assignments dashboard to quickly find all lesson materials assigned to a particular group.
Note: When you select Group, an expanded list will appear showing any and all active custom-named groups that have been set up for the class. You would then select the group(s) whose assigned lesson materials you would like to review.
symbol will indicate which students are a part of that group. Students that are not part of the group will remain blank in the custom-named group column.
