🆕 Enhancement releases
We've been busy! Here's a sneak peek at our February 2024 new features and improvements:
With Answer Choice Explanations, we doubled down on helping students to know what they did wrong when choosing a particular distractor. We always showed the student the "ACE" for the answer choice they selected but now we show all the "ACE" for the question if the teacher has chosen to return correct answers. This provides students with a way to review all distractors to better understand what might go wrong.
Video: Adjust Playback Speed
We added the option for teachers to adjust the playback speed of a video to play faster or slower. Additionally, students will be able to adjust the playback speed if the teacher allows.
Newsela-Formative Integration
Answer keys to activities are now being transferred into Formative along with the activities themselves when using the integration button within Newsela.
Select Topic for Class
In the new Assign Modal, users can select a topic for each of the classes without having to click into the separate class settings.
Standards Description in View Responses
Added a tooltip with standards description when teachers hover over standards title
Admin Access to Guest Submissions
Admins can access teachers' Guest Student submissions from the Teachers Report tab of the Admin Dashboard
🤖 Beta and Early Access Features Updates
The below features have been added to our list of future features teachers can opt-in to test with us:
Added button to ‘Expand All’ and ‘Collapse All’ to the new Formative editor
Users can see their latest performance in the start modal, and on the summary screen (as long as you've practiced the set at least once, and gotten more than 1 correct on your first attempt).
We updated the practice homepage by adding a "shelf" of common actions to speed up the creation process
We added the ability to remove a PDF after generating the questions
🛠️ Fixes
Every technological tool runs into hiccups here and there. If you run into any technical issues please submit a report to our team so we could go ahead and fix it!
Hide Student Name in Notifications
We released a small improvement that hides the name of the student in the notification if that Formative is set to not show student names.
🐞 Bugs
The below bugs were resolved throughout the month
Fixed issue where standards banner was not showing up for some users
Fix Moving Items Between Sections
Handle case where formative assessment start is in the future
Parse PDF corrupts "instructions" field
Fixed a small bug where we showed a needless overflow menu to students.
Fixed a bug that caused org admins to see every class when viewing Student Practice reporting
Fix close with new Assign Modal
Phrase- de (German) translations are appearing in English
Fixed issue where content type document unable to upload documents
Fix permission error with viewing formative results by standards and tags
Fix org invite accept flow join button regression
Fix Org Managers are unable to view orgs the team management page
Fixed a bug that was causing ACEs to show in teacher paced mode
Fixed a bug that was causing scrolling issues for students
Fixed a bug where students could skip questions even when prevent skip was enabled
Fixed behavior of bulk selection in the single question view of results summary
Fix duplicate orgs in Summary tab "Teams" filter
Fix SYW measurement tool dropdown