August 29, 2023 Release Highlights

August 29, 2023 Release Highlights

August 29, 2023 Release Highlights

We will be releasing new features between 2- 5 AM on the morning of August 29, 2023.

Customer-focused features:

  1. Teachers - Course Search Standards tab - The list of standards is now better presented; it defaults to alphabetical order when there are more than one set of standards based on the courses assigned to a class.



  1. Teachers - Made Rubrics more compatible with Unscored items - no longer implies teacher should give an unscored item a score (the scoring field is now suppressed on unscored items)



Even though we’re not asking teachers to score many open-ended items/student writing, we are providing the STAAR rubric as a reference for teachers so they understand how they are scored in STAAR.




  1. Students - New double sided ruler (imperial and metric) now available as Lesson Tool




  1. Student Experience: Text to Speech is now disabled in Assessment/Test Mode passages on the left side of split screen (Like STAAR), though the right side will allow Text to Speech.
Note: For activities that allow the teacher to flip from practice to test mode, the passage text will not have Text to Speech when assigned as a test. When assigned as practice, the ability to use Text to Speech will be available as long as they are designed in the Accommodations Designated Supports and UDL settings.