History of Product Updates
January 2024
We’ve updated our Administrator Reports to save administrators time and provide a more complete view across their district! In admin reports users can now:
View district-wide data in each report
Load reports almost instantly
Generate custom reports for specific date ranges and/or specific schools
December 2023
New features are available for videos, PhETs, TUVAs, and slide decks. Teachers can now drive engagement, promote collaboration, and scaffold learning for every student in EVERY assignment in Actively Learn by creating Teacher’s Guides, Extra Help summaries, and annotations. Students can also create notes, and share them with peers, in every assignment.
September 2023
Administrators can use the Emulate feature to log in as any teacher in their district (district admins only) or school. While emulating as a teacher, the administrator can see class- and student-level data and easily take actions the teacher can, such as adding a co-teacher to their class or assigning texts for students
July 2022
May 2022
Added alerts for delete actions in the Workspace
Improved printing layout of classification questions
April 2022
Added ability for teachers to see student drafts to questions in the grading panel.
Added the info icon on assignment tiles in the student view so students can also access an assignment's essential question, description, and other data at a quick glance.
March 2022
Added ability for teachers and students to move their notes within an assignment .
February 2022
Added new info icon on assignment tile in catalog to allow for a quick glance view of the assignments essential question, description, and other data.
January 2022
Updated the assign modal to allow for teachers to assign to individuals (Prime feature), set start and due dates, and select optional assignment settings.
Added Grade and Lexile level information to teaching ideas within all assignments.
December 2021
Updated lock/unlock feature to allow teachers to set start and due dates
Added support for multiple languages in closed captions on videos when available
November 2021
Updates to our search bar making it more prominent
Added support for teachers to export standards from assignments
Added support for administrators to export standards data
October 2021
Added translation support for all languages currently supported by Google Translate
Filter sidebar now supports filtering by assignment type
New Present Mode added making it easier than ever to share your screen without giving away answers.
Teachers can bulk lock and unlock the same assignment across multiple classes
September 2021
Added support to grant partial credit for questions that have more than one correct answer.
August 2021
July 2021
February 2021
Revamped student data page with more actionable recommendations
July 2020
June 2020
April 2020
Optimized navigation on mobile
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
Featured "New Deep Dive" articles on catalog main page
Optimized workspace for mobile
September 2019
Teachers can update their title and grade level under their profile section
Districts may request (via our support team) disabling Independent Reading Library
Students can now join Google classroom synced classes via a class code
Languages added to our translation feature
Telugu
Gujarati
Tamil
Igbo
Armenian
Georgian
Slovak
Malayalam
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
Lexile Levels have been added to text in our catalog
Sub-menus added to our catalog for an easier browsing experience
Updates made to Edmodo login process
April 2019
March 2019
Haitian and Creole languages added to our translation feature
New assignment type in our catalog: PhET simulator
New extra help feature: Add text summary
February 2019
January 2019
You can now split and assign HarperCollins text
Purchasing single lessons for We the People has been removed
Text published by Highlight now available for purchase by international users
Improvement to school and district admins signups using Clever
Check out our text pairings in our catalog
December 2018
Thai added to translation feature
Teacher can import their own videos!
Split longer free text by text sections
Teachers on the Actively Learn free plan can now integrate with Clever through the Clever Library
Admin report: Admins now able to view students' Proficiency by Standard across grade level or subject
Teaching ideas available to help teacher get started with our popular text
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
Bug fixes and product enhancements
New Jersey standards now available
August 2018
May 2018
March 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
Added Turkish and Greek to translation list
Implement videos added for "Activate Thinking" section in professional learning center
Filter by Depth of Knowledge and standards in question summary view
Admins can view last signed in date under manage users
August 2017
Folders have been added to Workspaces
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
State standards added for Texas, Virginia and Missouri
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) added
Teachers can reply to student notes in research texts
Added 2 more note categories for student research
Notification of updates made to text added from School/District Libraries, and ability to download updated versions to workspace
Ability to select multiple assignments when assigning to individuals
March 2017
Feb 2017
Track the number of student retries in the activity report
Hide text sections
Schedule lock and unlock periods for assignments
Timestamps on student revisions
January 2017
Create custom grading labels
Tie teachers to multiple buildings
Knowledge sets added to the catalog. Articles in each set include annotations and questions to help guide and activate student thinking.
December 2016
Display only model answers for your students by making changes to your reading settings
Questions can now be added at the beginning of the text
Merge multiple texts into a single assignment
Penguin Random House titles to the Actively Learn catalog
November 2016
You can now export the activity report to review your class' progress
Multiple Choice quiz questions are now randomized to prevent cheating
Quiz settings : reveal multiple choice answers, enable reading aids, etc.
Whiteout feature expanded to allow for whiteout of images
October 2016
Mobile-optimized experience: Actively Learn is now fully accessible on smartphones
Turn off text-to-speech from reading settings
Students can adjust the speed of text-to-speech , and change the voice of reader
Add directions to quizzes
September 2016
New Grading options , including the addition of a 5th grading option
Added the option to turn off the dictionary in reading settings
Option to add 2 standards per question
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
Questions can be weighted in an assignment.
You can filter on standards in the Catalog.
Improved label management to add and remove labels separately.
Note summary views now show note replies.
Add question rigor to reporting by including DoK Levels .
Replies to notes now visible in the 'Notes summary '.
Research labels now included under the student report section.
Clever students can now join classes that are not in Clever.
All Text Settings now apply to Google Docs.
Redirecting students now works for portions of the text students have not unlocked.
Teachers and students can print quizzes
Students now have one-click citations for their research texts.
Inclusion of a Professional Development Category.
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
New definitions from the Merriam Webster Learner's Dictionary.
Students can bring in their answers, highlights, and notes from Actively Learn into Google Docs with our Add-in
Students can collaborate with their peers while researching
Students can add Google Docs to Research
Teachers can now see what texts students are adding to Research
January 2016
December 2015
Additional languages available for translation - Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Latin, Vietnamese, Somali, Filipino, and Ukrainian.
All get on the same "page" by redirecting students to a specific line.
Collaboration across schools in a District - search for teachers by name
November 2015
Pin questions, to keep them at the bottom of your screen while you browse the text.
Improved smartphone experience - now supporting pinch & zoom.
Change Username from your profile - for those times emails change.
Assign to individual students
Student Research Report Tab - To see what texts students are importing
October 2015
Student Mode - now every teacher can read as a student!
Text translation - currently only English/Spanish (more languages coming soon!)
Improved iPad highlighting
New Collaborate menu in the Workspace
Updated grading look and feel
September 2015
Google Classroom improvements
School & District Admin dashboard updates
August 2015
July 2015
You can now manage more than one text at a time! (Assign to class, share, delete, etc)
Assignments can now have multiple labels to help with sorting & identification.
Students can now request a question be reset for them to re-attempt their answer.
New student portfolio to show growth over time through question responses
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
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