With Spring 2022 in full swing, we have been busy making sure Roster and Aeries grade sync has been smooth. If you encountered any issues with grades not syncing, please feel free to reach out!
Here are the latest features now live in eKadence.
Teacher Experience
Discussions/Assignments/Assessments
- Discussions - Added "loading" animation/effect when uploading video/audio
- Assessments - Removed the "Allow student to unsubmit after due date" option for assessments
- Assessments - Allow students to retake regardless of "Mark grading completed" status
- Settings - Clear Submission Cutoff Time when saving as Offline submission type
- Settings - Improved UI to Assign to individual students
- Google Drive - Recover files that are in use
- Multiple Choice Questions - Added ability to lock answer choice on per-choice level
- Matching Questions - Improved logic with matching questions and answers
- Polls - Added Download data option for poll questions
Modules
- Allow setting the color for activity icons
- Improved dragging of items in modules
- Link previous grading term - Relabel to show the grading term name
- Link previous grading term - Collapse previous grading term class folders
- Breadcrumbs - When going back to Modules, jump directly to that activity's location in Modules
- Recycle Bin - Improved restoring deleted folders
Grading
- Gradebook - Add "Force submit all students" action for each activity
- Gradebook - Add activity title to Mass Changes popup
- Gradebook - Allow selecting by students with or without scores in Mass Changes for grade-only activities
- Gradebook - Show 'actual' score in the cell not grading floor adjusted score
- Quickgrader - Next/Prev button updated
- Rubric - Update max score when rubric scores change
- Rubric - Allow overriding max score of rubrics
- Submissions - Some UI elements should not be visible for non-graded activities
- Let grading completed flag take effect faster in UI
- Changing due date only will push changed due date to Aeries
- Allow Formative grading - Aeries integration
- Add Formative/Summative percentage support
- Student grade comments will email the teacher
Announcements
- Viewed/progress meter should reflect only included students
- Improve previewing attached files
Class Settings
- Add "class card" image setting
- Class Card Image will no longer decrease resolution
- Add banner gallery support for class card image setting
Misc
- Dashboard - Add refresh button
- Dashboard - Add settings icon for class cards
- Groups - Restore deleted group - Better handling for no-owner scenario - Assign new owner
- Resources - Link to other activity support
- Resources - Shared with me - Viewer can see Instructions and Work/Questions tabs
- Conferences - can now invite outside classes
- Show max file size when uploading
- Add Download button for all student upload types
- Standardized "Co-Teacher" icon
- Import class CSV roster was super slow
- Add grade-only activity description field
Fixed issues
- Google Assignment - Fixed issue with linking to an existing Google Assignment
Student Experience
Dashboard
- To-Do widget showing upcoming work update
- Upcoming Conferences widget update
- Add settings icon for class cards
- Settings icon on class card floating over the top header fix
Modules
- Previous grading term leading to blank screen for student fix
- Previous grading term - Relabel to show the grading term name
- Previous grading term - Collapse previous grading term class folders
- Breadcrumbs - UI Fix and allow auto-scrolling to activity in modules
Activities
- Print assignment/assessment
- Activities - Student submission view update
- Offline Submission Activities - Action/navigation layout adjustments
- Assessments - Show update notification after student click retake button
- Assessments - Allow students to use retakes regardless of "Mark grading completed" status
- Assessments - Remove unsubmit button for assessment
- Assessments list - Separate the Current from Completed
- Discussions - Do not show confirmation when leaving after selecting "Save for later"
- Discussions - Add loading animation/effect when upload video/audio
Misc
- Notifications - Missing activity title fix
- Notifications - Prevent access to Attachment links that have been unpublished
- Announcements - Do not send email to inactive student
- Announcements - Do not display announcements in student portal for inactive classes
- Announcements - Improve previewing attached files
- Comment count indicator UI update
- Inactive students can access previous classes
- Show max file size when uploading
- Minor VPC UI label changes
- Automatic activity link redirect for relevant links
- BBB Conference playback - Show browser warning if we detect Safari
Parent Experience
- Allow changing email addresses