New Features:

• Gradebook: Export Option to a CSV or Excel
  • Teachers and Administrators can now export the Gradebook by class and in points or percentage view for their records in CSV or Excel format. 

• Grading Summary: Bulk Options for Updating Status, Final Score and Mark as Graded
  • While grading an assignment and viewing the Summary tab of the grading screens, teachers and administrators can manage the assignment in bulk by updating all student assignment statuses as submitted, unsubmitted, or graded.  The final score for all submitted submissions can be updated all at once too.  

• Reports: Item Analysis Report by Class
  • A new report option has been added to the GO platform!  Teachers and Administrators can run an Item Analysis Report by class and assignment to view an enhanced version of the Grading Summary tab.  

• On the teacher level, this report will display the teacher's average of all assignments of the exact same item that has been assigned and graded more than once (either to the same class or another class).  

• Administrator level of the report will display data at the district or school level (depending on the user's role) and the teacher for the class selected for the report.  

• My Content: Add New Questions, Copy Questions, and Edit Questions
  • Users can now create their own questions within the My Content feature of the GO platform using 6 different types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, Sequencing, Open Response, Spelling, and Drawing. 

• An addition to being able to create your own questions, users can also copy any question (of these 6 types) and edit to meet your classroom needs. 

• My Content: Collections
  • Creating a Collection allows users to publish and share custom created assessments and questions with other teachers and administrators.

•  New Student Assignment Tool: Assignment Notes
  • Students can use a new tool, Assignment Notes, in the right navigation bar while completing any assignment to add notes throughout their assignment.  

• This tool will allow students to refer to important details without having to return back to the previous page of the assignment and when the assignment is submitted teachers can view the student's notes.

Enhancements:

• New Assignments Tab for Teachers and Students
  • Improved for the 24-25 school year, GO has a new Assignments tab for both Teachers and Students. 
  • For Teachers and Administrators: The new view is similar to the Gradebook.  Assignments are displayed by class with the ability to filter by status and assignment type.  For each assignment card, users can edit, delete, open, and grade using the Summary, Grade, and Selected options. Users can also Assign New assessments such as Digital Student Books, Clickbooks, ExperTrack, Vocabulary Quizzes, or Custom Assessments.

• For Students: Assignments can be displayed for all classes or by single class and filtered by time period or status.

• Grading Screens: Identification of Questions Set to Not Grade
  • While creating an assignment, teachers can use the Advanced Grading Options to set a question to not grade. Teachers will be reminded of their assignment grading customizations on the Summary tab and the Selected Student tab of the Grading screens. 

• On the Summary tab, teachers will view the question number marked out at the top of the summary.  They will also see a red symbol in the individual cells for the the question as students complete their assignment. 

• On the Selected Student tab, teachers will view the Set to Not Grade label on individual questions while reviewing student submissions. 

• Grading Screens: Grading & Selected Student Tab - Location of Student Points and Comment Text box
  • The Student Points and Question/Assessment Comments text boxes have been moved to the top right of the Grading and Selected Student tab based on teacher feedback.  

• Scroll Bar Always Visible
  • While using a computer, to view a resource within the GO platform that requires scrolling users will see the scroll bar always present on the right and bottom as needed.   
• Student Assignment View: Student Hints 
  • If a question has a student hint added, students can now view those while completing their assignment. These are added in the Gallopade Curriculum in some Vocabulary Quizzes for spelling question types and can be added when teachers are creating their own questions within the My Content feature.

• Updated Details in the Assign Modal Information Pop-up
  • With new features available related to digital assignments within GO, we've updated the Information pop-up on the Assign Modal.  This pop-up walks through the Assign modal settings and shares important details for each field.  

• Recent Activity Widget: Improved Labels and Addition of View All Functionality
  • The description labels are once again hyperlinks for each activity within the GO platform displayed in this widget, they have also been improved to help users identify the correct location they would like to return to. 

• Also new for this school year, is the functionality of the View All option at the bottom left of the widget.  Selecting this button will take the user to the User Account Usage, displaying all activity for the user's account with color-coded online sessions, action completed, start/finish dates and times, and time spent totals. 

Bug Fixes:

Bug Fixes

• Answer Choices: Read Aloud and Translate Option Available 
  • For all answer choices, except Fill-In-The-Blank Dropdown question types, users can use the steps for select read aloud or translate within a resource to have the individual answer choice read aloud or translated.

• Internet Links Pop-Up Blocker Alert Added
  • For Internet Links that display outside of the GO Platform, users will now receive an alert in the middle of the screen that displays the next steps needed to access the resource.

• Notification Bug: Students Not Receiving Notifications Resolved
• Notification Bug: Mark as Read Option Issue Resolved
  • When viewing an announcement from the Notification feature of the GO platform, select the circle with a checkmark to mark the announcement as read and move the message from Inbox to the Read tab of the Notifications feature.

• When viewing an auto-displaying announcement, select the circle with a checkmark to mark the announcement as read and prevent from auto-displaying again.  (Then select the X to close out of the message.) 

• Spelling Question Type Scoring: Updated to 1 Point Per a Term

• My Content: Add New Assessment- Step 3 Clear All Filter
  • While creating a custom assessment in the My Content feature, users may want to use various filters on the left side of the screen in Step 3.  Previously, selecting the Clear all Filter would erase the questions selected and not the filters used.  This has been corrected and now only applies to the filters on the left.

• Various Issues Resolved That Were Experienced by iPad Users
  • Screen display of the GO Platform is now more responsive based on screen size.
  • Completing assignments with drag and drop types of questions is now easier for all users.  
  • The navigation tools for multi-page Interactive types of assignments, will be located at the top for users on a tablet or touchscreen device. 
  • Full Screen Option is now available for Teachers