We’ve made some big improvements to the Classwize “Rules” interface and workflow. You can now edit existing rules!
Classwize now shows your students’ real names instead of their system username wherever possible, and student tiles now display alphabetically by first name.
We’ve added functionality in School Manager that lets us display improved tooltips and provide in-application help and tutorials. We also gave ourselves the ability to use School Manager and Classwize to alert you to incidents and upcoming maintenance.
Saving changes to a class in Classwize now gives you an indication that it’s working away in the background instead of leaving you wondering if it was doing anything.
We’ve improved performance by optimising the Chrome extension’s configuration and doing a lot of other behind-the-scenes work.
School Manager Administrators can manually authenticate users from within School Manager.
We’ve standardised the “Close” user interface element in Classwize and improved the look and wording of the “Focus Class” interface.
We’ve improved the look of the “Help” information panel in Classwize, and made it easier for School Manager Administrators to keep the information in it current.
We’ve continued work migrating School Manager and Classwize to the Google Cloud Platform to improve performance and stability.
Bug Fixes
We’re deploying a fix to make “Search Blocking” and “Red Flags” use the same set of keywords. We’re rolling this out over the next few weeks, so it may take a little while for this to show up for you.
The “Weekly Wellbeing Reports” sections are now populated with correct information. We promise.
We’ve fixed an issue where teachers were unable to add students to a local group in Classwize.
Class Titles in Classwize should now display correctly when there is only one class.
Classrooms with special characters in their Title can now be opened from within School Manager.
School Manager should correctly display the IP addresses associated with “School Manager device > Configuration > Networking > Interfaces”.
The School Manager Permissions table now shows the user-friendly name.
We’ve corrected the Pause Internet label and preview text for “Select Students” dropdown list.
We’ve fixed an issue where Classwize would make multiple login calls to Google/Azure authentication services when it didn’t need to.
School Manager now requires a valid MAC address when filtering by MAC address.
Classes in Classwize now end when their Group is deleted in School Manager.