New Features

ASSISTments - Teacher Experience

New Features

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QUICK Comments for assessing open response problems Using AI (Artificial Intelligence), we now offer all users three possible feedback options for students when scoring open response questions as well as a suggested score. Users can use the suggested feedback messages and score or enter their own. This feature is only available if the AI has enough information to make the recommendations. We hope that this will shorten the time it takes for teachers to give students feedback on the work that they turn in.

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Set a timer on an assignment Teachers can now set a timer on an assignment. For those times when you want to restrict the time students spend on an assignment. This is set via an assign time option. Time is in minutes.

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Fixed Issues

When searching by standard, list the standards for problems When using the Search by Standard feature in Find & Assign, each problem will now list the standard(s) that it addresses.

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When listing students in alphabetical order, always use last names When listing students in alphabetical order, we now use last names instead of first names

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Student assignment reports now show scores and feedback messages for open response problems  Student scores and feedback messages on open response type problems are now available to students as soon as you set them. You can give scores and feedback to students on their open response problems by clicking on the word Assess on any assignment report where there are problems that have not yet been scored or given feedback.

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Sorting on the average score on the assignment report places 100 correctly On the teacher's assignment report, you can sort the report on the average score - ascending & descending. Scores of 100 are now being placed correctly as being the highest.

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Teachers no longer see “NaN%“ score in the Average Score column If a teacher has assigned only open response problems in an assignment and they have not yet scored any of those, they now see no score on the assignment report.

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Unable to set a release and due date on the same day Previously if you attempted to have an assignment release and be due on the same day, it would give an error. This has been fixed and should no longer pose a problem.

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ASSISTments - Student Experience

New Features

Timed Assignments When a teacher selects Timed Assignments at assign-time, the student will be notified that it is a timed assignment when they open the assignment in ASSISTments. Students are notified at the start of the assignment that they are entering an assignment with a time limit on it. Once the time is completed, the assignment will end. At any time, the student can pause the assignment by leaving, and when they restart the assignment, their time will start from the paused time.

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Fixed Issue

Student assignment reports now show scores and feedback messages for open response problems Student scores and feedback messages on open response type problems are now available to students as soon as you set them. You can give scores and feedback to students on their open response problems by clicking on the word Assess on any assignment report where there are problems that have not yet been scored or given feedback.

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ASSISTments - Teacher Experience

New Features

• Ability to set delivery of scores to students: Teachers can now decide if students receive scores on their student assignment report or not. The default is that students will NOT see scores. Teachers can now go into their settings and set their desired default as well as decide at assign time (on the assign time pop-up) whether students gets scores on any given assignment.
• Import & Synchronize Added to the User Menu: Previously the Import and Synchronize functions were only available on the assign dialog. Now they can also be accessed directly from the user menu.
• Assign time Dialog now has 2 screens: In order to better organize and present options to teachers, the assign time dialog has been redesigned into 2 screens. This enables teachers to go back and forth between the screens to set all assign time options before making the assignment. This was done to allow for the growth in assign time options.

Fixed Issues

• Search By Standard now returns valid skill builders: When Searching By Standard in Find & Assign, the search would often return skill builders that did not match the standard. This has been repaired and now should only return skill builders that match the standard chosen.

Known Issues

• Student assignment reports do not show scores and feedback messages for open response problems: While teachers can score and write feedback messages for students on open response problems, ​​students will temporarily be unable to view their scores and your comments on open-response questions in their assignment report. Student scores and feedback messages are being saved and will be available to students as soon as we correct the issue. The assignment score will be properly impacted by any open response scoring that is done during this time.
• Sorting on the average score on the assignment report places 100 incorrectly: On the teacher's assignment report, you can sort the report on the average score - ascending & descending. Currently any scores of 100 are being placed incorrectly as being the lowest scores instead of the highest.
• Teachers see “NaN%“ score in the Average Score column: If a teacher has assigned only open response problems in an assignment and they have not yet scored any of those, they should see no score on the assignment report. Instead, the assignment report is showing "NaN%"

• Search By Standard does not list the standards on the returned problems: When you search by standard, you may notice that the standard is not shown on the problems that meet the standard. Some problems may even have the word "Standards" with nothing listed next to it.

ASSISTments - Student Experience

New Features

• Assignment Report: Symbols of Success: The student assignment report will only show symbols of success as the outcome of the problem. Symbols of Success are: the green checkmark is correct on the first try, the orange checkmark is correct eventually, the gray checkmark is submitted but not graded, and the magenta exclamation mark is asked for the answer
• Progress Panel: Symbols of Success: The Progress Panel on the left side of the screen will no longer show scores of the individual problems, but the Symbols of Success for the individual problem. Symbols of Success are: the green checkmark is correct on the first try, the orange checkmark is correct eventually, the gray checkmark is submitted but not graded, and the magenta exclamation mark is asked for the answer.
• Problem Number: The students will see a problem number instead of the problem ID at the top of the problem card when they are in an assignment.
• Assignment Navigation: Students can go back to see previous problems in Linear, Random, and Student Choice assignment types. When they navigate back, they can review supports and Show Answer without it changing the score of the problem when it was submitted.
• Show Answer for Multiple Choice Problems: Multiple Choice problem types will now have a Show Answer button
• Updated Accessibility Colors: The Student Experience now has updated accessibility colors are part of the design.

Known Issues

• Student assignment reports do not show scores and feedback messages for open response problems copy: While teachers can score and write feedback messages for students on open response problems, ​​students will temporarily be unable to view their scores and your comments on open-response questions in their assignment report. Student scores and feedback messages are being saved and will be available to students as soon as we correct the issue. The assignment score will be properly impacted by any open response scoring that is done during this time.

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‍E-TRIALS

New Features

• Deploy Page Updated to Preview Page: For Support Comparison and Single Support studies, the Deploy Page (the last step in the study workflow) has changed to the Preview Page. From this page, you will be able to preview the selected problem set(s) and the authored supports on one page. Using the triple dot, you'll be able to preview the problem set and problems as a student. You will also be able to deploy the study or convert it back to a draft, just as you currently do on the Deploy Page.

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New Features

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ASSISTments Teacher

• Student Support Authoring: Teacher Can Reorder Hints on a Problem: If a teacher creates more than one hint for a problem, those hints can now be reordered with the use of drag handles when editing student supports.
• Reporting on “Chat with a Tutor” Button Use: Both the detailed assignment report and the detailed assignment pull out contain an indication when a student has clicked on the “Chat with a Tutor” button.
• Student Details Rows for “Show Answer” & “Explanation” are Now Red: More color gradations have been added to the student details report so that a student's actions are more easily understood.
• One Click to app.assistments.org: We have enabled clicking on the "A" or word ASSISTments in our logo in the left hand corner of the teacher experience to take you to your homepage in app.assistments.org. Previously, there was no action when a user clicked there.

E-TRIALS Platform

• Build Page: Navigation Update: The Build page in the Single Support and Support Comparison studies has been updated. The left navigation now highlights the whole pathway from the problem set to the problem part.
• Only Show Available Problem Sets in the Table: When in the Support Comparison Study, if you select Browse Problem Sets, the Problem Set Table now allows the user to Only Show Available problem sets.
• Single Support Study: Conditions Page: The Conditions Page in the Single Support Study has a new look. We updated the page to simplify the study build process.
• Support Comparison Study Allows Custom Problem Sets: When building a Support Comparison Study, you can now use a custom-built problem set. On the Conditions page, use the Add Problem Set by ID to enter the customer problem set. Note: If using a custom-built problem set, you will need to recruit your own teachers for the study.

Fixed Issues

ASSISTments Teacher

• Assignment Report: % Sign Added to the % Score Column: We realized that our % score column on the teacher's assignment report was missing the % symbol and so we added it back.
• Skill Builder Report was Missing Features & Functionality: The skill builder assignment report was missing the triple dot menu that allows users to access the actions of uploading the scores or saving them as a CSV.
• Instructional Recommendations were not showing up when they were available. This has been corrected.
• Users were Unable to Unset the Anonymize Reports Feature: It was not possible to unset the user setting that anonymizes student names. Users had to turn on the names on each report when they looked at them. Teachers can now unset that user setting.

Known Issues Currently In-Progress

E-TRIALS Platform

• Study Workflow Update: The first step in any study workflow has been renamed to Overview.
• Status Language Updated: When a study has not been submitted for deployment, the status is now Developing. Previously, the status was called Draft.

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New Features

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ASSISTments Advantage

• Completeness Indicator: We have added a column that visually indicates doneness to the assignment report. The symbol shows the % of the assignment that the student has completed. This column can be used to sort students in ascending or descending % of completion.
• In Find & Assign, all problems are now tagged with the Common Core Standard Skill Codes that it addresses.
• Open Response Grading Page: This has been updated to ensure teachers will see the main problem as well as their students’ responses to Open Response Questions.

ASSISTments Advantage

• In Insights Hub, the year selected and for which the data in Insights Hub is reflecting, is now displayed at the top of the Insights Hub screens.

E-TRIALS Platform

• New User Onboarding: When a new user creates an account, they now have the option to complete their user profile
• Mix and Match: When a teacher creates a Mix and Match assignment with a problem set that is used in an experiment, the students will still be put into a condition of the experiment.
• Confirm Switch Supports: Researchers on the Build Page will be notified that switching from support types (from hints to explanation or vice versa) will delete the previously written support, and they will be asked to confirm the switch.
• Build Page will show answers: Researchers will now be able to see the answers for the problem they are working on. If the problem type is multiple choice, ordering, or select all, the researcher will see all of the answer options as well.
• Show Answer for Hints: When a researcher is on the Build Page and they are writing hints as their student supports, they will now see the Show Answer option after the hints they author. This is to indicate that students that receive hints at their student support(s) will have a Show Answer button as an option once they have seen all of the hints.

Fixed Issues

ASSISTments Teacher

• When editing a problem set in My Problem Sets and you have problems selected, you can now delete if you select the action Delete Problem.  
• When a student leaves a Google Classroom, teachers can now use the Synchronize feature and students will be removed from ASSISTments assignments.
• When setting a release date of today, you will no longer get an error message.

Known Issues Currently In-Progress

ASSISTments Teacher

• For Canvas teachers only, if you delete an assignment in Canvas, you will not be able to then delete the corresponding assignment in ASSISTments. To avoid this, delete assignments through ASSISTments - this will ensure that the assignment is deleted from BOTH Canvas and the My Assignments listing in ASSISTments.

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New Features and Fixed Issues:‍

New Features

ASSISTments‍

• Teachers can now add hints to a problem: When viewing problems in Find & Assign, teachers can select Edit Student Supports and add a set of hints or an explanation to any problem that is not an open response. The hints or explanation will be made available to students when they are working on that problem. Teachers can see how these will work by using Preview as a Student.

• Teacher can now add an explanation to a problem: When viewing problems in Find & Assign, teachers can select Edit Student Supports and add a set of hints or an explanation to any problem that is not an open response. The hints or explanation will be made available to students when they are working on that problem. Teachers can see how these will work by using Preview as a Student.

• In-product help now available: The Help Center allows users quick access to guided tours, all User Resources & FAQs, webinar schedule, as well as the ability to email support. Click the Help icon in the upper right-hand corner.

E-TRIALS Platform

• Problem Set Table Update: Users will now see the number of Open Response problems with a problem set on the Problem Set Table
• Default Study for All Users The Single Support Study will be the only study available for all users until they update their settings in the Settings page to add all studies
• Profile Settings Page The Profile Setting Page allows users to provide more information about themselves and update settings to have access to all study types

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Fixed Issues

‍ASSISTments

• Progress reset of student now refreshes view: When a teacher deletes a student's progress, the assignment report now refreshes the report to show that the student has had their progress deleted.

‍Known Issues Currently In-Progress

ASSISTments

• When viewing problems in a problem set in My Problem Sets, you cannot delete problems from problem sets when they are selected (check box checked). If the problem is unselected, it can then be deleted.
• In My Problem Sets, if you have a problem set with only one problem in it, you will be unable to delete the final problem. In order to remove the problem set, select Delete Problem Set in My Problem Sets.
• When attempting to set a release date of today, you will get an error message, although it will allow the release of the assignment despite the error message.
• For Canvas teachers only, if you delete an assignment in Canvas, you will not be able to then delete the corresponding assignment in ASSISTments. To avoid this, delete assignments through ASSISTments - this will ensure that the assignment is deleted from BOTH Canvas and the My Assignments listing in ASSISTments.
• When a student leaves a Google Classroom, they are not being removed from ASSISTments assignments.

Insights Hub

• Safari does not display the Achievement tab correctly: When using Safari, the names of the assessments on the graph at the top of the Achievement tab overlap.
• Loading data can take up to 10 seconds: If there are more than 10 teachers in your Insights Hub, it can take  up to 10 seconds to load the data.

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The following are new features and fixed issues added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

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My Problem Sets

• Problem sets are now ordered with the most recently created at the top

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Reports & Data

• We now report out the number of days late a student is on the assignment report

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Known issues we are currently working on:

• If a student is removed from a class in Google Classroom, they may continue to show up on assignment reports despite synchronizing classes.
• Deleting problems from problem sets does not work if the problem is selected. In order to remove a problem from a problem set, make sure it is not selected.

The following are new features added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

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My Assignments

• After editing an assignment’s information, ASSISTments will automatically update the view for the teacher. Refreshing the page is no longer necessary
• When navigating back from an assignment using the links at the top of the assignment report, ASSISTments will maintain all filters and sorting preferences
• When using the link at the top of the assignment report to get back to a place in the hierarchy of content, ASSISTments will now automatically go to that place in the hierarchy and have it open for users to see

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My Problem Sets

• Edit Problem Set Details now allows the name of the problem set to be modified

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Reports & Data

• Open Response editor has been upgraded to more easily allow students to:

          - Correct on the first try

          - Correct on some other try than the first

          - Incorrect because the student saw the answer

The following are new features added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

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Find & Assign

• When the release date is not valid for an assignment being made, a more useful error message will help teachers know what to fix to allow the assignment to be made.

Reports & Data

• On the assignment report, at the top of the report, when there is no Common Wrong Answer for the problem, the table entry will be left  blank instead of using “NA”.
• The information pop-up that explains the scoring on the assignment report has updated text to better explain a red zero.

The following are new features added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

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Find & Assign

• A new filter, “Released State Tests” is now available within search by skill results. You will now be able to quickly identify any problems from released state test questions directly in the results of the search.

Reports & Data

• Fixed an issue that was not allowing the hiding of student names in the standard view of the Assignment Report. 
• Fixed an issue that the Skill Builder report that was not sorting the report correctly.
• Fixed an issue where filtering on the status in My Assignments was not working correctly for Released Items. (Assignments in this status will now be correctly shown as having that status.)
• Fixed the Search By Standard, which was not always refreshing to newly selected search criteria.
• Fixed the issue where the student details was reporting actions in the wrong order.

The following are new features added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

Find & Assign

• Assessments for ENY and IM have been reorganized to be listed by module with the rest of the problems that can be assigned. (early March)
  

My Problem Sets

• Fixed an issue when creating a new problem set, that you can lose the focus to the new problem set name and it can be difficult to keep the focus.
  

Reports & Data

• Fixed an issue with student submitted work being too small to see when scoring and giving feedback on open response problems. The work is now clickable and will pop-up large for the teacher to see the work clearly. 
• Fixed an issue where the date was not appearing on the student details report.
• Fixed an issue where when scrolling through different student details, the students were not presenting in the order they were in on the assignment report. 
• Fixed an issue where the scoring and feedback page for open response problems was not alphabetizing students by last name. 
• Fixed an issue with student answers that had been created using the math editor (WIRIS) were not being reported visually correctly on the scoring & feedback page for open response problems. 
• Fixed an issue where hiding Student Names on the assignment report were not mixing up the students so that it was possible for students to figure out who was who

The following are new features added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

Find & Assign

• Assign to a subset of a class(es) - Teachers can now choose which students to assign an assignment to through the assign pop-up window. The assignment report will then reflect this by reporting only on those to whom it was assigned.
  

Reports & Data

• The Student Details report (which you get to be selecting a student’s name in the assignment report) has been updated to the new look and feel of ASSISTments.
• The Open Response Scoring report (also known as essay scoring) has been updated to the new look and feel of ASSISTments
• The Skill Builder Report now enables teachers to delete student progress and the row will turn green when a student has completed the skill builder successfully.
  

Known issues we are currently working on:

• When you Hide Student Names on the assignment report, it is not randomizing the students, making it easier to identify students on the report.
• Sometimes you have to refresh the page in ASSISTments to see all of your assignments correctly.

The following are new features added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

General

• Improvements have been made to increase the speed of rendering the results of a search, showing the list of assignments, and showing the list of My Problem Sets
  

Reports & Data

• The Skillbuilder report has been updated to reflect the new look and feel of ASSISTments
  

The following are new features added in this months’ ASSISTments update:

My Assignments

• Delete Assignment is now available. Teachers can now delete assignments.
• All assignments are now visible for a class regardless of who assigned them.
  

Reports/Data

• Assignments in Test Mode will only have Green/Red colored score chips on the Assignment Report to indicate Correct/Incorrect. Open response problems, scores will be colored green for a score of 4, red for a score of 0 and orange for all others scores in between.
• Teachers now have access to the assignment report when no student has yet started it

Student Experience

• Open Response editor has been upgraded to more easily allow students to:

          - Take a picture

           - Submit a file

           - Draw their answer

Welcome to the Fresh New Look of ASSISTments!

The following is the functionality that has been added to ASSISTments in the Fresh New Look:

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General

• The new look keeps a teacher-user in the same window and has been redesigned to be easier to use
  

Find & Assign

• Content for Open Education Resources (OER) is now organized by lesson
• Search by keyword or common core standard
       -  You can then go to the problem set from the results of a search
• New assign-time options:
       -  Test Mode
       -  Problem Order
  

My Assignments - new view that allows teacher-users to:

• See all of the assignments that they have made
• Filter assignments by class or status
• Sort assignments by release or due date
• View all assignment details, including:
     -  The number of problems in the assignment
     -  Release date of assignment
     -  Due date of assignment
     -  Standards addressed in the assignment
• View the assignment (or skill builder) report
• Edit the assignment name or due date & release date (if they have not already passed)
• Reassign an assignment
• Preview an assignment as a student
  

My Problems - new view that allows teacher-users to:

• Create problem sets from any combination of ASSISTments content
• Add & Delete problems from a problem set
• Duplicate & Delete problem sets
• Reorder the problems in a problem set
• Assign a problem set to your classes
  

Reports & Data

• The assignment report has been upgraded to be more user-friendly and to show more information for teachers
• There is now a standards view to the assignment report
• Scores can now be uploaded directly to Google Classroom and Canvas from any assignment or skill builder report
  

Settings are now available for:

• Account information
• Preferences
• Feature Settings

For those of you have been using the beta, the following are the incremental new features that were added in this latest release:

General

• We are now collecting user information on new users when they Sign Up
       -  School
       -  Grades
       -  Curricula
• User information can be set for all in Settings
  

Find & Assign

• Assign Time Options - Test Mode can now be added to any assignment
• You can now go to the complete Problem Set from a problem found in search results

My Assignments

• Fixed an issue causing there to be unnamed assignments
  

Reports & Data

• Instructional Recommendations now being delivered for problems where they exist as part of the assignment report for 7th grade Illustrative Math, OpenUp, and EngageNY
• All users will now see the updated assignment report
• Static columns in the assignment report (not problems) are now sortable
• Standard View now has a row to show how many problems relate to that standard in the given assignment

In this release, all of these features from the initial beta are also available.

The following are the new features that were added in this release.

As the beta progresses, we will be adding new features.

We will alert you to changes as they are made available to you

General

• Logout now works
• Settings page now exists and can be used to set:
       -  Account Settings
                 -  User Name
                 -  First Name
                 -  Last Name
                 -  Display Name
       -  Preferences
                -  Time Zone
                -  Anonymize assignment report when opening as default
       -  Feature Settings
                 -  Student Supports
  

Reports & Data

• Updated Assignment Report
• Delete Student Progress is now working

The following are the new features that were added in this release.

As the beta progresses, we will be adding new features. We will alert you to changes as they are made available to you

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My Problem Sets

• Fixed an issue where teachers were seeing problem sets that they had not created in My Problem Sets
  

Student Experience

• Student supports have been turned on for 6-8 middle school open educational resources, so students will have exposure to hints and explanations. For more information on this, click here.
  

The following are the new features that were added in this release.‍

As the beta progresses, we will be adding new features. We will alert you to changes as they are made available to you.

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General

• Redesigned UI using a new framework - VUE
  

Find & Assign

• Finding problems in the content library is now done in one screen
• In the Open Educational Resources, many curricula are now broken out by lesson
• Can now search by common core standard for problems & skill builders
• Assign time options now include Problem Order selection with 3 possible settings - Linear, Random & Student Choice
  

My Problem Sets

• Create your own problem sets from all ASSISTments content
• Add & remove problems to/from a problem set
• Modify problems sets (name & order of problems)
• Assign problem sets
• Duplicate problem sets
• Delete problems sets
• See the Student Preview of a problem set
• Sort problem sets alphabetically by their name
  

My Assignments

• View a complete list of assignments
• Filter assignments by class
• Filter assignments by status
• Sort assignments by due date & release date
• View assignment details
• View the assignment or skill builder report for an assignment
• See the Student Preview of an assignment
  

Reports & Data

• There are no new or revamped reports for this release.
  

Student Experience

• Student supports have been turned on for 6-8 middle school open educational resources, so students will have exposure to hints and explanations. For more information on this, click here.