Folders Available in My Problem Sets: We have added folders in My Problem Sets so that users can create them to organize the problem sets that they create.
Assign parts of multi-part problems: Users can now choose which parts of a multi-part problem that they want to assign or save to My Problem Sets for future use. Please note that users should be sure that the parts assigned have all the information students need to successfully answer the problem. For example, Part A of many multi-part problems is almost always needed for the context of the problem.
My Problem Sets can be organized with drag & drop: With the addition of folders to My Problem Sets, items now have drag handles and can be moved around the folders with those and with the option of Move To. Because of the addition of drag handles, the sorting options that were available in My Problem Sets have been removed.
Import 1.0 content: Users can now import any content built in the 1.0 version of the product so that it can be assigned in the latest version! The migration requires a valid 1.0 account. Empty problem sets will not be migrated. The reporting of problems and problem sets that were migrated may be slightly off. NOTE: This new feature will be delayed.
All parts of a multi-part problem must be assigned in order for the problem to take part in redo: When assigning problems that you want to take part in redo, please note that if you only assign parts of a multi-part that that problem will not take part in redo even if it is so enabled.
Problem sets imported from 1.0 with complex structures will only work in linear order: If you import problem sets from 1.0 that have a complex structure (problem sets embedded in problem sets or using the if-then-else) then those problem sets will only work in the 3.0 or new user interface when they are assigned with a problem order of linear. Assigning in student choice or random will break when students attempt to do them.
Download as CSV does not work correctly with redo assignments: When redo is turned on for an assignment, the Download as CSV is only reporting on the original problems and does not reflect the existence of redo at all.
In search results, when filtering by problem type, multi-part problems may be displayed that do not match the problem type selected: In the results of a search by skill code, users can filter by curriculum and by problem type. Currently individual problems that meet the problem type selected will show up correctly. Multi-part problems that meet that skill will however be shown no matter their problem type. We are actively working on a fix to this issue.
Adding student supports to problems in My Problem Sets and Find & Assign is not currently working: If you use the EDIT STUDENT SUPPORTS action on a problem in My Problem Sets or Find and Assign, the support (hints or explanation) are not currently saving.
Schoology users cannot assign to a subset of the class: Schoology users cannot currently assign to a subset of the class and must assign to the full class.
Canvas users will not see late notifications on the assignment report for assignments turned in late by students: Canvas users are not seeing the message on the assignment report below a student's name that indicates that the student submitted the assignment after the due date & time.
Users will not see anything in Paused Time Column when Student Pauses Timed Assignment: The paused time column is not being updated correctly to show teacher users how long a student may have paused an assignment when there is a timer set on the assignment.
Show Answer updates: With the new problem types, when student presses "Show Answer", the correct answer is presented to the student in a way that makes it easier to submit the answer and move on with their assignment.
Changes to correct/incorrect feedback cards: Previously, when a student entered a correct or incorrect answer for a problem, a card appeared to tell the student their answer was correct/incorrect. This has been removed and feedback is presented using checkmarks, "x"'s and a snackbar that appears at the bottom of the screen.
Drag and Drop Problem Type: Students will now have the ability to interact with drag and drop problems. This will only appear in problems that have been built with Drag and Drop. This will be available in Explore Content as problems are updated.
Multi Cloze Problem Type: Students will now have the ability to interact with multi cloze answer types. This will create a better student experience for problems with tables of values, coordinate pairs, and other scenarios where multiple inputs are required in a single problem. This will only appear in problems that have been built with multi-cloze. This will be available in Explore Content as problems are updated.
Drop-Down Problem Type: Students will now have the ability to interact with dropdown menu's within a problem. This will only appear in problems that have been built with dropdown. This will be available in Explore Content as problems are updated.
Changes to existing Problem Types: In Ordering, Multiple Choice and Select All That Apply problem types, students will see images (including wiris formulas) in the answer options. Previously, only text was available in the answer choices of these problem types. This will be available in Explore Content as problems are updated.
Non-Specific Student Support Feedback Messages: When available, students will see "nonspecific feedback messages." This means that the student will see a message (image, text, etc) as a response for any incorrect answer that is submitted. This will only appear in problems that have been built with nonspecific feedback. This will be available in Explore Content as problems are updated.
Student Will Be Able to See Report for a Timed Skill Builder Assignment: When a teacher assigns a Skill Builder with a timer, students are be able to see the assignment report and the student is unable to work on the skill builder assignment again after 24 hours. To avoid this issue, do not use timers on Skill Builder assignments.
Redo: Fixed the fact that redo problems had no part designation at the top of the assignment report. For multi-part redo problems, it was hard to tell which part was what because their part designation fell off the assignment report chart at the top. We have fixed this.
Redo: Sort order for redo problems was not defined The sort order for a problem with redo outcomes was not defined and so the order that teachers see those outcomes was not organized. The sort order is now defined as the following from highest to lowest: green score chip, green redo, orange score chip, orange redo, red score chip, red redo.
Redo: Updated student details to mark redo problems When viewing problems in student details, redo problems are now marked as such.
Assignment Report: Fixed the order of colors on the stacked bar graph at the top of the assignment report The order that the bars should be colored is green on top, then orange and then red on the bottom. The order was originally swapped, which has now been corrected.
Photo Cropping for Students: Students will now be able to crop images that they upload and photos that they take for open response problems.
Student Report will show hints used: Students will now be able to see what hints or explanations they used on a problem in the side pop out when they view the problems on the student assignment report.
REDO functionality available: Redo functionality is now available to be used by teachers. REDO assigns a similar problem to a student when they do not get the problem correct on the first attempt. The student gets the better score of the 2 problems. My Assignments and the Assignment Report will indicate which problems were assigned with REDO. For more information on this new feature, see the User Guides.
Coherent Standards View: Assigned: Users can select any standard within the selected strand to view a heatmap showing assigned problems on prerequisite and subsequent standards (as well as the selected standard itself). The selected standard is outlined in bold and has colored shading, whereas the prerequisite and subsequent standards are grayscale.
Coherent Standards View: Completed: Users can select any standard within the selected strand to view a heatmap showing the percentage completed problems on prerequisite and subsequent standards (as well as the selected standard itself). The selected standard is outlined in bold and has colored shading, whereas the prerequisite and subsequent standards are grayscale.
Coherent Standards View: Score: Users can select any standard within the selected strand to view a heatmap showing the percentage score on completed problems on prerequisite and subsequent standards (as well as the selected standard itself). The selected standard is outlined in bold and has colored shading, whereas the prerequisite and subsequent standards are grayscale.
Common Wrong Answer Feedback Study: Researchers will now be able to create a study to test which feedback helps a student when they submit a common wrong answer to solve the problem correctly. The Common Wrong Answer Feedback study will automatically put students into a condition when a teacher assigns the problem to their students.
Open Response Edit Field Updated to Latest Version
The Open Response edit field is updated to the latest version and now matches what the Teacher sees.
Students can report unhelpful hints
Hints will now have a button that allows students to email ASSISTments to let us know the hint is not helpful.
Printing sometimes not showing images
Users were not seeing the downloaded images for the printing preview of an assignment. This is now fixed.
Skill builder scores were not reporting correctly when uploaded to an LMS or downloaded as a CSV
Skill builder scores should be reported out as either a 0 - the student was not able to master the skill or 100 - the student was able to master the skill when a score is reported.
Activity By Standards - Assigned View
Insights Hub will show the current total number of assigned problems at the district, school, class, or student level on a selected strand or a series of standards with the selected strand, displayed in a heat map format.
Activity by Standards - Completed View
Insights Hub will show the current total number of completed problems as a percentage of the total assigned at the district, school, class, or student level on a selected strand or a series of standards with the selected strand, displayed in a heat map format.
Activity by Standards - Score View
Insights Hub will show the current average score of problems completed as a percentage at the district, school, class, or student level on a selected strand or a series of standards with the selected strand, displayed in a heat map format.
Download your current view into a CSV file
Click download to CSV to see your current view exported to a CSV file.
Qualitative Standard Descriptor Shows on Hover
See the qualitative description of a standard when you hover over a given standard in Activity by Standard View.
Print Assignments and Problem Sets
There are now options on assignments in My Assignments and problem sets in My Problem Sets to print the assignment or problem set.
Item Type Filter on Search By Standard Results
When you have results from a Search by Standard, teachers can now filter by problem type as well as curriculum to help narrow down the problems that they want to see.
Common Wrong Answer Feedback given to students now available to teachers
When a common wrong answer encountered by students has common wrong answer feedback that they received, teachers can now see what that feedback was by clicking on the common wrong answer in the detailed report section of the assignment report. This will open the problem details screen and that now contains a section about common wrong answers and feedback for teachers.
Instructional Recommendations are now easier to find.
When an instructional recommendation is available for a problem, there is now a lightbulb indicator to the left of the problem in the detailed report section of the assignment report. Clicking on the lightbulb will open the problem details page to the Instructional Recommendation section.
The Assignment Report can now be sorted on any Problem Column Score
Teachers can use the arrow to the right of any problem in the detailed report section of the assignment report to sort that report by that problem's score.
Remember and reuse a teacher's setting for Sort By in My Problem Sets
We will now remember and re-use a teacher's preferences as set in the Sort By in My Problem Sets.
Alert teachers when they do not have cookies enabled for ASSISTments.
ASSISTments will not work if cookies are not enabled for it in your browser. If this is the case when ASSISTments starts up, we will now pop up a warning message to enable users to fix the issue.
Teacher is Unable to Properly Type and Clear Date in Release/Due Date Fields
Users can now type in dates and are not required to use the date picker to set a due or release date.
Answer Character Limit
Fill-in and Open Response answer types will have a character limit of 100 and 10,000, respectively. The student will be notified of the character limit when they submit the answer.
Student Overall Score
The Student Assignment Report now shows the overall assignment score at the top of the report only if the teacher is showing scores and not symbols of success.
Broken Video Button
If a student opens a support that has a video that does not work, they can now report that the video is broken. Once they report the broken video, the score for the problem gets reverted back to what it was before the student selected the support(s) and if there is another support or set of supports available for the problem, the student has the option to open those. It does not matter which hint in a set of hints the broken video is in (ex. if the broken video is in hint 3 in a hint set of 3, the student will still be reverted back as if they did not open any hints). Currently, this only works with previously authored supports. If a teacher authors a new support with a video in it, this button will not show.
Graphing Functionality in Open Response Problems
Open Response Problems now have a Graph option that allows students to create graphs within the edit box.
Student Preview now in Student Choice
When a teacher or researcher previews a problem set as a student, the problem set is now in Student Choice. This allows the teacher or researcher to click on any of the problems in the progress panel and navigate to that problem.
Open Response Edit Field Updated to Latest Version
The Open Response edit field is updated to the latest version and now matches what the Teacher sees.
Error pop-up for students when they do not have cookies enabled for ASSISTments
ASSISTments will not work if cookies are not enabled for it in your browser. If this is the case when ASSISTments starts up, we will now pop up a warning message to enable users to fix the issue.
Click to sort by assigned date, score, and completion status
The tutor now can click to sort by assigned date, score, and completion status on the existing assignment table, allowing them to reorder their view.
Updated Graphs for Tutors
Tutors can view scores on standards in a more intuitive, horizontal bar graph arrangement. We updated the previous graph to remove the class average bar. Tutors can view up to four students. The color scheme has been updated to offer more contrast between bars.
Three new filters: Select assignment, Date Picker, Assigned for
We added three filters so tutors could better refine the selection.
1. Select assignment - a modal pops up where users can select from a list of assignments with the most recently assigned populating first to view their data in the graph and assignment table.
2. Date picker - Pick dates to constrain the data to assignments given within a date span.
3. Assigned for - totally new and improved - we've added an ability to filter by assignment owner. If a tutor assigns something for tutoring session, they can select it. Or if they'd like to see only what students have done in class, they can select that! The options are "Assigned for tutoring, assigned for classwork, assigned for both".
Student Preview now in Student Choice
When a teacher or researcher previews a problem set as a student, the problem set is now in Student Choice. This allows the teacher or researcher to click on any of the problems in the progress panel and navigate to that problem.
We now support more LMSs
We added support for more LMSs with a third party piece of software that we have now integrated into ASSISTments. All LMS integrations (with the exception of Google Classroom) will require an agreement with the user, school, or district because they all require an LMS administrator to make the integration with ASSISTments work. Edlink allows us to now support: Schoology and eventually we will ass MS Teams (O365), Blackboard, Moodle & Brightspace by D2L.
Teacher scored problems have blue score chips in the detailed report
Teachers-scored problems (also known as open response) have score chips that are now blue to more easily indicate that the problem was scored by the teacher.
Old Browser Error Message
A new error message will tell students that their browser is too old and that they will need to update their browser to access their assignment in ASSISTments.
Support Comparison Study: Content Page
The Support Comparison Study workflow is being updated. There is a new page, Content, where the researcher will be able to either select a problem set(s) from the Curriculum Hierarchy or add a problem set(s) using the problem set ID. This functionality was previously in the Conditions page of the study.
Single Support Study Content Page
The Support Single Study workflow is being updated. There is a new page, Content, where the researcher will be able to add a problem set using the problem set ID. This functionality was previously on the Conditions page of the study.
OSF Information
On the Overview Page of each study, there will be a table with the Open Science Foundation links associated with the study. There is a Researcher ID, which is automatically populated if the researcher has added their ID to their profile page. There is also a Project ID, which is automatically populated when the study is created under The ASSISTments Foundation project folder. If the Project ID is not populated, you can manually add the link to the table.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Problem Sets
Reports & Data
Known issues we are currently working on:
My Assignments
My Problem Sets
Reports & Data
- Correct on the first try
- Correct on some other try than the first
- Incorrect because the student saw the answer
Find & Assign
Reports & Data
Find & Assign
Reports & Data
Find & Assign
My Problem Sets
Reports & Data
Find & Assign
Reports & Data
Known issues we are currently working on:
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Student Experience
- Take a picture
- Submit a file
- Draw their answer
The following is the functionality that has been added to ASSISTments in the Fresh New Look:
General
Find & Assign
My Assignments - new view that allows teacher-users to:
My Problems - new view that allows teacher-users to:
Reports & Data
Settings are now available for:
For those of you have been using the beta, the following are the incremental new features that were added in this latest release:
General
Find & Assign
My Assignments
Reports & Data
In this release, all of these features from the initial beta are also available.
As the beta progresses, we will be adding new features.
We will alert you to changes as they are made available to you
General
Reports & Data
As the beta progresses, we will be adding new features. We will alert you to changes as they are made available to you
My Problem Sets
Student Experience
As the beta progresses, we will be adding new features. We will alert you to changes as they are made available to you.
General
Find & Assign
My Problem Sets
My Assignments
Reports & Data
Student Experience