At Teamie, we are continuously innovating to provide educators and learners with powerful and flexible tools that enhance teaching and learning effectiveness. We are excited to introduce our latest update – Arakan Forest Turtle (2.29). This latest release brings significant updates to AI capabilities, assessment controls, and multimedia support.
Furthermore, this release includes several enhancements aimed at improving how teachers and learners communicate within assessments. From richer feedback options to improved control over comment revisions, these enhancements strengthen the overall assessment experience across Teamie. Let’s dive into what’s new!
Control What Learners See with the “Publish Grades Only” Option
Teachers now have more control over how assessment results are displayed to learners. With the new “Publish grades only” option, teachers can choose to display only the grade (such as A, B, or Excellent) while keeping the actual score and corresponding rubric details hidden.
This enhancement is designed for situations where teachers want learners to focus on overall performance rather than the marks; promoting a more holistic view of achievement.
When this setting is enabled and grades are published:
- Learners and parents will see only the published grade, not the score achieved.
- For scoring rubric-based assessments, the scale and criteria scores remain hidden.
- Teachers will continue to have full access to complete grading information, including scores and rubrics.
How to Enable This Setting
This new setting is applied on a per-assessment basis:
- Navigate to the ‘Create/Edit Assignments’ section for the relevant assessment.
- Look for the assessment settings, typically under the ‘Grading’ or ‘Scoring & Rubric’ area.
- You will find a new setting called “Publish grades only” if the assessment has a score or scoring rubric and has a grade scheme attached.
- Check or enable this setting to hide the detailed scores and rubrics from learners immediately after grading.
Availability
This feature is immediately visible and available within the settings of all assessment types in Teamie.
Important Note on Visibility: The “Publish grades only” setting will only appear for an assessment if it meets the following criteria:
- The assessment has a score or a scoring rubric attached.
- The assessment has a grade scheme attached.
Benefits
This update allows for a more flexible and strategic approach to releasing assessment feedback:
- Controlled Release: Educators can enter all necessary grading information immediately and then choose the exact moment to release the scores and rubrics to learners.
- Consistency: The grade details are hidden across all student-facing views, including material listings, notifications, and assessment pages.
Tip: Use this option when you want to share overall results without disclosing the scores, ideal for formative or benchmark assessments.
Gradebook Enhancement: Count Only Published Scores Towards Final Grade
We have introduced a new setting to give instructors and institutions more control over how a student’s final score and grade are calculated.
Currently, all scoring summative assessments automatically contribute to the final score calculation. With this enhancement, administrators and instructors can now enable a classroom-level setting that ensures only the scores from summative assessments that have been explicitly published will be included in the calculation of the final score and final grade.
What this means for you:
- Better Control: You can now decide exactly when an assessment score should influence a student’s final grade.
- Recalculation Trigger: Publishing or unpublishing an assessment score automatically recalculates the final score and grade for accuracy.
This functionality is available as a classroom-level setting called “Gradebook Calculation – Consider only published scores” which can be enabled by administrators.
To explore this feature: Check your classroom’s Gradebook Calculation Method settings to see if this option is active. Contact us if you’d like this enabled on your Teamie site.
Contextual AI Quiz Generation Based on Lessons
Creating quizzes just got a lot faster and smarter! With Contextual AI Quiz Generation, teachers can now automatically generate quizzes directly from the lesson content using Teamie’s AI-powered assistant.
This feature transitions the system from generating questions using general parameters to producing highly contextual and targeted quizzes that align precisely with teaching objectives.
Key Outcomes and Progress:
- Direct Quiz Creation from Lessons: Instructors can now generate an AI quiz immediately from within a lesson’s material list via a new, dedicated icon. This streamlines the workflow and ensures the quiz is automatically linked to the source lesson.
- Smarter Question Generation: The system now bases all generated questions on the actual content of the selected lesson, which enhances accuracy and relevance while minimizing irrelevant or off-topic content.
- Streamlined Configuration: When creating a lesson-attached quiz, the system automatically pre-selects the lesson, guiding the user straight to setting the difficulty level and adding optional instructions.
- Extensive Resource Support: The AI quiz generation supports a broad array of resource types, including files (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, etc.), videos (MP4, WEBM, YouTube links with captions), audio files, web links, and Google Drive files.
This enhancement enables teachers to create richer, more relevant assessments more efficiently. Click here to learn more about this feature.
Grade Non-Scoring Offline Tests via Bulk Import
We’ve made it easier for teachers to manage grading for non-scoring offline tests. With this enhancement, teachers can now upload grades in bulk for offline assessments that use a grading scheme, without needing to assign numerical scores.
Previously, only scoring offline tests could be uploaded in bulk. This update allows teachers to grade learners with grade scales like A, B, or C, instead of numeric marks, streamlining the grading process. We now support the bulk upload of grades for the following offline tests via the import template:
- Grade Only offline tests.
- Non-Scoring (NS) Rubric + Grade offline tests.
What this means for you:
- Streamlined Grading: When you create a non-scoring offline test that uses a grading scheme, downloading the ‘Upload Grades’ template will now include the Email and Grade columns. The Grade column will be pre-populated with the values from your mapped grading scheme (e.g., A, B, C, D), allowing for quick and accurate data entry.
- Clearer Interface: The button text in the Gradebook will show the corresponding label, Upload Scores / Upload Grades, depending on whether the assessment is scoring or non-scoring.
This makes offline test grading faster, clearer, and aligned with standard reporting needs.
Tip: Use this feature when grading offline activities where a qualitative grade is preferred over a numeric score, saving time and ensuring alignment with your grading policy.
To explore this feature: Create or edit an offline test, map a grading scheme, and ensure the ‘scoring’ checkbox is disabled. Then, look for the new ‘Upload Grades’ button in the View Records page.
Enhanced Rubric View with Deadlines and Sorting
We are improving the functionality of the Rubric / Criteria View to provide instructors with more relevant context and better organizational tools for assessments. Teachers can now see assessment deadlines directly in the Rubric view, making it easier to understand timelines while grading or reviewing assessments. This enhancement provides clearer context and helps teachers manage multiple assessments more efficiently.
Key enhancements include:
- Assessment Deadlines Display: The deadlines for assessments are now displayed directly under the assessment titles in the Rubric View. For offline tests, the end date is shown as the deadline. If an assessment has no deadline, a hyphen (-) will be shown.
- Assessment Sorting by Deadline: A new checkbox has been added to allow you to “Sort assessments by deadline”.
- Enabling this option sorts all assessments in the ascending order of their deadlines.
- Assessments without a deadline will automatically be moved to the end of the list.
- The system remembers your sorting preference across classrooms, ensuring consistency.
This makes it easier to prioritize assessments and manage grading workloads without switching views.
Tip: Enable sorting to immediately view assessments with the closest deadlines.
To explore this feature: Navigate to the Rubric View in your classroom and look for the new deadline information displayed under assessment titles, along with the new ‘Sort assessments by deadline’ checkbox for sorting.
Configure Material Settings Before Pushing Units to Classrooms
We’ve streamlined the workflow for pushing units from planners and workspaces by allowing teachers and curriculum teams to configure all essential material settings before the push. This removes the need to repeatedly adjust publish dates, deadlines, and grading options separately in each classroom after materials are pushed.
This enhancement provides a unified, efficient way to prepare materials ahead of time, whether pushing to a single classroom or multiple classrooms at once.
Key Benefits of this Enhancement:
- Bulk Configuration: Configure critical settings, including publish dates, start/end dates, deadlines, late submission policies, semester selection, and grading components, for all selected classrooms at once.
- Per-Classroom Flexibility: Need specific due dates for one classroom? You can easily switch to a per-classroom view to individually fine-tune settings for any material, ensuring maximum flexibility.
- Quick Copy Tools: Convenient tools like “Apply to all below/above” allow you to copy settings from one item to others, making bulk configuration much faster and easier.
- Intelligent Date Handling: When pushing lessons that contain assessments, the assessment dates (like deadlines) will automatically adjust to fall within the availability period of the parent lesson, ensuring date consistency.
All settings applied here are pushed instantly and retained in each classroom, eliminating manual updates after pushing.
Tip: Use the built-in “Show only mine” filter while selecting classrooms to quickly narrow down the list to classes you’re part of, simplifying multi-class pushes.
To explore this feature: Select your classroom(s) when pushing a unit or material, then click Configure Settings to set everything upfront before confirming the push.
Clearer Pushing Status: Ignoring Archived Classrooms
Furthermore, to improve clarity when reusing Workspaces and Unit Planners across academic years, the Pushed status will now only reflect content pushed to active classrooms. Previously, materials and sections appeared as “Pushed” even if they had been pushed only to archived classrooms from earlier academic years, making it difficult for teachers to understand where content was currently active.
Feedback & Communication Enhancements
We’ve introduced a set of improvements that make feedback on assessments more expressive, accurate, and user-friendly. These updates ensure teachers and learners can communicate more effectively across all assessment types.
Record and Share Video Comments on Assessments
We’ve expanded the video recording feature to assessment submission comments, allowing teachers and students to communicate feedback more effectively across all assessment types.
Building on our earlier update that introduced video recording in Teamie, users can now record and attach videos directly in comments within Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, and Offline Tests. This makes feedback more personal, expressive, and engaging.
Two key benefits:
1. Universal File Attachment Support
We have standardized the commenting experience so that you can now attach any file type (not just audio) to comments on submissions for Offline Tests and Discussions, aligning them with the functionality already available in Assignments and Quizzes. This ensures a unified, flexible commenting workflow across each assessment type.
2. Direct Video Recording in Comments
Teachers and students can now directly record and attach videos within the comment section of any assessment attempt or grading view.
- How it works: This uses our existing, easy-to-use video recording service. Once recorded, the video is attached to the comment, allowing you to provide visual feedback, explain concepts in detail, or ask clarifying questions.
- Consistency: The workflow for recording, attaching, and posting a video is consistent with how you handle other attachments like audio recordings and uploaded files.
All comments, including those with video attachments, will be shown in both the assessment attempt viewers and the Student Gradebook, keeping the experience consistent and predictable.
Tip: Use video comments to personalize your feedback and explain complex ideas more clearly.
To explore this feature: When leaving a comment on any student submission, look for the attachment options that now include support for all files and the dedicated video recording option.
Edit Comments in the Attempt Viewer and Evidence Viewer
To make feedback more precise and flexible, users can now edit their own comments across all assessment submissions.
Previously, once a comment was posted in the Attempt Viewer or Evidence Viewer, it could not be modified. Now, the person who originally posted the comment can quickly make corrections or clarifications to their feedback.
Key benefits:
- Improved Accuracy: Easily fix typos, update contextual information, or refine the tone of your feedback after posting.
- Better Communication: Ensures the record of communication between the teacher and student is always accurate and clear.
Once a comment is edited, the updated version will be immediately displayed in the list of comments, ensuring everyone sees the latest feedback.
Tip: Combine this with video comments for clear, polished, and highly personalized feedback.
To explore this feature: Simply navigate to any submission where you have left a comment and look for the edit option next to your comment text.
Approving Student Stories
We understand the importance of formally acknowledging and validating a student’s portfolio work. We’ve introduced a new feature that allows teachers to officially approve a student’s Story to confirm that their work has been reviewed and acknowledged.
Previously, while students could share stories for feedback, there was no official way for teachers to mark them as approved. With this enhancement, teachers can now approve or unapprove stories, helping students know when their work has been seen and accepted.
Purpose and Benefits: This enhancement provides a clear and formal process for student work review within the Stories feature (e-Portfolios).
- Formal Acknowledgement: Once a teacher approves a story, an “Approved” symbol appears on the story card and in the detailed view along with a notification, letting the student know their work is officially recognized.
- Clear Visibility: Teachers with the appropriate permissions can easily see all pending stories and have the ability to Approve or Unapprove a story.
- Accountability: Hovering over the approval symbol reveals the name of the user who approved the story, adding a layer of accountability and context.
Tip: Use approvals to recognise high-quality work and clearly signal which submissions have been formally reviewed.
We have also added a notification preference for this workflow, allowing students to customize these notifications according to their requirements.
Ready to try it out? Contact us if you’d like this feature enabled for your Teamie site. Once configured, users with the correct permissions will see the new “Approve” button in each student’s Story.
New Email Notifications for Story Comments
To improve communication and ensure students stay informed about feedback on their work, we’ve introduced new email notification preferences related to comments on stories.
This ensures that learners don’t miss important feedback or discussions happening on their shared stories, helping promote better engagement and timely responses.
Students can now receive email updates when:
- Someone comments on their story or on a specific item within their story.
- Someone updates a comment they’ve made on a story or story item.
- Someone deletes their story.
Customizable Preferences: This new preference option is visible under the Notification Preferences in the dashboard. Students can enable or disable these notifications based on their communication preferences.
Tip: Encourage learners to check their Notification Preferences to ensure they’re receiving important feedback updates.
Minor Enhancements
Improved Filtering in Mastery View
To make it easier for teachers to manage learner data in the Mastery View, we’ve added a new Active/Inactive filter. This brings the Mastery View in line with other classroom gradebook views that already support filtering users by their membership status.
Filter Options:
- Active: Shows only currently active students (Default view).
- Inactive: Shows only inactive students.
- All: Shows both active and inactive students.
This ensures consistency across gradebook views and helps you effortlessly switch between the required set of students.
To explore this feature: Open the Classroom Mastery View and set the new Active / Inactive filter to change the student data.
Default Objective Level Setting for Mastery and Standard Views
We have introduced a new configuration option that allows institutions to set a default objective level for the Classroom and Student Mastery and Standard Views, helping them save time and quickly focus on the most relevant level of mastery data.
Previously, the lowest level of objectives was always shown by default. With this enhancement, clients can now choose which level of the objective hierarchy (for example, strand, standard, or sub-standard) should load first whenever the mastery views are accessed.
Benefits:
- Faster Access to Relevant Data: By setting a default level (e.g., to the Strand or Unit level), instructors and students will see the most relevant, high-level mastery overview immediately when the view loads.
- Time Saving: Users will no longer need to manually adjust the objective level dropdown filter every time they navigate to the Mastery or Standard Views.
This configuration applies across Classroom Mastery View, Student Mastery View, Classroom Standard View, and the Detailed View. Contact us to enable this for your institution.
Tip: Choose the level that aligns with your reporting needs for faster, more relevant insights.
Enhanced Data in Attendance Summary Export
We’ve enhanced the Attendance Summary Export feature to provide richer context and more useful information for classroom attendance reports.
Earlier, the Excel export for attendance summaries only included the student’s name and user identifier alongside their attendance data. We have now added the student’s user-level meta fields (data fields such as Department, Admission ID etc) to this export, placing them right next to the student names simplifying the post-export analysis and reporting workflows.
Benefits:
- Richer Reporting: You can now include key student information (such as Admission ID, Grade, Section, etc., depending on your configured user meta fields) directly in your attendance reports.
- Easier Data Analysis: Reduces the need to manually cross-reference data across multiple sheets.
To explore this feature: Export Attendance Summary as usual; meta fields will now be included automatically in the generated Excel file.
Filter Classrooms to Show Only the Ones You’re Added To
To make it easier for teachers to push materials and sections to the correct classrooms, we’ve added a new option that lets users quickly filter the list to show only the classrooms they are part of.
Previously, when pushing content from unit planners or workspaces, teachers sometimes had to scroll through long lists of classrooms, many of which belonged to other teachers. This update streamlines that experience and helps users find their own classrooms faster.
We’ve addressed this by adding a new filter option:
- New Filter: When selecting classrooms to push content to, you will now see a checkbox labeled “Show only mine”.
- Streamlined Process: Enabling this checkbox instantly filters the list to display only the classrooms where you are currently added as a member.
This streamlines pushing content into multiple classrooms, especially in large institutions with extensive classrooms list.
Tip: Before pushing content, enable “Show only mine” to avoid selecting the incorrect classroom.
Teamie Mobile App Updates (iOS-6.7)
At Teamie, we’re committed to enhancing your mobile experience with features that simplify teaching and learning on the go. Our latest app updates – iOS 6.7 brings a host of new features and enhancements aimed at improving student mastery view and user post sharing experience. Let’s check out the details below.
Native Student Mastery View (iOS-6.7)
We’ve enhanced our iOS app experience by migrating the Student Mastery View from webview to native view. This upgrade provides a more seamless and integrated experience for users tracking student progress on mobile devices.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Objectives Display: View a complete list of objectives with titles, descriptions, and mastery scores in an intuitive bar chart format.
- Detailed Analysis: Tap on specific objectives to access tab-based views showing detailed mastery data.
- Flexible Filtering: Filter objectives by depth, alignment, and parent objectives to quickly find the information you need.
- Mastery Score Calculations: A dedicated calculator icon provides transparent mastery calculations.
How It Works
The Student Mastery View is organized into several intuitive screens:
- Landing Screen: Displays the complete list of objectives with visual mastery score indicators
- Detailed Screen: Includes three specialized tabs:
- Assessment Tab: Lists all related assessments with their status
- Mastery Progression Tab: Visualizes progress across multiple objectives
This upgrade improves speed, usability, and overall integration with the iOS platform.
Perfect For
- Teachers tracking real-time student progress across learning objectives
- Administrators reviewing curriculum alignment and effectiveness
- Students monitoring their own mastery development
This feature now matches the Android app capabilities and delivers a unified cross-platform experience. For detailed instructions on using the Student Mastery View, visit our Help Center guide.
Scheduled & Draft Post Support on iOS App
We’ve brought two highly-requested posting capabilities, Scheduled Posts and Draft Posts, to the iOS app, making content creation on mobile more flexible and convenient for teachers and learners alike. These enhancements bring the iOS experience in line with what’s already available on our Android and web platforms.
Schedule Posts from the iOS App
Users can now schedule their thoughts or announcements directly from the iOS app. The scheduling option appears in the Add Attachment bottom sheet within the post settings.
Key highlights:
- Users can choose a specific date and time using native pickers.
- Scheduled posts automatically appear under the Scheduled Posts tab in My Locker.
- From their Locker, users can edit, delete, or post immediately if they want to publish the scheduled post earlier.
Save and Manage Draft Posts
Drafting posts is now much simpler on iOS. If a user begins creating a post and navigates back, the app will prompt them to save it as a draft when there is unsaved content.
Key highlights:
- Draft posts appear under the Draft Posts tab in My Locker.
- Users can return to a draft, edit it, and publish whenever ready.
- The draft bottom sheet appears only when there is actual content to save, keeping the interface clean.
These additions bring full parity with web and Android workflows, making content creation on the go more flexible and intuitive.
Tip: Use scheduled posts to plan ahead for classroom reminders, content releases, or announcements you want students to see at just the right time.
That’s it for this update! Stay tuned for more enhancements, and as always, thank you for being part of the Teamie community. See you next time! Till then stay healthy and stay collaborative.