We are really pleased to announce our latest release of Connected.info. The new features went live on the site this evening. The maturity of the service is starting to be reflected in the nature and type of the changes we made this evening. Sub-groups is not an earth shattering new feature, but it is one that will simplify a lot of things and make the use of the product more efficient for some situations. As a team, we are gratified to have an involved set of early adopters who are helping us continue to build a world class product.
Below is a list of the main changes:
Sub-Groups
- Any group, including class section groups can now have sub-groups.
- Sub-group membership can be administered using a new sub-group membership editor. Users can be added and removed from sub-groups via a quick and easy checkbox
- Sub-groups have all of the same features as groups
Posting
- A group owner has the ability to disable (and re-enable) the following features – blog posting, forum posting, and wiki posting by other group members. Teachers may find this useful for certain course sections.
- School administrators may disable posting for the entire school district if they wish. Teachers can over-ride this for a specific course section.
- Muli-post editing now will only show active course section groups and will display period title and time, as well as room information to help differentiate sections.
Flagged Content
- Teacher postings in class section groups can no longer be flagged as objectionable.
- Flagged content will now display who has flagged the content
Group Content display
- Improved display of group content (blogs, etc.) by limiting the number of items displayed on the main page to the most recent. A link to show all the content has been added which will navigate to a new page.
Wikis:
- Connected.info will now display the names of the individuals who made an edit to a wiki and the date the change was made in the wiki history rather than just the dates of the changes.
Assignment Workflow
- Assignments created in the SIS gradebook will now “auto-post” into Connected without having to be specifically linked to a Connected assignment.
- Connected.info will honor the “post on” date specified in the gradebook (PowerTeacher) and not post the assignment to the students / parents until the date specified.
- If there is a date collected supplied in the gradebook, Connected will use that date to show that an assignment has been submitted by a student.
Period order now honored
- Class sections will now be sorted in period order in all displays
