New Features

New Features and Functionalities

• Grading sync has been integrated into the Google Classroom add-on, meaning users will now have their grades given by educators available in Google Classroom. In the previous version of the add-on, this feature was not yet available.
• Kialo Edu is now available on the SLS (Singapore Learning Space) learning platform. With this latest integration, educators and students will now be able to utilize Kialo directly in their familiar learning platform integration.

New Features and Functionalities

• This release includes the new functionality that allows educators to back-up and restore discussion within Moodle and enables educators to quickly share or re-use discussion across different courses

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• A minor issue with discussion permissions sometimes being out of sync has been fixed.
• Cycling through elements should now focus the elements correctly.
• A minor error showing when toggling follow/unfollow and mute/unmute for non-admins on discussion has been fixed.

New Features and Functionalities

• With this release, discussions with Small Group Mode enabled can now be cloned within a Moodle instance.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Some UX cleanup has been included in this latest release, including improved drag behavior on certain elements, removal of unnecessary notifications, and editable template comments.
• In some cases with students signing up via an LTI, a confusing pop-up requesting email verification would appear, which is unnecessary in this case as they are already logged into their educator’s LTI platform.
• An issue with the “View as Student” view in the Canvas platform causing the discussion view to break in Kialo has been fixed.

New Features and Functionalities

• Based on user behavior and requests from the user community, discussion admins can now toggle the comments feature either on or off in the discussion settings.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• An issue with users not being able to access discussions after being promoted or demoted via Moodle has been fixed.

New Features and Functionalities

• NEW: The behavior of Kialo Edu for educators and students using the platform through an external learning management system, such as Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom, etc., has been drastically improved. Previously, when using these learning platforms, users would have a new tab opened in their browser when accessing a Kialo discussion due to how third-party cookies are handled by modern-day browsers. With this release, users will no longer be forced into a new tab and will remain in their external learning tool, as this release has changed the way we handle users on Kialo Edu when interacting with a discussion via an external learning tool.

New Features and Functionalities

• NEW: With this release, a basic addon for Google Classroom has been introduced. This allows educators to use Kialo Edu directly within Google Classoom and for students to access the discussion via Google Classroom as well.

New Features and Functionalities

• With the latest release, the Small Group Mode feature is now supported for educators using Canvas. If an educator is utilizing Canvas to manage their students and courses, students joining a discussion will now be correctly assigned to their group set or section corresponding to the selection of the educator.

New Features and Functionalities

• Previously, our Small Group Mode feature could only be turned on and once it had been done, could no longer be disabled. Now, discussion admins can also turn the Small Group Mode feature off, allowing discussion admins to be more flexible and making decision settings less permanent.

New Features and Functionalities

• The Claim Cards in Kialo discussions have had a major design refresh, improving the user experience with a less cluttered view on each card and better optimized for mobile devices.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• A minor issue with UI elements “locking up” and getting stuck when repeatedly clicked in quick succession has been fixed.

New Features and Functionalities

• The Small Group Mode feature is now fully supported in Moodle, both via plugin and standard LTI, allowing educators to use this feature not only on the Kialo platform but within their Moodle courses as well.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• The Small Group Mode admin sidebar has been simplified.
• A minor issue with Kialo educator accounts being created via Moodle and not automatically logging in has been fixed.
• An additional minor issue for educator logins not properly being linked to different accounts has been fixed.

New Features and Functionalities

• Demo Discussions have been introduced with this latest release, allowing educators without much experience in using Kialo to interact with fully-formed discussion, with multiple arguments and theses, and experience what Kialo is like as a teaching tool.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• For discussion admins, the Task Progress icon has been replaced with the Task Overview icon.
• Additional contextual information has been added for the tooltip for anonymous discussions.
• Minor visual improvements have been made to various UI elements.
• Group count and discussion group IDs have been added to discussion statistics.

New Features and Functionalities

• A new page for our website has been rolled out with this latest release. Our “Pricing” page details why Kialo is free and available to everyone at no cost.

New Features and Functionalities

• New: Our latest major feature, Small Group Mode, was released in the past weeks which enables educators to create multiple groups simultaneously and automatically assign users within those groups for their courses. With this release, this feature is now supported in Moodle via both plugin and standard LTI integration.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Some minor fixes have been made to animations that were causing certain elements to not be seen or made them illegible.
• Various elements of the grading feature have also been improved for a better user experience.

New Features and Functionalities

• With the latest release, the screen reader functionality has been improved to include live-updated content, meaning that certain content gets dynamically updated on the page and no longer needs to be re-loaded for the screen reader to have that information available.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Some minor visual improvements have been made to the sidebar.
• A minor improvement has been made to the student participation text when auto-assigned in Small Group Mode for clarity.

New Features and Functionalities

• With the latest release, a new feature has been added to Kialo Edu – Small Group Mode. Small Group Mode enables educators and discussion admins to create groups within a discussion. The new feature allows educators to split students into groups and work in isolation from one another, while only seeing contributions from their group, all the while educators can create and manage all groups and contributions in the discussion itself.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• A minor issue with some graphic elements not behaving as expected on the Kialo Edu homepage has been fixed.

New Features and Functionalities

• A new version of the kialo-edu.com homepage has been released! The new webpage features improved navigation, new designs and an improved user experience. Additionally, the new homepage includes our most current educational certifications, a video highlighting the benefits of using Kialo in your organization, and a clear overview of all the platforms we support.

New Features and Functionalities

• A new section has been added to Kialo Edu – Integrations. With the integrations section, it has been made easier to see what integrations, such as Moodle and LTI, are supported by Kialo Edu. The new section can be found in the “Sharing” tab in the discussion settings.

New Features and Functionalities

• Kialo Edu now supports Blackboard and Canvas through our LTI integration. Other platforms can also be used, but may require contacting our support team to get the configurations set up.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Some minor styling issues have been fixed.

New Features and Functionalities

• A new major feature has been released for Kialo Edu, Grading! With the Grading feature, educators can now provide grades and feedback to individual claims, as well as the discussion as a whole. This individual claim grade can then be calculated to an overall grade automatically or the educator can provide an overall grade for the discussion manually, in addition to overall feedback. An overview of all students can be found in the new grading sidebar for educators, as well as a more detailed view that includes number of tasks completed, the number of claims graded, the average grade for the claims and a list of all of the claims the student has written or linked. Students will be able to use the new grading sidebar to see their overall grade and feedback, in addition to the grades and feedback on individual claims.
• The amount of automatic scrolling in discussions has also been reduced so that users have a less jarring experience when opening and closing some page elements.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• A minor aesthetic issue has been fixed with longer names on the team page having additional team pages options cut off.