New Features

A log of all new feature releases.

Release Notes #908

  • With the latest release, educators utilizing Kialo Edu will be able to create new discussions from a selection of curated templates. These templates cover a variety of topics and include some starter claims to make it easy to dive right in.
  • Additionally, a lot of old minor and aesthetic issues have been resolved

Release Notes #902

  • With this latest release, discussion invites sent from anonymous discussions will now show the actual account profile of the inviter, rather than the anonymous identity, so that discussion admins can avoid deanonymizing their discussion identity when inviting others to their discussion.
  • Additionally, a couple of usability improvements have been released.

Release Notes #898

  • With the latest release, Kialo Edu is now an official Clever application partner, meaning that students and institutions utilizing this service can now use this SSO login to access Kialo Edu as well.
  • Additionally, there have been countless minor fixes and improvements included in this release.

Release Notes #885

  • A new display names feature has been released. Now users’ names can include spaces and international characters, like Arabic and Mandarin letters.

Release Notes #870

  • An upgraded search feature on Kialo Edu has been released. Search results are now more intuitive and meaningful for the user, in addition to showing results for discussions or claims which have been visited in the past.
  • QR codes have been added and can now be generated for discussion and team invite links.
  • Additionally, minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #862

  • The Anonymous Participation feature has been released. This feature allows educators to anonymize discussions so that participant’s identities are instead given a placeholder name, while the true identity/user can still be seen by the educator.

    For more details on this new feature, please visit our Help Center article regarding Anonymous Discussions.

Release Notes #860

  • The profile preview has been revised as part of a larger coming change in how names/profiles are displayed on Kialo. Additionally, compatibility with touch devices has also been introduced to the profile preview with this release.

Release Notes #857

  • The Create Discussion Wizard has been restructured to make the discussion creation process simpler and allow advanced users to skip steps they know aren’t relevant to the discussion being created.
  • Additionally, there have been some minor styling changes and improvements that have been released.

Release Notes #852

  • Discussion and team invitations have been reworked to include a reason on the alert card shown in the Overview and Respond tabs and not just in the email invite, adding context to the invitations on Kialo directly.

Release Notes #851

  • With the latest release, we have updated the colorset for Kialo to make it more accessible and comply with WCAG 2.1 level AA guidelines. This means that readability has been improved site-wide and all elements have sufficient contrast, meeting industry standards.
  • Additionally, more variations for default avatars have been introduced.

Release Notes #844

  • A new version of the mention picker (when opened either through the context menu or using ‘@’) has been released which fixes stylistic issues with long comments or when using a mobile device.
  • An issue which caused an incorrect error message to sometimes be displayed when using the OAuth signup form has been fixed.

Release Notes #836

  • An improvement has been made to the team invite wizard, providing an overview of teams/accounts that have been selected for an invitation.
  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #834

A new dialog for inviting users to discussions and teams has been released, as a part of a larger initiative to reinvigorate Kialo’s user invite interfaces.

Release Notes #831

  • The login and sign up dialogs have been revamped with an improved user experience.
  • A minor visual improvement has also been rolled out with this release, making the discussion card menu overlay more visually appealing.
  • A minor isue with sidebar content not properly displayed has been fixed.

Release Notes #828

  • There are now more visually appealling default images for account and team avatars and discussion images.

Release Notes #824

  • URLs generated for inviting users and access to discussions now have a “Copy Link” button to copy the URL to your clipboard.
  • Bug fix: An incorrect confirmation message that was shown when removing a team from discussions has been fixed.

Release Notes #820

  • On Kialo Edu, Discussion Tasks can be used to direct students towards specific activities in a discussion.
  • A Sources sidebar is available in the discussion menu, listing all the external links from the claims of the discussion.

Release Notes #819

  • A new wizard makes inviting teams to discussions more intuitive.
  • The link editor can now quickly be brought up with Ctrl+K.

Release Notes #818

  • Managed Accounts are now available for teachers, allowing them to easily create and manage Kialo accounts for their students.

Release Notes #810

  • Discussions can be given start and stop times so that participation is only possible at specific times.