Users will now see a notification toast when discussion and team invite emails to existing Kialo users cannot be delivered.
Immediate email notifications will not be sent to users anymore, when they are online and viewing the discussion.
The Claim editor will now always be focused when adding a new claim.
Sometimes the mention picker displayed individual accounts more than once, this has been fixed.
Clicking outside of the details drawer of a claim would collapse the drawer and scroll to the top of the discussion, this has been fixed.
Release Notes #646
The permissions that Discussion Access Links grant, can now be specified.
Release Notes #645
Users will now see a notification toast when discussion and team invite emails cannot be delivered.
The term “edu” has been added to Kialo Edu’s topbar, so that the two sites, Kialo and Kialo Edu, can be more easily distinguished.
Release Notes #642
Contributors that have not been explicitly invited to a discussion can now be mentioned in comments and chat.
Discussion and team email invites that could not be delivered will now have a warning indicator and explanatory message.
Release Notes #640
Discussion invites for teams will now have warning indicators, if any invite emails could not be delivered.
Release Notes #638
Discussion and team invites sent via email will now have a warning indicator if they could not be delivered.
The Activity Sidebar can now also display claims a user has and has not voted on.
Release Notes #635
The Top Contributor list now contains a column with the amount of claims users voted on in a discussion.
Release Notes #634
Users visiting Kialo with an outdated browser will be shown a warning toast.
Release Notes #633
Users can now change their usernames once on Kialo Edu.
Activities in private discussion will no longer be shown in user profile timelines.
Release Notes #630
The search input will now stick to the top of the Search Sidebar while scrolling.
Team names no longer have to be unique.
Release Notes #629
Kialo will now detect blocked websocket connections and will provide a helpful error message.
Teacher Feedback length has been increased to 3000 characters on Kialo Edu.
Release Notes #628
Two-factor authentication has been added to all Kialo sites.
The comment and chat text input field lost focus when mentioning somebody using the mention picker, this has been fixed.
Release Notes #627
The Team Allocation Link functionality has been released for Kialo Edu. Team Allocation Links are the easiest method to allocate students to multiple evenly-sized teams and are particularly useful when setting up Kialo for large groups of students.
An issue causing the perspective selector to become unresponsive has been fixed.
An issue where linked claims wouldn’t load after their source claim was deleted has been fixed.
Release Notes #620
The concept of organizations has been introduced for Kialo Edu. Users become part of an organization if their associated email addresses match domains the organization is authorized to manage. Organizations are very useful for schools, school districts and universities that want to view and manage their students’ data themselves.
Users’ timelines can be viewed without logging in.
When using the Clone and Invite Wizard, you can choose to not send email notifications.
Release Notes #607
The Cloning and Invitation Wizard (CIW) on Kialo-Edu has been upgraded. It now allows educators to invite each member of a team to their own clone of a discussion.
Private discussions can be shared via Discussion Access Links which allow readers to access them without having to create Kialo accounts.
Release Notes #606
The behaviour of pressing Enter when entering text can be changed in user settings.
Release Notes #604
The visibility of votes can be changed in the discussion settings.
The comment drawer has been redesigned.
Sidebars can now be expanded.
Release Notes #603
A color theme optimized for red-green colorblindness can now be enabled in user settings.
Release Notes #602
The sum of activities/claims is now shown in the discussion activity tab.
