Changelog

Kialo’s comprehensive release history.

Release Notes #917

  • User and display name changes will now be seen without having to refresh or navigate into the discussion again.
  • A new section has been added to the “My Kialo” navigation page that displays all discussions that are relevant to the user, including those that the user was explicitly invited to but never visited.

Release Notes #916

  • With this release, educators can have students participate in disussions without first having to create an account via the new “Instant Access” mode for discussions. When enabled, a user who is not logged in can access a discussion via an invitation and have an account automatically created for them.
  • Also introduced with the latest release is a new feature that allows educators to create teams directly from Google Classrooms rather than creating the team first and importing afterwards.
  • In addition to the two new features, numerous improvements and bug fixes were also released.

Release Notes #915

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #914

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #913

  • With the latest release, when a user completes a given task within a discussion, a notification and a small “confetti” animation will appear to celebrate the achievement.

Release Notes #912

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #911

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #910

  • Countless minor fixes and improvements.

Release Notes #909

  • Countless minor fixes and improvements.

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 #907

  • Countless minor fixes and improvements.

Release Notes #906

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #905

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released, in addition to several usability improvements.

Release Notes #904

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #903

  • Countless minor fixes and improvements.

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 #901

  • Some minor styling issues have been fixed.

Release Notes #900

  • Countless minor fixes and improvements.

Release Notes #899

  • A new improvement has been released for the Clone Discussion feature. Users can now select what gets copied over to the cloned discussion, with some additional options such as enabling anonymous participation in the new, cloned discussion.

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.