4/9/25 Update
New Learner Experience
We're delighted to share a new learner experience for class projects, designed to reduce overwhelm and better focus their attention on what needs to be done, with the added benefit of speedier load times. We're dedicating this entire update to this new learner experience. We anticipate that this feature will go live on Monday, April 14, but wanted to provide an advance heads up so that your learners are not surprised.
Project Tiles
The first thing your learners will see is their list of Project Tiles. Each tile includes the Project name, all steps and the count of evidences in each step, by status. The Projects appear in alphabetical order, and each tile is open by default, but can be collapsed by the learner.
What do the colors mean? They show a general status of the evidences in each step:
- If green, then they've completed all evidences in that step
- If grey, that is because no evidence in that step has been started
- If
red, then a teacher has returned at least one evidence in that step for
their revision - it is intended to focus their attention on that open
task
- Blue is used to indicate that this step is in progress - at least some evidence in the step is underway, but nothing is waiting for revision.
And what do the numbers mean? They show how many evidences have been marked completed, out of the total number of evidences in the step.
To get started, a learner scrolls to find their project, and then selects the step that they want to work on. They can click on the eyeball icon in the upper right corner of each tile to see the project description if they are not yet familiar with that project.
Evidence Cards
Once a learner selects a project and step, that step opens in the larger right panel. Each evidence in that step appears on it's own card that is color coded, using the same color definitions as the project tiles.
Above the step name (on the blue bar), buttons appear for project description and step description, but only if the teacher has included them. Learners should be coached to look there for information about the project and specific directions for each step, assuming that you as a teacher include those descriptions. The descriptions open in a wide-format box for easier reading.
The details of each evidence card should be familiar to learners. The name is in the upper left corner, followed by any applicable flags - for overdue evidence, for step assessments.
All tagged skills are listed on the left with their ratings and weightings. As before, a learner can click on the skill name to read the skill definition and the criteria for each skill level, if specified by your school.
On the right, learners will find the evidence's status, due dates, comments, files (resources or artifacts) and action buttons to start an assignment, to upload artifacts, and to submit evidence for review.
What about the Class Portfolios?
As before, learners can see how they're doing in their class if their
teacher has set their class status to either On Track or Needs
Attention, and their class grade if that has been shared with them.
To view class portfolios, a learner can always click the View Portfolios button in the upper right corner to see a list of each skill assigned in this class, along with the teacher's skill portfolio rating.
By clicking on the eyeball icon, a learner can then see a list of all
evidence that has accumulated in a specific skill portfolio, in this
class. Here, they also have the opportunity to enter their own self-rating of this skill, again in the context of this class.
Please note that if the learner does not have a class portfolio in a class, because skills haven't been tagged or evidence has not been pushed to the portfolios, then the View Portfolios button will not appear.
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