We just launched a new feature that helps teachers add explanations to struggling questions. Check out the feature in the new "Experimental" section:

You can also read more about this feature in this article.

We recently made some quality-of-life improvements and also added a feature to make it easier for teachers to review struggling questions with their students. You can read all about these changes in our latest community update!

We recently added 2 new features:

1. For teachers who are about to start a new school year: the ability to create a new course that has questions and assignments from a previous course.

2. Free response required keywords: you can now add keywords that students must include in their free response answers in order to get the question correct:

We recently improved the Personal Deck Freeze system! You can read all about the updates here: https://community.podsie.org/posts/242021-updates-personal-deck-freeze-improvements

Hi all, to prevent your students' personal decks from building up too much during the Thanksgiving break, please consider freezing their personal decks. For more details, check out this article in our community space: https://community.podsie.org/posts/important-reminder-freeze-your-personal-decks-during-the-thanksgiving-holiday

We recently added a teacher homepage and the ability to sort standards categories and standards! You can read more details, ask questions, or provide feedback about these features here: https://community.podsie.org/posts/102021-updates

We recently added the folowing features:

- New types of student email notifications

- The ability to prevent students from changing their names

We also fixed a bug that prevented student's personal deck streak from counting past 93 days.

You can read more details in our community update post!

This past week, we added another view to allow teachers to gain further insights into the state of their students' Personal Decks. First, we removed the Personal Deck view from the class page:

We moved this view to the Student Progress view. There, we added a view where you can now see the number of questions a student has currently due, how many are about to be due in the upcoming week, and how many are due more than a week out:

Personal deck reviews are now broken up into individual sessions. By default, each session will have at max 20 questions in it:

Concretely, this means the following:

1. Let's say for example that a student had 68 questions due. When a student starts a study session, it will pull the 20 most due questions into a study session. 

2. If a student misses a question during the study session, that missed question will appear at the end of those 20 questions, and not at the end of the 68 questions. This will allow students to progress through review questions in a chunked manner.

3. When students complete the 20 questions, they will get an opportunity to review their progress, and then start another study session. 

Please feel free to email me at josh@podsie.org if you have any thoughts or feedback on the way this is set up!

You can now add student answers as an acceptable answer for free response questions:

For example, let's say that the exemplar answer to a free response question was "they are similar", but the student put "exactly the same" as the free response answer and then marked that they got the question correct. In this case, this free response would likely be flagged for review because the student answer is a bit different than the exemplar. 

If you mark that 'Answer is Acceptable', then "exactly the same" would be added as an acceptable answer that would no longer be flagged in the future for review. These "acceptable answers" are not visible to students, and they will continue only seeing your exemplar answer.