Changelog

Setting up your filters are now easier than ever. Set up your filters once, and we will make sure to save your filter settings in the future 💾 No need to manually change the filters every time you enter Eduflow ✨

We are continuously making both large and small improvements to Eduflow. Follow along here on Canny or Twitter to get the latest updates.

There are often cases where you want to add someone to a course with restricted editing rights and access to data. With our new assistant role type it's now possible to do that!

If you're on the Lite plan or above, you are able to invite assistants from the course participants page. Simply click the Invite participants button and select Invite assistants.

Assistant permissions

An assistant has limited access to your course. They cannot make any edits to content or settings. Assistants can only access data from and interact with students that they have assigned. To assign students to an assistant, find them in the participants list, click the action menu button and select Assign students.

Select the students assigned to the assistant in the menu. The assistant will now only have access to data from their assigned students. That means the assistant will only be able to see completion data, submissions, reviews, discussion topics etc. from assigned students.

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Instructors on Eduflow are now able to toggle on our new email column in addition to our existing tags column on the summary page. We hope this improvement to the summary page will make it even more useful to all instructors using Eduflow ✨

We at Eduflow find accessibility to be key to delivering the best learning experience 👩💻. We are therefore happy to announce official support for captions and subtitles on video uploads on Eduflow ✨

🔢 This is how easy it is:

• Add a video activity to your course
• Upload your video file
• Upload your subtitle file (we support .vtt)
• Your captions and subtitles have now been added to the video

Being on-brand is an important way to distinguishing yourself from others and to reassure participants they're in the right place. We've added visual customisation and branding options to your institution and courses now so you can make it uniquely yours!

How visual customisation & branding works

If you're on a Pro plan or higher you can now:

• Add your logo to be displayed in the header
• Change font family
• Change accent color
• Change border radius

The changes will affect all pages within your institution so you don't need to change it for every page and to create a consistent look n' feel across your institution.

To use the feature, head over to your Institution dashboard > Settings > Logos & theme.

In here, you will also see an option to allow instructors to override the institution theme within their courses. If this is enabled, a custom theme for each course can be created. You will find the course theming options in the course context menu.

Happy theming! 🎨

Whether you want to keep an extra copy of all the submissions in an activity, want to be able to read the submissions offline or just find it more convenient to store them locally on your computer it is now possible to bulk download all submissions on Eduflow with the Eduflow lite plan. Now there is no need to download them all one-by-one ✨

This is how simple it is:

• Navigate to a submission activity
• Click on 'View submissions'
• Find the 'Download all submissions' button in the bottom left corner
• The submissions are now on their way to your inbox

Learn more about the Eduflow lite plan here: https://www.eduflow.com/pricing

Add a unique touch to your courses with our latest feature addition: activity cover photos!

Adding visual aids in your material can have a positive effect on the learning experience (1). It helps learners create a context for the activity they're about to engage with and also helps better recollect information and navigate the course. Plus it's fun!

How to add a cover photo to an activity

1. Above the activity title there's an 'Add cover photo' button. Click it.
2. A random cover photo has now been added at the top of the activity.
3. Use one of the 4 options to select your cover photo:

• Search through Unsplash
• Upload your own
• Link to an image file online
• Shuffle through random photos until you find the right one!

To remove a cover photo, simply hover over it and click on the 'Remove' button.

The eco-system of apps used to power modern organisations is increasing by the minute.

• Email marketing platforms (MailChimp, ActiveCampign etc.)
• Payment gateways (Stripe, Gumroad etc.)
• Survey tools (Typeform, Jotform etc.)
• Databases (Airtable etc.)
• Websites (Webflow, Squarespace etc.)

To make sure Eduflow will always fit into your workflow, we're releasing a Zapier integration that allows you connect your Eduflow account to more than 2000 apps!

Here are 3 examples of workflows you can build with the Zapier integration:

Example #1: Charge students for your course

Create a Zap with Eduflow and a payment gateway like Stripe or Gumroad. Set it up an action that sends a student invite email once someone has made a purchase.

Example #2: Send a custom student invite email

Create a Zap with Eduflow and Zapier's email sender. In your Zap, disable the default invite email sent out by Eduflow and send out your own custom email. Remember to include the invite link in your email, so your students can sign up to their account.

Example #3: Complete an activity when a survey has been answered

Create a Zap with Eduflow and a survey provider like Typeform or Jotform. Set up your Zap to complete an activity in one of your courses, once the form has been submitted. Remember to include an identifier in your form, so Eduflow can find and mark the student complete.

... but wait, there's more! This release only covers v1 of our Zapier integration and includes Zapier Actions. In our next release, coming up very soon, we'll add Zapier

Triggers

to our integration, making it even more powerful to use. So stay tuned!

The Zapier integration is available to customers on our Pro and Premium plans. Read our Help Center article covering all relevant information about our Zapier integration.

We have added a new tab in the Add instructors invite modal that allows you to search through all instructors in your institution and add them as co-instructors to your course.

This will make it easier to add instructors that are already part of your institution. No need to remember or retrieve their emails anymore!

Learn more about all of the different ways you can invite other instructors to your courses here.

Who wants to work alone when you can collaborate in groups? 👥 .. Today we are super excited to announce our new group formation activity on Eduflow, one of the most requested features by our users 🙌.

Our new group formation activity makes it possible for instructors and students alike to create groups. In combination with our updated submission activity, the new group formation activity lets students submit group work directly on Eduflow ✨

These new groups additions lay the foundation for making groups supported for more activities throughout Eduflow. We are excited to see where this will take us next ⚡️

We hope you all will make good use of these latest additions to Eduflow 😊

A picture is worth a thousand words, and that's a lot of words these days when our attention spans are decreasing. We've now made it easier to make your course stand out and look good. Introducing our new and improved course thumbnail picker!

The new thumbnail picker is available from the course context menu or from the 'Edit thumbnail' button that will appear when you hover over the thumbnail.

🔍 Search images on Unsplash

To easily find a thumbnail image that fits your course, we've made an integration with Unsplash so you can search and find a good-looking thumbnail image in no time.

⬆️ Upload your own image

You can now upload your own image file to be used as the thumbnail for your course.

🔗 Image link

If you have a thumbnail file that's already hosted somewhere on the internet, you can point to that and we'll show it as the thumbnail.

✨ Shuffle through thumbnails

Inspired by Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button, you can click the 'Shuffle' button and get a randomly selected thumbnail image for your course. Keep clicking the button until you find one that fits your course!

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Are you ready to share an interactive video experience directly with students on Eduflow? Now it is possible with the new HapYak interactive video activity on Eduflow ✨

💡 This is how simple it is to share a HapYak interactive video that students can participate in on Eduflow: Sign in to your HapYak account to create or find an existing HapYak project. Click on share, choose HapYak wrapper and copy the embed code to the HapYak activity.

Narrow or wide, however you prefer your course sidebar, you can now adjust it to your own liking. Simply hover the edge of the sidebar, click and drag to the preferred size.

💡 Tip:

If you want to change it back to the default width, simply double click on the edge and it will snap right back into place. Happy resizing!

There's no time to waste when it comes to running your courses. But sometimes it can be difficult to quickly find the one you're looking for on your courses overview – especially if you have a lot of them. To speed up your workflow, we've added a search input that allows you to quickly find courses.

To search your courses, click on the input and simply start typing the title of the course you're looking for. For the keyboard savvy users with no time to waste, you can also type '/' on your keyboard to focus the input field.

Christmas is upon us, so we thought we'd celebrate by giving you one of the most requested features on our roadmap. You can now copy flows & activities between courses 👯‍♂️.

How to copy flows & activities

1. Go to the course you want to copy your flows and activities into.
2. Click on the copy button in the bottom of the sidebar.
3. Select the course you want to copy from.
4. Select the flows and activities you wish to copy.
5. Click Copy in the top right corner of the context menu.

We are happy to announce that our newly improved select a tag activity now makes it easy for all instructors to view selectable tags directly on the select a tag activity front-page. In addition, we have introduced easy access to the number of students who have or have not chosen a tag yet in the meta-data section 🔢

We hope you will make good use of these latest additions to the select a tag activity 🏷 😊

We are happy to announce that tags and filters now are available in the summary page in Eduflow. 🙌 This latest addition to the summary page makes it possible for instructors to view, sort and filter students by tags. 🏷

In addition, instructors are now also able to export the table, including tags, to either a .csv or excel file 📄

We hope you all will make good use of it! 😊

Today we are announcing filtering and sorting for the result viewer interface in Eduflow 🎉

This latest addition to the result viewer interface makes it possible for instructors to filter and sort student results, for instance submissions and peer reviews, by attributes which among the many available include tags, date and time, status and quality 📅 🏷 💯

Furthermore, we have added timestamps to all student entries in all activities across the entire interface – making it easy for instructors to know whenever any student delivery is delivered⏱

Last, but not least, instructors can now decide the kind of information they find relevant by choosing exactly which attributes, such as tags and status, that should be displayed in the sidebar of the result view interface for any activity. We thereby give the instructors the power to customize the result viewer interface to match their exact needs at any given time.

We hope you all will make good use of it! 😊

Spreadsheets have been around since 1969 and they don't seem to go away anytime soon. And for good reason! It's a great tool for interpreting and manipulating data. That's why we're so excited to launch summary data exports today!

From the summary page, you will be able to export the current view in two file formats – .csv and .xls. The export will respect the view and ordering in the file you get. If you have a smaller course, the file will be downloaded directly in your browser. If you have a larger course, we will send the file to your inbox. Now all that's left for you to do is crunch the numbers! 💯

We just finished work on our newest addition to our activity family – the scoring activity!

The scoring activity makes it possible to take one or more inputs from your activities and configure a score for each student in a course. The scoring activity can be used to:

• Show students a score for their submission that's been reviewed by instructors, teaching assistants or by their peers.
• Create a combined score that evaluates student performance in multiple different activities.
• Set a passing threshold that must be met in order for students to move on to other activities in the course.

To learn more about the new scoring activity and how it works, read our extensive Help Center article here: https://help.eduflow.com/en/articles/4362197-scoring-activity

If you or one of your colleagues know how to get your hands dirty with code, this update will suit you well! From your institution dashboard, you're now able to retrieve an API key and access your data programmatically ⌨️.

To get an API key, you need to:

1. Go to your institution dashboard
2. Go to 'Settings', then select the 'Developer API' tab.
3. Click the 'Generate API key' button.
4. Copy your key and explore our docs to get started.

To access our API, you'll need to be on the Pro plan or higher.

Do you ... also ... ge ... t ... annoyed ... when videos ... aren't loading ... properly?

Us too!

That's why we've been working on improving video streaming in Eduflow. There's no visible change for you, but we've done a lot of magic behind-the-scenes to make videos load faster and more smoothly. This is one of those quality-of-life improvements that will not be very noticeable, but that we hope you'll appreciate!

As you might have already noticed we've rolled out institutions in Eduflow 🏛! From the top left corner of your overview page, you will see the name of the institution you're in. Clicking the institution name will open up a context menu where you can switch to another institution or create a new one.

If you're the owner or an admin of the institution, you will have access to the institution dashboard. From the institution dashboard, you have a full overview of all participants enrolled in the institution, what their user type is and all the courses within the institution. It is also from the dashboard you can invite admins, instructors or students to join the institution.

This might not seem as an impressive upgrade to Eduflow. After all, the functionality for the institution dashboard is still very limited. But it does create the foundation for some exciting, new features moving forward, such as:

• Analytics dashboard
• API access
• Single sign-on for institutions
• Self-service subscriptions

We already hard at work on those, so stay tuned!

👋 Have you ever wanted to only let a subset of your students get access to certain flows and activities in your Eduflow courses? With our introduction of assigning activities and flows to subsets of students, you can ✨ The feature is simple and intuitive to set up – yet it is very powerful!

Assign students manually or by tags

As an instructor, you can either assign your students to flows and activities manually by choosing them individually one by one or by using tags.

🏷 Combining the select a tag activity with the new feature for assigning activities and flows feature makes it even more powerful: Students can now select one or more tags and instantly access to flows and activities of your choosing.

How it works:

1. Navigate to any flow or activity
2. Click the 'Edit' button in the top right corner of the flow or activity
3. Scroll down to the rules section and find 'Assign activity/flow to a subset of students'
4. Toggle on 'Assign activity/flow to a subset of students'
5. Manually assign students or switch to using tags
6. You have now successfully assigned the activity or flow

Have you ever wanted to share a Zoom meeting with students directly on Eduflow? 📹 This is now possible with the new Zoom meeting activity on Eduflow. The Zoom meeting activity lets instructors easily share a Zoom meeting that makes it easy for students and instructors alike to join the meeting directly from Eduflow. ☎️

👩‍💻 This is how simple it is to share a Zoom meeting that instructors and students can participate in via Eduflow:

• Sign in to your Zoom account to create or schedule a meeting.
• Copy and enter the invite link in the Zoom activity on Eduflow and you are good to go.