The biggest Signal week yet. Organise sessions into groups and folders — each group with its own icon, colour and an Insights tab showing learning outcomes across sessions — and generate a whole session or a single question with AI from a text prompt, a lesson plan, or an uploaded file.
Nurture Assessments
Improvements
Assignment creation: Attach supporting material and sources for question generation to draw on; the marking scheme is now generated as its own step; Nurture explains which curriculum references it used (and clears stale ones on regenerate); success criteria are displayed throughout; and the 10-document limit on task generation is gone.
Fixes
AI assistant: Fixed an occasional error cutting off responses mid-stream.
Nurture Signal
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Groups & folders: Organise sessions into folders, and group them under a class or group with its own identity and insights, filterable by date and participant.
AI generation: Generate a single question or an entire session from a text prompt, a lesson plan, or an uploaded file — with your group’s context understood and everything editable before you use it.
Check-in polls: Run a quick poll with no right or wrong answer — perfect for temperature checks and quick class decisions.
Structured reflection: Choose a reflection framework for assessments, drop reflection checkpoints into a session, or run a reflection-only session.
Preview as participant: Step through your session exactly as a student will see it before going live.
Free & premium plans: Start free and unlock more as you grow into it — including AI-personalised feedback on quiz assessments for premium hosts.
Refer a friend: Share a personal referral link straight from the app.
PDF export: Alongside whole-session exports, export a single student’s insights view as a PDF — handy for parent meetings and records.
Improvements
Results: Question results now lead with the percentage correct (raw counts alongside) and put Nurture’s recommendation at the top, ahead of the detailed breakdown.
Dashboard: A redesigned session list with clearer cards and role badges, a decluttered top navigation, and — if you host more than you join — the dashboard now opens on your hosted sessions.
Host controls: Limit participants to responding only to the posted check-in question, toggle quiz confidence and reflection steps, decide whether students explain their answers, and turn reactions on or off.
Answers: Participants can change their poll or quiz answer right up until the reveal or the question closes.
Attention nudge: If something needs you while you’re on another tab, Signal plays a sound and changes the tab icon.
Signal sessions grew up this week: prepare your questions before class and release them one by one during the lesson, step back through any finished session with replay, and duplicate a session to run it again with another class.
Nurture Assessments
Improvements
Assignment generation: Generated assignments no longer include instructions about how long a student should spend or exactly how to submit — that stays at your discretion.
Security & reliability: We completed a round of proactive security hardening across the platform, further strengthening access controls, session security and data isolation between classrooms and schools.
Fixes
AI feedback: In some setups the AI could treat the assignment’s marking scheme as if it were the student’s answers. Feedback is now always drafted from the student’s actual submission.
Nurture Signal
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Prepared questions: Build a full set of questions before a session starts — including hinge questions — and publish each one when the moment is right.
Question types: Checking for Understanding now supports single- and multi-answer diagnostic questions, with AI guidance appearing inline the moment a question closes.
Replay & duplicate: Step back through a finished session exactly as it unfolded, or duplicate one — questions and content included — to run it again.
Engagement checkpoints: Add checkpoints that ask every student to check in on the Engagement Continuum at the moments you choose.
PDF export: Export a full session — questions, responses and insights — as a print-friendly PDF.
Improvements
Sharing: Start a session before anyone’s joined and Signal now prompts you with the share link, so a class is never left waiting at a blank screen.
Joining: Students arriving late can now join a session while it’s paused instead of being locked out until it resumes.
In-session UI: A tidier session header, a friendlier empty state for the participants list, a confirmation step before presentation mode opens, and less badge clutter on participant rows.
Fixes
Sessions: Starting a session always returns the host to question 1, so the wrong question can’t be released by accident.
Say hello to Checking for Understanding — a new Signal session type built on an established misconceptions framework. Pose a carefully-designed hinge question, watch responses land in real time, and let Nurture suggest whether to move on, revisit, or regroup — whole class or small groups.
Nurture Assessments
New
Assignment creation: Creating an assignment with AI is now a staged, step-by-step flow — set the task up, review what’s generated at each step, and refine as you go instead of getting everything at once.
Student insights: A new insights view pulls a student’s work together into an AI-generated picture of their strengths and where to focus next.
Improvements
Feedback: Refining a single section now opens a full editor where you can edit directly and preview exactly what the student will see.
Fixes
Canvas: Fixed a visual alignment issue in the create-assignment panel so it sits flush with the Canvas tray.
Nurture Signal
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Checking for Understanding: Run diagnostic hinge questions live in class and get AI-generated guidance on what to do next.
Dispositions: Ask students how they’re approaching their learning with the new disposition question type.
Improvements
Answers: After choosing an answer, students are now asked “Why did you choose this answer?” — surfacing reasoning, not just the selection.
Session settings: The settings panel is reorganised into clearer groups, and a couple of redundant toggles are gone.
Engagement Continuum: Hosts can turn off the preset quick-select responses if they’d rather students always answer in their own words.
Security & reliability: We shipped a round of proactive hardening around session data access and participant identity.
Fixes
Admin dashboard: Reactions now count correctly (the counter was stuck at zero).
The big one this week: feedback review, redesigned. Instead of building feedback through an AI chat, teachers now start from a pre-filled draft — the comment, a suggested grade and a success-criteria breakdown — ready to review, tweak and approve. Same quality of feedback, far fewer steps.
Nurture Assessments
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Feedback review: Start from a complete pre-filled AI draft — comment, suggested grade and success-criteria breakdown — and review, adjust and approve, with AI help still on hand.
Math notation: Equations, subscripts and superscripts are now supported in AI-generated assignments, the editor, and file transcripts.
Improvements
AI editing: Ask the AI to change one part of your feedback and only that part changes — your manual edits everywhere else are left exactly as you wrote them.
Feedback: No more drafts for work that wasn’t submitted — feedback and grades are no longer generated for students who haven’t handed anything in, and the no-submission flow makes that status clear.
Fixes
Canvas: Approved grades for some assignments failed to sync back to Canvas.
Microsoft Teams: Teachers and students on manually-managed rosters could hit a dead end signing in — students are now enrolled automatically the first time they open Nurture from Teams.
AI feedback: Fixed an occasional error interrupting drafting when the AI response came back empty.
Nurture Signal
Improvements
Engagement Continuum: Students can now tap a quick preset response instead of typing one from scratch — still fully editable before sending.
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