What's new in Nurture

Reviewing responses just got smarter: Nurture Signal now flags when an explanation looks like a guess or was pasted in, and counts guesses as half a correct answer so results reflect real understanding.

Nurture Assessments

Improvements

• Feedback: Feedback comments can now be up to 500 words long, up from 300, for when a longer note is needed.
• Teams app: Removed the floating support chat button for a cleaner workspace.

Nurture Signal

New

• Explanation insights: See when a participant’s written explanation looks like a guess or was pasted in rather than their own words, with guesses now counted as half a correct answer so recommendations reflect real understanding.
• Maths & LaTeX: Write and preview proper mathematical notation in questions, options and explanations, rendered in the platform’s own typeface so it reads like the rest of the page.
• Become a host: Share one link and it takes people straight to sign-up, sign-in or their dashboard, depending on where they’re up to — and when the link carries someone’s email, the form arrives pre-filled and ready to go.

Improvements

• Avatars: Anyone without a profile photo now gets a distinctive coloured initials avatar instead of a generic placeholder, shown consistently everywhere.
• Quiz reflection: Now talks about your “score” instead of your “grade”, for plainer language.
• AI session generation: If a session fails to generate with AI, you’ll now see the actual reason and a reference to quote if you contact support, instead of a generic error.

Fixes

• AI agent connections: Fixed an error that could stop an AI agent from connecting to your account.
• Quiz explanations: AI-written explanations now refer to answers by their wording instead of confusing option numbers.
• Self-paced quiz: Fixed a rare error some participants saw if they answered right as the host moved the session on; it’s now handled quietly.

Reading every student comment just got faster: premium hosts can now generate an AI summary of what students wrote, straight from the review screen.

Nurture Signal

New

• AI insights: Premium hosts can generate an AI-written summary of what students said in their free-text comments and reflections, instead of reading every response one by one.
• Become a host: New visitors to the host sign-up page can now create an account directly, and some organisations get their own branded sign-up page with their name and logo.

Improvements

• Reflection settings: Organisations can limit which reflection styles are available, so teachers only see the options their school wants used.
• Teaching guidance: The “check and adapt” guidance shown after each question now uses clearer, research-backed wording, with a tidier “Recommended” label.

Fixes

• Quiz reflection: The “Unlock grade” button now shows the correct open-padlock icon, matching the locked icon shown above it.

Building an assessment with AI feels less like a black box this week: watch your task questions and success criteria appear as they’re generated, with a safety net if a generation ever comes up short.

Nurture Assessments

New

• Assignment creation: Watch task questions and success criteria build up live as AI generates your assessment, with a clear retry if generation ever comes up empty instead of a blank form.

Fixes

• Assignment creation: Fixed an intermittent issue where the Task Questions field could show blank right after AI generated a draft, even though the content was there all along.

Nurture Signal

New

• Engagement insights: See how long a participant spent reviewing their feedback and writing their reflection, plus a flag if pasted text made it into their final answer.

Improvements

• Referrals: The referral prompt now appears once you’ve hosted a couple of qualifying sessions, and referral links are easier to copy and preview.

Fixes

• Self-paced quiz: The Share button now stays hidden until you publish the quiz, so participants can’t be handed a join link before there’s anything to answer.

Signal sessions are no longer a solo act: promote any participant to co-host so a colleague or aide can help run the session with you.

Nurture Assessments

Improvements

• Feedback: The student progress indicator now updates as soon as you approve a feedback draft, rather than waiting until it’s published.

Nurture Signal

New

• Co-hosts: Promote a participant to co-host so a colleague can help run the session with you.
• Organisation admin: Organisations can now have their own admins, with access scoped to their organisation’s domain and sessions.

Improvements

• Quizzes & polls: Answer options can now be shuffled independently for each participant.

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

New

• 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

New

• 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

New

• 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

New

• 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.