Creating a session is now a single screen, teachers can follow each student’s progress, and students can get feedback after every answer.
Nurture Signal
New
- Student profiles: Open a classroom, go to the Students tab and click a name to see their accuracy, engagement, feedback and reflections in one place. Open answers marked against criteria now count towards accuracy, so some figures may look different.
- Feedback as you go: In self-paced quizzes, teachers can turn on feedback after every answer. Students see how they went straight away, and their answer is locked in.
- Saved progress: Students’ self-paced answers save as they move between steps. Teachers can see who is in progress and what they have written so far.
- Sessions from a file: Premium teachers can create a session from an uploaded file and attach supporting documents for more personal feedback.
- Question images: Add a description with up to three images to any question. Students see it neatly tucked under “Show more”, with images below the text.
- Model answers: Open questions can have up to five model answers, each showing which criteria it meets. When you share them, students can flip between them.
- Student directory: A new Students page lists everyone who has joined your sessions, across all your classrooms, with search, filters and profiles.
- Dashboard for everyone: Students and teachers now have a dashboard and a side menu to find their sessions and classrooms quickly.
- My insights: Students can see their own progress on each classroom’s page.
- Maths anywhere: Switch between Text and Maths on any writing field, including answers, comments, reflections and explanations.
- Avatars: Build your own cartoon-style avatar in your preferences, shown wherever your picture appears.
- Preview as student: See exactly what students see when they join, without joining.
- Check AI questions: Before you publish or start a session with AI-written questions you haven’t opened, you’re asked to confirm you’ve checked the answers and explanations.
Improvements
- Creating sessions: Set up a session on one screen. Pick the session type from a dropdown and the set-up appears right below it.
- Classrooms: Your classrooms now have their own section in the side menu, with search and a “General” view for sessions that aren’t in a classroom. The Classrooms page has a search box too.
- Teachers: A classroom’s Students tab now shows its teachers beside the students.
- Dashboard: Long lists show five rows, with “View all” to see more.
- Library: Preview a template before you use it, and see what it contains at a glance, such as “2 questions, 1 poll”.
- Sharing: Sharing to Microsoft Teams also copies the join link, and the share dialog shows the address to visit above the session code.
- Link previews: Shared session links show the teacher’s name and picture. Shared library links show a preview card too.
- Low-tech cards: Answer cards print at full paper size, and the scanner reads them from further away.
- AI questions: Answer keys are checked before AI-written questions reach you, and answer options are kept a similar length so the right one doesn’t stand out.
- On your phone: A tidier session header, larger menu buttons, easier library cards, and a side menu that stays open when you follow a link to a new tab.
- Sign-in: Signing in from another region carries on automatically, and an unneeded notice has been removed.
- Account menu: Quick links to “What’s new” and the Signal website, plus Nurture Learn in the side menu for teachers.
- Wording: Organisations are always called “My organisation”, and the sharing option now reads “Share with organisation”.
- Smoother feel: Drawers follow your finger, result bars glide, and motion is reduced if your device is set that way.
- Browser tabs: Each page now has its own tab title.
- Security & reliability: A round of security and reliability improvements.
Fixes
- Editing with AI: Improving or shortening a question no longer reshuffles your answer options.
- Maths: Wide formulas in an explanation no longer stretch the page past the screen.
Nurture Assessments
Fixes
- Canvas: Fixed a blank screen when opening an assignment for some people who aren’t enrolled as a student or teacher.