Change Log

New Features

• • Classroom Challenge

    • MyClass now has an all-new Challenge Mode that lets teachers run classroom-wide competitions

    • Includes real-time scoreboards, end-of-session feedback, and a brand new experience for launching and managing Classroom Challenge sessions.

  • Reward System

    • During Classroom Challenge, students can also earn rewards by answering questions correctly in a row, attempting all questions, to reward discussion and more.

    • Students have a new dashboard widget to help them keep track of their rewards

    • The MyClass Shop allows teachers to configure the reward type students can earn in their class, and allows students to “spend” their rewards on a treat of your choosing!

Improvements

• • Performance – The eraser function and no longer results in performance drop when used extensively
  • Performance – Enhanced lesson load speeds and fixed delays during launch, especially on lower-spec devices
  • Text- Improved text selection, wrapping, and alignment to better match between teacher and student devices
  • Text – Improved behavior when selecting and editing text inside pre-existing text objects, ensuring consistent formatting and cursor behavior
  • General – Refined undo/redo behavior
  • General – Resolved UI layouts on various dialogues for a wider variety of screen sizes
  • General – Increased the speed and responsiveness of the slide sorter
  • General – Improved background handling and content rendering across all slide formats
  • General – Improved co-presenter handling and transitions between sessions
  • General – Improved the CSV import process when importing students to a class

Bug Fixes

• Android – Fixed issue where AI-generated lessons would not complete on Android 11, and keyboard popped up unnecessarily on Android 13
• Android – Resolved issue where students could not type into new text objects reliably on Android
• Android – The sound selector for the dashboard timer widget text is now styled correctly for readability
• Text- Fixed various text wrapping inconsistencies on student side when viewing text boxes created by the teacher
• Text – Fixed various problems with typing or applying formatting to partially-selected text segments
• General – Fixed an issue where re-ordering slide items would impact thumbnail generation
• General – Fixed a case where students could undo teacher formatting changes
• General – Fixed session notifications not reaching all students or co-presenters in edge cases
• General – Various iPad UI issues are now fixed
• General – Cleaned up behavior of undo/redo on slides revisited during a session
• General – Improved background persistence when updating slides post-creation
• General – Fixed an issue where interferring / stopping an animation while animating would create a new stop/start point

Improvements

• • Android – MyClass Polling widget now supports screen capture
  • Android – Widgets will remember the last state on return or reload of the dashboard
  • Android – MyFrontRow widget now has QR code support
  • MyClass Poll – will now save results from anonymous sessions
  • Reporting – The class dropdown will now have an option for Anonymous classes
  • Games and Activities – Improved formatting, layout, text display
  • Assignments – When a lesson is deleted, users will now receive a prompt about assignments attached to it
  • General – Performance improvements

Bug Fixes

• • Android – resolved an issue where touching a text box would not allow editing it
  • General – Resolved a “user reached limit” experienced by some accounts
  • General – Resolved the Google Drive 403 error which could occur in certain scenarios
  • General – Fixed an issue where students were unable to complete certain Drag & Drop activities
  • Games – Inputting longer text into the add/edit answer options for the games and activities will no longer be slow
  • Whiteboard – pressing the DEL key when using a keyboard will no longer delete the entire textbox
  • Video Conferencing – Resolved UI issues for students joining

New Features

• • New Matching and Flashcards activities! Pro users can create their own matching pairs activities, flashcard activities, and choose from a selection of game modes. Free and VIP users can download and use matching and flashcard activities from the Games library and Community.

Improvements

• • Session handling improvements
  • Performance improvements
  • Report section will now include an option to show Anonymous classes
  • Adding and deleting a PDF from the whiteboard are and sidebar is now more consistent
  • Improved keyboard shortcut support when working with text objects
  • When lessons are deleted, the relating assignments will also be deleted, after a confirmation prompt is shown
  • Joining as a co-presenter on a 2nd device on a “Student Choice” activity will show correct for that device
  • MyClass Poll – improved result saving
  • MyClass Poll – students will now receive a prompt if they press the “back” button in their browser when joined to a session
  • MyClass Launcher – widgets will remember last-used state on return to the dashboard
  • MyClass Launcher – now included a profile icon when signed out for quick links and sign in options
  • MyClass Launcher – internet detection improvements

Bug Fixes

• • Resolved UI issues for videoconferencing when joining as a student
  • Inserting a new slide while delivering a live presentation will no longer affect 2nd device takeover functionality
  • Lesson size calculations will show correctly after copying and pasting slides
  • Adding and removing audio from a slide issues have been resolved
  • Lesson content added via the Lesson Search to Content Shared With Me folder is now appearing as expected
  • Google Drive API error resolved when downloading an image from Add Media
  • MyClass Launcher – creating and saving a new whiteboard session will now update the Recent Lessons list
  • MyClass Launcher – undo and redo now work as expected for students who join a launcher-based session

• New MyClass license models have been implemented:
  • a Free version that is available to anyone
  • VIP version (promotional use)
  • Pro version

Further details including a license matrix are available at https://boxlight.com/products/apps-for-the-classroom/myclass 

• Users can now register and sign-in to MyClass without a license
• View storage details for each lesson and total storage used in the profile section
• Performance improvements
• Improved handling of internet loss
• Keeping devices from sleeping in most cases while in presentations
• Better handling of sign-ins
• New polling widget on dashboard allows for quick, informal polls to the class
• New FrontRow Widget on dashboard allows control of FrontRow hardware (if you have MyFrontRow license)
• MimioStudio Ink files are now included in the lesson library. This brings the total lessons that exist in MimioConnect to nearly 20k!
• Lessons that came from the MimioStudio community and have an Ink file attached are shown with a different icon in the search section, allowing for faster identification. MimioStudio users can also filter to only show lessons that include Ink files
• Files that include MimioStudio Ink files are pre-converted to MyClass format but the original file is available for download and use in MimioStudio.
• Improvements have been made to the MimioStudio Ink file import process. Files that used the most common SWF objects like ‘Bubble Pop’ will convert those objects to animations within MyClass. Other SWF objects will report ‘Type SWF not supported’
• Improvements to the ‘Student Choice’ mode for Sorting & Drag and Drop questions.
• Various additional bug fixes