It’s been a while since our last update, but that’s because we were making some major changes to the way that assignments are handled. In particular, for those of you who have multiple students in the same course, you’ll find that it is much easier to manage the schedules for each student separately, should they get out of sync in their progress.

New assignments interface

While under the covers it is very different, in most ways the new interface for assignments looks much as it did before. The most notable changes are:

• A checkbox at the top of each student’s tab lets you choose to see the shared assignments right on that student’s list, together with the assignments specific to that student. Now you can see a given student’s entire list of assignments in one place.
• Another checkbox lets you see the repeating assignments listed out, too.
• You can make changes to the text of one student’s copy of a shared assignment, to make adjustments specific to that student. You can also move that student’s copy to a different day.
• You can make changes to a single-day’s instance of a repeating assignment, in case the assignment is different on that one day, or needs additional information, or whatever.
• You can more easily re-order the assignments on a given day. The repeating assignments will always appear first, but you can drag the other assignments around to change their order.