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New Feature: Highlighting Text

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Students now have the ability to highlight questions and associated text as an aid while working on an assignment.

At the bottom of the Question page is a new Enable Highlighting checkbox. When checked, a floating “Highlight” toolbar is displayed. The students can use their mouse to select any text, then click one of the highlighting buttons to set the background color of the selected text. Three highlighting colors are available.

A white “X” button in the Highlight toolbar removes the highlighting.

Note: Highlighting will not work if the student’s “Text Selection” access rights are disabled.  Teachers can modify access rights on the Access Rights tab of the Classes page.

Duplicate Classes Created by Other Teachers

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Cooperative teaching environments are increasing in popularity, and we’ve made it easy to duplicate another teacher’s class.  Here’s how:

  1. From the Teacher Home Page click Classes
  2. Click the Duplicate Existing Class link
  3. Select a teacher from the drop-down menu
  4. Select a class to duplicate
  5. Click OK

The class and its students will be added to your list of classes


Search for Students Using One or More Grades

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It is now easier to filter your school’s list of students to view only a specific grade or multiple grades.  Here’s how:

  1. From the Teacher Home Page click Classes
  2. Create a new class or select a class to add a new student
  3. On the Class Management tab click Add Students
  4. Near the top of the page click the blue plus sign next to Category Filter
  5. Select one or more grade categories, and the student list will display only the selected categories