Changelog

Four things this week: one StudyBoard for a whole cohort, Bluebook-style notes on the SAT, cleaner math in the question editor, and the StudySpaces API in beta.

1. One StudyBoard for a whole class

Cohorts now have a StudyBoards tab. Open a cohort from your classroom, click New StudyBoard, and every student in the cohort is already selected. A board holds up to 30 students; if your cohort is bigger, you pick who goes on it. Click Create StudyBoard and the board opens, ready for a whiteboard or a document.

• Tied to the cohort. The board keeps the cohort's classroom, only cohort students can be added, and a student who leaves the cohort comes off its boards automatically.

• Easy to spot. Cohort boards carry an amber cohort badge on the StudyBoards page and in a student's History, and an amber cohort chip next to the classroom chip on the board itself.

• One link for everyone. Hit Share, send the link, and each student's avatar turns green as they join.

• Back where you started. Closing a board you opened from a cohort takes you back to that cohort.

2. Take notes on the SAT, just like Bluebook

On SAT, SAT Adaptive and PSAT exams, students can now attach notes to their highlights, the way Bluebook works.

• Add a note from the highlight menu. Select text and the menu shows a new note button after the colors, underline and trash. Tap it to highlight the text and open a note. If the selection already has a note, the button takes you to that note instead.

• Notes sit beside the passage. Each note is a card in a column next to the passage, headed by the highlighted phrase in its highlight color. Notes save automatically, and the column collapses when you need the room.

• Anywhere in the question. Notes can go on the passage, the question prompt or the answer choices.

• Follows the section setting. Notes follow each section's Allow Text Highlighting switch, so they're on for Reading and Writing and off for Math.

• Tutors see them too. Every review of the attempt, in progress or finished, shows the student's highlights and notes read-only.

Along the way, typing the letters a to d in a note no longer picks an answer choice.

3. Math that looks the way you meant

Equations in the question editor got a round of improvements.

• Block equations. Click an equation and the Math Editor now has an Inline / Block switch. Block puts the equation on its own line, centered by default. Students see it that way, and it keeps its own line on StudyBoards and in PDFs.

• Equations select like text. Drag right across them, copy them with the text around them, or delete them with Backspace.

• Format an equation. The new Format button closes the Math Editor and opens the formatting toolbar for that equation, so you can highlight, color or align it.

• Alignment has its own button. The formatting menu now has an align button that shows the current alignment.

• Color pickers fixed. The highlight picker shows the current color, and picking a swatch fills in its value so you can confirm in one click.

4. The StudySpaces API (beta)

The StudySpaces API is in beta. If you'd like access, reach out to our team and we'll turn it on for your workspace.

The API lets you use your StudySpaces data outside StudySpaces: in a spreadsheet, a custom dashboard, or another tool you run your business on. Once it's on, owners and admins get a StudySpaces API card. Owners find it under Settings, Advanced, Integrations, and admins under Settings, Integrations.

• Choose what each key can do. Read access covers students, classrooms, assignments and submissions (tags are always included). Write access lets a key create quizzes and add activities to classrooms, assign activities to students and remove unstarted assignments, or restore archived students.

• Copy it once. The full key is shown one time only. After that you see its prefix, scopes and creation date, and you can revoke it whenever you like. Each workspace can have up to 5 active keys.

• Build what you need. Pull rosters, scores, submissions and mock exam results into your own dashboards and reports, sync StudySpaces with other tools, or build and assign quizzes from your own systems. The API reference link on the card documents every endpoint.

• Question text stays private. The API never returns question text.

Five things this week: ACT worksheets cut from official tests, parent reports you can shape section by section, Question Review for a whole cohort, one daily email instead of dozens, and room to add pages to any PDF on a StudyBoard.

1. ACT worksheets built from real tests

We turned official ACT questions into 275 short worksheets, 150 for English and 125 for Math, each one aimed at a single skill.

• English questions used to live inside long passages. Each one now stands on its own with just the sentence it needs, so it can go on any worksheet. The English worksheets follow the ACT reporting categories (Conventions of Standard English, Knowledge of Language, Production of Writing), 10 questions each.
• Math is split by the five ACT topics (Algebra, Functions, Geometry, Number and Quantity, Statistics and Probability), then by difficulty. Most subtopics come in Easy, Medium and Hard.
• Names tell you what's inside: ACT English: Punctuation - Comma Placement 1, ACT Math: Angle Properties - Easy 1.

Every question is used only once, and the questions are spread across the source forms, so no worksheet is one test in disguise. None of them appear in the SS Enhanced ACT tests, so the worksheets won't spoil those tests. Find them in the Content Store.

2. Parent reports, built your way

The Parent Report button on a student's Dashboard now offers two options: Generate one-off report and Set up automated reports. Both work the same way: settings on the left, and on the right a live preview of exactly what the parent will receive, updating as you go.

• Pick the sections. Thirteen of them, from This period at a glance and Progress toward goal to Skills, Mock exam scores, Coming up and Flashcards. Switch one off and it leaves the preview instantly. Sections with nothing to show are marked No data in this range, and Reset to default puts everything back.
• Pick the range. Last 7 days, last 30 days, since the last report, or custom dates.
• Add a note. Your Note to parent appears at the top of the report.
• Send it your way. Download PDF, Send me first to check it in your own inbox, or email it to the parent right away.

Automated reports go out on the schedule you choose (daily, weekdays, weekly, biweekly or monthly) at the day and time you pick. Each one can cover the last 7 days, the last 30 days, everything since the last report, or everything since enrollment. You can send a test email first, pause and resume, and see a history of what went out.

3. Question Review for a whole cohort (aka class)

The Question Review you know from a student's profile now works for a whole cohort. Open a cohort from your classroom and click the new Question Review tab to see every question the class has answered: its accuracy, how many students got it right, got it wrong or skipped it, and the average time spent.

• Lowest accuracy first, so the questions the whole class missed are right at the top.
• All Assignments or Cohort Assignments. See everything the cohort's students worked on in the classroom, or only what you assigned to the cohort.
• Search and filter. Search by question text or QID, filter by answer state, time spent and more, or narrow to specific assignments under Submissions.
• Re-assign the misses. Check the questions you want (or select every question that matches your filters), click Re-assign questions, and we build a practice set from them with the whole cohort already selected. Pick a date and it lands on everyone's calendar.

4. One daily digest of student activity

If your inbox fills up every time a student finishes something, this one is for you. Click your name at the bottom of the sidebar and find Custom Email Delivery. Turn it on and choose:

• Daily: one email a day instead of one per completion, at the hour you pick in your own time zone (6:00 PM Eastern unless you change it).
• None: you won't receive these emails at all.

The digest groups the day into Assignments completed, On-demand activities completed, Diagnostic leads and Offline exams submitted, with scores, time spent, and a button straight to each submission. It's set per workspace, so you can go daily in one and keep instant emails in another. It only changes how these emails reach you, not which ones you get: your existing notification settings still decide that.

5. Room to work on any PDF

Teaching from a PDF on a StudyBoard and running out of room? In Document View, click the new + (Add page) in the top-left toolbar and a blank page is added to the end of the document. It syncs live, so your student sees it right away and can work on it with you.

Pages you add get their own trash button, and if a page has annotations on it, you're told how many before it goes. The PDF's own pages can't be deleted, so the original is always safe. Adding and deleting pages is tutor-only.

Four things this week: a Library that finally sorts itself out, notes that cover a whole cohort at once, a record of what happened during an exam, and a filter for the questions a student got stuck on.

1. Your Library got a new look

The Library home used to be one long flat list. Now it opens as a set of cards, one per test, so SAT work sits with SAT work and you get where you are going in a click.
Each test keeps the same color everywhere you see it: SAT blue, ACT red, SSAT orange, ISEE purple, SHSAT green. Anything you have not sorted yet stays together under General, which you can position wherever you like. Open a card and the Library behaves exactly as it always has, with folders, table and gallery views, bulk actions, drag and drop and search, now scoped to what you opened.
New work sorts itself. Save an activity whose name or exam type says SAT and the save dialog already suggests the right place; activate a content pack and it lands with the rest of its test. You can rename, recolor and reorder the groups, and deleting one never deletes content, it just moves back to General. The product calls these groups collections, which is the word you will see on the "New collection" card and in the menus.

Favorites are personal to you. Pin any folder or activity and it jumps to the top under a Favorites divider, with everything else below it. There is a Favorites pill next to All, My Stuff and Shared. It filters wherever you happen to be rather than taking you somewhere new, so use it inside SAT and you see your SAT favorites, use it at the top level and you see all of them, however deeply they are buried.## 2. Notes for a whole cohort

Open a classroom, choose Cohorts in the sidebar, and pick a cohort: it now has a Notes tab, right after Program. Write one session note, pick the students it applies to, and each of them gets their own copy on their own Notes tab, the same way cohort assignments fan out to individual tasks.- Edit the cohort note later and the change reaches every copy, including copies you have already emailed.

• Pins and email status stay per student, so one student's pin does not move anyone else's.

• Share emails each parent about their own student only, and the preview lets you step through the emails one parent at a time before sending.

• A student who leaves the cohort keeps an already-emailed copy and loses an unsent one.

3. Exam Activity Log

Open a student's attempt, choose Actions, then See Activity Log. You get three counts for that attempt, pauses, window switches and full-screen exits, and a timestamped timeline naming the section each event happened in. Counts turn amber past five and red past fifteen.
The log records leaving full screen, pressing Escape while still in full screen, continuing after a browser refused full screen, and every pause and resume. It is staff only and never shown to students. The student History tab also gains Started, Paused and Resumed entries, and it now loads in a fraction of the time it used to.
This is the companion to the full-screen mode we shipped last week: you turned enforcement on, and now you can see what actually happened.## 4. Review by time spent

The Start Review modal gained the Time spent filter the Question Review tab already had. Choose Any, More than or Less than, set a number of seconds, and the question count updates as you go, so you can review only the questions a student rushed or only the ones that took them too long. Reset All Filters clears it with everything else.

Also this week

• Preview in Exam: open any Question Database question full screen in a real exam environment, SAT, ACT, MCAT or USMLE, rendered as a student sees it.

• Edit a question without losing your place: Edit question, Edit tags and Reload question now live in the review, preview and results views, so a bad question can be fixed mid-attempt without disturbing the student's answer, grade or timing.

• ACT Reading passages underline only the current question's span; ACT English still shows every underline.