Classroom Release History
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Release History
Contents
v3.3.0 (2021-03-08)
Features
- - Student Management Dashboard!
Check it out by clicking the icon in the bottom-right of the screen. - - See real-time collaboration with named cursors when other users are working on the same canvas
- - Combined overview for Teacher and Huddle canvases
- - Text Editor: added strikethrough effect
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Magic Box: now supports importing .qb files - - More functionality when selecting groups of objects
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Chat Room: the teacher can turn off chat for Huddles or Public Chat - - More collaboration: students can edit objects created by others
- - Screen Record: pause and resume functions added
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File Management: export files to Google Shared Drive - - Student view: see which page the teacher is currently presenting with an icon in the bottom left.
- - Copy slides between huddles (teacher only): in Page overview, click the arrow to copy a page.
- - Drag and drop objects straight from the Magic Box menu into huddles, from Huddle Overview
- - Drag and drop objects straight from the Magic Box menu into pages, from Page Overview
- - Drag and drop a QR code linking to a copy of the session from File Share by QR code
- - In Page overview, drag and drop a page to re-arrange the page order
- - Allow users search-related information of AI object by Google
Improvements
- - We’ve improved the Student and Teacher Canvases, user settings, and login process
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Sticky note behavior is improved - - Improved Page Management behavior and reliability
- - Fixed bugs for iPad
- - Fixed bug for MacBook users for screen recording error
- - Keep your webpage list no matter which device or browser you use
- - Improved the speed of Magic Box
- - Many backend improvements
- - Many, many other bug fixes and tweak!
v2.10.5 (2021-02-01)
Improvements
- -[Resolved] Macbook user with Chrome Version 88 can't do screen recording.
- - Fixed some features not working when users upgrade to Chrome Version 88.
v2.10.3 (2021-01-04)
Features
- - Now supports Microsoft Word files (*.docx , *.doc).
Modifications
- -Updated copyright information.
Improvements
- -[Resolved] - [iPad] After using the onscreen keyboard on the iPad, the screen/position will be offset.
- -[Resolved] - Input field for session ID on sign in page (https://myviewboard.com/classroom/student) not appearing correctly.
- -[Resolved] - [Tool Bar] Changing the language in present mode resets toolbar to default.
- -[Resolved] - [Magic Box] [File management] [Import] Previously filename extensions were case-sensitive, now they are case insensitive.
- -[Resolved] - [Text Editor] Clicking "x" to exit text editor sometimes caused the text object disappear.
v2.9.5 (2020-12-07)
Features
- - Session Password: Classroom hosts can now choose to apply a password to their Classroom sessions. Students will be required to enter this password prior to joining the session. Passwords can be set from the user's FollowMe settings on myviewboard.com.
Modifications
- - Improved presentation and preparation interfaces.
- - View the session password in the session information area (beneath QR code).
- - Adorning menu for objects is always visible; never appears off-screen.
- - When opening a .qb file, there is a check-box option to change the current number of huddles to the same as that in the file.
- - Added "skip blank page" option when exporting pdf to local drive. When exporting to Google drive, or sharing via QR code, this is applied by default.
- - Magic Box improvements, including support for Google Drive
share with mefiles. - - Changed default font size to 24.
- - Thumbnails for pages improved - now include objects, images, YouTube, widgets, web content, and clips.
- - "No Guests allowed" option removed from the Setting page.
- - Ping value (indicator of network strength) visible to students.
- - Chat improved.
- - Shape object minimum size set to 10*10 pixels as default.
- - Huddle canvas will be cleared after the teacher changes huddle number.
Improvements
- - Reduced time taken to open and import files.
- - Various performance and reliability improvements.
- - Restored earlier function of immersive reader
, reducing errors.
v2.8.3 (2020-11-03) Hot Fix
Features
- - Integrated myViewBoard Clips
into the Magic Box 
. - - Sticky Note
feature is available for both teachers and students to use.
v2.8.2 (2020-11-02)
Features
- - [Google Classroom] Allow exporting the .PDF file of the session onto Google Classroom Announcement.
- - [Google Classroom] Post session info onto Google Classroom's course announcement.
- - Added support to import Google Docs files.
- - Integrated myViewBoard Clips into the Magic Box .
- - Teacher can crop specific parts of an image.
- - Sticky Note feature is available for both teachers and students to use.
Modifications
- - When exporting PDF files, footer info now includes session information, huddle name and attendee list
- - SVG files can no longer be set as backgrounds.
- - Public chatroom will be cleared after the host reloads the session.
- - After the teacher changes the session code to a personal ID, the Google classroom announcement of myViewBoard Classroom is updated
- - Updated the URLs to access Classroom, based on role:
- For teacher: https://myviewboard.com/classroom/teacher/
- For student: https://myviewboard.com/classroom/student/
Improvements
- - [Fixed] If a teacher turns on video streaming, students' canvas is not synchronized after disconnection and reconnection.
- - [Fixed] If a teacher turns on video streaming and there are over 99+ messages in the chat room, the students' side is automatically refreshed.
- - [Fixed] After exporting a canvas with SVG files to PDF, the SVG files are missing.
- - [Fixed] After exporting a canvas with a color background to PDF, the background color is missing.
- - [Fixed] Issues related to Clips integration.
v2.7.4 (2020-10-12)
Features
- - Support immersive reader
- - Add Russian language support
Modifications
- - The session ID will be added "!" as a prefix
- - Allow to import pdf/ppt/svg files from Magic box and only allow to open qb file
- - Allow user to import SVG image format from Cloud Drive/Local Drive
- - Ability to the teacher customizing the number of groups
- - Ability to user join the session with Personal Session ID via myViewBoard.com
- - Set the maximum length of student/guest name to 32 characters on the sign-in page
- - Set the limit canvas number to 30
- - Support Mobile phone users login classroom
- - Set background Image - 'Gif image” is not supported
- - Redefine the Wi-Fi reconnection flow of iPad
- - Redesign the flow of the warning message for playing YouTube video
- - [Chat Room] Optimize the flow for sending a message to ChatRoomServer and the rendering flow for VirtualDOM
- - [Chat Room] Redesign the flow for restoring chat history
- - Change wording of Personal Session ID and allow users to update via hyperlink
- - [Adornment Management] Added Zoom out icon
- - [Shape] Adjustment pane of graphics shape
- - [Text Editor] Immersive reader function enabled when only one text object is selected
- - [YouTube] Only supported to play one video at a time
- - [YouTube]The Youtube object is not supported to change the layer
- - [SyncFlow] Implement a cache service for transferring massive data.
v2.6.5 (2020-09-07)
Features
- - Import PowerPoint files(.ppt/.pptx)
- - Forbid guests to join the session
- - Set a selected image as the background image
- - Import image files from a local drive on teacher/student view
- - Set a fixed session ID
- - Added copyright and branding info
Modifications
- - Selector: User is unable to move or Zoom in/out on any object during Present mode
- - Import Webpage: Display 8 URLs per page and add pagination
- - Limited total attendees to 30
- - When switching to huddle broadcast, editing the canvas can only be done by the host and huddle users with appropriate permissions
- - Updated the myViewBoard Classroom icon
- - Redesigned the stream-related function/Socket Disconnect/Socket Reconnect flow
- - Redesigned the MQTT reconnect/disconnect flow
- - Added a message hint that notifies users when the network gets disconnected
Improvements
- - Added support for Chrome version 85 and above
- - Improved response times for instances when 30 students are drawing on the canvas at the same time
- - Increased space between copied and original objects
- - Assigned background images will be stretched to fit the canvas while keeping its aspect ratio intact
- - Consistent 'copy object' behavior for the triangle and square shapes
v2.5.1 (2020-08-03)
Features
- - Bad word filtering for English inside chat
Modifications
- - Disable Screen Recording and Screen shot on Android and iOS because of a JavaScript API limitation
- - Attendees and huddle group management panel is hidden after creating a session
Improvements
- - Improve connection stability
- - Adjust the UI of file and folder listing in Magic Box
v2.44.0 (2020-07-06)
Features
- - User can sign in with myViewBoard account to join a Classroom session
- - New file menu
- - Add 'fill color'
on the side tool bar - - Add 'fit to screen'
on the side tool bar - - Add 'duplicate page'
on the page management menu
Modifications
- - The AI Pen menu
will be closed automatically if the host disables student editing permission - - Laser pen feature
has been removed from the student view
Improvements
- - Place tooltips on all necessary icons
- - Beautify the new background management menu a little bit
- - Refined the Login Code display style for Huddle and List View
- - Refined the sync flow of YouTube object
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