Classroom Release History

myViewBoard Classroom
Release History

NEW v3.20.3 September 5, 2022

New Feature

• Ruler (math tool):
  • Use the ruler to help you align text, graphics, and other elements on the canvas.
  • Display measurement units in inches or centimeters.
  • Find this tool in Magic Box > Tools.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

1. IFP users with built-in PC: Experience improved inking and fluidity.
2. ViewSonic ChromeBox users: Experience improved inking and fluidity.
3. PDF file export: When exporting a PDF, exporting performance is improved. In Huddle mode, individual PDFs will now export for each huddle.
4. Originals: View Popular Originals backgrounds in your region in the Backgrounds > Originals menu.

v3.19.5 August 1, 2022

New Feature

• Mandarin-Chinese Phonetic symbols tool support (exclusive to Taiwan users): Users can paste Chinese content or input Chinese characters with this tool. Phonetic symbols appear along with the Chinese characters, providing an intuitive method for kids to associate characters and their sounds.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

• File import performance improvement, especially for files that contain images and objects (previously took several minutes to open).
• Improved connection stability.

July 2022

New Features

• Dice tool: Set the face pattern of the dice as well as the number of dice.
• Embedded Web Page tool (found in the Magic Box):
  • Navigate web pages within the canvas.
  • Not all web pages support this feature. An external link button will be generated in these cases (the same as the previous functionality).

Improvements, Modifications, and Bug Fixes

• The Classroom logo has been updated.
• Safari support: Screen recorder is now supported on Safari.

June 2022

New Features

• Cropping images: Crop with a circular frame and drag the cropped frame around.
• Scoreboard:
  • Tally points for individual students and for huddles.
  • Students can view the scoreboard within their canvas view window.

Improvements, Modifications, and Bug Fixes

• Ladder Shuffle: Students can now see the names of other students/huddles; they can also see selected endpoints at the top of the ladder.
• Improved video conferencing performance.
• Improved iPad full screen support.

Notes

• Auto-save and screen recorder are currently disabled on Safari browser.
• Screen capture temporarily disabled on iPads.

May 2022

New Features

• Assessments:
  • Teachers can download an assessment template or create their own assessment.
  • Teachers can import assessments into the assessment tool.
  • Teachers can proctor an assessment: Set a time limit or manual conclude the assessment.
  • Techers can randomize questions and answers order.
  • Teachers can download a full class assessment report.
  • Students can download their own assessment report.
• Originals support:
  • Open Originals content (OLF file format, downloadable from the Originals site) via File Management.
  • Access favorited Originals content via File Management.
  • Access recently used content via File Management.
  • Import Originals graphics and backgrounds via Magic Box.
  • Import Originals games via Magic Box.
  • Favorite Originals backgrounds and access them via the Backgrounds menu.
• Up to 60 students can now join a Classroom session.

Notes

• Features with the tag TRIAL are available on a trial basis free of charge until myViewBoard changes the terms of service.

April 2022

New Features

• Teachers can name individual pages.
• Bopomofo fonts (Chinese language only) are supported.

Improvements, Modifications, and Bug Fixes

• Changed Dashboard icon.
• Link to Wiki page for Windows keyboard shortcuts added to Settings > About.
• View current teacher page in the Huddles overview.

March 2022

New Features

• Added new 2D shape: four square.
• Pages overview:
  • Multiple pages can be selected at once.
  • Multiple pages selected at once can be shared to huddles.
  • Multiple pages selected at once can be exported as a PDF.
  • Option to select all pages at once added.
• Huddles overview:
  • Teacher's pages visible as an index on the left side of the huddle overview.
  • Multiple huddles pages selected at once can be exported as a PDF.
  • Option to share selected huddles pages with other huddles.
  • Option to select all huddles.

Improvements, Modifications, and Bug Fixes

• Teacher's canvas layout update: Previously separated icons have been allocated into a single Classroom Management Toolbar.
• Huddles overview and Pages overview have been combined into one management window.
• Teachers can switch to Huddles mode or revert back to the Teaching mode on the teacher's canvas.

February 2022

New Features

• Keyboard hotkeys now supported on Windows.
• Added new shape: Booklet.
• Screenshot tool: Take a screenshot of your screen and paste it to the canvas as an object.

Improvements, Modifications, and Bug Fixes

• Stroke color is removed from the adorning menu of an object created with the highlighter tool.
• Auto-save:
  • Modifications made to an cloud storage file in a huddle will now auto save.
  • The host can choose to Cancel auto-save from File Management.
• An icon will appear when a media type is unsupported.

January 2022

New Feature

• Auto-save support for files that have been saved to cloud storage. The user can open the file from the cloud storage, and when changes are made, the file will automatically save those changes.

Releases 2021

v3.9.3 (2021-10-04) Features

- New Ladder Shuffle tool in magic Box - a random student or huddle picker and a fun way to engage your students in the learning process.

- 'Save' option in File Management. If the user opened the existing session file from the cloud drive, 'Save' will allow to update the last saved version with the current working one and overwrite the file.

Improvements and bug fixes

- When the teacher joins the huddle discussion, the teacher's camera and microphone remain the settings.

- Adjusted the layout of the Widget tool and its filter.

- Fixed the text with underline and strikethrough behavior, now it can be saved to .pdf.

- Enhanced the UI of Magic Box for cloud drive integrations.

v3.8.4 (2021-09-06)

Features

- New 2D shapes - right triangle, trapezoid, parallelogram

- New 3D shapes - sphere, semicircular sphere, trapezoidal cylinder

- Set an image from OneDrive or OneDrive for Business as background.

- Export your session materials in .qb & .pdf and recorded video to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business.

- Share your session materials with students by QR code with URLs to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business.

- myViewBoard Classroom is now available in Swedish (Svenska) & Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia).

Improvements and bug fixes

- New layout of Magic Box

- Improved AI pen search: the user is able to search for a drawn picture in Google, Magic Box image search, and Youtube.

- Added a warning message when the user imports a file that can't be converted successfully.

- Only one Classroom session is allowed per one teacher account at the same time. No matter they are opened in one browser tabs or across different browsers or devices. If a new session is created, the students with the old session code will receive a "Session ended" notification.

- Polls icon updated, and students are able to see the Polls results too.

v3.7.3 (2021-08-02)

Features

- Polls feature! Ask True or False or Multiple Choice questions.

- Updates to Premium tier Classroom:

- Students can join in "guest mode" only (no SSO from Google or Microsoft etc.).

- No myViewBoard Clips & 3rd party integration (Google Classroom, Sketchfab).

- New cylinder and cone shapes! (Main Toolbar > Shapes > 3D Shape).

- OneDrive and OneDrive for Business integration isnow available! Enable from Settings > Cloud integration.

- Rotate imported images and text.

Improvements and bug fixes

- The teacher can drag and move the teacher video box (or minimize if required).

- File upload limit set to 30 MB (for importing files to the canvas - does not affect saving to cloud or local storage).

- Add "Trial" label for Sketchfab and Polls features - we're excited to offer these new features, so if you have feedback please let us know!

- Enhanced layout of Google Drive and OneDrive - user is able to see full file name and folder name.

- myViewBoard Clips Quiz user interface updated.

v3.6.3 (2021-07-05)

Features

- Enable background blur for video (Settings > Audio & Video). This blurs the teacher's background for video streaming.

- Erase all drawing strokes (excluding locked objects).

- Teacher canvas zoom - the teacher can zoom into the canvas, which the students will also see.

- Added cube, tetrahedron, and quadrangular pyramid shapes.

- Turn pop-up notifications on or off for when students join/leave the session.

Improvements

- Enhanced YouTube and image search.

- Tuned streaming performance.

- Once students return after disconnection they will remain in the same huddle.

- Clips Quiz - improved answer reviewing, and UI for teacher's side.

- Fixed SDK bug - when a teacher joins a student's huddle discussion, all students will leave this room.

- Fixed Line issues on iPad

v3.5.6 (2021-06-07)

Features

- Breakout discussion for huddles: set a timed discussion for each huddle. The teacher can also listen to huddles.

- Draw lines (Shape > Line)

- Add tables (Shape > Table)

- Support YouTube Short URLs as video objects (Magic Box > Webpage)

- Option to require guests to be signed in to myViewBoard or Google Classroom to join Classroom session (settings)

- Support multiple Chinese font families

Improvements

- Recording feature is more intuitive, added recording time

- Streamlined Google Classroom integration

- Fixed Clips UI issues

- Fixed Magic Box UI issues

- Fixed Chat UI issues

v3.4.6 (2021-05-07)

Features

- Give students permission to either speak freely or raise their hand to get the teacher's attention

- Integrated Sketchfab 3D viewer (MagicBox -> SketchFab)

- Support importing Audio & Video files from local and cloud drive including
Video: *.mp4, *.mov / Audio: *.WAV, *.aac, *.mp3

- Allow students to switch their myviewboard.com account on sign up page

- myViewBoard Clips Quiz integration

Improvements

- The teacher can start the streaming function without a camera/microphone installed

- The teacher can end streaming without ending the whole session

- When the teacher is on mute or the camera is off, they can still hear students

- Changed icon design of Screen capture, Streaming, and End session

- Relocated Chatroom (on the Dashboard)

- Added new category "Art & Humanities" for Originals background

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

- Magic Box: now supports importing .qb files

- More functionality when selecting groups of objects

- 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

- 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

- 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.

Releases 2020

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 me files.

- 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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