Extempore Live partner rounds: At schools where partner rounds are enabled, practice the same prompt with different partners in one assessment, with separate recordings for each round and one overall grade in Gradebook.

Navigation Warnings for Extempore Live: Navigation warnings now apply to Extempore Live group assessments when Safe Mode is enabled.

Student navigation: See your location within a class or assessment and use navigation links to return to earlier screens.

Extempore Live waiting room: See the assessment name before joining and find the room-entry button directly below the microphone check.

Written-response exports: Identify responses more easily with class and assessment names and rows organized by class, assessment, question, and student.

Link sharing: Copy class and assessment links with a brief confirmation instead of a popup that requires another click.

Accessibility: Improved keyboard focus and playback controls, added buttons for moving around enlarged images, and preserved entered sign-up details when canceling a connected sign-in.

Multiple-choice guidance: Students now see a pop-up before responding to let them know that choosing an answer ends their review time and starts their response time.

Recording guidance: Get clearer warnings when a microphone sends no sound, and avoid a stuck recorder when the microphone disconnects.

Cross-section groups (Canvas): Bring students from multiple sections of the same Canvas course together in one Extempore Live assessment.

Course-level Gradebook (Canvas): Grade across course sections in one view, filter to selected sections, and return to your saved selection.

Rich-text editing: Format teacher prompts and student written responses with basic styling and lists, plus easy accent-mark entry for students.

Adjustable text size: Students can enlarge prompts and written-response text for easier reading.

Faster class navigation: Load and switch between classes with fewer delays, especially when teaching many classes.

Written activities: Control copy and paste for each written-response question, and export individual written responses and assessment-level rubric grades.

Connected classes: Simplified class connection and assessment-sharing workflows, with clearer guidance about what syncs to your learning platform.

Gradebook accuracy: Corrected rubric totals and converted scores, and restored missing submission times and late-work indicators.

Recording and playback: Improved simulated-conversation startup in Safari and audio playback during review.

Assessment reliability: Fixed blank pages after submission and misleading incomplete-question labels after a failed save.

Rubric setup: Prevented incompatible score-conversion settings when using range-based rubric criteria.

Common assessment reporting: Corrected the “Common Assessment Data Only” filter so editable Teacher Templates are excluded while older assessments retain their existing classification.

Refreshed Extempore Live: Run live group assessments with clearer room layouts, participant status, and instructor controls.

Asynchronous group management: Manage larger groups with clearer room membership and submission status.

Student help alerts: Respond to raised hands in other active rooms without losing your place.

Assessment resets: Clear an entire assessment or selected questions through a guided reset workflow.

Card payment verification: Added support for additional cardholder verification when required by your bank.

Room visibility: Improved video layouts and prompt visibility across screen sizes.

Accessibility: Improved keyboard navigation, contrast, labels, and playback controls.

Everyday workflows: Made Gradebook actions, class selection, and connected-class assessment workflows easier to use.

Group assessments: Corrected room assignments, participant status, and reset behavior.

Video display: Fixed portrait-video cropping and messages covering student video.

Grading: Corrected rubric scores and navigation to the selected assessment in Gradebook.

Language keyboard selection: Written-response questions can automatically select a matching keyboard based on the class language when the keyboard feature is enabled.

Selective submission resets: Reset selected question submissions with a confirmation step to help prevent accidental changes.

Simpler assessment setup: A cleaner setup screen keeps optional settings out of the way until needed.

Connection guidance: Clearer camera, microphone, and connection messages help students recover from common device issues.

Student feedback: Overall group feedback now appears correctly in students’ Extempore Live submissions.

Recordings: Improved recovery of missing Extempore Live recordings.

Live room status: Improved reconnects and participant status, and reduced misleading room and help-request notifications.

Grades and resets: Improved consistency when clearing scores, resetting attempts, and opening classes by nickname.

Whole-assessment rubrics: Grade group assessments with an overall rubric, including performance bands and score conversions.

Course grouping: Find related classes more easily when sharing or copying assessments.

Linked assessment guidance: Clearer save instructions help keep assessment content consistent across linked sections while preserving section-specific dates and absence settings.

Late work: Set whether to accept late work for each assessment.

Grading workflows: Open group participants directly from Gradebook, see clearer participation labels, and identify rubrics with score conversions.

Smaller screens: Improved navigation on phone-sized screens.

Assessment editing: Corrected rubric labels and menus, restored editing for affected imports, and prevented rubric loss after incomplete saves.

Group assessments: Corrected student navigation, absent-student reassignment, and room lists that included unenrolled students.

Accessibility and recording: Improved keyboard navigation and contrast, and corrected a briefly misleading recording timer.