Third Party Apps via our new LTI integration!

Ever wanted to bring Khan Academy, BrainPop, or other third party activities into Haiku? If the third party service offers LTI integration, you can add it to Haiku! Don’t know where to start? Check out these examples, this great list of Edu Apps, or this collection from IMS Global! Once these apps are added to Haiku in the domain control, your teachers can add content and activities to their classes.

Email your Rosters by Section!

In our last release, we brought you our new form-based Email Roster feature. This release, we have made the tool even better by adding the ability to email your roster by section!

Print your Gradebook!

The ability to cleanly print your gradebook is here! Teachers can now print the gradebook under the Manage Gradebook menu.

Think those are cool? The good news is, there’s even more!

Changes

• Gradebook Entries are now hyperlinked to their corresponding activity in Haiku!

• You can now use up to 4 characters in Grade Notations and Special Score Notations. (Previously, the limit was 3 characters.)

• Entering a score starting with a decimal is now accepted. No more typing “0.5″!

• The student Display ID only displays to teachers and admins now. (Read more about the Display ID.)

• We’ve rearranged the Applications tab just a bit! (Don’t worry! Everything’s still there, it just looks different.) Because of our LTI release, we now have divided the Applications tab into sub-tabs, organized by Haiku Apps, Partner Apps, and LTI Tools.

Fixes

• New Theme and Library images should now consistently render correctly (even if they use web fonts).

• Teachers without an email can now access classes they teach via the Navbar without an error.

• HTTPS YouTube URLs should no longer return an “Invalid URL” error in the YouTube block.

Let us know if you have questions! And for those of you whose school year is coming to an end, best of luck, and congratulations!

We’re excited to announce a new release that we pushed last Friday night that’s full of new solutions and improvements.

New feature: Progress Reports for Teachers!

Many teachers have been looking for a way to create semester, quarter, or even spur of the moment grade reports to share with students. The new Haiku Learning Progress Reports feature allows teachers to generate summary or detailed grades reports whenever they are needed. Check it out under the Reports area of the Assess tab, or watch the video.

Email Rosters Improvements

Teachers can now send an email to the roster from the comfort of their own Haiku Learning class, using our new form-based email tool. (And stay tuned! The ability to email sections using this tool is coming up in our next release!)

Here are the other great things in Version 7.7:

Changes

• Haiku no longer sends class content notifications to users who have not logged in.

• OpenLDAP now accepts Active Directory Username formats.

• Upcoming Activities block now pulls up to 9 days of activities for 90 days.

Fixes

• We deployed a second fix for the “wiggly gradebook”.

• Senior Systems Grade Export is now exporting Roster Sections.

• Recent activities on portal should now filter activities by student section.

• Editing SBG Gradebook entry titles should save.

• Print calendar portal error for parents with multiple students in a role-based roster class.

• Point totals now automatically adjust for grades with Score Notations when total points are changed for the gradebook entry.

• Various typo fixes and other minor tweaks.