Released March 30, 2012

New!

• Discussion UI enhancements
• Discussions now can contain subject lines
• Mobile Inbox
• Option for teachers to list new classes under the Extras section on the portal
• Allow embeds in assessments 
• Allow or restrict links in assessments

Changes

• Allow Domain Admins to read Discussion Posts
• Add a filter by student option in the discussion window
• Increased the number of groups allowed to 20 in discussions and wikiprojects
• Add a filter by student option in the discussion window

Fixes

• Users with a period in their username can now upload Common Cartridge packages
• maximize gradebook view fixed
• Allow Noteflight Attachments for Discussion Posts
• Various

Changes

• Submit proctored assessment password with Enter key or submit button

Fixes

• Properly display long event titles in the calendar month view
• Improved message when assessment results are not viewable
• Various other minor fixes and changes

• Discussion shortcuts to facilitate quicker navigation and grading.

• Introduced measures to protect against data loss in cases where poor network connections interfered with the taking of assessments.
• Improve display of long class titles in the aggregated calendar print view.
• Teachers can no longer remove imported students from their rosters.
• Now domain admins can import CC/moodle content.
• Dropbox section selector is now remembers your last setting when moving from section to section.

•  Optimization of grade listing in the portal 
• Various minor fixes and changes

• Drag-and-Drop Gradebook items, categories and filtering.
• Soft delete for Pages and Polls to protect accidental deleting by teachers.
• Define a class as a Class Extra - a way to separate classes from professional development, resource, team and other types of non-traditional classes in the Haiku Portal.
• Teachers can now set passwords for students to take assessments and review them via the Restricted Access (Proctored) Assessments  feature.
• Manually add school years to Domain Control (Domain Admins only)
• Create discussion posts (Mobile Version)

Changes

• View and Reactivate Deactivated Users (Domain Admins only)
• The number of Roster Sections allowed has been increased from 10 to 20.

Fixes

• Various other minor fixes and changes

Released December 23rd, 2011

New Enhancements:

• Aggregated Calendar Agenda view in the portal is now printable.

Changes:

• Pagination in One to One Discussions now remembers previous settings (sticky) when viewing results.
• Various minor changes

Fixes:

• Various minor fixes

Released December 16th, 2011

New Enhancements:

• Haiku Mobile Version (read only) released in open Beta for iPad.  Read more about his on our blog.
• Embed the Web search: Full text search to find resources in the Embed the Web tool

Changes:

• Improved imports/exports with Senior Systems, Redicker.

Fixes:

• ePortfolio HTML export now downloads correctly.
• Fixed issue with Smart Notebook files being parsed by image processor incorrectly.
• Improved handling of bad SCORM files.
• Fixed issue with Dropbox Downloads in IE
• Fixed layering issue of YouTube blocks in Chrome
• Various minor fixes

Released December 6th, 2011

Fixes

• Moodle Import Improvements (Week format, resource handling)
• Ensure that  "Send Private Message" through discussions maintains context
• Various minor fixes

Released November 23rd, 2011

Fixes

• Reshow Captcha when user login fails
• CK Editor minor fixes

Released November 18th, 2011

New Enhancements:

• Upgrade Rich Text Editor (CKeditor to 3.6.2+): New version adds iOS5 support to the Haiku LMS Rich Text Editor. 

Changes

• Improved security against Brute Force attacks on logins
• Update Login via Import for Google Apps Users

Fixes

• Shadowing Permissions are now working for the Classes tab in the Navbar
• Teacher preview view of a student in a roster section no longer displays multiple assignments for each assignment
• Brute-force recaptcha works  for Google Apps-enabled login form
•  Fix login to support SSO via a Signed Link  
• Updated YouTube content block to handle changes in the code

Released November 4th, 2011

New

• Preprocessing for the Dropbox Annotator: Documents in the Dropbox are now preprocessed to improve speed.
• RTL and LTR buttons Domains can now enable Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right text in the CK Editor

Changes

• Admins can now access Preferences menu
• Date calculation on Portal Page has been optimized for better accuracy

Fixes

•  When a student takes an assessment in Safe Exam Browser, they can now view assessment results in regular browsers as well
• Parents can no longer message students unless messaging is turned on for the class
• Users can now create a Google doc block on wiki pages
• Various other minor fixes and changes

Released Sep 16th, 2011

New

• All users now have a My Classes QuickLinks drop down at the top of their page. This can be used to quickly move between the same sections in their classes.  Thanks to K. Reiss for the suggestion. 

Changes

• New account creation from the Course Catalog now uses the Show Password feature.

Fixes

• Fixed a case where double clicking the Link Roster button could result in duplicate rosters in your Roster Sections.
• Fixed an issue with Essay Questions in Assessments where slow connections would cause students to lose data if they would start typing before the rich text editor was fully loaded.
• Various other minor fixes and optimizations. 

Released September 2nd, 2011

New

• Teachers can now bring pages, text, and images from Moodle classes into a Haiku class. This saves the time of recreating the structure and much of the substance from scratch. To read more on what can be imported please read this article.

Changes

• Equation editor updated to include several Desmos fixes and enhancements.
• Changed Imports and Exports Log window so that full change logs are displayed along with other UI improvements.
• Domain Administrators can now sort class names in the Domain Control.
• ENI Assessment exports now allow ABCD GHJK question lettering.
• Various optimizations to discussions and cloud files increasing the speed of Haiku by up to 20%.
• Skyward imports now creates the class code automatically during import.
• Senior Systems importer now displays class sections to assist in Roster Section class selection.
• Improved Class Management menu behavior when users with the imported Student Role access the menu as teachers in the class.
• Improved UI behavior of selecting students via search when adding to roster sections (made the section drop down sticky).
• Made it impossible to delete the last Assessment section

Fixes

• Discussion inline images are now visible to public users.
• Popup window sizing in Internet Explorer now allows resizing or scrolling.
• Percentage points now refresh correctly when point total is changed for grade book entries,
• Fixed SCORM window so it is now sized correctly for parents in Safari.
• Copying a shared class now copies Gradebook entries.
• Preview no longer forces the teacher to exit when clicking on pages within Preview.
• Rediker imports now work with SFTP push & pull
• New users now can use a Google ID in use by a deactivated User
• Fixed an error when creating new Assessment in ENI-enabled Eclass/Organization
• Patched an issue where a student could be blocked from taking additional assessment attempts after a teacher deletes their attempts.
• Hardened Embed-the-Web to keep particular embeds from breaking the page.
• Fixed an issue where parents could be added to the wrong roster section after a student had been moved away from their original section.
• Various minor fixes and optimizations

Released June 24th, 2011

New

• Schools and Organizations that use Evans Newton Inc. can now export student Assessment results for further analysis in ENI's suite of tools. From the Domain Control just enable ENI Assessment Exports.

Changes

• We updated the design of Haiku's default login pages to more closely match the design of haikulearning.com
• Added official support for Firefox 5 and up.
• When you import Common Cartridge data into Haiku LMS, the listing of reports now uses more human-readable names.

Fixes

• Uploaded videos now shrink to fit the page more appropriately in Internet Explorer, especially in two-column layouts.
• Certain non-printing unicode characters would keep Haiku LMS from updating blocks, making it look like they weren't being saved.
• Various minor fixes.

Released June 10th, 2011

• Users can now upload inline images to Assessment Answers including Multiple Choice and Matching.
• Minor Veracross Plug & Play Import Improvements
• Minor Course Catalog interface Improvements

Fixes

• Fixed rich text editor to use relative urls when editing image properties & fixed existing absolute URLs
• Various minor fixes.
  

 Released May 28th, 2011

 New

• Safe Exam Browser: Teachers can now require students to take assessments in Safe Exam Browser (SEB). SEB is a lockdown browser that helps prevent copying and pasting answers to and from the test among other security features. Your school’s Haiku administrator enables the option to use Safe Exam Browser, and educators say when it’s required.
• Course Catalog: If you’ve put together a stellar professional development program and are ready to enroll participants, Haiku provides an easy way to package your classes and process online payments. The Course Catalog is basically an online shopping cart, your classes the products. Schools set up the courses, and participants sign up, pay, and get started in a few simple steps!
• Senior Systems Plug & Play: You have another option when it comes to Plug & Play Student Information System (SIS) integrations: My Backpack™ Web Portal. Haiku will automatically sync with your SIS - no .csv required! All you need to get rolling is your username and password, and an open port in your firewall. Many thanks to The Madeira School and St. Mary’s Episcopal School for helping make this enhancement possible.

Changes

• Allow users to upload inline images to Discussions Posts.
• Allow student to be added as co-teacher.
• Safari < 4.0, Firefox <3.5 and Chrome < 1.0 are now treated as legacy browsers.
• The temporary password email is now optional when an Org Admin creates a new Account.
• Domains can now decide whether imported passwords are temporary or not.
• First Name and Last Name are now individual fields in in Domain Admin Reports
• Common Cartridge: Imported Videos and Mini-Sites now open in a new window.
• Common Cartridge imports are now improved so that parsing happens in the background.
• Rosters "Add Student" are now sorted by last name.
• Roster Imports now include Username.
• Domain Admins can now edit users in a class roster without masquerading.
• Haiku Export now includes user_levels.csv.

Fixes

• Please search to see more" text to bottom of Navbar is now consistent.
• Fixed an error grading an Individual WikiProject when a student is no longer in the class.
• Equation Editor now loads in Internet Explorer 8 & 9.
• Publishing an Assessment from a Page now works.
• When unpublishing an Assessment Haiku LMS now keeps all Grades
• Various minor fixes.

Released May 5th, 2011 Changes

• Veracross Plug-in-Play integration is now compatible with Haiku LMS for Google Apps.
• Manually created users are now forced to change their password (unless the administrator opts against it).
• Attachments in Haiku LMS can now be hosted in the cloud.

• Fix to password check for LDAP/AD integrations.
• Teacher search and dropdown for Role-based Rosters now works for IE.
• Various minor fixes.

• Veracross Plug & Play:  Introducing the first in a series of Plug & Play Student Information System (SIS)integrations. This means automatic synchronization of student data – simply with a username and password.
• Improved Parent/Student Management:  Domain Admins can now decouple Parent accounts from student accounts through the web interface. 

• Domain Admins can now control whether or not teachers can make classes visible by the public.
• Domain Admins can now control whether or not teachers can create new schedules.
• Users can now access Google Apps from Haiku LMS via a new icon on the NavBar. 
• Role Based Roster Classes can now make use of Templates during class creation.
• Google Apps 'stub' users are now included in Haiku LMS exports.
• Column Headers in Grade and Roster Exports now include the option of exporting First Name and Last Name fields (in addition to the Full Name).

• Fixed a problem with Upload Progress on Dropbox messages.
• Now it is possible to import classes belonging to an Domain Admin account.
• Intermittent problems with downloading ePortfolios is now resolved.
• Haiku LMS now reports Google Apps account logins correctly in the dashboard.
• Resolved an error when copying assignment and file blocks containing Google Docs.
• Various minor fixes.

 Released April 16th, 2011

• Enable Google Subdomain Interoperability:  Haiku LMS for Google Apps now supports Google Apps Subdomains.

• Move Image Attachment processing to the background to improve performance.

• Minor Fixes

• Google Docs Integration:  Bring Google Docs into Haiku where you might otherwise upload a file. Import Google Docs as attachments or as collaborative documents. What’s more, upload Microsoft Office files and convert them to Google Docs within Haiku. 
• Enhanced Annotator:  It’s faster and better than ever! Easily scroll and zoom. To annotate, just swipe and type. Rotate and position elements to your heart’s delight. Teachers will love the improved interface, the quick annotation tool, and - for Apple users - the compatibility with iWork files (with preview). Students will love that they don’t have to download a file to see what a teacher said.

• Schools can now use AD/LDAP integration with manually created users (instead of just imported users).
• Parents and Students can now sign up for inactive classes if invited or provisioned through the Course Catalog. 

• Fixed an issue with copying YouTube blocks in WikiProjects
• An issue updating SCORM progress on first attempts is resolved
• Various minor fixes.

• Blackboard Content System Imports:  Common Cartridge has been enhanced to include support for the Blackboard content system paths and files. 

• Reworked bullet styling on text blocks which contained inline images..
• Annotator iframe now resizes dynamically on window resize.
• Domain Admin accounts now show up on NavBar searches.

• SCORM Results page is now capable of supporting classes with large rosters.
• Domain Administrators can now view discussions from their accounts.
• Dropbox Assignment User Pagination is now sticky between sections even when a page is empty.
• Announcement Notifications no longer send when not published to the student's section.
• Various fixes to SCORM milestones.
• CKEditor Link URLS are no longer double encoded.
• Fixed Annotator so that Comments and Note-to-Self no longer appear under the iframe.
• Various minor fixes.