Features & Improvements
Totally reworked the mobile app user interfaces:
- New navigation and layout!
- Dark mode!
- Works with the new News stuff (see below)!
- Test Integrity features! iOS gets webcam and copy-paste; Android gets copy-paste.
- Improved comment threads for discussions, bulletin boards, and News articles!
- LTI Links in Home and Library views!
- Attendance roster search bar!
Lessons got themselves updated:
- The Design view lets you do all the designing—even for multi-page lessons—all on one page, including drag-and-drop for lesson page reordering.
- Lesson pages have two availability options: When lesson is available and After previous pages are completed.
- You can hide individual lesson blocks from students—this lets you hold items back until a particular time, for example.
- Lessons can be kept in Draft mode until you choose to hit the Publish action.
News on Populi > Home also got a bunch of upgrades:
- Pinned is gone. Now it's called Featured. Bye-bye, Pinned!
- Clicking an article takes you to the News Center. It lets you comment on articles, file through unread articles, and copy links to articles.
- In case you didn't divine this from the previous item, you can copy links to articles to share them.
- Featured items also pop up in your Notifications dingybell.
- In Home > Manage News, you can view the number of reads and a list of who read a given news item.
- Plus various and sundry other little things.
Course > Reporting has a new view for Rubric Scores.
Fill-in-the-blank questions are now available in Tests > To Be Graded.
'Tis a new automation condition that notices when a student enrolls in a course he previously enrolled in and then does something about it.
Email filter conditions in places like Leads, Contacts > People, et. al. have a new Is/Is Not Unsubscribed toggle so you can find those who've unsubbed from emails at their Primary Email address.
We've moved the IPEDS Financial Aid reporting data over to the new COST I and COST II IPEDS surveys.
When you add annotations to a student's assignment submission, they now get a lil' notification about it.
Course schedule layouts have new variables for individual names fields (first, last, et.al.).
Bugfixes
Term Honors weren't linked to programs. Everything is supposed to be linked to programs! Fixed this.
Imagine this: you check and see if no one has a particular custom field. No one does! So you try to delete it. It doesn't work! Why? Whyyyy?!? It's because a deleted person has that field on their profile, but you deleted him more than 30 days ago, so you can't update it. Fixed it: if a custom field is only attached to deleted people, we'll let you delete that field.
When you tried deleting a Leave of Absence, we'd give you a dumb error about LOA dates overlapping. One of the guys knew exactly what was wrong and, even more exactlier, what to do about it.
Our Common Cartridge importer would take files containing a test with multiple-choice questions and then say that all the choices were correct. We deported that bug.
In cross-listed courses, assignments specific to one cross-listed section would display the total student count for both sections at the top. How annoying.
Videos and Focus Sessions
Like a river rolls on, so does the regular rotation of Focus Sessions. New to Populi? Need to brush up? Or do you just love Zoom meetings? Here's what's coming next week:
- Introduction to Degree Audit: Watch and listen as Jordan takes you through degree requirements, course groups, course mapping, exceptions, transcripts and so on. This will be most useful to Academic Admin and Registrar users. It's scheduled for January 27th, 2026, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
- Introduction to Financial Aid: Listen and watch as Jordan trots through financial aid settings, awards, packaging aid, disbursements, aid applications and so on. This will be most useful to Financial Aid and Financial Admin users. It's scheduled for January 29th, 2026, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
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