Blueprint Changelog January 2025

Over the course of the fall semester, we listened to your feedback and implemented a variety of changes to ensure our product better suits your needs in the classroom. This article outlines the major feature updates to Blueprint between September and December 2024. Thank you for using Blueprint and Gaming Concepts!

Gradebook Updates: 

  • Students and instructors can now request a retake/resubmission for any activity – learn more here
  • Updated the grading experience for educators – students may be sorted by first or last name, and educators can now progress through a single student’s submissions
  • Improved student viewing experience – individual activities’ scores are combined to form a lesson score
  • Assignments which are submitted but not yet graded no longer count as zeros for a student’s grade
  • Instructors now have the option to hide grades until a certain date

Student Account Reset

  • Instructors can now assist their students with changing their account information (including password resetting). For security reasons, this feature is limited to sites assigned official Gaming Concepts content – learn more here.

Autosaving Student Work

  • Work in progress within assignments and journals now autosaves every 30 seconds and when the student navigates away from the activity.

Course Advancement Requirements

  • Instructors now have the option to require students to meet certain grades or activity completion before advancing to the next lesson – learn more here
  • Instructors now have the option to prevent students from working ahead (or only a set number of days ahead), while still scheduling out their course

Library & Custom Lessons

  • Clarified language explaining that modified lessons are saved as a new copy and do not alter the original
  • Instructors will now receive a warning before assigning a duplicate lesson

Journals

  • Streamlined the viewing experience for instructors – learn more here
  • Journals can now be exported as PDF

Google and Clever Integrations

  • Improved student/teacher single sign on experience for Google and Clever
  • Improved Clever auto-rostering experience

General Updates

  • Improved load times and platform stability site-wide
  • Activities can now be color-coded within the calendar
  • Added helpful tooltips in a few locations
  • Sidebars can now be collapsed to improve the presentation of a lesson
  • Progress bar for file uploads
  • Rich text editor has been updated to allow students to insert hyperlinks and upload files
  • Classroom announcements can now be edited

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