Changelog

We have rebuilt the Tab Bar to be much more user-friendly and added some much-requested features.

Tab Dropdown List The most exciting addition is the new Tab Dropdown List. On the right-hand side of the Tab Bar you'll see a new button. Clicking this will open the Tab Dropdown List, where you can see all your tabs in a vertically-scrolling list. Tabs can be edited and reordered from this list, just like the tab Tab Bar.

Tab Search Do you have lots of tabs? Need to find one quickly? Use the new search function at the top of the Tab Dropdown List.

Restore Deleted Tabs You can now access any tabs you've deleted during the course of a session in a space via the Deleted Items menu in the new Tab Dropdown List.

Tab Context Menu & Status Icons We've updated the look of the right-click menu (context menu) on Tabs to be cleaner and added some icons to make it easier to find what you're looking for.

In addition, setting a tab to be un-deleteable or un-editable now shows a status icon on the tab so you can easily see at a glance if a tab is locked.

Logout Directly from Space

A minor update to the Lobby: If you're logged into Lessonspace you'll see a new section on the Lobby showing who you are currently logged in as and the option to logout.

Importing a PDF is now much easier with an improved upload flow. You can now select which pages from a PDF you'd like to upload, as well as choose if you'd like to:

• import those pages onto a single vertical-scrolling whiteboard, or
• load each page onto its own separate whiteboard tab, or
• add each page onto your current whiteboard tab (if you're currently on a whiteboard tab)

Admins and Teachers can now assign Spaces to Students. This allows you to place a Space on a Student's dashboard without them needing to join the Space before showing up.

You can now blur your video background for a bit of extra privacy (or if you've got a messy room). You can find the toggle in the Comms Dock Settings, just underneath Advanced Noise Cancelling.

Documents now include more options in the toolbar, like font style, lists, and colours. You can also now upload images to a Document.

The much-anticipated Resource Library is now available for everyone! Organisations and individuals can now upload their own resources to be available directly from the Resource Drawer in their Spaces.

Session recording playback has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. Initial loading, jumping and scrubbing along the timeline should all be markedly faster and the playback environment is now themed according to your organisation's branding settings.

The dashboard has had a new coat of paint applied and some performance improvements under the hood so you should see faster load times as well as a fresh new design on each page!

Meta

We started this change log where you can track major (and some minor) updates to Lessonspace every month :)

Spaces

Features

The Emoji Launcher is now available on mobile. It can be accessed via the Chat tab by clicking the emoji next to the send button. The Emoji Launcher also received a slight cosmetic update on desktop.

Updates

Users who join a Space without giving permission to their browser to access their webcam and microphone will now be able to see and hear other people in the Space who have published their video and audio feeds. This allows users who do not have a webcam or microphone at all to join and see and hear everyone else publishing their video and audio feeds in the Space.

Added a warning to the top of the window when the size of the Space starts getting too big. This is rare, but when a Space has lots of tabs, or has a tab with a lot of drawings/text on it, this takes up a lot of memory. If the Space gets too big, it can become slow, unstable, or even crash. This warning will let users know when a Space is reaching its capacity and prompts them to delete some unused content to free up some space.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused everyone to get muted when the Leader of a Space muted another participant.

Dashboard

Features

Added the ability to export data from the Overview and Session pages as CSV.

Settings pages received a new coat of paint and some minor layout adjustments to make navigating them a little easier. Expect this new aesthetic to roll out over the other pages in the dashboard in the near future.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue with a billing alert being displayed when it shouldn’t have been.

Integrations

Updates

Updated our documentation with some additional explanation on different terms as well as adding more clarity to management API authentication.

We made the error messages when an integration attempt with TutorCruncher fails clearer and more informative.

Spaces

Features

We've launched the Floating Menu on the Whiteboard module which adds some new editing functionality to objects, and reveals the functions that were previously hidden in the right-click (or long-press on touch devices) context menu. This should make it much easier to manipulate objects on tablets and phones especially.

Here are some of the highlights:

• You can now edit the colours of objects (shapes, text, lines etc.). For shapes you can change both the outline and the fill colours independently.
• You can now simply click the Lock button to lock or unlock the selected object. Locking an object prevents it from being moved, scaled, rotated, or deleted.
• You can use the Duplicate button to make a copy of the selected object.
• You can easily re-arrange your objects by using the Bring Forward or Send Backwards buttons.
• When selecting a graph or equation generated by the Equation Tool, you can click the Edit Equation button to open up the editor. Double-clicking them still works though, if you're used to that!

One caveat to be aware of is that Floating Menu currently only works on single-item selections. It will not show when selecting more than one object at a time. We plan to support this in the future.

Updates

Improved the performance of uploading images to a Space. If an image fails to upload for any reason (due to a poor connection, packet loss, etc.) it will be automatically retried several times before failing completely.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where the UI would jump around when you open or typed in the chat on mobile devices.

Dashboard

Features

You can now customise your billing details on your Lessonspace invoices under the Billing tab on the Settings page.

On the Sessions page you can now filter results to show only sessions that are currently in progress.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug with Space Settings not updating or reverting to defaults correctly.