Changelog

What's New?

A collection of new features we've just launched in Lessonspace!

26 Jul 2022
More Languages Now Available

Spaces are now available in some new languages. Our available languages have expanded to include English (US), Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian & Xhosa.

In addition, some parts of the Space which were not properly translated now fully support language switching.

4 Nov 2021
Improved Tab Management

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

Tab Dropdown List 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 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 Restore Delete 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 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

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.

4 May 2022
New PDF Upload Methods

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)
4 May 2022
Assign Spaces to Students

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.

4 May 2022
Video Background Blur

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.

4 May 2022
More Tools for Documents (+ Image Uploads!)

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

4 May 2022
Resource Library

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.

4 May 2022
Recording Playback: Faster, Smoother, Prettier

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.

4 May 2022
Upgraded Dashboard

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!

1 Apr 2021
Mobile Emoji Launcher, CSV Export, Updated Settings 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.