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What's New in Great Minds Digital Platform

October 3, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers and administrators have a new curriculum drop-down menu on the top navigation bar that allows them to easily toggle between their subjects in Great Minds. See Toggle Between Great Minds Products for more information on this update.
  • Additionally, teachers can now switch between Teach, Assign, Assess, and Analyze using the menu options on the top navigation bar.

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This navigation update is currently available in Teach, Assign and Assess, and is coming soon for Manage, Analyze, and digital lessons. In the meantime, teachers can use the left side menu for navigation in those areas of the platform.

August 15, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Students have a new drop-down menu on the top navigation bar that allows them to easily toggle between their subjects in Great Minds. Select your curriculum below for more information:

July 26, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teacher Assessment Reports
    • Teachers can now view performance by standard in the individual student report.
    • An Assessment Type filter has been added to the Standards report.
    • The Class Performance donut chart in the assessment report now displays student names and scores when a distribution band is clicked.
    • In the individual standard report, tagged and assessed child standards now appear when viewing the report for a parent-level standard Also, a new graph has been added that shows class distribution by assessment.
    • See Eureka Math Squared Teacher Assessment Reports for more information.
  • Administrator CSV Reports


June 12, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Curriculum, Level, and Module pages have an updated design and layout.
    • The module cards on the curriculum and level page have a new design.
    • Level and module pages have an updated layout with text on the left side of the page and images on the right.
    • Resource links and buttons are consistent throughout the curriculum.
    • See the updated platform walkthrough for Eureka Math Squared or PhD Science Texas for more information.
  • The assignment, assessment, and lessons cards on the student dashboard have an updated design. See Navigating the Student Platform for more information. 


May 17, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers can now easily navigate between students when viewing the student report.
  • Teachers can also now view students' item responses and print student submissions from the assessment report.
  • See Eureka Math Squared Teacher Assessments Reports for more information on these updates.

March 13, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • The student dashboard has an updated layout. See Navigating the Student Platform for more information.
  • In the Resources section of the student dashboard, the grade level filter now defaults to the student's grade level instead of Pre-K.
  • When previewing or revisiting a digital lesson, the banner message at the top of the screen can now be dismissed.
  • The Notes icon in the toolbox that appears on module, topic and lesson pages has been updated. 


February 15, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • When monitoring student progress through a digital lesson, there is a now clear visual distinction between students who haven’t logged in and joined the lesson, and students who haven’t yet reached a specific slide.
  • Eureka Math Squared now retains where a user left off in the curriculum. For example, if a teacher ends a session in Level 3, Module 3, they will return to Module 3 when they begin their next session. 


January 29, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • In Analyze, assessments in "Review" status now appear in visual administrator reports. Any assessment that is fully scored will show up in the visual summary report the following day, regardless of whether or not the teacher has selected "Finish Score." This change applies to administrator visual reports only and does not impact CSV reports. 

 

January 18, 2024

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • When students submit an assignment or assessment, they are now automatically redirected back to their dashboard. A small pop-up at the top of the page indicates the assignment was successfully submitted.

 

December 14, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • On the Assign page, teachers can now filter their assignments by due date in descending or ascending order

  • Teachers and administrators can now copy direct links to resources from the Resources tab within a lesson.


November 30, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers and administrators can now copy direct links to sections and sub-sections on lesson guidance pages, instead of having to copy the link to the entire page and scroll to the desired section.


November 9, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • When annotating lesson slides in a presentation or digital lesson, teachers can now change slides without hiding the annotation toolbar. Annotations auto-save when teachers select the next and previous arrows to navigate to the next or previous slide, or when they select Hide Tools from the toolbar. See Annotate Lesson Slides for more information on slide annotation tools.

  • The Up Next panel accessible from grade and module level pages is now labeled “Upcoming Lessons.” See Grade Level Page and Module Level Page for more information.


August 31, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • A new Resources section has been added to the student dashboard. Here students (and parents) can explore the Eureka Math Squared curriculum independently and view and/or download essential PDF resources. Learn more.  


August 3, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • When scoring assessments taken on paper, teachers now have the option to manually input points earned on individual assessment items in addition to manually inputting students’ item responses. Learn more.  

  • Teachers now have a Print option available on module, topic, and lesson guidance pages. Annotations, including notes and highlights, are included in the printout. 

  • Teacher and student facing slides now have a menu with additional view options so users can adjust the slide content to fit the size of their device screen. 


July 6, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers can annotate presentations and digital lessons using new slide annotation tools and save those annotations. Learn more.
  • Teachers can now insert blank slides into any lesson presentation. They can customize these slides using the annotation tools provided. Learn more.
  • In Teach, teachers can now use the back arrow at the top of the page to navigate up the levels of the curriculum hierarchy. For example, if they are on a module page, the back arrow will take them back to the level overview page.


June 8, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • When teachers launch a lesson presentation, the page tab title now includes the slide number in addition to the lesson title.
  • In digital lessons, teacher-facing slides appear in a larger size in the Monitoring view for improved visibility.
  • An issue was resolved where digital lessons were not closing automatically after two hours when teachers selected the “Leave Class” option when exiting a lesson. Lessons now close as expected after two hours.


May 18, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Students now see an alert on their locker when a teacher annotates an assignment submission and sends it back to the student for review.
  • The Monitoring view is now enabled by default for all digital lessons. Previously, for K-5 lessons, teachers had to send a slide to their students in order to access the Monitoring view. Now, all lessons have access to Monitoring by default.


April 13, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • In Assign, when creating a new assignment, teachers now have Assign and Back options at the bottom of the page, in addition to the identical options at the top of the page. This addition streamlines the assignment creation process for keyboard users.
  • When reviewing the assessment scoring summary for an individual student, teachers will now see an “unattempted” status for any item the student did not attempt when taking the assessment.
  • Teachers and curriculum administrators now see a confirmation message when deleting notes from lesson guidance content to prevent accidental deletion of annotations. See Annotating Lessons for more information. 


March 16, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers and administrators can now highlight and add notes on lesson guidance pages using keyboard navigation. See Keyboard Navigation on Lesson Guidance Pages for more information.
  • The highlighter and toolbar on module, topic, and lesson guidance pages have been updated to provide an improved experience for low vision users and keyboard users.
  • When facilitating a live digital lesson, the option to preview a student frame in the Gallery is now under the kebab menu. Additionally, teachers can now click the + icon to add the frame to a discussion slide.


February 16, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Students using iPads or devices with smaller screen resolutions can more easily access and switch between PDF annotation tools.
  • iPad users can now launch presentations and use the toolbox options (Standards, Key Questions, Materials, and Notes) on module, topic, or lesson guidance pages.


January 19, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Students can now view their proficiency level in addition to their score when reviewing past assessments in their locker. (Note: This does not include Equip assessments.)
  • An issue where school administrators were unable to share assessments with some teachers in their affiliated school(s) has been resolved.


January 5, 2023

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Administrators can now share custom assessments with teachers in their organization. See this article for more information: Share Assessments
  • The student locker now allows students to filter past activities by type (assessment, assignment, or lesson). Additionally, new labels and notifications have been added to indicate the status of an assessment and when an activity has been scored. See Reviewing Past Work for more information.
  • When teachers add student frames to a discussion when teaching a digital lesson, they’ll now have a visual indication of which slots are already filled and which are empty. Additionally, student frames are now clearly labeled with a title and the student's name. Teachers can now click the X icon at the top right corner of the frame to close it.


November 28, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Presentation Improvements:
    • Lesson presentations now automatically open in a new window. Note: Review your pop-up settings in Chrome or Safari if you are unable to launch presentations. You’ll need to allow pop-ups from digital.greatminds.org.
    • Slide navigation buttons are now accessible at the top of the screen.
    • When launching a lesson with no student facing slides, teachers are brought to the guidance view with the presentation open by default. The Monitoring and Gallery tabs are disabled unless slides are shared with students. See Launching Presentations for more information.
    • When teachers preview or revisit a lesson presentation, a banner notification displays at the top of the screen stating they are previewing or revisiting the lesson.
  • In the Up Next panel on the module and grade level pages, previously launched lessons are now labeled with a checkmark.


October 27, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • In Analyze, full descriptions of each proficiency band and their respective thresholds are now visible on reports.
  • Students are now correctly alphabetized by last name in reports.
  • Achievement descriptor reports now have a sortable average score column.


September 29, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers can now annotate students' PDF assignment submissions and send their annotations back to students. See Reviewing Student Assignments for more information.
  • Teachers can now delete snapshots from the frame gallery in presentation mode. 
  • Student scores are now visible to teachers from the assessment monitoring page.
  • The teacher standards report now has a school year filter so teachers can view reports from previous years.


September 9, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Students can now view and complete PDF assignments in full screen mode. See Completing and Turning In Assignments for more information.
  • Students can now upload files in multiple formats and submit these files to their teacher. See Completing and Turning In Assignments for more information.
  • Standards and Student CSV Administrator Reports now contain standard numeric values for Grade and Module. Previously they contained curriculum-specific coded values. 
  • The design of the standards performance distribution chart has been updated to improve legibility and the student standards performance chart has a new heat map view. 


August 4, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update


July 11, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Students with access to an in Sync™ or Affirm® curricula, My Geodes™ (digital), and/or Eureka Math2™ have an updated app switcher that allows them to easily navigate between platforms. For more information, see this help article: Student Platform Basic Navigation


June 9, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • In Analyze, administrators now have adjusted scoring columns in the Student Report CSV file and the Visual Assessment Summary Report.


May 16, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • In Analyze, teachers can now access a detailed achievement descriptor report where they can see student performance on achievement descriptors across assessments.


April 27, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • All lessons will now include access to the full suite of presentation tools including a new Guidance View that allows teachers to view their customized Digital Teacher Edition alongside their slides.  
  • Teachers will now have the option to hide slides from their presentation and send teacher-facing slides out to students to interact with on their own devices. 
  • Various improvements and bug fixes, including:  
  • In Teach, at the bottom of module pages, users have additional navigation to the next and previous modules. 

 

March 23, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers will now have the option to move all students to a specific slide during a live digital lesson. 
  • Students with visual impairments have additional support in our desktop (100% zoom) experience with access to accessible components in the platform. *Note: Our Great Minds EM2 content is not yet accessible. 
  • Students will experience enhanced assessment and assignment features, such as notifications when their teacher includes feedback on an item within a scored assessment, and a reopened badge to indicate a past assignment/assessment that is reassigned to a student on their Home page. 
  • Open assessments can now be reopened as soon as a student submits an attempt. 
  • Closed assignments can now be reopened. 
  • Teachers can now add resources to an assignment from a resource library located in the Assign space.  
     

February 21, 2022

Great Minds® Digital Platform Update

  • Teachers will now be able to view performance on achievement descriptors from the standards report 

  • Administrators will now be able to download a Standards Performance CSV report 

  • Accessibility improvements, including minor visual design changes 

  • Bug fixes for the Up Next panel to improve tracking of progress through lessons.