Changelog

Kialo’s comprehensive release history.

Release Notes #629

  • Kialo will now detect blocked websocket connections and will provide a helpful error message.
  • Teacher Feedback length has been increased to 3000 characters on Kialo Edu.

Release Notes #628

  • Two-factor authentication has been added to all Kialo sites.
  • The comment and chat text input field lost focus when mentioning somebody using the mention picker, this has been fixed.

Release Notes #627

  • The Team Allocation Link functionality has been released for Kialo Edu. Team Allocation Links are the easiest method to allocate students to multiple evenly-sized teams and are particularly useful when setting up Kialo for large groups of students.
  • An issue causing the perspective selector to become unresponsive has been fixed.
  • An issue where linked claims wouldn’t load after their source claim was deleted has been fixed.

Release Notes #625

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #624

  • Screen reader compatibility has been improved.
  • A couple of usability improvements have been released.

Release Notes #622

  • The minimap design in discussions has been improved.
  • Very small tablets now use the mobile phone layout.

Release Notes #621

  • A workaround for a Safari 12 issue, affecting Oauth sign ups and logins, has been released.

Release Notes #620

  • The concept of organizations has been introduced for Kialo Edu. Users become part of an organization if their associated email addresses match domains the organization is authorized to manage. Organizations are very useful for schools, school districts and universities that want to view and manage their students’ data themselves.
  • Users’ timelines can be viewed without logging in.
  • When using the Clone and Invite Wizard, you can choose to not send email notifications.

Release Notes #618

  • Pressing a claim link on touch devices will show a preview of the claim. Clicking on the preview will navigate to the claim.
  • Due to the latest Safari release changing the way it treats embeds, embedded Kialo discussions are currently not working properly with Safari anymore. Safari users will instead see a message to open the embedded discussion in a new tab. This will be reverted when we have found a good solution for the underlying Safari problem.

Release Notes #615

  • Improved support for Embedded Kialo.
  • An easy way to switch between Kialo’s sites has been added to the page footers.

Release Notes #611

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #610

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #609

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

Release Notes #608

  • The limit of the number of invites that can be sent at once has been increased.

Release Notes #607

  • The Cloning and Invitation Wizard (CIW) on Kialo-Edu has been upgraded. It now allows educators to invite each member of a team to their own clone of a discussion.
  • Private discussions can be shared via Discussion Access Links which allow readers to access them without having to create Kialo accounts.

Release Notes #606

  • The behaviour of pressing Enter when entering text can be changed in user settings.

Release Notes #604

  • The visibility of votes can be changed in the discussion settings.
  • The comment drawer has been redesigned.
  • Sidebars can now be expanded.

Release Notes #603

  • A color theme optimized for red-green colorblindness can now be enabled in user settings.

Release Notes #602

  • The sum of activities/claims is now shown in the discussion activity tab. 
  • Some minor styling issues have been fixed.
  • An issue with links in invite emails was fixed.

Release Notes #601

Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.