New Features

A log of all new feature releases.

Release Notes #638

  • Discussion and team invites sent via email will now have a warning indicator if they could not be delivered.
  • The Activity Sidebar can now also display claims a user has and has not voted on.

Release Notes #635

  • The Top Contributor list now contains a column with the amount of claims users voted on in a discussion.

Release Notes #634

  • Users visiting Kialo with an outdated browser will be shown a warning toast.

Release Notes #630

  • The search input will now stick to the top of the Search Sidebar while scrolling.
  • Team names no longer have to be unique.

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 #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 #597

  • Lighter colors used throughout Kialo.
  • Screen reader compatibility has been improved.

Release Notes #590

  • The activity list can now be configured to only show created, linked and moved claims, instead of all activity, for all or individual participants. This is particularly useful for grading and teacher to student feedback.

Release Notes #589

  • Users who prefer working without animations can now switch them off in their user settings.

Release Notes #587

  • Embedded Kialo discussions now have a full screen mode.

Release Notes #585

  • When “Display claims’ authors” is enabled, a linked claim will now also note the user that linked the claim, additionally to the claim’s creator.
  • Introduced visual feedback for claim selection.
  • Improved the text layout of changes in the sidebar and comments & history tab of claims.

Release Notes #571

  • The discussion activity list now allows users to filter for individual discussion participants’ activities.
  • Important user setting changes now require users to enter their passwords.

Release Notes #560

  • The discussion activity sidebar, which chronologically lists all visible contributions that have occurred in a discussion, has been released.
  • The option to display usernames of claim creators on their respective claims, in a private discussion, has been released.
  • Screen reader compatibility of the Top Contributors table has been improved.
  • In some browser the claim edit text field did not have focus upon selecting “edit claim”, this has been fixed.

Release Notes #558

  • Statistics for each discussion are now shown in the portal and the discussion info dialog.
  • Selecting a claim for the clipboard from the duplicate claim list did not always work, this has been fixed.
  • The share dialog did not always show the share on Twitter and Facebook buttons, this has been fixed.

Release Notes #550

  • The scroll position in the discussion changes sidebar is now remembered when closing and opening it.
  • Flagging claims that have been copied from another discussion, will now result in the user that copied the claim receiving the notification for a flagged claim, not the original creator.
  • Location-specific changes, like the “Move Elsewhere” mark for review change, of multi-linked claims will now link to the correct locations.