Release Notes – Version 1.16.0

Version 1.16.0 introduces a new personalized assessment-preparation experience for students, expands Cleo with role-aware assistance and agentic curriculum generation, brings richer Course Content navigation to mobile, and extends the Media Library with reusable external links.

The release also includes important platform improvements to monitoring and diagnostics.

Version Highlights

For Teachers: Agentic Unit and Lesson Planning, Agentic Content Generation, Teacher Copilot, Media Links, and integration of external resources throughout teaching workflows.

For Students: Personalized Assessment Preps, Study Prep Chunks, Active Recall, Practice Quizzes, Completed Prep review, accessibility tools, and Student Copilot.

For Mobile: Knowledge Hub and Assessment Preps on Android and iOS, expanded Course Content navigation, and Media Link support.

For the Platform: Text Translation, improved observability, and AI-assisted incident diagnostics.

👩‍🏫 For Teachers

🤖 Smarter Curriculum Planning & Content Generation with Cleo

Cleo's curriculum-generation capabilities have been enhanced with specialized, agent-based workflows designed to support teachers throughout planning and content creation.

Agentic Unit & Lesson Planning

Teachers can use Cleo to generate editable:

• Unit Plans
• Lesson Plan sequences

Generated plans take into account relevant course context, objectives, available instructional time, and learner needs.

Agentic Unit & Lesson Content Generation

Cleo can also generate complete Unit and Lesson Content based on approved course context, using specialized AI workflows to create aligned instructional materials.

Impact: Helps teachers move more efficiently from curriculum planning to classroom-ready content while maintaining alignment with their course context.

💬 Teacher Copilot

Cleo evolves into a more context-aware Copilot for teachers.

The Teacher Copilot can use authorized course and program context to provide more relevant instructional assistance during conversations.

Rather than functioning only as a general-purpose assistant, Cleo can better understand the teaching context behind a teacher's questions.

Impact: Makes conversations with Cleo more relevant to the teacher's actual courses and instructional work.

🔗 Media Links

Bring External Resources into CheckIT LMS

Teachers can now create and manage Media Links in the Media Library, making useful external resources part of their teaching materials.

Teachers can:

• Create Media Links
• View saved links
• Edit existing links
• Delete links that are no longer needed

Impact: Extends the Media Library beyond uploaded files and makes it easier to organize useful online learning resources.

📎 Media Links Across Teaching Workflows

Media Links aren't limited to the Media Library. Teachers can attach them throughout their regular planning and content-creation workflows.

Media Links can be used with:

• Unit Plans and Plan by Cleo
• Unit and Lesson Content
• Lessons
• Activities
• Assessments and External Assessments
• Standalone Media
• Syllabi
• Plan Board cards

Attached Media Links also remain visible when working with reusable content through the Course Library and Content Picker.

Impact: External resources can become a consistent part of teaching materials instead of being managed separately from course content.

🎓 For Students

🧠 Assessment Preps

Personalized Preparation Before an Assessment

Version 1.16.0 introduces Assessment Preps, a new personalized study experience designed to help students prepare for upcoming assessments.

Students can access separate views for:

• Active Preps – preparation currently in progress
• Completed Preps – preparation that has already been completed

Progress is tracked as students work through their preparation.

Cleo generates personalized practice content using relevant assessment material and available student learning context.

Impact: Provides students with a structured path for preparing for assessments rather than leaving study preparation entirely unstructured.

📖 Study Prep Chunks

Learn in Focused Steps

Assessment preparation is divided into manageable Study Prep Chunks.

Each chunk provides focused learning material before the student moves on to knowledge retrieval and practice.

Generated content can include:

• Explanatory learning material
• Visuals and media
• Practical applications
• Personalized practice content

Students can also use supported accessibility tools, including translation and text-to-speech, while studying their prep content.

Impact: Breaks assessment preparation into focused learning steps and provides multiple ways to engage with the material.

🧠 Active Recall with Cleo

Cleo now guides students through Active Recall as part of the Assessment Prep experience.

Students actively retrieve what they have learned instead of simply rereading the material, with Cleo providing guidance and feedback throughout the process.

Impact: Creates a more active study experience focused on demonstrating and reinforcing understanding.

📝 Practice Quiz Guidance

After studying their preparation material, students can use a Practice Quiz to check their understanding.

Cleo guides students through the quiz experience and provides support as they progress through each prep chunk.

Impact: Connects studying, knowledge retrieval, and practice within one preparation workflow.

✅ Revisit Completed Preps

Completing an Assessment Prep doesn't make it disappear.

Students can return to Completed Preps to:

• Review what they studied
• Revisit preparation material
• Review their learning recap
• Focus again on areas that may need improvement

Impact: Turns completed preparation into a reusable study resource.

💬 Student Copilot

Cleo also becomes more context-aware for students.

The Student Copilot can use authorized course materials and relevant personalization context to help students better understand what they're learning.

Impact: Provides more relevant learning assistance while keeping Cleo grounded in the student's permitted educational context.

📱 For Mobile Students

🧠 Knowledge Hub – Android & iOS

The Assessment Prep experience is also available through the Student Knowledge Hub on both Android and iOS.

Mobile students can:

• View Active Preps
• View Completed Preps
• Filter their Preps
• Study Prep Chunks
• Work through Active Recall with Cleo
• Complete Cleo-guided Practice Quizzes
• Revisit completed preparation

Impact: Students can continue their personalized assessment preparation wherever they study.

📚 Course Content – Android & iOS

Complete Course Content Navigation on Mobile

Students now have a richer Course Content experience on both Android and iOS.

Students can:

• Access Course Content directly from their course
• Browse available Units
• Open a Unit and view its description
• Browse Unit Content
• Filter content to find relevant materials
• Open individual content items
• See availability, event, visibility, and due-date information where applicable

Impact: Makes the mobile application a more complete destination for accessing and navigating learning materials.

🔗 Media Links on Mobile

Media Links attached by teachers are also available to students on Android and iOS.

Students can access external learning resources attached to:

• Lessons
• Activities
• Assessments
• Standalone Media
• Course Syllabi

Impact: Keeps supporting resources connected to the learning material regardless of whether students use Web or Mobile.

🌐 Platform & Accessibility

🌍 Text Translation

Version 1.16.0 includes Text Translation as part of the platform's expanding accessibility capabilities.

Translation is also integrated into the Assessment Prep learning experience, allowing students to work with preparation content using supported accessibility tools.

Impact: Makes learning content more accessible to students who benefit from translated material.

⚙️ Platform Reliability & Operations

📊 Enhanced Platform Monitoring

Version 1.16.0 expands the platform's observability infrastructure by improving how application metrics and logs are collected and made available for analysis.

This provides engineering and operations teams with better visibility into platform behavior and performance.

🤖 AI-Assisted Diagnostics & Root Cause Analysis

Platform operations can now use AI-assisted diagnostic analysis to help investigate incidents and generate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports.

Impact: Helps engineering teams investigate issues faster and respond with better diagnostic context.

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