- Course aliases
- Friendly nicknames can now be set for courses, replacing
AP ENG LANG A: TERM AF - PER 1
with nicer names, like "English (P1)" - Course aliases are used everywhere the full course name would be used
- Available as a new setting in Course Options
- Friendly nicknames can now be set for courses, replacing
- Material tooltips
- The "Materials" page for each course now has tooltips for graded items and for documents
- Graded items show the grade, what category the assignment is in, and if it has been submitted online
- Documents (hovering over the size indicator) now show their length in pages and a preview of the first page
- Astronomy now has a custom course icon in the default theme
- To facilitate new features such as document tooltips, new permissions are required: the extension now needs access to all of schoology.com
- Custom course icons apply more reliably and in more contexts
- API key retrieval, used for functions like getting denominators of missing assignments or the materials page tooltips, is now more reliable, especially for accounts which had not previously generated API keys
- Added option to keep teacher-provided course icons
- Enabling this option will keep icons provided by teachers while still replacing default icons with custom SchoologyPlus icons
- Fixed the settings drop-down menu (in the top right corner) in Firefox
- Gradebook courses now have a context menu, linking to all course subpages
- Assignments now have a context menu
- Can drop or undrop assignments to simulate impact on grade
- Can calculate minimum scores on assignments needed to get a certain course letter grade (uses Schoology Plus-configured grading scale)
- Dropped assignments now correctly contribute to score totals
- Dropped assignments now no longer alter total score when edited while dropped
- More reliable loading of missing assignment information
- If a maximum score for a missing assignment cannot be found, grade loading no longer hangs indefinitely
- Added course icons to the Course Dashboard page
- Missing assignments now show the max possible points on the grades page
- Grade modification now allows negative point denominators
- Use this as a way to drop assignments until proper support for this is added
- For example, to drop an assignment with a score of 3/20, add an assignment with -3/-20 as the score
- Classes with missing assignments will take slightly longer to load, and "LOADING" may be shown while missing assignments are being processed
- This is a result of the bug fix listed below
- Grade modification now respects missing assignments and counts their maximum points properly
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- Added a "Course Settings" menu on course pages for course-specific settings
- Added ability to create custom grading scales for each course
- To set the grading scale, go to the page for a course and click "Course Settings" in the sidebar
- This allows the usage of any number of custom grading symbols
- Added the ability to configure receiving announcements separately from assignment notifications
- Previously, if notifications were disabled, announcements would not be received
- There are three options for this setting:
- Enable Announcements: Show desktop notifications and news feed posts for announcements
- Announcement News Feed Posts Only: Only show posts in the news feed for announcements (no notifications)
- Disable Announcements: Entirely disables checking for announcements
- The "Assume Grading Scale" setting has been replaced with "Custom Grading Scales"
- The default value for this new setting is
Enabled
and is not affected by the value of the old setting
- The default value for this new setting is
- Fixed desktop notifications not working whatsoever on Firefox
- Added broadcasts
- Broadcasts are push notifications sent to all Schoology Plus users
- Broadcasts are shown as desktop notifications as well as posts pinned to the top of the news feed
- Added broadcast for new users
- Fixed the arrow dropdown menu in Firefox
- Fixed the alignment of course icons on the mastery page
- Added Firefox support
- Changed the portion of the settings window that scrolls to not include the save button
- Minor behind-the-scenes changes to allow a Firefox port
- Added course icons (if enabled) to the grades screen
- Fixed an issue with the course icon for film classes
- Course Icons
- A default set of course icons has been added
- These can be enabled (default) or disabled with the "Override Course Icons" setting
- Course icons are themeable (See the theme spec for details)
- If your course is missing an icon, please send feedback including your course's transcript name and an icon will be added
- Added setting to control class sort order
- Options are
By Period
to order by period number orAlphabetically
for the Schoology default
- Options are
- Added an "Export Theme" button for custom themes
- This will copy the theme's JSON representation to your clipboard for easy sharing
- Classes are now sorted according to your chosen sort method on the mastery page
- When a custom theme is added, it is immediately set as the current theme
- Removed ability to add themes with duplicate names
- Settings now show their correct value when the settings page is reopened without a refresh
- Cursor image is now properly removed when switching from a theme with a custom cursor to a theme without one
- Modal styling is no longer broken on course and user pages
- Modals now resize appropriately in small windows
- Added ability to change the logo image in custom themes
- Added the ability to create custom themes
- Currently this functionality is fairly limited
- To create and delete custom themes, go to
Settings > Theme > Install and Manage Themes...
- You can install a theme by inputting JSON in the format defined here
- More functionality as well as a theme editor website will be added soon
- Fixed some issues with unsaved settings persisting when the settings window was closed
- Fixed multiple issues related to grade modification
- Fixed an issue with calculating modified grades when a class had a weighted category with no assignments
- Added ability to disable grading scale assumption in settings
- Added "Feedback" link to settings page footer
- Use this to submit bugs and feature requests
- The "!!" on the Schoology Plus icon now disappears when the setting screen is opened
- However, the "New Update" indicator will persist until it is clicked
- Added "LAUSD Orange" theme
- Added "Toy" theme (special thanks: 👑)
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- Added a "Theme" setting
- Added a "Restore Defaults" button to the settings page
- Rainbow mode is now the "Rainbow" theme
- Improved Rainbow theme for better color transitions between pages
- The color no longer resets to red every time you load a new page
- Courses drop-down no longer has a scrollbar
- Added contributors page
- Added changelog
- Added indicator to changelog link when extension updates
- Fixed number badge not showing any notifications
- Added ability to disable notifications
- Added grades page link to navigation bar
- Added informational hover text to setting modified asterisk
- Minor improvements to options menu
- Fixed options appearing modified after closing options menu without saving
- Bug fixes
- Added options menu
- Added ability to customize navigation bar color
- Added rainbow mode
- Changed how notifications are checked
- Clicking notifications now takes you to the notification page
- Bug fixes
- Added ability to simulate adding a new assignment to a category
- Added desktop notifications for new grades
- Clicking the extension icon opens Schoology
- Fixed issue with hover color of home link on the navigation bar when on the home page
- Added ability to simulate changing a grade
- Fixed gap in darker color when hovering over links on the navigation bar
- Bug fixes
- Classes are now sorted by period
- Added letter grades for classes that don't set them (assumes 10% grading scale)
- Schoology logo can now be clicked to return to the home page
- Fixed dropped grades counting in point totals