We have combined all individual calendar views by class into one universal calendar of all of your classes and events.

Calendar now lives in your left sidebar below and above .

Though familiar, we have made some improvements to the feature. These are the changes that make it Universal:

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You can now toggle on/off a setting to show live closed captioning for all live room classes and meetings.

As anyone in the live room is speaking, you will be able to see a live transcription of what is being said, and by who.

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We appreciate your patience as we work to improve our platform. Thanks for helping us improve.

In line with the most updated security and user privacy standards, we are happy to bring you all the option to delete your account.

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Introducing a – admins and instructors are now able to create and grade quizzes and exams that students can take directly in-app.

You can find Quizzes/Exams in the Assignments tab, if that is enabled in your class settings. We currently support five different question types:

We also support file uploads and YouTube link embeds in quiz/exam creation, along with LaTeX and Markdown.

Like other assignment types, students can take quizzes/exams in the Assignments tab, and instructors can see submissions and publish grades for students to view.

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As always, we want to hear about any bug reports or feature suggestions you have. Thanks for helping us improve.

Happy holidays!

We've noticed that our professors and TAs frequently use the Class Feed to schedule meetings and office hours.

Today, we introduce Calendar: a new way to schedule events on Campuswire and keep class meeting schedules organized.

You can access the Calendar feature on the left sidebar. With Calendar, you'll be able to schedule meetings, lectures and exams directly on Campuswire. All events scheduled on this calendar will be viewable by everyone in the class, but only instructors and TAs can create/edit events.

If you want to schedule an event that is meeting in a Live Room, you can type and we'll suggest all the Live Rooms available. When anyone views the event, we'll link them directly to the Live Room for easy access.

You can customize the alert for each Calendar event. Everyone in the class will be notified according to the alert time that is set. In the future, we'll add support for private calendars and calendar syncing.

Calendar can be disabled by navigating "Settings" -> "Feature Preferences."

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Campuswire Roadmap.

Today, we've shipped an upgraded, simplified version of Live Sessions called Live Rooms. All of the functionality you're used to in Live Sessions now lives within your tab.

Live Rooms can be used for or just hanging out. Additionally, Live Rooms now supports so that you can begin a recording at any point during your meeting.

Since the beginning, we’ve always asked ourselves how can we replicate the real-world learning experience online. How do we keep our students engaged, give our users as much flexibility as possible, and avoid 'zoom fatigue'?

One thing we've noticed is that classes would use live sessions in a very predictable way. For example, every Monday and Wednesday at 10 AM, there would be a Live Session for lecture and every Thursday at 4pm there would be a Live Session for office hours.

Instructors would have to complete a three-step process to actually go live. The friction our users experienced between wanting to go live and actually being live meant that users created fewer Live Sessions and used Live Sessions less creatively than we envisioned.

It should be as seamless as possible for instructors to start an impromptu office hours session or for students to jump on a quick call with their TA and classmates.

Live Rooms is our solution to this problem.

Start by navigating to your 'Rooms' tab, where we've re-homed Live Rooms []. Each Live Room is a dedicated space for you and your students to meet synchronously within.

Create a to start a class-wide conversation: any class member can join the room, but only the and members who are 'speaking now' will have microphone access enabled. Public rooms are ideal for lectures where only a few users will speak at a time.

Create a to keep conversation streamlined. Only room administrators can join a private room at-will; any other class member will need to request access and join a student queue. That makes private rooms perfect for office hours or group study sessions.

Any class member can create a public or private room. Once a live room is created, it will remain within the 'rooms' tab until it is deleted.

To start a recording, simply click while you are in a live room. After a brief countdown, your live room will have its video and audio recorded until the session has stopped or all users have left the room. You can choose to name the recording, or leave it blank with the date saved as the default title.

After a recording is saved, it will show up under the on the left sidebar. Please wait for a few moments while we process your recording.

Files will be the ultimate hub for all of your class-related documents of your class. Currently we only support .PDF and recorded sessions, but will expand to include alternative file formats in the near future.

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If you have any feature suggestions or bugs to report, shoot us a message on Campuswire or visit our Roadmap.

Today, we've released one of our most frequently requested features:

To use iFrame, you can embed the link like you embed an image. Simply format your link like this in markdown:

Or embed it using the embed content button in the toolbar:

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Campuswire Roadmap.

Welcome back to the new term!

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Based on your feedback, we've given Live Sessions an upgrade for the new term. Here's what that means:

We removed the overlaying circles when content is shared. Users found the circles distracting, and the circles sometimes covered important content on the screen.

We gave the professor a "podium" for speaking when content is shared (just like in a traditional lecture).

We've made it clearer for users to see poll results and for professors to manage polls.

We made it easier to glance through the whole list of attendees and students with raised hands -- previously, this required multiple tabs, now it's possible in a single view.

We initially thought it'd be useful to allow people to add topics when they raise their hands, making it easier for instructors to see who’s going to ask what.

We've realized that's actually causing more friction when people want to raise their hands and that students generally prefer to raise their hands without having to enter a topic.

Many of our instructors found reactions distracting, especially if the class size is large and the students spam the reactions. We removed reactions for now, and we'll try to improve the user experience and add it back in the future.

Bug fix: Push notifications on mobile

Push notifications on mobile were previously not always working properly -- we've shipped a fix and push notifications will work correctly for all users.

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We announced a few weeks ago that beginning in the January 2021 term, Campuswire Pro will become free, making every feature in Campuswire completely free for all of our instructors and students.

With the new term just around the corner, that change became effective today -- Campuswire Pro is now free and there is no more paywall for Pro classes.

(We'll never sell ads or student data -- for more background on how and why we're making Campuswire free, take a look here).

Previously, when you created a new Campuswire class, you'd see a modal that allowed you to choose between a Pro class and a Basic class:

That modal will no longer appear, nor will the "Payment" button that previously existed in Pro classes -- every Campuswire class, both previously created and created from now on, includes Pro features (very soon, you'll be able to turn those features off if you prefer not to have them).

Please reach out to us if you've got any questions.

-Campuswire Team

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If you have any feature suggestions or bugs to report, shoot us a message on Campuswire or visit our Roadmap

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If you have any feature suggestions or bugs to report, shoot us a message on Campuswire or visit our Roadmap

In the Class Feed, when you begin to type a response to a question, you’ll now be notified if another user is composing an answer simultaneously. This avoids duplicate work for course staff and lets students know if a classmate is about to share an answer.

Previously, if a user attempted to access a chatroom via a link to that chatroom that had been shared with them, they would be taken to the class feed rather than directly to that chatroom.

We’ve corrected this – now, sharing a link to a chatroom will allow that user to click the link and be taken directly to that classroom so that they can join the room and the conversation more easily.

We’ve identified and fixed a bug that affected how the markdown editor was functioning when using Firefox.

The recordings your Live Sessions that are saved in your class will now be higher quality.

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If you have any feature suggestions or bugs to report, shoot us a message on Campuswire or visit our Roadmap