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Stay updated with all the new things in Socrative!
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Written by Matheus Froes. Updated over a week ago

We're always looking to make Socrative better. Keep reading for all new things released in Socrative! 

This page contains information on releases from January 2020 to today. To learn about previous releases, take a look at this guide instead. 

March 02, 2023 - 'Invite Students' To Space Race Activities

  • NEW! You can now Invite Students To Space Race Activities using the 'Invite Student' Button or QR Code.

  • NEW! We've added another way for your students to join a quiz. They can join a room via the gosocrative.com URL

  • Multiple design and nomenclature improvements

  • Multiple bug fixes 🐛

Feb 21, 2023 - Help Menu, presenting information when you need it.

  • NEW! We've added a persistent Help Menu, quickly access the help centre without leaving the app

  • We've reworked our help centre to provide better information

  • We've added a 'Request a Feature' option within the Help Menu

  • Other Security Enhancements and Fixes

Feb 13, 2023 - Invite Students

  • NEW! Students can now join a quiz (Room) using QR Codes

  • NEW! A new 'Share' for Rooms. We have rebuilt the 'Share Room' Feature.

  • NEW! Download or copy/paste QR codes and embed them directly into your lesson material and slides

  • Create a Link and Share it with your students for easy access

  • Reset Room Link and remove access to the previous link whenever you need.

Jan 26, 2023 - Improving Shuffle Questions and Answers

  • We've improved the logic and the algorithm we use for shuffling answers and questions to improve academic integrity and reduce cheating. Now it is harder for students to get the same order of questions and answers.

  • Security Enhancements and Fixes

January 18, 2022 - Discover [BETA]

We've released a new BETA feature. The 'Discover' is a library of prepared quiz content. You can search the quiz bank for the ideal content for your class using various filters, view quiz details and copy ready-made quizzes right into your library to edit or distribute to students.

Please note: This is a BETA feature and is only available for Canadian and USA users. Quizzes are currently only available in English and for secondary school subjects, including math, English language arts, science, social studies, and world languages.

Learn More

January 10, 2022

Bug Fixes (iOS)

  • Improved the support of devices running iOS 12.

December 21, 2022 - Shared Libraries and Bug Fixes

Shared Libraries Update

  • You can now navigate through the deleted folders found in Shared Libraries.

  • You can now restore specific items found in a deleted folder of a Shared Library.

Bug Fixes (iOS)

Some issues were making it very difficult for students to answer questions on iOS Devices.

  • Question content outside of the scrollable area for students is now visible.

  • Students can now correctly view all content in the text area for Short Answer.

November 14, 2022 - Shared Libraries

Shared Libraries make it even easier for you to share, edit and collaborate on quizzes with your colleagues to make the best content for your students. Whether you are working alongside a co-teacher, collaborating with a group of colleagues teaching the same subject, or mentoring new educators in your learning community, Shared Libraries let you team up to access, co-create, and share the material you need to engage your learners more deeply - all within Socrative.

Read more about how to get started.

Additional Functionality

  • User Experience Changes: We are working towards a more intuitive experience in Socrative. Therefore you will now see that the 'Quizzes' menu item was renamed 'Library', which now holds your personal and shared libraries.

  • Portuguese Brazilian Localization: We've adjusted the language to reflect the Portuguese-Brazilian language best.

October 03, 2022 - Updated Equation Editor + Chemical Equations

This update brings more functionality to the equation editor and support to Chemical Equations. We want to make the experience of questioning students more seamless. Even though we knew it was possible to display chemical formulae and equations using the equation editor in mathematics mode, it was a rather cumbersome experience.

Teachers in the Sciences realm can now enjoy chemical formulae and equations using the Equation Editor to display element symbols, superscript and subscript notation, ions and isotopes, bonds, equilibrium reaction arrows etc. - allowing a more flexible display and more natural input of chemical formulae and equations.

Read more: Equation Editor | Chemical Equations support articles.

Additional Functionality

  • Update the description of the Equation Editor Modal

  • Add/Enable Chemical Equation support for Math editor.

  • Linux compatibility

  • Better support for international keyboards

  • Support for more symbols

  • Support for more greek characters

  • Support for Physical Units

  • Support for Italics

Bug & Security Fixes

  • Formulas are now being formatted correctly in the Showbie Results documents.

  • Teachers with non-English keyboard layouts should now be able to manually type in LaTeX by pressing the \ key.

  • LaTeX suggestions no longer show up behind the formula field.

  • Showbie-Socrative integration connection improvements.

  • Other security updates.

September 21, 2022

  • Bugs and Quality of life improvements

    • Fixed a bug where quiz import errors were not being displayed.

    • Fixed a bug where launching a quiz immediately after creating it could result in an empty quiz called Untitled Quiz being launched.

    • Fixed a bug where the restore icon was not displayed properly in the workspace.

    • Fixed some display issues with the pop-up menus in the workspace area.

    • Fixed an issue where an editor could remove their access to a workspace.

    • Fixed an issue where permanently deleting an account would not work for teachers who were members of workspaces.

    • Navigating to a quiz or folder that has been deleted forever will now show an error.

August 31, 2022

  • Additional functionality to Shared Workspaces introduced:

    • NEW! Launch from Workspace: Now you can launch a quiz from a shared workspace

  • Bugs and Quality of life improvements

    • Fixed a bug where the `Delete Forever` action was being displayed for Editors and Viewers.

    • Fixed an issue where immediately navigating after creating a quiz could cause you to get stuck in the quiz editor.

    • Fixed an issue where merged quizzes would fail to launch.

    • Fixed an issue where OS-level Scrollbar accessibility settings could cause undesired scrollbars to appear.

    • Fixed an issue where permanently deleting a folder could cause errors

    • Navigating to a permanently deleted quiz will show a message indicating that the quiz does not exist

    • Navigating to a quiz that has been deleted (but is still in the trash) will show a message indicating that it is deleted

August 17, 2022

  • Additional functionality to Shared Workspaces introduced:

    • NEW! Copy a quiz from one workspace to another

    • UI/UX Improvements

  • Bug Fixes

August 4, 2022

  • NEW! Embedded Links - Hyperlinks are introduced. Users can have an anchor text to create a link to a webpage that is intended to open, allowing teachers to add links to external media content (audio, videos, reference material, etc)

  • Updates to Shared Workspaces:

    • NEW! Ability to merge workspace quizzes

    • NEW! Ability to delete a workspace

    • NEW! Ability to remove members from a workspace

    • NEW! Fixed an issue where the delete tab for workspace quizzes was showing the incorrect deleted date

  • Bug Fixes

July 4, 2022

  • Additional functionality to Shared Workspaces introduced:

    • NEW! Ability to restore and delete Workspace Quiz

    • NEW! Ability to delete and restore Workspace Folders

    • NEW! Ability to Launch shared workspaces quizzes from Showbie (integration)

    • NEW! Quality of life improvements and Bulk Actions

  • Improvements to keyboard navigation

  • Bug fixes

June 20, 2022

  • Continued progress on Shared Workspaces including:

    • Updates to inviting teachers to a shared workspace

    • NEW! Introducing access levels to a shared workspace

    • NEW! Settings for shared workspaces

May 12, 2022

  • NEW! Shared Workspaces Beta Release

  • NEW! Updated Launch Workspace Modal Design

March 3, 2022

  • Marketing page updates

  • Bug fixes

February 3, 2022

  • Quizzes 2.0 UI update

  • Performance Updates

January 20, 2022

  • Incremental release of new Quizzes UI

  • Quizzes UI improvements and fixes

December 23, 2021

  • Backend releases related to new Quizzes UI

November 2, 2021

  • Bug fixes and backend improvements

October 27, 2021

  • Bug fixes and backend improvements

September 16, 2021

  • Backend improvements

August 24, 2021

  • Major upgrades and improvements, and bug fixes

July 16, 2021

  • Small improvements and fixes

June 18, 2021

  • Few backend improvements and fixes

May 10, 2021

  • Italian, Portuguese (Portugal), and Polish added as supported languages

January 20, 2021

  • The toggle to "Show Answers" is now properly kept when navigating between questions

January 11, 2021

  • New Results grid enabled for the Showbie-Socrative integration.

  • Minor bug fixes and other improvements.

December 23, 2020

  • NEW! The UI for Results tab is updated with a fresh new look!

November 19, 2020

  • Fixed a couple issues related to Quick Questions and Live Results

  • Backend improvements related to the Results tab

October 13, 2020

  • Fixed an issue with the Socrative app not loading in older devices

October 8, 2020

  • Fixed an issue with the denominator line in math equations not working properly

October 1, 2020

  • Fixed an issue with the fraction line in equations when zoomed in on Chrome

September 28, 2020

  • Fixed issues related to long math equations

  • Fixed errors when trying to delete your own account

September 4, 2020

  • Bug fixes and improvements related to the new reports UI and customization options

August 21, 2020

  • Removed the grace period for after a Pro license expires

August 20, 2020

  • Improvements made to exporting reports with new UI and customization options. Learn more here.

July 6, 2020

  • Fixes and polishing for the Math Equations feature

June 30, 2020

June 22, 2020

  • NEW! Math Equations beta begins

May 20, 2020

  • Fixed an issue related to copying and pasting text from other websites

May 4, 2020

  • NEW! The quiz editor has been updated for a cleaner, more modern user interface

  • NEW! Images can now be added to answers and explanations (Pro feature only)

April 30, 2020

  • Improvements to show more information when encountering an error within the app

April 9, 2020

  • Fixed the issue with "live" icons in rooms not showing properly when an activity is running

  • Fixed UI issues specific to using Internet Explorer and Microsoft edge

April 3, 2020

  • More improvements made to the quiz editor

March 26, 2020

  • Improvements added to the quiz editor to ensure it runs smoothly

February 6, 2020

  • Fixed an issue with the countdown in space races doesn't finish the activity

  • Fixed translations in space race team colours

January 30, 2020

  • Improvements to include clearer information in a teacher's subscription

January 27, 2020

  • Improvements to viewing images in quizzes and downloaded reports

  • Fixed an issue where team information is missing in reports for space races

  • Fixed an issue related to Greek characters not showing properly in reports

January 13, 2020

  • Fixed errors with downloading reports when using Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer browsers

January 10, 2020

  • Fixed an unknown error when launching an Exit Ticket activity

  • Fixed issues related to unclear renewal dates in individual teacher subscriptions

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