Edcite Product Updates & Release Notes

Edcite Product Updates & Release Notes

This page highlights recent and historical updates across the Edcite platform, including:

Have a priority to share or want to learn more about what’s coming? Email schools@edcite.com with “Product Priorities” in the subject line, or sign up for office hours with Edcite Director of Products, Brian McIntosh. If you don’t see a time that works, email brian@edcite.com to schedule a meeting.

🔜 Coming Soon

  • Student Quick Report
    A one-page, print-ready summary of a student’s performance on a single assignment, including overall score, performance band, standards mastery, and part-level or question-level detail.

  • Live Student Accommodations Report
    Pulls real-time accommodation settings directly from district and classroom groups, merging overlapping sources into a single, clear view of what a student will experience on an assessment.

  • Class Accommodations Report
    Provides a quick view of testing accommodations across one or multiple classes.

  • District Usage Dashboard
    Enables leaders to view activity by school and teacher, with flexible date ranges and exportable CSVs for deeper analysis.

❄️ Winter 2025 / 2026

  • Updated FAQ Page – Check out our refreshed FAQ for answers to common questions.

  • AI Grading Assistant (Available to Pilot)
    AI-powered grading tools that accelerate grading, improve feedback consistency, and provide visibility into AI usage.

    • AI Grader Single Assignment Report – A consolidated view of AI grading, teacher overrides, and manual grading with filtering and drill-down insights.
      Coming Soon: Feedback Insights to surface trends across students and rubric columns.

  • Student Group Settings Enhancements

    • Updated interface for managing accommodations

    • New options to disable Secure Browser and disable or multiply timers

  • Rubric Editor Enhancements

    • Drag-and-drop row and column reordering

    • Seamless student view updates

    • Database persistence for reordered layouts

  • Admin Reports Hub Enhancements

    • School year and month selectors

    • Access to archived assignments and distributions

    • New help icon clarifying applied filters

  • New Content

☀️ Summer 2025

  • All assignment viewers are now WCAG compliant

  • Assignment Creation Enhancements

    • “Clear all standards” option in the tag editor

    • Question count visible on the My Assignments page

    • Improved save performance in the assignment editor

  • Enhancements to the Manipulate Bar Graph item type

  • Reset option added to Assignment, Distribution, and Student Group Settings with visibility into saved values

  • Password Validator added to support strong, secure passwords

  • Teacher Reports Hub Enhancements

    • School year and month selectors

    • Access to archived data

    • Hover-based help icon showing selected filters

  • New Item Types

  • New Content

    • MCAS Practice Tests (Massachusetts)

    • MAP Practice Forms 2021–2022 (Missouri)

    • KSA Released Items 2022 (Kentucky)

  • Training Center Updates

    • Refreshed design

    • Updated videos organized by role

    • New PD resources for training and sharing Edcite

📅 March 2025

  • Further updates to state-aligned assessment viewers for Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin

  • Secure Browser Updates

    • Chromebook extension now supported

    • File upload removed (Chromebook Secure Browser only) for:

      • Essay Response (#100)

      • Essay Answer with Audio Recorder (#102)

      • Attach-work paperclip option (webcam still supported)

📅 February 2025

📅 January 2025

  • Cookie consent banner added
    (No changes to privacy policy or data handling)

  • Updated student interface aligned to WCAG

  • New York-aligned viewer updates:

    • Text-to-Speech

    • Line Reader

    • Masking Tool

🍂 Fall 2024

  • State-aligned calculators (Edcite Schools only)

☀️ Summer 2024

  • New teacher interface

  • Performance bands for multiple distributions

  • CSV export for Item Analysis Matrix

  • New content: KSA 2023–2024 (Kentucky)

❄️ Winter 2023 / 2024

  • New content:

    • New York State Test 2023

    • STAAR 2023 (Texas)

    • MCAS 2023 (Massachusetts)

    • OST 2023 (Ohio)

    • KSA Practice Tests (Kentucky)

  • Text-to-speech tracking enhancements (Edcite Schools only)

  • Performance band import across distributions

  • Graph Points and Lines (#083) supports group scoring

  • Text editor shortcuts for subscript and superscript

🌱 Spring 2023

  • Choose Graph (#104) question type added

❄️ Winter 2022 / 2023

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  • Major state test content additions

  • Reports Hub UX upgrade

  • Bubble Sheets scanning and grading upgrades (Edcite Schools only)

  • Extended Select Answer (#001): all-or-none and teacher grading

  • Assessment locking from Assignment Editor

  • Content Clarifiers for student support (Click here to learn more)

  • Spanish text-to-speech added (Edcite Schools only)

  • Touch Image (#123) shape selection

  • Blind Assessments setting

  • Texas dictionary tool (Edcite Schools only)

  • Ruler update with inches and centimeters

☀️ Summer 2022

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  • Batch force submit/unsubmit on Grading page (Edcite Schools only)

  • New content: ACAP 2022 (Alabama), STAAR 2021 (Texas)

  • Rich text editor redesign and shortcuts

  • Grid View toggle between takes

  • Bubble Sheets printing for multiple response types (Edcite Schools only)

🌱 Spring 2022

  • FREE Common Assessments Initiative launched

  • Pictograph Answer (#026) click-to-add image option

  • Dot Plot Answer (#020) dot or “X” indicator option

❄️ Winter 2021 / 2022

  • Teacher grading for Multiple Choice (#005)

  • Drag and Drop – Text (#021) background images

  • Question Bank filter by question type

  • New content: Ohio State Tests 2021–2022

  • Assignment Editor sorting enhancements

  • California ELA Claims and Targets tagging

  • DataHub Enhancements

    • Export dashboards and reports (PDF, HTML, CSV)

🍂 Fall 2021

  • Assignment Library filter for State Released Tests (Click here to learn more)

  • Item Analysis Report update for Table CheckBox Answer (#010) (Click here to learn more)

  • New content: MCAS 2021, STAAR 2018

  • Custom District Data Tools (Click here to learn more)

☀️ Summer 2021

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  • Grading improvements:

    • Grid View

    • Inline Rubric Grading

  • Venn Diagram (#046) updates

  • Assignment Editor field enhancements

  • One Tab at a Time setting

  • Student Report visibility controls

  • New integrations: Schoology and Aeries (Edcite Schools only)

❄️ Winter 2020 / 2021

  • Text-to-speech alignment across state-specific viewers

  • Attach images of student work to questions

☀️ Summer 2020

  • Focus Tracker

  • Real-Time Connect

  • Audio recording improvements

  • Sectioned assignments with per-section settings

❄️ Winter 2019 / 2020

  • Student Group Assignment Settings (Edcite Schools only)

  • Clever-powered Class Term column

  • State-aligned scoring updates

  • Question Bank Card View

  • New state assessment viewers announced

📅 September 2020

  • State-Aligned Items filter added to Question Bank

☀️ Summer 2019

  • New student interface

  • New question and assignment viewers

  • Updated My Assignments and My Questions

📅 April 2018

  • Oklahoma, South Carolina, and New Jersey standards added

  • ACT Aspire Multiple Choice added

  • New Admin Help Solutions

  • Share Collection follower/following display

  • Matching item type updates

📅 March 2018

  • Assignment pathway sharing for non-logged-in teachers

  • Student work saving on login

  • Admin sign-in enhancements

  • Florida & Missouri Common Assessments Initiatives

  • Item Analysis click-to-view students

  • Admin Activity Report

  • Student Notes in saved answer history

  • AIR calculator and viewer enhancements

  • New Common Assessments landing pages

  • Drawing and drag-and-drop updates

  • Viewer context menu updates

  • Student name and roster ID added to reports

📅 February 2018

  • SBAC Viewer updates

  • No Class Specified option

  • Alert message redesign

  • Teacher Reports Hub enhancements

  • Essay Response (#100) character limits

  • New Admin Assignment Editor

  • Georgia standards added

  • DRC and Questar viewers (Edcite Schools)

📅 January 2018

📅 December 2017

  • Assignment Library access from Assignment Editor

  • Tennessee standards added

  • Multi-page question selection

  • Question editor formatting warnings

  • Expanded question part options

  • Rubric Report student-level data table


Edcite is continuously evolving based on feedback from educators and district partners. These updates reflect our commitment to building accessible, reliable, and instructionally meaningful assessment tools. Check back regularly for the latest enhancements, and if you have questions or product priorities to share, contact us at 
support@edcite.com - we’d love to hear from you.

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