2.0.0 - 08/22/2019
V2 has left beta after months of testing, feedback and development. V2 is a massive rewrite of EngageWhiz based upon over a year of feedback from hundreds of students, professors and administrators. Changelog and highlights:
- New authentication methods: passwordless and SSO/SAML, in addition to email/password. This is customizable by institutions.
- Institution data can be stored on its own instance and region (institution data physically separate from other customers).
- Improved routing.
- Live transcription.
- Confusion meter integrates with more features.
- Can create groups and have group questions.
- Easier/simpler access to a lot of features and settings.
- Improved attendance/engage systems, many new question types.
- Can now assign questions.
- Presentations.
- Can use phone as remote control to control presentations or course content.
- Digital whiteboard.
- Can now import/export settings between courses.
- More control over your own data, can download it.
- Greatly improved accessibility and accessibility settings.
- Students can mark accessibility requirements.
- Improved record exporting.
- Application caches content more aggressively, and can be installed as a PWA.
- Can download course archive.
- Initial support for multiple languages.
- Improved security/sign in history page (can now sign out of all devices).
- Students are now given a 2 week subscription grace period so they can participate right away.
- Even if a subscription expires, students can still view records, grades, responses, presentations etc.
- Improved device support and stability.
- Low bandwidth and offline modes.
- Improved course system.
- Improved security logging.