What's new

A class can now be given a length, so it shows as a time range and stays open until it really ends. A whole run of classes can be laid out while the course is being created rather than a date at a time. PowerPoint import now takes a deck at full picture quality and brings more of each slide across. And the panel that reports a recording says plainly whether it is ready and what to do when it isn't.

A class you have taught using PowerPoint no longer has to be rebuilt to be taught here. Upload the presentation, choose the slides you want, and each one becomes a board, with the pictures and text arriving where they sat on the slide.

There is now a guide to taking a class — how to join one, what each control does, and how to watch a class back afterwards. For the people building classes, the objects on a board can be moved and resized by hand.

The platform has been rebuilt. The parts of a class you spend your time in, the artwork, moving between looking together and looking on your own, and watching a class back afterwards, work the way they always have. Nearly everything around them is new and it is quicker to move around.