Changelog

We've updated the default scrolling behavior on the whiteboard to align with standard web practices. Now, scrolling will move the page instead of zooming by default. You can still adjust these settings to your preference in the whiteboard settings menu.

We've added new background colors to the whiteboard, offering more customization for your lessons! Plus, an isometric grid option is now available, perfect for geometry or design-related activities.

Our document editor also just got a little more vibrant! You can now change the background color of your document tabs, making content more customizable and accessible for students with different learning needs. Plus, hide cursors on the text editor for distraction-free typing!

We've introduced the Lessonspace Cobrowser, a powerful new tool that lets you and your students collaboratively browse the web within a shared browser window in a Space. This feature allows for real-time interaction with websites, making it perfect for exploring news sites, playing educational games, or working through browser-based worksheets together. You can even open additional tabs within the Cobrowser, enhancing interactivity and collaboration in your virtual classroom.

We've released our highly anticipated breakout rooms feature. Now, you can easily split classes into smaller groups for focused activities, discussions, or collaborative tasks. The new breakout rooms provide enhanced control, allowing you to monitor idle users, mute or disable videos, and restrict editing access—all while viewing all video feeds on a single screen. This update is all about making group work more manageable and effective in your virtual classroom, ensuring you can maintain a smooth and organized learning environment.

We've released a more refined overview page to general access. The new view includes a simplified set of charts of your account's session data, the latest changelog posts (like this one!) so you can keep up to date on what's new at Lessonspace, some suggested things to do to get the most out of your Lessonspace account, and a little billing summary showing your next invoice and current storage capacity.

More improvements to the page will be coming soon. If you still need to access the old overview page for whatever reason, you can get to it via the link at the bottom of the new overview. We'll be sunsetting the old overview in a few months.

Importing a PDF into a Space is now much faster thanks to numerous performance improvements. Large files in particular are handled much better by the upload interface and you can now select pages to import before the entire document has been converted thanks to asynchronous processing.

In the Apps section of the Library you can now find a collaborative calculator. The calculator app offers a standard calculator interface, DEGREE and RADIAN settings with a set of scientific notation buttons and also supports LaTeX input. Each answer is saved into a collapsed history list which you can expand and click to highlight answers to draw attention to them.

Lessonspace now integrates with Workee! Workee is an all-in-one solution for private teachers and tutors. Manage your students, bookings, schedules, and payments all in one place with 0% fees!

Just open up the app copy and paste any YouTube URL into the field to start sharing an embedded YouTube player. Playing, pausing and seeking will be sync'd across everyone in the Space.

Use the Shared Video app to provide accompanying visuals to help explain concepts, or use it to add some sound to your lessons.

The dice app is now available in the Apps section of the Library on any whiteboard tab. Use it to teach probability, statistics, counting, combinatorics, game theory or just to inject some random chance into your lessons!