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Back-to-School Time! What's New in Derivita? (August 2021)

August 19, 2021

Welcome back! Curious as to what's new in Derivita? Check out our latest updates below!

New! Question Search to Quickly Find Topics in our Content Library

With our new Question Search, you can now search for specific topics or content using keywords. The search results will show questions that contain that keyword and where they are located within the Content Library. Simply click on the question and you will be taken directly to that section to preview the questions and select them for your assignments.


New! Quickly Assign Partial Credit & Grade Free Response Questions

While most of the Derivita questions are auto-graded, you still have the ability to go in and override grades or apply partial credit. With our new Simplified Question Editor, you can now ask free response/math essay type questions as well! These questions need to be hand-graded and we now have a convenient way for you to quickly grade your students’ responses - even on multi-part questions. Learn more about partial credit and manual grading here.


New! Students can Upload Images as Answers to Free Response Questions

With our Simplified Question Editor, you can now ask students to upload images as their answer! Students are able to insert images directly from their computer or they can simply use their phones to capture and upload pictures. Learn more about how students enter their answers to free response questions here.


Get Up and Running with Derivita in Minutes!

The Derivita Team has been busy this summer both with adding new capabilities as well as creating video tutorials and resources to help you get started with Derivita right away! Now you have all the tools you need at your fingertips to learn the ins and outs of using Derivita in your classroom. The new web page includes best practices, instructor resources and student resources. Visit our Getting Started with Derivita page here.

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