Release notes — May 21, 2026

Highlights

  • Blurred background — Participants can now blur their background during Breakout sessions, from the options shown when joining a room.
  • AI Insights from the Gradebook — Instructors can open AI Insights from a participant's score in the Gradebook for more useful context on student participation and learning activity.
  • Find users by email — When adding a user from the catalog, you can now search by email address.
  • Ended sections in the LMS — Opening Breakout from an LMS section that has passed its end date now shows a "Section ended" message instead of the catalog, and no new Breakout section is created. Existing assignments and past results stay available.
  • Full navigation in role-based previews — Instructors can now move through every slide when previewing an experience that uses roles.
  • Cleaner views for decks without rubrics — When a slide deck has no rubrics, instructor Summary, Results, Gradebook, and Participants views hide rubric sections, and participants' Session Results no longer show empty Conversation Map and Performance Feedback cards.

Accessibility

  • Addressed accessibility audit findings across key student and instructor workflows, including improvements aligned with WCAG requirements.

Improvements and fixes

  • Clearer grading slide in instructor preview.
  • Publishing a slide deck without rubrics now shows a warning instead of being blocked.
  • The slide deck label "Instructional Designer" is now "Created By".
  • Tooltips and form errors in the slide editor now display more consistently.
Published
Permanent link
https://updates.breakoutlearning.com/updates/2026-05-21-release/