Release notes — September 9, 2026

Highlights

  • Clearer session results status — Participants now see a live status for their session results: not started, in progress, processing, or ready. Results and metrics appear automatically as soon as processing finishes, with no need to refresh.
  • "Dialog" experience type renamed to "Custom" — The experience type formerly called Dialog is now called Custom. Behaviour and existing content are unchanged.

Grading

  • Completion lateness is now measured from when a session finishes rather than when it starts, so Breakout matches the submission timestamp in your LMS and respects individual deadline extensions.
  • Changes to your default score mappings now apply to new assignments only, not to assignments that already exist.
  • Teaching assistants can now update grading configuration, score mappings, rubric weights, and completion settings on an instructor's behalf. Saving those as section defaults remains limited to the instructor.
  • Improved grading reliability across assignment configurations and LMS-connected workflows.

Improvements and fixes

  • Scheduling reminder emails are now sent only for assignments where participants can set or change their meeting time.
  • Improved the reliability of live transcription, including recovery if the speech service is interrupted during a session.
  • Improved audio and video reliability: participants can continue with working audio when a camera fails to start.
  • Reliability and performance improvements in the session room, Insights search, and the assignment page.

Accessibility

  • Documented our conformance for the WCAG criteria we currently partially support, as a companion to our accessibility conformance report.

Security

  • Strengthened application security controls around content and resource access.
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