Product Release Notes

Cureum

Cureum is a highly customizable product and as a result, you may know it under a different name like Henry Connects, Georgia INSPIRE, Arizona Digital Educator Library (ADEL), Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX), or NCLX. Each organization chooses the features to enable and configure for their instance to serve their community.

Quarter 4, 2025 (Oct. - Dec)

Specialized District Access within Cureum

✨ NEW flexible access is available for provisioned districts

  • Districts collaborating with their state leaders using Cureum can now request their own provisioned access within their state approved system.

  • This feature allows districts to add their own resource repositories for their staff to use and reference - right alongside the state-sanctioned repositories and collections!

Quarter 3, 2025 (Jul - Sep)

Search Upgrades

✨ Updated Search options include:

  1. Using keywords or standards

  2. Filtering the search in a specific course, repository, or collection

  3. Opening up the search to All Content with a selected subject

  4. Using additional search terms to further filter results

Quarter 2, 2025 (Apr - Jun)

Navigation Bar Improvement

✨ Get Back Home

  • An arrow now indicates where a user is within Cureum. A Home icon has been added for easy access, as well!

Quarter 1, 2025 (Jan - Mar)

AI Assisted Lesson Plan feature

✨ Lesson Plan Companion - Standards Informed AI Suggestions

  • Start with your standards and build away! Educators can use the lesson plan companion to generate suggestions for an entire lesson plan or simply a mini-lesson.

  • Existing lesson plans can be converted and then revised to include:

    • Objectives & Targets to unpack the standard and focus the lesson.

    • Vocabulary Review with the option to add flashcards for student use.

    • Closing Question(s) that creates a constructed response question within Velocity complete with a model student response for thoughtful discussion, quick feedback, and easy grading.

  • Lesson Plans can also include Primary and Secondary standards alignments.

    • NOTE: The secondary alignment is not used for LLM suggestions.

Quarter 4, 2024 (Oct - Dec)

Navigation and User Interface (UI) Upgrades

✨ Improved Search

  • The search feature has a new look. You can search for the title of any content.

  • Try out the filters for content types (lesson plans, student activities, or resources).

  • Use the SEARCH IN button to also filter what collections you want to look in.

✨ NEW Alignments view from Satchel

  • Courses, Repositories, and My Content Collections all display content alignments from the List View of the Resources or Standards sub-tabs.

  • The first aligned standard or skill is what will initially show as an alignment icon in the list view and clicking on the alignment icons will reveal all the framework connections made to Georgia SuitCASE.

✨ NEW Categories are available to organize My Content Collections

  • Now all Cureum learning designers, educators, and creatives can better organize their My Content Collections into groups.

Quarter 3, 2024 (Jul - Sep)

Workflow Improvements

✨ Improved Lesson Plan layout

  • The Standards and Elements section of the Lesson Plan has been bumped to the top to more closely match a learning designers’ workflow and a teacher’s focus on the learning targets for a lesson.

  • Lesson Plan editors can continue to edit aligned standards as they appear in Satchel

  • Hovering over the standards will still reveal the full text and clicking on them will open the Satchel view of the standard as it appears within its framework.

Quarter 2, 2024 (Apr - Jun)

Workflow Improvements

✨ NEW Archive Viewer & Unarchive Features

  • Previously, users could remove or delete content (lessons, activities, & resources) but did not have a way to view these items or undo the action.

  • Now a user can view archived content from their My Content Sandbox and restore it.

    • To find the Archive Viewer navigate to your My Content Collections: My Content Sandbox and choose the kebab menu:

      • Select View Archived Lessons and Resources

        • Use the kebab menu for any item to open it, show the original (if applicable) or UNARCHIVE this item.

        • Unarchived items will appear in their respective content category (Lessons, Student Activities, Other Resources) within your My Content Sandbox.

✨ Admin Updates

  • System Admin can now change a collection type

    • System Admin can navigate to the Site Admin Tools tab, select Content Collections and choose More Options to find a NEW Change a Collection’s Type workflow.

      • If a user has supplied an System Admin with their Collection Title (make sure to make it unique) they will be able to search for it and convert it.

  • The newly released Thin Common Cartridge (TCC) file export got a boost.

    • Check boxes have been added to allow for more choice about the content available for export (refer to previous release for more info.)

Quarter 1, 2024 (Jan - Mar)

Workflow Improvements

✨ All copied content is automatically saved to the My Collections tab - My Content Sandbox

  • Previously, users might copy a lesson or Velocity Student activity from a Cureum Course or Repository Collection but lose track of where their copied content was saved.

  • Now, all copied content can be accessed in three ways (🖥️):

    • From the user’s My Content Collections: My Content Sandbox folder AND

    • The original Course or Repository Unit (folder) under the sub-tabs:

      • My Content where a user can continue to make revisions to lessons and activities they’ve copied while still accessing the original Course or Repository content OR

      • Resources where copied content continues to be highlighted in both tile or list view.

✨ Collections can be exported as a Thin Common Cartridge (TCC) file [BETA]

  • This NEW BETA feature will mainly be used by district leaders who want to export the content of a collection at a point in time for import into an LMS or other platform.

    • LTI linked content (e.g. Student Velocity Activities and Lessons) retain their connection to the original content.

  • NOTE: Any organization that exports a TCC of a collection may want to periodically check for collection revisions (e.g. additions or deletions) that will not be reflected in their original TCC export.

Quarter 4, 2023 (Oct - Dec)

My Content Collections

✨ The NEW My Content Collections tab is a place where signed in users can be the learning designers of their own Content Collections within Cureum. From the My Content Collections area:

  • Create a Content Collection with units organized into a scope and sequence (like Courses) or folders (like Repositories).

    • The My Sandbox Collection stores all your created or imported content prior to 12/29/23 or any sandbox content.

    • Create a NEW Content Collection to search, import, or create even more.

    • Collaborate on your collection by sharing it or adding editors using the kebab menu.

  • Subscribe to other collections using a subscription code from a collection author.

Courses, Repositories, and Collections

✨ NEW organization options have been unified across all collection types.

  • All collection creators (including teachers) can now choose between a Scope and Sequence layout (horizontal like a Course) or Folder layout (vertical like a Repository).

Accessibility Improvement

✨ NEW Google Translate options are available within Cureum in the bottom left corner of the screen