Product Release Notes

STANDARDS SATCHEL

Quarter 3 2025 (Jul - Sep)

Coming soon…

✨ CASE® goes national and international.

  • Look for frameworks for the Dynamic Learning Maps: Essential Elements, Australian Curriculum, and others in CASE Network.

✨ Satchel Accessibility Upgrades are in the works. Watch for changes to buttons, menus, features, and more. Current features already in place include:

  • Google Translate

  • Mobile friendly viewing options for viewing standards in tree view

  • System Admin options for color coding with custom hex # and pre-sets for corresponding text colors

  • Screen reader friendly operation with consistent navigation

✨ CASE® Rubrics are continuing to improve…

  • Our CASE publishing states, districts, and edtech suppliers using Satchel to author standards and competencies can already view, create, and print rubrics connected to their competencies.

    • Coming soon features include fine-tuned authoring options, a batch import feature, and enhanced export capabilities.

Quarter 2 2025 (Apr-Jun)

CASE® Expansion & Updates

✨ #CASEchampions expand CASE® to 5 more subject areas!

  • Google for Education invested in CGLT CASE services to convert PDF documents and website linked versions of frameworks into an interoperable format to give back to the ecosystem. As a result, 4 new subject areas for K-12 have been added to CASE Network for immediate school and district download for World Languages, Computer Science, Health, and PE.

  • Additionally, Frog Street has leveraged their own instance of our Satchel CASE publishing tool to co-author early learning frameworks focused on child development, social emotional learning, approaches to play, and more to be released to CASE Network in 2026 and sooner for CASE publishing states.

✨ CASE Network reporting and services get a boost

  • CASE Best Practices - as CASE has evolved we’ve found previously published framework may not be update with the suggested format outlined by 1EdTech.

    • To help EdTech suppliers and districts produce cleaner exports we’ve introduced a sanitization tool to convert HTML formatting into markdown, remove orphaned items, and more if needed. All registered users can access this feature.

  • Cross-State Comparisons - While Satchel users are able to make associations and crosswalks with our tools, we wanted to give everyone a glimpse into how states line up.

    • This scatterplot report depicts how similar each state’s standards are to every other state’s standards, as determined by comparing vector encodings of the semantic meanings of every standard in every state (with encodings determined by the open-source Universal Sentence Encoder large language model).

Quarter 1 2025 (Jan - Mar)

Rubrics (BETA)

✨ A NEW CASE® rubric feature is available in Satchel.

  • Rubrics are visible within the frameworks they are connected too (similar to the way associations appear now).

  • System / Framework Admin and Editors can create and edit rubrics.

    • Import options are also available to framework authors.

      • This new feature will allow more states and issuing agencies to add their Performance Level Descriptors (PLDs) and Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) to their frameworks.

    • Export and print options are in progress

Quarter 4 2024 (Oct - Dec)

Canvas Export for Outcomes

✨ All frameworks in Satchel can be exported to a format for easy import into Canvas.

  • Choose the item type from the framework that you plan to use for '“outcomes” and the export will group all remaining unselected item types as groups into the format required for Canvas.

    • 🤩 Big thanks to Arizona DOE and their districts for the collaboration to develop and test this feature.

Subscribe Code - Add Comment Group Members

✨ Now the creator of a Comment Group can give framework reviewers a join code.

  • Signed in Satchel users sometimes want to collaborate in real time around a framework. Creating a Comment Group on the fly for an Admin / Editor of a Framework was tedious before but now, voila… members can be added instantly via a join code.

    • 🤩 Big thanks to Georgia DOE and their professional services team for this request.

Quarter 3 2024 (Jul - Sep)

Batch Import Tools Enhancements

✨ Ever wanted to batch add meta data, associations, or new items? Wish granted!

More Meta Data

✨ Meta data that has been added to an item within a framework is now visible from the tree and table views.

  • Framework viewers can access item meta data on the item card (tree view) and enable viewing of meta table from the filters (table view) for export.

  • Framework editors have the added option for editing an item’s meta data and viewing the field description from the tooltip.

  • 🤩 Kudos to Georgia and South Carolina for pioneering these innovative uses of CASE®.

Quarter 2 2024 (Apr - Jun)

CASE® 1.1 Upgrade - Extended Associations for Crosswalks (BETA)

✨ Crosswalk Association tools have been released to select partners

  • Carnegie Learning, the College Board, South Carolina Department of Education, Alabama Department of Education, and Georgia Department of Education are our first partners to try out the Crosswalk tools in their Satchel instances.

  • Look for User Guides and more information soon about when the Crosswalk tool will be available for all CASE® publishers using Satchel. Contact us if you want more information.

Quarter 1 2024 (Jan - Mar)

CASE Network 2 - Updated Frameworks

✨ Frameworks have been updated!

  • As part of Common Good Learning Tool’s commitment to the goal of getting all states into CASE® to make standards interoperable across districts’ digital ecosystems, we have updated the ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies frameworks in the CASE Network to the most current versions we could find.

  • Once you register (free for all schools and districts), take a look at the Framework Update Report and sign up for notifications to keep up to date when new frameworks become available.

December 2023

Track Changes upgrades

✨ Tracking changes to a framework, just got easier!

  • Any signed in Satchel user can use their hamburger menu to find the Framework Updates Report and pick a comparison archive (version) to view changes and details.

Updated Export and Print options

✨ Filters have been improved

  • Implementation Date, Retirement Date, and other metadata fields have been added as filters for available data to export using table view or print from tree view.

Google Translate

✨ Google Translate is now available as a viewing option in the hamburger menu

  • Toggling Google Translate on will allow a user to view all items and website menus form the selected language.

November 2023

CASE Network 2

✨ Common Good Learning Tools has teamed up with 1EdTech to launch CASE Network 2

  • With public access (no sign in required), anyone can explore and print all 50 states core four frameworks and more by visiting casenetwork.1edtech.org.

  • By registering (free for educators, schools, and non-commercial entities), users can export frameworks and get updates about changes.

  • Watch the video, learn more about the CASE Network benefits, or view the full press release.

User Guide updates

✨ Our User Guides have been recently updated

  • Find even more information about your instance of Standards Satchel (CASE Network 2, WIDA Digital Explorer, Georgia SuitCASE, etc.) by using the blue “i” icon.

October 2023

Print - Date & Time Stamped Header

✨ Printing options were upgraded to include a date and time stamped header.

Comments - Mark as Resolved buttons

✨ A NEW Mark as Resolved button appears on comments for comment authors and the Comment Group Admin.

  • The Show All view of comments also has a new filter checkbox, to show or hide resolved comments.

  • Use this new feature to preserve the comment history for a framework and speed up your framework review process.

September 2023

Metadata Bonus

✨ NEW metadata fields were added to frameworks to allow System / Framework admin to apply an implementation start date and / or retired end dates for frameworks.

  • Watch the video to see different views of how applying these dates will appear for viewers with access to the frameworks.

  • Use these dates in conjunction with the status field to inform the public of various stages of adoption to implementation of the standards and competencies.

Framework Index

✨ The table view of the Framework Index got an upgrade:

  • Quickly see the adoption status of frameworks with clear and colorful labels

  • System Admin level users with a Standards Satchel subscription (issuing agencies only), note the Mirror icon to access information about mirrored frameworks.