June 2026 product updates

Assigning teachers to groups

In some courses, multiple teachers are involved, but they don't always manage the same students. For example, in vocational education, different groups of students often start at different times throughout the school year, with a different teacher responsible for each intake.

You can now assign teachers to specific organization or course groups via the Groups tab on the course Participants page. This will only be possible if there is more than 1 teacher in the course.

When a teacher is assigned to a group:

• Targeted tasks and notifications: They will only see follow-up tasks and receive notifications for students within their assigned group(s). The only exception is for students who have no teacher assigned to them at all.
• Pre-filtered overviews: Pages that list students (such as the assignment tool or the 360 report) will default to the teacher's assigned group(s). However, teachers can still change this filter manually if they need to view or assess students from other groups, for instance, when substituting for a colleague.

Improvements to new Course administration page

We made two small usability improvements to the new course administration page:

• You can now filter courses by using the Enter key
• If you enroll or withdraw from a course, you no longer jump to the top of the page to see the confirmation message.

Sorting in the course catalogue

In the new course catalogue, courses are now sorted on when they were last updated, with the most recently updated course first.

Class

Class is a new course focus in itslearning that gives students a simplified and more visual course view, while teachers continue to use the standard itslearning tools for planning, resources, assessment, and communication.

Teachers can organise subjects, projects, or themes as image-labelled topics on the main Class page. Each topic can show either resources or plans, depending on how the teacher wants to structure the content. The course menu can also be disabled for students, giving them a simpler navigation path through the course.

Class is primarily designed for primary schools, but can also be useful in short courses, second language classes, and other settings where simplified navigation helps students focus on the content.

This feature is part of the German Development Project (GDP), a collaboration between four German states and itslearning aimed at enhancing digital education in Germany through tailored product developments.

Learn more about the GDP roadmap and what other features you can expect to see.

For German readers, more details on the German Development Project are made available on our webpages.

Release Note Sharing

itslearning delivers weekly updates to the platform, ranging from minor fixes to larger improvements in the user interface and underlying functionality. Release Note Sharing makes it easier for teachers, administrators, and staff to stay informed about recent changes.

"What's new" in the Personal Menu

A new link is now available for admins, teachers, and staff, linking directly to the monthly product update overview.

Notification Settings Update

In Notification settings you will now find "Product updates".

Weekly Product Update Notifications

Clicking the notification takes you straight to the current update for this month.

Read more about Release Note Sharing in this article.

Test: allow to complete after deadline

It is now possible to allow students to start or finish a test after the deadline has passed. By default the setting "Close after deadline" will be checked when a deadline is entered, but teachers can uncheck this to allow late submissions.

Students will be informed that the deadline has passed and that their submission will be marked as too late. Teachers will see in the overview of results which students have submitted the test after the deadline.