Major KORA Update: Packed with User-Requested Features & Improvements!

2025-05-10 - Enhancing Your Learning and Teaching Experience

We're excited to announce a major deployment for KORA, packed with quality-of-life updates, new features, and performance enhancements, all driven directly by feedback from our amazing users! This isn't just an update; it's a significant step forward in making KORA the best possible platform for students and educators.

KORA Dashboard with new features — The updated KORA dashboard, featuring user-requested improvements.

1. Quality of Life Enhancements (You Asked, We Listened!)

Based on feedback from our top users, we've focused on making your KORA experience smoother and more flexible:

Exam Pausing & Resuming: Need a break during a long exam? Now you can pause and resume your sessions.
Improved UI Scaling: We've addressed UI scaling issues to ensure KORA looks great on all screen sizes.
Helpful Tutorials: New integrated tutorials to help you get the most out of KORA's features.
Expanded Authentication: Log in faster with new options for Google, Discord, and GitHub accounts.

2. Exciting New Features

We've also added powerful new tools to enhance learning and teaching:

Tablet Drawing Mode: Perfect for visual learners and educators, allowing for freehand drawing and annotation directly within KORA.
Desmos Calculator Integration: Access the powerful Desmos graphing calculator seamlessly during your study sessions or while creating content.
Course Mastery Tracking: Gain deeper insights into student understanding and track progress towards mastering course concepts.

3. Performance Boost

We've optimized the platform for improved site performance, ensuring faster loading times and a more responsive experience overall.

4. What This Means for You

For Students: Enjoy a more flexible, intuitive, and powerful learning environment with tools tailored to your needs.
For Educators: Benefit from enhanced usability, better student insights, and more versatile content creation tools.

This deployment reflects our commitment to continuous improvement based on your valuable input. Explore the updated KORA platform and experience the difference. We're eager to hear your thoughts as we continue to build the future of education together!