Here are a list of changes made to littlebirdtales.com. Enjoy!
May 5, 2020
Cleaning up icons so they look nicer.
Images are cropped using standard image ratio so photos look normal.
Oct 14, 2019
Fixed issue with signing up form with credit card info.
Oct 13, 2019
Adding ability to share tales on FaceBook. What took us so long?
Oct 11, 2019
Based on great feedback from teachers, we updated the new art pad color pickers to use the same color blocks as the original art pad.
July 26, 2019
Added captcha to some forms as needed.
More fixes and improvements.
July 26, 2019
PDFs now cost $2.50 USD for non-premium members. Premium members get PDFs for free.
Various small improvements.
July 17, 2019
Replaced Flash with HTML5 to play tales.
Updated to improve page loading speed.
July 15, 2019
Replaced Flash with HTML5 for image uploaders.
March 7, 2018
Premium teacher accounts now have unlimited MP4 downloads.
May 14, 2017
Profile view now only shows the student count for classes owned by the teacher. The available classes students are no longer included
April 30, 2017
Added new feature on Class Manager that allows a teacher to transfer ownership of a class to another teacher.
April 29, 2017
Fixed issues that prevented users from successfully deleting accounts.
Feb 24, 2017
Fixed bug which prevented the student data to be edited under Manage Students.
Nov 11, 2016
When a class is deleted, we now just mark the data as inactive instead of actually deleting the data.
Oct 14, 2016
Fixed bug that prevented credit card processing errors from being displayed.
Oct 9, 2016
Updated the Manage School feature so it is easier to use.
Sept 11, 2016
Added new feature to let a teacher make their class available to other teachers in the school.
March 15, 2016
Added the 'Change School' option to the 'Go to' menu so moving to another school is possible.
March 14, 2016
Added the 'Change My Password' option to the 'Go to' menu so changing one's password is easier.
Jan 23, 2016
Add new premium feature that allows students to belong to multiple classes in a school.
When playing a tale, the Contact Us popup is hidden for a better viewing experience.
Fixed issues with importing from an Excel file.
Various other improvements and fixes.
Nov 28, 2015
Add new premium feature that allows teachers to copy pages from student tales to their own tale. This can be used to compile an end of year tale showing the student work as an example.
Various other improvements and fixes.
May 25, 2015
Add new premium family account type.
Added beta version of the new student tranfer feature.
Updated the student/class importing code to support the new parent email field.
Upgrading free teacher accounts to have 100 students as a minimum!
Profile for free teachers shows more student related details.
Free teacher accounts can now record teacher instructional audio for lessons.
Resolved a few small items to make things easier for you.
The view to watch a tale from a link or external site gets an updated look and feel.
March 22, 2015
Fixed image upload issue where filenames contained upper case characters.
March 20, 2015
New look and feel.
March 14, 2015
Added new student search feature that allows teachers to search for student activity easily.
March 7, 2015
Improvements made in sending out our emails.
Feb 19, 2015
Can now reorder all pages including the cover page.
More bug fixes and improvements.
Jan 10, 2015
Class names can no longer be empty.
Dec 12, 2014
Added new Tales Action menu available when editing a tale or lesson.
Improved load time of images to galleries.
Showing the number of images next to gallery names.
More bug fixes and improvements.
Dec 8, 2014
Improved load time of book club lessons page.
More bug fixes and improvements.
Nov 20, 2014
Adding Book Club lessons for premium users.
Added How do I... page and related help
More bug fixes and improvements.
Oct 25, 2014
Making a tale public now requires premium membership.
Bug fixes and improvements.
Oct 19, 2014
Improved the file upload code to be more reliable.
Minor bug fixes.
Oct 7, 2014
Minor bug fixes.
Resolved issue with line breaks in PDFs.
Sep 28, 2014
Added My Billing option so premium accounts can review their payment history.
Other small tweaks.
Sep 8, 2014
Added ability to automatically upgrade new teacher accounts to premium when they belong to a school with a school license.
Other small tweaks.
Sep 3, 2014
Provided more options when a teacher deletes a lesson. See our FAQ for more information.
Sep 2, 2014
Minor fixes.
Aug 31, 2014
Improved rendering time of the Manage School page.
Aug 30, 2014
Resolved issues with tale and lesson searching.
Resolved various small issues and bug fixes.
Aug 26, 2014
Updated the global navigation link with more options for teachers.
Resolve issue with the art pad not saving.
Aug 25, 2014
Improve rendering time for the Manage School page.
Aug 22, 2014
Submitted update for our iOS app to Apple.
July 27, 2014
Added support for accented characters in the tale player.
Added support for accented characters in emails sent for sharing a tale.
June 1, 2014
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Better support for foreign language characters.
When copying a lesson to your account images now get copied properly.
When demoing a lesson, we display a message that no data is saved in demo mode.
Now displaying correct error message that free teachers are limited to 20 accounts.
May 12, 2014
New premium feature added! Able to play tales on a class page continuously.
May 7, 2014
Tale player now allows spaces and carriage returns.
May 5, 2014
Changes to our billing process.
May 2, 2014
Fixed database issue to improve speed of site.
Feb 8, 2014
Teacher created tales can now be added to a class page. Teacher tales are listed after the student tales in the list of available tales to be added.
Jan 30, 2014
Now preventing the art pad from being closed accidentally when the Escape key is pressed.
Jan 20, 2014
Resolved an issue that was causing emails to be displayed incorrectly.
Nov 29, 2013
Resolved an issue that was causing tales to be deleted inadvertantly.
Nov 27, 2013
Renamed the Sign Up link to Join Now.
Added a link to the home page for school account called View School Info which shows the school code and the user role.
Moved the landing page tabs in closer so they are easier to see on small screens.
Nov 20, 2013
Added the View Class Page button back.
Improved deleting tales/lessons from the home page so the entire page does not need to be reloaded.
Resolved issue with being unable to save to lessons.
Resolved issue with teachers being unable to delete student assignments when reviewing them.
Nov 19, 2013
Resolved issue with teachers being unable to delete student tales when reviewing them.
Resolved issue when creating a new class and printing PDF cards.
Nov 14, 2013
Resolved issues with the horribleness that is IE 8.
Nov 11, 2013
Reverted how title and author information can be edited. Removed the use of the modal dialog. Thank you Jane!
Nov 10, 2013
Resolved an issue that prevented tales from playing that had quotes in their title.
Nov 6, 2013
Isolated the sign in button to make it easier to identify.
Saving a page in a lesson will display the next page if it exists."
Added the option to generate PDF documents from tales or lessons.
Nov 4, 2013
Various updates, tweaks.
Nov 2, 2013
New user interface rolled out.
Oct 8, 2013
Added SSL security to the login and signup forms.
Sept 30, 2013
Resolved issue where assignments found from searching could not be deleted or assigned.
Sept 24, 2013
Completed RM Unify integration.
Added search to public tales.
Sept 21, 2013
Improved situation where teachers who are not yet associated with a school get a chance to do so before creating an assignment.
Sept 11, 2013
Added basic search feature to the My Tales and My Assignments pages.
Sept 9, 2013
Fixed an issue when playing a tale, where the cover page was displayed too long when it had no audio.
Aug 20, 2013
Rearranged Common Core Templates by grade. Added links to go to specific grade content on template page.
July 28, 2013
When uploading tales from iOS devices, the images are now copied into your gallery.
June 27, 2013
Free teacher accounts are now limited to 30 students in a class.
June 25, 2013
Now possible to just have a cover page act as the only page for a tale.
June 20, 2013
Improvements made to simplify the editing of the class pages.
May 27, 2013
Introducing the Manage Students feature.
Introducing the ability to play tales in a popup window to simplify navigation.
May 27, 2013
Fixed an issue when using the Share Assignment feature and having it redirect to the incorrect page afterwards.
When sharing an assignment, you will now return to the proper page in your assignments list.
May 22, 2013
When assigning a tale, only show the student's first name in the By field. No need to show both first and last name.
May 16, 2013
When assigning a tale, if there are a lot of users listed in the Available Students list (like more than 200), the All selection buttons have been removed. Chances are you do not want to assign a class to this many people at once. We are still working on improving this aspect.
Fixed an issue where the embed code was not correct. This prevented an embed link from actually working.
May 9, 2013
Removed quotes from around the tale title in playback mode and PDF generation.
May 5, 2013
Fixed PDFs generated for tales. PDF now formatted in portrait format, resolved issue where text would run onto the next page. Added links in PDF to the tale title to easily view the tale on our site.
Fixed issue where clicking save while audio is playing would do bad things.
May 1, 2013
Introducing new recording technology that will provide a more consistent user experience and is easier for users and schools.
April 18, 2013
Fixed incorrect links on assignments assigned to students. Now clicking on the assignment image, title or edit icon will allow the student to take the assignment.
Number of pages for assignments/tales is now correct when listing these items on the My Tales/Assignments view.
April 10, 2013
Introducing our new gallary sharing feature.
Speed improvements to the galleries.
Fixed issue with teachers selecting a school.
March 22, 2013
Fixed issue so the class page privacy setting is displayed correctly on the class details view.
March 17, 2013
Fixed issue with the Add Page feature so it now works with assignments.
Now we display the lock icons when a student takes an assignment so it is a little more obvious what is locked.
Various fixes
March 7, 2013
Premium Memberships introduced
Teacher text introduced
Improved look for buttons
Various fixes
Feb 21, 2013
Now displaying proper error when adding a student with a duplicate username.
Student username's can now be 2 characters in length.
Feb 16, 2013
Added proper warning if user selects incorrect file type for student import.
Feb 8, 2013
Added the Add Page button when editing pages.
Jan 28, 2013
Resolved issues around the Back button for the tale player.
Jan 12, 2013
Resolved issue so a tale can be flagged as inappropriate.
Dec 14, 2012
Resolved an issue where text pasted from Word could not get rendered correctly in the MP4 generator.
Dec 13, 2012
Resolved an issue where selecting a school would not always work as expected.
Nov 21, 2012
Simplified our sign up process for teachers. Now, when signing up, teachers just need to select the teacher checkbox. After the account is created, you can start creating as well as adding your school. We also simplified the school selection process so not all schools are displayed by default. This provides better security as well.
Nov 8, 2012
Added ability for users to enter a coupon code for free MP4 downloads. This will be useful for those users who will be presenting littlebirdtales.com at conferences.
Nov 5, 2012
Cancelling an account will now immediately delete the account and all account data.
When editing a tale, clicking on the image will open the image in the art pad.
Nov 4, 2012
No longer need to be logged in to download sample MP4.
Fixed an issue that prevented the sharing of assignments from working.
Nov 1, 2012
Added links to the Import Students page so users can download sample
import files to make it easier for them to start importing.
Added link to download sample MP4 file.
Oct 27, 2012
Resolved an issue with our MP4 generator where some MP4s would have their images get out of sync with the audio.
Simplified our captcha on the sign up page. Some Windows users were having issues.
Oct 6, 2012
Galleries are now listed by their created or modified date.
Galleries used to be listed alphabetically.
When uploading an image, it is now stored in your gallery.
When saving an image in the art pad, it is now stored in your gallery.
Resolved an issue so teachers can now edit a student's tale.
Resolved an error when uploading an image with the All gallery selected did not work.