• You can now edit you own talk or end-of-page discussion posts.
• Talk post titles have been reinstated.
• Better prompting to avoid loosing posts if you navigate away before saving.
• Fix, posters are no longer redirected to the top of the page when pressing reply on an end-or-page discussion.

What's new

Authors now have more control over when learners can access assessed tasks and quizzes, supporting clearer sequencing and helping ensure learners are prepared.

Alongside opening dates, you can set score-based conditions so learners unlock assessments only after achieving a minimum score on an earlier task or quiz.

First release

For this first release, if you make changes to opening conditions and republish, those changes will flow to class activations.

Please note that in some cases, assessments may remain or become locked for certain learners. We recommend using sandpit courses to explore and test this behaviour.
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Coming soon

In our second release, enhancements will include automatically opening assessments for learners who meet updated conditions on republish, as well as enabling facilitators and coaches to unlock individual learners’ assessments directly from the Class console.

Learn more about assessment opening conditions and how they can help structure your course, or reach out if you’d like help getting started.

• Security update: SVG files unavailable for upload with the exception of badges.
• Updates and improvements to the Te Reo Māori language option.
• Security improvments to SSO (Single Sign On).

Edit your posts without starting again
Made a typo or missed something? You no longer need to delete your whole post. For end‑of‑page discussions and Talk channels, select the three dots on the right of your post and Edit.

Titles are back
We heard your feedback — titles are a key part of Talk channels. You can now add a title to Talk posts, and we’ve added previous titles back in.

Avoid losing work
If you try to navigate away before sending your message, you’ll now see a prompt so you don’t lose your work.

Find more in Overview of Talk Channels.

• Resolved issue preventing learners from submitting quizzes on mobile devices in portrait mode.
• Notifications now display in Te Reo Māori when Te Reo Māori is selected as the language

• Fix for manage users to show them being in the correct dashboard (create tab highlighted instead of learner tab)
• Talk channel subscription now shows what current channel subscription(s) selection is.
• A clear view of when a searched for author has no courses in the user admin/course collaborator area.
• Update to course management API enpoints to add count indication for tasks in a course.
• Re-introduced ability for facilitators to link to specific Talk messages.
• Learners dashboard filter preferences now persist, meaning they no longer need to set them each time they visit their dashboard.
• Security change: HTML files can no longer be uploaded into any area of iQualify.

Authors can now choose whether learners should get further attempts if they’ve already passed an assessed quiz. Authors can set this as a Quiz setting, along with how many attempts the learner can access and what the Pass percentage is.

Find out how you can enable this setting on your assessed quizzes!

To help you get the most out of your notifications we’ve given them a refresh!

• See at a glance what they’re about, we’ve given them headings and clearer wording and tags.
• Come back to them later, notifications no longer disappear when you first interact with them.
• Keep tabs on your unread messages, see from your dashboard how many unread messages you have.

Get an overview of notifications in iQualify.

• Fix to resources in Downloads so the default is to Show to learners.
• Fix to pagination of Search results when searching within a course.
• Fix to show the latest Pulse when viewing pulse responses.
• Fix to unsubscribe learners from Talk channels when their relative date has passed.
• Improvements to in-app notifications (see more in Notifications refresh).
• New quiz setting to prevent learners reattempting a quiz if they have passed (see more in Quiz thresholds for assessed quizzes).
• Fix to display special characters in Talk channel titles.

We’ve made some improvements to Talk, making a smoother more intuitive experience for both learners and facilitators, and this is just the beginning - with more social enhancements planned for 2026!

A search for socials
It’s now easier to find that post you were looking for! Search keywords or names and jump straight to the conversation.

​Clearer channels
Facilitators can now set clear Talk channel descriptions so everyone knows which channels to use.

​Easier posts
We found having to think up a title was a barrier to conversation. Now just simply add your comment, no title needed.

​Simpler replies
We’ve simplified comments/replies to just replying to the initial post (which also aligns with commonly used social media platforms).

​Better skimming and scanning
No more having to click in to read a post! Now we’ve got the content of the post right there. Fewer clicks for much better skimming and scanning.

For more information on using Talk, see An overview of Talk channels.