Simpl Courses 2.99.104

Full Changelog: v2.99.103...v2.99.104

Simpl Courses 2.99.103

Full Changelog: v2.99.102...v2.99.103

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Full Changelog: v2.99.101...v2.99.102

Simpl for Mac 1.3.162

Simpl for Mac 1.3.162 (build 101) — the native Mac app, with Simpl's interface 2.99.104 inside.

Download Simpl-Mac-1.3.162.zip, open it, and move Simpl to Applications. It is signed with the team's Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It needs macOS 14 or later, and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

This is not the Safari extension: that stays Simpl Courses (the Simpl-Courses-Mac-… download on the web releases).

SHA-256: 282b82624b309eb7d0cdfbb5f5d4b93da24ae0332a249ec14d43965f9b800f60

Simpl for Mac 1.3.160

Simpl for Mac 1.3.160 (build 101) — the native Mac app, with Simpl's interface 2.99.103 inside.

Download Simpl-Mac-1.3.160.zip, open it, and move Simpl to Applications. It is signed with the team's Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It needs macOS 14 or later, and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

This is not the Safari extension: that stays Simpl Courses (the Simpl-Courses-Mac-… download on the web releases).

SHA-256: d4309b7b2eda3ce4c69959810abdb97c845caa7e85d807a35dd8f42db115836f

Simpl for Windows — Windows 11 look, preview (v281)

What's new in 0.3.51 (beta)

• Crash log — the developer tools have a Crashes page: a run of Simpl that goes down, or ends without quitting, is kept the next time it opens, with what stopped it, Windows' own report of it and the last of simpl.log; Copy, Save, Delete and Crash now… (to try it).

What's new in 0.3.50 (beta)

• Submit as ZIP — with two or more files in Hand In, a Submit as ZIP button sits beside Submit (the "Send as one .zip" box is gone): Submit hands them in as they are, Submit as ZIP as one .zip named after the assignment. A file the assignment takes only zipped is handed in with Submit as ZIP.

What's new in 0.3.49 (beta)

• Hand in as a .zip — Hand In takes a folder (Choose folder…, or drop one) and sends it as a .zip of it, and two or more files can go as one .zip ("Send as one .zip"); where an assignment takes .zip files, any file can go zipped.

What's new in 0.3.48 (beta)

• A tidier skyline — each course's tower on the Dashboard shows at most four windows across; what doesn't fit is hidden instead of squeezed in smaller.

What's new in 0.3.47 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, Browser on top — the Browser button is now in the popup's top bar, left of your tools, as in Knewton Alta (it was in the left rail).

What's new in 0.3.46 (beta)

• The real logo — the app, taskbar and installer icons are now drawn from the official logo artwork itself.

What's new in 0.3.45 (beta)

• A new look — Simpl has a new icon: a bold white S with a blue dot on a black tile, on the app, the taskbar and the installer.

What's new in 0.3.44 (beta)

• Instant search — results from your school (assignments, announcements, pages, discussions, files and people) now show under the search box as you type, before you press Enter.

What's new in 0.3.43 (beta)

• Knewton Alta, graphs show — a question with a Desmos graph (like "Consider the graph of f′(x) below") showed a blank box; the graph now shows, drawn small, and opens large when you click it.

What's new in 0.3.42 (beta)

• Knewton Alta, a sun and moon switch — the sun and moon are now inside the Light/Dark switch: the knob slides to the side you pick and carries its icon.

What's new in 0.3.41 (beta)

• Knewton Alta, controls on top — Light and Dark are now one switch, and it sits with Browser in the popup's top bar, left of your tools, instead of above the objectives.

What's new in 0.3.40 (beta)

• Windows Hello, far less often — once your face, fingerprint or PIN has opened your saved sign-in, Simpl doesn't ask again for 30 days. It asks sooner only if you sign in anew, forget the sign-in, your school stops taking the password, or you lock it again in Settings.
• Setup: pick your courses — the first setup starts with no courses ticked, so you choose the ones you're taking instead of unticking old ones.

What's new in 0.3.39 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, the math keyboard — on a question answered with an expression (θ = arctan…), Macmillan's math keyboard now sits under the answer field instead of on top of it, and the question below moves down to make room.
• Macmillan Learning, the final score — once an assignment is finished, Macmillan shows its final score as a percentage instead of points; that score is now read and shown instead of a dash.

What's new in 0.3.38 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, pictures on a narrower window — a question's picture is a smaller preview on a narrower window, and measured as drawn so it never runs past the right edge, whatever width Macmillan draws it at.

What's new in 0.3.37 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, pictures and units — a number's unit sits right beside its field, the whole question is drawn a little smaller so more of it fits, and a picture shows smaller with a ⤢ badge: click it to see it full size (click or press Escape to close).

What's new in 0.3.36 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, diagrams and widgets — a question with a picture keeps the picture on the right and the question with its answers down the left, whatever layout Macmillan gives it; parts that draw themselves (a labelling with its answer bank, a graph) stay readable in dark on a white plate and scroll in place instead of being cut off; nothing of the page runs past the right edge.

What's new in 0.3.35 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, polished — the whole question sits on one panel; Macmillan's Solved bar is replaced by the same Correct or Incorrect pill Knewton Alta shows, and each answer's own Correct is easy to read in dark too; questions that put each prompt beside its answer are one readable column (the answers no longer run off the edge); a number's answer is a field-sized box and its ×10ʸ tools menu matches the app; the words use the app's font; Switch to new layout is gone.

What's new in 0.3.34 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, laid on the window — the question fills the popup's width (no more scroll bar along the foot), a two-column question keeps its diagram on the right (one column when the popup is narrow), the page sits on the popup's own ground with each part on a card, and it follows the app's light or dark look.

What's new in 0.3.33 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, fixed on the real assignment — the assessment now takes the whole window (Macmillan's own Assessment bar put away), the list of questions, how many are done and the grading settings fill in even when Macmillan's side menu was left folded, and nothing of Macmillan's inner frames stands in for the question.

What's new in 0.3.32 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, redesigned — a Macmillan assessment opens as a Knewton Alta one does: its cover as a start screen (its questions, when it is due, its grading settings, Open assignment); then the score and how many questions are done down the left, every question as a tile you can open (the one shown filled, a solved one ticked, one tried and not yet right in orange), and the grading settings; Macmillan's own question in the rest, its parts on cards; and along its foot the arrows, Question or My answer, Resources, AI Tutor, Solution, Switch to new layout and Submit answer or Next question. Show browser puts Macmillan's page back as it draws it.

What's new in 0.3.31 (beta)

• Appearance, on the window itself — the account menu's Appearance… shows the Dashboard and darkens the window but for the navigation pane and the Dashboard's cards, each with a photo button (upload a photo, pick a drawing, zoom it, put it back, remove it); a bar rises at the foot for light or dark, the themes, the accent colour, and each course's colour (Canvas's palette or any colour, saved to your school as your own colour for the course). Done or Escape puts it away. Settings no longer has an Appearance page.

What's new in 0.3.30 (beta)

• The Calculator is GeoGebra — the Calculator opens GeoGebra's own Calculator Suite (graphing, geometry, 3D, CAS, probability and the scientific calculator), loaded from geogebra.org, in a window narrower than Simpl's; its pin is GeoGebra's scientific calculator. It needs the internet: without it, a note and Try again.

What's new in 0.3.29 (beta)

• A calculator that solves, step by step — the Calculator is now a solver, as Mathway works: type a problem (or build it on the maths keypad — Basic, Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus) and send it; it is read back as maths, then offered the ways it can be worked — solve for x, simplify, factor, expand, the derivative, the integral, a limit, graph — and the one picked is worked out with its answer exact and as a decimal, every step of the working, and its graph. It solves linear, quadratic and polynomial equations, ones with fractions, roots, powers, logarithms, absolute values and trig, inequalities and systems; differentiates with every rule named; integrates by the table, substitution, parts and partial fractions (a definite integral exactly, or as a number); and finds limits by substitution, L'Hôpital and at infinity. The pin's is the same, narrow, and carries what was typed to the whole calculator.

What's new in 0.3.28 (beta)

• Element at a glance — pressing an element in the Periodic Table (the whole tool, or its pin) opens a small window beside it: the element's square, name, kind, electrons, state, electronegativity, density, melting and boiling points, valence electrons and a line about it, with ← and → for its neighbours, and Full page or Atom in 3D to go on.
• Easier-to-read colours — the words on the table's coloured squares are near-black where white would not read (the yellows, the pale greens of a scale), the squares are solid, and a kind written in its own colour is deepened by day and lightened by night until it reads.
• Precise atomic masses — every atomic mass in the Periodic Table as precisely as it is known, every digit: the CIAAW's standard atomic weight where an element has one value (sodium 22.98976928 u), the most precise single value published where its isotopes vary (carbon 12.0107 u); an element with no stable isotope keeps its longest-lived one's mass number in brackets.

What's new in 0.3.27 (beta)

• Developer tools — hidden until you click Settings ▸ About ▸ Version seven times (or press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D): a Developer window with the logs as they are written (search, problems only, follow, copy, save, clear), system use (Simpl's and WebView2's processor and memory over the last two minutes, threads, handles, .NET's heap, stalls, disk), stats for every call into the page (count, failed, mean, middle, 95th, longest), a call console, updates and every preference. Knewton Alta's and Macmillan Learning's popups get Save Page Code.
• Critical updates sooner — Simpl looks for a critical update every minute instead of every five (asking the site only whether its small feed changed; every five minutes still on a metered connection).

What's new in 0.3.26 (bet...

Simpl for Windows 0.3.56 beta (v279)

A beta, to try before everyone else. Simpl offers it only to a PC with Settings ▸ Updates ▸ Get beta updates on. To try it: download Simpl-Setup.exe below and open it (it installs over the Simpl you have, your settings and sign-in as they were), then turn on Get beta updates, so each next beta comes by itself. Turning it off later keeps this version until a newer usual release comes out.

What's new in 0.3.51 (beta)

• Crash log — the developer tools have a Crashes page: a run of Simpl that goes down, or ends without quitting, is kept the next time it opens, with what stopped it, Windows' own report of it and the last of simpl.log; Copy, Save, Delete and Crash now… (to try it).

What's new in 0.3.50 (beta)

• Submit as ZIP — with two or more files in Hand In, a Submit as ZIP button sits beside Submit (the "Send as one .zip" box is gone): Submit hands them in as they are, Submit as ZIP as one .zip named after the assignment. A file the assignment takes only zipped is handed in with Submit as ZIP.

What's new in 0.3.49 (beta)

• Hand in as a .zip — Hand In takes a folder (Choose folder…, or drop one) and sends it as a .zip of it, and two or more files can go as one .zip ("Send as one .zip"); where an assignment takes .zip files, any file can go zipped.

What's new in 0.3.48 (beta)

• A tidier skyline — each course's tower on the Dashboard shows at most four windows across; what doesn't fit is hidden instead of squeezed in smaller.

What's new in 0.3.47 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, Browser on top — the Browser button is now in the popup's top bar, left of your tools, as in Knewton Alta (it was in the left rail).

What's new in 0.3.46 (beta)

• The real logo — the app, taskbar and installer icons are now drawn from the official logo artwork itself.

What's new in 0.3.45 (beta)

• A new look — Simpl has a new icon: a bold white S with a blue dot on a black tile, on the app, the taskbar and the installer.

What's new in 0.3.44 (beta)

• Instant search — results from your school (assignments, announcements, pages, discussions, files and people) now show under the search box as you type, before you press Enter.

What's new in 0.3.43 (beta)

• Knewton Alta, graphs show — a question with a Desmos graph (like "Consider the graph of f′(x) below") showed a blank box; the graph now shows, drawn small, and opens large when you click it.

What's new in 0.3.42 (beta)

• Knewton Alta, a sun and moon switch — the sun and moon are now inside the Light/Dark switch: the knob slides to the side you pick and carries its icon.

What's new in 0.3.41 (beta)

• Knewton Alta, controls on top — Light and Dark are now one switch, and it sits with Browser in the popup's top bar, left of your tools, instead of above the objectives.

What's new in 0.3.40 (beta)

• Windows Hello, far less often — once your face, fingerprint or PIN has opened your saved sign-in, Simpl doesn't ask again for 30 days. It asks sooner only if you sign in anew, forget the sign-in, your school stops taking the password, or you lock it again in Settings.
• Setup: pick your courses — the first setup starts with no courses ticked, so you choose the ones you're taking instead of unticking old ones.

What's new in 0.3.39 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, the math keyboard — on a question answered with an expression (θ = arctan…), Macmillan's math keyboard now sits under the answer field instead of on top of it, and the question below moves down to make room.
• Macmillan Learning, the final score — once an assignment is finished, Macmillan shows its final score as a percentage instead of points; that score is now read and shown instead of a dash.

What's new in 0.3.38 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, pictures on a narrower window — a question's picture is a smaller preview on a narrower window, and measured as drawn so it never runs past the right edge, whatever width Macmillan draws it at.

What's new in 0.3.37 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, pictures and units — a number's unit sits right beside its field, the whole question is drawn a little smaller so more of it fits, and a picture shows smaller with a ⤢ badge: click it to see it full size (click or press Escape to close).

What's new in 0.3.36 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, diagrams and widgets — a question with a picture keeps the picture on the right and the question with its answers down the left, whatever layout Macmillan gives it; parts that draw themselves (a labelling with its answer bank, a graph) stay readable in dark on a white plate and scroll in place instead of being cut off; nothing of the page runs past the right edge.

What's new in 0.3.35 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, polished — the whole question sits on one panel; Macmillan's Solved bar is replaced by the same Correct or Incorrect pill Knewton Alta shows, and each answer's own Correct is easy to read in dark too; questions that put each prompt beside its answer are one readable column (the answers no longer run off the edge); a number's answer is a field-sized box and its ×10ʸ tools menu matches the app; the words use the app's font; Switch to new layout is gone.

What's new in 0.3.34 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, laid on the window — the question fills the popup's width (no more scroll bar along the foot), a two-column question keeps its diagram on the right (one column when the popup is narrow), the page sits on the popup's own ground with each part on a card, and it follows the app's light or dark look.

What's new in 0.3.33 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, fixed on the real assignment — the assessment now takes the whole window (Macmillan's own Assessment bar put away), the list of questions, how many are done and the grading settings fill in even when Macmillan's side menu was left folded, and nothing of Macmillan's inner frames stands in for the question.

What's new in 0.3.32 (beta)

• Macmillan Learning, redesigned — a Macmillan assessment opens as a Knewton Alta one does: its cover as a start screen (its questions, when it is due, its grading settings, Open assignment); then the score and how many questions are done down the left, every question as a tile you can open (the one shown filled, a solved one ticked, one tried and not yet right in orange), and the grading settings; Macmillan's own question in the rest, its parts on cards; and along its foot the arrows, Question or My answer, Resources, AI Tutor, Solution, Switch to new layout and Submit answer or Next question. Show browser puts Macmillan's page back as it draws it.

What's new in 0.3.31 (beta)

• Appearance, on the window itself — the account menu's Appearance… shows the Dashboard and darkens the window but for the navigation pane and the Dashboard's cards, each with a photo button (upload a photo, pick a drawing, zoom it, put it back, remove it); a bar rises at the foot for light or dark, the themes, the accent colour, and each course's colour (Canvas's palette or any colour, saved to your school as your own colour for the course). Done or Escape puts it away. Settings no longer has an Appearance page.

What's new in 0.3.30 (beta)

• The Calculator is GeoGebra — the Calculator opens GeoGebra's own Calculator Suite (graphing, geometry, 3D, CAS, probability and the scientific calculator), loaded from geogebra.org, in a window narrower than Simpl's; its pin is GeoGebra's scientific calculator. It needs the internet: without it, a note and Try again.

What's new in 0.3.29 (beta)

• A calculator that solves, step by step — the Calculator is now a solver, as Mathway works: type a problem (or build it on the maths keypad — Basic, Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus) and send it; it is read back as maths, then offered the ways it can be worked — solve for x, simplify, factor, expand, the derivative, the integral, a limit, graph — and the one picked is worked out with its answer exact and as a decimal, every step of the working, and its graph. It solves linear, quadratic and polynomial equations, ones with fractions, roots, powers, logarithms, absolute values and trig, inequalities and systems; differentiates with every rule named; integrates by the table, substitution, parts and partial fractions (a definite integral exactly, or as a number); and finds limits by substitution, L'Hôpital and at infinity. The pin's is the same, narrow, and carries what was typed to the whole calculator.

What's new in 0.3.28 (beta)

• Element at a glance — pressing an element in the Periodic Table (the whole tool, or its pin) opens a small window beside it: the element's square, name, kind, electrons, state, electronegativity, density, melting and boiling points, valence electrons and a line about it, with ← and → for its neighbours, and Full page or Atom in 3D to go on.
• Easier-to-read colours — the words on the table's coloured squares are near-black where white would not read (the yellows, the pale greens of a scale), the squares are solid, and a kind written in its own colour is deepened by day and lightened by night until it reads.
• Precise atomic masses — every atomic mass in the Periodic Table as precisely as it is known, every digit: the CIAAW's standard atomic weight where an element has one value (sodium 22.98976928 u), the most precise single value published where its isotopes vary (carbon 12.0107 u); an element with no stable isotope keeps its longest-lived one's mass number in brackets.

What's new in 0.3.27 (beta)

• Developer tools — hidden until you click Settings ▸ About ▸ Version seven times (or press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D): a Developer window with the logs as they are written (search, problems only, follow, copy, save, clear), system use (Simpl's and WebView2's processor and memory over the last two minutes, threads, handles, .NET's heap, stalls, disk), stats for every call i...

Simpl for Mac 1.3.161 Beta

Simpl for Mac 1.3.161 Beta (build 101) — the native Mac app, with Simpl's interface 2.99.103 inside.

This is a beta. Only Macs with Settings ▸ Updates ▸ Get beta updates on are offered it.

Download Simpl-Mac-1.3.161.zip, open it, and move Simpl to Applications. It is signed with the team's Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It needs macOS 14 or later, and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

This is not the Safari extension: that stays Simpl Courses (the Simpl-Courses-Mac-… download on the web releases).

SHA-256: 8d58ad4269d99c6998279c1d7a124f325be928f77b161cec1f3ab10345c099f6

Simpl for Mac 1.3.159 Beta

Simpl for Mac 1.3.159 Beta (build 101) — the native Mac app, with Simpl's interface 2.99.102 inside.

This is a beta. Only Macs with Settings ▸ Updates ▸ Get beta updates on are offered it.

Download Simpl-Mac-1.3.159.zip, open it, and move Simpl to Applications. It is signed with the team's Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It needs macOS 14 or later, and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

This is not the Safari extension: that stays Simpl Courses (the Simpl-Courses-Mac-… download on the web releases).

SHA-256: 32c1f1206150da9d67a82b7deeecbf4c5ce50dfdc6ae12a5a8a73af430e536f4

Simpl for Mac 1.3.158 Beta

Simpl for Mac 1.3.158 Beta (build 101) — the native Mac app, with Simpl's interface 2.99.102 inside.

This is a beta. Only Macs with Settings ▸ Updates ▸ Get beta updates on are offered it.

Download Simpl-Mac-1.3.158.zip, open it, and move Simpl to Applications. It is signed with the team's Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It needs macOS 14 or later, and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

This is not the Safari extension: that stays Simpl Courses (the Simpl-Courses-Mac-… download on the web releases).

SHA-256: 6bf203dfa088abf76bc846848eebf2d4e2c6bf8aa1c79739e94456240919c8b4