Enterprise: Upcoming Features & Releases

Last Updated: May 8, 2025

Collaborate on item development with Question Notes

In the coming weeks, exam-makers will be able to collaborate more effectively on the development of exam items with the release of Question Notes. This enhancement allows instructors to add, edit, and delete comments when previewing questions in the Enterprise Portal.

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Find questions faster when creating exams with Search All Questions

Developing exams from existing questions will be easier than ever before. Instead of searching for questions one course at a time, exam-makers will have the option to search across all courses simultaneously. This improvement in visibility and access to questions for exam-makers will go live in the coming weeks.

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To improve the agility of our communications, we are transitioning from sending maintenance email announcements via productupdates@examsoft.com to email and text alerts from status.examsoft.com. 

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Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager with any questions.

• February 27, 2025: Essay questions can now include spreadsheets to be graded, allowing you to evaluate calculations and other data analysis skills. With spreadsheet grading enabled on a question, you can view students’ completed spreadsheets, including any formulas used, when grading the question response.
  
  • When creating a question, you may continue to include the default empty spreadsheet for the student to work in.
  • Alternatively, a custom spreadsheet can be created for the student to complete. This includes the ability to import an existing Excel file, or copy and paste content from an open Excel sheet. When importing or pasting content, all values, formulas and formatting are retained. Examplify allows a maximum of three sheets in a spreadsheet. If you add more than three, only the first three will be available to the student. See Enterprise Portal: Tips for Essay Questions for details. 
  • The student experience in Examplify has not changed. It’s important to note that the Spreadsheet Tool is compatible with Microsoft Excel, and supports over 400 formula functions, but it does not include every feature available in Excel. Examplify: Working with Spreadsheets includes a list of available functions, and an overview of Excel capabilities not currently supported. 
  • The student’s uploaded spreadsheet can then be opened when grading the essay response. See Enterprise Portal: Grade an Essay Question for details. 

  Assessments with Spreadsheet Grading questions require Examplify 3.7.2 or higher to download the exam. You will see the minimum Examplify version required in the Post Settings section.

• September 4, 2024: Resolved an issue previewing new postings using in Examplify v3.5.
• August 21, 2024: The column selector in the Questions table is now easier to use. When creating or editing questions, you'll notice the following visual enhancements:
  • The formatting toolbar is now attached directly to the question and case study editor.
  • The formatting toolbar now appears above an answer choice while it is being edited for easier access, and collapses when it is not needed.
  • Tables can now be adjusted via a context menu, allowing rows and columns to be added and removed.
  • The math formula editor can now be expanded and repositioned on the screen.
• August 12, 2024: We have made a visual update to the ExamSoft Guides landing page, support.examsoft.com. The new look was created to align Turnitin's brand experience across all our products. Please note, there is no change to existing content, navigation, or functionality of the site; the impact to customers will be minimal. If you have any screenshots that you’re using for training purposes, you might notice some slight changes. 
• August 7, 2024:  Bulk Posting (see, Enterprise Portal: Post an Assessment) and Exam Sections (see, Enterprise Portal: Overview of Exam Sections article) are now available upon request to your Customer Success Manager.
  • Bulk Posting saves time by posting a single linked assessment to multiple courses all at once. This would allow instructors to deliver the same assessment to many courses simultaneously without having to duplicate the assessment several times. Since the posted assessments would be linked to each other, they would share the same dates, settings, combined reporting, and more.
  • Exam Sections provide greater flexibility in structuring an exam by splitting the exam-taking experience into smaller units. etc 
• March 27, 2024: Ordering and Case Study question types are now available to all users. Click the links below for more information regarding each of these question types and the case study artifact.

  As a reminder, exam-takers using Examplify for iPad are already required to update to our latest version to take their exams, so a minimum version for each question type is not included.

  Question Type/Tool	Minimum Examplify for Windows and macOS Version	Generally Available or Request
  Ordering	3.0	Available to all users as of March 27, 2024
  Case Study (Electronic Health Record) Artifact	3.1
  Matrix	3.0	Available upon request to your Customer Success Manager
  Bowtie	3.2
  Highlight Text	3.3

   

• March 5, 2024: Grader comments can now be included when releasing results for Assessments containing Essay Questions with Rubrics. If selected, the comments will appear below each rubric essay on the S&O Report.
• February 7, 2024: Improvements were made to error messaging when importing Admin users.
• January 18, 2024: Resolved issues with accepting revisions to Ordering, Matching, and Highlight Text questions.
  
• October 17, 2023: Improvements to LMS syncing for institutions with large numbers of courses and students.
• October 12, 2023: Improvements to display, navigation, and sorting when grading essay questions.
• October 2, 2023: Enhancements to post settings and Strengths & Opportunities reports for institutions using Clinical Judgment Exams.
• September 19, 2023: Exam-makers can now create Highlight Text questions — based on Next Generation NCLEX® questions in which students are asked to select pertinent information, often related to a case study (in Early Access, available upon request to your Customer Success Manager).
• September 19, 2023: The API-based replacement integration for Blackboard's Building Blocks is now available. If you are migrating from Building Blocks to our new REST API, visit the Migration Hub or ask your Customer Success Manager for more information.