New Features

March 2020

Schools started closing around the United States and we added a lot of new features and content to support teachers. (For more, see learn.desmos.com/coronavirus.)

• We released Written Feedback as a beta.
• You can embed a scientific calculator in activities.
• We created collections of distance-friendly activities.
• You can copy and paste screens from other people's activities straight from the preview.
• We created a set of "Starter Screens" to help you get your own activities started.

February 2020

• Sort options in the dashboard! You can now sort student names by the time they entered the activity, by their name, or randomly.
• Desmos Test Mode is now available for Android!
• New activity releases!
  • Balance the Scale
  • Classy Cats
  • Guess My Rule

January 2019

• We added SVG export to our graphing calculator!
• Student activities now have a fancy new design!
• We released new activities!
  • Sketchy Dilations
  • Parallel Lines

December 2019

• We released Turtle Crossing.

November 2019

• Check out our upgrades to collections, including a whole bunch of middle school statistics activities.
• We released Parallel Lines – an activity that asks students to notice patterns in parallel lines.

October 2019

• We added Spearman's rank coefficient to the graphing calculator.
• We released three new fantastic activities:
  • Turtle Time Trials
  • Puzzling It Out
  • The Solar System, Test Tubes, and Scientific Notation

September 2019

• Students can now upload images into full-screen graphs in Activity Builder. (This will be extremely useful for all of you folks who assign graph art projects!)

July 2019

• We made major re-designs to our Transformation Golf activity!
• We added a new animation mode – "play indefinitely."

June 2019

• We released the newest version of our API.

May 2019

• You can now follow other people's collections!

April 2019

• Utah and Iowa include Desmos on their state math exam.
• We released an Ordered List component for Activity Builder.
• We released Collections! Teachers can now create collections of their favorite activities.
• We released Photo Snapshots! Teachers can add photos from their cameraphone to the snapshots gallery.

March 2019

• Our embosser exports to both 11 x 11 and 8.5 x 11 paper sizes. Happy embossing!

February 2019

• We released support for statistics! 
• You can now paste in data sets with 1,000 rows!

January 2019

• Now we have export options for embossers for teachers of students who are blind or visually impaired.

December 2018

• Decimal to fraction released!

November 2018

• We released a secure test-mode app so students can use our graphing calculator on in-class tests! [iOS, Android]
• We updated our teacher tips to include new categories: Teacher Moves, Sample Responses, and Student Supports.

October 2018

• We released an app for our scientific calculator for iOS, Android, and wait for it wait for it are you still waiting, Kindle!

September 2018

• Images are bigger in Activity Builder when they're the only element on the screen.
• Our testing page now includes information for North Carolina and Virginia.
• You can now use variables in slider parameters.

June 2018

• You can now specify label position on points.

May 2018

• Card Sort for everyone! Card Sorts are no longer an opt-in feature in labs, but available by default in our editor.
• New sinks added for expression inputs and table cells.

April 2018

• Italian and Thai translations are complete in the graphing calculator.
• You now have access to our Computation Layer scripting language for Activity Builder, which until this point has been private. (More here.)
• We released transformation tools for our geometry tool. (More here.)
• Our iOS app supports iOS 9 again.
• You can now place images above graphs in the calculator.
• Our class codes now have six characters instead of four. We also make your class codes inactive after six months. (You can re-activate them if you need to – no problem.) This is all an effort at reducing the odds someone will stumble into your Desmos activity and your students' data.
• Our calculator is 100% translated into Ukrainian.
• We added Louisiana to our testing page because you'll now find the Desmos calculators on their state test.
• Bug fixes for our iOS app.
• Polygons added to the graphing calculator. (Check it!)

March 2018

• Settings menu in our Four Function and Scientific calculators, including modes for projectors, Braille, and reverse contrast.
• Braille support for our Four Function and Scientific calculators.
• Polygons in Geometry.
• Upgrades and bug fixes for printing in the Graphing Calculator.

February 2018

• We updated styling options for expression list items.
• iOS & Android app updates released.
• Is Desmos on your test?
• New activities: The Fraction Challenge and The Decimal Challenge.
• We updated two activities with our latest Challenge Creator technology: Pomegraphit and Land the Plane.

January 2018

• We added a quartile function to our graphing calculator.
• You can randomize the options in multiple choice questions in Activity Builder.
• Now you can change the font size on point labels.
• Go ahead and rotate images in the graphing calculator.

December 2017

• Now you can re-size the expression list in our calculator.
• Our geometry tool now has angle measures.

November 2017

• If you edit an activity, we'll post a notice in your list of class codes so you know which ones belong to the older version.

October 2017

• We released three new activities: Parabola Slalom, Match My Picture [blog post], and Translations with Coordinates.
• We developed a new feature called Challenge Creator, which lets students to create challenges for other students. We added it to three activities – Parabola Slalom, Laser Challenge, and Point Collector: Lines – with many more to come.
  

September 2017

• We upgraded our entire activity pool to offer more automatic feedback to teachers.
• We released our hot new free activity: Transformation Golf. (Behind the scenes.)
• We've made usability and performance updates to our iPad Test Mode app.
• Our new teacher dashboard is officially released! 

August 2017

• Go ahead and construct 'til your heart's content! You can now save constructions at desmos.com/geometry.
• We're working on updates to a new teacher dashboard at teacher.desmos.com. Give it a try - we'd love your feedback.
• Solving simple single variable equations has been deprecated.
  
  

June 2017

• Dynamic labeling is here! 
• Lists can be used to define locations of images.
  
  

April 2017

• Updated Terms of Service.
• We've simultaneously simplified and expanded our share menu for graphs.
  
  

March 2017

• Text and math type can now co-exist in Activity Builder. Hooray!
  
  

February 2017

• Using Teacher Pacing, teachers can now restrict students to multiple screens.
  
  

January 2017

• Introducing Labels!
  
  
• We've added two new bundles to teacher.desmos.com: Conics and Transformations.
  
  

December 2016

• You can now import a graph into an Activity Builder activity by copying and pasting the url into the first expression line of a graph component. 
  
  

November 2016

• Videos in Activity Builder - Play, pause, and more with the addition of videos in our classroom activities.
  
  
• We've added a Multiple Choice option for Activity Builder activities. 
  
  

October 2016

• iOS App Updates - including limits and parametric domain restriction updates.
  
  

September 2016

• Teacher Pacing and Pause - Ring in the school year with our newest additions to the teacher dashboard. Find out what we love about these features. 
  
  
• Classcode Screen - Simply open the dashboard and the student instructions will automatically be projected. 

August 2016

• Teacher Account Settings - We've added the ability to update your username, reset your password, and email subscription preferences. Head over to teacher.desmos.com and click on your username in the upper right hand corner.  

 

July 2016

• teacher.desmos.com - We given our teacher site received quite a facelift including the addition of bookmarks, bundles (!), and the brand new Desmos Labs.
  
  

June 2016

• Calculator Colors - We've upgraded the current color palette in the graphing calculator to be bolder and even more beautiful. 
  
  
•  iOS updates - Download our latest and greatest version of the Desmos Graphing Calculator app from the App Store.
  
  

May 2016

• Sketch - Have students record their informal thinking with our newest component. Check out one way to use it in one of our Desmos Teaching Faculty's newest activities, Sketchy Graphs.
  
  

• Hide Students - By popular demand! You can now hide unruly students from the teacher dashboard and find the account information associated with each student. 
  
  

April 2016

• Offline Test Mode (Chrome App) - We've launched our newest addition to the Desmos family. Desmos Test Mode is now available on desktop devices that support the Google Chrome Browser.
   
• Student Side Math Text - Student math responses can now be automatically formatted to beautiful math type.
  
  

• Integrals - The wait is over. Integrals are officially live. 

 

March 2016

• Tips for Teachers - Give the gift of context to your fellow teachers. It's now possible to view screen-by-screen advice from the original author of activities in Activity Builder. You can also add tips for other teachers to your own authored activities.
  
  
• Math Text - It's now possible to format math text in Activity Builder. Say goodbye to ^ and hello to actual exponents!

 

February 2016

• Anonymize Student List - We've added the ability to anonymize your student list. Click the Anonymous Icon and your class list will show a list of famous mathematician names (only available in Activity Builder).
  
  
• Student Preview - You can now preview a student screen in the teacher dashboard. Try it out when discussing a question screen with students or exploring a graph together!
  
  
• New Activities - Fresh crop of activities have been added to the search pool: Who's Faster, Roll the Dice, Intro to Rational Functions, String Art 2.0, and Modeling Perimeter and Area. 

 

January 2016 

• Copy Previous - You can now carry student graph work forward in Activity Builder. Use it to have students reflect on their work or make changes later in the lesson - the possibilities are endless! Learn more about the feature with our copy previous support page.
  
  
• Invisible Folders - Hide folders from students in Activity Builder graph screens. Check out an example of its implementation in our updated Match My Line activity or our teacher.desmos.com graph screen support page.
  
  
• Graph Exhibits - Graphs can be now be added to question and text screens in Activity Builder