What was new in classroom.cloud 2025?

Check out the features and enhancements recently added to classroom.cloud.

Web Portal v1.34.9 (Dec 2025)

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Resolved an issue where using view windows to students and switching between them would result in black view windows.
• Fixed a permission error that occurred when teachers attempted to power on students via the My Classes page.
• Fixed a crash in the remote control window when File Explorer was open on the student machine.

Web Portal v1.34.8 (Nov 2025)

Enhancements

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Added BETA support for the Teacher and Tech Consoles on Safari.
• Added BETA support for the Teacher and Tech Consoles on Firefox. Note: Screen share is not supported when using the Teacher Console in Safari or Firefox.
• Added an acknowledgement message to confirm when a password reset is successful.

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Fixed a user interface text issue where “hi false” text appeared in the My Classes filters.
• Refactored the keyboard-handling code in View sessions to better handle Ctrl+key combinations to Windows Students and Cmd+key combinations to Mac Students.
• Fixed a race condition that occurred when students attempted to join a teacher’s screen share session.
• Extended a timeout value that was preventing archived classes from being removed from the Web Portal.

Windows Student 2.00.0004 (Nov 2025)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where students could bypass the allowed list in Microsoft Edge when using InPrivate mode.
• Fixed a Student crash that occurred when opening the sidebar menu in Microsoft Edge.
• Fixed an issue where Microsoft Edge closed randomly on student devices.
• Fixed an issue where web restrictions could be bypassed in Firefox 144

Mac Student 1.80.0005 (Nov 2025)

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to run the macOS Permission utility on macOS 26.0.1.

Web Portal v1.34.7 (Nov 2025)

Enhancements

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Teachers can now power on devices in device group and device list classes by simply selecting the Power on icon on the class tile.
• You can now see the internal network IP address of Windows students by adding a new column to your device views. (Support for other platforms is coming soon.)
• Online Safety Settings update: To improve visibility, the Websites and Application settings have been moved out of the Phrase and Keyword settings and now have their own dedicated settings tiles.

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• A Online Safety view column has been added to the Online Safety summary report table.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to access the profile page when the feature was disabled.
• Updated Online Safety views to display in a more logical order.
• Resolved an issue where user details did not save correctly if a name contained Korean characters.
• Fixed an issue where Power Management options displayed ‘[object Object]’ instead of their property name.
• Fixed an issue where you were unable to paste a URL when adding a website to the Online Safety website settings page.
• Added the ability to customize the Device Group Details table.

Web Portal v1.34.6 (Oct 2025)

Enhancements

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Updated the Online Safety email alert template to replace ‘Typed’ with ‘Captured Text’ for a more accurate description of the information being recorded.
• Refactored the Microsoft Teams Online Safety component to improve throughput and reliability.

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Fixed an issue where Teams channels continued to trigger eSafety phrases after being removed from the Online Safety configuration.
• Resolved an intermittent issue that caused phrase matches from chats being sent to the backend for processing.
• Fixed a bug where adding an individual user (instead of a user group) to the Teams chat monitoring configuration did not correctly capture phrases.
• Resolved an issue that caused themes to become corrupted when the system preference was set to ‘system’.
• Updated the text under Wireless networks to make it clearer which platforms are supported.

Web Portal v1.34.5 (Sept 2025)

Enhancements

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Added a new option in the Microsoft Integration Settings to hide archived Microsoft Teams and SDS classes. A background service now runs automatically every Friday evening to update the list of available classes.
• Updated the Phrase and Image Review dialogs. When you expand a screenshot, you can now navigate to the next one using the navigation buttons.
• Added a new column in the Internet Activity view to display the page title of a website. Existing customers must add this column manually.
• Updated the Identify iPad Student with option in Device Groups Settings to support multi-selection. Requires the iOS Student version 2.00.
• Added an AI Tools category to the Inventory Settings.
• Added a new guide on Microsoft Graph Permissions used within classroom.cloud.

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Fixed an issue where Windows Student device name changes did not update in online safety notifications.
• Updated missing tooltips in the Source column on Online Safety Views.
• Fixed an issue where a user’s status remained active in the Web Portal, even though they were removed from Azure Entra after leaving the organization.
• Added tooltips for the bulk action icons in Device views.
• Fixed an issue where category text clashed with the background color.
• Fixed an issue where the Import User dialog did not display added users.
• Added the missing tooltip when hovering over Source in the Phrase List.
• Fixed an issue in the Audit Log where Online Safety Views subcategory names were missing when events were grouped by subcategory.
• Fixed an issue where email reports were not received when a user import failed.
• Fixed an issue with the Disable mascot setting not working correctly for the Tech Console View window.
• Resolved an issue where the Group by Off option did not update the chart.
• Removed the National Online Safety Connector.

Windows Student 2.00.0003 (Aug 2025)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Chrome tab shortcuts were not blocked correctly when restrictions were applied.
• Resolved an issue with upgrading previous installations via Group Policy assignment.
• Fixed a compatibility issue where the 247connect.cloud Agent blocked the web restrictions redirect page.

Web Portal v1.34.1 (July 2025)

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to Shift click to select multiple devices in various tables.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to select all device groups when assigning devices.
• Resolved an issue where Hardware Inventory headers were incorrectly colored.
• Fixed an issue on the Devices page, where the vertical scrollbar did not scroll to the bottom.
• Resolved an issue in the Online Safety match dialog where the obfuscation was not removed from videos when viewed full screen.
• Fixed an issue in the Online Safety views where the vertical scrollbar did not scroll to the bottom of the table.
• Resolved an issue with device exclusions where it was not possible to save changes.
• Fixed an issue where you were unable to update existing Online Safety views.
• Fixed an issue where clearing filters in the Audit log could unexpectedly cause an error.

iOS Student1.25 (May 2025)

Enhancements

• The iOS Student app now enforces internet restrictions defined in the Web Portal, alongside Teacher Console settings.
• The character limit for Acceptable Usage Policies is now 16,000.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the iOS Student was incorrectly triggering phrase matches on websites that had been set to not monitored in the Web Portal.
• Fixed an issue with Microsoft OneNote not responding to screen interactions in the Student browser app.
• Fixed a crash experienced when using the microphone within Google Search.

Web Portal v1.33.5 (April 2025)

Enhancements

Admin Web Portal

• Upgraded the authentication server with the latest security fixes.
• Updated the English language pack for phrase monitoring.
• Updated hardware inventory to show the disk type in the device details view.
• Added a new document for deploying the classroom.cloud Student via Intune to the Mac installers page.

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Resolved an issue where Activity results did not load correctly when the Load all button was clicked.
• Fixed an internal server error that appeared when attempting to log in with a Microsoft account after a site had been removed from a user provisioning rule.
• Fixed an issue where a user converted to an Organization Admin could not review audit logs for sites they were previously not a member of.
• Updated the text in the Online Safety Summary reports to show Online Safety matches instead of Phrase matches.
• Updated the Chart review dialog to show Online Safety matches.
• Fixed an issue where exporting a CSV file from phrase matches showed empty Captured text and Last updated fields.
• Fixed a performance issue when displaying devices in various views across organization and sites.

Chrome Student 3.00.4.0 (April 2025)

Enhancements

• Updated the English phrase pack for phrase monitoring.

Windows Student 2.00.0001 (March 2025)

Enhancements

• Added an ADMX setting to read an email address from the GPO policy key to enable the Student list and Teams classes to work in BYOD environments.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where updates to phrase packs were not downloaded and applied until the Student was restarted.

Mac Student 1.80.0004 (March 2025)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the installer failing to upgrade the previous Student version when deployed using Microsoft Intune.

Chrome Student 3.00.3.0 (March 2025)

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where text containing phrase triggers was missing from the Review dialog when copying a large amount of text.
• Fixed an issue where phrases with multiple words would occasionally trigger incorrectly if the words were not typed consecutively.
• Resolved an issue where Chromebooks moved from a device group to Unassigned Devices would continue to block websites.

Web Portal v1.33 (Feb 2025)

Enhancements

Admin Web Portal

• Enhanced Online Safety. To complement our Phrase Monitoring feature, we have introduced Image Analysis, which monitors and detects inappropriate images on students’ screens within the categories of adult, drugs, racism, radicalization, and weapon (you can enable/disable these categories as needed), alerting staff when a student may have viewed harmful content. This feature is only available if you have Enhanced Online Safety enabled on your account and for Windows Students using 64- bit systems.
• Online Safety views. To further enhance our Online Safety component, you can now create online safety views for specific users, device groups and, online safety groups. This enables you to control access to online safety data (phrase and image matches), ensuring your online safety users only see data relevant to their role, such as the year group they are responsible for, while restricting access to sensitive information like data captured from staff devices.
• The Report a concern dialog now respects the display name format set in General Settings.
• The option to delete a device has been moved to the bottom of the right-click menu for improved usability.

Fixes

Admin and Teacher Web Portal

• Fixed an issue where users whose email addresses had changed could not log in.
• Fixed an issue where users previously invited to classroom.cloud could not log in after provisioning.
• Fixed an inconsistency between filter names and their corresponding columns in Activity view.
• Resolved an issue in the user interface where devices returning a chassis type of Mini PC were not correctly identified.
• Fixed an issue where Activity filters were not arranged alphabetically.
• Fixed an invalid URL error when adding URLs ending in .academy.
• Updated the Activity filters to allow names up to 128 characters.
• Fixed an issue where filters could be created without values.
• Resolved an issue where the Phrase Cloud would incorrectly show matches when filtering by online safety group.
• Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping users in the Data Management tool would not work as expected.
• Resolved a translation issue with the maintenance message in various languages.
• Updated Polish translations for SIS user type in the Users view.
• Fixed multiple missing translations for the Phrase Match pie chart view.
• Added missing audit entries for iOS Student Login settings.
• Added the ability to edit a filter by double-clicking.
• Updated the Phrase Review dialog by renaming ‘Typed’ to ‘Captured Text’ to better reflect the different methods used for capturing phrase triggers.
• Added additional checks to the backend to check Online Safety settings when online safety triggers are sent
• Updated the iOS Student JAMF deployment guides to support additional plist values that can be used to identify the Student in the Web Portal.
• Resolved an issue where students would appear multiple times in the Teacher Console when using Teams classes.
• Fixed an issue where editing an online safety alert would display incorrect information upon saving.
• Fixed an issue where the current filters were not saved when navigating away from Activity Monitor.

Windows Student 2.00.0000 (Feb 2025)

Enhancements

• Enhanced Online Safety. To complement our Phrase Monitoring feature, we have added the ability to match images viewed on students’ screens within the categories of adult, drugs, racism, radicalization, and weapon.
• The lock screen image resolution has been updated for high-resolution displays.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue in the user interface where devices returning a chassis type of 35 were not correctly identified.
• Fixed an issue in parsing phrase triggers, where entering a tab character would result in the corruption of the phrase trigger.
• Resolved an issue where, in some circumstances, phrases would be sent to the Web Portal outside of the specified privacy settings.
• Fixed an issue where internet restrictions would not work correctly with the latest version of Firefox browser.
• Updated BYOD support for Teams classes by adding a Group Policy setting to read email addresses from the OneDrive registry hive.