Piqosity is a living application! Our engineering and content teams are continuously making improvements and deploying new features. These deployments generally happen early in the morning on Monday or Thursdays, Houston time. Summary notes appear below. 


October 24, 2024


This morning we deployed a number of fixes and improvements, including:

  • Updates to Educator settings that allow teachers to manage their students' PVT settings more easily
  • Fixed a bug that prevented students from reviewing completed PVT modules in PVT
  • Updates to Personalized Practice, including more accurate question counts and fixes to the Recycle Questions option
  • Fixed bugs affecting Personalized Practice and Instructor-Led Practice in Assignments


October 10, 2024


This morning we deployed a number of fixes and improvements, including:

  • Redesigned Leaderboard for students and teachers
  • Performance improvements to the Subtopic Analysis feature for teachers
  • Performance improvements to the student profile page
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes affecting the PVT 2 Calendar feature and the Assignment builder for teachers


September 26, 2024


This morning we deployed a small update of fixes and improvements, including:

  • Fixed a bug affecting individual modules of SAT Digital Full-Length Tests
  • Removed a "Next Section" button that was erroneously appearing on the review page of SAT Digital Full-Length Tests
  • Renamed bundle plans for organizations


September 20, 2024


This morning we deployed several improvements and fixes, including:

  • A new PSAT 8/9 exam in our SAT Digital course ("Test Pin Oak")
  • Enabled Honors and Advanced bundle plans for the SAT Digital course
  • Miscellaneous fixes for bugs including attempted question counts in PVT and student accounts defaulting to the wrong Dashboard


September 5, 2024


This morning we deployed several improvements and fixes, including:

  • Our SAT Digital Video Course is now visible in PVT. It is accessible for all students until September 19, 2024, and it will become a part of our Honors and Advanced packages thereafter.
  • Improvements to the Lessons page for students
  • Improvements to the Outline tab for teachers
  • Miscellaneous fixes for bugs affecting full-length test modules in PVT, full-length test sections in Assignments, and cover images for lessons viewed in PVT


August 22, 2024


This morning we deployed several improvements and fixes, including:

  • Our first PSAT 8/9 exam in our SAT Digital course ("Test Lanier")
  • A new feature that allows teachers in organizations to invite another teacher to a class
  • Fixed a bug that prevented SAT full-length tests from working properly in assignments
  • Fixed several scoring bugs affecting free-response questions and personalized practice in the SAT Digital course
  • Several billing fixes for organizations and individual students
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes related to our PVT 2 deployment


August 8, 2024


This morning we deployed several improvements and fixes, including:

  • Enabled optional Multi-Factor Authentication via Authenticator app for all users
  • Updates to the PVT 2 General Practice algorithm enabling Passage-Based Questions (PBQs) to appear
  • Fixed a bug that prevented students from resuming a test if they had manually toggled "Overtime"
  • Fixed a bug with timestamp updates in Piqosity Virtual Tutor
  • Additional improvements to "Add Single Student" and "Add Multiple Students" for organizations


July 29, 2024


This morning we deployed several improvements and fixes, including:

  • A redesigned "Lessons" page for student users
  • An all-new PSAT exam in our SAT Digital course ("Test Bellaire")
  • Fixes to our SAT Digital course including Full-Length Test scoring, the Progress Report, and a bug that was limiting practice questions
  • Made it easier to distinguish between modules when reviewing an SAT Digital FLT
  • Improvements to the "Add Student" modal for organizations
  • Updated "Add Multiple Students" to be compatible with bundle plans for organizations
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes related to our PVT 2 deployment


July 11, 2024


This morning we deployed several improvements and fixes, including:

  • An all-new Mini Diagnostic practice test for our SAT Digital course
  • Redesigned "Add Student" modal for organizations
  • Improvements to Gamified Practice to make it easier to use
  • Fixed a bug with the scoring of Free Response Questions
  • Updated question stats to display consistently across all views
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes related to our PVT 2 deployment



June 27, 2024


This morning we deployed fixes for a handful of issues including:

  • Issues with scoring in our SAT Digital course
  • Passages not appearing on the question review page
  • Issues with lessons and quizzes added to assignments
  • Questions attached to multi-page lessons appearing in the wrong order
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes related to our PVT 2 deployment, including "Get More Help" in Gamified Practice



June 13, 2024


This morning we deployed the Piqosity Virtual Tutor 2.0. This was one of the largest deployments in Piqosity history, and it makes the app significantly easier to navigate for students who decide to use PVT. Learn more on our release page.


Some of our biggest known issues are:

  • The "All" score in the dashboard progress chart for SAT Digital is only plotted as half of its actual value
  • The dashboard progress chart may not show scores that are higher than the student's goal score 
  • "Get More Help" in Gamified Practice is broken
  • Question modularity is not working, which means that a student who reviews a lesson in PVT and answers questions as part of the lesson might see a few of those questions again when they take do lesson practice
  • Some statistics in the personalized outline (like completed question counts) may not be correct, especially in the DSAT course 



May 23, 2024


This morning we deployed fixes for the following:

  • Overtime settings in DSAT not remaining "On" through the whole test
  • Content-related bugs causing issues with deleting and editing Passage-Based Questions (PBQs)
  • App-wide admin account fixes 


May 9, 2024


This morning we held a small deployment to release Digital SAT #10 and fix the following issues:

  • Re-ordering questions and answer choices within a PBQ 
  •  Updating lesson durations for all existing lessons on the app to prevent any "0 Minute" lesson durations on PVT or Assignment agenda pages



April 25, 2024


In this deployment we released Digital SAT #9 (Martel). We also completed a few small bug fixes:

  • Removing extra tests from the assignment builder
  • Showing statistics on lesson duration on the "Edit Lesson" page
  • Fixing UI related to review page score donuts on the Digital SAT and ELA 10 course


April 18, 2024


This week we improved multipage lessons in coordination with the release of our new ACT Video Course. We also pushed the following bug fixes:

  • Question and lesson improvements regarding visibility for tutors and their students (both inside and outside organizations)
  • Teacher Classroom Q&A feature 
  • Adding the "Mark Question" feature to Digital SAT tests
  • Admin-side test attempt stats at the full-test and sub


April 4, 2024


This week we had a small deployment addressing a couple of minor bugs:

  • Continuing work on lesson visibility issues for organization tutors and their students
  • Accurately displaying test and test section stats for app administrators
  • Refreshing passage labels in the ACT course so that users can request particular passage types as a more advanced aspect of Personalized Practice  


March 28, 2024


The highlight of today's deployment was the publishing of Piqosity's eighth Digital SAT, "Sid Rich". We also addressed several small bugs relating to:


  • Lesson visibility in the "Newest Lessons" feed for "Premium" content 
  • Embedded exams and their visibility to users without an account
  • Full-length test and section-level statistics 


March 21, 2024


Today's update addressed a handful of bugs from very specific use cases:


  • Issues with free response questions showing the wrong combination of question and answer choices when a test or quiz is navigated in a specific manner.
  • Issues with the timer showing incorrect data when a test or quiz is navigated using only the pagination icons in a specific manner.
  • Additional fixes to question and lesson visibility depending on a student user's membership level.


We also published our 7th SAT Digital practice test, "Lovett."


March 13, 2024


This week we again conducted a small deployment that included these fixes:

  • UI improvements to the lessons page
  • Increased enforcement of lesson and question privacy settings
  • Correcting the order of novel and play subsections on the Units page in our ELA courses


March 6, 2024


This morning we conducted a minor deployment that included 2 bug fixes:

  • Making "Overtime" the default designation for all Math & ELA courses
  • Fixing "Gamified" practice within the Personalized Practice tool 


February 29, 2024


Leap Day morning we conducted a relatively minor deployment which included statistics, assignments, and scoring pages:

  1. Finalizing student and organization stats, which you can read about: students & orgs
  2. Adding an "All Students" function to assignments so that educators can easily tag all their students to an assignment
  3. UI fixes to the scoring donuts on a quiz or test results page
  4. Fixes allowing more image types to be uploaded


February 22, 2024


Fixes in this deployment focused on assignments, stats, and some minor UI issues. These included:

  1. Making it easier for students to "Resume" assignments that are not yet completed, and preventing "Started" assignments from being edited
  2. Fixing tool-tips for the "Mark Question" tool
  3. UI fixes to student and organization-level stats as part of our continued improvement of student stats
  4. Showing improved directions for tests


February 15, 2024


This morning we released 3 additional Digital SAT exams: Wiess, Jones, and Brown. These tests are accessible at no cost while our Digital SAT course is under construction. Other fixes included:

  1. Restoring and improving the "Mark" feature for questions. 
  2. Completing our revisions of student-level statistics like score, baseline, and gain
  3. Enabling tutors to view all of their courses in one tab (i.e. more than one page worth)
  4. Improving functionality for Passage-Based Questions in Personalized Practice and Assignments
  5. Admin-side stats updates for full-length exam sections


February 6, 2024


This morning we released several fixes for our new Digital SAT tests plus some enhancements to student statistics and features like overtime. Fixes included:

  1. Updates to the new Digital SAT Scoring algorithm
  2. Improvements to student baseline score measurements 
  3. Fixes to stats and core educator features like course dashboard access
  4. Restoring overtime feature


February 1, 2024


This morning we released our first batch of 3 Digital SATs (affectionately named after Rice University's residential colleges): Baker, Will Rice, and Hanszen. These tests are accessible at no cost while the Digital SAT course is under development. Other fixes included:

  1. UI edits to MathType multi-line equations 
  2. Updates to student statistics to make baseline score measurements more accurate (applied to new users only)
  3. Enhancements to admin functions 


January 18, 2024


This morning's deployment included several bug fixes and some background improvements, including:

  1. Fixes to the assignment builder for assigning work to multiple students and allowing the use of tests 11 and 12 in assignments
  2. UI cleanups to profile images and cover images on various lesson pages
  3. Fix to manual updates of students' statistics 
  4. Addressing various error messages found within lesson pages
  5. Updates made to SSL certificates for website validation
  6. Updates to email servers


January 11, 2024


Miscellaneous bug fixes including:


  1. Fix to educator view displaying incorrect number of students
  2. Fix to educator assignments allowing all students to be seen in the "create assignment" view
  3. UI cleanups to new user registration, user profiles, and question pages


January 4, 2024


Miscellaneous bug fixes including:


  1. Improvements to default user profile images
  2. Fix to show number of assigned passages using the updated Teacher Assignments feature
  3. Fix to remove "are you sure" notification when leaving the Student Lessons page


December 28, 2023


Our last scheduled deployment of 2023 is a gift to educators with a completely rewrite of the Assignments feature:

  • Teacher assignment builder is completely rewritten in Angular for improved performance
  • The user interface is updated to be easier to use
  • New features include estimated assignment duration in minutes and questions 
  • The student assignment view is also completely rewritten with more intuitive navigation buttons and instructions page with estimated duration


Click here to learn about the update to assignments. 


Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements include:

  • New default user profile images generated from a user's first and last name
  • Decreased loading time of the full-length test and units page for students
  • Updates to the organization view of active and inactive students
  • Updates to Personalized Practice to improve backend performance of standard practice
  • Update to the calculation of student Baseline score that will calculate the score only after exactly 25 questions per each course topic have been completed.


November 27, 2023


This morning's deployment included major feature upgrades alongside normal bug fixes:


  1. Personalized Practice is completely updated both with the UI and backend. We updated the setup view with fewer options and more conditional logic to make it easier to use. The backend is completely rewritten in Angular and results in significantly faster load times. 
  2. Available Content and Test Unlocking are new tabs within Personalized Practice that provide better insight into how many and what type of questions are available to the student to practice according to their subscription plan.
  3. Review Activities is also completely rewritten for students. A new feature is "Activity Logs" which allows students and their supervisors to see every activity the user has completed on the app including time stamps.
  4. Passage Based Questions (PBQs) receive improved integration across the app. For example, now students can designate how many PBQs they want to see in personalized practice and what genre they want to practice. We also now calculate a PBQ's overall normed difficulty.
  5. The Organization Course View is updated to include better user stats and the ability to manually inactivate students.
  6. Miscellaneous bug fixes include better support for the browser's "back" button, restoring of personalized practice at the end of a lesson, and enabling user's to see a student's selection from the self-assessment.


Click here to learn more about this major deployment.


October 27, 2023


Today's update included backend upgrades and a fix for the FLT view that could result in the student's last answer selection not being saved if they didn't click on the next button. We also optimized the FLT view page for first time loads and applied fixes for PDF math images.


We also improved student stats to ensure that all work completed in an assignment was properly accounted for.


October 12, 2023


Miscellaneous bug fixes including:


  1. Editing similarly worded questions
  2. MathType equation rendering
  3. Lesson editor fixes


We also published two new full-length, practice tests for the ACT.  


October 5, 2023


This week's deployment addressed an intermittent bug affecting the digital PSAT regarding module sequence plus minor fixes throughout the app including math equation formatting, PDFs, and full-length test previews.


September 28, 2023


  • Bug fix for intermittent issue where the student's answer selections were not appearing when reviewing a previously scored test.
  • Bug fixes for digital PSAT.
  • Bug fixes for PDFs.
  • ISEE Upper Level full-length tests 11 and 12 made public and membership plans updated.
  • ISEE Lower Level full-length tests 11 and 12 made public and membership plans updated.
  • ISEE Lower Level full-length tests 11 and 12 made public and membership plans updated.


Click here to learn about the new ISEE content.


September 22,2023


  1. PSAT Digital course deployed with 1, full-length practice PSAT available at no charge.
  2. Miscellaneous bug fixes for images and full-length test previews.


Click here to learn about the new, digital PSAT course. 


September 7, 2023


  1. UI improvement to the Full-Length Test mode that enables answer results to save even if the student doesn't click on the "next button." For example, the student can navigate the test exclusively using the number pagination icons in the footer. They can even close the browser window and come back without losing their answer selections.
  2. Performance improvements to the Full-Length Test mode to decrease loading time between questions on very long tests and improve image loading into the whiteboard.
  3. Performance improvements for personalized practice to enable adaptive style for passage-based questions. Passages now feature overall difficulty based off the dynamic difficulty of their attached questions.


August 31, 2023

  1. Performance improvements for full-length test-taking view
  2. Miscellaneous bug fixes for images and content management
  3. Bug fix for validating previously long-term inactive educator accounts


August 24, 2023

Today's update was mostly about fixing miscellaneous bugs like:

  1. Missing math equations on our newest ISEE and ACT tests 11 and 12
  2. Intermittent issue with students being unable to select answer choices
  3. New educator e-mail validation


August 3, 2023

  1. Simplification for how SAT math estimated scores are shown
  2. Beta versions of 2 new ACT full length tests
  3. Bug fixes to teacher question and lesson editors


July 27, 2023

  1. Bug fixes for teacher question and lesson editors 
  2. Bug fixes related to student overtime
  3. Improvements to Microtopics


July 21, 2023

  1. New Multi-Page Lesson Editor
  2. New Multi-Page Lessons for students
  3. Bug fixes to organization views (improved search)
  4. Miscellaneous bug fixes for content creators
  5. Beta versions of 6 new, full-length tests for ISEE courses


May 4, 2023

Today's update includes the following:


  1. Implementation of AWS S3 buckets for images and files
  2. Bug fixes related to session ID and browser cookies
  3. Bug fixes related to Full-Length Test (FLT)
  4. Bug fixes related to Question Editor for very similar questions


March 16, 2023

We completed our first major app update of the year, which included:


  • Neo4j database update
  • Updated test-taking and PVT interface
  • New content management tools for educators
  • Implementation of Microtopics
  • Automated e-mail improvements


Click here for more details about this release.



December 2, 2022

We cached the Leaderboard to decrease loading time; results will update only once a day in the early morning Houston time. We're aware of a sorting issue where students are not displayed in order of rank and plan to address in a future release.



November 24, 2022

We made a small update to the Educator Profile page to decrease loading time.



November 17, 2022

This update was mostly about fixing minor bugs and improving app performance including:


  • Fixes to student stats for teachers and admins
  • Fix of test timer for 1.5x and 2x time
  • Fix for publicly sharing quizzes for non-registered users
  • Fix enabling teachers to edit and delete QandA items
  • UI improvements to the quiz sharing and embed feature
  • Optimizations to dynamic difficulty algorithm
  • Optimizations to the quiz module



October 12, 2022

  • Student Dashboard UI improvements
  • Lesson View UI and speed improvements
  • Dynamic question difficulty calculation intervals
  • Org Admin student creation validation for existing users
  • Lesson and Question editor UI improvements



September 23, 2022

  1. Launch of new ELA 9 course
  2. Launch of new Pre-Calculus course
  3. Fix for Piqosity news container not properly rendering on educator and org dashboards
  4. Improvements to the Organization Course view
  5. Improvements to loading times of:
    1. Question creation page
    2. Question view and edit
    3. Personalized practice
    4. Piqosity Virtual Tutor
    5. Lesson view
    6. Course outline view
    7. User profile view
    8. Leaderboard