BASA Vernacular
App ID: 2406
Stable Release
Important: This build has been successfully tested on an Android Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7-inch tablet running the Lollipop (5.1.1) OS but does not work on Android Q (10) or Pie (9) due to security restrictions. It has not been tested on Marshmallow (6), Nougat (7), and Oreo (8).
New Features:
- The first BASA Vernacular app that can function without an SD card
- Various bug fixes
New Features:
- Code has been added for finding SD card paths on ZenPad tablets.
- The gear that takes you to the app switching screen is no longer present, because this feature is not needed in this version of the app.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug involving the recording of time spent on incomplete activities.
New Features:
- Users can download other SteppingStone app packages to try out.
- By clicking the gear icon on the welcome screen, users can switch between other app packages they have downloaded.
- The vernacular build that was released into the field for the BASA pilot.
Let's Practice
Development Build
Test App Package: 3714
This build is still under development. Please test thoroughly before any demos and run through your demo routine beforehand. Avoid using it in the field and on tablets with real data.
Updates:
- Fixes to time bugs on video and text slides.
- App now starts with only one user.
- App should now function without teachers and classes since it pulls down 3714.
- Fix to video thumbnail downloads.
Known issues:
- Slide transitions, while quicker, are not always perfect; sometimes the old slide stays on the screen (rather than exiting) while the newer slide moves on top of it.
Test App Package: 3714
Updates:
- Style improvements to user select button, image positioning on slides, and lesson complete screen.
- Fixed issue where "next" button is not responding.
- Added more vertical space between multiple choice options and navigation bar.
Updates:
- Updated download progress bar to the latest version that indicates file size.
- Bug fixes to download cycle and image label.
SteppingStone
Note: Re-downloading your content is required for this build to work. Download the app package with the ID of 2406 to try the new user fields and nonlinear progression functionality
Features:
- Pulls common language-specific app phrases from this authoring site.
- User fields for last name, gender, age, grade, and unique username have been implemented for app packages that have these fields enabled.
- Now shows ten users, and code is more flexible to allow for more if needed.
- Language toggle only shows up for apps with more than one language, and has been moved to the "lesson select" screen.
- Settings screen is now blank, but will be populated in a later build.
- Nonlinear slide map view is now functional.
- Screen transitions have been improved in offline mode.
Note: Re-downloading your content is required for this build to work.
Features:
- Stores the type of each slide in the user data.
- Displays only time spent for basic content slides.
- Only displays the number of tries for the current set of activity slides.
- Stores and displays essay responses on the user profile page.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an error preventing user data from being displayed for lessons involving open response activities.
Bug Fixes:
- An open response question without a word bank will no longer throw an error.
- If you submit an open response with a non-blank answer, the activity will be marked complete.
New Features:
- Data upload is switched off.
- A new "Switch apps" button replaces the data upload button.
- Open response slide type added.
New Features:
- Added provisional SD card support for ZenPad. Testing on actual devices is needed.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where time spent was not being recorded when leaving an incomplete activity.
Codebase changes:
- It is now easier for developers to make just a few changes to the code and compile this as a BASA app.
Bug Fixes:
- Resolved an issue that was causing a lesson ID mismatch upon switching to another language after completing a lesson.
New Features:
- Added an app settings screen for switching between app content packages
- Added team apps screens in online mode for downloading content without the need for an app ID
- Completed French utility sounds
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug that was causing lesson links to not show up after switching to the English lesson group screen
- Removed an errant alert that was showing up during activity progression
- Fixed bug involving the recognition of the current lesson node ID
New Features:
- Long slides have scrolling enabled, with the progress bar and prev-next buttons at the very bottom
- Downloads and runs the graphic-text-audio and text-audio slide types
- "Activity" changed to "slide" just under the progress bar
- Users now have the option of restarting lessons they have already started
- Slide content has been moved up on the new content slides to make use of the space near the top
New Features:
- Will now download a default video thumbnail if one has not been added to a video slide
- Downloads and runs the graphic-text slide type
New Features:
- Can now download and run the simple content slide type
New Features:
- Generic instructions are now optional for running the activity
- If no generic instructions are available, the teacher icon simply does not appear
- The app should be able to find and play .ogg instructional files, which are produced via the site's media recorder
New Features:
- Lack of generic instructions in the lesson group does not stop the content download
- Lack of specific instructions for text select or image select does not stop the content download
- Text select can run without specific instructions
New Features:
- SteppingStone app logo has been added
- Users who have started a lesson now see updated content after re-downloading
- User accounts can be cleared
- Video content can be pulled down and played
- Text select supports word choices
- Correct response plays immediately on text select (the phonics sound is no longer played)
- Image select supports 28-character target word
- The app remembers the last language you selected
- Sequencing activities support one-ordered lists and can randomly scramble sequences if necessary
New Features:
- Multi-app functionality: download content you create by entering the ID of your app content package at the prompt.
- Initial try at image preloading
- App can run without an SD card
- Upon inserting an SD card after running the app without one, you have the option of copying your content to the SD Card
- Current SD Path is specific to Galaxy Tab A; later versions will be more flexible for other devices, such as the Asus ZenPad