Classroom Diaries

Release notes

Every Classroom Diaries release, newest first.

Condensed from our development notes. Classroom Diaries has been in daily classroom use since 1.0.0.

  1. 1.15.2

    LatestBuild 43
    Improved
    • Extraction retries on its own when Anthropic’s service is busy, waiting a little longer each time, up to four attempts
    • Longer lessons have more time to extract
    • Extraction errors now show on the lesson’s row
    Request access Signed & notarized · macOS 14.2 or later

  2. 1.15.1

    Build 42
    Fixed
    • Pressing ⌘Q while recording reliably asks whether to stop the recording and quit, or keep recording

  3. 1.15.0

    New
    • Recordings survive crashes, force quits and accidental quits: they’re recovered and saved the next time you open the app

    Replaced by 1.15.1 within the hour.

  4. 1.14.1

    Fixed
    • Stopping a hidden recording from the bottom bar now saves it the same way as the recording window

  5. 1.14.0

    New
    • Record a cancelled class as “Canceled Early” or “Canceled Late”, and publish it to the Doc in the same step

  6. 1.13.3

    Improved
    • Lesson History shows separate icons for deleted audio and a deleted transcript

  7. 1.13.2

    Improved
    • Subject lines recognise spoken section names such as “grammar page” and “vocab page”

  8. 1.13.1

    Fixed
    • A unit carried over from an earlier lesson stops when new material starts
    • Comma-separated page lists and stray punctuation from the transcript are handled

  9. 1.13.0

    New
    • Extraction writes the lesson’s subject line
    Improved
    • Vocabulary lines up in fixed columns in the Doc
    • Pronunciation now comes straight after vocabulary

  10. 1.12.1

    Includes 1.12.0, which was withdrawn because of the sign-in crash fixed here.

    New
    • Sign in with Google: publishing now talks to Google Docs directly, with no script to set up
    Fixed
    • A crash when signing in with Google in 1.12.0

  11. 1.11.3

    Versions 1.11.0 to 1.11.3. 1.11.0 was withdrawn and fixed in 1.11.1.

    New
    • Lessons go into the Doc at their date, among existing entries, and publishing again replaces the entry in place
    • Coursebooks per class and a Unit field shape each lesson’s subject line
    • A subject line is required before saving
    Improved
    • The push button is now called Publish, and Re-Publish on a published lesson
    • The publish time has its own line in the editor
    Fixed
    • Existing lesson libraries open correctly again (1.11.0 could show an empty class list), and a safety copy is made of a library that can’t be read
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  1. 1.10.2

    Versions 1.10.0 to 1.10.2.

    New
    • A default recording mode per class: Microphone or Online lesson
    Improved
    • Each class remembers its recording mode
    • Tells you when a recording has no speech in it
    Fixed
    • The recording timer no longer freezes in the background, and the Mac stays awake while recording
    • Transcription and extraction progress is no longer lost

  2. 1.9.1

    Versions 1.9.0 and 1.9.1.

    New
    • Set a recording limit for all classes or per class, from 5 to 300 minutes or none
    Fixed
    • Transcribe is disabled on a recording that’s still in progress

  3. 1.8.0

    New
    • A 100-minute recording limit with a countdown before it stops
    • Hide a recording and keep working on other lessons
    Fixed
    • Progress for several transcriptions at once

  4. 1.7.0

    Improved
    • Online lessons record both sides of the call, tested on live FaceTime calls

    Requires macOS 14.2 or later from this version on.

  5. 1.6.0

    New
    • Move a recording or a lesson to another class

  6. 1.5.3

    Versions 1.5.2 and 1.5.3.

    Improved
    • Publish status shows the date and time and updates live
    Fixed
    • The publish time is kept when you save after publishing

  7. 1.5.0

    New
    • Re-extract a lesson from its saved transcript
    Fixed
    • Lessons that were mostly conversation could come back empty

  8. 1.3.3

    Versions 1.3.0 to 1.3.3.

    New
    • Lessons you’ve already published are marked
    • A new microphone app icon
    Improved
    • Striped rows in the lesson history

  9. 1.2.0

    New
    • Lesson History for each class, kept even after a recording is deleted

  10. 1.1.0

    New
    • Guidance per class on top of the main prompt, with six templates and a live preview of the combined prompt

  11. 1.0.0

    The first release, used in a real classroom the same day.

    New
    • Record in person or online, transcribe on your Mac, extract, review and save
    • Publish a lesson entry to the class’s Google Doc
    • Retention settings for recordings and transcripts

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