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No School Days, Late Start and Early Release Events

8 years ago

One of our most requested features is the ability to add regular events into myHomework, specially the ability to add no school days. 

With the latest update you are now able to add no school days, late start days, and early release days. Your list of classes will adjust accordingly, if you have block schedule type classes it will correctly skip no school days. 

Here’s a video showing these new features.

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Repeating Assignments

8 years ago

One of the most common features students have asked for is the ability to enter repeating items without having to manually add each occurrence.

We’re happy to announce that this feature is now available in myHomework on all platforms! If you’ve been waiting for this, go ahead and update your app.

Here’s a short video of how it works:

Cheers!

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iOS Premium Themes

8 years ago

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In the last iOS update there were 2 new features that we were excited about and we wanted to highlight.

Build Your Own Theme

myHomework Premium users have been able to customize their app with over 60 themes. With the latest update they can now create their own themes, which includes changing the menu background and the primary color. 

Here’s a video of “Build Your Own Theme” in action:


Premium Only Themes

In addition to the ability of building themes, myHomework Premium users now have 8 exclusive themes. These themes are not like the 60 initial standard themes, all of the colors of the app changes. 

Here’s a video of some of the “Premium Only Themes”


Already a premium user? Try these 2 features today and let us know what you think on twitter.

Not a premium user? Upgrade today, and in addition to themes you get rid of ads, get access to file attachments and enable premium iOS widget features.

Don’t have the app?

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myHomework for Chromebook

8 years ago

We are happy to announce that myHomework is now available for Chromebook as a Chrome app that runs offline.

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We’ve had an app in the Chrome Web Store for quite some time now, but it was just an app that linked to our website, and if you didn’t have internet connection it wouldn’t work.

With the grown popularity of Chromebooks, specially for education, we decided to spend some time and build its own app. In fact this app doesn’t just run on Chromebooks. It runs on Windows, Macs and Linux too.

The app contains most of the features available on iOS and Android. Such as:

  • Tracking Homework and Classes
  • Time, Period and Block based class schedules
  • Reminders
  • Works Offline & Sync
  • Joining Teachers.io Classes & Schools
  • Announcements
  • Themes

So all you have to do is log in and you will have a similar myHomework experience on your Chromebook.

Here are some of the highlighted features of the chrome app:

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Week View, previously only available on iPad.


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Supports multiple accounts logged in at the same time. Perfect for parents.


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Receive homework reminders!


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Works well full screen and on small windows.


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Customize your experience with over 60 themes.


For more information check out some of the videos we put together.

Or you can just install the app and try it yourself.

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We actually quietly released the Chromebook app a few weeks ago, we usually do this to fix a few bugs before announcing to everyone.

So if you have it already, thank you :)

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myHomework for Mac

8 years ago

We are happy to announce that myHomework is now available for Mac. 

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A mac app is something students have been requesting for quite a while now. So we are really excited to share it with you.

The app contains most of the features available on iOS and Android. Such as:

  • Tracking Homework and Classes
  • Time, Period and Block based class schedules
  • Reminders
  • Works Offline & Sync
  • Joining Teachers.io Classes & Schools
  • Announcements
  • Themes

So all yo have to do is log in, and you will have a similar myHomework experience on your Mac.

Here are some of the extra features of the mac app:

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OS X Yosemite style & design, with menu transparency.


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Week View, previously only available on iPad.


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Supports multiple accounts logged in at the same time. Perfect for parents.


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Works well full screen and on small window sizes.


For more information check out some of the videos we put together.

Or you can just download the app and try it yourself.

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We actually quietly released the mac app a few weeks ago, we usually do this to fix a few bugs before announcing to everyone. 

So if you have it already, thank you :)

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myHomework’s New App Icon

8 years ago

With every major release of myHomework we update the design of our icon. This time around we had a few ideas. Some matched the original pencil & eraser theme, and some were really different. 

So a few months ago we decided put out a survey to our users to help us decide. It didn’t take long to see which icon was the favorite, we are really happy with their choice (it was our favorite too). 

Here is the new icon:

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Turned out students wanted to keep the pencil theme going. 

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There are a few platforms that the app still need to be updated with the new icon, but soon it will be everywhere. 

Thanks for helping us choose the new myHomework app icon!

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Website Redesign

9 years ago

This past weekend we launched a completely new design of myHomework’s website. Check it out!

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After

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Logged in Before

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Logged in After

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The website is now responsive which means that the layout is adjusted to fit any screen size.

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The homework lists, calendar and taking actions on homework should all be faster now too. We hope you like it! See it live at myhomeworkapp.com

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10 years ago

Every update we work really hard to make myHomework better, this update was no different. We just finished releasing version 5.1.0 of myHomework for iOS that brings several improvements that we are really excited to share with you.

Here’s a summary of all the changes:

  • Weekly calendar view for iPad!
  • Added an option to quickly show/hide completed homework from iPad’s homepage.
  • Homework and class times can now be minute precise instead of only 5 minute increments.
  • App now tells you if it’s been a long time since you’ve last sync’d.
  • Schools can now share school wide announcements, files, links and more!
  • Tap on manual class now takes you to a details and schedule view with edit option.
  • App now tries to guess the homework type based on the homework’s description to save you entering in a type.
  • Can now expand collapse homework type/priority/class headings.
  • Can now swipe between months in the calendar.
  • Added priority icons to make it easy to know what is really important.
  • Better sorting in the homework filters.
  • Added a link below the Kiip Rewards setting that explains more about how rewards work.
  • Hide completed homework and Kiip reward settings now sync so the app remembers them when you log out and back in.
  • The day of week and due time are shown in more places now.

We hope you enjoy these updates. You can download the latest version of myHomework here!

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myHomework for iOS 7

10 years ago

A few weeks ago we released a completely new design of myHomework for iOS that supports iOS 7. The update had several improvements that our users loved, here are some of those changes:

1. Overall design was improved to be lighter. It follows some of the iOS 7 look and feel. There’s no more blue navigation bar or black filters, the icons are much simpler and in some places we’ve added the iOS 7 blur effect.

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iPad After

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2. The menu got a completely new look! Now when you launch the app it goes directly to the homework list instead of the menu. The menu can be accessed by swiping from the left or by touching the icon on the top left corner.

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3. Forms got updated! It seems that with every major release we redesign the forms. But this time we believe that we’ve improved exponentially! Instead of the placeholder disappearing after entering text the placeholder slides to the top so you can still see which field is what.

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The form UI was inspired by this shot on dribbble!

4. The calendar also got a new design. It’s a little bit bigger and easier to touch on the dates. 

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We hope you enjoy the update! You can download the latest version of myHomework here!

Check out what some of our users are saying about the update.

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myHomework for iOS v4.1 Improvements

10 years ago

Just in time for back to school myHomework for iOS v4.1 brought a new set of visual improvements that will make the app quicker and easier to use.

Swipe to Complete and Delete

It’s now a lot easier to swipe an assignment to completion or deletion. The touch detection has been improved so it feels a lot more natural. The UI kind of resembles Mailbox’s app or the latest UI changes to iOS 7.

Swipe from the left until the background turns green, and release it to mark it as complete.

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Swipe from the right until the background turns red, and release it to delete an assignment.

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Pull Down to Sync

When you are logged in the iPhone app you can now swipe down and release to sync the account. We’ve noticed that this is a pattern that’s been going on around in iOS and we decided to make our version of it.

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Improved Forms

Forms were improved to have more spaces between fields, to show focus of an active field and better touch detection.

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New iPad Popovers/Lightbox

We also improved how the popovers on the iPad look, instead of sliding from the left or the right now the popover slides from the top, similar to a lightbox you would see in websites. The look and feel is now a little more consistent to the look of the whole app itself.

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I hope you guys enjoy the changes! You can download the latest version of myHomework here!