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Oppia

EDTECH
Velocity2.5

Open-source online learning platform with interactive explorations

Oppia grinds forward on learner UX polish, study guides, and contributor tooling.

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Current state
Oppia's GitHub releases are dense, incremental version bumps mixing learner-facing fixes with creator-tooling work, much of it from GSoC contributors. The recent line (3.4.x into 3.5.x) shows steady refinement: a redesigned learner dashboard shipped, revision cards were replaced by study guides in production, and voiceover, accessibility, and search bugs get continuous attention.
Where it's heading
The direction is maturation, not reinvention — Oppia is hardening its existing learning platform, improving the study-guide and exploration-player experience, and building out the certificate/assessment surface (a dashboard skeleton appears in 3.5.2). Work is broad and community-driven rather than pointed at one big bet.
Prediction
Expect the certificate/assessment dashboard to fill in over coming releases, alongside the ongoing cadence of learner-UX fixes and creator-tooling improvements.

Recent moves

  1. 29d ago

    Oppia 3.5.2: topic header redesign, certificate dashboard scaffold

    Version 3.5.2 combines learner fixes (fraction rendering, story-progress auth) with visible work: a redesigned topic header layout and a certificate assessment dashboard skeleton. Incremental, but the certificate scaffold hints at a new surface taking shape.

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  2. 4mo ago

    Oppia 3.5.1: skill-search fix, broken-image alerts

    Version 3.5.1 fixes a skill-search filtering bug and adds real-time alerts for misspelled SVG tags so creators don't upload broken images. Small but genuine quality-of-life gains for creators.

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  3. 5mo ago

    Oppia 3.5.0: study guides replace revision cards

    Version 3.5.0 flips study guides to production — replacing revision cards with sectioned learning material — and gates the unfinished review-tests feature. The study-guide launch is the substantive move in this window.

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  4. 7mo ago

    Oppia 3.4.9: learner and creator bug fixes

    Version 3.4.9 is a cluster of learner and creator bug fixes — text highlighting, library scrolling, editor page tours, difficulty selection. Maintenance.

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  5. 9mo ago

    Oppia 3.4.8: worked examples, voiceover job tracker

    Version 3.4.8 surfaces worked examples on the study-guide viewer and concept cards, and adds a voiceover regeneration job tracker for admins. Real learner and admin capability, alongside routine fixes.

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  6. 11mo ago

    Oppia 3.4.7: redesigned learner dashboard readied for launch

    Version 3.4.7 readies the redesigned learner dashboard for launch, extends the Learn menu to handle multiple classrooms, and begins the revision-cards-to-study-guides rename. Groundwork for the 3.5.x learner-UX changes.

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