It’s that most dreaded time of year…the start of another semester (faint screams in the distance). Although you may rather have a root canal than face down yet another set of classes, papers, and exams this school year, PERRLA has been working hard all summer to make sure you can take the edge off your schoolwork.
Some of the changes are pretty huge! And some you’ll never even notice – which is a good thing. Here’s just a few you may see:
New Logo & Website
After many years of faithful service, our old logo and website have decided to take some time off to enjoy the finer things in life. Their replacements are spry and eager to take PERRLA into the future with a cleaner aesthetic and an updated feel.
The Syllabus Tool has Arrived!
You may have heard about this – it’s a big deal. We’ve finally launched our brand new Syllabus Tool in PERRLA Complete! It lets you import all of your class’s assignments, to-do’s, papers, exams, and reminders (as well as your class details) without typing a single letter. With our streamlined Syllabus Tool, you can import your entire semester’s worth of items into your calendar in less time than it takes to get a Starbucks Venti Skinny Mocha Caramel Frappuccino! Seriosly, it is awesome.
Updated Paper Plan
We’ve spent some time making our Paper Planner even more helpful. Now it hides your future and past steps (fewer distractions and dread) while also making it easier to see exactly which step you’re on. Here’s a secret…we’ve got some more cool updates for the Paper Planner in the works for another update.
Modals are Taking Over
This is a pretty big change too. We’ve changed how you interact with lots of your items in PERRLA Complete. When you click on an item outside of it’s Module (like clicking a To-Do inside an Assignment), you’ll be able to see and edit that To-Do in a modal (also called a pop-up) window. Now you won’t be taken away from whatever you’re looking at to see another item’s details. This should make it a lot easier to edit all of your associated items wherever you are. Just an FYI – Papers still work like they used to. There’s just so much awesome stuff that Papers do we havent’ been able to cram it all into a single pop-up window yet!
Export Your Notes
You’ve been able to add Class notes to PERRLA Complete since we launched in January, but now you can export those notes as text documents, Word documents (.docx or .doc), and PDFs. Now you can share your notes with what’s-his-name who was out for 3 weeks with something-or-other.
Deleting a Class
Finally done with your class? Now we’ve refined some of the behind the scenes magic that notifies you if there are any assignments, papers, exams, etc. that are still hanging on for dear life. Not deer life.
Exam Tweaks
We added Exams to PERRLA Complete in our last update. Now we’ve changed them just a bit to work better. We added the ability to create associated To-Do’s to your exam (like export your notes to study) and we’ve removed the requirement for a Start Studying date. Although you never had to start studying before the night before, now you don’t have to feel bad about missing the date you were supposed to start! But really, don’t wait until the night before. Been there. Done that. It’s awful.
Like I said earlier, there are tons of other updates that we’ve added over the past few weeks, but these are the biggies that you’ll probably notice. We hope they make this semester just a little less sucky!