11 March, 2026 - Last week in TI

Athena Applets: High Volume Generation & Grade 3 Focus

24 new lessons generated, 3 lessons approved this week. Total review time was 124.9 minutes (8.3 minutes per iteration), and the current review queue holds 138 lessons.

Production output – 24 new lessons generated and 3 lessons approved this week.
Efficient iteration cycle – 15 total iterations completed in the past 7 days (12 feedback rounds, 3 approvals) with an average of 8.9 comments per lesson (80 total comments).
Multi-grade coverage – Lessons approved in Grade 3 (3 lessons), with a review queue of 138 lessons ready for validation (Grade 3: 37, Grade 3 Supporting: 17, Grade 4: 4, Grade 4 TEKS: 15, Grade 6: 59, Grade 6 TEKS: 2, Grade 7: 4).
New lessons by grade – Grade 3: 2 lessons, Grade 4: 1 lesson, Grade 3 Supporting: 7 lessons, Grade 4 TEKS: 14 lessons.
Review time insights – Average review time of 8.3 minutes per iteration (total 124.9 minutes).
Complete lesson catalog – See the full list of all uploaded lessons across grades in this lesson catalog with direct links to each lesson.

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BrainTrust: Enhanced Finance Agent & Real Estate Analysis

Major improvements to finance workflows and real estate analysis performance, including transaction matching, API trigger support, and dramatic speed improvements through intelligent caching.

Transaction Matching – Finance Agent account drill downs now feature transaction matching capabilities, making it easier to reconcile and verify financial records.
API Trigger Support – Seamless agent integration through API triggers, enabling automated workflows and programmatic access to BrainTrust agents.
Real Estate Analysis Performance – Massive speed improvement from 2.5 hours down to 2-5 minutes through intelligent caching, enabling near-instant analysis of properties.

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EduLLM Social Studies: Multi-Grade Question Generation

EduLLM Social Studies now supports automated question generation for Grades 5, 6, 7, and 8, covering MCQ, MSQ, and FILL-IN problem types across all substandards. This week, generation was extended to Grades 6 and 8.

Grade 5 (US History to 1820): Pass rate improved from 94.4% to 99.72%.
Grade 6 (World History — Ancient Civilizations): Newly launched with a pass rate of 99.07%.
Grade 7 (Medieval & Early Modern World History): Pass rate improved from 91.5% to 99.44%.
Grade 8 (US History — Constitution to Reconstruction): Newly launched with a pass rate of 99.25%.
Two generators — Incept-Agentic-SS-5 and Incept-Social-2 — are nearing 99% pass rates across all four grades.

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Athena Accelerator - QTI Content Renderer & Embeddable Player

This release shifts focus from question authoring to the rendering and delivery experience. The foundation for an embeddable QTI player is in place, a modular design token system makes theming a drop-in operation, and a new Playful theme targeting younger learners (K-5) ships alongside the refined default.

Embeddable Player Foundation – The QTI player is served from a dedicated /player iframe route with postMessage communication, making it embeddable in any frontend technology with no framework dependency. Today, hosts can supply QTI XML and get a fully interactive assessment with scoring and feedback. Next up: a wrapper SDK for message orchestration and Timeback content fetching so hosts can request questions by criteria instead of managing XML.
Design Token System & Modular SCSS – Hardcoded styles have been replaced with a layered token system (primitive palette → semantic roles → component tokens) and component styles extracted into composable SCSS mixins. Content is centered and width-constrained for focused readability. Adding a new theme is now just a token override file — no component changes needed.
Playful Theme (K-5) – A warm coral/orange theme with Fredoka typeface, chunky 3D-press buttons, bouncy selection animations, and larger radii — targeting younger grades. Includes light and dark variants and respects prefers-reduced-motion.
Known Issues – Vertical spacing rhythm between elements is not yet token-controlled. QTI generation needs updates to apply proper styling classes to all semantic elements. Text-to-Speech is not yet functional end-to-end.

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EduPaid v2.21.0: Provider Onboarding & Parent Plan Switching

New providers receive guided onboarding with step-by-step setup before portal access, while parents can switch between Standard and Commitment plans with transparent proration preview and scheduled changes.

Provider onboarding: Guided onboarding flow walks new providers through welcome, organization details, tax/banking information, W9 upload, and final review with progress indicator—must be completed before dashboard access to ensure all required information is collected up front.
Parent plan switching: Parents can switch between Standard and Commitment plans from subscription card with dedicated modal to choose plan type and payment frequency, preview proration amounts and full billing schedule before confirming, with scheduled changes taking effect at next billing cycle.

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