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Previewing and publishing a learning app

When your coding agent uploads changes to a learning app, they wait as a draft. Preview the draft yourself, then publish it as the app’s next version.

When to use it

Each upload becomes the app’s draft and changes nothing for anyone else: lessons and students go on running the published version. That gives you time to check a change, such as a new card, before anyone sees it. Publish when the draft does what you want, and it becomes the next numbered version.

Checking and publishing the draft

  1. Open Learning apps in the sidebar and open the app from My learning apps.

  2. Open Versions on the app page. It shows which version you are viewing, lists the published versions and shows the draft with its upload date.

  3. Choose Preview draft. The app reloads as the draft and the panel says Previewing draft. The published version stays as it was.

  4. Go through the change in the app itself.

  5. Choose Publish draft and confirm with Publish draft in the dialog. The draft becomes the next version, for example version 2, and the panel lists it as current.

To go back to the published app without publishing, choose View published version.

Tips

  • Publishing switches every lesson that uses the app to the new version at once. Sharing settings stay the same, and answers already given keep the version they were given in.

  • The app remembers where you got to, and the draft preview and the published app share that memory. If you click through the draft, go back to the start in the app before you publish, or the published version opens where your preview left off.

  • That memory is per person: anyone who opens the app again carries on from where they stopped.

  • If the panel says No draft uploaded yet, the upload did not arrive. Ask your agent to push the app again.