Product News and Updates

   Product News and Updates: PowerUpSee the System Requirements for the 2026-2027 school year in Lexia System Requirements.PowerUp Updates - July 2026Weekly Strand Unit Goals - Celebration added for all weekly strand unit goals complete. Data-Driven Updates - High-priority, data-driven updates made to Skill Check items. Accessibility Updates - On-screen transcripts are now available for all 3 strands. Additional support for screen readers. The screen can now be resized and scrolled. Resources Hub - New resources expand support for teacher‑led instruction and increase opportunities for student practice and application of skills.

  Product News and Updates: Lexia EnglishSee the System Requirements for the 2026-2027 school year in Lexia System Requirements.Lexia English Updates - July 2026Improved Speech Recognition - Maintenance completed for speech recognition engine. Accessibility - Additional support added for screen readers.

   Product News and Updates: myLexiaSee the System Requirements for the 2026-2027 school year in Lexia System Requirements.myLexia Updates - July 2026 Educators can now view how their entire class is performing on Core5 Skill Checks in one convenient Core5 Class Skill Check report. This makes it easier to quickly identify trends, spot learning gaps, and support students who need additional help. Within the new Class Skill Check report, educators can view the new Lexia Assignments and: see when students are assigned additional practice based on their performance monitor completion and progress on those assignments Released in February 2026 - Educators have the option to set students to retake Core5 Auto Placement without losing current progress data.  Core5 and PowerUp literacy standards reporting now supports standards for the following states/provinces: Ontario Indiana Kansas Lexia English Proficiency Bands alignment has been updated to reflect the latest Texas ELPS. District and school administrators now have more flexible data access that streamlines reporting and supports data-driven decision making with new monthly exports: PowerUp and Lexia English: Monthly exports available both on-demand and automated Core5: Monthly export now available as an automated option Using 1EdTech’s Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard, customers can now use Single Sign-On (SSO) to login to Lexia products directly from Canvas LMS dashboards.  Management of rostered data is now more seamless with an enhanced ClassLink integration: Roster students, educators, classes, schools, and enrollments through the ClassLink API Built using 1EdTech’s OneRoster v1.2 standard We are continuing to modernize the myLexia platform throughout 2026. In the July release, customers will notice updates to Core5 and PowerUp class, school, and district reports that include visual and usability improvements.

  Product News and Updates: Core5See the System Requirements for the 2026-2027 school year in Lexia System Requirements.Core5 Updates - July 2026We added Lexia® Assignments for Core5! Grounded in the Science of Reading, Lexia® Assignments are system‑assigned practice experiences in Core5 that provide students with additional, targeted instruction and practice when a skill needs reinforcement. Assignments are automatically generated based on student performance on end‑of‑level Skill Checks and are aligned to specific Core5 skills. Educators can view assignment activity and progress in a myLexia Class Skill Check Report also launching Summer 2026. Core5 now has enhanced Explicit Instruction at the start of K–2 Phonics activities. Students receive clear, upfront teaching to build a strong understanding of new sounds, letter formation, and key phonics rules before moving into independent practice.  We improved accessibility by adding Audio Transcript Display preview to Educator Mode. Incremental support was also added for Keyboard Navigation, and status messages were added for progress bars. Instructional Resources: New and revised resources expand support for teacher‑led instruction and increase opportunities for student practice and application of skills.

 Product News and Updates: AspireSee the current system requirements for Aspire: Aspire System Requirements.Product News and Updates - July 2026  EBooks are now available to download and print!All licensed Aspire users can now download and print the three available Aspire eBooks. To find download or print, open an eBook and select the three dot menu on the upper right side.

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - July 2026 LETRS for Adiminstrators LETRS for Administrators now includes an optional 10-question end-of-unit assessment after each unit! Unit assessments are not required to progress to other units or to unlock the posttest. The unit assessments are in addition to the current LETRS for Administrators Posttest. Course managers can view unit assessment scores and progress via updated Progress Reports, Unit Progress Reports, and participant transcripts. For LETRS FacilitatorsFacilitators assigned a new facilitator license after July 9th, 2026 must now accept their Statement ofCommitment (SOC) on their first login after the license start date.Facilitators will not be able to access LETRS until they select the checkmark and click the “Accept and Continue to LETRS” button. Facilitators with an existing license before July 9th, 2026 will not need to accept their SOC in the platform. These facilitator are expected to have a signed SOC on file already. Facilitators will see their Statement of Commitment Acceptance Date on the Facilitator Status portion of My Profile. For Facilitators that did not accept the SOC in platform, they will see a standard date of 07/08/2026. For Facilitators that accept the digital SOC, they will see the date they accepted. Course Managers and Internal Admins will find the date displayed on the Facilitator’s Individual Overview in the same position on the Facilitator Status section.

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - May 2026 For LETRS participantsAssessment feedback on first attempts After a first attempt on a Check for Understanding or Unit Assessment, participants now see both incorrect answers and the correct responses immediately.For LETRS Connect participantsRequired session activities Videos, activities, and session summaries must be completed before moving to the next screen in LETRS Connect sessions.For LETRS course managersExpanded attendance and session reporting Session Records and Attendance Records now include date range filters and export options for filtered data or all data. Additional attendance details Attendance Records now include SA Number, Session Type, and Start Date. Comprehensive Progress Report export A new export combines unit scores, assessment scores, time spent, completion dates, and attendance into one formatted spreadsheet.For LETRS Connect course managersMulti-select license filtering Manage Licenses and Participant pages now support filtering by multiple license types at the same time.For LETRS facilitatorsCertificate of Achievement access Certificates of Achievement are available for download from the Transcript and Documents tab.

 Product News and Updates: AspireSee the current system requirements for Aspire: Aspire System Requirements.Product News and Updates - May 2026  We now provide a Course Manager Guide PDF for Course Managers! This PDF will be under the Resource menu. 

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - April 2026  New Session Guides are Available in the LETRS Suite! Each Intro to Session now includes a downloadable session guide! Complete the guide as you read the manuals, work through the online activities, and prepare for the Checks for Understanding and assessments.New session guides are available in:LETRS 3rd Edition LETRS Early Childhood (EC) LETRS for Administrators ConnectLETRS Connect Continued Access Licenses (or, extensions in LETRS) can now be assigned in Connect! Course managers can assign Continued Access licenses.  LETRS Facilitators We’ve improved license management for LETRS Facilitators! Facilitator status now appears more prominently on the Individual Overview page. When editing the end date of a facilitator license, all active facilitator license end dates will sync automatically.

 Product News and Updates: AspireSee the current system requirements for Aspire: Aspire System Requirements.Product News and Updates - April 2026  Aspire eBooks are now Available! All licensed users can now access eBooks under the Resource menu. Once selected, the eBooks launch in a new tab. The three eBook collection includes: Lexia Aspire Bridge to Application Resources Lexia Aspire Course Summaries with Note-Catchers Lexia Aspire Professional Learning Community Guides eBook

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - March 2026 For LETRS Course ManagersWe’ve made seven District Completion Report Improvements, including: Sortable columns — The first column can now be sorted alphabetically, and progress columns can be sorted by completion percentage. Sorting works in both ascending and descending order. Consistent exports — Choosing Data As Shown keeps your on‑screen sorting in the exported spreadsheet. All Data exports use default sorting. Clickable school names — In the school‑level report, school names now link directly to the Participant Completion Report, with the selected school pre‑filtered for quick access. Favorites view — You can now “favorite” rows using the heart icon. Turning on the Favorites toggle shows only those rows, and exporting Data As Shown will include only your favorited items. License Sets tab removed — The License Sets tab no longer appears on the Overview page for districts, states, or campuses. All license set management remains available under Manage > Licenses. Alphabetical sorting — All Manage Licenses pages now support alphabetical sorting. “Newest” remains the default view.For LETRS ParticipantsClosed captioning preferences now save automatically! When participants turn captions on or off in a course video, LETRS remembers the setting across:Course navigation Switching between courses Logging in and outFor LETRS Connect Course ManagersWe’re introducing a “Most Completed Sessions” Widget!This new dashboard widget highlights the top five most completed sessions across your participants. If fewer than five sessions have been completed, the widget displays only the sessions with activity so far.

Product News and Updates: AspireSee the current system requirements for Aspire: Aspire System Requirements.Product News and Updates - February 2026  We’ve updated our License Eligibility Policy!Aspire users who have consumed a Leader license are now only eligible to be assigned to Leader licenses moving forward. They may NOT be assigned to any Participant license.  Aspire users who have consumed Participant licenses are eligible to be assigned either a Participant license or a Leader license.We’ve updated Certificate Integrity! For any former Participant that is now assigned a Leader license, any certificates they have earned during their participant license will remain a Participant Certificate. For any course they did not complete during their participant license, they are eligible to earn a Leader Certificate. Leaders cannot earn a Leader certificate if they completed courses before as a participant.

  Product News and Updates: myLexiaSee the System Requirements for the 2025-2026 school year in Lexia System Requirements.myLexia Updates - February 2026We have added an option for adjusting student placement with Core5 Retake Placement! This new feature in myLexia allows Core5 students to go through Auto Placement again without losing all historical progress data.

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - January 2026LETRSThe Course Completion report has been renamed to the Participant Completion Report! It remains available under the Reports menu and now includes a clearer description with a link to the Course Progress report. Course managers can also filter more efficiently using new multi‑select course chips and a Continued Learning filter that highlights participants with Connect or Coaching licenses. These participants now display small icons next to their names. LETRs Connect6 NEW LETRS Connect sessions have been added to the LETRS Connect course.  For LETRS Local Certified Facilitators, some license sets on the Manage > Licenses page may now appear as single‑license sets named for individual educators. These represent LCFs who have met strict eligibility requirements, and their licenses are assigned directly by Lexia staff. A new Completed Sessions tracker on the LETRS Connect home page helps facilitators monitor their progress, and those who finish all eight required sessions receive a Certificate of Achievement. 

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - December 2025 LETRSCourse managers - We reorganized the top navigation to better separate administrative tools from course‑related features! When course managers select a course with an active license, they will now see the menu order as:Manage, Reports, Course, Journal, Resources, and User ProfileFor courses where they do not have a license, the menu displays as:Manage, Reports, Resources, and User ProfileLiteracy SymposiumThe Literacy Symposium website will be retired at the end of 2025. Beginning in 2026, facilitator renewal requirements will be completed through LETRS Connect. LETRS ConnectWe included dropdown filter for the Sessions and Resource Library pages!On the Sessions page, a new Progress dropdown replaces the previous All Sessions, Completed, In Progress, and Not Started chips, with All Sessions selected by default. Participants can also choose to display their Favorites by toggling the Favorites button on or off. On the Resource Library page, a Categories dropdown replaces the former category chips, with All Categories as the default selection. Favorites can also be shown or hidden using the same toggle.

Product News and Updates: AspireSee the current system requirements for Aspire: Aspire System Requirements.Product News and Updates - January 2026 We’ve included a new My Documents page!  Participants can now download all documents (All Certificates, Journal Entries, and Transcript) on the new My Documents page. The documents can be downloaded as individual PDFs or as a single zipped file containing all PDFs. We’ve include a Required Activities Count Display! Participants will see the count of required activities on each course page. As the participant completes activities, the number will increase until it reaches the total number of required activities on the screen, activating the NEXT button. This will NOT be visible to leaders as their activities are not considered “required.”

 Product News and Updates: PowerUpSee the System Requirements for the 2025-2026 school year in Lexia System Requirements.PowerUp Updates - November 2025We added a music toggle on the Home Screen in the October release to allow students to turn off music. We improved accessibility across PowerUp.  Sensory characteristics updates for bolded text were made in the November release. We made important bug fixes and content updates. Instructional Resources: Updates to digital and PDF Lexia Lessons (Morphology Latin Roots 1 and Informational Level 6, Activity 2) to remain consistent with online updates

 Product News and Updates: Lexia EnglishSee the System Requirements for the 2025-2026 school year in Lexia System Requirements.Lexia English Updates - November 2025We improved accessibility across Lexia English.  On screen transcripts are available with the December release of myLexia. We made important bug fixes and content updates. Instructional Resources: Updates to Passage Reference Guide and Lexia Listening Lesson PDF and digital slide deck (Level 18, Activity 2) to remain consistent with online updates All Lexia English Scope & Sequence documents have been updated (WIDA, TX-ELPS, ELPA 21, CA-ELD, NY-ESL, and AZ-ELPS)

 Product News and Updates: Core5See the System Requirements for the 2025-2026 school year in Lexia System Requirements.Core5 Updates - November 2025We improved accessibility across Core5.  Keyboard navigation support is now available in even more of the program.  We made important bug fixes and content updates. Instructional Resources: New Contrastive Analysis Supplemental Resource to support multilingual learners New Spelling Practice Pack for encoding and dictation Practice Updates to Grapheme Tiles resource to include upper and lowercase grapheme tiles for phonics support Updated front matter of Grapheme Tile Guide Updates to our Phonological Awareness Warm-Up Routines with word lists Updates to Passage Reference Guide and Comprehension Passage Pack to remain consistent with online updates

 Product News and Updates: myLexiaSee the System Requirements for the 2025-2026 school year in Lexia System Requirements.myLexia Updates - November 2025We improved accessibility with a new Audio Transcript Display Setting. This can be turned on for individual learners and allows them to see on-screen transcripts where available.  Core5 and PowerUp literacy standards reporting now supports standards for the following states/provinces: Oregon New Mexico Kentucky Minnesota Connecticut Ontario, Canada  We are continuing ongoing performance and design improvements with a focus on Reading Program student reports.

Product News and Updates: AspireSee the current system requirements for Aspire: Aspire System Requirements.Product News and Updates - November 2025  We’ve included Posttest Reporting!Course Managers and Leaders can now find posttest completion rates and average scores in the Domain Performance and Progress charts on the home page, cohort overview pages, and license set overview page. The home page has also updated all tables with a posttest column including the School tab, Participant tab, Cohorts and License Sets.

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - November 2025LETRS Connect We’ve enhanced our Search Capability!  From the LETRS Connect Home, Resource Library, and Sessions pages, you can now search for sessions, modeling videos, and assets using keywords and special characters.  

Product News and Updates: the LETRS SuiteSee the current system requirements for LETRS: LETRS System Requirements.Product News and Updates - October 2025 We’ve added a new button in LETRS assessments. Participants taking any LETRS assessment will see a new PREVIOUS button when in the middle of their assessment. This button allows you to return to the previous question, giving the ability to review and revise previous answers.

Product News and Updates: Lexia EnglishSee the System Requirements for the 2025-2026 school year in Lexia System Requirements.For Lexia English StudentsWe enhanced students’ views of their progress within the program, including:adding the ability on the Home screen for students to see their weekly progress in both units and time completedupdating the Home, Act, and Encounters pages to show current level, number of acts in that level, associated characters, and encounters completed and remainingWe added Native Language Support (Spanish) in Levels 1–4.Students who have Native Language support enabled will now be able to access directions and media audio in Spanish after hearing them in English.We added the student avatar to the login confirmation screen to further cement the relationship between the student and their avatar.We made data-driven updates to program units in Grammar and Listening as well as Presentation of Knowledge units to support student engagement and maintain assessment integrity.We made accessibility updates, including adding:keyboard navigation throughout the full programa new volume control slider in the Audio menuWe enhanced speech recognition accuracy and performance by improving:acoustic models, using new data setsmicrophone handlingresilience in speech recognitionFor Lexia English EducatorsWe revised Resources Hub content to reflect updates made in the program, including:updating Digital Listening Lessons for Levels 4, 6, 9, 11, and 15updating Passage Reference Guide to reflect program passage updatesadding more detailed usage and progress monitoring guidance to District and School Overview resourcesadding information to the Teacher's Manual to support new program features and contentWe updated Instructional Resources in myLexia, including:PDF Listening Lessons for Levels 4, 6, 9, 11, and 15, to include new program passage changesLexia EnglishWe created a new login screen design to simplify the login experience!With this update, students and educators now use the same input fields to enter their username or email address and password.We added your school name and program version to the bottom of the login screen, as well as an image that appears on the login screen, which will rotate based on a set of pre-selected images.For Lexia English StudentsWe added select Art Updates throughout the program to enhance Lexia English visually and provide a relatable and engaging learning experience.We upgraded Character Audio program-wide to ensure a consistent volume and quality of audio.We changed the Onboarding Animations in the Resources Hub capture the latest updates implemented in Lexia English.We dimmed the home “indicator” on buttonless iPads for a better visual experience.We added the option for students to skip task demos in select tasks if they have recently worked in that task type.For accessibility, we added:Additional support for Keyboard NavigationFull support for Language of PartsFor Lexia English EducatorsWe added an Avatar Demo Button to Educator Mode so educators can customize their own Lexia English avatar and see how the avatar feature works.Lexia English Resources Hub Updates:We added a new “Using Lexia English Language Development™ and Lexia® Core5® Reading In Parallel” document that provides general guidelines for educators using both Lexia English and Core5.We added many new translations to Lexia English resources:We added Bengali versions of the General Achievement Certificate, General Home Use Letter, Clever Add-On Letter, Lexia English Parent Report, and Lexia English Visual Guide.The Speak@Home Newsletters are now available in French, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Haitian-Creole, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog, Bengali, Chinese, Arabic, Dari, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Gujarati, Hmong, and Somali.We created new Speaking Practice Anchor Charts for educators to easily access and utilize each Speaking Practice Lesson Language Frame in Lexia English.

Product News and Updates: myLexiaSee the System Requirements for the 2025-2026 school year in Lexia System Requirements.We added weekly unit goals for students using PowerUp. Use the Class Usage Report to:track student progress toward unit goalsview student usage and unit progress organized by strandWe added the date when students were flagged as needing instruction in the Core5 Needs Instruction tab of the Class Action Plan.We improved the Native Language Support settings, including:adding new support for Lexia Englishmoving the controls from the Reading Program tab to the Info tab in the Edit Student modalenabling educators to set students’ Native Language once, and it will apply to any programs they are using: Lexia English, Core5, and/or PowerUpWe upgraded in-app chat support in myLexia.You are still able to contact Lexia Support agents directly through myLexia, with a refreshed look and feel for a smoother experience.We improved support for ELA standards in Core5 and PowerUp reporting, including:adding Arkansas, Oregon, and Minnesota standardsupdating Georgia standards to the latest versionWe improved the Settings pages in myLexia.Pages now feature streamlined organization and an updated design.We expanded support for Thin Common Cartridge (TCC), including:support for VA SOLssupport for Lexia English (in addition to Core5 and PowerUp Skill Builders)We discontinued the myLexia app for iPhone and iPad.This change will help us to support focus on innovating our products and providing the best experience for all educators.For more information, see: Retirement of the myLexia app for iPhone and iPad.Coming Fall 2025: We are making performance and design improvements to the Manage Students page, for easier use and more efficiency.myLexiaWe added new Lexia English District and School Progress reports.These reports give administrators greater visibility into standards-aligned language proficiency band gains in Lexia English. The reports show student progress at the District and School level and make it easier to see the impact Lexia English has on student learning over time.We added the ability for teachers to navigate between Student Overviews in the Reading tab without having to go back to the Class Overview.A drop down class list and arrow navigation make it easy for teachers to jump between students and find the information they need.We added the ability for teachers with multiple classes to select the default class that shows when they log into myLexia, so they can get to the right class quickly.We added the option for educators to turn off PowerUp auto-strand disablement for students who meet weekly usage goals, allowing for more flexibility in PowerUp usage.We added a new class-level PowerUp Student Activity Export to the Skills Status report.This new activity export allows teachers to see student data across all PowerUp activities in one place and view Skill Check scores for the entire class, without having to drill into individual Student Skill Reports. We added this as a new way for teachers to access and utilize student data, similar to what is available in Core5.We adjusted Core5 and PowerUp Literacy Standards Reporting to support New Jersey, South Carolina, and Alabama standards.Coming in January: We are adding the ability for educators to access a student’s latest PowerUp certificates right from the Action Plan on the Student Overview, for an easier way to celebrate student success.