What's NEW with ...

As a result of growing adoption and fantastic feedback from our community of educators and students, Slooh is a dynamic ecosystem that is constantly improving. We will communicate here about feature releases so you can keep up with all the new ways students explore Earth and Space with Slooh.

In 2025:

In March, Slooh expanded into Earth Science by releasing satellite feeds courtesy of SkyFi. New Quests for 5th-9th grade geology, geography, and environmental science will be released every few weeks. Parts of a River was the first Earth Science Quest released.

In 2024, significant improvements included:

• Advanced missions in Quests for high school and college students, making it possible to learn to conduct more complex investigations using specific telescopes, celestial coordinates, and filtering presets. Students also use Slooh FITS data for astrometry and photometry. (Quest featuring advanced missions)

• A custom poster tool enabling students to customize their Quest poster design, write it entirely in their own words, and upload their own edited images to the Quest. Scaffolding is included for K-8 students, whereas high school and college students must arrange their posters independently.

• An Observation sharing tab within workspaces + enabling Observations shared with the community at large on the Dashboard to be reshared in a workspace so teachers and students can be sure classmates see the best moments on Slooh.

• Expanded curriculum to include new kindergarten through third-grade Quests.

• Release of 2nd edition Quests for K4-8, including a redesign to reduce cognitive load by adding accordions and breaking them into smaller parts with teacher lesson plans organized by part. We also made it easier to browse, search, and filter Quests with more information available on Quest cards.

• New virtual Space Science classes (in English and Spanish) run by Slooh's educators.

• A certified app on Schoology so Schoology customers can now use Slooh seamlessly.

• Brightspace/D2L roster integration for customers like Purdue.

• Student data privacy/security and accessibility compliance validated by becoming an approved vendor at Los Angeles Unified School District, NYC Public Schools, and Chicago Public Schools.

• Dashboard announcements panel on all accounts so members can stay updated with new features.

• A new observatory in Australia providing 24/7 coverage of the night sky.

• Release of 43 new Quests, including 2nd edition Quests, for a total of 83 Quests on the platform.