April 2026 Product Update: Workspaces, Credits, and Faster Group Sessions

Before we get into the feature updates, thank you to the teachers who have been helping shape ReadingFluency.app.

We have seen tremendous growth because of your support, especially through your feedback, suggestions, communication, and the Google Meets many of you have joined with Shao. We are excited about what the future holds and grateful to be building this with you.

This release is about reducing friction in the parts of ReadingFluency.app teachers use most: collaboration, assessment setup, passage selection, and plan management.

The biggest update is workspaces. We also introduced a new credit-based model, added monthly and annual Teacher Plus options, redesigned the group-session setup flow, and moved common filters and actions out of hidden menus so they are easier to reach.

April Product Update

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Shared workspaces are now live

Every account now comes with a personal workspace that keeps the passages, students, and assessments you have been working on in one place.

New sidebar navigation

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The new sidebar gives the app a more stable home for navigation and workspace controls, instead of hiding everything behind top-level screens.

Active workspace panel

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For subscribers, workspaces also become collaborative. You can now invite teammates into the same workspace so a classroom teacher, reading specialist, interventionist, or coach can work from the same student and passage context.

Workspace sharing

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This first version keeps collaboration simple: invite members by email, assign an admin or viewer role, and manage membership from the same workspace panel. We plan to add more granular permissions over time, but this release gives schools a practical starting point for shared fluency workflows right now.

Credits and Teacher Plus pricing are now simpler

We have also introduced credits so usage is easier to understand and easier to sustain as teachers use recordings and AI analysis more regularly.

• New accounts start with 150 signup credits that do not expire.
• Teacher Plus plans add 300 credits each month.
• A typical assessment can use 3 credits: 1 for the recording and 2 for AI analysis.

That means the signup bonus is enough for roughly 50 AI-assisted assessments before a teacher upgrades, which gives most people enough room to try the workflow in a real classroom.

It is also worth clarifying that the rest of ReadingFluency.app still remains free. Teachers on the free tier can continue using passage generation, manual marking, passage organization, progress tracking, and student report sharing without becoming a subscriber.

Teacher Plus pricing

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For individual teachers, there are now two Teacher Plus options:

• Monthly: $19.99/month, designed for flexible classroom use or a short pilot.
• Annual: $192/year, which works out to $8/month on average billed annually.

For larger teams, school and district licenses remain the better fit.

School and district licenses

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School and district plans are built for volume pricing, centralized billing, and larger rollouts. They are typically seat-based, and for schools that need to assess at scale, they are the right path when a teacher-level credit limit stops being practical. If you use your signup credits while evaluating the platform, you can also email support@readingfluency.app.

We also have a new Facebook community home

We now also have a Facebook group and a Facebook page as another place to stay connected with ReadingFluency.app.

This will be our new home for teachers who want to connect with other educators, hear about product updates, and keep up with what we are building for fluency assessment workflows.

• ReadingFluency.app Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1478644763630448
• ReadingFluency.app Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile/61578087736326

Group reading sessions are faster to launch and easier to run

One of the most visible workflow improvements in this release is how you start and configure a group reading session.

Before, launching a session could feel too hidden. Now the action is visible in both places where teachers naturally look for it.

Start Group Session button

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When a passage is open, Start Group Session now appears as a dedicated secondary action, so you do not have to hunt for the old Wi-Fi icon to launch a class session.

Group session icon on passage cards

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That shortcut is still available from the passage card as well, which makes it faster to jump into a session straight from the library.

Redesigned Host Live Session flow

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The session creation screen itself is also much more efficient:

• session settings are grouped together at the top
• student search and student filters are grouped together below
• student grade is shown as a compact tag instead of a larger row treatment
• more students fit on screen at once
• no students are preselected by default
• tag chips make it easier to select a subgroup without first unselecting everyone else

This was a direct response to teacher confusion around subgroup selection and to the reality that whole-class assessment only feels lighter if the setup screen is lighter too.

Smaller workflow updates remove extra clicks

A few of the smaller interface changes in this release matter because they save repeated, low-value clicks.

In the student view, tags are now surfaced inline instead of being tucked away in a filter menu.

Students with inline tags

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That means grade, intervention, and other grouping tags stay visible while you browse the roster, which makes it easier to move quickly when you already know the group you want.

The same idea now carries through to the passage library.

Passage library inline filters

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Tags are visible on the page, and grade and language filters are no longer buried on larger layouts. The result is a passage library that is easier to scan, easier to filter, and better aligned with the way teachers actually pick passages during a benchmark window.

What this update is really for

Taken together, these changes do three things:

• they make collaboration possible through shared workspaces
• they make usage and pricing easier to understand through credits and Teacher Plus plans
• they make routine teacher actions faster by moving the most common controls out into the open

If you already have an account, this is a good release to revisit the sidebar, launch a new group session, and try organizing your work around a workspace instead of separate screens. If you are new to ReadingFluency.app, you can start with the signup bonus credits at ReadingFluency.app.

We are just getting started

This release is just the beginning of a much bigger set of updates to come.

ReadingFluency.app is fully educator-driven, which means our priorities are shaped by the teachers, specialists, and literacy teams who are actually using the app and telling us what would make their daily work easier.

Some of the next improvements we are already hearing about include:

• more controls in the passage generator so teachers can generate text for a specific teaching target, curriculum, intervention goal, or scope and sequence, including programs such as UFLI, Wilson, and similar instructional models, not just a general grade level or topic
• more analytics and charting for groups of students, not just individual student progress, so teachers can review a whole class, intervention group, or shared caseload more easily
• better ways to set up student and group reading practice workflows, which could open up new possibilities beyond assessment, even though assessment is still our main focus right now

If you are using the app, reading these updates, or following along as we build, your requests are helping define what comes next.