Release notes
Release notes for Turgor Exam Engine, Turgor Exam Engine Pro and the Exam Mode, Student Dashboard and Quiz Toolkit add-ons, newest first.
Turgor Exam Engine
The free core plugin: courses, lessons, quizzes and LearnDash migration.
v0.9.0 — current release
22 October 2026
- Security: a lesson’s text can no longer be read by someone who isn’t enrolled, through the REST API, feeds or search results.
- Security: a question in the question bank can be changed or deleted only by its author, an editor or an administrator.
- Security: sign-in attempts are limited per account as well as per address, and sites behind Cloudflare or another proxy can pass on the visitor’s real address.
- Security: time-spent pings need access to the lesson and can’t be looped to inflate reports.
- New: choose when students see the right answers after a quiz: straight away, only when no attempts are left, only after the quiz closes, or never.
- New: optionally let Instructors edit each other’s courses, lessons, quizzes and questions. Off by default.
- New: a lesson a student can’t open now links to its course page.
v0.8.3
20 October 2026
- Changed: the course outline is easier to build and shows its hierarchy at a glance. Section, Topic and quiz buttons sit above it, and items can be dragged in from the Add content panel.
- Fixed: the all-courses page (/courses/) now shows the course grid inside your theme’s header and footer.
- New: a “This lesson” box in the lesson sidebar lists what the lesson has switched on.
- Fixed: layout issues on the Assignments and Welcome screens and the assignment form.
v0.8.2
20 October 2026
- New: the course and quiz screens warn before you leave with unsaved changes.
- New: Move up and Move down buttons reorder quiz questions.
- Changed: clearer wording on the Welcome, quiz and course screens.
v0.8.1
20 October 2026
- New: a Quick start checklist that ticks itself as you create a course, a lesson and a quiz.
- New: Create a sample course (two lessons and a three-question quiz).
- New: Create the standard pages (Courses, Sign in, My account, My quiz results).
v0.8.0
20 October 2026
- New: drip content. A lesson or quiz opens a set number of days after access begins, and/or not before a date.
- New: assignments, marked with a mark and feedback.
- New: lesson discussions, using ordinary WordPress comments.
- New: emails when a student completes a course and when an assignment is marked.
- New: Gutenberg blocks for the course list, quiz list, a quiz, progress, course contents, results, profile, sign-in and breadcrumbs.
v0.7.1
20 October 2026
- New: reading passages shared by several questions.
- New: formulae. LaTeX in questions, answers and passages is drawn as typeset maths.
- New: true or false as a question type.
- Improved: an answer that fails to save on a poor connection is sent again when the connection returns.
v0.7.0
19 October 2026
- New: random questions. A section draws questions at random from a question-bank category, so every student gets a different paper.
- New: open and close times for live tests. Nobody starts outside the window, and anyone still sitting the quiz is stopped at closing time.
- New: Question analysis on Results: right, wrong and blank counts per question, and the average time, hardest first.
v0.6.0
19 October 2026
- New: an Instructor role that can see Results, mark essays and reset retakes without being an administrator.
- New: Export CSV on Results.
- New: works with WordPress’s Export / Erase Personal Data tools.
- New: an optional setting to delete the plugin’s data when the plugin is deleted. Off by default.
v0.5.1 – 0.5.5
18 October 2026
Code-quality and WordPress.org review fixes, including a clean Plugin Check pass.
v0.5.0
18 October 2026
New: a tile layout for the course page and lessons, a brand colour setting, and a clearer quiz player (palette, flags, in-page submit dialog, retry on failed saves).
v0.4.0
14 October 2026
- New: four more question types (sorting, matching, rating scale and essay), so all eight types can be written and taken.
- New: a Questions screen showing the whole question bank, with search and filters.
- New: a Results screen for every attempt: mark essays, give retakes back, re-mark after fixing an answer key.
- New: sections in a quiz, such as Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude.
- Fixed: several quiz-settings bugs.
Earlier releases
- v0.3.6 (29 September 2026): Free-answer questions can accept a numeric range, such as
6300..6400, for GATE and IIT JAM-style answer keys. - v0.3.5 (27 September 2026): Fixed: questions added to a brand-new quiz could be discarded on its first Publish.
- v0.3.4 (27 September 2026): Settings → Sign-in link, to send Sign in buttons to your own login page or login plugin.
- v0.3.3 (26 September 2026): Settings → Free courses, and a fix for pages built with Turgor’s Elementor widgets.
- v0.3.1 – 0.3.2 (25 September 2026): Fixes to the home-screen lesson count and to titles pasted from Word or Google Docs.
- v0.3.0 (25 September 2026): The mobile app can hide a bundle’s placeholder course from a student’s course list once they own the bundle.
- v0.2.9 (18 September 2026): Fixed: a new paid course’s Play Store purchase option could take an app update to appear.
- v0.2.7 (17 September 2026): Update notices and one-click updates from your Plugins page.
- v0.2.4 (17 September 2026): Quiz Settings moved under the Quizzes menu.
- v0.2.3 (13 September 2026): New question type: free answer (short typed text), graded automatically, with its own player and review screens.
- v0.2.2 (11 September 2026): Translation fixes, and tighter handling of submitted data on admin screens and the sign-in and password-reset forms.
- v0.2.0 (4 September 2026): Redesigned course syllabus and lesson pages, with a persistent “what’s next” bar so students always see how to continue.
- v0.1.0: First release: course builder, quiz engine, access and enrolment, and LearnDash migration.
Turgor Exam Engine Pro
Pro adds the exam engine, Quiz Toolkit, Student Dashboard, commerce, a course catalog, certificates and class reports.
v0.5.0 — current release
20 October 2026
- New: a Support screen (Turgor Exam Engine → Support) to report a problem to Turgor Labs with screenshots, plus an Error log tab.
- New: module updates can be installed from the Addons screen, and the menu shows how many have an update.
v0.4.3
20 October 2026
- Fixed: when a license is switched off on a site, the License screen shows the reason (for example, the site limit reached) instead of saying Pro keeps working.
- Fixed: the renewal date shows in your site’s date format.
v0.4.0 – 0.4.2
October 2026
- Changed: your license is confirmed with turgorlabs.com and tied to the site’s address. Activate it once per site; it renews in the background, and a short outage on our side never switches Pro off.
- Changed: Pro’s built-in modules (Exam Mode, Student Dashboard, Quiz Toolkit) now install from the Addons screen and get their own updates under your Pro license. Updating from 0.3.x reinstalls them automatically, and exams, results and settings are untouched.
- New: a Profile tab in the Student Dashboard where students edit their name, email and password, and connect or disconnect Google.
- New: a Check for updates button on the License page, and View details and Documentation links on the Plugins screen.
- Fixed: the Addons menu lists every running module.
v0.3.23
14 October 2026
- Changed: a refunded order switches Pro off at the next check. An expired key keeps working; only updates stop.
- Security: a made-up or deleted license key no longer unlocks Pro.
- New: shortcode names that match the rest of Turgor Exam Engine. The old names keep working.
- New: Documentation and Help links on the Plugins screen and every Pro screen.
v0.3.22
13 October 2026
- Security: Exam Mode checks that a student is allowed to sit an exam before showing the paper.
- Fixed: a paper whose time ran out with nobody there to submit it is now graded on everything saved before the deadline.
- Fixed: a double submit no longer sends two result emails.
v0.3.21
12 October 2026
New: “Fix a Google Play order” on the Orders screen.
v0.3.20
6 October 2026
- New: Google Play real-time notifications. Refunds and chargebacks remove course access automatically, and pending payments unlock when they complete.
- New: an Orders screen listing every course granted, from any source, with a “Needs attention” table and one-click retry.
- New: enrol a student by email into a product’s courses.
- Fixed: a full refund by amount (as Razorpay does) now removes access, and one Play purchase can no longer unlock several accounts.
v0.3.19
5 October 2026
- New: one timer per section (SSC CGL / IBPS PO style), with built-in SSC CGL Tier 1 and IBPS PO Prelims formats.
- New: sectional cut-offs in marks or %, with a section-wise result.
- New: English / Hindi papers with a “View in” switch.
- New: an optional GATE-style on-screen scientific calculator.
- New: marks per section, and optional partial marking on multiple-answer questions.
- New: a one-click 25-question SSC CGL-style sample exam.
- New: signed, expiring Bunny CDN links for lesson videos.
- Fixed: Quiz Toolkit export keeps negative marks, per-option marks and second-language columns.
Earlier releases
- v0.3.18 (27 September 2026): Fixed: bundle pages now open the real courses, and Sign in buttons follow the free plugin’s Sign-in link setting.
- v0.3.17 (26 September 2026): Fixed: re-saving a bundle Product no longer adds the bundle to its own contents preview.
- v0.3.10 – 0.3.16 (26 September 2026): Course catalog ([tg_courses]) with prices, Add to cart buttons and theme styling.
- v0.3.3 – 0.3.9 (25 September 2026): Multi-course Products get their own storefront card in the app, and a course sold by several Products keeps its own price.
- v0.3.2 (22 September 2026): Fixed: Quiz Toolkit’s quiz picker now lists every quiz on sites with more than 200.
- v0.3.1 (20 September 2026): Fixed: a WooCommerce purchase could complete without recording the buyer’s course access.
- v0.3.0 (18 September 2026): Fixed: a new paid course’s Play Store purchase option could take an app update to appear.
- v0.2.6 – 0.2.9 (17 September 2026): Google Play product ID set on the Product itself; Exams and Quiz Toolkit menus grouped under Addons; fixed settings pages that could block Administrators.
- v0.2.2 (17 September 2026): Exams: negative marking on individual questions, overriding the section’s rate; Quiz Toolkit’s importer reads a negative-marking column.
- v0.2.1 (13 September 2026): Free-answer questions in exams: typed answers are saved, graded and shown on the review screen.
- v0.2.0 (4 September 2026): Fixed calendar access windows and “Extend access” on Products, an Extend action per student in Class Reports, exam history on the Student Dashboard, and an optional print/save-as-PDF button on exam results.
- v0.1.0: First release: commerce, certificates, class reports, feedback, and the Exam Mode, Student Dashboard and Quiz Toolkit add-ons.
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