April 30 2026 AI Planning

New Features

Auto Planner ⭐

You can now automatically generate optimized appointment schedules for your courses with just a few clicks, saving hours of manual planning work.

Key capabilities:

Automatic scheduling: The planner creates conflict-free appointment plans based on your constraints such as time windows, rooms, and organizer availability
Draft management: Save generated plans as drafts, review them on the calendar, and accept or discard them before they go live
Resume drafts: Return to a previously saved draft and continue refining it, with automatic conflict detection if resources have changed
Booking conflict detection: Before accepting a plan, the system checks for scheduling overlaps and availability issues across all affected users
Weekly limits: Set a maximum number of appointments per week for each course to ensure balanced scheduling
Strategy selection: Choose between different planning strategies to prioritize what matters most for your institution
Timezone support: All scheduling respects your institution’s timezone for accurate date and time handling
Progress tracking: Watch the planner work in real time with a progress bar and stage indicators

How to use: Open SmartPlan from the dashboard sidebar and navigate to the Auto Planner tab. Configure your scheduling constraints (time windows, rooms, weekdays) and click Generate to create a plan.

Holistic Content-Blog Improvement

We have revised and improved all of our content blocks to take them to the next level. We look forward to your feedback and are curious to see how you like the revised learning journey.

Email System Overhaul

You can now send emails directly from almost any page where you manage users — courses, exams, applicants, cohorts, and more — using a redesigned full-page email editor.

How to use: Look for the “Send Email” button in toolbars across user management, course, exam, and applicant pages. The new email page opens with pre-filled recipients based on your current context.

Custom Email Domains

You can now configure your own email domain so that all emails sent from the platform appear to come from your institution’s address instead of a generic one.

How to use: Go to Settings > Email Templates, add your domain, configure the DNS records shown, and verify. Once verified, you can also set per-user sender prefixes under each user’s Mailing tab.

Exam Emails

You can now send targeted emails to exam participants with automatic access to exam-specific information like scheduled dates, rooms, and attempt details.

How to use: In the Exam Center, open any exam’s user list and click the “Send Email” button. The email editor provides exam-specific variables you can insert into your message.

Email Attachments & Delivery Tracking

You can now attach files to emails and track whether each email was delivered, opened, or bounced.

How to use: When composing an email, use the attachment area to upload files (up to 30 MB total). After sending, check the email history in a user’s Mailing tab to see delivery statuses.

Likert Scale User Ratings

You can now create Likert scale rating templates and assign them to courses, allowing structured feedback collection from users with customizable rating levels.

How to use: Configure Likert scale templates in course settings, then assign them to specific courses. Users will see rating prompts, and results are collected with full audit information.

Course Attendance Overview

You can now view and manage attendance across all appointments in a course through a visual sheet, with filtering options and CSV export.

How to use: Navigate to a course’s attendance section to see the attendance matrix. Use filters to narrow down results and export the data as CSV.

Redesigned Availability Requests

Requesting and managing availability from staff has been completely redesigned with a full-page workflow, time slot management, and better overview of responses.

How to use: In the Organization Hub under Planning, use the availability request flow to select users, define time slots, and send requests. Respondents get a dedicated full-page view to submit their availability.

Chat Emoji/GIF Picker & Files Tab

The chat now features a redesigned emoji and GIF picker for richer conversations, plus a dedicated Files tab to browse all documents and images shared in a conversation.

How to use: In any chat conversation, click the emoji button to access the new picker. Switch to the Files tab in the chat sidebar to browse shared files.

Push Notifications

You now receive real-time push notifications for important events like new messages, assignment updates, and deadline reminders.

How to use: Push notifications are enabled automatically. Manage your notification preferences under Account > Notifications.

Workbench Auto-Grading

The workbench now supports automatic grading with per-option point values, allowing you to assign different point values to each answer option for more nuanced scoring.

How to use: When editing a multiple-choice question in the workbench, assign point values to individual answer options. Grading is calculated automatically based on your configuration.

Survey Enhancements

Surveys now feature an embedded journey experience with progress tracking, so users can complete surveys directly within their learning journey with visual progress indicators.

How to use: Surveys assigned as part of a learning journey now appear inline. Progress is saved automatically, so users can pause and resume at any time.

Spanish (Chile) Language Support

The platform is now available in Spanish (Chile), extending language support for Latin American institutions.

How to use: Change your language preference in Browser settings to Español (Chile).

Draft Module Version Filtering

Draft module versions are now automatically hidden from curricula, study plans, and exam listings, so only active versions are visible to users.

How to use: This works automatically. When you create a new module version and leave it in Draft status, it will not appear in student-facing views until you publish it.

Content Block Deletion with Published Grades

You can now delete content blocks even when they have published grades, with a clear confirmation dialog explaining the impact.

How to use: Right-click or use the options menu on any content block to delete it. If grades have been published, you will see a confirmation prompt before proceeding.

Improvements

Table Overhaul: Draggable Columns & View Presets

All data tables across the platform now support draggable column reordering and saved view presets, letting you customize and save your preferred table layouts.

Re-enrollment & Study Status Management

The bulk re-enrollment and exmatriculation workflow has been redesigned with a step-by-step process, preview of affected users, and clearer error reporting.

Learning Journey File Preview

File content blocks in the learning journey now show an improved preview interface with better file selection, download capabilities, and localized labels.

Calendar Improvements

Calendar appointments now display more reliably with improved positioning, and filter selections are preserved when previewing appointments.

The rolling sidebar back button now correctly returns you to the previous page instead of an unexpected location, and scrollbar behavior in collapsible sections has been improved.

Disconnected Curriculum UX

Working with disconnected curricula is now clearer, with editable version names, inline renaming, and improved banners explaining the disconnected state.

DocuChat Improvements

The DocuChat preview now shows a thinking indicator while processing and includes an off-topic guardrail that keeps conversations focused on relevant content.

User Management Enhancements

Creating users now includes better date field validation, and the user management table supports a study timeline status filter for more targeted user searches.

Exam Permissions

Permission checks for exam planning and grading have been refined to ensure the right users have access to the right actions.

Small Improvements

34 small improvements included in this update.