Release Notes

Files Screen Improvements

• Add a file count to module rows in the files table
• Update the notification visual snackbars and screenreader announcements on the files screen for improved accessibility
• Remove redundant reloading of information on the Files screen to improve loading times

Account Security

• Added TOTP Multi-factor authentication method and restructured the section for improved readability

Whitelabelling

• Updated helper text to include recommended file dimensions
• Updated course name to be the neutral All Day TA colour that meets accessibility requirements

E2E Tests

• Add additional e2e tests for account security elements, intelligent quiz, weekly summaries and whitelabelling

Bug fixes

• Remove additional spaces appearing before periods in responses
• Update image embed generation to improve consistency of image appearing when feature is on and image is available

AI Assistant

• Added the ability to render links and tables in responses
• Added a “Having difficulty logging in?” dropdown with troubleshooting tips for AI Assistants that use the Student Email restriction
• Improvements to AI Assistant response generation
• Remove the flag for professor option from homework-restricted no answer responses

Intelligent Quiz

• Added the ability to render tables in questions and answers

Files Screen Improvements

• Block file upload at 500 files per course for paid courses and 100 files per course for free trials
• Professors can now add files they want to add to a module from within the module
• Renaming a module has been moved to next to the module name when within a module

Disable Course Improvements

• Added additional description to help professors understand disable options
• Separated manual (immediate) course disable button from the timed disable options
• Improved the feedback given by the system to make it clearer to Professors when their course will be disabled and re-enabled when using the timed option

General Improvements

• Add a second pass to pptx and docx file processing to identify and describe images and optionally pull them out and store them for use in response if image storage is turned on
• Add the ability for students to flag to a professor an unanswered question they feel should have an answer from course materials
• Add the ability for professors to sort by “flagged by student” questions

Institutional License Additions

• Ability to upload a custom logo and favicon for specific departments, faculties or organization wide
• Ability to customize the student facing introduction copy in the AI Assistant for courses by department, faculty or organization wide

LMS LTI Gradebook integrations

• Ability to create assignments from Intelligent Quiz modules for use in gradebook in Canvas
• Ability to create assignments from Intelligent Quiz modules for use in gradebook in D2L

Bug fixes

• Accessibility improvements for the course selector screen reader announcement
• Fix module order view issue in Intelligent Quiz module reordering modal
• Clear module url from files screen when switching courses
• Improve alert clearing when switching between courses on Settings screen

Institutional License Improvements

• Upload a custom logo for department, faculty or entire organization licenses
• Improved rollover of existing free trial subscriptions when professors are added to a department, faculty or organization license

General improvements

• Improve list rendering and continue to work on improving math rendering
• Fix missing dictionary item for adding multiple email in invite student modal
• Add new schools to the sign-up form
• Accessibility and use experience improvements to Syllabus editor modals, now you will be automatically focused on new items upon create button click
• Improved the loading behaviour of the course selector in the professor console

Bug fixes

• Fix issue with replacing files within modules
• Prevent session overwrite issue between student and professor accounts with the same email in the same browser session

Image Storage Feature

• Allow users to optionally turn on a feature to store images from their files and surface them in their AI Assistant responses

General improvements

• Added additional instructions to professor's view for D2L LTI integration
• Improve Intelligent Quiz AI question generation to do a second check on all answers to ensure they do not give away the correct answer
• Improve AI Assistant's interactions with students on incorrect answers in IQ be more succinct and clear on when they are near the correct answer

Login with LMS

• Background work to improve the experience for institutions wanting to use login with LMS options

Bug fixes

• Fix Weekly Summaries display issue with weeks not appearing when only IQ interactions happened in a given week
• Fix issue where course syllabus editor was generating in English on non-English syllabus files

Bug fix

• Fix issue with timed course disable where start dates in the future were disabling answers immediately.

Intelligent Quiz

• Improve question generation to not develop patterns that give away the correct answer (length, tone)
• Added ability to mark a specific module as the current module in IQ professor and student views

Syllabus Processing

• Improved syllabus processing
• Professors can now view and edit information pulled from their syllabus in the Course Info Tab in Settings

App-wide improvements

• Update to menu, includes all navigation in one menu
• Accessibility remediation based on October bi-annual audit
• Continue to improve on math rendering
• Add additional schools to the sign-up screen dropdown menu

LMS Integrations

• D2L Professor login added
• IT Administrator Integrations screen improved to show API and LTI integrations

Bug fix

• Fix issue with trial banner showing 14 days after start date even when trial has been extended

Weekly Summaries

• Add filter to filter out 1 word conversations from IQ Weekly Summaries
• Add paragraph breaks to multiple paragraph weekly summaries

Intelligent Quiz

• Add ability to update the order that modules are displayed to students

General Improvements

• Improvements to math rendering
• Improvements to fallback methods for course cache
• Second annual accessibility audit improvements and remediation
• Improve html file processing by transcribing embedded images

Course Creation

• Add ability to duplicate an existing course in create a course

Bug fix

• Fix the weekly summaries generation and email schedule

Intelligent Quiz Updates

• Tab added to Canvas LTI Integration
• Improve visibility of no question weeks in Weekly Summaries IQ tab
• Math rendering improvements

Course Duplication

• Created full course duplication via share key and creating a course
• Share a key to share all modules, files and Intelligent Quiz content

Course Information

• Moved to Settings screen as a tab
• Course duplication and import is available here

End to end tests

• Full suit of end to end tests for Intelligent Quiz

Bug fixes

• Fix issue with course url field accepting an empty value
• Fix course deletion for course’s with Intelligent Quiz questions
• Fix student table sorting dropdowns
• Improve scroll to behaviour for Disable course links to scroll to appropriate area of Settings tab

Bug fixes

• Fix weekly summaries generation for weeks with less than 10 questions
• Update functionality for owners of multiple faculties

Intelligent Quiz Updates

• Added getting started tips dropdown
• Improve generation of learning goals and questions for non-English language courses
• Hide the IQ tab on the student course url if there are no published modules
• Improve scroll to behaviour in question/answering interactions
• Improved AI Assistant prompt messages on incorrect answers in IQ

Weekly Summaries Updates

• Added the option to download all questions and answers as csv
• Added AI Assistant conversations view to IQ tab in weekly summaries
• Added information about IQ to weekly summaries and emails
• Added filtering for IQ in weekly summaries

General UI/UX Improvements

• Relocate “Move Files” outside of Modules dropdown
• Fix file uploading visibility issues within modules
• Make breadcrumb navigation styling clearer on Files screen
• Improve administrators tab in institutional management settiings screen

Bug fixes

• Remove the requirement for the faculty owner to be a member of the faculty
• Fix but with Viewing file count when viewing less than 25 files per page

Intelligent Quiz Early Adopter Release

• Multiple improvements to flows and error handling
• Branding as Intelligent Quiz
• Improvements to AI Assistant back and forth on incorrect questions

AI Assistant Improvements

• Add some additional spacing below the query box
• Add additional context from previous questions to response generation
• Welcome copy customization for institutional customers

Files screen improvements

• Add details on file size limits to drag and drop area

Canvas LTI Integration

• Add additional accepted issuer options

Canvas LTI integration

• LTI Integration for AI Assistant
• Style updates for LTI-integrated AI Assistant to remove All Day TA logo header
• Settings screen, Integrations tab for Professors to integrate their AI Assistant into their LMS

Institutional Management

• LMS Integration settings
• LTI Professor Settings enablement
• View admins/owners for org/faculty/department

General Improvements

• Update AI Assistant query box to optimize for mobile and LMS integrations
• Improve the way footnote Source titles are being displayed to correct the break on periods
• Add maintenance page for emergency situations
• Fix dictionary bug

Pricing & Trial Changes

• Free trials no longer have the 10 file limitation
• Our pricing for individual subscriptions has updated to $100 per course for individual courses up to 200 students
• Larger courses and faculty or institutional licenses should contact us for custom pricing

Integrations

• Available for Institutional Licenses Only
• Canvas SSO to Professor Console
• Canvas Import Files to Professor Console

Question Bank (New Feature)

• Added logs to Weekly Summaries

General Improvements

• Updates to self-sign-up school list

Question Bank (New Feature)

• Improvements behind feature flag
• oAuth Google authentication (limited, not available on production)
• Security patches made to dependencies

General Improvements

• Work continues to support white-labelling and french language interface
• Improve the way we create and import share keys
• Improvements to e2e tests

Question Bank (New Feature)

• Added behind feature flag
• Professor creation screens
• Anonymous student practice screens

General Improvements

• Work continues to support white-labelling and french language interface
• Additional end to end tests added

Bug fix

• Minor fix to edit course tab name

Security Improvements

• Implement rate limiting and timed lockout on Login screen and Forgot Password to protect against brute force attacks
• Improve security of All Day TA super-admin accounts
• Improve cookie encryption
• Remove PostHog

General Improvements

• Fix back button behaviour within modules on files screen
• Make the upload files queue more robust with improved retry logic

Subscription Expiry

• Ability to view subscription end dates on My Account > Subscriptions
• Users can update expired subscriptions from within the application

UI Improvements

• Increase body copy size in answer paragraphs
• Formatting improvements for ordered lists, text formatting
• Improvements to latex and math rendering
• Fix footnote rendering to always be in the sequential order
• Front-end dictionary started to support white-labelling and french language version

Security Improvements

• Add session expiry for inactive accounts after 30 days
• Add ability to logout of all sessions from My Account

Bug fix

• Update to JSON formatting to manage longer follow-up inclusions

UI Improvements

• Improve Settings screen tab behavior to properly remember selections between tabs without refresh
• Add additional helper text to sign-up screen to help users recognize autocomplete behaviour
• Add available subscriptions alert to subscriptions screen to let users know when they have an available or >department subscription they can use to create a new course

End to end tests

• New tests for Email 2FA

Bug fix

• Fix an issue where asking a non-English question as the first question after load generated a server error.

My Account Screens (NEW)

• New my account menu
• Account management and security settings
• Email Multi-Factor Authentication
• Get a secure code sent to your email on each login to increase security on your account
• Subscriptions view for all courses

Files Screen

• Fix issue with PDF/Audio alert appearing uneccessarily on file updates
• Increase PDF page limit to 500

Files Screen

• Search and filter added to the files table
• Update to allow for sharing and importing of modules and their contained files
• Minor accessibility clean-up to aria usage in the files table rows
• Fix the issue with the loading icon for uploading files in the files table
• Add a sparkle icon for files that are processing
• Fix empty chip appearing next to uploading files

Settings Screen

• Improvements to end-to-end tests for the student invite modal
• Fix issue with “disable course” checkbox not resetting when not saved when switching between tabs on Settings screen
• Updates to copy to generalize usage to the AI Assistant and administrator

AI Assistant

• Math rendering improvements
• Bold/italic rendering improvements

Files Screen

• Ability to tag course files to improve organization
• More consistent behaviour for forbidden actions, users will now be able to explore and understand why an action is not allowed
• Mobile view improvements

Module Improvements

• Easier to move files from modules back to root
• Edit the name of modules

Files Screen Updates

• Updated table layout
• Move row actions to bulk table actions (Set as active, Set weight as core, etc.)
• Added list view to improve mobile experience and provide alternative UX for desktop
• Move to unified alert snackbar for more consistency

(New Feature) Modules

• Create modules to sort/group files
• Delete all files in modules
• Move files to modules

Other

• PDF processing improvements, move to a faster method
• Improvements to answer formatting and rendering (lists, math and footnotes)
• Fix issues with weekly summaries emails
• Fix bug where weekly summaries csv would not download for courses for non-latin character names

Weekly Summaries Improvements

• (New Feature) Ability to download a csv of weekly summaries questions, answers, and other metadata
• (New Feature) Add ability to translate to english questions/answers in other languages from the Summaries screen
• Added up/down arrows next to question count so you can quickly tell if the number of questions increased or decreased from last week

Settings Updates

• Update date/time disable course to default to 3 hours on the day set for ease of use when using during an exam
• Update Settings screen to be easier to navigate by splitting AI Assistant Preferences, Professors/TAs invited to the course and Students invited to the course
• (New Feature) Introduction of AI Assistant answer settings
• Allow professor to select the style that the AI Assistant for their course will use by default
• Make video/audio processing to more efficient
• Updated math rendering in AI Assistant responses to catch additional Latex formatting

End to end tests

• Improvements to summaries tests

(New Feature) Current Homework

• Ability to add the most current homework and have the chatbot only respond indirectly to those questions

Disable course

• Add time specific disable to dated disable

General Improvements

• Add easier update syllabus mechanisms
• Can add or update syllabus from course info
• Can update syllabus from row item marked as syllabus
• Can compare new values to old values and edit before saving
• Update AI assistant to more reliably capture what today's date is
• Improve duplicate file detection to catch video and audio files better
• Improve weekly summaries empty states and behaviour
• Accessibility Audit and Remediation (Screen Reader)

Weekly Summaries emails

• Ability to turn off emails by course
• Only owner receives the emails
• Will start sending update emails on Feb 24th

End to end tests

• Disable course
• Subscriptions
• Disable weekly summary emails
• Improvements to flaky tests
• Add additional tests to chatbot tests and files screen for share/import code

Bug Fixes

• Improve math rendering of exponents
• Improve markdown and html formatting render
• Improve frontend error when a student invite does not succeed
• Improve frontend error when an admin you have tried to add as a collaborator is not part of your organization
• Improve weekly summaries generation
• Additional end to end tests for login, forgot password, sign-up and invite students

(New Feature) Disable public course url

• Add ability for professors to set a course's public URL as inactive
• Add optional ability to set as disabled for a selected period of time

UX Improvements

• Update Notes to include "Note:" in front of the title on Files Screen for easier sorting
• Implement a max 100-page PDF upload rule to improve processing speed for all users
• Add "syllabus" chip to questions on Weekly Summaries to help professors spot questions about the syllabus and remove extended modified question prefix
• Improve visibility of Student invite feature on Settings screen
• Add .csv upload for large volumes of students to Settings screen
• Terms and conditions acceptance pop-up modal for users who have not explicitly accepted the most recent terms

Bug fixes

• Update course URL handling to remove special characters that cause browser-reading issue
• Add email validation to sign-up form to prevent users from signing-up with invalid emails

Sign-Up Screen Updates

• Add missing schools and incorrect names
• Add link to form to request organizations
• Add support and login button to sign-up screen
• Make autocomplete ignore accented letters

(New Feature) Notes

• Ability to create and edit notes within the app from the files screen and summaries screen

UX Improvements

• Concurrent editing notifications, get real-time notifications about when your course collaborators are updating files in a course you share
• Added second pass on PDF documents called "Enhancing", customers can already receive answers from the document in the chatbot, but when enhancing is complete, the quality of those answers may be improved

(New) Public Release

• Sign Up for free trial account
• Ability to invite students via emails (Student gated access)
• Checkout page powered by Stripe

Bug fixes

• Refactor Create/Edit Course screen date pickers to work properly on Safari

Automated end to end tests

• Preview chatbot

UX Improvements

• Add day filter to create and edit course to prevent the selection of days that don't exist in a month
• Add additional check spam message to forgot password success alert

Automated end to end testing

• Files screen
• Student Chatbot
• Summaries
• Settings
• Reset Password

UX Improvements

• Add empty states to all screens when no course is available
• Improve error messaging in import modal
• Add the ability to sort on downvoted vs. upvoted questions on Summaries screen

Add automated end to end testing

• Edit Course
• Create Course

Bug Fixes

• Make PDF syllabus processing more efficient

(New Feature) Share/Import Files

• Add the ability for admins to share file data between courses with a "share" code
• This feature duplicates the file data for the recipients' course
• Improvements to database structure that will allow for faster, smoother development

Files Screen additions and improvements

• Improve error messaging for uploads that are too large (2000+ pages or 4+ hours)
• Add delete confirmation modal to prevent accidental deletions

Add core/optional support for files

• Set specific files as optional
• AI assistant will downweight those in answers
• Improve question answering with edge case handling for very short inputs
• Increase reset token expiry to 1 week and add additional UX to help users assess whether there is an account created with their email

(New Feature) Settings screen

• Ability to add other admins from your organization as collaborators
• Ability to register new admins to your organization and add them as collaborators to your course

Bug Fixes

• Course URLs no longer append a number at the end of non-unique URLs
• Users will now be prompted when their URL is already taken to update the URL to use a unique identifier of their choosing
• Add email sanitization to remove extra spaces and capitalization from emails

Minor UX improvements

• Add descriptive text to aid understanding of screen behaviour
• Update single file drag/drop and uploads to only accept one file of a supported type
• Add notification for longer PDF syllabus population
• Additions to files table to help users understand total volume of files and when they can navigate away from the screen

Bugs Fixed

• Disable deleting and editing on files that are in progress
• Fixes to bulk delete files with errors