Q2 Roadmap | Apr - Jun |

Q2 Roadmap | Apr - Jun |

This quarter, we’re rolling out a series of significant enhancements designed to improve your experience and broaden the functionality of our platform. Here’s what you can expect:
  • Custom Roles: Enhance security and functionality with advanced Custom Roles, allowing Super Administrators to set specific permissions for sub-organizations. This feature supports the creation of roles like "Class Observer" with tailored permissions, adapting to the unique needs of different educational environments.
  • API 3.0: Launching the next evolution of our platform, API 3.0, scheduled for the week of May 20th, 2024. This update brings necessary enhancements and simplifications, ensuring seamless integration and continued support for API 1.0 users until full functionality is transitioned to API 3.0.
  • Multi-Org SSO: Introducing Multi-Org SSO to provide flexible and secure access across all levels of organizational hierarchies. This feature enables distinct SSO configurations for each sub-organization, simplifying login processes and enhancing security.
  • Attendance Automation: Roll out of Auto-Attendance capabilities for MS Teams and Zoom to automate attendance tracking, significantly reducing administrative burdens and enhancing record accuracy.
  • Mobile App Enhancements: Major updates to our mobile app align it with the CYPHER LMS brand and ensure compatibility with the latest mobile operating systems. Look forward to a learner-centric app set to launch in 2025.
  • New UI/UX: The rollout of a revamped UI/UX based on feedback from our global admin community. This update features aesthetic enhancements, intuitive navigation, and improved accessibility, setting a new standard in LMS design.
  • 65 New Canned Reports: Introduction of 65 new canned reports to provide deep insights into content engagement, learner progress, enrollment patterns, and completion rates, aiding data-driven decision-making.
  • Checkbox Sections: A new feature that enhances learner engagement by requiring users to complete actionable items in a course section before progressing, ensuring thorough understanding and compliance.
  • Copilot 2 Enhancements: Updates to our generative AI solution, Copilot 2, include regenerating audio, regenerating search in the Media Picker, and AI Crosscheck, which streamline content creation and ensure content integrity.

Custom Roles

For Q2, we are excited to introduce advanced functionalities within our Custom Roles feature. This enhancement empowers Super Administrators to define sophisticated permissions setups that incorporate one or more tailored roles, extending the capabilities of standard roles. Organizations now have the flexibility to associate with a permissions profile that best suits their structure. For instance, sub-organizations may opt for a permissions set that is more restricted compared to their parent organization, allowing for precise control and security management. Moreover, this update facilitates the creation of specialized roles tailored to specific needs.
 
A notable example includes the "Class Observer" role, an adaptation of the "Teaching Assistant" role, specifically designed with grading permissions disabled, ensuring roles can be as versatile and unique as the educational environments they serve.

API 3.0

We are thrilled to announce that the next evolution of our platform, API 3.0, is set to launch the week of May 20th, 2024. After extensive development following the release of API 2.0, we realized that significant enhancements and simplifications were necessary—changes that required a fresh version due to the limitations in maintaining backwards compatibility.

For users of API 1.0, rest assured that it will remain operational until all its functionalities are seamlessly integrated into API 3.0. We will notify you well in advance of the transition period for API 1.0, ensuring you have ample time to adapt. For detailed information about API 3.0, including features and migration instructions, please visit our Help Center, navigate to the Developers section, and select API 3.0.

Multi-Org SSO

We're excited to unveil our new Multi-Org SSO capability this quarter, a significant enhancement to our Single Sign-On architecture. Previously, our SSO solution was limited to binding configurations strictly at the parent organization level, which restricted flexibility for customers with nested organizational structures.

With the introduction of Multi-Org SSO, each sub-organization within your hierarchy can now establish its own distinct SSO configurations and protocols. This advanced feature is designed to simplify and secure access at every level of your organization, enabling seamless integration and a unified access management system.

Key Benefit: Multi-Org SSO simplifies and secures access by enabling single sign-on at every organizational level, making it significantly easier for teams to get started and stay engaged. This enhances productivity by reducing login complexities and security risks, fostering a more engaged and efficient workforce.

Attendance Automation

We understand the importance of efficient course management and the need to minimize administrative tasks for educators and administrators. Due to unforeseen delays, the deployment of our Auto-Attendance capabilities had been postponed. However, we are pleased to announce that this highly anticipated feature will be rolled out in the upcoming quarter.

Auto-Attendance seamlessly integrates with MS Teams and Zoom to automatically track and record attendance during course engagements. By capturing the attendees of each meeting, this feature significantly reduces the administrative overhead associated with manual attendance tracking.

Key Benefits
  • Enhanced Automation: Auto-Attendance automates the entire process of attendance tracking, ensuring accuracy and consistency without manual input.
  • Reduced Administrative Burden: With automatic attendance logging, educators and administrators can focus more on delivering quality educational experiences rather than managing logistics.
  • Improved Record Keeping: Real-time attendance data will be readily available, making it easier to maintain accurate and up-to-date records for each course session.

This rollout is part of our ongoing commitment to enhance our platform's capabilities and support the evolving needs of educational institutions.

Enhancing Mobile Accessibility: Aligning and Stabilizing Our Mobile App

In our continuous effort to deliver a seamless and robust learning experience, we are excited to announce significant updates to our mobile application, aligning it more closely with the CYPHER LMS brand. These enhancements not only refine the app’s interface to reflect our brand’s aesthetics but also include crucial architectural improvements that ensure stability across the latest iOS and Android operating systems.

Upcoming Developments: As technology evolves, so does the need to stay updated with the latest operating system changes and device capabilities. Our team is dedicated to maintaining full compatibility, ensuring that educators and learners alike can rely on our app for accessible and uninterrupted learning experiences, regardless of their device or platform.

Looking Ahead to 2025: Stay tuned for more exciting news about our mobile offerings! In 2025, we plan to launch a learner-centric mobile app that will further transform and personalize the educational experience. This upcoming app will cater specifically to the needs of our learners, empowering them with more tools and features that enhance their learning journey.

New UI/UX

Building on the enthusiasm generated by our initial announcement, we are thrilled to roll out the revamped UI/UX of our world-class LMS this quarter! Thanks to invaluable feedback from our global Admin community, we have refined our interface to offer an even more streamlined and engaging user experience.

Key Enhancements
  • Aesthetic Refinement: Dive into an environment where beauty meets functionality, designed to make your educational interactions as delightful as they are effective.
  • Intuitive Navigation: Your learning journey is now simpler than ever with an interface designed to reduce clicks and streamline access to essential tools and resources.
  • Enhanced Usability: We've optimized every aspect of the user experience, ensuring seamless interaction with all features of the LMS, tailored for your convenience.
  • Greater Accessibility: Our commitment to inclusivity has led to significant improvements in accessibility, ensuring that all users can navigate and utilize our LMS with ease.

This quarter, get ready to explore the new standard in LMS design—meticulously tailored to elevate your educational endeavors and developed in response to the insights and preferences of our dedicated user base.

Introducing 65 New Canned Reports to Enhance Insights into Your Learning Environment

We are pleased to announce the addition of 65 new canned reports to our suite of analytics tools, available to all clients this quarter. These reports are meticulously designed to offer comprehensive insights into various aspects of your learning management system, including content engagement, enrollments, learner progress, and completion status.

Key Features
  • Detailed Content Insights: Understand how your content is being utilized and the engagement levels it achieves, helping you tailor future content to better meet learner needs.
  • Enrollment Overview: Track enrollment patterns and trends across different courses and programs to better manage and allocate resources.
  • Learner Progress Analysis: Gain a clear view of individual and group progress, identifying areas where learners excel and where additional support may be required.
  • Completion Tracking: Monitor completion rates to assess the effectiveness of courses and learning paths, and to ensure compliance with training mandates.

These new reports provide a different lens through which to view the overall progress and effectiveness of learning activities within your organization. They are designed to empower administrators and educators with the tools needed to make informed decisions and drive successful learning outcomes.

Introducing Checkbox Sections: Enhancing Learner Engagement and Accountability

In our ongoing commitment to enhance the learning experience and increase user interaction, we are excited to unveil a new feature in this quarter’s release: Checkbox Sections. This innovative feature allows course creators to embed a list of actionable items within a learning section that learners must select and acknowledge before progressing.

Key Features
  • Interactive Checklists: Integrate dynamic checklists within course sections to ensure learners actively engage with the material and complete necessary actions or acknowledgments.
  • Enhanced Learning Accountability: By requiring learners to check off items based on the content they've just studied, Checkbox Sections reinforce learning and ensure important information is understood and applied.
  • Customizable Requirements: Tailor Checkbox Sections to match specific learning goals or compliance needs, making them ideal for scenarios where acknowledgment of policies, procedures, or safety standards is required before advancing.

Example Use Case: Imagine a safety training module where learners need to acknowledge each step of a safety procedure following a detailed explanation or demonstration within the section. Only after all items are checked can learners proceed, ensuring comprehension and compliance with mandatory safety protocols.

Checkbox Sections are designed to support a more structured and engaging learning process, helping educators and trainers ensure that all learners meet essential criteria before completing a section of their course.

Enhancing Creativity and Efficiency with Copilot 2

We are thrilled to announce the latest enhancements to our generative AI solution, Copilot 2, designed to streamline content creation and ensure high-quality outputs. These new features are crafted to save time, reduce costs, and enhance the creative process.

New Features Include:
  • Regenerate Voiceover: This feature allows content creators to regenerate the voiceover of a specific section without the need to recreate the entire course. Perfect for making quick edits or updates to your audio content while keeping the rest of your course intact.
  • Regenerate Search in the Media Picker: Enhance your efficiency with the ability to regenerate media directly in the search results of the Media Picker. This targeted regeneration saves valuable time and AI credits by focusing on specific media items rather than the entire course.
  • AI Crosscheck: Ensure the accuracy and quality of your AI-generated content with AI Crosscheck. This new tool employs multiple AIs to review and flag any inconsistencies in the output. Creators can then review these flags and select alternative content suggestions, optimizing content accuracy and reliability.

Experience the Future of Content Creation: These updates to Copilot 2 are designed to empower creators with more control and flexibility, allowing for easier modifications and improved content integrity. Stay tuned as we continue to innovate and enhance our AI capabilities to better serve your creative needs.