| May 5, 2026 |
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Hide <cue> in player slide notes: The <cue> tags used by authors to time animations are now automatically hidden from the slide notes when viewing the presentation or course in the player.
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| Apr 30, 2026 |
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Smoother recording: Audio and video from slide narrations now upload and process in the background, allowing you to immediately move to the next slide.
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Pronunciation Dictionary: The dictionary is now case-insensitive and supports Aliases for all AuthoringAI languages and RoleplayAI.
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| Apr 9, 2026 |
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Roleplay language: Improved Dutch language support in Roleplay by adding specific options for Dutch (Netherlands) and Dutch (Belgium).
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| Apr 2, 2026 |
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Hide Activity Creation button: Added an admin setting to disable the creation of Coaching and Roleplay Activities, ensureing that users who only use Courses avoid creating Activities by mistake.
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| Mar 11, 2026 |
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Improved course and curriculum details pages: Refreshed layout that elevates essential information directly to the main page without tabs.
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Refined Coaching experience for Roleplays: Cleaner layout with activity icons, participant thumbnails, and a new ‘To Do’ carousel.
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Enhanced Roleplay and video settings: New Roleplay type to record yourself, an ‘Are you ready?’ screen before recording, and blurred backgrounds.
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| Jul 17, 2025 |
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Content Type filter: Added to the Course Catalog and My Enrollments pages.
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| Jun 17, 2025 |
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Blur video recording background: Blur the background when recording video narration or full video slides.
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RolePlay improvements: Better numerical pronunciations, multiple language support (Italian, Czech & Hindi), and a Realtime Interaction Type.
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| Jun 5, 2025 |
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Email Update: The 'From' address in the email template updated to ‘noreply@bigtincan.com’
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| May 13, 2025 |
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Adjust Custom Voice Speed: Set the pace of their custom voice narration.
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Request Guest Narration: Migrated and updated the Request Guest Audio flow into Modern Authoring.
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Apply Presenter to All Slides: Select the presenter for all slides at once.
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| May 5, 2025 |
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Additional Alerts: Added an "out-of-sync" alert to notify authors when current slide notes are newer than the latest generated narration.
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Custom Avatar Refinements: Improved avatar rendering progress percentages and UI distinctions.
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Updated Slide Sorter: The slide sorter's width is now resizable and the list view has been merged into it.
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Custom Avatars (Image-based): AuthoringAI Pro authors can now create image-based custom avatars with multiple looks.
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Generate Video Narration slides: AuthoringAI Pro users can generate full slide video narrations from available avatars.
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New Modern Authoring Playbar: Provides more control over what you see when playing a slide in authoring.
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| Apr 8, 2025 |
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Request Approval: Authors can initiate approval workflows directly from within Modern Authoring
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| Feb 13, 2025 |
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Updated voices: Added 113 voices to ensure variety across languages for AuthoringAI Pro, and removed poor-performing voices
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| Jan 14, 2025 |
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Launch Player with Captions: Admins and authors can choose whether to automatically launch the player with captions if included.
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Custom Voice Tuning: Added Voice Settings allowing users to tune stability and similarity for custom voices
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| Dec 3, 2024 |
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"Merge" Refinements: Restored the ability to insert and merge slides or content from the same presentation.
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Batch Enrollments: Ability to enroll and mark students complete in a closed session using batch enroll.
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Re-enroll Students: Admins can now re-enroll students directly from the User Enrollments page.
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| Nov 14, 2024 |
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Require Session Selection: Learning Authors can force students to select a session at the time of course enrollment.
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Unified Profile: Updated avatar menu options to centralize "Manage Account" and "Knowledge Base" links.
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| Oct 10, 2024 |
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Modern Authoring Menu Refinements: Renamed and reorganized several menu items for better clarity and consistency.
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| Oct 3, 2024 |
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Bulk edit due dates: Added ability to select one or more enrollments and edit due dates directly in Administration.
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| Sep 5, 2024 |
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Pronunciation Controls: CAdmins can manage a pronunciation dictionary or use prompt controls for AuthoringAI.
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Translation 2.6: Boosted translation/audio generation speed by up to 33% and added new languages.
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Curriculum due dates: Admins can set course due dates to match the overall curriculum due date.
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Scorecards Actions: Viewer/Headcoach can now view the Action Dashboard and Advanced Coaching feedback.
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| Aug 22, 2024 |
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Scorecards Email Templates: Added Scorecards email notifications and enrollment action templates.
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| Aug 8, 2024 |
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Large Video File Uploads: Brainshark now supports uploading video files up to 4GB.
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Translate Slides: Complete translation capabilities for presentations including navigation, narration, and content.
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Course events: Added course event reminders and redesigned the course details landing tabs.
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Scorecards Actions: 40 additional custom fields added and action status label updated.
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Polls & Surveys: All poll and survey questions can now be displayed directly in Scorecards.
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| Jul 10, 2024 |
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Export Audio: The "Enable Podcast" capability was migrated to Modern Authoring as "Export Audio".
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Improved Transcription Process: The generate captions/notes feature now works on audio shorter than 8 seconds.
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RTL Support: The Brainshark Player now supports Arabic and Hebrew right-to-left languages.
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Learning Enhancements: Course URLs auto-populate, assets can be managed on custom courses, and points can be manually set.
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| Jun 25, 2024 |
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AuthoringAI Native Voices 2.5: Expanded character limits to 10K per slide and improved native voices globally.
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Copy SCORM courses: Added a bulk copy action on the My Courses & Curriculums page.
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Search by Name: Added ability to search by First and Last name in the student table.
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| May 16, 2024 |
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Course Defaults & Search: New courses default to "Limited" enrollment, added SCORM file names to course overviews, and improved student enrollment search.
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| Mar 28, 2024 |
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Redesign of Enrollments Workflows: Added capabilities to schedule future enrollments, bulk remove enrollments, and enroll groups alongside students.
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Course/Curriculum Redesign: Relabeled details to "Overview," elevated filters to the course level, and added single selection for content types.
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| Mar 5, 2024 |
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AuthoringAI Custom Voices: Allows users to clone their own voice to efficiently narrate presentations and courses.
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| Feb 29, 2024 |
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Language redirects: Migrated the language part of conditional redirects from Classic in anticipation of Translation.
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Make a Copy: Added the Copy feature directly to the Overflow menu.
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| Feb 15, 2024 |
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Modern Authoring Refinements: Removed the folder menu from certain slide features to behave more like Merge Content.
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| Jan 23, 2024 |
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Improved Guestbook Lists: Expanded guestbook lists to support up to 10,000 characters and auto-format as searchable dropdowns.
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| Jan 11, 2024 |
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Scorecards Permission Restrictions: Added property to restrict non-CAdmins to only see their own user data.
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| Jan 10, 2024 |
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Improved Generate Audio: Updated "Generate audio from slide notes" with an improved UI and Modern voice library.
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Adjustable Playback Speed: Authors can now allow viewers to adjust the playback speed of presentations.
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| Nov 22, 2023 |
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Export Coaching ActivityDetails: Scorecards now allows exporting Coaching ActivityDetails as a .csv.
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| Nov 14, 2023 |
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Export Coach/Review Insights: Users can export the Coach Insights and Review Insights panels as .csv files.
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| Oct 26, 2023 |
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Coaching Practice Mode: Launched Practice Mode for coaching.
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| Oct 19, 2023 |
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Scorecards Drill down: Added the ability to drill down for checklists item names.
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| Oct 3, 2023 |
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Modern Authoring Beta: Open Beta launch for the new Modern Authoring environment.
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| Sep 26, 2023 |
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SCORM File Support: Supported files up to 2 GB for SCORM downloads.
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| Aug 31, 2023 |
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SCORM Upload/Replace workflow: Reliable support for 2GB SCORM file uploads with automated email notifications upon completion.
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| Jun 29, 2023 |
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Administration Toggles: Added the ability to hide the Enrollments tab for non-learning accounts and hide learning/coaching roles.
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| Jun 13, 2023 |
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User ID: Added the User ID back into the User Profile.
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| Jun 8, 2023 |
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SSO Identifier: Added SSO Identifier to User Profile and updated the Administration Homepage logic.
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| Jun 6, 2023 |
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Read-only Profile Fields: Updated the Manager/Coach name fields on the User Profile to be read-only.
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| Jun 1, 2023 |
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Coaching Advanced Feedback: Advanced Feedback was enabled for existing activities and multiple UI updates were applied to Dashboards and Feedback pages.
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| May 22, 2023 |
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Administration User Profile: Implemented a new tab structure and split out roles and privileges.
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Delete User/Folder permissions: Improved the delete user UI, added a Coach deletion workflow, and streamlined folder permissions.
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| May 15, 2023 |
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Brainshark Salesforce Package v5.19: Adds custom metadata types for global and user level settings.
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| May 10, 2023 |
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Coaching Reviewer Updates: Supports hyperlinks in reviews and allows admins to hide the leaderboard before a user submits.
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| Apr 25, 2023 |
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Scorecards Skills Panel: Added the ability to display Skills in a Panel and create custom metrics.
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| Apr 24, 2023 |
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Coaching Vibes: The Vibes tab will now show for all Advanced feedback enabled Coaching Activities.
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| Apr 18, 2023 |
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Scorecards Snapshots: Added ability to delete orphaned/empty folders and sort/filter folders inside the snapshot dashboard.
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| Mar 30, 2023 |
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Scorecards Enhancements: Boosted speed performance and launched new custom metrics for "User by Activity" and "Title".
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| Mar 29, 2023 |
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Bulk Restore/Delete Users: CAdmins can now bulk restore or soft-delete user accounts.
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| Mar 16, 2023 |
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Scorecards Date Filter: Added a date filter to Reviewer Insights to view by enrollment or submission date.
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| Mar 15, 2023 |
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Multi Select Permanent Delete: CAdmins can permanently delete up to 50 previously soft-deleted users at once.
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| Mar 14, 2023 |
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Scorecards CSV Export: Added CSV Option to Snapshot Assets Per Panel.
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| Mar 2, 2023 |
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Required courses visibility: Made required courses in a curriculum more visible for users.
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| Feb 28, 2023 |
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Scorecards Sorting: Made the Coaching Activity Details panel columns sortable.
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| Feb 23, 2023 |
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Calendar Metric: Created and exposed an "All presentations" metric for the calendar.
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| Feb 14, 2023 |
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Advanced Feedback: Bigtincan's Advanced Feedback released providing presenters with a detailed analysis of their speech and Vocal Delivery Score.
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Scorecards Snapshots: Added the ability to allow Snapshots to be sent out to non-Brainshark users.
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Default Landing Pages: Company Administrators can now assign a default landing page and layout to Users.
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| Jan 24, 2023 |
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Administration User Interface: The Administration menu and features were relocated to the left-hand side of the page.
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| Jan 17, 2023 |
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Scorecards Group Panels: Group Panels are now available on the Scorecards homepage, and the Calendar panel displays actual users per square.
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| Jan 5, 2023 |
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Export Team Groups: Administrators have the ability to export Team Groups as a .CSV file while on the Groups page.
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| Dec 28, 2022 |
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Scorecards: Added user-level annotations and an Actions Controller for Scorecards.
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Change Metrics: Added the Primary Key functionality in change metrics.
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| Dec 22, 2022 |
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Coaching Dashboard URLs and Filters: Added view-based URLs to capture user selections, allowing specific views to be bookmarked. Also added an option to filter by Leaderboard instead of just sorting by it.
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Scorecards UX: Improved the user experience of the Change Metrics modal.
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| Dec 8, 2022 |
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Coaching Feedback & Dashboard Redesign: Released a modernized UI/UX redesign, including new URL parameters and filters.
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| Dec 6, 2022 |
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Scorecards Manage Layouts: Company Admins can now see all available layouts in the "Manage Layouts" section.
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| Nov 25, 2022 |
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Bulk Update Course Event Attendance: Session authors can now update course session enrollments by importing a CSV file of all students who actually attended.
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| Oct 18, 2022 |
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Bulk Permanent Delete: Company Admins can permanently delete previously soft-deleted users instantly via a CSV upload, citing reasons like GDPR or company policy.
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| Oct 13, 2022 |
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Passwords: Removed the requirement to change a password when updating a username.
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Scorecards Filter: Removed "Manager" as a quick filter option for group managers to avoid returning confusing empty data panels.
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| Sep 27, 2022 |
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Custom Self Registration: Released custom self-registration capabilities.
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| Sep 13, 2022 |
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Group Manager Reminder Limits: Limited group managers' ability to send enrollment reminders to only the groups they manage.
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Scorecards Grid Panel colors: Updated grid panels using default colors to a new 7-shade Bigtincan-branded palette for better distinguishability.
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| Sep. 2022 |
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Rename Top Level Folders: Added the ability for Company Admins and Folder Admins to rename top-level folders.
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Manage Company Redirects: Added the ability for Company Admins to manage sharkive/company redirects.
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| Aug 30, 2022 |
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Content Portal UI: Released the newly redesigned Content Portal UI.
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Brainshark Player: Minor updates implemented to refine WCAG compliance.
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| Aug. 2022 |
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Course Event Update Emails: Enabled an option to automatically notify enrolled students with a new calendar attachment if an admin changes the day, time, or location of a course event session.
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| Jun 28, 2022 |
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Default Question Background: Automatically applies an uploaded question background by default when creating a new question slide.
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| Jun 23, 2022 |
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Copy Course Session: Added the ability to duplicate a session within the same course to accelerate creation.
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| Jun 21, 2022 |
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Scorecards Settings Page: Released a new page for assigning default landing pages and layouts to individuals, and allowing group managers/authors to create snapshots.
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Scorecards Snapshots V2: Allows saving and scheduling a snapshot and selecting entire groups as snapshot recipients.
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Coach visibility: Allowed Coaches to view Coaching Activities in Scorecards.
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| Jun 16, 2022 |
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Bulk Soft Delete: Allowed administrators to soft-delete multiple users at once via a CSV template upload.
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| May 19, 2022 |
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Scorecards Advanced Filters: Made it easier for customers to create advanced filter conditions across Scorecards pages, panels, and grids without complex Excel formulas.
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| Apr 28, 2022 |
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Filter by Groups & User Properties: Group managers can now filter Activity pages by groups and user properties to see only the members they manage.
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| Apr 12, 2022 |
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Grid Panel CSV Export: CSV exports now respect custom Primary Key renaming and include a Totals row only if the panel is configured to include one.
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| Apr 5, 2022 |
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Scorecards Relative Date Filter: Added a "Relative Date" comparator condition for the "User Created Date" metric, enabling users to view accounts created within a specific time frame.
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Course Sessions in Scorecards: Started passing "Course Session" details from Brainshark directly into Scorecards.
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| Mar 15, 2022 |
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Scorecards Dashboard Header: Released a slimmer heading design to expand information visibility, featuring new breadcrumbs, improved dropdowns, and an efficient global date range menu.
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| Mar 7, 2022 |
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Learning Top Navigation: Added sub-navigation from the Learning tab, allowing authors and admins to directly navigate to the My Courses & Curriculums, Create Course, or Create Curriculum pages.
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| Feb 24, 2022 |
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Scorecards Rep Redirect Links: Added redirect links in the Reviewer & Coaching Insights Panels that direct users to a specific rep's scorecard.
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| Feb 22, 2022 |
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Scorecards Modal Language Consistency: Updated modal action buttons uniformly to “Cancel” & “Apply”.
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| Jan 20, 2022 |
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Grid Panel Search: Added the ability to search all table data directly from the panel header in grid panels.
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| Jan 15, 2022 |
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Assessment Data Panel: Released a new Assessment Data Panel specifically for Presentations.
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| Jan 13, 2022 |
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Grid Panel Drill Downs UX: Drill downs are now more responsive, include drop shadows, feature improved loading states, and are disabled for items with "0" results.
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| January 2022 |
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Platform Fonts: Updated the fonts across all pages from Museo Sans to Open Sans to align with Bigtincan design standards.
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| Dec 16, 2021 |
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Scorecards: Custom metric fields are noted on hover, and custom company logos are now supported.
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| Dec 9, 2021 |
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Scorecards: Introduced a filter for Manager Groups and hover text for truncated Activity names.
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| Dec 7, 2021 |
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Administration Navigation: Introduced a newly restyled top navigation bar integrating Brainshark and Bigtincan.
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| Dec 2, 2021 |
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Scorecards Naming: Users can rename the primary key column in the Format Columns modal.
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| Nov 30, 2021 |
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Machine Analysis Languages: Machine Analysis now supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.
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Scorecards Assessment Panel: A new Assessment Panel is available for courses with examination questions.
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| Nov 18, 2021 |
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Scorecards UI: Updated top navigation bar and constrained panel widths to 50% or 100%.
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| Nov 4, 2021 |
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Scorecards Navigation: Clicking on a user's name in activity panels navigates to that individual's Scorecard.
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| Oct 21, 2021 |
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Learning Completion Re-evaluation: Users with an incomplete status are re-evaluated against new completion criteria if changed.
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| Oct 13, 2021 |
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Content Redesign: A fresh redesign for the Brainshark Home, My Content, and Favorites pages with responsive sizing.
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| Oct 7, 2021 |
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Scorecards Naming: The 'Reviews/Assignments' column was renamed to 'Review/Submissions' for accuracy.
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| Oct 5, 2021 |
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Learning Return Prompt: Added a ‘TO LEARNING’ prompt on coaching pages for easier navigation.
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Scorecard Snapshots: Snapshots now include a PDF attachment.
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| Sep 28, 2021 |
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Reporting: Added ‘View Time Listened’ and ‘Clickpath Time Listened’ columns to the Viewer Clickpath Details report.
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| Sep 15, 2021 |
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Headers & Styling: Updated the Learning and Coaching headers and modernized buttons on authoring pages.
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| Sep 14, 2021 |
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Content Player Update: Slides without audio pause when the player is out of primary focus to prevent inaccurate tracking.
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Scorecards Grid Panel: Introduced a new look for the Scorecards grid panel with single scroll and fixed headers.
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| Sep 2, 2021 |
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Learning Usability: Added one-click access to Coaching Leaderboards and renamed action buttons for coaching responses.
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| Aug 26, 2021 |
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Scorecards Salesforce Sandbox: Added the ability to connect a Salesforce sandbox environment to Scorecards.
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| Aug 17, 2021 |
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Coaching Mandatory Reviews: Reviewers are notified if additional reviews are not mandatory because completion criteria is already met.
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| Aug 6, 2021 |
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Coach Insights Panel: Added a new panel for insights on the quality and workload of coaches.
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Scorecard Layouts: Layouts can now be renamed, and active courses display as the default.
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| Jul 12, 2021 |
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Content Authoring: Adjusted completion criteria logic to improve consistency and precision.
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| Jun 25, 2021 |
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Scorecards Summary Panels: Added new summary panels for Activity Scorecards.
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| Jun 17, 2021 |
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Scorecards & Coaching: Guestbook data is available as a metric on Presentations Panels, and Grade Level is hidden if not enabled.
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| Jun 10, 2021 |
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Scorecards Folders: Folder filters are now available in Presentation Scorecards.
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| Jun 8, 2021 |
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Learning Topics: Made formatting updates to topic and subtopic relationships in dropdowns.
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| Jun 3, 2021 |
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Administration Updates: Added edit actions, quick scorecards access, and bulk delete actions to the Manage Content and Knowledge & Skills library pages.
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| May 25, 2021 |
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Administration Redesign: Completely redesigned the Coaching and Learning administration pages.
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Personality Insights Removed: The Personality Insights tab was removed from Machine Analysis results.
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| May 24, 2021 |
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Scorecards for Gong Integration: Brainshark now integrates Gong activity, interaction, and coaching metrics into Scorecards.
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| May 18, 2021 |
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Scorecards Hierarchy: Customers can view data for a Manager’s direct reports for their entire hierarchy.
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| May 11, 2021 |
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Administration Roles: The "Users" role was relabeled to "All Users" and the default thumbnail for Learning was updated.
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| May 6, 2021 |
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Scorecards Roles: Added a "Learning Authors" role allowing them to access authored presentations in Scorecards.
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| May 4, 2021 |
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Platform Languages: The Brainshark UI now supports Russian and French-Canadian.
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Scorecards Navigation: Users can navigate directly from Scorecard pages back to the respective Brainshark activities to edit them.
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| May 1, 2021 |
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Learning Resume Views: All courses now default to having ‘Resume views’ enabled and cannot be disabled.
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Reporting Time Listened: Added a ‘Time Listened’ column to Content and Learning reports.
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| Apr 20, 2021 |
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Scorecards Navigation & Scores: Navigate from Brainshark activities to Scorecards, and view Average Machine Scores in Scorecard Coaching panels.
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| Apr 15, 2021 |
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Administration Emails: Removed the character limit for the New User Email templated field.
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| Apr 12, 2021 |
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Administration Redesign: Redesigned Manage Company and Advanced Options pages, added Scorecards permissions, and introduced an Admin Quick Find feature.
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| Apr 8, 2021 |
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Scorecards Filtering: Users can filter for inactive users on the Users & Management Hierarchy Scorecard pages.
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| Apr 7, 2021 |
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Scorecards Filtering: Filtering added to the Curriculum by Course and Coaching Activity Details panels.
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| Mar 23, 2021 |
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Gong Embedded Player: Users can embed Gong calls into Brainshark Learning or Coaching.
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| Mar 19, 2021 |
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Scorecards Layouts: Users can save custom drilldown layouts by modifying the default fields.
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| Mar 11, 2021 |
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Scorecards Updates: Added total completions and enrollments to Scorecard activities pages and updated the URL redirect.
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| Mar 1, 2021 |
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Administration Home Page: Rebuilt the landing page with permission-based card layouts and a new KPI Dashboard.
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| Feb 18, 2021 |
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Reviewer Insights: Added a “Days to complete review” sortable column to the Reviewer Insights panel.
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| Feb 11, 2021 |
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Reporting & Scorecards: Increased ‘Email to’ field size to 4,000 characters and added adjustable column widths in Scorecards.
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| Feb 6, 2021 |
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M4V Video Uploads: Video files with the M4V file type can now be uploaded.
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| Feb 4, 2021 |
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Presentation Scorecards: Introduced Presentation Scorecards for authors to see how content is consumed.
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| Jan 28, 2021 |
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Reviewer Insights Panel: Introduced a new panel in Scorecards to track reviewer quality, workload, and comment metrics.
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| Jan 5, 2021 |
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Curriculum Courses Panel: Added a panel on the Curriculums page in Scorecards to view breakdowns of courses and user progress.
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| Dec 2020 |
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Platform: Introduced Management Hierarchy, a Reviewer Feedback & Ratings Panel, and Multi-Day Course Sessions.
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| Nov 2020 |
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Scorecards: Released Scorecard Snapshots.
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| Oct 2020 |
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Scorecards & Reporting: Added Scorecard Menu Accessibility and Student Transcript Report Improvements.
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| Sep 2020 |
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Coaching: Introduced the Coaching Activity Group Detail Panel.
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| Aug 2020 |
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Scorecards: Released Readiness Scorecards with CRM Data and Scorecard Data Sync.
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| Jun 2020 |
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Scorecards & Coaching: Launched Readiness Scorecards, Scorecard User Permissions, Group Comparison, Brainshark Coaching for Highspot, and Phone Recording Without Flash.
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| May 2020 |
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Coaching: Added Custom Words parameter in Coaching.
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| Apr 2020 |
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Coaching: Improved performance in Coaching video processing and on review pages.
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| Mar 2020 |
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Platform: Implemented Reviewer Enhancements, Improved PowerPoint Upload Messaging, Download Video Submissions, and WCAG Accessibility Improvements.
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| Feb 2020 |
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Platform: Added Google Slide & Drive Support.
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| Dec 2019 |
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Platform: Released Reviewer Enhancements and Personalization of Content Without Flash.
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| Oct 2019 |
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Coaching & Admin: Introduced Text-based Coaching Activities and Delete User Process Enhancements.
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| Sep 2019 |
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Coaching & Learning: Released External Coaching Activities, Learning Status Enhancements, and REST API Enhancements.
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| Jul 2019 |
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Platform: Added the Knowledge & Skills Library, Machine Analysis Transcription enhancements, Reporting Catalog enhancements, Enrollment Report updates, and bulk upload improvements.
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| Apr 2019 |
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Learning: Created Learning Activities checklists, improved completion branching, redesigned 'Manage Presentations', and updated Team Dashboards.
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| Feb 2019 |
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Platform: Added a new content search in CRM Connector v5.6, Coaching leaderboard controls, Machine Analysis on browsers, and course session self-enrollments.
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| Dec 15, 2018 |
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Flash less Audio Recording: Resizes components dynamically and includes formatting for slide notes.
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Manage Groups Redesign: Admins can delete multiple groups at once and export table data to .csv.
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Course Sessions: Authors can schedule multiple sessions for live events like ILT and webinars.
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| Sep 11, 2018 |
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Brainshark Achievements in Chatter: Salesforce Admins can display Learning certificates and badges on a user's Chatter profile.
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| Sep 8, 2018 |
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Timestamped Comment Markers: Timecodes in coaching comments are converted to clickable links to skip to specific video points.
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Machine Analysis Component Redesign: Renamed Comprehension Level to Grade Level and redesigned filler word/duration components.
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Participant Picker Enhancements: Added a "Reviews" column to identify who has been reviewed.
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Flash Removal Guest Authoring: Guest authors can record audio without Flash.
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New Product Suggestions Forum: Customers can submit and vote on product suggestions directly from their profile menu.
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Manage Integrations page: A new hidden-by-default page for company admins to manage Brainshark data integration with Salesforce.
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| Jul 31, 2018 |
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Salesforce User Sync: Admins can manage all user creation and updates in Salesforce via a nightly sync.
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Brainshark CRM Connector for Salesforce V5.3: Team Readiness Dashboard and Coaching data sync are now accessible inside Salesforce.
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| Jun 30, 2018 |
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My Courses & Curriculum Redesign: Combined the pages allowing for bulk updates of folders, topics, and open enrollments.
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Learning Page Improvements: Added the ability to edit existing due dates and added "Review" buttons to completed course cards.
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| Jun 2, 2018 |
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Flash Removal Updates: Authors can preview slide audio, background audio, and generate audio without Flash.
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Rename Challenge to Activity: Globally changed the nomenclature of "Challenge" to "Activity".
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Coaching Machine Analysis: Leverages AI to provide a Machine Score based on Topic Coverage, Speaking Rate, Grade Level, and Filler Words.
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Flash-less Recording (Limited): Allowed flash-less recording in Coaching for IE11/Windows 10 users.
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Seismic Integration: Customers can sync Brainshark formal and informal content to a Brainshark folder in Seismic.
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Team Readiness Dashboard: Provides group managers a view of their team's readiness progress and average scores.
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| May 12, 2018 |
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Course Details Redesign: Converted the Course Details page into a responsive modal.
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Course Catalog Redesign: Responsive redesign consistent with other UI changes.
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Learning Page Improvements: Students can sort by 'Recently Viewed' and curriculum duration is now calculated using audio duration.
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| Apr 25, 2018 |
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Sunset Telephone Playback: The feature allowing viewers to use telephone playback was entirely deprecated.
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My Recently Viewed Filter: Added to Salesforce Content in Context and the Brainshark for Outlook Integration.
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Groups Update API: A REST endpoint that supports Salesforce user profile changes by switching user group assignments.
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| Apr 14, 2018 |
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Machine Analysis with Topic Detection (BETA): Augments human scoring by analyzing video responses for topic coverage and speaking rate.
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Save as Draft Coaching: Coaching Activities can be created, saved, and sent at a future date.
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Record Slide Audio Without Flash: A new Flash-independent Record Audio page allows users to record and edit slide notes.
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Closed Captions: Authors can upload VTT caption files to slides for the HTML player.
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Download Per Slide PowerPoint Files: Authors can download a single PowerPoint file per slide.
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Permanently Delete User: Admins can permanently remove all personal data associated with a disabled user account.
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Presentation Expiration & Archival Rules: Set default expiration dates for presentations and auto-archive content based on views.
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Course and Curriculum Re-enrollment: Admins can re-enroll students for recertification or expired enrollments.
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| Mar 19, 2018 |
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Curriculum Details Page Redesign: Provides the ability to view all, required, or optional courses with clearer enrollment status indicators.
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| Mar 9, 2018 |
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Brainshark CRM Connector for Salesforce V5.1: Introduced Content in Context and Setup Lightning components for Salesforce Lightning.
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| Feb 24, 2018 |
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Coaching Browser-based Recorder: A new Flash-independent recorder in Chrome records locally in segments.
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Audio Level Alert: Coaching participants receive an alert if their microphone is muted or too low.
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Adjustable Playback Speed: Coaching users can adjust video playback speed from 0.5x to 2.0x.
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Inactive Content Notifications: Authors are clearly notified if their presentation is inactive and get emails if viewers attempt to access it.
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HTML Player Redesign: Upgraded design for player controls and Table of Contents.
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User Bulk Upload Update: Added profile fields for animated content, coaching challenges, and Head Coach designations.
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Due Dates: Authors can assign due dates to courses/curriculums and display them on the My Enrollments page.
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| Nov 18, 2017 |
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Administrator Player Control Settings: Admins can force the display of either the Flash player or HTML5 Player for all content.
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HTML Desktop/Tablet Player Improvements: Upgraded HTML5 UI with a persistent progress bar, notes, and completion criteria indicator.
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Launch Attachments with Security: Attachments opened outside the player will now prompt password/guestbook forms.
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Search improvements: Increased the priority of search results matching the title field.
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| Oct 7, 2017 |
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Manager Field: Added to the Challenge Details and Coaching Participant reports.
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Search Type Ahead: Dropdown menus now show suggested results based on typing.
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External Catalog link: Organizations can add a button to direct learners to a catalog outside of Brainshark.
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Estimated Course Duration: Authors can identify the time needed to complete a course manually.
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| Aug 12, 2017 |
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Course Catalog Filters: Admins can create filters to help students narrow down Course and Curriculum results.
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Attachments on SCORM/URL Courses: Authors can add attachments to SCORM or URL courses.
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HTML Learning Notifications: Editable email templates are now available in HTML and plain text.
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| Aug 3, 2017 |
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Enhanced Learning Reports: Introduced the Learning Content Report and Learning Activity Report.
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Brainshark Analytics for Salesforce V2.0: A maintenance release renaming the analytics packages.
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| Jun 24, 2017 |
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Brainshark Screen Recorder: Coaching participants can record their computer screen alongside their webcam using a downloadable executable.
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Support for Multiple File Conversions: Authors can navigate away or upload new content while assets are converting.
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CRM Connector for Microsoft Dynamics 365: Provides Dynamics users seamless access to Brainshark.
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CRM Connector for Salesforce V5.0: Contains four new Brainshark Lightning Components for Salesforce community pages.
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Automated Manager-Based Groups: Brainshark can automatically create user groups based on the manager field.
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HTML5 Player Updates: Added support for Custom URLs and Enhanced SCORM content in the HTML5 player.
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| May 6, 2017 |
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Coaching Copy Challenge: Challenge Creators can duplicate previously created challenges.
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Training Administrator Editing: Admins can view, edit, and change authors for courses directly from the Learning tab.
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SCORM Download Update: Presentations downloaded from Brainshark are now available in SCORM 2004, 3rd edition.
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Courses in Highspot: Brainshark courses can now be embedded and viewed within a Highspot spot.
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| Mar 25, 2017 |
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Coaching Save as Brainshark: Head Coaches can create new presentations comprised of coaching leaderboard videos.
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Challenge Reviewer Reminders: Head Coaches can send manual or scheduled email reminders to Reviewers.
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Coaching Detail Reports: Introduced the Challenge Responses and Challenge Details reports.
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Training and Coaching Integration: Learning Authors can construct new Learning courses derived from a Coaching Challenge.
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Brainshark Innovation Forum: Authenticated users can auto-login to submit and vote on product enhancements.
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Highspot Integration: Integrates Brainshark content, training, and coaching directly into Highspot's sales enablement platform.
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Brainshark for Outlook: Share content from Outlook with Salesforce integration to track views.
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| Feb 17, 2017 |
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Coaching Summary Reports: Introduced three new reports: Challenge Summary, Participant Summary, and Reviewer Summary.
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| Feb 4, 2017 |
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Training Author Search: Learning authors can search for any title they created directly from the My Course page.
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Open Enrollment Maximum: Learning authors can restrict the number of students who can self-enroll in a course.
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HTML5 Player Video Quality Control: Video streaming quality dynamically adjusts based on available bandwidth.
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| Dec 31, 2016 |
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Sales Accelerator "Lightning Ready": The package is fully functional in Salesforce Lightning Experience.
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Improved Content Search/Favorites Tab: User-selected views persist across different Salesforce records.
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Learning Launcher Tab: A new VisualForce page and tab replaces the previous Brainshark Learning for Chatter functionality.
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| Dec 10, 2016 |
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Record from Webcam: Authors can create a video presentation by recording directly from their webcam.
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Training Insights Manager Field: Salesforce dashboards now identify the student’s manager’s name for each learning record.
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| Oct 29, 2016 |
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WebM Video File Format: Brainshark now supports the upload of WebM video files for Coaching.
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Course Ratings & Comments: Learners can rate and add comments to any course they have completed.
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Generate Audio Upgrade: The Text to Speech feature offers more life-like voices and an expanded list of voice types.
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HTML5 Player Update: Viewers can now print slides and certificates, and launch guestbooks/attachments via HTML5.
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| Oct 18, 2016 |
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Administrative Usage Views: Head coaches can see data about all challenges and participants.
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Group Invitations: Challenge creators can invite entire groups to participate in challenges.
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Reviewer Assignments: Challenge creators can select one or more users to act as reviewers.
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| Oct 5, 2016 |
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Coaching Send Reminder: Creators can send an on-demand email reminder to any participant who hasn't completed a challenge.
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| Sep 17, 2016 |
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HTML5 Player Improvements: The player now displays content details, author bios, FAQs, and viewing history.
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Quality Control Indicator: Viewers can choose which video stream quality they wish to receive in the Flash Player.
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Coaching Structured Feedback: Reviewers can enter feedback for each unique challenge criteria in addition to overall feedback.
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| Aug 15, 2016 |
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Default Sort Order Configuration: Customers can customize the default sort order for content inside the Sales Accelerator.
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Brainshark for Outlook Support: Included REST endpoints enabling the Brainshark for Outlook Add-in to be used with Salesforce.
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| Jul 30, 2016 |
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Group Manager Permissions: Group managers can now enroll students and send reminders without relying on learning admins.
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Dynamic Curriculum: When new courses are added to a dynamic curriculum, a student's status automatically updates to "incomplete".
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Sales Accelerator Analytics: Two new packages (Executive Edition and Performance Edition) deliver dashboards and trend charts directly in Salesforce.
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| Jun 18, 2016 |
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Improve Launch of Non-Brainshark Content: PDFs can be viewed, scrolled, saved, and printed directly from the Brainshark player.
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Content Authoring Privacy Settings: Authors can apply immediate security settings for new content to be inactive or hidden from search upon upload.
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Calendar Events for Course Invitations: Learning authors can include a calendar event in a course invitation email.
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Link to Web Content in Rapid Learning: Authors can link to any website (like Dropbox/Drive) as part of course authoring.
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| Mar 19, 2016 |
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Configurable Ratings for Coaching: Challenge creators can grade challenges along multiple unique criteria instead of a single 5-star rating.
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3rd Party Coaching Content from CCI: Offered instructional video content right within the Brainshark for Coaching account.
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Auto Enrollment for Learning: Set up automatic enrollment based on date triggers, replacing the "certification expiration" feature.
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Auto-Save Uploaded PowerPoint File: The source PowerPoint is automatically uploaded as an attachment to the presentation.
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| Feb 10, 2016 |
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Sales Accelerator Brainshark Visual Force Pages: Allows users seamless access into any core Brainshark functions from within Salesforce.
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| Jan 23, 2016 |
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Brainshark Infrastructure Improvements: Improved global viewer experience via content delivery acceleration.
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| Dec 12, 2015 |
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HTML Player ‘fallback’: Flash-less users are automatically given the HTML player instead of being instructed to update Flash.
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| Nov 11, 2015 |
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Sales Accelerator Commenting and Rating: Reps can comment and rate approved content within Salesforce tabs.
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‘Content to Prepare’ Reports: New reports showing what materials reps are watching inside Salesforce to educate themselves.
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Auto Create Users: Users accessing content in Sales Accelerator without a Brainshark account will have one provisioned automatically.
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| Oct 30, 2015 |
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Change Content Thumbnails: Authors can upload custom thumbnail images to represent their presentations or courses.
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| Oct 10, 2015 |
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Enrollment Expiration for SCORM: Authors can see and set enrollment expirations for SCORM based courses.
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Include Non-Brainshark Courses in Manage Content: Admins can enroll students and perform actions on non-Brainshark courses from the Manage Content view.
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“Details” View in Course Enrollment: Students can view their enrollments in a non-thumbnail list format.
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Sales Accelerator Contact Roles Lookup: The recipient lookup defaults to a ‘Contact Roles’ list when navigating from an Opportunity.
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| Sep 17, 2015 |
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Email Multiple Recipients: Sales Accelerator users can email multiple recipients at the same time and generate unique URLs for each.
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Email Preview: Reps can preview desktop or mobile versions of the email they send before the customer sees it.
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| Aug 29, 2015 |
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New Author Settings: Site Admins can control whether authors can create presentations with animation.
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Support 16:9 Questions: Authors can provide a 16:9 question background image and set text offsets.
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Sunset QuickNotes: QuickNotes feature was disabled for all accounts.
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Add Attachments to Email: Reps can choose attachments from Salesforce to include with their Brainshark email.
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Support Custom Objects: Admins can now add Brainshark to custom objects in Salesforce.
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| Jul 18, 2015 |
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Allow myBrainshark users to download content: Users can download their content as MP4 video files.
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Uploading Question Backgrounds: Removed the ability to upload a PPT slide as a question background; requires JPG/PNG image files instead.
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SlideShark Filters: Sales Accelerator authors can apply custom filters to their SlideShark content.
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| Jun 6, 2015 |
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Increased Abilities for Group Manager Role: Group Managers can directly access their groups via a navigation link to remove/add users.
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Update to Footer in “Share” Function: Marketing team updated default footer text in share emails to ensure anti-spam compliance.
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Ability to iframe Content Tabs: Sales Accelerator customers can iframe the content tabs to display them in other web locations.
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| Apr 25, 2015 |
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Increased Abilities for Folder Administrator Role: Folder Administrators can manage all presentations, edit content, and reassign Authors in their folders.
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| Mar 14, 2015 |
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Brainshark Link to External Content: Authors can upload a URL linking to a document or website that launches without the player.
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| Jan 31, 2015 |
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Customizable ‘share’ email footer: Customers have control over the footer used when sending a Brainshark to adhere to anti-spam laws.
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Ignore ‘resume’ when slide specified on URL: Suppresses the 'resume/start over' dialog if a user is sent directly to a specific slide.
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Admin control of ‘send copy’ checkbox: Admins can set defaults and enforce that senders are copied on messages to create audit trails.
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Sales Accelerator Search Logic: Added support for 'OR' operators, 'CONTAINS' operators, and nested queries within search criteria.
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| Oct 27, 2014 |
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Set Default for ‘Hide from Search’: Admins can set the default state for the "hide content from search" security setting.
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Edit Users navigation: Added previous/next links and a clickable alphabet to quickly narrow down large lists of users.
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Enroll multiple students: Added multi-select functionality for enrolling multiple students at a time in Learning.
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NEW indicator in course catalog: Added a 'New' visual indicator so users can identify recently added Open enrollment content.
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| Sep 13, 2014 |
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Larger playback modal: Increased the size of the playback modal to provide more real estate for content.
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Added Text to author’s copy of “Share” email: The first line of the BCC copy email now shows the email addresses of the recipients.
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Customize non-Brainshark course image: Administrators can change the default "Graduation Cap" image used for non-Brainshark courses.
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| Aug 2, 2014 |
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Improved YTD reporting: Monthly Utilization Report received updates to year-to-date KPIs.
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Disable social sharing: Customers can request Brainshark Support to disable the option to share presentations via social sites.
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Brainshark Rapid Learning Flow: Modified the workflow so authors can choose to create any kind of course from the start, not just PPTs.
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