Release Updates September 2024

Exciting news! Today's feature release unveils AI content tools, empowering Admins and manager users to create content more efficiently than ever before.

How do the AI content tools work?

The Thought Industries AI Content Tools, powered by OpenAI, enable our customers to streamline the creation of text, images, and assessment questions using Natural Language Processing (NLP). Through a secure API with OpenAI, Admins can easily build new content or edit existing content with simple prompts. Additionally, the question generation feature allows Admins to automatically generate questions based on the content within the course itself.

• Generate text - available from any WYSIWYG field across the site (including course authoring and site builder).
  • Examples might include rewording content, summarizing content or generating different examples to help demonstrate a learning concept.
    
• Generate images - available from any WYSIWYG field or image uploader field across the site (including course authoring and site builder).
  • Examples might include hero images, catalog images, or images within a course to make content more engaging.
    
• Generate questions - available from any assessment page within course authoring.
  • Examples might include creating quiz questions to check knowledge of concepts covered in a course lesson.

Read this article to learn more!

How do users get access to AI content tools?

As of today's release, all manager roles (main site and Panorama) will see an announcement popup on the homepage when logging into the administrator console. This popup will present the terms and conditions of the Acceptable Use Policy.

Each user must accept these terms and conditions before gaining access to the new AI features. If a user rejects the terms, all AI functionality will be hidden on the platform. If a user closes the popup without responding, they can navigate to their Account settings at any time to accept the terms and conditions.

What if I don’t want my users to access AI features?

AI content tools are immediately available to Admins and managers after accepting the terms and conditions of the Acceptable Use Policy. However, customers can request these tools be disabled and hidden for all users across their instance. If you prefer your users not to access these AI content tools, please contact your Account Team to disable them on your instance.

• Improved Panorama deletion workflow functionality (SKU). See this article for more guidance. 

Update ICS File functionality for Webinars so that recurring events are reflected in these files

If you use recurring webinars in Ti and use Ti’s email notification functionality for your webinars, today’s release gives you the ability to include recurring meeting information in the ICS file substitution values that learners use to add vILT events to their native calendar.

For recurring vILT events, learners will now be able to add all of the meetings for the recurring experience to their native calendar when a supported ICS download substitution value has been included in the email body. All of these ICS substitution values now include recurring event details for recurring webinars:

• {{downloadCalendarIcs}}
• {{icsAttachment}}
• {{addToCalendarLink}}
• {{downloadCalendarIcsWithOrganizer}}

These email substitution values can be configured by an admin for specific events in our notifications center.

• Updated the date handling on course and learning path external activity API endpoints to be inline with the other API endpoints.

Limit panorama admin access to grading submissions

This release includes an improvement to the admin experience on the Grading page, aimed at simplifying the grading list to show only those assignments relevant to the admin. This change may impact any custom panorama user roles that have the Manage Assignments permission and have access to only a subset of licenses in a panorama. With this release, panorama managers will only be able to view Grading page submissions if all the following are true:

• the learner is in their license (or a “child” license of a license they have access to);
• the learner has completed any assignment within the last year;
• and the assignment is from a course that is provisioned to their panorama.

They’ll no longer have access to submissions from courses that aren’t relevant to them.

Ignore milestone completion criteria for panorama admins

As an added bonus to this improvement, we’ve also streamlined manager access to content within learning paths. Managers who have access to a learning path are now automatically granted access to all the content within that learning path. Previously, managers were required to complete milestone completion criteria before they could access subsequent milestone content in the manager interface. Role permissions will continue to dictate what actions managers can take on any of the content they have access to.

• Learners are unable to build a quiz using the "Quiz Builder" functionality in certain situations.
• When trying to replace the dashboard for a helium app like this: pages/learn/{filename}.page.{jsx,tsx}, it causes the instanceURL/learn/ path to hang on the native dashboard.
• When creating a new ILT from a template, users can configure the meeting dates within the event wizard steps.

Ability to Reuse Deleted Panorama Paths

Admins using panoramas will now find it easier to delete panoramas and reuse the same name or URL path. We've improved our URL path lookup so that the system only checks live panoramas when determining if a URL path already exists in your Thought Industries instance. This means that after deleting a panorama, you can now create a new one using the same slug (name/URL path) as the deleted panorama.

The September 18th feature release will include the release of AI content tools, a set of features which will allow Admins and manager users to create content more efficiently.

How do the AI content tools work?

These AI content tools are powered by OpenAI and allow our customers to streamline the creation of text, images, and assessment questions through Natural Language Processing (NLP). Through a secure API with OpenAI, administrators can build new content or edit existing content through prompts. Additionally, for the question generation feature, administrators can generate questions automatically based on content within the course itself.

• Generate text - available from any WYSIWYG field across the site (including course authoring and site builder).
  • Examples might include rewording content, summarizing content or generating different examples to help demonstrate a learning concept.
    
• Generate images - available from any WYSIWYG field or image uploader field across the site (including course authoring and site builder).
  • Examples might include hero images, catalog images, or images within a course to make content more engaging.
    
• Generate questions - available from any assessment page within course authoring.
  • Examples might include creating quiz questions to check knowledge of concepts covered in a course lesson.

How do users get access to AI content tools?

Upon release of this feature, all manager roles (main site and panorama) will see an announcement popup on the homepage when logging into the administrator console. From this popup, they will be presented the terms and conditions of the Acceptable Use Policy.

Each individual user must accept these terms and conditions before gaining access to the available AI features, in the various places mentioned above. If a user rejects these, all AI functionality will be hidden in the platform. If a user closes out this popup without responding to these terms and conditions, they can navigate to their Account settings at a later time to accept.

What if I don’t want my users to access AI features?

By default, the AI content tools are immediately available to Admins and manager users after they accept the terms and conditions of the Acceptable Use Policy. However, customers can request that these be disabled and hidden to all users across their instance. If you would not like your users to access these AI content tools, please reach out to your Account Team to disable this on your instance prior to the release on September 18th.