🚀 Platform Updates | December 20, 2024

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🚀 Platform Updates | December 20, 2024

Here's the rundown of our latest updates and enhancements across the platform this week. These changes are designed to improve performance, add functionality, and ensure a smoother experience for everyone. Let us know your thoughts or feedback below! 🎉

🧠 AI Mentor Updates

• Guided Prompts: Improved logic to prevent role inversions and exclude mentor descriptions when chat history is available.
• Course Recommendations: Leveraged advanced search capabilities for smarter course suggestions and refined recommendation tests.
• Mentor Analytics: Enhanced support for hourly filtering, mentor ID tracking, and dynamic cohort backfills.
• Performance Upgrades: Refactored mentor chat functions for better efficiency and readability, reducing redundant database queries.

🖥️ Frontend Highlights

Mentor SPA:

• Introduced Settings and History Icons for advanced embeds, improving navigation and personalization.
• Enhanced chat routing and proactive response resets for smoother user interactions.
• Added loading states for key UI elements, including tables and graphs, to improve responsiveness.

Skills SPA:

• Improved the Discover Page with updates to navigation, filtering, and URL formatting in program pages.
• Added functionality to save roles as user profile titles and ensured a seamless connection between skills and related content.

Analytics SPA:

• Added the ability to create new skills in Authoring > Courses, empowering content creators with more flexibility.
• Introduced platform query parameters for program URL filtering.
• Updated pathways in analytics to ensure all data is accessible and modifiable.

🛠️ Backend Optimizations

• Search and Filtering: Enhanced mentor filtering by adding options for the last accessed field and improving multiple format filtering for courses.
• Audience Management: Introduced endpoints for managing user licenses, audience assignments, and visibility settings.
• Credential Handling: Expanded the ability to update credentials, including issuing signals and default configuration setups for faster and more reliable processing.

📊 Analytics & Reporting

• Updated analytics endpoints to enhance filtering options and improve data retrieval for user metrics.
• Added support for hourly cohort backfill and enhanced reporting tools for better mentor performance tracking.
• Expanded program and pathway data structures, including platform key and name integration.

🔧 DevOps & Infrastructure

• Implemented a Session Engine Patch to support cached database sessions with optimized cache limits.
• Enhanced Kafka configurations for AXD Reporter, including SSL support and safety checks.
• Introduced new flags for catalog apps, enabling dynamic linking and course eligibility checks.