CrowdSmart Release Notes

June 27, 2024

• Querying the Collective Voice has been added to the Collective Voice Reporting
  • This allows you to ask questions about the Collective Voice and our AI will review the responses to your collaboration and tell you more.
• Updated workflow for users signing in through "Continue with Google"

June 10, 2024

• Updates to Collaboration templates to improve ease of use

May 30, 2024

• Updated backend for security and stability

May 8, 2024

• Introduced a new UI which makes collaborating easier with your group
  • More open workflow
  • Clarified definitions of steps
  • Help text added for many processes
  • Pre-defined Collaborations that facilitators can choose from which allow them to quickly launch to a group based on what type of solution they need
  • Any existing customers will be contacted about upgrading to the new UI
• HelpScout beacon has been added
  • Users can now contact us directly by chat during Pacific Time office hours
  • Users can also leave an email message

April 19, 2024

• Various bugfixes and improvements
• Update to sampling algorithm

April 11, 2024

• Backend functionality updates and improvements

March 27, 2024

• Improved custom reports
• Improved Autosave functionality

March 11, 2024

• Improved the methodology on Importance calculations for reasons

March 6, 2024

• Introduced Autosave to the Collaboration builder to improve user experience

February 21, 2024

• Admin console has been added to enable admins easy insight into engagements
• Added additional question statistics
• Added ability to regenerate themes for an engagement
• Updated UX for claim account process
• Addressed an issue where changes to an engagement were not updating for the editor
• Addressed an issue where Admins could not add seed ideas to an engagement

February 5, 2024

• Enhanced ability to customize question steps and engagement workflow
• Additional instructional help can be provided on each engagement step
• Additional statistics are now included on each question
• Addressed some navigation issues when multiple CrowdSmart tabs were open
• Addressed user flow issues where users can unexpectedly land on a Claim Account page
• Updated error messages to be more descriptive to users
• Addressed an issue where text alignment was off center when viewing engagement materials

January 8, 2024

• Added the ability to copy engagement questions and seed ideas to a new engagement
• Addressed an issue where invitation links would not take the sure to the correct organization
• Updated the display text when viewing users without email or ID

Dec 18, 2023

• Improvements to filtering when viewing the Report page
• Various backend improvements for stability and efficiency

Nov 28, 2023

• Updated text to be consistent across reporting pages
• Only demographics that have responses are shown when filtering
• Demographic filters can be applied to Collective Voice and Ideas tabs
• Importance vs Impact charts can be viewed in a table

Nov 3, 2023

Update and improvements

• Improved performance of Collective Voice requests
• Added the ability to filter theme responses by rating on the Reports page
• Added the ability to filter theme responses by user demographics (if asked) on the Reports page

Oct 20, 2023

• Backend improvements to enhance performance
• Reason based Importance vs Popularity charts are available while an engagement is ongoing

Oct 2, 2023

• Fixed an issue where users were not receiving Password Reset emails
• Various improvements to the UI to improve user experience
• Introduced a Theme-based Importance vs Popularity chart when an engagement is complete
  • CrowdSmart's AI will categorize the ideas in an engagement into Themes
  • View which Themes are the most important and popular among the contributors

Sept 13, 2023

• Added the ability to Show All engagements on the dashboard, to quickly view past engagements
• Cleaned up DB tables to improve performance
• Added the ability to collect Demographic data from users
• Added the ability to ask rating only questions

August 25, 2023

• Added the ability to include a redirect link to the engagement completion page
• Cleaned up the Reporting and Activity pages
  • Removed extraneous information for engagements with only 1 question
  • Added follow up questions after a rating question to add additional context
• Engagement ideas will be automatically themed by CrowdSmart's AI when the engagement ends
  • Ideas will be grouped into categories based on the content provided by contributors

August 2, 2023

• Seamless Entry can be enabled for engagements
  • This allows users to join an engagement with just a link!
• User management has been applied in the UI for admins
• Team Detail view is available on the Report page when an engagement closes
• Updated Activity page when there's only 1 question
• Updated the statistics shown for engagements without quant questions
• Updated user creation page to include ToS and Privacy Policy links and agreements
• Fixed an issue where the Y axis was inverted on Importance-Impact charts
• Addressed an issue where emails were not sent to users who were added to an engagement after it was created

June 5, 2023

• Updated logic for reasons that have been Flagged or marked as Inactive
• Adjusted the Scale of the Importance / Impact charts to better fit screen view
• Addressed an issue where a user could not re-order Related Materials on the first attempt
• Updated logic around a user updating their MFA settings
• Introduced the ability to Tag engagements
  • Tags can be set on an engagement by Admins
  • Users can search for an engagement by Tag on their dashboard

May 22, 2023

• Removed unused code
• Disabled unused notifications
• Added the ability for Organization Admins to automatically add themselves to an engagement by ranking ideas or submitting ideas when interacting on the Activity page
• Added the ability for users to update their Profile Image in their Settings page

May 1, 2023

• New UI is released for CrowdSmart 2.0!
• Engagements no longer need to be created with an associated project
• All materials and focal questions are associated with the engagement
• The new UI allows users to focus on focal questions created by the organizer, and responses submitted by other contributors

April 3, 2023

• Implemented additional reason sampling logic on the backend
• Added a semantic search call to BayAI

March 20, 2023

• Updated worker logic
• Enabled token login for use with Stella API
• API checks for Projects before returning call

March 6, 2023

• Addressed an issue with AWS rate limits
• Updates to Stella API to allow API clients to make necessary requests
• Created an Asset Manager role to apply changes to an evaluation's materials

February 17, 2023

• Reason sampling logic has been updated
• Added additional data tracking 
• API V2 Stella has been released. Current users of V1 will experience no change in functionality. V2 of the API adds flexibility to the engagement creation process
• Minor bug fixes to the Zoom app
  • Addressed an issue where the app may need to be refreshed when launched multiple times per meeting

January 30, 2023

• Added support for BayAI to analyze reasons input in foreign languages (this feature is available to certain organizations, please contact us if you have any questions)

November 15, 2022

• Users can now be queried by their unique token used to login

November 14, 2022

• Improved attribute specification requests for API users
• Added Beacon contact to support site

October 28, 2022

• Collective Voice Analysis is available in standard reporting on CrowdSmart.ai
• Importance-Impact chart is available in standard reporting on CrowdSmart.ai
• Questions asked are now present on the Reasons page to provide context when viewing results
• Improved the Request to be Forgotten flow to improve the experience for users