🚀 Platform Updates | December 13, 2024

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🚀 Platform Updates | December 13, 2024

Here’s a wrap-up of this week’s updates across our platform. These enhancements reflect our ongoing commitment to improving functionality, user experience, and operational efficiency. Dive into the details below:

🧠 AI Mentor Enhancements

• Guided Prompts: Optimized to avoid role inversion during interactions and exclude mentor descriptions when chat history is available.
• Analytics Upgrades: Added hourly filtering for mentor analytics and enhanced criteria to differentiate new vs. returning users.
• OpenAI Assistant Support: Introduced specific GPT model restrictions, implemented robust error handling, and added streaming capabilities for dynamic interactions.
• Course Recommendations: Leveraged new search functionalities for smarter recommendations and improved test coverage.
• Mentor Evaluation: Rolled out new evaluation models and endpoints for enhanced performance tracking.

🖥️ Frontend Improvements

Mentor SPA Updates:

• Added proactive response resets during mentor switches.
• Enhanced UI with loading states for tables, charts, and graphs.
• Updated the chat history selection and sidebar navigation.

Skills SPA Enhancements:

• Improved roles and skills search with integrated data structures.
• Enhanced display and text display on the Discover page.
• Updated program URLs with platform query parameters for better navigation.

Analytics SPA:

• Refined dropdown search in Licensing Assignments.
• Added issuing signal form fields for credential creation.
• Updated pagination and filters for seamless data exploration.

🛠️ Backend Optimizations

• Audience Management: Introduced endpoints for audience creation, deletion, and seeding default options.
• Course Eligibility: Configurable options now allow course and program eligibility checks based on user licenses.
• License Assignments: Improved group-to-individual license assignments and integrated admin actions for streamlined management.
• Search Enhancements: Enabled audience filtering for mentors (student/instructor) and improved multi-query support in catalog searches.
• Credential Updates: Added functionality for updating issuing signals and integrated defaults for seamless processing.

📊 Reporting & Analytics

• Enhanced user metrics endpoints by removing monthly default aggregations and supporting dynamic filtering.
• Updated report generation tools to include timestamps, mentor IDs, and more granular data.
• Improved topic analytics endpoints with mentor ID filtering and extended date range support.

🔧 DevOps and Technical Updates

• Session Optimization: Implemented a session engine patch using cached_db with a configurable max cache entry limit for enhanced performance.
• XBlock Updates: Updated tenant-fetching and revamped mentor iframe URLs to align with new platform requirements.
• DevOps Configurations: Added toggles for API visibility and course eligibility matching to streamline deployment flexibility.