🚀 Platform Updates: December 9, 2024

[ashlynn-brown]

🚀 Platform Updates: December 9, 2024

This week’s updates showcase the incredible progress our team has made, focusing on enhancing AI mentor capabilities, refining user experience, and strengthening backend performance. Here’s a detailed look at all the hard work that went into improving the platform:

🤖 AI Mentor Enhancements
Multimodal Chat & Guided Prompts:

• Added Gemini and Google LearnLM support with guided prompts leveraging mentor name, description, and proactive details when chat history is unavailable.

Resource Scraping & Tracking:

• Upgraded scrapper system with real-time tracking, memory components, and refined prompts for streamlined scraping workflows.

GitHub Workflow Automation:

• Introduced auto-approval of pull requests and enhanced annotations for seamless CI/CD pipelines.

Chat & Analytics:

• New chat history summary endpoint with enhanced mentor filtering in analytics.
• Expanded chat downloads to include timestamps and mentor-specific filtering.

Document Management:

• Fault-proof document training ensures operations continue even during scanner server downtime.
• Enhanced embedding management with better validation and modular logic.

✨ Frontend Improvements

Mentor SPA Updates:

• Revamped chatroom UI with centralized mentor details and proactive prompts.
• Chat history export and document preview features are now available.

Skills SPA Enhancements:

• Implemented licensing for courses affecting enrollment functionality.
• Improved mobile UI/UX styling for a consistent experience.

Analytics SPA Updates:

• Environment-based license assignments and easier cross-platform navigation introduced.

Components Enhancements:

• Improved tenant switching controls and added better scrolling for user profiles.
• Added support for platform-specific flags for fetching user courses.

⚙️ Backend Updates

Credential Management:

• Automated issuing for completed courses with enhanced model tracking to streamline workflows.

Advanced Search Capabilities:

• Skills, prompts, and program-based filtering added to the catalog search.
• Multi-query parameter support for more dynamic search results.

Course Enrollment:

• Introduced self-enrollment endpoints for faster and seamless course access.

Audience Management:

• Seeded default options and introduced APIs for audience creation and deletion to enhance targeting capabilities.

🛠️ DevOps & Ecosystem Updates

Resource Optimization:

• AI agent worker queues now operate with optimized memory and CPU limits, ensuring stability under heavy loads.

OAuth & Authentication:

• Enhanced user detail retrieval for Apple ID and introduced URL-encoded OAuth2 support for smoother integration in ibl-edx apps.

SQLite Database Improvements:

• Increased reliability with better locking, logging, and session management.
• Added memory and CPU resource controls to support robust performance.

CLI Tooling:

• Released the first version of ibl-cli-ops for streamlined DevOps workflows.

🌟 Additional Highlights

Mentor XBlock Updates:

• Improved iframe URL formatting and added mentor-specific fields for better integrations.

Elasticsearch Upgrade:

• Bumped to version 8.13.1 for faster and more accurate searches.

OAuth Enhancements:

• Refined Apple ID authentication with better logging and fallback mechanisms.

Ratings & Feedback:

• Eliminated redundant alerts during ratings updates for a smoother user experience.