Changelog - GrowPoint.io

GrowPoint 4.7 (November 2024)

New

Course summary! Administrators, coaches and senior coaches can view essential data including messages, number of interactions, progress and engagement outcomes from student’s course in one place
Detailed documentation for API usage
Introduce the 'course_slides_count’ API field to keep track of the current number of course slides. [Feature request]
Ability to configure which information should be visible on the course card on course home page
Information in admin’s „Things you need to know” panel about automatic matching approval
New „user_last_activity” field for automatic matching filters [Feature request]
Option to require coaches to submit engagement outcome before closing course early [Feature request]
Option to remember the choice and not ask next time in confirm dialogs [Feature request]
Data in a table format for previous/next course analytics section [Feature request]

Improvements

User fields can now be set as 'always available to set by coach’, ensuring they are always visible in the profiles of users with the coach role.
Media manager now allows renaming and moving folders. [Feature request]
Add information about message boxes type in course summary to add clarity that sorting messages by course order is done in context of message boxes type
Coaches and superadmins can now create/edit engagement outcomes in places outside of the course UI, such as administration panel or „My Courses” -> „Past” panel. [Feature request]
Increase the maximum displayed image resolution in the image block to 1920px to prevent images from appearing blurry

Changes

Updated the method for counting item views to reflect more accurate numbers by attempt to exclude bot activity
Changed the default sorting on the tag page from the latest items to the most popular ones.

Fixes

Resolved issue where partners couldn’t open direct links to draft courses.
Remove possible redirection loop when setting an invalid slug to cms item

GrowPoint 4.6 (September 2024)

New

Course slides exportable to PDF [Feature request]
Advanced cookies management that lets you organize cookies in a more granular way [Feature request]
Global email switch-off: Turn off emails being sent from the platform with just a click, giving you full control over your email communications [Feature request]
Expose basic Superadmin dashboard data via API [Feature request]
Customizable font size: Change the font size on the entire platform to suit your preferences and improve readability [Feature request]
Customizable content font size [Feature request]
Link suffix in Item Teasers: Add custom parameters to links in Item Teasers block (i.e. to add UTM data) [Feature request]
Ability to change top spacing of each rich-text editor’s block

Improvements

Ability to format text in „Quote” block [Feature request]
User session is valid until next day evening instead of fixed 24h since login action
Simplified layout in My courses -> Coach panel action items
More syntax checks when saving the Automatic Matching configuration
Increase date weight sorting granularity to seconds instead of days in Automatic Matching system
Remove additional „Overview” button from the mobile view of Course UI

Changes

Automatic Matching – „Recalculate All” button clears all previous matches before creating new recommendations [Feature request]
Remove default page title suffix (previously ’-{Page name}’)

Fixes

Message box expanding into huge size after pasting in content

GrowPoint 4.5 (July 2024)

New

Automatic matching! System will create student-coach pair recommendations based on the provided algorithm for you [Feature request]
Introduce API access. Connect to your platform via external services and get basic access to all CMS Items [Feature request]
Add User identifier to course reviews in Course Administration to easily find review’s owner [Feature request]
Option to filter Engagement Outcomes by Open/Closed groups [Feature request]
Option to filter Engagement Outcomes by creation date [Feature request]
Engagement Outcomes CSV export [Feature request]
Displaying Engagement Outcomes on Coach’s Closed groups [Feature request]
Ability to set a button in rich-text editor to open links in new tab [Feature request]
Option to set preferred timezones to have the most used timezones available on the top of the timezone select box [Feature request]
Course listing page displays shortcuts to active courses of the user
Ability to switch off autoplay on Video detail page
Ability to show custom course structure on course homepage

Improvements:

Secure „resend confirmation email” action from excessive usage (max 1 email per 5 minutes)
Menu links have access to items with public or only-by-link visibility
Add support for uploading files with names consisting non ASCII characters
Description of required course user field is now shown under the user field label which allows having longer descriptions [Feature request]

Changes

Button order in course layout on mobile screen now prioritize „My Coach” / „My Group” panels over „All Conversations” panel.
Rating filter sorted by „the most stars” first

Fixes

„Show more” button in Item teasers doesn’t filter next items by a channel
Header dropdown content is covered by different header elements

GrowPoint 4.4 (May 2024)

New

Group invite link available for coaches and students [Feature request]
Ability to set maximum number of students per group [Feature request]
Ability to filter coaches by their senior coach [Feature request]
Ability to filter coaches by their assignment date to their current senior coach [Feature request]
Ability to assign multiple coaches to a senior coach, even if they already have senior coach assigned [Feature request]
Invite group to take next course [Feature request]
Option to resend friend invitation email once every 2 hours [Feature request]
User course invitations are visible now on „My courses” page and on course homepage
Editable reasons why student/coach cancelled their course [Feature request]
Content items from the same channel visible as related items on item detail pages
Additional variable %new_user_name% in „New student in Course – to Coordinator” email template [Feature request]
Option to not show picture on top of the article
Tag page has now options to sort items, filter by item type, and filter by rating
Add Albert Sans and Gloock to self-hosted fonts [Feature request]
Translatable „tag” and „channel” urls [Feature request]
Ability to filter each CMS content type by Author
Duration info on video item thumbnail
„Item teasers” rich-text block has an offset field now, allowing to skip a number of items in given set (useful when you want to use more „Item teasers” blocks on one page)
Settable Background color when using background image for an item
Settable bullet infos in „Item teasers” rich-text block

Improvements

More flexible registration system
Possibility to set review as featured also in „Pending” reviews panel [Feature request]
CMS items entries added to Sitemap to improve Search Engine Optimization
Students number visibility threshold enabled on legacy Front Page builder
Nicer radio button layout
Article page text area stretched to the whole width of the container
Visible course progress for students in „Running without coach” tab
’table’ block in rich-text editor has now easy way to format text (bold, italic, link, underline) and „shift+enter” to add new line in the same cell

Changes

Administrators and coordinators have now access to courses being in „Draft” visibility [Feature request]

Fixes

Partner organizations filter should be visible only on administration pages
„Scheduled meeting” email should show full date and time to user, not only time part
Next and previous course statistics didn’t take the last day from date range into calculation

GrowPoint 4.3 (March 2024)

New

“Content paths” – offer a curated journey through interconnected content, leading viewers along a trail of related items that together create a seamless narrative.
Possibility to add HLS source in video module [Feature request]
View count on content item administrative listings [Feature request]
Users started/completed number of courses platform analytics chart
Show current number of students per slide on course slides list [Feature request]
Aggregating „New message received” emails. Users will now receive condensed email about new messages after 1 hour from first „new message received” email.
Ability to change default avatar [Feature request]
Ability to set a number from which course teasers will show number of students [Feature request]
Ability to set time format [Feature request]
All content list in superadmin panel
Ability to duplicate CMS Item

Improvements:

Add honeypot field into registration form to reduce number of fake accounts
Ability to filter by a „Channel” in Item teasers
Better quality of poster image in video block

Changes:

URL Redirects pass additional parameters

Fixes

Showing invalid Private note last update date

GrowPoint 4.2.8

Fixes

Button to show past conversations in new tab is not visible for coaches

GrowPoint 4.2.7

Changes

The login/registration screen by default uses the dark version of the logo, as it better fits the current layout

GrowPoint 4.2.6

Fixes

Missing authorization in media resource managing actions

GrowPoint 4.2.5

New

Add support for .ico files

GrowPoint 4.2.4

Fixes

Course payload link fallback page is not loading properly

GrowPoint 4.2.3

Fixes

Accountability Partner doesn’t get „Answers summary” email

GrowPoint 4.2.2

Fixes

Course homepage „Content color” field default value is missing

GrowPoint 4.2.1

Changes

Senior Coach can view assigned coach’s past students info

GrowPoint 4.2 (January 2024)

New

Platform internal url redirection system
Related items – set related content for given CMS item and show them as „Related items” module
Custom page builder option for course homepage
Block „Accordion” in rich text editor
Senior coach has a place to see coach user data [Feature request]
Ability to filter all conversation panel by 'not answered’
Ability to change „Ask question” icon [Feature request]
Ability to show given student information in coach’s past course [Feature request]
Separate setting for slide preview
Preview content button in cms course edit page [Feature request]
Each CMS content item has now published date information [Feature request]
Ability to switch off the „Show more” button on course homepage [Feature request]

Improvements

Visual radio buttons in admin panel
Block image preview
Ability to load native Vimeo player in Video content item

Changes

UI changes for CMS filters
Content page shows only content-like items
Boxy elements got rounded corners
Increase number of shown tags in given tag group (up to 100) [Feature request]
CMS Delimiter block in Rich Text editor generates a line instead of three stars
Coach’s students are sorted from newest to oldest
Course list on administration panel is now sorted by „order” field
Remove analytics data for redactor role

Fixes

Analytics date range panel covers User menu
Multiple fields filtering in CMS
Error when user is redactor and zoom integration is enabled
Error when sorting only by 'created_at’ information

GrowPoint 4.1.2

Changes

New naming convention for landing/simple pages in system urls

GrowPoint 4.1.1

Fixes

Changing the course administration settings for a course with „draft” visibility changes its visibility to „Removed”

GrowPoint 4.1 (December 2023)

New

Channel content type. Create internal brands and assign content to them! [Feature request]
Coach quick actions panel. On top of My Courses page coaches will see their urgent actions items, such as list of new students, groups with yellow and red flags and, optionally, groups with students who are missing engagement outcome [Feature request]
FAQ structured data. Course FAQ will be scanned by search engine crawlers allowing for even better organic search result presentation.
Additional call-to-action button on the bottom of the course homepage
Additional call-to-action button on the bottom of shared course slide
Additional call-to-action button on the first slide of course structure in course homepage
Related items shown in a randomized order
Adjust number of reviews initially displayed on the course homepage
Option to remove item type info from „Item teasers” block
URL redirection system that remembers the history of item slugs and redirects to the latest one
Email notification to coach about missing engagement outcome in expiring group [Feature request]
Ability to sort students in Admin->Users->Students->[Students] by enrollment time [Feature request]
Ability to sort conversations in admin view for active groups [Feature request]
Ability to open conversations in admin view for active groups in a new tab [Feature request]
Ability to hide login button in site’s header
Ability to expand/collapse all modules in page builder
Ability to change heading level in „Item teasers” block title
Ability to set custom sorting order for tag groups
Ability to limit the amount of engagement outcomes to one per student

Improvements

[Action required] New login/register form with refactored social login buttons.
Please add to your Facebook social login app redirect url: https://{your.site}/_auth/facebook/check
Please add to your Google social login app redirect url: https://{your.site}/_auth/google/check
Multi-source image loading for performance optimization
„Pinned slides” icon has an active state when there is at least one pinned slide
Nicer bottom border for multiple modules in page builder with white text color
Content item Video has now „additional content” field with rich text editor
New structured data fields in course item to show courses in search engines as „course” – Course workload/Is paid course/Course price/Currency
More strict error message regarding Zoom meeting removal error
Better handling of images in rich text editor columns
Menus form improvements

Changes

Restore platform small logo image
Changed location of the sticky action bar on course detail page from top to bottom of the page
Make course filter „rating” as last to choose
Content item 'reviews’ now by default shows reviews from all public courses with „Show user reviews on course related pages” option switched on
More strict way of parsing urls in messages

Fixes

Simple pages in draft mode are not shown in administration simple page list
Incorrect slugs when using cyrillic text in Name field
Admin hover menu is cut off in the bottom of the page
Quote block should use the same font as paragraph block
When removing planned Zoom meeting the row with given meeting is always removed even if error occurs and meeting cannot be deleted
Archive errors when student is moved between running groups

GrowPoint 4.0.4 (December 2023)

Fixes

Course image in the passport administration page doesn’t show up

GrowPoint 4.0.3 (November 2023)

Fixes

Course type structured data is missing hasCourseInstance and offers properties

GrowPoint 4.0.2 (November 2023)

Fixes

Relative footer links point to incorrect urls

GrowPoint 4.0.1 (November 2023)

Fixes

Communication course preview doesn’t work

GrowPoint 4.0.0 (September 2023)

New

„Article” content type
„Video” content type
„Landing page” content type
„Simple page” content type
„Tags” system
„Authors” functionality
„Media Manager” functionality
Flexible „Page builder” engine
„Redactor” user role
Configurable navigation system
Course homepage „Bullet points” module
Course homepage „FAQ” module
Course homepage „Course structure” module with option to preview slides
Course homepage „Featured review” module
Course homepage „Course card disclaimer” text
Option to schedule publish date of a content item
Option to generate an invite link to a specific course group
Content specific font setting
Profile links available as a dropdown menu
Structured rich text editor for long form content
Ability to build fully custom front page based on a new page builder engine
Option to set a site-wide date format
Group student count visible in administrative course group list
Ability to remove Senior Coach role from user
Ability to give course group its administrative name
„Montserrat” and „Source Serif Pro” in Self-hosted font options

Improvements

General look-and-feel refresh
Scalable typography
General performance improvements
Course welcome page fully flexible via a page builder engine
Course UI refresh
Course UI layout update for mobile devices

Changes

Course reviews module showing only 3 reviews at the start on course homepage

Fixes

Google login button misleading action before Google SDK load

GrowPoint 3.12.9 (August 2023)

Fixes

„Show conversation in new tab” link showing error popup when clicked

GrowPoint 3.12.8 (August 2023)

Improvements

’Student assignment – to Coach’ email is now sent not only when the coach is assigned to the group, but also when the student joins the running group

GrowPoint 3.12.7 (July 2023)

Fixes

Inability to change course category visibility

GrowPoint 3.12.6 (July 2023)

Fixes

Youtube/Vimeo players are not shown in Chromium-based browsers when Zoom Web view is enabled

GrowPoint 3.12.5 (July 2023)

Fixes

Usage of Adobe’s Font Name 'Source Sans Pro’ which became 'Source Sans 3′

GrowPoint 3.12.4 (June 2023)

New

Meetings tab in My courses: Now you can conveniently view all your scheduled Zoom meetings in one place
Meetings number available in course/superadministration dashboards and analytics

Improvements

Ability to remove 'register to platform’ button from hero module
Zoom web client now has a „component mode”, allowing you to drag the Zoom call window wherever you prefer

GrowPoint 3.12.3 (April 2023)

New

Place to configure Zoom Business Meeting SDK/Server-to-Server OAuth credentials: If you are using a Business license, you can add these credentials by going to the Superadmin -> Integrations -> Zoom settings.

Improvements

Separate integration sections into their own URLs for improved organization
Include student email delivery status in the student’s info table on the Course Students page.

GrowPoint 3.12.2 (April 2023)

New

Ability to set Zoom meeting timezone while scheduling meeting
Ability to force Zoom premium meetings on platform
Ability to switch on/off Zoom web client
Ability to set custom Welcome Page image

Improvements

Zoom meeting start time is shown with additional timezone name
Coach can join Zoom meeting in native application as host
Coach can now enter a group without students directly from the My Courses page

Changes

Join current call from the Video popup directs to the native application instead of web client
Add interpretation of %timezone% variable in the `meeting.created.premium.success` (meeting). If you want to add this also to your translations, go to the „Meeting translations”
The last activity of users in the All Users CSV export is now being served in UTC

Fixes

’New meeting scheduled’ email template coach link directs to the course preview instead of given course group
Enroll action custom code is fired after start action custom code
Inability to filter queuing tasks via Type

GrowPoint 3.12.1 (March 2023)

Fixes

Error in custom licensed Zoom premium hosts synchronization

GrowPoint 3.12.0 (February 2023)

New

Private notes: a place in a course slide for storing personal thoughts, ideas or anything that the user wants to keep private and not visible to anyone else. The notes can’t be viewed in administration panel and even Superadmin in „impersonation mode” doesn’t have access to them.
Reftagger integration – Convert Bible references into links with hover-preview. Include references like „1 John 4:19” or „Eph 2:8-9” on your site. Faithlife Reftagger automatically tags them, creating tooltips that appear when a reader hovers over them. The service is available for English language.

Improvements

Forgot password function returns the same response for found email in database as for not found
Add information about time restrictions and approvals in course administration slide list to have easy preview of student course flow
Redirect not found slide share link to the related course homepage

Fixes

Not deletable course certificate image
End date for the assignment of a Coach to a Senior Coach is not retained after form submission

GrowPoint 3.11.0 (February 2023)

New

Additional Course homepage / Course preview links available in Course dashboard
Option to hide My Coach / My Group / All Conversations links from course sidebar

Improvements

Passport surveys can be optional so users don’t have to fill them to obtain access to the next slide

Fixes

Wrong login error message formatting
PHP notices

GrowPoint 3.10.0 (January 2023)

New

Engagement outcomes feature – measure what are the outcomes of the student engagement with coaches! The coaches can now report on significant outcomes of their conversations based on the predefined list created by the superadministrator.

Improvements

New mapping fields in Salesforce (all fields from All users panel, student’s current slide, course category as multiChoice field)
Faster Coaches/Students synchronization to Salesforce

Fixes

Headings bug in Coach notes

GrowPoint 3.9.0 (November 2022)

New

Email blacklist feature with options to block email from registration and block email from contact form
White text option to quote/focus/verse blocks
Sort Students by assignment date in MyCourses->Coach
„My review” section (shown on the course homepage review list)
Conversations from closed course are now available via link
Ability to switch coach light from the administration panel
Ability to retain the original user avatar image with metadata
Ability to integrate multiple GrowPoint platforms with one Salesforce Organization
Ability to sort reviews by „Latest” and the „Most helpful”
Ability to sort conversations from closed course by „Course order”/”Conversation order”
Ability to add User UUID to Users CSV export

Improvements

Front-end architecture update allowing for better performance and maintainability
Clicking on inactive Send Message button will highlight related input text field
Optimize RTL styles

Fixes

Passport layout bugs
Rendering html in tooltips
Possible error when saving Passport Outcome answers
Alert in browser console about fonts preloading
Duplicated reviews on Course homepage

Other changes

Remove autofocus on login/registration page for mobile device
Change button layout to be more clickable in reminder/info banners
Change notifications layout to improve readability

GrowPoint 3.8.1 (October 2022)

New

Introduce Queuing System – this allows us to move some of the request work to the background which leads to delivering faster responses and more maintainable code.

Currently the most visible change you will see is that the emails will be sent instantly.

You can go to the Superadmin->Settings->Queuing system and see which tasks are/were/will be executed. You can also re-execute given task (i.e. resend an email to the given User).
Please use the „Execute again” function carefully as it may produce unexpected results to your users. In most cases the correct use of this function includes resolving failed tasks or debugging uncommon behaviour.

GrowPoint 3.8.0 (September 2022)

### Attention – Nerd Zone ###
Massive overhaul of the GrowPoint infrastructure and codebase.

The goal of this update is not to create any new functionalities but to strengthen the foundation of the system, which will allow us to shift faster and more reliable code for you.

Some of the things we worked on (since January 2022) are:

Analytics/archived data serving update
Framework update
PHP update
Response times optimization (in some cases we managed to reduce the response time 10x compared to previous GrowPoint versions)
Simplification of our server stack

Our stats show that we’ve changed more than 4300 files!

We are excited about this major (although for most users – invisible) step in our journey to bring you the most effective and safe tool for your ministry.

GrowPoint 3.7.6 (July 2022)

New

Course library Front Page module got a lot of new customizations like custom backgrounds, new course teaser layout. Go and explore 🙂
Ability to attach „real” Course Reviews into User Testimonials Front Page module
Number of „Questions to Coordinator” in Course Analytics
Ability to reset Flag status for a Coach [Feature request]
Access User UUID in custom code [Feature request]
User Fields statistics in Course Passport
Ability to export only details or only summary rows in Global Coach Statistics [Feature request]
Added three columns in Global Coach Statistics (’Welcome in time value’, 'Number of counted Users in average progress’, 'User identifier (UUID)’) [Feature request]
Added two columns to Coach Statistics (’Welcome in time value’, 'User identifier (UUID)’) [Feature request]
Ability to switch off notifications after 3/7 days of inactivity [Feature request]
Automatic email after Coach being subtracted from Senior Coach role [Feature request]
Add option to open footer menu links in a new tab
Ability to hide course from courses archived list [Feature request]
Registrations chart in Superadmin dashboard
Enrollments chart in Courses dashboards

Improvements

Update Zoom UI translations
Flash messages don’t block UI
Simplify identifying students by Coach (available searchable User identifier in Student’s info table) [Feature request]

Fixes

Students don’t have an option to extend Course if Course doesn’t allow Students to cancel a Course
Sidebar in Course sometimes covers the platform header

Other changes

Author field for Course Review fallbacks to user.anonymous translation if given User doesn’t have name/lastname set or given Course Review is marked as anonymous
Duplicate Coach full name in Global Coach Statistics CSV export [Feature request]
All Conversations panel is linked now in Course Sidebar [Feature request]

GrowPoint 3.7.5 (April 2022)

New

Customizable columns in User CSV export
Disable User function (User won’t have ability to login on own account and register with the same email)
Internal names for 'Slides’/’Message boxes’ visible only for coaches
Possibility to set custom Message box color in course
Google login icon for Users having associated Google account
Filter Users that have associated Google account (Go to User filtering and pick „Can login via Google”)
Choose Courses by theirs category in User filtering (In User filtering under course list, there is a „Category view”)
Filter Users that are students and were active/inactive in any of picked courses in last x days (Go to User filtering and pick „Last course activity”)

Improvements

Block possibility of assigning Students from „past” column to the current or new groups in CourseAdministration->Users->Students
User filtering – if given filter type/condition has the same further choosing options, then their values are preserved
User filtering – Add possibility to copy datetime from one filter to another
User filtering – Add possibility to edit datetime manually
Simplify choosing '1 day’ date in User filtering
User filtering – Add „Select all” button to the 'Courses’/’Course categories’ options

Fixes

Salesforce mapping fields form isn’t shown properly
Datetime in User filtering is lost when web browser window is moved
Email address should not allow non-english characters
Push notifications should be triggered only if the „Web Push” setting is enabled in Superadministration

Other changes

Add „Go to previous slide” button in slide footer
Notifications for Coaches will show internal names of 'Slides’/’Message boxes’ with fallbacks to the default

GrowPoint 3.7.4 (April 2022)

New

Possibility to add video in hero module

Improvements

Updated Custom page mobile view

GrowPoint 3.7.3 (March 2022)

New

Customizable fonts. Now you’re able to set a custom font face on your site as well as choose a different font face for the headlines. You can choose from self-hosted fonts and system fonts (for best performance) or experiment with all fonts available through Google Fonts service.
A way to change description in 403 error page – please look at `exception.forbidden.description` translation
Pin this slide available also for Students
Ability to filter Global Coach Statistics by User/Course
Add course `Launch date` and `Notes` fields – those are available from Course Dashboard page
Ability to filter Courses by name in Superadmin->Courses list

Improvements

Additional information about Coach’s assigned students in given day in CourseAdministration->Users->Students page
Better explanation for Coach Statistics columns
Empty or anonymous reviews will get now default `user.anonymous` translation
Added Partner logo to course certificate
New layout for popups, tables, system messages
More prominent `Send` button in Contact us page
Fixed sidebar in CourseAdministration/Superadministration
Responsive Administration panel

Fixes

SVG conversion to image occasionally throws exception

Other changes

Added 3 columns to Global Coach Statistics – id, email, type
Added 2 columns to Coach Statistics – id, email
Default reviews score from 5 to 0 – now the Student must choose the number by himself

GrowPoint 3.7.2 (February 2022)

New

Number of Messages in Global Analytics table
Number of Interactions in Global Analytics table
Superadmin can now send himself a test email of certain Email Template

Improvements

Added parser for images in slide pasted in base64 format
Added rel=”nofollow noopener noreferrer” attribute to the automatically generated links in User Messages
Reviews stars average number is now more granular
Set Course Completion Flag for Students when Administrator changes Course Completion Point
Better Partner Links appearance on Partner homepage
Sharable slides in Private Courses have now additional information, that sharing functionality is available only for publicly visible courses
Refreshed default Course image
Ability to send User to certain My Course tab
Custom shortcodes as Conversations/Students Info have now separate dropdown menu in Redactor
Custom Page link can be removed from list of all pages on right sidebar of custom page view
Ability to hide Custom Page in search engines
Toggle in table header now toggle all checkboxes
Additional confirmation dialog when Administrator assigns new user to running group
Better buttons positioning in bottom menu in mobile view

Fixes

Possible XSS in slides when showing User Fields
Can’t edit internal urls
User inputs are not persisted when User Fields form shows error regarding required fields
Possible error when User visits Passport Outcome questionnaire and his Student Role is already archived
Possible error popup when Student watched a film on certain slide and quickly went to the next slide

Other changes

(mail)email.footer `You’ve received this email because you signed up for „%site_name%”, a place to learn, experience and connect with others.` -> `%current_year% %site_name% – a place to learn, experience and connect with others.`

GrowPoint 3.7.1 (January 2022)

New

Interaction Metric – a new way to measure student’s engagement, counting student’s responses to messages from others

Improved

Handling long content in Html redactor
Added interpretation of 'script’ tag in Passport Question Description

GrowPoint 3.7 (January 2022)

New

Salesforce integration
Customizable Header – change background/text color, height for desktop/mobile, Logo height/side spacing for desktop/mobile
Google login integration
Ability to invite Friends by Students to course group [Action Required – new Email template]. The old „Friends” feature (allowing students to specify friend’s email address to track your course progress) was renamed to „Accountability partner”
Ability to upload Logo that works on white background
New Email Template with custom intro text
Preview of user avatar in profile section
Option to add in slides independent html mobile content and desktop content
Info about not saved data in superadmin/admin pages when user wants to leave a page unsaved
Add Coach search in all pages in MyCourses->SeniorCoach
Info for Coaches about certain student notifications in student’s info

Improved

25 additional Zoom interface custom translations
Add alt attribute to public images
Additional timing validation when review is submitted (10 minutes to edit misspells)
Information about user „Other courses” in student details now consists also closed courses info
New event tracking code – 'Student goes to the next slide’
Zoom 'Open in new window’ action is blocked until the Zoom Meeting is fully loaded (this blocks ability to create multiple Zoom connections accidentally)
Displaying emails on MS Outlook client
Add fadeout to info about slide completion requirements
Mark 'last login’ to user that is currently registering to platform
Send 'x days of inactivity’ email only if student didn’t complete course
’x days of inactivity’ email is sent with context of the most recent user course
Retrying sending emails
Logo in email directs to the platform
Set focus to the input field in Course Key Popup
Course dashboard tiles directs to the related pages or analytics sections
„Refresh page” button in 'Slide not found’ error popup directs to the student recent slide
Student ask question message is visible for assigned Coaches in certain student slide
Group empty months in User calendar
Displaying slide background in shared slides
Redesigned Zoom Join Now banner – Expose opening Zoom Meeting also in Zoom application (Zoom Web Client works great for quick 1×1 calls, but for more users – let’s say at least 4, the quality of video and overall experience is better in native application)

Fixed

Possible XSS in Superadmin->Settings->Custom code->Course list
Possible XSS in Superadmin->Settings->Privacy->Course list
Wrong number of 'Courses Started/Completed last 7 days’ in Partner Dashboard when Partner doesn’t have any courses
Deleted users are shown on Senior Coach assignment popup
Senior Coach matches are kept event if user deletes account
Senior Coach can’t delete account
Login popup on error page is not displayed properly
Can’t search users with 'number of courses’ = 0
After saving/editing review there is '_’ symbol added to the url
Table layout in Front Page Custom Html module
Can’t generate CSV passport report for large set of data
Custom verse colors works only if course has custom color for course elements set
Slide sidebar in Tablet/Mobile resolutions has to be tapped 2 times to be displayed
%course_name% shortcode in Email changes ” sign to a "

Changes

Coach closed courses in 'My Course->Senior Coach’ are sorted by close date descending (the newest first)
[Action Required if you want to update your translations respectively] Current 'Course with Friend’ feature is now 'Course with accountability partner’ which shows better what the feature means and it doesn’t mix with 'Inviting Friends’ feature.
Here is a list with affected (default) translations:
- (course)course.friendform.email Your friend’s email -> (course)course.accountability-partner-form.email Your accountability partner’s email
- (course)1-2-3.share.friendform.title Your friend -> (course)1-2-3.share.accountability-partner-form.title Your accountability partner
- (course)course.friendform.name Your friend’s name -> (course)course.accountability-partner-form.name Your accountability partner’s name
- (course)course.friendform.invite-friend Invite a friend -> (course)course.accountability-partner-form.invite-friend Invite an accountability partner
- (general)general.user-friend-didnt-respond Your friend didn’t respond to your invitation -> (general)general.user-accountability-partner-didnt-respond Your accountability partner didn’t respond to your invitation
- (general)general.user-friend-resigned Your friend resigned from receiving your updates -> (general)general.user-accountability-partner-resigned Your accountability partner resigned from receiving your updates
- (general)general.user-friend-already-set This is a course with a friend – we notify your friend about your progress. You have already defined your friend in profile settings. If you want to change that go to your profile settings. -> (general)general.user-accountability-partner-already-set This is a course with an accountability partner – we notify your accountability partner about your progress. You have already defined your accountability partner in profile settings. If you want to change that go to your profile settings.
- (general)general.user-friend-joins-you-in-courses This friend joins you in courses: %courses%. -> (general)general.user-accountability-partner-joins-you-in-courses This accountability partner joins you in courses: %courses%.
- (general)general.friend-thanks-for-joining Thank’s for joining your friend! If you’re interested, have a look at our course selection and pick one yourself! -> (general)general.accountability-partner-thanks-for-joining Thank’s for joining your friend! If you’re interested, have a look at our course selection and pick one yourself!
[friend_form] shortcode in slides is changed to [accountability_partner_form]. We have changed this automatically in all slides content.

GrowPoint 3.6 (September 2021)

New

New user role – Partner. Allow Partners to create and manage branded courses and dedicated and customizable Partner’s homepage
Course Passports – measure key performance metrics and impact of courses all in one place
Course Invitations – Partner can invite other Users to cooperate on given course as Coach/Senior Coach/Administrator/Coordinator
Course ownership
Sitemap in robots.txt file

Improved

Refreshed Course list in Superadministration
Page speed
Email validation when adding new Coach
Offline page
robots.txt regarding Ads
Title tag in course view
Anchor support in redirections after authentication errors
Catching pdf generation errors
Redactor in Front Page Custom Html module
Custom urls validation
Course tile empty state

Fixed

Re-Login with Facebook
Not supported %current_year% variable in Contact Us/Congratulations to Friend email templates
Custom Sidebar Visibility settings when creating new slide
User Fields ordering
Visibility of slides that doesn’t support Friend mode in „Send email to student’s friend”
Vulnerability in course (colors) import function
Calculating Coach flag when Coach and Students last activity dates are identical
Redirections after authentication error
Visibility of hidden Course Library Categories on Front Page
Unskippable User Number Field in enrollment forms
Quotes encoding in Contact Us emails
Self Hosted fonts adjustments after last changes in Google Fonts

Changes

Until now platform had default course category „All courses” with only public courses. Now all courses will be in the default category
Default 'user.password-reset.request.button’ translation from „Send me a new password” to „Reset password”

GrowPoint 3.5.1 (March 2021)

New

Toggle password visibility in login/registration form

Fixed

Error when visiting incorrect URL of shared slides
Error when using reset password link that expired
Error when visiting an archived course – Removed archived course link from search engines
Default SEO title and meta description values
Course export issues
Google Search Console connectivity, when hitting a lot of requests
Ability to add empty User Field in Course Settings
Duplicated divider in registration form popup when the list of consents is empty

GrowPoint 3.5.0 (February 2021)

New

Video calls – integration with Zoom
SEO – Integration with Google Search Console
SEO – Use Open Graph protocol
SEO – Describe page content for the Google Search Engine more precisely by implementing Structured Data
SEO – add Title, Meta Description
Email misspells suggestions
Extended Email verification
Image of course in coach courses view
Image of course in Course Dashboard
Ability to change quote/info/verse colors
Ability to remove a review

Fixed

XSS vulnerability

GrowPoint 3.4.3 (January 2021)

New

Option to disable „Print out your data”, „Manage privacy settings”, „Delete your account” in user profile and add instead an explanation
SEO – add sitemap.xml
SEO – GrowPoint will remember old urls and redirect to new ones

Improved

response time
iOS responsive layout

Fixed

Logo scaling in email template

GrowPoint 3.4.1 (October 2020)

Improved

Block possibility to set slide as own parent
Sanitize uploaded SVG files
Search in Course->Users->Coaches
Additional „%review%” variable in 'Student submitted a review – to Coordinator’ and 'Student edited a review – to Coordinator’ email templates. It will paste the review into the email template.
Shared slides are now not indexed by robots (sometimes the search engine kept not actual share link)
Additional description for social login available
Additional info about the need for sending a message under the messageBox in slides
Not visible categories are not indexed by robots
Possibility to autoplay 'How it works’ and 'User testimonials’ modules
Validation of dates when extending course end date
General email delivery
Slide’s 'limit access’ settings – protection when students are currently on the edited slide

Fixed

Links in course category were broken when contained a space in urls

GrowPoint 3.4 (July 2020)

New

New, modular Front Page. Add testimonials and FAQ, customize modules and layout to your needs.
Personalization – welcome your users with personalized message.
GrowPoint App – new mobile experience with Progressive Web App technology (Add application to home screen) and new mobile navigation.
Push notifications – enable push notifications on your device and be notified about new messages.
Notification center – click the notification bell in the top-right corner and see all your notifications in one place for quick and easy access.
Course reviews – give your users a voice with public course reviews and stars.
Check the “Remember me” option while logging-in to prevent being automatically logged out after 24 hours.
Global Coach statistics – see how the coaches perform across all your courses.
New cookies management – greater control on cookies used.
New course page design
- Top navigation bar doesn’t change between the front page and course page.
- New sidebar with My Student/My group/My Coach and Course navigation.
- New course toolbox next to the slide (available actions depend on the context: Pin slide, Share slide, Ask question, Course administration, Notes, Remove students, Extend the course).
- Notification circles in the course navigation menu – glowing circles next to the slides that contain new messages.
- Additional progress bar in mobile view to visualize the progress in course.
- New notification center will always prioritize messages from the course you’re currently in.
- More options for colors – change the sidebar color or gradient and set the sidebar transparency over the background graphics.
New course home page design
New welcome page design
Notification about not sent message when User is going to another slide.
Added possibility to show information about platform scheduled maintenance.
Optional “Additional Coach resources” link in MyCourses->Coach.
Pictures uploaded to Front Page and Course Home Pages are automatically converted to optimal sizes.
Since GrowPoint 3.4 you’ll be able to add all new translations before the update.

Improved

Student activity is now logged not only when the user sends a message but also when opening course and going to the next slide.
Auto-generated avatars now interpret cyrylica characters.
Option to send „Course expiration alert” only to students that didn’t complete the course.
More precise „student’s time in course” measurement in the calendar.
On the “Users” administration page new filter available: Login via Facebook.
More details about the course are now available to present on the course home page (number of conversations, videos, slides).
Variable `%current_year%` available in email templates and email footer translation (email.footer).
Mobile navigation on Superadmin and Course admin panels.
Global event tracking codes for events like Course Enrollment and Completion now can use variable ‘%course_name%’ to easily add 3rd party event tracking to all your courses.
Added “My last message” column in MyCourses->Coach.
Custom sidebar messages in Communication Course now available as HTML code.
Clearer login form when using “Log in with facebook” next to email login.
Sort conversations in the archives with time of the first message in the given conversation.
Option to start counting flags time after coach assignment.
Option to set the number of days to raise a flag.
Option to disable Congratulation email to students (useful in series of training courses).
All first-party cookies are served only with a 'secure’ flag.
Private Courses are not visible in search engines.
We’ve updated some of the default text – review the changes here
Other improvements and optimizations.

Fixed

On “Users” administration page search is now available on mobile.
Course admin will now see a default slide in Communication Course instead of spinning wheel.
Tablet navigation on Superadmin and Course admin panels.
In the “Show conversation” dialog box the admin will see all conversations with the student, even those that the student doesn’t yet have access to (because of progress in the course).
SVG logos in emails.
Activity displayed on the calendar.
Coach can now set a 1 day vacation.
Fixes on admin views of big groups in student’s assignment on mobile.
User avatars in course archives.

GrowPoint 3.3.1

New

option to allow sending notification emails to the users that didn’t confirm their email address
links in messages will be automatically recognized and formatted
’scroll to top’ button in course view

Improved

conversation view
Course Admin dashboard information about coach’s red flag links directly to these Coaches

Fixed

the number of Students assigned to the Coach (during matching) is now automatically refreshed and always accurate
duplication of Coach names in Senior Coach panel
missing 2 translations in conversations view
setting 'Custom completion point’ in course settings wasn’t always showing all slides

GrowPoint 3.3

New

new look for messaging
GrowPoint welcomes emojis ?
set a custom color for a course
use SVG files for system logos

Improved

use color picker instead of HEX values
better placement of approval buttons in the course page
better management of coaches on the Senior Coach tab
new operators/conditions for users filtering
a lot of smaller things here and there

Fixed

changing the order of slides in Courses
RTL template for email preview page

GrowPoint 3.2.1

Improved

course navigation – students can now move to the first unopened slide with clicking it’s name in the navigation (not only the „Next” button on the bottom of the slide)
coach is notified about the messages that were sent before he has joined the group

GrowPoint 3.2

New

advanced users filtering and export (superadmin -> users)
„Ask question” button available for the courses without coach (course admin -> settings -> other )
new user field type – checkboxes
coordinator can view and delete comments in „Watch” slide in 1-2-3 course
add tables to your slides
show student info to the Coach on any slide using [students_info] shortcode

Improved

your messages can now have new lines
sending messages is now more robust
coach green/red light switch
default user avatars
default sorting of coaches on number of students assigned
quick preview of coach’s conversations in the assignment panel
information on the date of last assignment
method of counting active students in communication courses

GrowPoint 3.1

New

Facebook Login. Go to Settings -> Integrations -> Enable Facebook app (learn more about enabling facebook login here)
Registration to platform without course enrollment now possible
One place to manage all custom code. Go to Settings -> Custom code
Option to show privacy consents as statements instead of checkboxes. Go to Settings -> Privacy
Ability to repeat email and password fields on the registration form. Go to Settings -> General

Improved

overall performance

Fixed

issues with student details mobile view

GrowPoint 3.0

General

refreshed design
faster engine
1 step registration option
support for right-to-left layout
better email notification management
front page slider with promoted courses
new „My courses” layout
documentation

Courses

1-2-3 courses
new course layout
course types: Standard, 1-2-3, Communication
course interactions options: Coach, Friend, Group
simplified slide types: content slide, survey slide
quick course selector
flexibility in matching students and coaches
„quick start” option – start now, get coach later
course key for secured course access
more questions on one slide
coach approval required slide option
coordinator approval required slide option
ability to choose which slide will count the completion of the course (not necessarily the last one)
more course certificate options

Course categories

new „all courses” category as a default
ordering courses in every category
hidden categories accessible with URL

Coaches

„All conversations” panel – read your conversation with student all in one place
add notes on students
add students nicknames
preview course when no students are assigned
senior coach role for reviewing coaches work

Emails

better notification management
daily report
add message excerpt to the new message notification
Measurement
new course analytics
new global analytics
add third-party tracking code for registration, enrollment and course completion
course passport – new surveying and effectiveness evaluation system

Administrative

new organisation of Superadmin and Course admin menu
redesigned Admin dashboard
more course administrators and coordinators in one course
easier course management (ordering, promoting)
archiving courses
removing coach role
adding users
ability to preview running course groups
plus a lot of small changes and improvements here and there:)