Allows selecting multiple participants at once to change course requirements (mandatory or optional), send reminders, or remove them. 

Currently, course admins must perform these actions for each participant individually, which is time-consuming.

Learning: Batch actions for participants

Currently, users who fail a test only see the failing result; they cannot see which questions they got right or wrong or why.

This improvement lets users review the test after failing so they can see which questions they answered correctly or incorrectly, understand the reasons, identify knowledge gaps, and focus their study for the next attempt.

Learning: Test failed feedback

Adds tracking of test attempts so you can see how many tries a participant needed to pass. This information is available to both the participant and course administrators.

Learning: Test attempts

Set a deadline by which participants must complete a given course. The system will nudge participants to make steady progress and help ensure timely completion.

Learning: Deadline for course completion

Adds functionality that provides greater flexibility for managing the course lifecycle.

Learning: Unpublish, archive and duplicate courses

Have AI generate a set of test questions in seconds. Choose the lessons you want to include, review and refine the questions, and your test is ready to use.

Learning AI Assistant: Test Generator

You provide a lesson topic and learning objectives, and the AI generates a complete lesson draft that's ready for review and refinement. This includes a clear structure, explanations of key concepts and content written for the intended audience.

Learning AI Assistant: Lesson Generator

The Course Outline Generator is an AI assistant available in ahead Learning. Its purpose is to help course creators quickly generate a course outline, meaning a structured list of lessons with titles and short summaries.

This assistant is designed to speed up the early stages of course creation. Defining a solid outline is often the most time-consuming and ambiguous part of building a course. The Course Outline Generator reduces that effort by providing a clear starting point that you can refine.



Learning AI Assistant: Course Outline Generator

Insert structured data in news and pages using simple tables.

New building block 'Tables'

ahead Learning empowers organizations to cultivate 
a culture of continuous learning across your employee’s journey, from onboarding to upskilling.  

With a personalized, mobile-friendly experience, ahead Learning simplifies course creation and delivery, progress tracking, and assessment, making it easy to build lasting learning habits. 

ahead Learning

This update introduces two exciting new features that greatly enhance the functionality of Polls and Quizzes. With the option to select multiple answers, users can now provide a more comprehensive response. Additionally, images can now be incorporated into both the question description and answer choices, making these interactive tools even more engaging.

Polls and Quizzes: Multiple choice + Pictures

Allows members of Communities to include Polls and Quizzes in their posts.

Polls & Quizzes in Communities

Introduce a registration process for events by allowing users to RSVP and indicate their attendance status. This will enable event managers to conveniently collect and access registrants' information.

Events registration & RSVP

The AI Summary Building Block automatically generates a short, easy-to-read summary of your page content with just one click. It’s designed to help readers quickly grasp the key points of a long article, news item, or lesson, saving time and improving content engagement. 

AI Summary Bulding Block

Add a search box to Communities for easy post searching.

Search within a Community

We're introducing a new navigation feature to improve usability and engagement on mobile devices: a bottom navigation bar for intuitive browsing on the go.

The navigation bar is customizable, allowing you to highlight key areas of your intranet and make the app more convenient and user-friendly than ever.

Mobile navigation bar

Enable the ability to edit community posts after they have been published.

Edit Community posts

The ahead app fails to display a red notification bubble on iOS devices to indicate unread notifications. This feature aims to rectify this issue and improve the user experience.

Unread notifications bubble on app icon for iOS users

This flexible module allows for the introduction of various features, including:
1. Hub-specific links (as opposed to the Quicklinks module, which only includes global links)
2. Attachments
3. Microsoft 365 file links

By incorporating these capabilities, you can enhance your Hubs and provide employees with a diverse selection of resources.

Hubs Module: Resources (Links and Documents)

When creating Hubs, users may currently feel limited by the inability to remove or conceal two modules: Navigation and Pages. This improvement offers the option to hide these modules if they do not serve a purpose, resulting in more streamlined and clutter-free Hubs.

Hubs: Hide Navigation and Pages module

Introducing a user management tool in ahead that empowers admins to effortlessly manage users, distribute credentials, and ensure secure access with intuitive login mechanisms.

Simplify User Management (Identity & Authentication)

In addition to the current feature of selecting a suggested image from a video frame, users can now enjoy even more options: 
- Crop suggested images for a more personalized thumbnail
- Upload custom thumbnails for a unique touch

Improved thumbnail tool for videos in pages

Gives users the ability to express reactions in both one-to-one and group chats.

Reactions in Messages

Enhance user experience by implementing people cards that include contact information and easy access to employee profiles. For instance, within the HR Hub, showcase profile cards of the HR team to help employees identify responsible individuals and conveniently connect with them.

Hubs Module: People

Introducing a new module for Hubs - the Rich Text module. This versatile feature is similar to the Rich Text building block found on Pages, allowing you to create formatted text with ease. Plus, it's now available on the Homepage for even more convenience.

New Rich Text module for Hubs

Hubs support the the new ahead Content module. It's the same as the ahead Content building block in news and pages, but as a Hub module.

It allows you to easily reference ahead Content in your Hubs. You can link ahead News, Pages, Events, Stories, Communities and Compass elements.

New 'ahead Content' module for Hubs

Introducing a new building block for news and pages that enables you to display the contents of a SharePoint library or folder directly to your readers. It seamlessly syncs with SharePoint, ensuring that any updates—such as new folders, deleted files, or other changes—are automatically reflected in the view.

This feature provides a quick and convenient way for your team to access important resources in SharePoint, improving efficiency and collaboration.

New Building Block: SharePoint folder viewer

Your homepage is what we call a Hub — a customizable space that can be tailored with a wide range of modules, arranged to suit your needs.

With this new feature, we’re extending the same flexible building experience to items within your navigation structure. Navigation groups and points will now be Hubs, allowing you to enrich them with modules.

For example, if you create an HR Hub, the new customization tool enables you to include not just pages but also additional modules, such as an Events module filtered for HR-specific events, a featured community, links to valuable resources like tools or documents, and much more.

Introduce customization tool for Hubs

Select either the 2/3+1/3 column layout or switch to a new 1/3+2/3 column layout. Available for the desktop homepage.

Switch columns in Homepage layout

Currently, it is not possible to create pages within top-level navigation groups. This improvement aims to streamline the process of building navigation structures and populating them with pages, by supporting pages in top-level navigation groups.

Accessing Navigation groups and creating pages within them

Introducing a new feature that allows elements from your Company Compass to be included in news and pages, using the ahead content building block. This improvement now enables referencing of all types of content, including News, Pages, Stories, Events, Communities, and Compass elements.

Include Compass elements in ahead content building block

Introducing a new module on the homepage to conveniently access essential links, applications, and resources for your team.

Quicklinks Module in Homepage

In addition to targeting Quicklinks with your main property, you can now leverage the Advanced Targeting feature for even greater precision and control. To take advantage of this enhancement, ensure the Advanced Targeting premium feature is enabled. 

Advanced targeting for Quicklinks

Today, News and Stories can be connected to Compass elements and easily viewed in a timeline format. This enhancement allows the 3 most recent connections to be showcased on each Compass element page, giving users a sneak peek into the timeline.

Compass Timeline improvement

With Ask ahead, you can now have conversations where you ask questions, follow up with more questions, or switch to a new topic anytime.

Have conversations with Ask ahead

These updates aim to enhance your messaging experience and make communication easier and more convenient.

1. Read indicators in group chats: Keeping track of who has read your message in a group chat is now possible. You will be able to see how many people have read your message and view a list of those individuals.

2. Deleting chats: De-cluttering your chat list is now effortless. You can delete 1-to-1 or group chats (if you are an admin) with ease.

3. Leaving group chats: We understand that sometimes you may want to leave a group chat. With our latest update, members can now leave group chats without hassle.

4. Sending voice messages: For mobile users, sending voice messages has never been more convenient. Simply record your message and hit send.

Messages improvements: deleting chats, voice messages and more.

Introduces the capability to showcase several Activity Feed modules on the homepage. This feature allows admins to organize and refine the content displayed in each feed. For example, they can create separate feeds for social media posts and ahead internal activities.

Multiple Activity feeds

This update introduces the exciting ability to assign channels to events. With this new feature, users can easily filter events by channel and view them in dedicated modules directly on the homepage. This provides a more organized and streamlined experience for managing and accessing events.

Organize Events with channels and display them in homepage modules

Users are currently limited to selecting only four reactions. We are expanding the available selection to offer more options.

Extend set of Reactions

Introducing the new feature to easily search for elements within the Compass using Quicksearch.

Search Compass elements

Editors are able to upload videos in various languages, with each one corresponding to its respective translation.

Multilingual support for the Video building block

Having appealing thumbnail images is crucial in captivating readers. To streamline the process, we are introducing suggested images to reduce the need for unnecessary uploads by editors. Additionally, we have implemented a more versatile cropping tool for effortless adjustment of image sizes.

Improve thumbnail customization tool

Display participant names in polls and quizzes, useful for event registrations or prize acknowledgments. 

Identified Polls & Quizzes

Enrich your people's profiles by adding a new organigram section to each profile, showcasing the individual's manager and direct reports. This allows easy access for any user to view the organizational hierarchy of a colleague. 
For those who prefer not to display this information or lack the necessary data, the org chart feature can be disabled upon request.

Org Chart

Add an extra layer of review before content (News, Pages) goes live. Team members can check and approve submissions to make sure everything meets the right standards. 

Publishing approval workflow

Now, in addition to links, images and files, users can also add videos to community posts. With the ability to upload videos directly from their device, community members can easily share multimedia content. Visitors can simply play the video within the community using an embedded video player for a seamless viewing experience.

Upload Videos in Communities

Add settings to the Stories module for choosing how many items to show, display options, and more. 

ahead Vibes: Customize Stories module

Let users comment and reply with GIFs and images, not just text.

GIFs and images in comments

Editors can set a date for when news will automatically be archived or removed from the newsfeed.

Schedule news auto-archiving date

Currently, the "Ask ahead" and "Search" experiences are separate. By bringing them together into a unified experience, we aim to enhance information discovery and deliver more accurate, relevant results. 

Combine Ask ahead and Search

Easily customize module appearance by adjusting settings such as the number of displayed items, layout, and other visual aspects. These settings enable you to deliver a personalized experience to users.

ahead Vibes: Tailor Settings & Skins of Modules

Experience the advanced translations powered by DeepL. With our latest improvement, you can choose between formal or informal tones for your translations. This works for a selected group of languages, including German.

Language tones for translations

Plan and manage upcoming content (News, Pages) with a shared calendar view. Easily schedule posts and coordinate with other editors to stay organized and on time. 

Publishing calendar

What we’re building now and next. Your feedback helps shape ahead.

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This gives us a perception of how important is this problem/idea for you, so we can prioritize accordingly.