What's new in April 2026

Team activity digest email

Educators can now receive a recurring digest email summarizing team activity across their experiences. The email includes cumulative metrics on team progress, milestone completion, upcoming and overdue items, and survey/feedback status. Emails begin sending when one or more teams exist on the experience and stop 30 days after the experience ends or when no active teams remain.

Improvements

• Cover photo dimension tooltips Users uploading a cover photo in portal, company, or user settings will now see a tooltip with the recommended dimensions and aspect ratio, making it easier to size images correctly before uploading.
• Employer verification status on match request page The verification button on the match request page now reflects the employer's current verification status — showing "Verify company," "Continue verification," or no button at all depending on how far along they are.
• Consistent experience and project cards with AI summaries Experience and project cards on app.riipen.com, app.riipen.com/employer, and app.riipen.com/educator (guest view) now match the new design displaying the AI-generated summary. For older experiences and projects without an AI summary, the card will fall back to showing 2–3 lines of the existing description.
• Project marketplace in global search Employers can now find projects through the global search — a new "Projects" filter under the Portals dropdown navigates directly to the project marketplace. Search page headings and subheadings have also been updated to match the correct view depending on whether you're logged in as an employer, educator, learner, or guest.
• Custom roles — view vs. manage match requests Educators can now be given view-only access to match requests, allowing them to see request details and conversations without being able to accept, decline, or create revisions. Portal-level permissions still take precedence over experience-level ones.
• Redesigned project page headers Project page headers have been updated with a new layout and role-specific content for educators, employers, learners, and guests — each view now shows relevant CTAs, status text, and project details tailored to that user type. The page layout has also been updated: project scope is now more prominently positioned, media displays above metadata, and a project contact nametag has been added. An AI-generated summary of the project in the header is pulled from key project details and capped at 190 characters.
• Timezone selection for meetings Users can now select a timezone when creating or editing a meeting. The dropdown defaults to the user's system timezone, is searchable, and displays in a standard format (e.g. GMT-08:00 America/Vancouver). For existing meetings, the field will pre-populate automatically so no action is needed in most cases.
• Cleaner employer dashboard for new users Employers with no projects will no longer see the Tasks and Events sections on their dashboard — those sections now appear only once they've joined at least one project. The Projects section will also surface the AI project generation option and template library directly, giving new employers a clearer starting point.
• Suspended portals disable member requests and portal pass applications
  When a portal is suspended, learner member requests, educator member requests, and portal pass applications are now automatically disabled. If the portal is reactivated, these actions remain disabled until manually re-enabled.
• Timezone shown on meetings and meeting notification emails
  Users can now see their local timezone when viewing a meeting — both on the meeting page and in any meeting notification email (accepted, created, declined, cancelled, or updated). On the meeting page, hovering the timezone text shows a tooltip explaining that times are automatically converted per participant, with a link to update timezone settings.
• Project success screen redesign and recommendations update
  Project success screen has been redesigned to align with the wizard “getting started” layout, creating a more guided post-publish experience. The update introduces a simplified stepper (fixed at step 2) and surfaces up to 3 recommended experiences, with improved handling for portal-specific recommendations and empty states. New CTAs—Find more experiences and Match later—help employers quickly continue matching or return to manage their project.
• Updated conversation component
  All users will notice an improved conversation layout across the platform, designed to make it much clearer which chat belongs to which group. Depending on your role and settings, you may now see a "Single Conversation" view or a "Conversation List" view — each conversation is labelled with its audience (e.g. "Employer-facing", "Learner-only", or "Direct messages") so it's always clear who can see what.
• Clearer notices for saving experience settings
  Experience admins will now see contextual notices or tooltips clarifying if the saved changes apply to future teams, matches, or invitations — or existing ones. Specifically: adding or updating a survey; rubric changes; updating the invitation expiry field; and changes to payment settings.
• Team ID and name in survey exports
  Survey response exports now include "Team ID" and "Team Name" columns, making it easier to trace responses back to specific teams. These columns apply to both learner and employer exports; for surveys set to "once per match" or "once per experience," the columns will be present but empty.
• Bulk task scope correction. Draft and pending match request bulk tasks will no longer be filtered by portal, ensuring the counts shown are consistent with where users land after clicking through.
• Rich text editor fix. A bug causing bullet point content to disappear when editing or duplicating experiences — or when content was generated by AI — has been resolved. This was due to a compatibility issue introduced by a library update.
• Clearer wallet withdrawal emails. Employers will now receive updated subject lines and body copy on wallet withdrawal confirmation emails to make it clearer that funds are being deposited into their linked payment account — not withdrawn from it.
• Clearer deposit confirmation emails. Deposit confirmation emails have been updated with improved language to confirm that funds have been added to the company wallet on Riipen and will be available for learner payments on approved invoices.