New features & Improvements

New Feature - Scheduled Updates!

When an educator is creating an “Update” for an experience, you can now choose to post it right away, or to schedule it to go live on a future date. This allows educators and Riipen staff to set up Updates as part of the initial experience configuration, while still having them send out to users when they’re most needed.

Key points:

• Updates can be scheduled to go live and notify users on future dates
• Upcoming scheduled updates can be accessed and edited by experience admins

New feature - Scoring!

Educators can now enable scoring on experiences to assign numeric grades to learners and teams as they complete project deliverables.

• Educator article: https://help.riipen.com/en/articles/11535514-scoring

• Learner article: https://help.riipen.com/en/articles/11535619-scoring

If scoring is enabled, learners will receive a single score made up of one or more scored items, with configurable weights.

• Milestone completion is a binary score (0 or 100%) based on completion only
• Final submission completion is a binary score (0 or 100%) based on completion only
• Feedback is a variable score that takes the value of the average overall feedback provided by the employer

In future, we’ll be exploring more scoring options, such as subjective scoring (grading) by educators

Scoring functionality works best in tandem with LTI integration so the educator can pass the learner’s overall score back to the LMS automatically.

Improvements

• Breadcrumb updates. Breadcrumbs are being updated across the platform to improve clarity of navigation to nested pages.
• Project wizard content and label updates. We’ve improved labels, tooltips, headers, hints, and placeholder text in the project wizard for better clarity and consistency, reducing the overall length of each page.

• Improved import page context. Import pages now include a short description below each import option to help users better understand what each one does.
• Streamlined “Invite learners” options. The Invite menu in Experience > Learners has been simplified and all invite options now appear together (including the import option).
• Better guidance when creating milestones. Learners will now see a title and subtitle when opening the “Create Milestone” modal, explaining what milestones are and why to use them.
• Clearer task status on team pages. If a user completes a task (like a mandatory survey or agreement) but their team members haven’t, they’ll now see a “pending” icon in the Completed section, making the status clearer.
• Improved message notification emails. Email notifications for new messages now have a clearer subject line, cleaner formatting, and include the sender’s name tag, date, and time of message.
• New sidebar style for contact info. Content pages now show the primary admin and company or portal in the sidebar on the standalone page in order to save vertical space and put more key content above the fold. Sidebars on standalone content and match request pages now use a new visual style to highlight contact information more clearly.
• Improved project wizard flow for match requests. If you create a project directly from a match request, you’ll now see a customized “Get Started” page with updated step labels and context and project prompt and examples pulled from the associated experience. This is the first of several changes coming for the Create project to Match request direct path.

• Improved redirects after verification completion. Learners who complete verification after being invited to an experience will now be redirected to back the experience page, rather than the dashboard.
• Emails now sent only to relevant users. Only users with the appropriate permissions (or billing contacts) will receive payment-related emails. Match request notifications are now only sent to users who have permission to view or act on the request. If no such users exist, the notifications will be sent to all users.
• Decline reasons and messages now appear in chat. When a user declines a match request, their message from the decline modal will now appear directly in the match request chat instead of just the decline email.
• Worklog reminders. If worklogs are enabled on the experience, learners will now see a reminder in the Milestone and Submission created emails reminding them to log their work. The reminder will include a direct link to their Team page > Worklog tab for easy access.
• Warnings about sharing contact information. Users will now see a clear warning in messages if they attempt to share an email address or phone number. Despite the warning, users may choose to send the message if they wish.
• Navigation updates to user profile. “My profile” is now a dedicated menu item in the user menu, rather than being part of the clickable user nametag. This improves discoverability across all user types.
• Navigation updates to portal and company profiles. On portal subdomains, the top-left logo now links to the user dashboard instead of the portal profile, creating a more intuitive navigation experience.Portal and company profile links have been removed from the portal and company workspace switchers and added to the main navigation menu under “Portal content” for Educators and Riipen admins and under “Company content” for Employers and Riipen admins.
• Clearer attribution in resources. Resource listings now display the creator’s entity name (e.g., “Created by University of X” or “Created by Riipen”) instead of generic labels like “Portal” or “Default.”
• Improved table layout on mobile. Tables now display in a stacked panel format on mobile, making them easier to read and interact with.
• All tables now include a 'Results per page' label in the pagination footer, making it clearer how many results are shown per page and how many filtered results are currently being displayed.
• The Applications column in the matches table (Experiences > Matches) is now sortable. Click the column header to sort by the number of applications-descending by default.
• Setting application expiry limits. Educators can now define a maximum number of pending/expired team applications per match in the Experience settings > Participants > Team creation section. Educators and employers can override experience-level limits by setting a custom max number of pending/expired applications in the Match > Applications settings.