⭐ New visual editor for posts and comments – easier image uploads, new image rotations, resize and flip functions
⚙️️ Card sorting – the moderator can present his/her cards to the respondents.
⚙️️ If a page or activity is defined only for a specific group, only relevant respondents appear the list of respondents (live chats, blog, diaries).
November 2020
⚙️️ You can replace the title text ‘Moderator’ and the profile photo in the page title. It can be helpful if you have more moderators in a project or want to display any custom text and icon here.
⚙️️ Bulgarian language added for respondents
⚙️️ Profile photos can be deleted
🐛 Wysiwyg blog editor – old buttons removed
🐛 Text-chat: nested HTML messages fixed (when participant used other message)
🐛 Just typing… detection in text chats fixed
🐛 New user without role (registration from demo) fixed
October 2020
⭐ Left activity menu – activities can be organized into sections and the menu moved to the left side of the dashboard
⚙️️ New comments are highlighted for moderators in the bulletin board module
⚙️️ Mobile responsivity improvements
⚙️️ Security improvements
⚙️️ Server upgrade for better performance
⚙️️ Diary/blog posts can be commented even in the draft/autosave status
⚙️️ New submissions / all submissions are displayed in the left diary/blog panel
⚙️️ Email server changed to AWS SES for better email deliverability
⚙️️ Sections and page order – added to the project duplication sequence
⚙️️ Empty sections can be hidden/displayed programmatically, based on their content
⚙️️ New TLD domains supported in emails
🐛 Text chat: copying items from the guide to the chat field fixed.
September 2020
🤣 Emojis are here – in live chats, bulletin boards, diaries, and even comments! 🔥
⚙️️ Page status – we split the page status (active, closed, auto-activation, etc.) and page visibility (display, hide, etc.) in menus into two separate attributes to better control both properties and make them more comprehensible.
⚙️️ Sections – a new grouping element that will help better structure your activities in the future. It’s a prerequisity for new coming Collabito features.
⚙️️ Activity overview – a new table shows who entered/completed/commented each page of the study.
⚙️️ Further video bandwidth optimizations
⚙️️ Security audit performed – vulnerability assessment and penetration tests.
🐛 Video page: a message in the Client<>Moderator chat cleared the whiteboard images in some cases. Fixed.
August 2020
⭐ Card sorting – a new activity in the live chat whiteboard added.
⚙️️ List of projects is sorted by the last activity of the moderators and admins now. We also added a new column with start date and time in the Project page and possibility to filter projects by modules used (text chat, diaries, polls etc.).
⚙️️ Table of respondents – updated design and functionality, new columns with avatars and notes.
⚙️️ Whiteboard – auto-refresh added to the moderator’s panel to see new image drawings without clicking the refresh button.
⚙️️ Discussions – if somebody submits a new comment at the top of a longer discussion, his browser will focus/skip to the new added comment on the page bottom.
⚙️️ Live chat, video chat – if the moderator posts a link to the text chat, the system will automatically convert it into an active link. When respondents click the link, the target page opens in a new window.
⚙️️ Project settings – you can choose if respondents are allowed to change their name and display name in their profile or not.
⚙️️ Emails – you can add new recipients to the past email campaign so you don’t need to create new campaign for newly added respondents.
⚙️️ Lists of respondents are sorted alphabetically by name in the blog side bar, moderator’s middle chat panel and email campaign setup for better clarity.
⚙️️ Profile image preview added in the My Account section.
⚙️️ A new login with different password logs out the previous user to avoid conflicts with different users.
🐛 Text-chat page setup: Export moderator’s guide – in some cases the export reported an error “Media ID”. Fixed.
🐛 Text-chat export: Moderator – client communication can be exported separately from Moderator – respondents communication.
⚙️️ Minor security and UX improvements
July 2020
⚙️️ Discussions – comments by the moderator are highlighted
🐛 Video meetings – in some rare cases, users (clients+observers) with Chrome could not hear audio from Firefox moderators, or were not recovering properly after temporarily having network issues (tokbox).
🐛 Several respondents couldn’t log in after the password changed. Fixed.
⚙️️ A few minor UX tweaks.
June 2020
⚙️️ Whiteboard zoom – respondents can click the zoom icon to display the whiteboard in a lightbox over the whole page (video module)
⚙️️ New languages (for respondents): Portuguese, Croatian, Slovenian
⚙️️ Video meetings – voice indicator added (displayed when somebody speaks)
⚙️️ Project overview – only respondent activities displayed, events of other roles removed (moderators, clients, visitors)
⚙️️ Export – default image size increased in DOCX export, fixed error connected with external images pasted to blog posts
⚙️️ Respondent logout time due to inactivity was prolonged from 1 hour to 6 hours
🐛 Video module – a random nickname appeared below the video in the client/visitor panel – removed
🐛 Emails – some public mail services attach additional parameters to invitation links that cause errors after saving posts – solved
🐛 Diaries – a rare conflict between the auto-save function and manual save in the second window solved
May 2020
⭐ Video meetings added – public beta tests
⚙️️ A few mobile responsivity tweaks
🐛 Comments not included in export if the blog module was changed to a text page – solved
April 2020
⚙️️ List of respondents – added icons to copy respondents’ URLs
⚙️️ Several prerequisites for the upcoming video-based focus group module
⚙️️ Page setup: polls added to conditions in the auto-activation mode
⚙️️ Email invitations: more adjustments for antispam filters
🐛 Comment block in discussion boards – the green Replay button is not displayed if the comments are disabled in the page settings.
🐛 Solved (rare) random logouts
💄 Several UX improvements & help
⭐ Ukrainian translation (for respondents)
March 2020
⚙️️ Security improvements
⚙️️ Export improvements (.docx)
⚙️️ Whiteboard events added to the export
⚙️️ Chat: popup images – a link icon is displayed in the text chat
January 2020
⚙️️ New icons in the Visual editor – add YouTube video or upload your video file to the discussion board.
⚙️️ All external links in blog posts and discussions are opened in a new window – the system automatically appends the parameter “target=_blank” for this purpose.
🐛 Surveys: the validation script was fixed – multiple checkbox questions on one page displayed empty field errors in some wrong cases
2019 Changelog
1.11.2019
⚙️️ Chat: the “Just typing…” function added for Android users too
⚙️️ Export: you can aggregate the export by respondents too
🐛 Project setup: fixed calendar icon and language
4.9.2019
⭐ Chat: the “Just typing…” notification added
⚙️️ Chat: you can add “Clear whiteboard” instruction to the moderator’s guide now
⚙️️ Emailing module: you can change email fonts and add images
⚙️️ Responsive design: menu bar optimizations
⚙️️ Responsive design: Discussions below blog posts – images uploaded by respondents are better displayed on smartphones
⚙️️ Administration: pop-ups are opened to a new separate windows
Translations: Dutch language added
18.7.2019
Translations: added new languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Russian.
23.6.2019
An auto-save function added to blog modules. It is performed every minute to prevent data loss if a respondent leaves the browser for a while and the session times out.
Moderators can see the post drafts and auto-saves (respondents sometimes forget to publish their posts).
13.5.2019
Redesign – new look & feel and UX of both respondents’ and moderator’s panels.
Better responsibility for different desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones
Page logic – Respondents come to the page with the Active: Entrance status but continue with the current page after refresh to make the page workflow more comprehensible.
Chat (Moderator) – Running time added to the Silent mode button to remind moderators that the silent mode is on.
Project Overview – added the status switch (new/active/closed) and time+date info.
Added stars to each post and comment so the moderator can mark important or interesting content.
Export – new filters added.
Whiteboard (Moderator) – pictures/videos are submitted using the Send button, not automatically to prevent unwanted onChange actions.
Chat (Moderator): Moderator’s guide can be downloaded as a word file. This helps moderators quickly change it and upload to another project.
Chat (Moderator): All project respondents are displayed in the middle column, not only those who logged in. Inactive participants are grey.
Many other minor changes and improvements
21.3.2019
Chat: drawing on images – if you check the drawing option in the Media & Files section, respondents will be able to draw on the images displayed at the whiteboard. They can use the red or green pencil or delete the drawings and start again.
