We've just released Enrollment links for groups! 

This means that you can now share a single link that will automatically enroll the recipient into multiple courses.

The main differences are as follows:

• An Enrollment link is automatically created for every group when you need it
• You can't delete a group Enrollment link
• Group Enrollment links are accessed from the Users > Groups > Group screen
• When a learner access a group Enrollment link they are directed to the learner dashboard, instead of directly to a single course

To find out more, check out our help centre article on Enrollment links.

We've just launched some major improvements to the image editor to make adding images to your courses easier than ever 🎉

So what's new? 

Improved cropping functionality

We've spent a lot of time refining our cropping tool so that it crops just the way you intended it to. 

More clarity around forced ratios

There are many lesson templates that enforce specific crop ratios for images. We do this to ensure each image is displayed as intended (e.g. not stretched or squashed). It wasn't always clear why, but the improved UI will now let you know when a ratio is enforced, so you choose the image that best suits your design. 

Integrated alternative text input

We've integrated the ALT text function into the image editor so that you can add alternative text at the same time you add your image. 

Ratio select options

Crop like a pro using the quick ratio select options. No more guessing, no more hoping you've cropped it just right..

Course templates are here! 

We've started small by adding 4 common-use course templates to our library that you can use to create courses specifically for your business. These templates include:

• Company onboarding
• Remote work policy
• Social media policy
• Talking to customers

We hope these templates will be a great starting point for you to create onboarding or policies for your company using Coassemble.

If you have any ideas for additional templates you'd like to see in the library, please let us know and we'll do our best to deliver them!

To check out our course templates, simply click the 'Create course' button on the home screen and choose 'Use a template'. 

We're relaunching the noticeboard feature as Announcements. 

Announcements allow you to post single-use messages to groups of learners in a course. Announcements appear as a small popup that appears in the top-right-hand corner of the screen allowing you to post a reminder or an update to the course as the learner works through it. 

The functionality is essentially the same with a just a few notable changes:

1. All announcements will be dismissible, you don’t have the option of making them not dismissible, however, you can pin them to the announcement board if you choose to. 
2. Instead of displaying a background colour to distinguish between the announcement types, you choose a display icon
3. The announcements are no longer hidden by a menu, they appear in a fixed position at in the top-right-hand corner of the screen when a learner is in a course. 

We've updated the course overview editor to create an experience where you can edit the course overview inline, providing a visual reference of how it will look for learners. 

A great new feature with the editor is that you can now reposition the course card image to suit the overview screen. 

We've also repositioned the video placement so that it's visible to your learners inline and changes to the course title and descriptions are auto saved.

In an effort to simplify courses, we've moved course prerequisites, course notifications, compliance mapping, and the resource folder selector to a new settings menu. 

In addition, we've moved the reports tab to a new modal for a snapshot of how your learners are doing in the current course. 

We've retired the fields for adding topic and sub-topic numbers to lessons. For any of our users who use this feature, you simply just need to prefix a number to your topic or screen titles. 

In fact, that's exactly what we've done for topic or screen titles that previously used these fields! Yep, we've automatically prefixed these numbers to the titles for you, so there won't be anything for you to do, and nothing changes for your learners — easy!

We've just added support for Google SSO on the enrollment links sign-in flow, making it easier than ever for your learners to sign up for a new course. 

If your learners are already logged in with Google, then the next time they access an enrollment link, they'll automatically be logged straight into the course. This is how online training was supposed to be — easy!

Oh, and how could we forget to mention the fresh lick of paint we added in the process! 😍 

Yes, we've finally done it — courses now appear in the resource library! 

Now you can manage all of your courses and course resources from a single page. This includes all the functionality you would expect; previewing, editing, duplicating, moving, and archiving courses. 

Our custom domain and email feature is now available as a premium upgrade to all customers on a Coassemble subscription! 

Head over to the 'Customize' page and upgrade for $49 per month to unlock the ability to configure both a custom domain, and a custom email address for your workspace. 

Setting up a custom domain makes your workspace more recognizable and consistent with your brand, allowing you to direct your users to a domain you own instead of being directed to mycompany.coasssemble.com.

Likewise, configuring a custom email address ensures that any email notifications sent to your users, are sent from a domain you own, instead of noreply@coassemble.com.

For technical details, check out the following articles:

• Setting up a custom domain
• Setting up a custom email