In this release:

• Improvements to the notifications UI
• Update to Spaces functionality and improvements to the UI

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In this release:

• You can now see when notifications are read or unread
• Improvement to the way notifications and member information is presented when in a loading status
• A bug when duplicating cohort has now been fixed

In this release:

• Pin important posts to the top of communities, section or cohorts
• Improved cohort settings/preferences. You can how change when members will receive emails, and set whether what members can do, such as see other members profiles or creste new video rooms
• Updates to the mail server - you will now receive emails from notification@skillsocial.co rather than hello@skill.social. This change has been implemented to overcome some insituations not liking the .social domain and blocking our emails

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In this release:

• Creating custom spaces and sections within Communities. These spaces allow you to create areas where members can discuss specific topics, such as new resources, interesting links, or spaces ot ask specific questions.

In this release:

• Fixes ot way avatarts and member images are displayed
• Layout improvements for courses and community
• Improvements to the post UI

StartupNews, the Australian publication for startups, shared SkillSocials stories and our mission with its readers.

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The West Australian newspaper featured SkillSocial, highlighting our friends, local legend and SkillSocial users, Idea Academy.

Our mission has always been to make online learning more social. That why we have just released our next major release, Learning Communities. These communities allows brands, programs or organisations to group members across different courses in one community. Members can engage with each other outside of the course context, meaning that even after the course ends they are can continue their lifelong learning through the community!

In this release:

• New learning communities
• New learning community admin roles
• The ability to create community posts

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Perth Biodesign provides educational training in healthcare innovation using the Stanford Biodesign methodology, which focuses on a prescriptive method of identifying unmet clinical needs, inventing solutions that address these needs and creating implementation strategies that fit within the complex healthcare landscape.

Perth Biodesign courses,  bring together multidisciplinary teams of people passionate about making a difference in healthcare and build the connection between industry, academia, health services, and specialised services providers to create a healthcare innovation opportunity.

Perth Biodesign is using SkillSocial to run their 20-week accelerator program, wth a focus on group collaboration features.

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In this release:

• Bulk add many members from a text or cvs file
• A fix to some error occuring in submission uploads
• General bug fixes and improvements

In this release:

• Social login and SSO. Members can register and login in using their personal or enterprise GSuite, Teams or AzureAD account

In this release:

• A complete overhaul to the way you create text based content in SkillSocial. We updated the back-end module for text editting, meaning it is now easier to create rich content and embed videos and resources

In this release:

• Our very exciting (or we think) video collaboration feature! Video chat rooms are enable ollaboration, mentoring and group projects through video chat Rooms that enable participants and facilitators to interact in realtime on embedded documents like Google Docs, Miro or Figma. No Zoom or Teams app required!

All Saints College’ new Studio School is as a first-of-kind model in Australia that offers alternative pathways to mainstream schooling structures and systems. Based in a new off-campus location in Fremantle, The Studio School model  empowers students to combine their studies with real-world projects in order to achieve their WACE (secondary schooling accreditation). Studio School users SkillSocial to offer traditional learning subjects alongside new, individualised pathways for students opting into the program.

In this release:

• Improvements to member mobile view, meaning learners can access courses on all mobile and tablet devices without a third party app
• General bug fixes and improves

In this relase:

• Fully customised badges to improve gamification of the members experience
• General bug fixes
• Improve cohort posting functionality

On this day, the first release of SkillSocial was deployed. This followed 18-months of internal prototyping and a 6-month process of definnig requirements and codesign with our friends at All Saints in preparation for their new Startup Studio School going live in 2022. This release is deemed 2.0 due to the proceeding prototype versions.

IDEA is an alternative option to mainstream education for young creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs.‍Targetted at senior secondary aged students and recent school leavers, Idea works with global networks to arrange portfolio-based pathways to university, training and employment driven by students' individual interests. Idea Academy uses SkillSocial to develop and deliver student content, encourage self-directed learning and enable peer feedback and collaboration.

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