Fixed an issue where chatbot admins were unable to enable/disable collection info in the Virtual Agent configuration page.
Resolved an authorization (AuthZ) issue affecting Canvas LTI provisioning.
Fixed code related to the Weekly Academic Virtual Agent Report.
07-25-2025 (v. 1.7.6)
New Features & Enhancements
Graphing features added
Agentic tooling added
Bug Fixes
Bug fix for canvas bots were missing links to sources in quizzes.
07-22-2025 (v. 1.7.5)
New Features & Enhancements
Panopto Integration
Bug Fixes
Getting an email notification for thumbs-down responses was broken, now fixed.
07-15-2025 (v. 1.7.4)
New Features & Enhancements
Rebranded from AI Study Assistant to Virtual Study Assistant
07-07-2025 (v. 1.7.3)
New Features & Enhancements
Added streaming functionality to better handle websockets.
Also another improvement for quiz mode was added.
06-04-2025 (v. 1.6.7)
New Features & Enhancements
New Canvas ELMS integration for study assistant creation was implemented.
New features for adding slow scrape, updating collection info lines for website URL entries, were added for the ingestion process
05-30-2025 (v. 1.6.6)
New Features & Enhancements
Four new resources (pages, quizzes, announcements, events) for Canvas have been added.
New improvements were added to the admin console to display more error messages during timeouts, permission-related issues etc. Also added a new column in Admin UI per website to show full count of pages discovered.
05-02-2025 (v. 1.6.5a)
Bug Fixes
This release was solely for a bug fix for conflicts between CAS authorization with the regular authorization, and the introduction of the new Canvas authorization.
04-25-2025 (v. 1.6.5)
New Features & Enhancements
Add a create Google Drive button under 'Connectors' on the Developer Config page to easily create a new Google Drive with the correct permissions and folder.
Addition of the ability to remove a knowledge base from the service now connector.
04-18-2025 (v. 1.6.4)
New Features & Enhancements
Addition of language dropdown for Spanish integration.
Bug Fixes
Bug fixes for the introduction of Canvas elements.
04-10-2025 (v. 1.6.3)
New Features & Enhancements
UI updates to add the Canvas Connector in both the Developer Config and the Virtual Agent Config sections of the Admin Console.
Integrate the Canvas connector with the Provisioning API to increase Canvas functionality.
Update sample questions for both academic and departmental bots to be sent automatically, rather than added to the chat input container and then sent.
Added a new region, US Central, for Azure deployments in the case that there are ever outages in US East.
Updated the thumbs down notification to allow notifications to be sent to users who are not chatbot admins.
04-07-2025 (v. 1.6.2)
New Features & Enhancements
Updated the theme toggle to sun vs moon icons depending on the current setting.
Update PDF image summarization to utilize the OpenAI API keys as well as Azure.
Update to add additional logging for Service Now notifications.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug where a user couldn't be added to a chatbot if the search bar was used.
Fixed repeats in citations where different portions of the same article were cited but to the user it looked like duplicates.
03-27-2025 (v. 1.6.1)
New Features & Enhancements
Improvements to capture properly accented characters
Addition of example questions for departmental bots
Bug Fixes
Continued improvements to hyperlink display
03-13-2025 (v. 1.6.0)
Bug Fixes
A bug was fixed in the hyperlink processing to ensure all links are processed correctly.
Bug fixes were addressed with the Ignore Folder and BOT_IGNORE functionality to ensure that items can be ingested and not ingested as necessary when items are moved or renamed in Google Drive.
A bug was fixed to ensure that ServiceNow citations point to the correct articles.
A bug was fixed in the router to ensure that direct links to the Admin Console direct the user to the correct page.
03-06-2025 (v. 1.5.9)
New Features & Enhancements
Added tooltips to the Ingested Sources interface to enhance user comprehension.
Added tooltips to the Sample Questions page in the Admin Console.
Renamed Ingested Data to Ingested Sources and updated its display.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug preventing questions from displaying on the Admin Console for the last day of February.
Updated fetching to align with EST rather than UTC.
Fixed issue with HTML tags being appended to hyperlinks during post-processing.
02-27-2025 (v. 1.5.8)
New Features & Enhancements
Added configuration for canned bot responses when no sources are returned from similarity search.
Updated Virtual Agent Configuration page with a set connector order:
WebScraper
Google Drive
ServiceNow
Bug Fixes
Allowed PDFs to be ingested from sites with different base URLs from the Virtual Agent's scrape URL.
Fixed issues with Public/Private folder settings affecting citations.
02-19-2025 (v. 1.5.7)
New Features & Enhancements
Improved accessibility of the Virtual Agent UI to meet Lighthouse & Wave standards.
Bug Fixes
Fixed light/dark mode toggle functionality when the Virtual Agent is embedded on another site.
02-18-2025 (v. 1.5.6)
New Features & Enhancements
Integrated ServiceNow for ingestion of knowledge base categories and attachments.
Implemented fallback for embedding creation during OpenAI or Azure outages.
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue with .txt files not being identified correctly as Audio Transcripts.
02-14-2025 (v. 1.5.5)
New Features & Enhancements
Added light/dark mode toggle to the Virtual Agent UI.
Introduced a URL parameter to disable the expansion button when hosting a Virtual Agent.
Added additional tooltips to the Ingested Data and Virtual Agent pages.
01-30-2025 (v. 1.5.2)
New Features & Enhancements
Improved Collection Info Widget in the WebScraper connector.
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue with sample questions generated for new Virtual Agents.
Resolved bug causing fallback schemas to be used incorrectly.
01-25-2025 (v. 1.5.0)
New Features & Enhancements
Enabled a new ingestion system based on a message bus mechanism.
Improved Google Drive functionality using a token-based file change detection mechanism.
Enhanced web scraping capabilities, including:
Scraping text, tables, images, Google spreadsheets, and PDFs.
New widget for managing scraped websites.
Faster ingestion through chunked website discovery.
01-17-2025 (v. 1.4.1)
Bug Fixes
Fixed broken link on the Admin Console page in the weekly Departmental & Executive Summary report.