A structured Community Management experience that lets administrators create, brand, and govern communities while giving end users a personalized, role-based community experience. 

Communities 

Introduced a comprehensive Community Management experience that enables administrators to create, configure, brand, and manage communities through a guided multi-step workflow. Admins can define audiences, configure roles and permissions, manage community content (pages, articles, files, and images), customize navigation and branding, control audience visibility, configure community settings, manage apps, and moderate community activities. End users can access personalized communities based on their assigned roles, groups, and permissions, providing a tailored and engaging community experience. 

• Guided multi-step community creation workflow covering configuration, branding, navigation, audience, and settings. 

• Role and permission configuration with audience-based visibility controls. 

• Community content management for pages, articles, files, and images within the community context. 

• Customizable navigation and branding per community. 

• App management and community activity moderation for administrators. 

• Personalized community access for end users based on roles, groups, and assigned permissions. 

Foundational platform improvements spanning Tasks, audit visibility, security tooling, session management, AI capabilities, permissions governance, integration management, and URL redirection. 

Introduced a comprehensive Tasks app that enables advisors, faculty, and staff to efficiently create, assign, track, and collaborate on student-related tasks. The release includes configurable task views, end-to-end task lifecycle management, SLA tracking, comments and activity history, reminders, notifications, role-based access control, departmental task assignment, audit logging, and administrative configuration. Together, these enhancements provide a centralized, secure, and streamlined experience for managing student success workflows while improving accountability, collaboration, and operational efficiency. 

• Create, assign, and track tasks across advisors, faculty, and staff with role-based access control. 

• SLA tracking with reminders and notifications to keep workflows on schedule. 

• Comments, activity history, and departmental task assignment for team collaboration. 

• Audit logging and administrative configuration for governance and compliance. 

Enhanced the Audit Log experience with advanced sorting and filtering capabilities, along with a new View Details panel for every audit entry. Authorized users and auditors can now view complete audit information, including actor details, timestamps, affected entities, actions, source, and correlation ID with read-only before-and-after comparisons. Enhanced experience preserves the current search, filter, and pagination state when closing the detail view, enabling efficient investigation and compliance auditing. 

• Advanced sorting and filtering across all audit log entries. 

• View Details panel showing actor, timestamp, entity, action, source, and correlation ID. 

• Read-only before-and-after comparisons. 

• State preservation for search, filter, and pagination when closing the detail panel. 

• Export audit logs. 

Introduced User Impersonation to enable authorized administrators to securely troubleshoot and validate end-user experiences without requiring user credentials. Admins can initiate impersonation directly from the Users module, access the selected user’s configured landing page, and navigate the platform with the user’s permissions in a strictly read-only mode. The feature includes role-based access control, confirmation prompts, a persistent impersonation banner with an exit option, automatic restoration of the original admin session, and comprehensive audit logging of impersonation events to support security and compliance. 

• Initiate impersonation from the Users module with a confirmation prompt. 

• Read-only navigation with the selected user’s permissions and landing page. 

• Persistent impersonation banner with exit option and automatic admin session restoration. 

• Full audit logging of all impersonation events for security and compliance. 

Enhanced the experience by automatically saving each user’s display preferences—including sorting, filters, column visibility, column resizing, and selected page size. These preferences are restored when users return, providing a consistent and personalized experience across sessions while reducing the need to reconfigure table settings. 

• Automatic saving of sorting, filters, column visibility, column resizing, and page size preferences. 

• Preferences restored on return visits, providing a consistent cross-session experience. 

Introduced the foundational AI Agent Framework for the platform, enabling the creation, orchestration, and management of multiple AI agents within a secure, multi-tenant environment. The release establishes support for conversational, retrieval-augmented (RAG), and action-based agents, along with centralized orchestration, context management, security guardrails, and tenant-level configuration. It also delivers the first Product Help Assistant, providing context-aware guidance, intelligent troubleshooting, and interactive in-product assistance. Comprehensive administrative controls for content sources, access, AI behavior, compliance, analytics, and control plane configuration lay the groundwork for scalable, enterprise-grade AI capabilities across the platform. 

• Support for conversational, RAG, and action-based agents within a multi-tenant framework. 

• Centralized orchestration, context management, and security guardrails at tenant level. 

• Product Help Assistant providing context-aware guidance and interactive in-product troubleshooting. 

• Administrative controls for content sources, AI behavior, compliance, analytics, and control plane configuration. 

Enhanced the User Explorer and Feature Explorer with comprehensive role and permission visibility capabilities, enabling administrators to easily audit user access across the platform. Administrators can now view assigned roles, group memberships, effective permissions, and associated resources including apps, modules, pages, external links, and articles with clear permission attribution and contributing roles. The update also introduces advanced search and filtering, exportable permission reports and streamlined permission management actions, providing greater transparency, governance, and administrative efficiency. 

• View assigned roles, group memberships, effective permissions, and associated resources per user. 

• Feature wise clear permission attribution showing contributing roles for each effective permission. 

• Advanced search, filtering, exportable permission reports, and streamlined management actions. 

Modernized the Friendly URL Mapper with an updated V14 user interface and introduced the ability to edit existing URL mappings, eliminating the need to delete and recreate entries. The enhancement also strengthens URL validation by preventing duplicate, conflicting, and redirect-loop mappings while ensuring consistent handling of relative source URLs, HTTPS destination URLs, and reserved routes. Existing functionality, including CSV import, remains fully supported, providing administrators with a more efficient and reliable way to manage URL redirections. 

• Updated with the ability to edit existing URL mappings in place. 

• Strengthened URL validation preventing duplicates, conflicts, and redirect-loop mappings. 

• CSV import and all existing functionality remain fully supported. 

Improvements to page creation workflows and a new visual storytelling widget for CMS pages. 

Introduced the ability for content administrators to duplicate existing pages directly from the Manage Pages listing. A new Duplicate action in the page row menu allows admins to quickly create a new page pre-populated with the source page’s content, settings, and metadata. The duplicated page opens in the creation form with editable fields, including Page Name and Page ID (auto-suffixed with “-new”), and is only created upon explicit save, ensuring full validation and control while significantly reducing effort in page creation workflows. 

• Duplicate action in the Manage Pages row menu creates a pre-populated copy of any existing page. 

• Page Name and Page ID (auto-suffixed with “-new”) are fully editable before saving. 

• Duplicated page is created only on explicit save, ensuring full validation before publishing. 

Introduced a new Image Slider CMS widget that enables content administrators to create dynamic, rotating sliders with image and rich-content slides. Each slide can be sourced via URL, upload, or integrated drive and can include optional overlays such as text positioning, color/opacity controls, alt text, and click-through navigation links. The widget supports audience-based targeting per slide, a unified auto-rotation interval, and standard navigation controls for end users, delivering a flexible and accessible visual storytelling component within CMS pages. 

• Slides sourced via URL, upload, or integrated drive with optional text, opacity, alt text, and link overlays. 

• Audience-based targeting per slide with a unified auto-rotation interval. 

• Standard end-user navigation controls for an accessible, flexible visual storytelling experience. 

New and enhanced widgets and app configurations that extend what administrators can embed and control within portal pages. 

Introduced a reusable iFrame Widget for CMS Page Management, enabling administrators to seamlessly embed external websites, applications, dashboards, forms, and other web content within portal pages. The enhancement supports both creating new and reusing existing iFrame configurations, provides centralized management with usage tracking, and automatically propagates updates to all pages using a shared configuration. Additional improvements include configurable display options, built-in URL validation, page-level previews, and streamlined administration, making it easier to manage embedded content consistently across the platform. 

• Embed external websites, apps, dashboards, and forms directly within CMS pages. 

• Reuse existing iFrame configurations with centralized management and usage tracking. 

• Updates automatically propagate to all pages sharing a configuration, with built-in URL validation and page-level previews. 

Added support for configuring widget background opacity within Page Design, giving administrators greater control over the visual appearance of page layouts. Widget backgrounds can now be adjusted from fully transparent to fully opaque, allowing better blending with solid colors, gradients, and image backgrounds while preserving content readability. Configured opacity settings are reflected consistently in preview and published pages and are automatically retained across sessions. 

• Adjustable widget background opacity from transparent to opaque within Page Design. 

• Settings reflected consistently in preview and published pages, retained automatically across sessions. 

Enabled App Manager-level configuration for the GPA Calculator, allowing administrators to define, customize, and maintain grade options and their associated grade weight values. Institutions can now add, edit, or remove grade entries (e.g., A+, A, B-, etc.) and adjust corresponding GPA values to align with their academic grading policies. The default grading scale is preloaded for convenience but remains fully configurable to support institution-specific grading structures and variations. 

• Add, edit, or remove grade entries and GPA weight values via App Manager configuration. 

• Default grading scale preloaded but fully configurable to align with institution-specific policies. 

Introduced configuration support for the Emergency Contact App allowing administrators to define how emergency contacts are displayed to end users. Through App Management, admins can set the default display mode as either Grid or List view, which will be consistently applied across the application. Additionally, while configuring the widget, admins can override or select the preferred view mode. By default, the system displays emergency contacts in Grid View, ensuring a structured and user-friendly experience out of the box. 

• Set default display mode (Grid or List) for emergency contacts via App Management. 

• Widget-level override allows per-page selection of Grid or List view mode. 

• Grid View is the default, providing a structured and user-friendly out-of-the-box experience. 

StudentX v26.03 is supported on the browser and device versions below. These are minimum supported versions; newer releases are also supported. 

StudentX v26.03 conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility standards, ensuring the platform is usable by people with a wide range of abilities 

For the best experience, we recommend keeping your browser updated to the most recent stable release. 

To explore an upgrade to StudentX for your institution, please contact your Unifyed Customer Success Manager. Your CSM will establish a transition plan tailored to your institution’s calendar. 

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