🚀 Platform Updates | November 15, 2024

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🚀 Platform Updates: November 15, 2024

These updates are part of our ongoing commitment to delivering a smarter, faster, and more personalized learning platform for our users. Explore these changes and see the future of education in action!

🧠 AI Mentor Advancements

• Dynamic Enhancements: Configured Mentor Chat with environment-variable-driven ASGI URLs and timeout settings for improved adaptability.
• Feature Additions: Introduced mentor scenario icons and a quiz customizer endpoint to personalize learning experiences.
• Optimized Functionality for Similarity Searches: improved database operations, and streamlined proactive moderation for faster interactions.
• User-Friendly Insights: Enabled chat history sentiment analysis using ratings and implemented export functions for deeper learner insights.

🌐 Frontend Innovations

• Advanced Filtering: Rolled out new filtering capabilities in analytics for more precise data views and decision-making.
• Improved Trial Experiences: Enhanced dataset access notifications and functionality for trial users with clear guidance.
• UI/UX Updates: Refined pathways features, credential management, and issue tracking across skills, analytics, and mentor SPAs.
• Reusable Features: Expanded SPA testing with a scalable sign-up feature and enhanced reporting for more efficient development workflows.

🛠️ Backend Enhancements

• Catalog & Search Improvements: Enhanced catalog pagination, role-based skill updates, and added advanced filtering by username and detail query parameters for precision.
• Report Generators: Introduced automatic discovery and centralized management of report generators across Django apps, improving JSON data presentation.
• Moderation & Notifications: Refined proactive prompt handling in moderation and improved notification mechanisms for faster issue resolution.

🔧 DevOps & Monitoring Tools

• Health Checks: Added an ASGI health check service for real-time monitoring of AI Mentor performance.
• Performance Monitoring: Introduced PostgreSQL Connection Monitor and Memory Police utilities to optimize resource usage and ensure system stability.
• Configurable Alerts: Implemented notification services for memory and database thresholds with automatic cleanup for idle connections.