Version 2023.1 – March 11, 2023

    Dashboard Improvements

Many enhancements have been made to the Dashboard this release. Here are some of the most significant updates:

• New Enrollment Charts and Templates
  Enhancements from prior releases set the foundation to greatly improve Dashboard Charts and supplemental explanatory content. There are seven (7) all-new Dashboard templates available to Enrollment product users that span the entire enrollment process, curated based on user feedback. If you are creating your own Dashboard, the charts in these templates can be found in the Categories of the same names as the templates.
   
• Dashboard Guide Badges
  Several Guide Badges have been placed throughout the new charts and templates to give you more details to explain the insights in your Dashboards. These badges are resented as teal circles with a question mark inside and will populate more information when clicked.
   
• Design Improvements
  The Dashboard page now has a cleaner look with the following additions: larger chart title text, removal of shadow borders, darker font in tables, and gray header backgrounds in tables.
   
• Backwards Compatibility
  Existing user-created Dashboards will remain intact; however, many previously created Charts have been moved to the new “Archive” Category. These affected charts have titles begin with a ~ character to denote they’ve been archived and will appear at the bottom of the Charts menu list. Archived charts may be phased out or improved upon in future releases, however, the new Charts available in 2023.1 contain much of the same information with significantly improved presentation and detail.

More charts and templates with these improvements will continue to be added to both Enrollment and Retention Dashboards in future releases.

    Intelligent Names

Intelligent Names is a standalone advanced analytics solution based on the Othot platform that identifies new adult learners for your campus to attract and recruit. Now, you can also expand your marketing reach by finding parents of prospective undergraduate students to communicate with and build awareness of your institution as an option for their children. For more information, visit the Liaison Intelligent Names website.

    UI/UX Redesign

A complete redesign of the Othot application entered the development phase in Version 2023.1. This project is a significant undertaking that will continue being worked on in upcoming releases. More specifics will be provided later with a production release target of December 2023.

    User Experience Improvements and Other Enhancements

As with every release, some existing features have been improved or expanded as detailed below:

• Allow any aggregate variable to be selected for Sensitivity
• Export detail button in Pivot and Sensitivity
• Edit number format in Analyze page columns
• Filter and sort calculated features in Analyze page columns
• What-if Variable aggregates in Pivot use grouping buckets of original Variable
• Added placeholder text to drop-down menus when editing a Dashboard
• Data page search for any column value
• Deprecated Tasks and Dashboard Anything features
• Added advanced telemetry/monitoring to identify performance issues in an ongoing effort to improve platform performance

    Bug Fixes

Adding enhancements occasionally results in the introduction of software bugs. Our team has fixed as many issues as possible and gives top priority to user-reported problems. Here is a list of the more notable items addressed:

• Predicted Retention Breakdown visualization not showing Historical bar
• Goal widgets not appearing after specific configuration changes
• Predicted Enrollment Breakdown hover tool-tip not appearing for values less than 1
• Top Impacts column displaying incorrect values when actual value is null