Product Updates

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PDF Export for Conversations

You can now export your chat conversations with Assistants as PDF files, providing a more readable and tamper-resistant format compared to CSV exports. This feature makes it easier to submit conversations to learning management systems and creates a cleaner, professional format for sharing AI interactions.

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Enhanced Code File Support

We’ve expanded the types of files that can be uploaded to an Assistant’s knowledge base to include code files. You can now train your Assistants with source code including .py, .java, .c, .cpp, .h, .js, .html, .css, .sql, and .R files, enabling better support for computer science and programming courses.

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Analytics Improvements

We’ve enhanced the Analytics dashboard with new export capabilities and smarter data visualization. You can now export analytics data from Group and Workspace level Assistants. The dashboard also features an improved default time range of 3 months and intelligent trendline displays that only appear when sufficient historical data exists, eliminating misleading percentage changes.

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Document Upload in Chat

You can now upload PDF, DOCX, and TXT files directly in your chat conversations with Assistants. This allows for more dynamic interactions where you can ask questions about specific documents, get summaries, or have the Assistant analyze content without needing to add files to the Assistant’s knowledge base.

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Group Nesting

You can now create nested Groups to organize your Assistants in hierarchical structures. This powerful feature enables you to create Groups inside other Groups, making it easier to manage complex organizational structures, departments, or multi-level course hierarchies. You can invite members at any Group level with permissions properly inherited throughout the hierarchy.

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AI Model Updates

We’ve upgraded our AI models to the latest versions for improved performance and capabilities. All Assistants have been automatically migrated to GPT-4.1 (from GPT-4o) and Claude Sonnet 4 (from Claude Sonnet 3.5). These models will providing better reasoning, enhanced context understanding, and more accurate responses.

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Temperature Control for AI Models

Assistant Owners now have fine-grained control over AI response creativity through customizable temperature settings via the Advanced tab. The AI model temperature allows you to adjust how creative or predicable the response is.

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LMS role mapping

Workspace owners can now configure how LMS roles (like Instructor, Learner, Teaching Assistant) are mapped to Nectir AI roles when users are provisioned via LMS integration. This ensures users receive appropriate permissions based on their institutional roles.

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Duplicate Assistants

You can now duplicate Assistants, just like courses. When duplicating, all settings and training data will be copied to the new Assistant.

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”Courses” are now “Groups”

We’ve updated the interface terminology from “Courses” to “Groups” to better reflect diverse educational use cases and simplify the organization of AI Assistants.

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Early access features

Introduced a new feature flag functionality that enables customers to opt into early access features. You can now access experimental and beta features by clicking on your profile icon and selecting Early access features.

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Iframe support for LMS integration

LMS integration via LTI 1.3 now works with iframe embedding, allowing Nectir AI to be embedded directly within Canvas, Moodle, D2L, and Blackboard. Learn more by checking out our blog post.

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Link multiple LMS courses to a single Nectir AI course

You can now link multiple LMS courses to a single Nectir AI course. This is useful if you want to use the same Assistant across multiple LMS courses.

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Assistant training enhancements

• IMSCC support (limited rollout): Added ability to import and train on IMSCC files from learning management systems
• Media file support: Enabled uploading of audio and video files for Assistant training
• Increased file size limit: Maximum file size for training files increased from 25MB to 100MB

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Role improvements

• Facilitator role update: Facilitators can now view analytics dashboard and Course/Assistant settings, but cannot edit settings

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AI model selection

Instructors can now choose between GPT-4o (default) and Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2 for their Assistants via the Advanced tab in Assistant settings. For a complete overview, check out our blog post.

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Key topics analytics

We’ve enhanced our analytics capabilities with a new key topics feature that helps you understand what students are discussing with your Assistants. For a complete overview, check out our blog post.

• Topic analysis: View the top topics discussed in conversations for specific Assistants
• Sortable data: Sort topics in ascending or descending order
• Pagination: Navigate through all topics with 5 rows per page
• Filter options: Apply role and date filters to refine topic analysis

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UI/UX improvements

• Image handling improvements: Added drag-and-drop and copy-paste functionality for images in chat
• Course duplication via LTI: Users can now duplicate Courses through LTI interface
• Improved analytics dashboard filters: Preselected all user roles by default and expanded time range to show data from Assistant creation to present day

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Trial experience improvements

• Trial countdown: Added card displaying the remaining time in free trial period
• Trial management: Implemented logic to restrict access to certain resources when free trial ends
• Eligibility check: Added account verification for free trial eligibility

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LMS integration improvements

• Course linking: Added ability to link LTI courses to existing Nectir AI courses

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Self-service improvements

• Redesigned sign-in/up pages: Enhanced user experience for account creation and login
• Workspace invite redesign: Improved process for inviting users to Workspaces
• Trial workflow: Added first screen for trial workflow - create Workspace

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System enhancements

• Default sharing permissions: Changed the default invite link access to “Anyone with the link” instead of “Restricted”
• AI analytics: Now storing metadata of messages sent to AI for improved analytics

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Free trial now available

We’ve launched a trial page so you can now sign up and try Nectir AI for free for 14 days. Check it out here.

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Progressive web app support

Nectir AI can now be downloaded and installed as an app on your mobile phone, providing a more native experience when using the platform on mobile devices.

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AI enhancements

• Date awareness: Added current date to AI prompt context (first Feature Flag implementation)
• Transparency: Introduced an AI awareness modal and footer note on the conversations page

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Course duplication

We’ve introduced a new feature that lets you effortlessly duplicate Courses, simplifying the process of copying all your Assistants along with their settings and training data across different sessions or terms.

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Nectir AI major release

We’re excited to announce a big release with significant new features and improvements across the platform. For a complete overview, check out our blog post.

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Analytics dashboard

Track and measure Assistant performance at both Workspace and Course levels with our new comprehensive analytics dashboard. Our new analytics dashboard provides real-time insights into AI assistant usage, helping you make informed decisions about your teaching strategies.

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Improved LMS integration

• LTI 1.3 roster sync: Route multiple LTI course rosters to single Assistant
• LTI 1.3 dynamic registration: Streamline the LMS setup process with dynamic registration for Canvas, Moodle, and others

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Enhanced user experience for Assistants

• Image support: Upload and send images in conversations with any Assistant
• Markdown support: Text input in Assistant conversations is now formatted as markdown
• Improved navigation: Better navigability throughout Assistant pages
• Training data download: Added download button for Assistant’s training files

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Security & administration

• Email domain restriction: New Workspace setting allow only specific email domains to join Workspaces
• Security warnings: Added warning when sharing public invite links
• Infrastructure update: Completed migration to new training documents service Azure Document Intelligence
• Default settings: Changed default Assistants knowledge to general knowledge