Digication Development Update - 06/12/2026

Dear Digication Community,

It has been a year since our last Development Update, and a busy one. This update is a year in review: a look at everything that has shipped across Digication since May 30, 2025, from new assessment workflows and AI capabilities to dozens of fixes and accessibility improvements. Everything described below is available now. As always, you can reach our team at support@digication.com with any questions.

By the numbers

Over the past twelve months, Digication shipped:

• 26 features and improvements across assessment, reporting, authoring, AI, and administration
• 21 notable fixes, including several affecting exports, the Gradebook, and LMS integrations
• 8 accessibility improvements, supporting our WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 compliance work
• A refreshed Help Desk with new video guides and reorganized articles

AI in teaching and learning

This year brought AI capabilities deeper into the platform, for faculty using AI assistants in their courses and for administrators seeking insights from course and assessment data.

• OAIR (Open AI Resources). OAIR is Digication's free, collaborative hub where educators discover, share, and adapt AI assistants built for educational contexts. The assistants are vetted by educators, offered under Creative Commons licenses, and can be adopted as they are, adapted, or built from scratch to fit a course.
• AI assistants in Digication courses and assignments. Faculty can now add an AI assistant to a Digication assignment for students to work with directly as part of their coursework. These assistants guide students through structured inquiry and reflective conversations to deepen their learning and strengthen their connection to their own academic progress. The assistants can be adapted or created for the course. When a student submits, the entire conversation with the assistant is captured as the submission: a complete, uneditable transcript the faculty member can review. These submissions are now included in submission exports alongside other student work. Administrators can manage which assistants are discoverable through public-directory permissions. Learn more
• AI-assisted Program Assessment analysis. A new Program Assessment AI report lets faculty and administrators analyze assessment data through an AI chat interface. Export a report at the submission or program level, then ask questions, explore trends, and pull out insights without working through the underlying spreadsheets manually. Conversations are saved, so you can return to a previous analysis and continue where you left off.
• AI assistant management. Digication now prevents the accidental deletion of an AI assistant while it is still attached to an assignment. When you copy an assignment that uses an assistant you cannot edit, a read-only copy is created automatically so the assignment keeps working in its new context.
• Chat Explorer (private beta). Chat Explorer gives administrators and faculty members real-time analytics drawn from students' AI assistant conversations. The Chat Explorer helps administrators and faculty members to use AI to analyze their students' reflections. The analysis can help provide insights into student reflections. Chat Explorer is currently available as a private beta. Institutions interested in joining can apply by contacting us at support@digication.com. Access is limited.

Course and Gradebook

Course and Gradebook updates this year make assessing student work and managing courses faster and more flexible.

• Split-screen assessment panel improvements. Assessors can now view and score outcomes side by side with the student's submission more easily. On desktop, the work shifts to stay centered when the outcome panel is open, and collapsed panels expand on hover for quick scoring passes.
• Assignment information panel in the assessor. While assessing an assignment, you can now expand an Assignment information panel without leaving the assessment.
• Easier comment viewing. A new "Expand all assessments" display option in the Gradebook shows every score with its full comments at once. Long comments display with a Show more control instead of a hidden scroll area, rubric row titles click through to the outcome panel at that comment, and an individual submission can show all comments from every reviewer in one place.
• Comment counts on outcome assessments. Outcome assessment views now show how many written comments each assessment has, so reviewers can spot which entries have feedback.
• Resizable outcome comments. Outcome comment boxes can be resized, so reviewers no longer have to scroll inside a small box.
• Editable submission sharing. Submission-sharing settings with peers can now be updated after submission, not only at submission time, and a peer visibility indicator on the Submissions page shows which submissions are shared with peers.
• Course self-enrollment. Courses can now be configured to allow students to enroll themselves.
• Print portfolio submission. Faculty can now produce a printed copy of a student's portfolio submission.

Program Assessment and reporting

A major theme this year was making program review, exports, and submission workflows more capable.

• Split-screen assessment panel improvements. Assessors can now view and score outcomes side by side with the student's submission more easily. On desktop, the work shifts to stay centered when the outcome panel is open, and collapsed panels expand on hover for quick scoring passes.
• Assignment information panel in the assessor. While assessing an assignment, you can now expand an Assignment information panel without leaving the assessment.
• Easier comment viewing. A new "Expand all assessments" display option in the program submissions table shows every score with its full comments at once. Long comments display with a Show more control instead of a hidden scroll area, rubric row titles click through to the outcome panel at that comment, and an individual submission can show all comments from every reviewer in one place.
• Comment counts on outcome assessments. Outcome assessment views now show how many written comments each assessment has, so reviewers can spot which entries have feedback.
• Resizable outcome comments. Outcome comment boxes can be resized, so reviewers no longer have to scroll inside a small box.
• Smoother multi-step review workflows. When multiple reviewers are assigned to an assessment, the reviewer selector is now clearly visible, so each reviewer can find their own view. Assessments with all-zero scores can now advance to the next review step, supporting legitimate unsatisfactory reviews without a manual workaround.
• Submissions export for administrators. The Submissions export and submission Logs pages are now available to administrators directly in the Kora Administration panel.
• Include assessments without submissions. A new export option lets administrators include assignments that students never submitted, useful for auditing and follow-up.
• Deleted data alerts. Program submissions that reference deleted assignments, courses, or submissions are no longer dropped from the program submissions table or CSV exports. A warning surfaces the count of affected items with a link to review them.
• Student ID in program exports. Program submission exports now include the Student Sync ID column for both the detailed and aggregated exports.
• Course assessment data in program exports. Program exports now include course assessment data, with performance improvements to keep large exports fast.
• Faster, more consistent exports. Submission export performance was improved for large programs, sorting now happens server-side for consistent results, and a queue issue that could leave an export stuck in processing was resolved.

Work authoring

Authoring updates make editing work smoother, with more flexible module placement and better support for touch devices.

• Move modules in and out of the Header section. Content modules can now be moved between header sections and other sections using the existing controls. A confirmation prompt appears when moving a module into or out of a header section because header content appears on every page.
• Better touch support on iPad and tablets. The floating action button, section toolbars, and the section hamburger menu now respond correctly to tap. Previously, the first tap could be treated as a hover, making some controls unreachable on touch devices.
• Gallery and navigation polish. We fixed the gallery module's layout, restored gallery layout option icons, corrected a navigation menu that could render behind page content, cleaned up section border styling, and resolved a configuration issue that could prevent saving or deleting files in galleries.

Administration and integrations

Administrators gained more control over LMS integrations and clearer visibility into connected courses.

• New LTI platform control. A new allowUpdateUser setting on LTI platform configuration controls whether Digication updates user profile data on launch.
• LTI indicator in the Courses list. The Kora Administration Courses list now includes an LTI indicator, so administrators can see at a glance which courses are connected through an LMS integration.
• AAC&U QL 2.0 VALUE Rubric. The AAC&U Quantitative Literacy 2.0 VALUE Rubric is now available in Digication for Quantitative Literacy assessment.

Accessibility improvements

The improvements below shipped between our May 2025 update and today. They support the WCAG 2.2 AA upgrade announced in November 2025 and the Section 508 Chapters 3 to 6 expansion announced in May 2026.

• Updated ARIA references on assignment and submission interfaces.
• Added a Role for draggable elements, supporting users who use alternatives to drag-and-drop interactions (WCAG 2.5.7 Dragging Movements).
• Adjusted auto-loading search results so they no longer surprise screen reader users when results change without their input.
• Resolved insufficient color contrast issues on assignment interfaces.
• Corrected an incorrect heading structure on an assignment-related page.
• Fixed a "Choose an image" button that was nested within another button and could not be properly announced by screen readers.
• Corrected a hover-state contrast issue on the "Upgrade now" element.
• Fixed a keyboard focus issue on the Sign-up permissions page where the domain field lost focus on each keystroke.

Refreshed Help Desk

We have refreshed the Digication Help Desk to make it easier to find what you need. A new "New to Digication" section welcomes first-time users with short, easy-to-follow videos that walk through the essentials, so getting started is quick and approachable. Alongside the videos, you'll find articles reorganized by audience and topic and new articles covering our latest features. Older articles for Classic Digication have been archived, and new options at the top of the page let you access more resources or reach out to our support team anytime.

Notable fixes

The fixes with the broadest impact this year:

• Outcome score of 0 in the Gradebook. A score of 0 next to an assessor's name is now clickable, so faculty can open the assessment and re-score it. The outcome assessment panel also no longer closes automatically when a score is cleared or the average drops to 0.
• LMS grade passback retries. When an initial grade sync to an LMS failed, instructors could not re-save the same grade to retry because the Save button stayed disabled until the value changed. The Save button is now always available, so grades can be re-synced to any LMS, including Canvas, D2L Brightspace, and Blackboard, without first modifying the grade.
• Submission export accuracy. Several export issues were resolved: date-filtered exports could be missing submissions that fell within the requested range, exports excluded the final day of a date range, AI assistant submissions were not included, and a course faculty filter was not applied correctly.
• Outcome assessment visibility. The Gradebook now enforces permission checks before showing outcome assessments.
• Gradebook viewing error. We fixed a Gradebook error that occurred with a certain combination of assignment settings.
• Rubric copy keeps its settings. Copying an outcome rubric now retains the "Allow specific rubric rows to be unscorable" setting.
• Reliable assessment resets. Resetting an assessment from the three-dot menu no longer occasionally fails and locks the rubric.
• Comment links from the submission overview. Comment links from the submission overview screen now open the comments instead of a blank page.
• Duplicate subscriptions. Resolved a billing issue where users could end up with multiple subscriptions.
• Password validation alignment. The sign-up and password reset forms previously accepted passwords that were later rejected. They now apply the same strength requirements as the backend.
• Rubric scoring preserved between assessments. Rubric comments and scoring state no longer carry over or get lost when navigating between submissions.
• Assessing outcomes without rubrics. You can now select an outcome that has no rubric while assessing.
• Allocate to reviewers menu. The actions menu now closes properly after you open the Allocate to reviewers dialog.
• Assignment import. Page names now copy correctly during assignment import, and a batch assignment import error was resolved.
• Assignment visibility. Assignments no longer become unexpectedly hidden after an assignment is copied and updated.
• Uninterrupted rubric comments. Typing a comment on a rubric row is no longer interrupted by the field losing focus.
• Image resizing. Resizing images in the editor works correctly again in current versions of Chrome.
• Import Submission IDs. The Import Submission IDs button in Program Assessment now responds reliably; previously it could fail with no error shown.
• Older custom modules can be deleted. Some older custom modules could not be removed from an ePortfolio, and the error blocked navigation until the page was reloaded. Both issues are resolved.
• AI assistant links and privacy. Public copilot links now work for assistants with instructions over 3,000 characters, and AI chat data is fully cleared on logout.
• Smoother new-user invitations. New users invited to a private ePortfolio are now taken to the right place after accepting the terms of use.

Thank you for being part of the Digication community. If you have questions about anything in this update, please reach out at support@digication.com.

Kind regards,

Your Friends at Digication