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We are excited to share the addition of a new user role: The Instructor role.

This new user role allows you to add users, who can share content, create invites and run sessions without the ability to edit content. Allowing you to share more, run more workshops all with less content nightmares such as duplicates or accidental breaks to tracks.

Role breakdown

• Access and View Content: Users can be added to the workspace as “Instructors” and given access to view specific tracks. They have the ability to see the overall structure of the content and interact with it, such as playing a track, to get an understanding of what it contains and they have permission to share it.

  
  How to add a user

  Select “Manage team” in the side menu Enter their email and select the “Instructor” option from the role dropdown

  How to give an Instructor access to content (Account admin)

  After the user accepts the invite and creates their account come to the “Manage Team” page Locate the user you want and click the option in the Track access column. Now you can add this user to all tracks or select specific ones you want them to access

  How to give an Instructor access to content (Content Creator)

  Go to the track you want to share access to. Click on the Authors (Next to the Share button) Click the Add user button Select the user you want to give access (Instructors will have share permissions only)

• Create Invitations: Instructors can create invitations based on the content they have access to. However, they are only able to view and manage the invitations that they have personally created.

• Assist on Invitations: Instructors can be added to existing invites by Content Creators, to help them collaborate or use the existing invite.

  How to add an instructor access to content (Content Creator)

  Go to the track you want to share access Click on the Authors (Next to the Share button) Click the Add user button Select the user you want to give access (Instructors will have share permissions only)

Access Control and Permissions:

• Limited Editing Capabilities: While instructors can view and interact with the content, they do not have the ability to edit the content.

The Instructor Role is your solution to scaling workshops, content sharing, and collaborative sessions without the risk of content alteration. Empower your team to do more, share more, and engage more, all while maintaining content integrity.

Try out the new Instructor Role today and see how it transforms your content sharing and workshop experiences!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need further assistance. Happy instructing! 🚀

Howdy y'all 

We're looking to enhance your experience and provide transparency about our system's performance with our brand-new Status Page!

🔍 Why Check Out Our Status Page?

• Real-time Updates: Get instant information on the current operational status of our system. No more guesswork!
• Historical Data: Review our system's performance over the past 90 days, ensuring you're always in the loop.
• Diverse Service Breakdown: From Containers to VMs, see detailed insights into every segment that powers your content creation and delivery.

💡 Features You'll Love:

• User-friendly Interface: Navigate with ease and understand system performance at a glance.
• Regular Maintenance Updates: Stay informed about scheduled updates, ensuring minimal disruption to your workflow.
• Subscribe to stay up to date:  Never miss planned maintenance or notice about outages

🔗 Click here to visit our Status Page

Our commitment remains steadfast: delivering top-notch performance while ensuring you're informed every step of the way. 

Your feedback is invaluable to us! Explore our Status Page and let us know your thoughts. Together, we can continue making Instruqt the best place for your content creation and delivery needs.

Warm regards,
The Instruqt team

We're thrilled to announce the launch of a brand new set of reports that will help you make better data-informed business decisions:

• A new Overview report offering high-level insights to help you understand and optimize the ROI of your content.
• An improved Plays report to help you look up, analyze and correlate track plays from any source - invites or embeds.
• An improved Users report to help you look up and qualify users based on their activity over time.

We hope these reports will help you make the most out of Instruqt. 
If you have any questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out and let us know!

We're excited to introduce a new feature to Instruqt: Gated Embeds.

With Gated Embeds, you can boost your lead generation efforts. This feature lets you capture leads directly from your marketing or documentation, by gating an embedded track. This lets you gather leads without navigating visitors away from your website to a Track Invite link. This improves the user experience and helps you track engagement accurately, connecting it to the campaigns bringing visitors to your site using embed events. 

To create a gated embed, open the invite editor, select 'Embedded on my website' and select which track you wish to gate. Optionally, you can configure which fields to collect. As part of this release, we've also added the option to only accept business emails in the form configurator (works on both invite links and embeds).

After creating the gated embed, you configure the snippet just like regular embeds and integrate it on your website.
All set to start collecting leads! 

Exciting news! We've just introduced a powerful enhancement to our platform: the ability to inject parameters and secrets at runtime into your sandbox environments. This feature allows for dynamic customization of sandbox environments and enhanced integration with external systems. Ever wanted to tailor a single track for different users or use cases? Then this is the feature for you.

Key Benefits:

1. Customization: Customize sandbox environments on-the-fly.
2. Seamless Integration: Easily integrate with external systems and APIs.
3. Enhanced Security: Safeguard sensitive data by injecting secrets securely.

How It Works:

• Configure runtime parameters for invites, embeds or the CLI.
  
• The configured parameters are injected into the track's lifecycle scripts as environment variables.
  
• Runtime parameters are not accessible to end users by default, but they can be exposed using Runtime Variables if needed.

Getting started: Visit the documentation for Runtime Parameters. We're committed to enhancing your Instruqt experience. Should you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is here to help.

Unlock the potential of your sandboxes with this exciting new feature!

Today, we're thrilled to introduce our latest game-changer: the Virtual Browser Host!

🌐 What is a Virtual Browser Host? 
The Virtual Browser is a feature that allows you to effortlessly add any web-based/SaaS product directly to your Instruqt content. Say goodbye to the limitations of iframes and the old ways of integrating web products.

🛠 Mix and Match Like Never Before! The true beauty of the Virtual Browser Host is its versatility. Combine it with our existing container or virtual machine host types to offer an unparalleled training experience. This enables you to:

• Train End Users Holistically: Showcase how your web-based products and cloud-based offerings interplay, offering a holistic view of your ecosystem.
• Simulate Cross-Product Flows: Design scenarios where users can navigate through multiple products, giving them an understanding of comprehensive workflows.

🌟 Benefits:

• Flexibility: Seamlessly incorporate any web or SaaS product.
• Interactivity: Let users experience real-world flows across different products.
• Convenience: A straightforward addition process, designed with the content creator in mind.

Getting Started: To help you make the most of this new feature, we've curated a set of guides and tutorials. Dive into our documentation.

🔗 Link to Documentation

Our commitment has always been to provide you with the best tools to empower your audience. With the Virtual Browser Host, we believe we're taking yet another giant leap towards that vision.

Thank you for your continued trust and partnership. Excited to see the amazing content you'll craft with the Virtual Browser!

Warm Regards,

Alex Pierce Product Manager, Head of Design & UX,  Instruqt

We're elated to unveil a significant enhancement that has been highly requested by many: Single Sign-On (SSO)!

🔐 Welcome to Streamlined Access with SSO: With the implementation of SSO, you can now seamlessly integrate Instruqt with your centralized authentication system. This means simpler access, better security, and an improved user experience all around.

🌠 The Benefits of SSO:

1. Effortless Login: Say goodbye to the hassle of remembering multiple passwords. With SSO, users can access Instruqt using their primary enterprise credentials.
2. Boosted Security: By consolidating logins, you reduce the risk of password-related breaches. Our SSO feature complies with top-notch security standards to ensure your data's safety.
3. Enhanced User Management: Centralised authentication makes it easier to manage, monitor, and modify user access.
4. Seamless Integration: Our SSO integrates smoothly with popular identity providers, ensuring that your transition is as painless as possible. We support Okta, SAML, Google, and Azure

Getting Started: To assist you in harnessing the power of SSO on Instruqt, we've prepared comprehensive documentation and tutorials. Jump in and get started today!

🔗 Link to Documentation

We genuinely believe that with SSO, your Instruqt experience will be more seamless, secure, and efficient. As always, we're here for your feedback and questions.

Thank you for being a valued member of our community.

Warm Regards,

Alex Pierce Product Manager, Head of Design & UX,  Instruqt

We have updated the public description field on track invites to support lists, links, and new lines using markdown. Additionally, the limit has been increased to 400 characters. This enables you to include additional information, such as instructions or a call-to-action (CTA), in your invites.

For more details on using track invites and leveraging these new capabilities, please consult our docs.