14.25 Feature Highlights

Each innovation pack contains some featured highlights that are either major updates introducing new functionality, or important updates for features that are widely utilised. Below are the featured highlights for IP25:

AI-Enhanced Search

Overview: Scheer IMC are proud to release the first iteration of a new AI Enhanced Search function. This has been a long-term innovation project that has undergone beta testing with select customers and received many subsequent updates. Whilst a new content search may seem simple this has been a massive development effort with many challenges to overcome including technology, security, usability, performance, and cost efficiency.

The AI Enhanced Search provides a deeper search than the traditional catalogue search as all catalogue and channel content available to the learner are considered. It searches through titles, keywords and descriptions of contents. The enhanced search query returns relevant content and that is ranked according to relevance to the search. The search can be configured as either a Lexical (exact phrase) or Semantic (AI-based) search:

• Lexical Search: This mode directly matches the words from the user's query with titles, descriptions, and keywords of learning content. It’s a purely text-based lookup - no artificial intelligence involved.

• Semantic Search: In this mode, both the indexed learning content and the user’s query are converted into vectors using AI technologies. This allows the system to detect semantic similarities and retrieve related concepts and themes even if phrased differently from the query.

Benefits and Use Cases: The new search enables learners to find desired content more efficiently and make more informed decisions on what content to consume. Customers with Channels really benefit from this search.

Audience: Learners

This is only the first release of the AI-Enhanced Search meaning the functionality will continue to be enhanced. For further detailed information visit the 14.25 Core Updates page.

Slider Panel Update

Overview: The Slider panel is a highly panel type on external dashboards. This panel commonly forms part of the design to display a series of rotating images with overlay text. Prior to IP25 the Slider had been restrictive in terms of image height and layout options. With a series of important updates administrators can configure more engaging Slider panels with full control of panel height, support of videos, adding buttons to images, and controlling image display by date/time ranges.

Benefits and Use Cases: The new Sliders offer more control and options to display images and videos on dashboard pages. Some key benefits include:

• Set the Slider to desired heights.

• Create a spotlight on key content.

• Link to valuable internal and external resources.

• Inspire action with a compelling message and CTA button *.

Audience: Learners

New System Panel for Quick Links

Overview: With the introduction of a new Quick Links panel users can boost system navigation efficiency with personalised shortcuts. The new panel type is available in the Panel function where it can be edited or duplicated, then assigned to internal dashboards. This panel creates a nice visual alternative to traditional navigation menus for popular functions, links or objects.

Benefits and Use Cases: There are numerous use cases and benefits including:

• Improved navigation by reducing the number of clicks required to access specific sections.

• Enable easy access to valuable resources with direct links to external pages.

• Create a visually appealing entry in three display options, incl. a grid layout.

• Reduce the need to achieve similar layouts with complex feature plugin panels.

Audience: All users