Product Roadmap: March Recap + April Priorities

Springing ahead with all new functionality!

We’re heading into spring with new features and content to bring more meaningful and exciting opportunities to you and your students! Our primary focus for the next few months will be scaling your workflows, putting more power into your hands as a platform administrator, and giving you more content and opportunities to share with your students! Below, we dive into a few near term releases to get excited about, but first, let’s take a look at what we built in March to make sure you didn’t miss anything!

If you have questions on anything mentioned below, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at support@gouconnect.com!

March Recap

New content provider available in your External Blog Library!
A huge part of our mission is to build access to fresh, impactful career content straight from within your virtual career center, to help scale your work and provide support for all students. After receiving many requests for an integration with Career Shift, you can now find Career Shift blogs right within your External Blog Library to aide in your curation of quality content for students and stakeholders! Below, you can read more about the new content integration and how to access it within your dashboard, or, if you have recommendations for new content providers we should partner with, submit them via the form below!

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Improved Visibility into Email Engagement
You’ve always been able to download a file that includes the names and emails of those who opened or clicked on links within your sent emails, but now, we’ve expanded that feature to also tell you their user types! Now, each export will include an extra column that denotes the ‘user type’ of each individual, to make it easier for you to see which audience groups your messaging has resonated with! For more details on how to access this new information, check out the post, below!

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Improved Visibility into Email Sender Activity
To help with your content marketing planning and analysis, we’ve expanded the data included in your sent email export! Now when you export sent emails, you’ll be able to see who the sender of the email was in the exported file. View this information by navigating to Engage > Emails > Sent Emails and selecting the green Export button at the bottom of the dashboard.

New search functionality within your Labor Market Insights widget!
Previously, widgets only supported filtering by selecting industry and occupation categories, but we’ve extended functionality to include keyword search as well! You can choose to facilitate search by either method alone, or both together, depending on your preference. Keyword search will allow your users to type in any word, and see a list of related professions from across all industries. Read more about the update below, or check out the video to see it in action!

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Upcoming + Continued Priorities for April

We’re releasing and exciting new integration partner to pull in dynamic experiential learning opportunities!
We’re dedicated to creating the premier career ecosystem within your uConnect platform. To that end, we’re expanding the types of content we bring into your dashboard, and we’re excited to announce a brand new type of integration this month to bring in unique experiential learning opportunities for students and alumni. The best part? It’s completely free. Stay tuned for a more formal announcement on this!

New functionality for your video library!
Video content is more popular than ever, so we’ve invested in expanding the influence of video content within your platform! Soon, you’ll be able to feature videos as the featured content on your homepage, and create ‘video sets’ to group threaded videos together! We’ll share more on this soon, so stay tuned!

We’re building the ability to restrict content based on end-user profile attributes!
With this new release, you’ll be able to set specific visibility permissions for individual pieces of content, based on SSO authentication, or individual profile settings! Now, you can easily host all your resources – for faculty, students, and more – all within uConnect, without needing to lock your entire site.

We’re automating the removal of mentors who want to keep their profiles private.
Alumni privacy is a top priority for us, so we’re making it easier than ever for Alumni to opt-out of our technical integrations and keep their profiles private. If you use one of our mentor integrations (Firsthand, PeopleGrove, or Graduway) and have questions on this, please let us know at support@gouconnect.com!

By Alli Faust
Alli Faust Product Manager