This article keeps you informed about the latest developments from Element451. Every month, we highlight everything from bug fixes and minor improvements to new features and major enhancements.
We update this article regularly throughout the month as new releases, improvements, and bug fixes are rolled out. Please check back frequently to stay informed.
To explore other months or specific release notes, visit our Release Notes collection. You should also check out our Planned Releases to get a glimpse of what's to come.
Authorize.net - Now Preferred Payment Provider
Element451 now supports Authorize.net as a preferred payment gateway provider. Previously available only through legacy configurations, Authorize.net has been fully integrated into our self-service payment gateway setup, making it easier and faster to start accepting payments. Administrators can now connect their Authorize.net accounts directly within the platform—no custom setup required.
Access Rules
A new Access Rules feature has been added to give administrators enhanced control over who can submit applications and forms, register for events, book appointments and other activities that create or update contacts. You can now block or allow access based on IP addresses, IP ranges, email domains, or IP-based country locations.
Bolt Agent Job Shortcuts
Bolt Staff Agents just got a major boost. You can now access a new set of Bolt Agent Jobs shortcuts—built directly from our proven playbooks—to help you spin up high-impact Jobs in minutes. mThese shortcuts appear alongside your existing Staff Agent shortcuts. You’ll find the the full list available under Shortcuts in the Bolt Staff Agent sidebar.
Grade Risk Detection
Grade Risk Detection is an automatic early warning system that identifies students whose academic performance is trending downward. This feature pairs well with our Native Courses Integrations for Learning Management Systems by continuously monitors grade changes across all active enrollments and assigns risk levels (Watch, At Risk, Critical).
Native Course Integration: Ethos for Banner + Colleague
You can now sync courses, sections, enrollments, students, grades, and attendance from Banner or Colleague into Element451 through our new Ethos-powered Native Courses Integration. This connection keeps your academic data aligned with your SIS and gives you a single source to manage course-related insights across your student lifecycle.
Transcript Evaluation Agent
The Transcript Evaluation Agent is a new Bolt Staff Agent available as part of the Element Admissions Team package. This agent automates the extraction, normalization, and evaluation of high school and college transcript data—streamlining how admissions teams review and analyze academic records.
Enhanced URL Filtering for Knowledge Hub Website Sources
We’ve introduced advanced filtering capabilities for website sources in the Knowledge Hub, giving you greater control over which pages are ingested from your sitemap and during new page detection.
Applications + Decisions
Improved
Added an “Allow New Registrations” toggle at the application level to control whether new applications can be started from a site while allowing existing applicants to sign in and edit their applications.
Added support for pre-populating application registration forms via query parameters.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where recommendation letter visibility conditions used OR instead of AND, allowing students who didn’t meet all requirements to see them.
Resolved an issue where the HESI test appeared in data sources but was missing from Decision Settings for tests.
Resolved an issue where the
[user_application:decision_released_at]token failed to display in acceptance letters within the application portal.Resolved an issue where values failed to display when setting up conditional logic for selecting a major.
Appointments
Improved
Updated the Appointment Details side sheet to display all non-null subfields under form submission info.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where appointment times couldn’t be edited from PM to AM, while other time changes saved correctly.
Resolved an issue where some fields couldn’t be unhidden in Appointment Type settings.
Resolved an issue where calendar appointment formatting was lost when Google meetings were added via integration.
Resolved an issue where the appointment list was displaying records that did not meet the configured filter criteria.
Bolt Agents for Students
Improved
Improved Bolt Agent response to state that an event is unavailable for registration when it's at capacity instead of stating that the event doesn’t exist.
Enhanced voice interaction handling to account for caller identity mismatches by guiding Agents to use the contact’s name unless the voicemail clearly indicates the number does not belong to the contact.
Improved backend prompting to enhance the experience of agent-initiated voicemails.
Updated the initial messaging in the inquiry flow to clarify that information is collected to assist with the question at hand, not necessarily for a follow-up by a person, ensuring a more accurate and transparent interaction.
Fixed
Resolved an issue preventing skills, including inquiry flow, from being toggled off for the default Bolt Agent.
Resolved an issue where the default Bolt Agent didn’t trigger the inquiry flow despite having the skill enabled.
Resolved an issue where deactivated users’ availability was incorrectly offered when booking appointments, leading to broken booking links (Messenger Voice).
Resolved an issue where Bolt Agents could schedule appointments (and perform other tasks) even when the required agent skill was turned off.
Resolved an issue where Bolt Agents were able to schedule appointments with categories outside their scoped permissions, affecting both voice and messenger channels.
Bolt Agents for Staff
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an intermittent issue where the Bolt Campaign Creator Agent failed to create campaigns, returning an error while preparing communications.
Resolved an issue where the Bolt App Reader Agent incorrectly extracted the high school start date due to a missing end date.
Resolved an issue where the Bolt Agent creator incorrectly switched to the Bolt Jobs creator after entering a prompt to create a new agent.
Bolt Agent Jobs
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue preventing “Joined Segment” events from firing, which blocked related Bolt Agent Jobs from triggering.
Resolved an issue where the selected Bolt Agent in Job Builder displayed the agent type instead of the title, ensuring titles remain visible when available.
Resolved an issue where manually adding people to a job failed due to the list not loading and displaying an error.
Bolt Discovery
Improved
Enhanced Bolt Discovery’s system prompt to reference previous chat questions, improving contextual understanding and continuity in responses.
Fixed
Resolved an issue in Bolt Discovery where the agent misinterpreted follow-up questions as being directed at itself, causing it to respond from the agent’s perspective instead of assisting the student.
Resolved an issue where the Discover starter message text was not saving correctly on Pages.
Bolt Knowledge Hub
Improved
Introduced advanced filtering capabilities for website sources in the Knowledge Hub, giving you greater control over which pages are ingested from your sitemap and during new page detection.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where Knowledge Hub sources remained stuck in the “learning” status and didn’t progress as expected.
Resolved an issue where Knowledge Base sitemap ingestion ignored
robots.txtdisallow rules and auto-discovered related sitemaps, now restricting to allowed URLs (previously ingested unwanted URLs must be removed manually).Resolved an issue where the Knowledge Base was ingesting URLs not included in the uploaded XML sitemap files, including those blocked by robots.txt.
Campaigns
Improved
Fixed
Conversations
Improved
Updated default sender behavior in Conversations to pre-select the last used email or phone number for the user instead of reverting to the default sender.
Updated inbox sorting logic so that Bolt Agent Job scheduled messages across all channels now reorder based on the most recent message timestamp, consistent with non-scheduled messages.
Added Conversation AI Sentiment Analysis and AI Tone Analysis as filterable properties in segment filters.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where Messenger wouldn’t display on pages with a condition containing a trailing “/” in the URL by updating logic to ignore trailing slashes.
Resolved an issue preventing the creation of outbound AI phone call conversations.
Resolved an issue where navigating back from a profile to the Conversations module required a page refresh to reopen the selected conversation.
Courses
Improved
Updated the courses profile card to group courses by term.
Added grade risk level indicators (Warning, At Risk, Critical) to each enrollment chip on the Courses profile card for quicker visibility.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the departments filter didn’t work correctly for courses with multiple department values.
Resolved an issue where certain grading filters in Courses failed while others worked, ensuring consistent filtering across all grading options.
Resolved an issue where the filter icon stayed active after filters were removed in Courses.
Resolved an issue where long filter names were truncated by the dropdown, obscuring the pill and preventing removal.
Resolved an issue where some courses displayed the term GUID instead of the term name as the course title/header.
Resolved an issue where dropped courses continued to display even when the “Show Dropped Courses” checkbox was unchecked on the Courses profile card.
Data + Insights
Improved
Updated field mapping scopes for Athletics, Holds, and Program Status to use custom data sources (when applicable) instead of the default SYS data source.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where importing relationships to an organization incorrectly displayed as unchanged in the run history despite records being updated.+
Resolved an issue where selected values for the campus filter in the major reference data source were not displaying correctly on the frontend.
Resolved an issue preventing Meta Pixel event tracking by adjusting header configurations to ensure proper event association and functionality.
Resolved a 403 error for Google Ads event tracking by adding a permissive robots.txt to Events, Application Sites, Appointments Site, and Pages to allow crawler access.
Resolved an issue where date validation was not functioning correctly during export.
Resolved an issue where the event type field was inconsistently exported, appearing for some records but missing from others.
Events
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where some event tokens appeared twice in the dropdown list when using the Insert Token option in the Events message email builder.
Forms
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where phone number and email values from the “user-family-root” grouped field were missing from form submission email notifications.
Journeys
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the “Last Step” value from Journey did not match the corresponding data on the profile.
Microsites
Improved
Fixed
Organizations
Improved
Added Organization taxonomy label GUIDs to organization settings to support imports and improve data mapping.
Fixed
Pages
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the configured title for a Page was not displaying correctly in the browser tab of the live page.
People
Improved
Added a “Tasks with Notes” section to the Notes profile card side sheet to display all task-related notes for a contact.
Added employment grouping fields (
user-employment-employees) as available segment filters.Added falling grade detection that evaluates course-level and overall trends, flags students with risk categories (At Risk, Critical, Watch, None), enables segmentation by risk category, and allows use as triggers for Workflows and Bolt Agent Jobs ("Courses > Enrollment - Risk Level").
Added controls to deter browser and third-party autofill from populating student email fields with internal user emails.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the “Does Not Exist” filter couldn’t be applied correctly in segments when used with custom fields.
Resolved an issue where segment filter UI controls (edit, add, delete) occasionally failed to display, preventing proper filter management.
Resolved an issue where dropped courses continued to display even when the “Show Dropped Courses” checkbox was unchecked on the Courses profile card.
Resolved an issue where survey activities were not being tracked, preventing them from powering the segment filter.
Resolved an issue where the Common App Transfer ID was not visible in the profile UI identity dropdown, despite being imported successfully.
Resolved an issue where the active funnel stage was not updating correctly based on the most recent milestone.
Resolved an issue with deduplication scoring where non-matching records were incorrectly flagged as duplicates due to overly permissive name and address matching logic.
Resolved an issue where using a Custom Field filter alongside Label filters caused the frontend to glitch and remove the Custom Field filter.
Resolved an issue where the Ignore button was unresponsive for the top duplicate row in the Deduplication module.
Settings
Improved
Added two new permissions: Administer Transcripts and View Bolt AI Transcript Evaluations, with the latter allowing users to view transcript evaluations without the ability to edit or delete transcripts.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where searching integration logs by Element ID did not return results as expected.
StudentHub
Improved
Fixed
Surveys
Improved
Fixed
Tasks
Improved
Added a “Tasks with Notes” section to the Notes profile card side sheet to display all task-related notes for a contact.
Fixed
Resolved an issue preventing task creation from both the task module and the task card on profile pages.
Workflows + Rules
Improved
Added array-handling support to formulas used in the “Set User’s Property” Workflow actions, introducing two new functions. This enables formulas to work with multi-value data (like majors, tags, or degrees) and opens the door for more dynamic, data-driven property updates in workflows
JOIN(input, delimiter): Combines array elements into a stringFIRST(input): Returns the first element from an array or comma-separated string.
Fixed
Resolved an issue preventing “Joined Segment” events from firing, which blocked related workflows from triggering.

