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.
This release delivers an expansion of granular permissions across Events. The previous Events permission model relied on a small set of all-or-nothing access grants that forced admins to either over-permission staff or block them from Events entirely. These have been replaced with a flexible, role-appropriate permission structure covering event creation, editing, publishing, attendee management, and deletion — each with All / My / My Team scoping.
Previously, student-facing authentication was controlled by a single global setting — enabling or disabling a login method like Element Password, School SSO, Google login, or Magic Link applied it uniformly across every student-facing web application in Element451. This created a difficult tradeoff for institutions that wanted to enforce School SSO for enrolled students in some apps while still allowing applicants or prospective students to create accounts using a lighter-weight method like Magic Link or Element Password for creating applications. That tradeoff no longer exists. Admins can now configure authentication methods independently for each student-facing web app, without affecting global settings or other applications.
We delivered a set of targeted UX improvements to the Application Portal designed to reduce duplicate accounts, protect applicant identity data against accidental sharing (such as when a family uses a shared email address), and give admitted and deposited students a clearer, more appropriate experience through new dedicated greeting messages.
Applications + Decisions
Improved
Added configurable "Deposited" and "Withdrawn" greeting messages to the application portal dashboard, allowing administrators to customize the title, subtitle, and message text displayed to students after depositing or withdrawing.
Redesigned the Withdraw Application experience, replacing the prominent top-level button with a discreet text link below Next Steps to reduce accidental withdrawals.
Added returning-applicant nudges to the application dashboard, prominently displaying existing in-progress and submitted applications to reduce duplicate submissions.
Added sign-in prompts to the application registration flow for applicants with existing accounts, reducing duplicate account creation.
Updated the "Start New Application" modal for authenticated users with improved guidance and a streamlined layout.
Applicant name fields are now locked after account creation, preventing identity changes that could cause data conflicts.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where supplemental forms displayed an error when loading.
Resolved an issue where form field requirements were not registering as complete when a default value was pre-selected, requiring users to manually interact with the field before the requirement was satisfied.
Resolved an issue where saving a payment rule on an application returned a validation error when using segment-based conditions.
Appointments
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the team availability list was not displaying on the Appointments page.
Bolt Agents for Students
Improved
Fixed
Bolt Agents for Staff
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the Bolt Agent for Staff was unable to read articles from the public Knowledge Base.
Bolt Agent Jobs
Improved
Fixed
Bolt Discovery
Improved
Fixed
Bolt Knowledge Hub
Improved
Fixed
Campaigns
Improved
Fixed
Case Management (Closed Beta)
Improved
Added Bolt Analysis, a persistent AI-powered section on the Case Information tab that provides insights and actionable recommendations for each case.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where alerts could be created without selecting a contact, producing orphaned alerts with no associated student. The Contact field is now required.
Conversations
Improved
Fixed
Data (Insights, Integrations, Courses)
Improved
Updated conversation counting across dashboards to consistently count distinct conversations, eliminating duplicate counts from multi-channel or multi-day interactions and aligning reports with the intended metric definition.
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the Web Activities dashboard did not refresh overnight.
Resolved an issue where Zapier export templates with multiple position-scoped field mappings only surfaced a single field value instead of returning each position separately.
Events
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where the institution's favicon was not appearing on events pages.
Forms
Improved
Fixed
General
Improved
Fixed
Journeys
Improved
Fixed
Microsites
Improved
Fixed
Organizations
Improved
Fixed
Pages
Improved
Fixed
People
Improved
Fixed
Settings + Permissions
Improved
Added per-application authentication settings, enabling administrators to configure different login methods for each student-facing product (StudentHub, Application Sites, Event Sites, and Appointment Booking Sites) independently.
Moved the phone calling on/off toggle from the Billing page to Phone conversation settings, placing it alongside other phone configuration options.
Fixed
StudentHub
Improved
Fixed
Resolved an issue where Course Topics displayed a system identifier instead of the topic name.
Surveys
Improved
Fixed
Tasks
Improved
Fixed
Workflows + Rules
Improved
Fixed