April has been a busy and exciting month at Scholarly! We saw major strides in product development and important milestones toward growing our platform capabilities. Let's dive into everything we accomplished in April.

Workflow Improvements

Our core workflow engine saw a lot of upgrades throughout the month of April. The workflow engine drives annual evaluations, promotion and tenure cases, leave application workflows, and more.

We shipped a lot of polish and new functionality throughout April:

• New Documents tab: Added a “Documents” tab to faculty evaluation cases, including an "Export All" button to download all documents at once. This exports just the documents the current user can see.

• Workload and Impact Point views: Every workflow can have a "Workload" quantitative view, which displays a histogram of workload data based on activity reported in the evaluation. Point calculations can be customized with precise formulas.

• File handling improvements: Better file attachment previews, downloads, and management within workflows. More files can be viewed on-platform without needing to be downloaded.

• Dashboard CTA grouping: Dashboard notifications for in-process workflows are better grouped, meaning a denser information display for department chairs and deans.

• Better assignee handling: Fixed inconsistencies with assignee propagation across evaluations.

• Faster navigation: Clicking on a status badge in evaluation cycles now takes users directly to the associated step.

• Cleaner font choices: The signature input on workflow forms was rendering as Comic Sans on Windows platforms. We have chosen and implemented a more professional font.

Improvements Around the Platform

• Calculated point values for faculty activities are now surfaced on the faculty activity grids.

• Our department or unit-select component got an upgrade, making it work better at institutions with nested unit structures.

• Faculty members can now edit the reason why a specific expertise tag is attached to their profile.

• Improved how we sync data from Ellucian's Banner into the Scholarly platform.

Stay tuned for more updates, and don't forget to check out our recent deep dive on how appointments work at Scholarly: Feature Deep Dive: Appointments.

Enjoy the spring, and see you next month!