Changelog

Surveys gain versioned cycles, per-member Check-in schedules, a skippable login pop-up, whole-organization Pulse sends and reports by Check-in, and required questions can no longer be skipped. Survey and assessment cleanup handles unexpected responses more safely.

New members get a first quest that walks them through connecting an AI assistant.

Admins get one place to launch an organization and intake workbooks, and organization setup saves and bulk assignments are confirmed.

Admins can archive org structure units instead of deleting them, and permanent delete is blocked while anything still refers to a unit.

ChAI-Ching replaces badge auctions with reels, a bonus wheel and My Collection. Auction bidding is retired, and any BUX still held in an outstanding bid is returned once. Paid spins stay off until your organization turns them on.

A level-up celebration lists everything a new level unlocks.

Organizations can run a Holiday Challenge with one small challenge a day, rewards and badges, a member calendar, and an admin editor with spreadsheet upload. It stays off until an organization turns it on.

Your profile has a Stats tab with your high scores, statistics and days active.

The changelog pages show what changed in Stride, newest first.

Managers can create challenges for their teams, attach files and review member submissions. Members can submit their work and view their team's entries, and admins can manage the organization's team challenges. Challenge content clears when your access changes.

Admins get a Daily Desk that brings work needing attention into one place.

Send Feedback from the page you are using, with screenshots uploaded or pasted. HEIC and HEIF images are converted on your device before upload.

Admins can create separate Regular and Executive invitation links. Both let new users set a password and join directly without an email confirmation. Executive links grant Executive access and Evolver participation. Manager access still needs Admin approval.

Microlearnings that earn XP or BUX are now completed by passing grading of your work. Do the task with your connected AI assistant, or write your answer in Stride when your organization turns on in-app grading. A pass completes the microlearning and pays its reward. If it is not a pass yet, you get the reason and a hint, and you can try again, up to 3 times a day per microlearning.

A microlearning opened from a quest now has a Back to the quest link at the top, and when you finish it, a Next step button and a Back to the quest button.

Admins can choose in Settings, under Grading and AI keys, whether their organization grades microlearnings through connected AI assistants or inside Stride. Grading inside Stride uses the organization's own AI key.

Executive reports can be printed and include owned actions, and hidden teams are explained clearly.

Navigation has a glass sidebar panel that floats without shifting the page, grouped Admin and Docs links, clearer mobile navigation, a refreshed Setup icon, and profile tabs that open correctly from links.

New public guides cover admin setup, content authoring, member settings, and manager and executive views.

Organization admins can change member roles and their own participation settings within their own organization, and creators can submit their own governed drafts for review.

Content templates include a Challenge Data Map tab linking challenges to their synthetic-data folders, and Admin Content navigation is simpler.

Levels follow a new curve and never go down, and organizations can choose a leveling speed. Rewards, wAIger and ChAI-Ching unlock at Level 4, and becoming a mentor needs Level 12, while existing mentors who met the earlier eligibility rules keep their place. Earlier levels do not receive historical BUX back-pay.

XP earned in the Holiday Challenge is left out of manager and executive activity reports.

In-app walkthroughs point at the right place on locked or empty pages and describe what each page shows.

The mentor list loads reliably, and temporary data errors have a retry action.

The learner resources catalog loads faster, and admin changes no longer wait on the activity log.

The user import template now holds only the header row.

Challenges is now a menu in the sidebar. Weekly Challenges is always there, and the Holiday Challenge appears while your organization runs one. Weekly challenge details also open when team winner selection is turned off.

Your assessment answers are saved as you go so you can return and continue.

Join your organization directly from a shared invitation link and choose your password during signup.

Your connected assistant can find eligible microlearnings, open the right lesson and show feedback for each grading criterion. It can help draft challenge responses for you to review and submit in Stride.

Account removal replaces a member's community posts, comments and challenge submissions with a content-removed notice.

Microlearnings that pay no XP or BUX, such as the connector setup lessons, still finish with a click. They do not need grading.

Your connected AI assistant may now ask you to confirm before it submits your work for grading, because a pass completes the microlearning and pays its reward.

Finishing the survey no longer fails with a "Survey baseline unavailable" error when many people start at the same time.

Badge awards no longer fail with an error.

Regular and Executive shared signup now shows clear password guidance when you need to choose a stronger password.

Evolvers who joined through a shared invitation link can continue their assessment while manager assignment is pending. Existing accounts can resume onboarding without creating another account or choosing another password.

Completed assessments are recognized when you sign in or return from Home. Continue from your saved progress or return to Home without repeating the assessment.

Content review keeps working when one history entry is malformed, custom role creation works reliably, and workbook uploads have a size limit.

Manager goal-progress banners, alerts and reports show real goal-level progress.

Leaderboards appear only when enabled for your organization, and dashboards explain why one is unavailable.

Content publishing explains why it was blocked, and workbook challenges take their module's name.

Holiday Challenge rewards are paid once per day, even when a calendar is reused.

Account-specific pages clear their content when your access changes and show a recovery page after an access-check error.

Creators can read the content catalog and choose targets for their drafts.

Removing an organization also clears its members' links to it.

Strengthened Byte's safeguards against misuse, and Byte history retention now follows each organization's own cutoff.

Expired AI connector evidence is now cleaned up on schedule, and supporting libraries are updated.

Admins are guided through an ordered organization setup.

Byte can now help with certain setting changes when asked.

Byte answers common platform questions instantly.

Stride support staff can help invite users to a customer organization on request.

Byte and related AI features now use a faster, more efficient AI model.

Byte tailors its advice to each learner's archetype and behavioral category, accepts longer messages and scopes its product knowledge to each audience.

Organization workbook imports work the same way everywhere and are safe to retry, and the content overview links straight to bulk import.

Admins can import a parent folder of challenge data sets in one step, and large challenge data folders download more reliably.

Data access requests now include additional information held about a person.

Byte's answers to product questions are grounded in the Stride documentation and cite the sections they draw on.

Byte's replies follow a consistent voice, and answer length now matches how much detail a question needs.

Account erasure now covers additional profile data and is more reliable.

Connecting an AI assistant during onboarding is verified correctly, and completed connections show accurate feedback.

Invitation and password reset links are no longer used up by email link scanners, and invitation acceptance is more reliable.

Admins and executives who opt in can reach the assessment, and its need scores display correctly.

Workbook formula errors now name the sheet and cell range to fix.

People without an employee role are sent to the right page from onboarding instead of seeing an error.

Content readiness now shows accurate status for each organization.

The AI assistant connector gives clearer error messages and recovers from lost sessions.

A team's primary manager can no longer be demoted by mistake, and every co-manager sees an up-to-date team roster.

Byte handles arithmetic, direct questions and conversation history more reliably.

The content library review link now opens the list where pending items are.

Updated core libraries to the latest patched versions.

Updated core libraries and removed an outdated connector component, and signed-in pages now get the same content security protections as the rest of the site.

Improved the reliability of workbook uploads.

Strengthened access controls between organizations.

Strengthened privacy and access checks across several features.

Updated core dependencies and libraries.

Workbook imports from creators now go through admin review before publishing.

Byte chat now offers quick actions, and members can give private feedback on responses.

Quests show an organization-wide completion count, and a first-five XP bonus is now available.

Branded error and maintenance pages replace plain failure screens, and connection warnings only appear after a failure is confirmed.

Managers can lead multiple teams, with a team switcher and a per-team roster, reports, goals and nudges.

Executives get a decision brief with supporting evidence, and reporting scope and metrics now line up across executive views.

Admins can import content from Excel workbooks and review the results, with support for microlearnings, submission expectations and multi-link challenges.

Admins can create shareable organization invitation links that can be copied again later.

Members can browse, download, vote on and save AI skills in a new Skills library, and admins get an AI tooling Setup hub with skill packages for Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants.

Creators can upload content workbooks with an updated template, track their submissions and download their own content.

Guided walkthroughs for each role view now have three to five steps, stay on the current page, and are easier to read and navigate by keyboard.

Stride staff can provision new client organizations, archive suspended ones, and view and manage each organization's admin pages, settings and reference data from the platform console.

Admins can duplicate platform content into their own organization.

Admins can switch Rewards and Badges on or off from their table rows and see how many times each has been awarded or redeemed.

Admins have a Privacy settings page with working controls, and a privacy-first preset they can turn on for new and existing organizations.

Admins can set how long messages are kept, and expired messages are removed automatically.

Admins can export a member's personal data on request, and delete personal data for individual members and members of archived organizations.

Organizations can publish an employee privacy notice that members acknowledge.

The Stride connector can now return a work item's details, including its linked microlearning.

Byte can work through simple calculations in chat and gives answers that are better grounded in Stride content.

The homepage now leads with your next activity.

The help documentation has a redesigned layout and navigation, new guides for learners, managers, admins and community members, and role-based training videos.

Dashboards load more smoothly, with no blank content or resetting sidebar when moving between pages.

The sidebar can be dragged to collapse into an icon rail with section flyouts, and profile pages gain quick-action cards.

The manager team overview is redesigned with key metrics, shortcuts and a completed grid, and team settings let managers manage members, hand off a team or delete it.

Challenge and quest forms are now full pages, and quests gain an editable Quest ID, a duration field and Role and Level columns on the Quests table.

Link health checks run nightly, and admins are nudged about broken links and can recheck a link inline.

Team goal progress is now shared with the members of the team.

Byte keeps its tone and answer detail as separate settings and draws on only the context relevant to each question.

Survey baselines are now versioned and pinned per organization, and client admins can hide a system role from the survey.

Training, microlearning and prompt library cards now line up evenly, and profile training videos open in a new tab.

Content forms show field-specific error messages, label fields clearly, and ask for confirmation before unsaved edits are discarded.

Error banners in content admin are announced to screen readers, and admin resource rows are fully usable from the keyboard.

Byte can be turned off for individual users, and it now handles less personal data.

The public privacy page and onboarding text are updated with current details, and they now state that deactivating an account does not remove its data.

Governed content lists hide superseded and archived items by default, and the old Legacy Challenges tab has been removed.

Members' privacy choices are enforced on leaderboards, the Spotlight and manager views, and the profile privacy option is now called Ghost Mode.

Quest lists show accurate empty messages and cap how many recommended and assigned quests appear.

Fixed permission errors that could stop trainings and quests from loading for some members.

Dark mode has corrected contrast for controls, form fields, charts, progress bars, validation messages and public docs.

Byte's fallback message appears in the language the member is using.

Byte can now find courses and trainings for learners when they ask about them.

The AI comfort survey question uses a comfort scale, admins who also take part can reach the survey after onboarding, and survey submission works for teams led by opted-in admins.

Fixed Stride connector sign-in and consent problems that blocked some members, and connecting no longer requires program participation.

Applied security updates to third-party components and strengthened site protections.

Strengthened Byte's safeguards.

Strengthened safeguards in the Stride connector.

Platform staff can monitor the wAIger markets, exclude or swap markets, and switch wAIger off per organization, with members refunded when it is turned off.

Admins can view BYTE settings in a read-only view.

Client admins are guided through a first-run setup, and the checklist closes for good once every step is complete.

Admins can manage their organization hierarchy as a tree, with cascading parent pickers, distinct type labels, and an Add Sub Organizations action on the page.

Messages are removed automatically once the messaging retention period ends.

Members can find peers in a new Find Peers directory and start a private conversation.

New in-app documentation covers the Manager and Creator areas, Leaderboards, Badges and Marketplace, and the wAIger feature.

Italian is now complete across the interface.

Public technical documentation is available, organized into category tabs with a copy-page option.

Admins can choose which tools are enabled under each AI provider.

Stride platform staff can work within a selected organization, with an organization context switcher, org-scoped analytics, lift analysis, content review, AI usage per organization, and a platform settings home.

A public privacy statement and setup documentation for Stride's AI assistant connector are now available.

Challenge submissions that need changes can be resubmitted with reviewer feedback.

Admins have user lifecycle controls scoped to their own organization.

Executive reports include cohort rollups and lift analysis that suppress results for small groups, protecting individual privacy.

Members can set up to four personal shortcuts in the top bar and see a 2x2 Shortcuts widget on their homepage.

The public website gained Science, Community, Enterprise, Roles and BYTE pages, plus a fixed theme toggle and language selector.

The Creator area gains an Overview of what creators can author and a Resources entry in the sidebar.

Marketplace rewards are organized per organization, and reward drops that fail are now reported instead of failing silently.

Admins get a Content Status page and a Challenge Ops tab that flag content issues, with status rows that link straight to the affected item.

Admins can view the app as a manager in a read-only mode to troubleshoot what managers see.

When an admin opens BYTE, the welcome message is written for administrators.

Each member can set BYTE's humor and response tone in their own settings.

BYTE limits how much of a long conversation it considers at once, which keeps replies responsive.

Members can edit or delete their own peer messages, add reactions, and load older conversations in pages of 20.

wAIger now shows live markets with combined Yes and No odds and a link to each market's source.

Spanish, German and French interface text now uses friendly informal address and consistent terminology, such as reto for challenge in Spanish.

Layouts adjust better on phones and tablets, and the landing page has a round of polish.

Member profiles show a role-aware identity panel with the organization label and a clearer role layout.

Forum threads load faster on long discussions, and the forum search bar is easier to use.

Learning modules, quests, privacy pages and navigation links now appear in the learner's language when a translation is available.

The manager overview has a clearer grid, updated report wording and actions on alerts, and executive KPI tiles are evenly sized with department rows that link through.

The prompt library can be filtered by tag.

BYTE chat has a per-user settings bar, a tighter layout, and an expand mode.

The weekly challenge form has been reworked with an Admin Only section, 15-minute time increments, and pickers for level and linked micro-learnings, and a challenge can now link several micro-learnings.

If one step of a quest or learning module cannot load, learners see a clear temporarily unavailable message while the rest of the content keeps working.

Chat timestamps no longer wrap inside narrow bubbles, and they sit outside the message bubble.

Leaderboard XP totals match each member's profile, and accounts with several roles show the correct role.

Survey submissions save correctly and survey updates apply reliably.

Text and controls have stronger contrast in dark mode and across the app.

Fixed mistranslated product and proper names in German, Spanish and French, along with malformed French strings and spacing.

Content review loads reliably, adapted drafts are no longer stuck in review, and items that cannot be approved show the reason.

Peer and team messages, reactions and summaries are now stored with additional encryption protection.

Strengthened sign-in and invitation protections.

Strengthened sign-in checks and the AI assistant connector.

Updated third-party packages used by the app.

Creators can request archiving of their content, and synthetic-data links require approval.

A new Creator space lets content authors create and manage their work, with an authoring prompt library.

Bulk content import uses a self-documenting template and a governed admin import pipeline.

Users can hold more than one role, and admins manage those extra roles from a two-tier access panel.

Admins can attach synthetic-data folders to quests and weekly challenges, and the library has its own page.

Admins have a Synthetic Data library of practice datasets, with downloads and an API.

Challenges have a Resources tab with dataset downloads and learn-first prerequisites.

Managers can start manager-only discussion forums, and team messages come with an automatic team group chat.

Members can message peers, send peer connection requests, and see unread counts in the sidebar.

Members have personal controls for their forum activity.

Managers have a ranked team leaderboard on Team Overview and can track team goals with a metric dropdown, and evolvers see their manager's current team goal with live progress.

Managers can invite team members, and requests to join a team are reviewed by an admin.

Byte keeps chat history for a limited period and responds with a more empathetic tone.

Learn is split into dedicated Trainings and Micro-learnings pages.

Content intake checks catalog dependencies before import and adds an attestation review step, and workbooks accept AI provider columns for challenges.

Community discussions are searchable and threaded.

Content is now governed through a v2 content library and workbook, so admins control what goes live.

Community is reorganized, with Spotlight as the community page, Discussion Forums on their own page, and a corrected nudge link.

Privileged admin actions are now recorded in an audit log.

Admins can manage sub-roles for custom role groups, and the Role Portal shows the sub-roles of system roles.

Admins can target weekly challenges to specific roles and use a featuring and moderation panel for challenges.

Sign-up is invite-only and first login is tailored to each user's role.

Members have a weekly challenge board with a live feed and scoring, and the catalog adds 79 challenges and 12 quests.

Managers can see a team results panel for weekly challenges.

Admins have a Challenge Operations dashboard with a timeline and point settings.

Trainings and Micro-learnings now earn XP and BUX based on their difficulty.

Managers can write success stories that are shared across the organization with the author's name.

The Admin Role Portal groups roles, and survey answers can assign roles automatically.

Members can customize their dashboard by adding, moving, resizing and pinning widgets, including a new Skill Radar that shows their skill profile at a glance.

Quests now show a journey path map, and the challenge queue is saved between visits.

The app has fuller translation coverage, and French, Spanish and German wording has been corrected.

Three AI usage questions are restored to the survey, and section copy is corrected.

Strengthened controls on role assignment.

The dashboard shows your Level in place of the Hours Learned tile.

Dashboard widget layouts are saved between visits, and the widget grid has been rebuilt.

Improved abuse protections and error handling.

The survey and Prompt Library now explain anonymity, and users choose how their attribution is shown.

The landing page has been redesigned, and the sign-in and sign-up pages include a Back to Home link.

Survey helper text now sits below each question, and valid answers are no longer rejected on submit.

Admin controls that did nothing have been fixed or removed.

Vendor training completion, governed training details and Resources navigation now work correctly for each role.

Fixed an issue where challenge completion rewards could be counted twice.

Updated production dependencies to patched versions.

Strengthened access controls across the platform.

Strengthened access controls on platform data.

Executives can now open the manager view, and a role view switcher lets users move between the views available to them.

Members can switch the app between English, French, Spanish and German, and the choice is remembered on their account.

Managers see engagement flags on their team view.

Members can opt in to mentoring, request a session, and have a mentor accept it.

wAIger now shows daily odds on the top AI markets, peer leaderboard markets and your wager history, and marketplace listings show real bidder counts.

Members can save resources to a Saved tab that persists across sessions.

Members can submit prompts to a shared prompt library, with categories and upvotes, and managers approve each submission.

Members can post, comment and react in the community forum, and message peers in a real inbox.

Admins can create, edit and remove badges, challenges, quests, learning modules and rewards from the admin console.

After the assessment, members can see why they received their archetype, including their primary motivation.

Members can redeem rewards from a real catalog, and admins approve each redemption from a queue.

Achievement badges are now awarded automatically when members meet their criteria.

Admins can invite people with a shareable link, and invitees can accept and create their account on a signup page. Admins can also review and revoke pending invitations.

New members get a welcome walkthrough the first time they sign in, with short contextual tips on key pages. Walkthroughs unlock again when members level up.

The learning catalog now includes working ChatGPT and Gemini courses.

The app has a refreshed visual design with a new indigo palette, updated typography and the Stride logo as the browser icon.

The survey can no longer be retaken, and members can view and change their archetype once they reach level 5.

The assessment runs on a new scoring and routing engine, so archetypes and the questions members see are determined consistently.

Profile privacy settings now apply more consistently.

The manager methodology page now documents how the scores are actually calculated.

Leaderboards default to showing only your organization, and global rankings appear only when an organization opts in.

Byte includes usage safeguards.

Trainings are matched to each member's role and to the AI tools their organization uses.

Learning progress and XP are saved to your account when you complete a module.

Leaderboards can be filtered by time period and show real trend arrows, and Top Earners only includes your organization.

Prestige resets grant BUX again in each cycle and show a tier badge.

The product is now branded as Stride throughout the app, including its copy and labels.

Admin settings are organized into sections with their own menu and save bar, and changes to organization settings appear live for everyone without a refresh.

The Drops tab shows auction badge visibility, and admins can see how often each resource is opened.

The AI skills assessment is more complete and accurate, with a validated work motivation scale, expanded education and industry choices, and a quick path that gives members four learning frameworks.

Byte's tone adapts to each member's learning archetype, so coaching feels more personal.

The XP progress bar on the dashboard uses the level thresholds your admins set.

Executive reports filter out low-quality survey responses and surface the most common write-in answers.

Admin settings now show an error when a save fails instead of failing silently.

Weekly challenge completions are saved reliably, so finished challenges now count toward progress.

Saving admin settings no longer overwrites values you did not change.

Wide admin tables scroll sideways inside their own box instead of stretching the whole page on small screens.

Strengthened integrity protections for points, currency and rewards.

Strengthened access protections on admin areas.

Strengthened protections on sign-in, password reset and invitations.

Strengthened access controls on the prompt library.

Learning modules are chosen for each member based on their role and expertise, and admins can browse the module library.

Stride's main member pages, plus admin and manager views, now lay out for phones and tablets without sideways scrolling.

A redesigned admin console replaces the old one, with browsers for users and content, a consolidated analytics dashboard, and integrations and currency settings.

XP and levels are calculated on the server, the dashboard shows a level progress widget, and members see a celebration when they earn a badge or level up.

Completing a quest's final required challenge now earns a completion bonus.

XP boost events can multiply challenge rewards, with a dashboard banner, and admins can configure them.

Members can open an archetype detail page, share their archetype, and view public profiles.

Members can reset a forgotten password, and new accounts verify their email address.

Byte sends contextual nudges based on recent activity.

The executive dashboard compares pilot targets with actual results and includes AI-generated insights.

Members who reach the top level can complete a prestige ceremony that resets their progression.

wAIger, a prediction market where members use BUX to make predictions, launches with an admin on or off switch.

Admins can set how much reasoning effort Byte uses and see AI usage, and a privacy explainer describes how Byte handles member data.

A badge marketplace opens to members from Level 6, where they bid BUX on collectible badges with rarity tiers.

Admins can set ROI assumptions, including rates by role group, that drive the value and hours-saved figures.

Team and department breakdowns are hidden when a group is too small to keep individual results private.

A library of 270 challenges unlocks progressively as members advance.

Admins can create and edit challenges, quests, badges and rewards, and members can suggest new challenges.

The executive dashboard has new pages, behavioral science insights and figures drawn from real data.

The survey has been reworked.

Members can open detail pages for challenges, prompts, resources and trainings.

New members complete a survey during onboarding and see their results revealed at the end.

Byte, the AI coach, launches for members, with admin controls over how it behaves.

The first member, manager and executive dashboards arrive, with BUX as the in-app currency.

Challenges and quests are matched to each member's motivation profile, role and expertise, and Marketing has its own challenge set.

Pages load faster, with placeholders while sections load and optimized images.

An accessibility audit led to fixes that bring more of the app in line with WCAG AA.

Leaderboards show each member's level, can be filtered by scope, and update live without a page refresh.

Survey questions follow a chain from industry to role to sub-role, and goal selection offers four sub-goals for each main goal.

Notifications and nudges now appear in one panel, including nudges managers send to team members, and admins can switch in-app notifications on or off.

Admins can edit pilot targets, admin analytics show real funnel and segment data, and alerts are saved for review.

When one section of a page fails, the rest of the page keeps working, and friendly error pages replace blank screens.

Managers can compare their team with the organization baseline, and executive strategic action buttons now work.

Byte's replies stream in as they are written, so answers start appearing sooner.

Adoption and hours-saved figures use one consistent formula on every dashboard, and info icons explain how each metric is calculated.

The sidebar now shows only the pages that fit each person's role: member, manager, executive or admin.

Admin switches for humor, framing, survey, AI tools and gamification now take effect, and currency changes apply to every XP and points award.

Dashboards show live data only: sample team and community figures are removed, member heatmaps reflect real completions, and managers without a team see a clear empty state.

Strengthened access controls in the admin area.