We’re pleased to introduce new features and enhancements that make Heropa more responsive, intuitive, and powerful for instructors, students, and administrators alike. This release brings live preview and auto-save to content editing, improved experience for events using integrated comms in environments with poor networks, a fresh new classroom layout, and expanded support for enterprise authentication.

✨ New features

• Content auto-save and live preview: When editing content in the Content module, you can now rely on auto-save, reducing the risk of lost work. A new live preview side panel updates in real time as you edit, showing exactly how the content will appear to learners. Your branding styles are now applied in both the editor and the preview panel, ensuring visual consistency throughout. Learn more here.
• New student reminder email: A new “Your lab is waiting for you” reminder email helps re-engage learners who haven’t accessed their lab yet.
• Smart card support for Windows VMs: Windows environments can now take advantage of smart card authentication, improving compatibility with enterprise security controls and enabling more secure login workflows.

🌱 Enhancements

• Improvements for Integrated comms: 
  • Integrated comms will now automatically adjust to lower quality audio and video when network conditions degrade, helping to reduce bandwidth usage. 
  • A new toast notification alerts users when participants are experiencing poor network quality. 
  • Admins can now choose to enable or disable toast notifications for integrated comms at both the company and event level.
  • Screens for VMs shared by the host now scale their size up down to better fit the screen when the users are using screens with larger or smaller resolutions
  • Connections for VMs shared by the host now support audio playback, allowing hosts to demonstrate activities to the class that require sound.
• Better student experience with content side panel: Added click-to-copy support for code blocks and improved zoom and font size behavior in the content editor’s preview panel, making it easier for students to read content and follow commands in self-paced labs.
• Events and classroom: 
  • A fresh column-based classroom layout is now available, giving instructors more flexibility in managing participants. 
• Templates can now be public by default: A new “Templates public by default” toggle helps admins streamline template creation.
• Full-screen workspace improvements: Users in the workspace can now send the ESC key directly from the workspace toolbar. This is helpful for labs that use applications requiring the ESC key, without forcing the student to exit fullscreen mode in the browser.
• Public API: The Create environment endpoint now includes a parameter to set the access code when provisioning environments.

🔧 Bugfixes

• Workspace rendering: Resolved a display issue that occurred when the student was connected to their lab environment at a higher resolution than the instructor could view.
• Event content assignment: Fixed a bug that prevented newly added event seats from receiving their assigned content.
• Resend invite improvements: The "Resend invite" action now sends the correct email template based on user status. This includes support for new SSO users and users who have not yet completed registration.
• Environment region changes: Resolved a bug where an environments VMs did not update when the region of the assigned template was changed.
• Validation during event creation: The event creation modal also now correctly validates start and end times to help prevent scheduling errors.

We look forward to your feedback!