Pythaverse Platform Update

New Features & Enhancements

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Dear Valued Stakeholders and Users,

We are thrilled to announce a significant update to the Pythaverse platform. This release brings a host of powerful new features, user experience improvements, and performance upgrades designed to enhance functionality for schools, partners, administrators, and all our users. Our team has been hard at work developing tools that empower learning, streamline administrative tasks, and enrich the overall Pythaverse experience.

Here’s what’s new:

🚀 New Features

This release introduces several exciting new capabilities across Workspace, PContest, PGit, and our Common Services.

Workspace Enhancements:

Report
Comprehensive School Overview Report:

A powerful new reporting tool giving schools a holistic dashboard.

Provides detailed insights into student participation, activity levels, learning progress, overall platform usage, and a competency overview. This enables educators and administrators to better understand engagement and learning outcomes.

Sample 1: School users activity trend chart

Sample 2: Platform usage statistics

Contract
Streamlined Contract Management:

A dedicated module for creating, tracking, and managing contracts with schools and partners.

Simplifies administrative workflows by centralizing contract information, including crucial license details, ensuring clarity and efficient management of agreements.
Order
Direct School Order Creation:

Schools can now independently create orders for course licenses directly within their workspace.

Empowers schools with greater autonomy and speeds up the procurement process for necessary learning resources.
Reset PW
Simplified Password Reset:

A more intuitive and user-friendly password reset process for Teachers and Students.

Reduces support requests and improves accessibility across Admin, Distributor, Partner, and School workspaces.
Expire Alert
Proactive Course License Expiration Notifications:

Automated system alerts for upcoming school license or distributor pool expirations.

Helps prevent service disruptions by providing timely reminders, allowing for proactive license renewal.

PContest Upgrades:

Auto Grade
Automated Grading for Data Analytics Submissions:

PContest now supports automated grading using custom Python scripts.

Reduces manual grading efforts and ensures consistent, objective evaluation for specific contest types.
View Link
Seamless PGit Link-Type Submission Viewing:

Organizers and judges can now directly view PGit file content from links.

Streamlines review by eliminating the need to add collaborators for viewing submissions.
Invite User
Direct Participant Invitation:

Contest organizers can now directly invite participants to their contests.

Simplifies outreach and participant list management.
Result Time
Configurable Submission Result Visibility:

Organizers can set a specific time/condition for when submission results become visible.

Provides greater control over contest flow and result dissemination.

PGit Enhancements:

Repo Search
Efficient Repositories Searching:

Users can now search within their own and collaboration repositories.

Makes it easier and faster to locate specific repositories.
Pg
Improved Repositories Paging:

Enhanced navigation for lists of repositories.

Improves user experience and system performance when browsing many repositories.
Invite Collab
Flexible Collaborator Invitations:

Repo owners can invite collaborators individually or in bulk, even if they don't exist in PGit yet.

Simplifies collaboration setup and working with new team members or external partners.

Common Services:

Email Templ
Customizable Email Templates:

Administrators can set up, configure, and manage standardized email templates.

Ensures consistent, professional communication and allows easy updates to messaging.
Email Sender
Configurable Email Senders:

Administrators can configure one or more email senders for platform communications.

Improves email deliverability and helps overcome daily sending limits from providers like Google.

✨ UI/UX Improvements

We've refined the user interface and experience in several key areas:

Workspace:

Partner Account Management:
  • Teacher's Date of Birth (DOB) is no longer a mandatory field when editing in Partner WSP.
  • Displays Partner's Full Name instead of username for better identification.
Course Management (School WSP):
  • Improved search functionality (including search by name).
  • Clearer group display logic in Course Enrollment.
  • More intuitive license information display.

PContest:

Enhanced Notifications: Notifications are automatically fetched and include the contest name and link.
Improved Judge Experience: Refined display of contest information and submission viewing for a smoother process.

⚡ Performance & Stability Upgrades

Workspace:

Course Management (School WSP): Significantly improved loading times and data query performance.
Contract/PO Data Mapping: Increased accuracy in mapping data from Contracts and Purchase Orders (POs) to the system, especially for license counts.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Workspace:

School overview report: Corrected an issue to ensure the Usage Statistics chart now displays accurate data.

🔄 Deprecations/Removals

No features were deprecated or removed in this release. All existing functionalities remain available.