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New featureNovember 2025

Verified Consultants and Team Vocean Roles

Two new roles has been introduced - Verified Consultants and Team Vocean.These roles do not take up any license slots in your account. This means that you can now invite certified Vocean consultants and users from Vocean's employees to your account to help and support without the need for available license slots.

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New featureNovember 2025

Easier to copy QR codes

There is now button to copy QR codes directly into clipboard.

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New featureNovember 2025

Data export links

All Leaders now have access to create data export links to export data from activities.

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ImprovementNovember 2025

Improved participant links

Participant links now have a simpler format than before and are much shorter. Improvements have also been made so that they load faster.

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Everything that has happened in the platform since 2022, grouped by month. Every update has its own link you can share.

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November 2025

4 updates

Verified Consultants and Team Vocean Roles

Two new roles has been introduced - Verified Consultants and Team Vocean.These roles do not take up any license slots in your account. This means that you can now invite certified Vocean consultants and users from Vocean's employees to your account to help and support without the need for available license slots.

Easier to copy QR codes

There is now button to copy QR codes directly into clipboard.

Data export links

All Leaders now have access to create data export links to export data from activities.

Improved participant links

Participant links now have a simpler format than before and are much shorter. Improvements have also been made so that they load faster.

October 2025

3 updates

Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Upon request, we can now enable MFA on selected users.

Faster and more stable AI

A major change to the operation of our AI has resulted in it being almost twice as fast and more resilient to downtime.

Separated owner from administrator role

The Owner has been renamed to Primary Administrator and is no longer considered the main contact person of your organization account. Instead, separate settings for a customer reference, called System Owner, have been added to the account’s settings page. This is also the person responsible for ensuring that the terms of use for the account are followed.

September 2025

1 update

Video files in Innovate contributions

You can now upload video files to Innovate contributions via the “Files” property type. When a contribution is opened and only one video file has been uploaded for a specific property, the video can be viewed directly without downloading.

August 2025

3 updates

New Innovate property types

Three new property types for Innovate. Yes/No, Numeric and Attached files.

New design of members, groups and invite links pages

The pages for listing and managing members, groups and invite links has been redesigned from the ground up. New design and UX.

Link to Education center

Link to our new education center in the main navigation sidebar and help menu.

June 2025

6 updates

Fixed tab menu scrolling

When participants scroll down past the tab menu, it now becomes fixed and stays beneath the top bar.

Updated participant experience

The entire experience for Participants has been updated. New design and improved user experience with lots of new features.

Participant instructions

You can now configure cards of the Formatted Text type to serve as participant instructions. They will then appear for participants to view before they participate.

Workboard renamed to Process

The concept of Workboard has been renamed to Process.

AI Summary card

A new card called AI Summary can be added to activities of the Innovate and Explore types. This card is also added automatically when an activity is created. It displays an AI generated summary of all contributions and updates itself automatically as new contributions come in. The card can also show a summary for each group and participant link that has taken part in the activity.

Copilot Summarize operation

A new Copilot AI operation called Summarize. It provides a summary of all contributions within an activity, as well as separate summaries for each group and participant link that participated. These summaries are saved and can then be viewed via the new AI Summary card.

May 2025

8 updates

Rich text card headers and descriptions

You can now set header and description on rich text cards.

More intelligent AI models

New, more intelligent AI models.

Statistics card

A new statistics card can be added to Workboards and Activities. This card is also added automatically when creating a new Workboard or Activity.

Remade idea list card

The non-expanded idea list card in Innovate has been completely remade. It now shows a simplified version of an idea list with pagination, displaying the newest ideas at the top.

Widget button repositioning

Non-expanded widget buttons have been moved from the footer to the header and are now visible when you hover over the cards. This change frees up space for the card content without increasing the overall size.

Mobile theme colors

Custom participant experience colors are now also applied to the browser theme on mobile phones.

UX and design improvements

UX and design improvements have been made throughout, including updates to the activity list, Workboard sidebar, and new activity colors.

Redesigned statistics component

The statistics component in the bottom left corner, visible to participants, has been fully redesigned. It features a new look and more data. If the setting "Only show results within group" is enabled, you can now browse statistics for each group. A summary of the activity for each group is also generated when this setting is used.

March 2025

6 updates

Main sidebar navigation improvements

Design and UX improvements of the main sidebar navigation.

Create button in sidebar

A button in the main sidebar navigation for creating things.

Enhanced visibility options

More visibility options on Innovate properties. These are "Only leaders" which makes the property visible to Leaders only, and "Leaders and creators" which makes the property visible to Leaders and the Creator of the contribution.

Non-anonymity setting

Setting for non-anonymity in Innovate which makes it possible to show identities of the creators of each contribution in Innovate activities.

Draft contributions

Its now possible to save contributions as draft in Innovate. Drafts will not be visible to others, and you can come back later to finish the contribution before sutmitting it for others to see. Guest participants cannot create drafts.

Activity start and due dates

You can now set start and due date on activities. Before start date or past due date the participants will not be able to submit new contributions.

February 2025

8 updates

AI question in formatted text card

It is now possible to set an AI question in the "Formatted text" card that automatically generates content based on the linked activity's contributions.

Improved Leader management

New improved Leader management in Activities.

Full rights for Workboard Leaders

You can now assign full rights to Leaders of a Workboard. This means they will automatically be added as Leaders for all activities within the current Workboard. When new activities are added to the Workboard, they will be assigned as Leaders automatically.

Leaders can always participate

Leaders can now always participate in activities without needing to be added as Participants separately.

Technical and design improvements

Technical and design improvements across the entire platform.

Improved Participant management

New improved Participant management in Activities for Participants you add from your Space.

Full access for Workboard Participants

You can now assign full access to Participants of a Workboard. This means they will automatically be added as Participants for all activities within the current Workboard. When new activities are added to the Workboard, they will be assigned as Participants automatically. This applies to Participants you add from your Space, not from participant links.

Simplified member addition

Personal invitations to the Space have been replaced with a simpler and more efficient way to add members directly. Members are now added to the Space immediately with the status "Invited." This allows you to start managing the member right after sending the invitation, such as assigning roles, adding them to groups and activities, etc., without having to wait for them to accept the invitation and join the Space first.

December 2024

1 update

Profile picture upload

Logged in users can now upload a profile picture. The profile picture is visible to other members in the Spaces you are a member.

November 2024

6 updates

Workboard AI reports

You can now generate AI reports for entire Workboards. You select which activities to be included in the report.

Cover page for AI reports

When generating AI reports you will now get a separate cover page with display image, title, organisation name and date.

Creation date for ideas

Added the option to show creation date of ideas in innovate list.

Filter by creation date

Added the option to filter for creation date of ideas (from and to) in innovate list.

Matrix card arrows

Arrows have been added to the Innovate matrix card to clarify axis value direction.

Hide quadrant plot lines

Quadrant plot lines can now be hidden in the Innovate matrix card.

October 2024

5 updates

New Participant Experience

We've launched a completely redesigned and optimized participant experience, with a focus on the participant, independent of the Leader views. The previous experience remains active for existing customers. Over the next few weeks, we will ensure that everyone transitions to the new experience.

Search activities within workboards

You can now search for activities within workboards when searching for activities in the activity list.

Design improvements

Several design improvements.

Improved AI model

Improved AI model.

Pin activities

Admins can now pin activities within their space, making them appear at the top of the activity list for all participants. Additionally, there is a new option in the space settings that allows all leaders, not just admins, to pin activities.

September 2024

12 updates

Category view in Innovate

Category view in Innovate with an overview of all categories in the activity. This feature is enabled via the "All Contributions" card settings.

Multiple idea lists side by side

Ability to display multiple idea lists side by side, one per selected category. This feature is enabled via the "All Contributions" card settings.

Drag and drop between categories

Drag and drop ideas between category lists and the category view in Innovate's "All Contributions" card when the categorization view is enabled.

Drag and drop to other activities

Drag and drop ideas from the idea list in Innovate and other activities in the Workboard sidebar menu to copy ideas to other activities.

Direct categorization

Click on ideas and categorize them directly in the idea menu that appears.

Bulk categorization

Categorize multiple ideas at once via the selection menu in the "All Contributions" card.

Minimized category card

New minimized card featuring top categories, displayed when the categorization view is enabled on the "All Contributions" card in Innovate.

Categorize card

New card that can be added via "Add Card" in Innovate. The new card is called "Categorize" and adds the "All Contributions" card but with the categorization settings enabled.

Categorization permissions

Innovate activities now have the setting "Categorization by," which determines who is allowed to categorize contributions. You can choose either "Leaders and Participants" as before, or "Leaders" to allow only Leaders to categorize contributions.

Automatic AI categorization

If the Space has the AI Categorization license add-on, the setting "Automatic categorization of contributions via Vocean Copilot" is now available for Innovate activities. If this setting is enabled, Vocean Copilot will automatically assign categories to new contributions that are created.

AI category suggestions

Categories suggested for contributions by Vocean Copilot will be marked with an AI icon, and these can be confirmed by a user when editing the contribution by clicking on the AI icon on the category.

Categorize Contributions feature

Vocean Copilot now has the "Categorize Contributions" feature, which makes it possible to automatically categorize selected or all contributions within an activity. This feature can be found in the AI panel as well as in the "Contributions List" card under the "AI" button at the top.

June 2024

3 updates

Improved activity header

New improved activity header with more functionalities and design options.

New activity menu

We have moved all Leader activity functions to a brand new activity menu above the activity header. All Leader functions for facilitating the activity are now gathered here in one place. The Leader cards on the dashboard itself have therefore been removed.

Ask Vocean Copilot accessibility

The "Ask Vocean Copilot" AI feature is now easily accessible from a text field directly above the activity header in Innovate activities.

May 2024

5 updates

Faster AI model

Vocean Copilot AI updated to a faster and more intelligent AI model.

Norwegian translation

The platform is now translated into Norwegian.

Explore cards redesign

Explore cards have been redesigned to better show which question the card relates to.

Dynamic card management

Cards are now created or removed when questions are created or removed to an Explore activity.

General UX fixes

General UX fixes.

April 2024

6 updates

Category management design

New improved design/UX for managing categories on ideas.

Override Category phrase

You can now override the phrase "Category" in Innovate activities. This means you can change "category" to any phrase you prefer. For example, "Theme", "Project", "Area", "Department", etc.

Rename related cards

Leaders are now asked if they want to rename related cards when renaming a question for an existing Explore activity. This prevents card headings from being out of sync with questions after editing their texts.

Same tab links

You can now create links in formatted text editors (formatted text widgets or idea properties of type formatted text) that target the current browser tab. Previously, links only opened in new browser tabs. This means that you can now, for example, create links between different activities and participant links.

Manual contribution moderation

Manual contribution moderation for Innovate activities.

AI-powered moderation

AI-powered early-warning contribution moderation for Innovate activities.

March 2024

4 updates

Parent Spaces

A Space can be set as parent Space for customers that have multiple Spaces.

Ask Vocean renamed

The operation called "Any question" in Vocean Copilot is now renamed to "Ask Vocean".

Explore performance improvements

Big performance improvements for Explore when having thousands of participants.

Google reCAPTCHA protection

Google reCAPTCHA is now protecting the platform.

February 2024

7 updates

AI summary for long text

An AI summary will be generated for long values on Innovate idea properties of type text and formatted text. The summary can be found next to the heading of the idea property after opening an idea.

Copy templates without being creator

You can now copy templates without being the creator of the template. You do this by clicking a template in the list of templates and then clicking the copy button in the pop-up dialog. This only applies to templates that are restricted within your network.

Change template administrator

You can now change the administrator for templates. To do this, click a template in the list of templates, then click the settings button in the pop-up dialog, then click the Change Admin button. This only applies to templates that are restricted within your network and you are the current template administrator.

Workboard deletion cascading

Now, when you finish or delete a Workboard, all its activities are also finished or deleted at the same time. Therefore, you no longer need to first finish or delete all activities before you can finish or delete the Workboard itself.

Close Workboard directly

You can now close and delete the Workboard directly via the Workboard menu in the same way you previously could with its activities.

Override activity phrase

You can now override the phrase activity/activities in Workboards. This means you can change "activity" to any term you prefer. For example, "Section", "Phase", "Question", "Lecture", etc.

Hide follow activity buttons

You can now choose to hide the follow activity buttons in activities. Doing this also hides the leader's functions for sending messages to those who follow.

January 2024

12 updates

Enhanced AI reports

AI-reports, analysis of contributions and gap analysis now takes contribution properties (sliders, text and formatted text) and categories into consideration.

Improved Improve activity function

The "Improve activity" function in Vocean CoPilot has been improved.

Any question function

New function for Innovate in Vocean CoPilot called "Any question" that allows you to prompt the AI freely with the activity and its contributions as context.

WCAG AAA compliance

WCAG AAA compliance has been implemented for the participation-mode of all activities. This ensures better standards of usage for people with people with impaired vision for example.

Innovate participation form

The participation form for Innovate is now opened in an expanded card like participate for the other activity types.

Select link when embedding

It's now possible to select a link when embedding an activity card.

Select all contributions button

There is now a button to Select all contributions in Explore text question result cards.

Gap Analysis group limit increased

The limit for how many groups you can include in an AI Gap Analysis has been increased from 3 to 5.

Advanced AI model

We have switched to a more advanced AI model, which gives better quality to all answers from Vocean Copilot.

Redesigned AI Report generation

The Generate AI Report feature for Innovate and Explore has been redesigned from the ground up. The reports will be twice as long with much better content.

Choose report language

You can now choose which language the report should be written in when generating an AI report.

Improved select all functionality

Easier to select all and deselect all in the idea list. Now when you select all, only those included in the current filter are selected instead of all ideas in the entire activity. This makes it easy to, for example, select all ideas with a certain category by filtering on that category and then clicking select all.

December 2023

7 updates

Create participation cards

It is now possible to create, move and configure participation cards for all activities.

Present activity type

A new activity type called Present! The Present-activity can show data from multiple other activities within the platform. You can include the results from digital workshops, collaboration sessions, and other activities to create comprehensive presentations that provide a clear overview and understanding of the progress made. Present is a user-friendly and intuitive method for collecting, analyzing and presenting data, making decision-making faster and more informed. With this tool, you can measure the effects of your organization's activities and make evidence-based decisions. For this new type of activity, we have a lot more features we plan to add in the near future so keep your eyes open.

Print functionality

All activity views have been adapted for print, print either via the browser's print function or via the new print button in the activity header.

Full width expanded cards

New setting on activity cards to always display them expanded in full width.

Formatted Text card

New "Formatted Text" card is now available on all activities. Leaders can use this to write documentation, instructions, embed images, links, etc on a workboard or activity.

Add card from activity

On the new activity type "Present" and on Workboards, you can now select "Add card from activity…" when adding a card. Then you can add cards that link to completely different activities, both within the same Workboard but also outside.

Prioritize result card settings

The Prioritize result card now has settings like other result cards.

November 2023

6 updates

Category-library launch

Category-library is launched. All categories that are added to activities are also added to the organization's category-library. The same category can therefore be used in several activities instead of creating duplicates for each activity. This means that categories are elevated from the activity level to the organizational level. This opens up great possibilities for the future, such as category analysis and statistics for the entire organization. You can now see how many activities and contributions each category is used on throughout the organization. Categories can be created just as before when creating activities or through contributions, but now also in advance through the category-library if you prefer. The category-library can be found through the organization's settings and can be managed by the organization's administrators.

Categories when moving contributions

Categories are now included when you move contributions between activities.

Idea action menu

Now when clicking an idea in the list of ideas in Innovate activities a new menu appears where you can take action on the clicked idea. The actions you can choose from the menu are open, edit, select, deselect, like, copy to another activity and delete the idea.

Select all ideas button

There is now a button for selecting all ideas and deselecting all ideas in the list of ideas in Innovate activities.

External participant notification

As a Leader you can now see directly in the activity dashboard if there are external participants (participant link users) that are following the activity. There is a red notification circle on the megaphone button in the top right corner of the screen if someone is following.

UX and design improvements

Several UX and design improvements.

September 2023

5 updates

Follow activities and messaging

Follow activities and send messages to followers. Guest participants (activity link users) can now follow activities by entering their email. Leaders can then send messages to the guests and also to participants from their Vocean place. Currently available messages include "New activity available", "Participation reminder", "Results available" and "Thank for participation".

Vocean Copilot improvements

Vocean Copilot improvements. Improved actions include "Improve activity" and "Find duplicates". Another improvement is a decent increase in the number of contributions it can analyze.

General design improvements

General design improvements.

New participate cards

New participate cards with improved user experience and design.

Progress bars

Progress bars that show progress when participating in activities and workboards.

August 2023

5 updates

Export AI results to Word

You can now export AI results to Word documents (docx). Export reports and other texts generated by Vocean Copilot to Word documents with just one click. The documents are downloaded to your device for you to keep and modify.

Join by code

Join by code! A new way to join activities. On activity links you can now enable "Code". It's a 6-character code that your attendees can use to join via that activity link. The code is entered via vocean.com/join to join.

Updated floating panels

Activity links Floating panels has been updated. Better design and more features, including possibility to show the 6-character code that can be used to join.

Delete personal invites

You can now delete personal invites.

General design improvements

General design improvements.

July 2023

6 updates

Smoother participant link handling

Smoother handling of participant links. Now you can manage participant links directly in the sidebar of the workboard.

Quick buttons for activity links

Quick buttons when managing which activities activity links are connected to. Quickly select or deselect all activities, or quickly change the link towards the next or previous activity.

Improved sidebar appearance

Improved appearance of the sidebar for the workboard, as well as inside the expanded "Manage links" card.

Better guidance for workboards

Better guidance when you have created a workboard for how to add activities, create links and invite participants.

Real-time activity link management

Management of the activity links is now updated in real time for other leaders.

Activity link user tracking

The number of users of activity links is now directly visible on the links and can be tracked in real time.

June 2023

1 update

Presentation mode settings

You can now display the activity heading, description, and image while in presentation mode of a card. To do so, simply access the top of the card during presentation mode where you will find a button titled "Presentation Settings." Here, you can choose to hide or show the activity heading, depending on your preference.

May 2023

4 updates

Folders in activity list

Folders in the activity list. You can now create folders on the activities page to strucutre all your activities in your organisation.

Enhanced word cloud visualization

More ways to visualize data in the Innovate word cloud. You can now choose to show key phrases, all words, the full texts of the contributions or categories in the word cloud.

Easier activity link management

Easier management of activity links. Each activity link now has their own dropdown where you select which activities they have access to.

License management page

New page where Space admins view their licenses. See how many licenses you have, how many that are currently in use, and the renewal date. On this page you can also request to upgrade your number of licenses. The page can be accessed by Space admins through the left sidebar.

April 2023

5 updates

Embed and link to cards

Embed and link directly to cards. In the headers of expanded cards you will now find a link button where you can find an embed code or direct link to the card. Login and access to the activity is required for people viewing the embed or link.

Email notifications by category

Setting in Innovate activities to send notifications to specific email addresses. You can also filter by category, so that a specific email only receives notifications about contributions with selected categories.

Group filter for participants

Group filter when managing participants in activities. Also buttons for adding or removing all members to an activity with one click.

Activity list filters

Filters in activity list. Filter by activity type and your role in the activities.

Minor updates and improvements

Several minor updates and improvements.

March 2023

10 updates

Activity info in contribution popup

Activity heading, description and image is now shown in the popup where you create new Innovate contributions.

Contribution count on thank you page

After creating new Innovate contributions on the "Thank you" page you can now see how many contributions you have submitted and how many the minimum/maximum numbers of contributions are in the activity.

Slider intervals setting

There is now a new setting in the Explore slider widget where you can choose to show intervals above each section on the slider.

Image upload to contributions

It is now possible to paste and upload images to innovate contributions via rich text properties.

Text size in presentation mode

You can now change the size of texts in presentation mode. After expanding a card, click the presentation mode button, then a text size setting button will appear among the other buttons in the card header.

Mobile real-time notifications

Participants that are using mobile phone to participate are now notified in realtime when a new activity is added to the workboard that they have access to.

Scale question type separation

Scale question type is now its own question type in Explore, instead of being a setting on Multiple options questions.

Slideshow functionality

Slideshow functionality in expanded cards while in presentation mode. You can now use previous/next buttons to go to the previous or next card while in presentation mode.

Word cloud contributions list

You can now show a list of all contributions in the expanded word cloud card in Innovate. There is a button in the card header that toggles the visibility of a list of all contributions next to the word cloud.

Word cloud sorting by likes

The list of contributions in the Innovate word cloud card that appears when clicking a word is now sorted by likes with the most liked item in the top.

February 2023

14 updates

Vote renamed to Prioritize

Name of the Vote activity changed name to Prioritize.

Filter on result links

Filter on result links. There is now a setting on activity result links where you can select groups and/or participant links. When using a result link with a filter, all results will be filtered to only show responses from participants in the selected groups/participant links.

Improved filter dropdown

The new improved filter dropdown menu used in Explore cards is now added to Innovate and Vote cards too.

More idea property types

More ways to enrich ideas. Previously, idea properties could only be of the Slider type. Now we're adding more types of properties and the ability to have an unlimited number of properties. The new types of properties are text and rich text. Rich text is an advanced text editor which provides lots of new opportunities to enrich ideas.

New idea creation flow

New flow for creating ideas. More focus on the idea and a larger surface with more possibilities.

Everyone's contributions cards

Your-contributions cards are replaced with everyone's-contributions cards filtered to show only your contributions. Provides the same powerful filtering/sorting options etc. as your contributions.

Change Innovate settings after contributions

Be able to change Innovate settings after contributions have been received, including changing properties.

Move contributions to Explore

Be able to move contributions (ideas and voting options) to new Explore activities.

More predefined scales

More predefined scales in Explore, as well as improvements (tooltips that show the steps of the scales and clearer names for the different scales).

Contribution editing permissions

Be able to set who can edit contributions in Innovera (Everyone or the contribution's Creator and Leader). Makes it possible to allow everyone to edit everyone's contributions which takes the opportunities to co-create to a new level.

Add contributions in everyone's card

You can now add new contributions in the everyone's-contributions card in Innovate.

Scale calculations result card

New result card in Explore to show different types of calculations for selected scale questions. You can select questions of type multiple options with scale activated. Show calculations such as average, median, standard deviation, number of positive answers etc.

Property display settings

You can now choose for each property in Innovate whether it should be displayed or not – or only later when enriching contributions. This property can be changed later. This is useful for example if you want to focus on different properties at different times during the process.

Floating panels for activity links

A floating panel for activity links. You can now open up floating panels for result and participation links. These panels contains the QR-code in different sizes and also a button for copying the link. You can open several floating panels from different workboards and activities and move them around on the screen and they are persistent throughout the session when navigating through the platform.

January 2023

5 updates

Drag and drop card reordering

You can now drag and drop cards in activities to change their order. You can do this while in edit mode of an activity. To enter edit mode click the edit button in the top right corner of the screen while inside an activity.

All Leaders can manage all cards

All Leaders of an activity can now view and manage all cards of that activity, not just the cards that has been added by themself.

Minimum responses privacy setting

Minimum number of responses privacy setting in Explore. When this setting is applied, the specified number of responses is required before results are displayed or exportable. This is to reinforce the level of anonymity for the participants and is strongly recommended in activities where sensitive questions are applied, for example in employee surveys. This setting will limit the possibility to make correlations between the questions, to prevent an individual from being identified based on the answers. Participants are notified when this setting is enabled.

Question correlation filters

Question correlation filters in Explore. You can now filter the result of Explore questions by answers from other questions. You can filter using answers from questions of the types yes/no and multiple options.

Technical improvements

Technical improvements.

December 2022

10 updates

Survey renamed to Explore

Name of Survey activity changed to Explore.

Improved question adding flow

New improved look and flow when adding questions to Explore.

Answer option ordering

Possibility to set the order of answer options in multiple choice questions.

Sentiment on answer options

You can now set sentiment on answer options in multiple choice questions.

Scale activation

You can now choose to activate Scale on multiple choice questions. Sentiment and Scale will make it possible for new ways to visualize results in the future.

Predefined scales

Predefined common scales you can load if you use scale.

Column chart sorting

Ability to set sorting on column charts in Explore (Fixed or Toplist).

Automatic column charts

When you create Explore activities, a column chart is automatically created instead of "Horizontal bars" for multiple-choice questions if you have Scale enabled, otherwise "Horizontal bars" is created as before.

Inline answer options

When you participate in Explore and answer multiple-choice questions, the options are now displayed inline and all get the same width, so that no option should get more focus than another.

Updated terms and conditions

Terms and conditions have been updated.

November 2022

11 updates

New Survey result cards

New result cards for the Survey activity. Column chart, Pie chart, Text list, Horizontal bars, and Result slider.

Improved filter menu

New improved filter menu added to all Survey result cards.

Copy Survey responses

You can now select responses of Survey text questions and copy them to other Innovate and Vote activities.

Extend trial period

When your Trial period expires you can now request to extend it.

Vocean Connector 2.0

Our Vocean Connector version 2.0 is now live in Power Platform. With it you can retrieve contributions from the different activities. It is also possible to let a trigger inform you, for example, when an idea is added or when an activity you are participating in finishes.

Embed code for activity links

Embed code for activity links that let you embed participation links and result links in other applications.

Likes as matrix property

Use likes as property for axises and bubble size in Innovate matrix.

Show your contributions

Show which contributions that are yours in the Innovate contribution list.

Edit own contributions

You can now edit your own contributions in the Innovate result widgets when you are a participant.

Minimum contributions setting

You can now specify a minimum number of contributions in Innovate activities that each participant has to contribute with.

Trial period shortened

Length of trial period is changed to 14 days.

October 2022

17 updates

Categorize contributions

Categorize contributions for innovate activities.

Matrix text labels

It's now possible to enable contribution text labels in the innovate matrix card.

Likes visibility

Amount of likes for a contribution is now visible in the "Your contributions" card for innovate activities.

Extended trial period

Trial period is extended to 28 days instead of 14.

New onboarding design

New design of the onboarding flow.

Contribution management menu

Menu for managing selected contributions or voting options. Move or copy selected contributions or voting options between Innovate and Vote activities, or create a new activity and bring the selected contributions or voting options to the new activity. You can also use this menu to delete all selected contributions or voting options.

Help menu

A new help menu is now always available in the bottom right corner of the platform. Here you can find links for contacting Vocean, asking for a new feature, giving feedback or reporting a problem. You can also find a link to the changelog to read more about new Vocean releases.

Changelog link in update popup

A link to the changelog is added to the popup notifying users that there is an update.

USD preselection

Preselect USD instead of SEK in shop if the user is not Swedish.

Auto-add as Leaders setting

There is now a setting for personal Space invites for automatically adding the people as Leaders and Premium Leaders.

Contribution counter

In Innovate when adding contributions you can now see how many contributions you have added and what the max allowed number of contributions are.

Spectator result expansion

Spectators are now able to expand the question results in Survey to view more details in the same way as Leaders can.

Alphabetical sorting

You can now sort Innovate result by alphabetical order in the contributions list card.

Expand participant card

You can now expand the participant card in all activity types after the activity has finished to view your contribution.

Templates for paid accounts only

Free accounts will not be able to use Templates anymore, that is a feature for paid licenses.

Technical improvements

Technical improvements.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

September 2022

15 updates

Onboarding flow improvements

Onboarding flow improvements.

Auto Premium Leaders in Trial

People invited during Trial creation are now automatically added as Premium Leaders.

Innovate participate card in library

Innovate participate card is now added to the card library.

Participate card settings

Innovate participate card now has a settings menu with some settings for managing the card.

Full screen participate card

Innovate participate card now has a full screen functionality if the user want full focus on the ideation process.

Idea renamed to Contribution

The word "Idea" is replaced with "Contribution" throughout the entire Platform to make it more generic and fit more use cases.

Auto Trial activation

Trial is now automatically activated when creating a Free account. When the Trial ends the user will be asked to downgrade to Free or to purchase a paid license.

Auto redirect to Trial

Users that are not a member of any Place are now automatically redirected to the create Trial flow.

New invitation page design

New design of Place invitation page.

Email and phone validation

Validation of email and phone numbers when creating a Place.

Cookies consent banner

New cookies consent banner.

Updated template information

Updated template information.

Shop improvements

Shop improvements.

Technical improvements

Technical improvements.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

August 2022

5 updates

Print Survey answers

Button to print your answers in Survey activities.

Trial accounts launch

Trial accounts. New customers can now test Vocean Premium 14 days for free.

Required contact information

Contact information is required for new Trial and Free accounts for our customer managers to serve you better.

Technical improvements

Technical improvements.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

July 2022

6 updates

Template system launch

Template system – A completely new concept in Vocean. Create processes and flows of activities with just one click using pre-defined templates, or create your own templates from processes that you have created yourself.

Leader instructions

Leader instructions. You can now add instructions to activities that will only be visible to other Leaders of those activities.

Create activity from Vote

Create new activity from Vote and bring the selected voting options to the new activity.

Import ideas from activity

Import ideas from another activity. Select ideas or voting options in an activity and then import them to another Innovate activity.

Import voting options

Import voting options from another activity. Select ideas or voting options in an activity and then import them to another Vote activity.

Vote without options

Create Vote activities without voting options. This is useful for example if your vote options depends on ideas in another activity that is still running.

June 2022

4 updates

New onboarding for Free accounts

New onboarding flow for creation of Free accounts.

Free account creation improvements

Improvements to Free account creation flow.

Shop improvements

Shop improvements.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

May 2022

4 updates

Microsoft Teams purchase option

Vocean can now be purchased through Microsoft Teams.

Data export addon

New addon for exporting activity data. Export data to for example Excel or Power BI.

Updated payment terms

Updated payment terms.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

April 2022

8 updates

New prices

New prices.

Card library launch

A card library that contains different types of components that the user can add to their activities dashboards depending on their use cases.

Scatter plot card

Scatter plot card for the Survey activity. Can be added from the card library.

Pipedrive integration improvements

Improvements to Pipedrive integration.

Drag and drop activity order

Change order of activities in Workboards using drag and drop.

Activity dropdown menu

Dropdown menu on each activity in the workboard sidebar with options for finishing, activating, restarting, removing and changing orders of activities.

Updated icons

Updated icons.

Sidebar not expanded by default

Lists of activities and reports in sidebar are not expanded as default anymore.

March 2022

6 updates

Auto Premium for Owner

Owner will be automatically Premium when upgrading to Premium license.

Change Place name on upgrade

Possibility to change name of Place when upgrading from Free.

Pipedrive integration

Pipedrive integration so our customer managers can serve you better.

Updated payment terms

Updates to payment terms.

Shop improvements

Shop improvements.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

February 2022

14 updates

Workboards launch

Workboards – A complete remake of how activities are structured, managed and their design.

Activities grouped by workboard

The page that contains all your activities is now grouped by workboard.

Improved design and UX

Improved design and user experience throughout the platform.

Presentation modes

Presentation modes (full screen) for all result views.

Update active activity presentation

Activities presentation (heading, description and image) can now be updated also when the activity is active.

Realtime remake

Complete remake of the technical solution of the realtime functionalities.

Teams integration remake

The Teams integration is totally remaked to support the new workboards.

Minimum Leaders changed

Minimum Leaders that can be purchased is changed from two to one.

Navigation buttons after participation

Navigation buttons that appear after participation that leads to the next activity in the Workboard.

Try Vocean card for guests

Card that offers guests to try Vocean after they have participated. The card leads to Vocean.com.

New login/signup design

New design of login/signup screens.

New email verification design

New design of email verification page.

Shop improvements

Shop improvements.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

January 2022

3 updates

Shop improvements

Shop improvements.

Updated Free account limitations

Updated limitations for free accounts.

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

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