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We ship constantly. Everything new across assessments, proctoring, identity verification, and hiring — newest first.
Speech analysis runs automatically
- Recorded speech is analysed automatically after an assessment is submitted, with results saved for every later review.
- Evidence opens immediately and updates as analysis finishes. Temporary failures retry automatically, and completed speech results inform the overall integrity assessment.
A clearer assessment experience
- A refreshed homepage, dashboard, and analytics make key results and next steps easier to find.
- Evidence reviews load images as needed and show candidate names, with clearer controls for inspecting each frame.
- Programme assessments are now available in existing and new cohorts, while each cohort keeps its delivery settings.
- Candidate signup and certificate selection are simpler. Personal credit purchases are paused; existing balances and payment history remain available.
Cohort creation is restored
- Organisations can create new cohorts from their programmes again.
- Each new cohort now starts with its default student section as intended.
Candidate photos open the camera reliably
- Candidate photo capture now opens from a clear camera action and can be retried without leaving account setup.
- Camera permission, availability, and device-in-use problems now show the right next step instead of all appearing as denied access.
Cohort invitations no longer duplicate
- Inviting a cohort now leaves existing current invitations unchanged instead of sending the same assessment repeatedly.
- Candidates can still be invited again after declining, expiring, or completing an earlier invitation.
Candidate lists now keep their state
- Programme rows now open from anywhere on the row, while internal fallback section names stay hidden.
- Declining an assessment now clears every outstanding duplicate invitation so it stays dismissed after refresh.
Programme enrolments are easier to scan
- Candidates can now compare their programmes and cohorts in one searchable table.
- Candidate navigation now uses My programmes consistently across the enrolment journey.
Cohort invitations now respect assessment availability
- Inactive assessments are identified in cohorts before an organisation tries to schedule or send them.
- Scheduling and group invitations remain unavailable until the assessment is reopened.
Invitation actions now match assessment progress
- Candidates no longer see a decline action after an assessment has already been started or completed.
- When an invitation update cannot be completed, the page now explains why instead of showing a generic failure.
Candidate programmes are easier to navigate
- Current programmes now lead with a clear programme and cohort hierarchy, including dates, status, and a direct way to open each cohort.
- Completed and archived programmes stay available in a quieter history section, while enrolment codes open only when candidates need them.
Invited assessments are easier to manage
- Candidates now see only the active assessments their cohort has invited them to, instead of an open-ended assessment catalogue.
- Assessment invitations can be searched, filtered, and sorted with deadlines and remaining attempts kept visible.
- A completed invitation disappears when its attempt allowance is spent, while an assessment already in progress stays available to resume.
Assessment publishing and cohort setup are clearer
- Assessment editors now separate overview, questions, and settings into clear tabs, with draft and publishing actions kept together at the top.
- Cohorts can only select open assessments, preventing drafts and closed assessments from being assigned.
- Organisation assessment lists now show the practical Active or Inactive state instead of mixing privacy and draft labels.
Screen sharing starts reliably for proctored assessments
- Candidates can now begin assessments that require screen sharing together with camera and microphone access.
- The screen-sharing prompt opens correctly from Begin instead of failing before the assessment starts.
Candidates can reach assessments directly
- Candidates can now open My Assessments from the navigation and see assigned work without opening each cohort first.
- Cohort invitations still control assessment access, schedules, and remaining attempts.
Selected cohort invitations send reliably
- Organisation teams can now invite only the students they select from a cohort without the invitation action failing.
- Whole-cohort and selected-student invitations now use the same dependable roster path.
Names stay consistent across your workspace
- Profiles, dashboards, search, reviews, hiring, and certificates now keep first and last names consistent wherever they appear.
- Account setup and organisation records handle missing or incomplete names more reliably, so people can keep working without broken greetings or blank records.
Pool context stays open while you review the request
- From a question pool, the original request now opens in a separate tab with its full brief and source material ready to review.
- The pool overview stays in place so you can compare the delivered pool with the request that shaped it.
Question pool details are easier to scan
- Question pool pages now keep coverage, sample questions, and request context distinct without repeating the same description, counts, dates, or difficulty information.
- Pool request pages now show the submission date once and present the brief summary in a calmer, more focused layout.
Question-pool work is easier to review
- Pool requests now surface status, category, subcategory, scope, and source material in a clearer detail view.
- Question pools now separate description, inventory, taxonomy, difficulty, and request context into a more useful overview.
Programme and cohort setup is clearer
- Organisation owners can now write and update programme overview briefs in Markdown without leaving the programme details page.
- New cohorts now require a start and end date, with clear date ordering and simpler cohort rows.
Tables now work the same across every workspace
- Admin and candidate pages now share the same table structure, spacing, sorting, and empty states as organisation pages.
- Search and filters stay in one predictable toolbar so it is easier to find accounts, results, conversions, pools, and profile work.
Assessment editing and sponsorship are clearer
- Organisation owners can now open an assessment and edit it directly from its detail page.
- Programme sponsorship is now the single funding decision; cohorts only manage assessment timing and invitations.
Organisation tables are now consistent
- Organisation teams now get the same table layout, spacing, search, filters, and pagination across assessments, pools, reviews, programmes, cohorts, and analytics.
- Settings now has one clear organisation workspace, with students managed from cohorts and team members separated from organisation profile details.
Accepted question pools now appear reliably
- When a previously declined pool is reused for a new request, accepting the new request now makes it available in the organisation's Question Pools.
Assessment workspaces are easier to scan
- Organisation teams can move through assessments, cohorts, question banks, and review work with clearer pages and more focused controls.
- Analytics and results now use more familiar labels and simpler layouts so performance information is easier to understand at a glance.
A clearer, calmer Skillatory
- Candidate pages now follow a clearer Programme, Cohort, Assessment, and Results journey with simpler profiles, records, certifications, and Wallet navigation.
- Organisation workspaces now use consistent programme and cohort language, quieter assessment tools, and more focused rosters, analytics, and settings.
- Administration pages now use consistent tables, search controls, customer-friendly labels, and stronger visual hierarchy across operational workflows.
Organisation settings are together again
- Organisation owners can once again manage their company profile, signing details, people, and team members from one Settings area.
- Team access is simpler: organisations now use only Admin, Author, and Reviewer roles.
Organisation dashboards handle unnamed review records
- Organisation dashboards now stay available when a historic assessment-review record does not include a candidate name.
Dashboard greetings are more reliable
- Dashboards now use the account first name directly, so a missing profile name no longer prevents signed-in users from opening their dashboard.
Question-pool requests now use Wallet credits
- Organisations can now see the credit cost of a question-pool request before they submit it, with the price set centrally by Skillatory.
- When an organisation needs more credits, the request page now points directly to Wallet so they can top up and continue.
Cohort assessment windows now follow the cohort schedule
- Organisations can now schedule and send cohort assessments only while the cohort is active and within its stated dates.
- Assessment opening, last-start, and submission deadlines can no longer extend beyond the cohort's end date.
Question-pool attachments now download reliably
- Platform administrators and organisations can now download files attached to a question-pool request without being sent to an authorization error page.
Current programmes now stay focused
- Candidate dashboards now show up to three active programmes in a concise list instead of repeating the complete programme and cohort hierarchy.
- Candidates can still open the full learning record from View all whenever they need older programmes or every cohort.
Candidate dashboards are easier to act on
- Candidates now see profile completion, active programmes, and recent assessment results in one focused dashboard view.
- The dashboard no longer shows a separate recommended-assessments section, keeping attention on current progress and records.
Difficulty settings accept clean percentages
- Platform administrators can now edit question-difficulty percentages without stray leading zeroes appearing in the field.
Question-pool requests are better classified
- Companies can now classify a question-pool request with a category and subcategory, so the brief starts with clearer scope.
- A pool created from that request keeps the same classification, and sample questions now show only answer text instead of internal identifiers.
Wallet activity is easier to review
- Your Wallet now keeps the available-credit balance, activity record, and credit purchases in separate tabs.
- Card payments are now enabled for customers using the live payment service.
Cohort assessment access is now invitation-only
- Candidates now find assigned assessments inside their cohort, keeping course work and access rules in one clear place.
- Cohort invitations now control who can start an assessment, how many attempts are available, and when access closes.
Sponsored programme assessments now start correctly
- Students enrolled in a sponsored programme can now start their assigned assessment without needing personal credits, even when they did not receive a separate assessment email.
- Programme sponsorship now uses newly increased organisation allowances immediately, so candidates are not blocked by a stale sponsor balance.
- Retaking a passed assessment now shows a clear on-page warning and choice instead of a browser pop-up.
Your courses is now easier to navigate
- Candidates now see programmes, cohorts, dates, and course status in a clearer learning record.
- Joining with a course code now has one dedicated action with clearer guidance and feedback.
- Loading, empty, and connection-error states now explain what is happening without hiding existing enrolments.
Candidate dashboards and invitations are now safer
- Candidate dashboards now lead with the dashboard overview before listing enrolled courses, even when a candidate belongs to several cohorts.
- Question pools awaiting review can no longer be attached to assessments until the receiving organisation accepts them.
- Cohort and assessment invitations now reject past closing dates and schedules whose end date is earlier than their start date.
Course cohorts now keep programme information together
- Candidates can now open an enrolled cohort to see its programme information and the assessments assigned to that intake in separate tabs.
- Organisations can add a programme overview for candidates, and new programmes now cover the full assessment cost by default.
Unlimited assessment retakes now stay available
- Assessments configured for unlimited retakes now remain available to invited candidates after they complete an attempt.
- One-attempt and limited-retake assessments continue to enforce the organisation's selected limit.
Platform administrator accounts are now clearly separated
- Platform administrators now see administrator-specific account settings instead of organization billing, credits, profile, and certificate-signature controls.
- Customer organization settings and payment actions are now protected from administrator accounts at both the page and API level.
- Administrator access must be removed by another platform administrator, preserving controlled access and audit history.
Platform admins can now delete user accounts
- Platform admins can now permanently remove a user account from the Users screen after an explicit confirmation.
- Personal profile, photo, biometric, and proctoring data is erased, while completed assessments and certificates remain available as anonymous records.
- Admins cannot delete their own account or remove the platform's last administrator.
Organization signup now keeps the right account type
- Choosing organization during signup now consistently creates an organization account instead of sending the account through candidate onboarding.
- Organization setup now collects the organization logo, website, LinkedIn page, contact details, account administrator photo, and question-pool preference before review.
- Candidate onboarding now completes only after the required account photo is captured, eliminating the final-step dashboard loop.
Organisation registration is now reviewed
- New organisations now enter a review queue before they can access a Skillatory workspace.
- Platform admins receive a review notification, can approve or reject the registration, then choose which authoring, hiring, and question-pool capabilities to grant.
- Approved organisations now receive an email confirmation with a direct link to their workspace.
Organization signup is clearer and more reliable
- Organizations now provide their organization name and account administrator details during signup, instead of seeing candidate-only certification prompts.
- New organization accounts can now complete signup and reach their workspace without the token error that interrupted setup.
Privacy and terms are now easy to find
- The landing page now links directly to public Privacy Policy and Terms of Service pages, so candidates and companies can review the rules before getting started.
Long operational lists are now paginated
- Pool requests, programmes, cohorts, student rosters, review submissions and organisation people lists now use clear page controls, keeping everyday operations manageable as they grow.
Question pools are easier to manage at scale
- Large question pools now load in pages, so reviewing a long pool stays quick and focused.
- Categories and subcategories now belong to the pool itself and are managed from its new Settings tab, instead of being repeated on every question.
Question pools are easier to review
- Every question in a pool now wraps to show its full wording, with its correct answer directly underneath — no need to open the editor just to review it.
- Question categories now use the shared category list, questions stay in the pool you opened, and skills are the single way to classify questions for pool coverage and assessment analysis.
Question editing stays in view
- Opening a question from a pool now immediately shows its editing screen, including every answer option and the marked correct answer.
- Admins no longer need to hunt above the question list to tell whether an edit has opened.
Skillatory.com now works end to end
- Fixed a problem on the new skillatory.com address where nothing you did would save — starting or submitting an assessment, editing your profile, and every company and admin action stopped with a "failed to fetch" error.
- Pages loaded fine, which is why it looked like the site was working. Anything that needed to send something back was being blocked.
The case for verification, on the front page
- The home page now makes the argument out loud: skills go stale, employers say they hire on skills but rarely do, a quarter of candidate profiles are heading for fake, and AI skills carry a real wage premium. Every figure is shown with its source.
- Removed the old pricing table. It advertised a monthly subscription Skillatory doesn't sell — assessments are paid for in credits, and the wallet is where you buy them.
A new Skillatory logo
- The Skillatory wordmark has been redrawn — same navy and same three rising bars, cleaner letterforms.
- The three bars now stand alone as the square mark: they're the browser tab icon, the home-screen icon, and what you see in the collapsed sidebar.
An account belongs to one organisation
- A single sign-in could hold a seat in more than one organisation and switch between them. That was never intended — an account is one person at one institute — and it meant two unrelated organisations' data sat behind one login.
- Accepting an invitation now checks it: if the account already belongs somewhere, or already owns its own workspace, the invitation is declined with a reason. Join with a separate account instead.
- Nobody loses an organisation they were already using — existing memberships are untouched.
Questions are single or multiple choice, and that's the whole list
- The question editor used to offer a “format tag” — Scenario or Odd one out — alongside the real choice of single or multiple answer. It changed nothing: not the marking, not what a candidate saw, not the result. It's gone.
- The CSV importer took those two words in its “type” column too, which made it look as though there were four kinds of question. The template and the importer now accept single and multi only.
- You can still write a question as a scenario or an odd-one-out — that's how you word it, and it never needed a setting.
The size you asked for is checked before a pool is offered to you
- When we answer a pool request with a pool we already have, the difficulty and the minimum number of questions in your brief are now checked first. A pool that doesn't have that many questions at that difficulty can no longer be handed over.
- The numbers you give when you raise a request are doing real work now, rather than being read as advice — fewer pools arriving short and coming back for a second round.
Attempts held for review are counted as their own thing
- Analytics and the takers list disagreed about how many people sat an assessment — one counted attempts awaiting a proctoring review, the other didn't, and neither said so. Both now show “In review” as its own number, so takers plus in-review is everyone who sat it.
- A flagged attempt that FAILED is no longer held for review. Review is there to stop an illegitimate pass; a failing score isn't one anyone gains by cheating for, so the candidate gets their result straight away and reviewers get a shorter queue.
Tell us how big a pool you need
- A pool request now asks for the smallest number of questions that would work, and roughly how many candidates will sit assessments drawn from it — alongside the difficulty it already asked for.
- Both are optional, and both are editable after you've sent the brief. They save a round trip: we no longer have to come back and ask how big you wanted it.
Adding an assessment to a cohort asks when it runs
- Attaching an assessment used to open it to the whole intake the moment you pressed Add, which is why “Invite” felt pointless — they could already sit it. Adding now asks for the window first, and leaving the dates blank is a normal save.
- Inviting the group now means what it says: telling them.
- A cohort's details tab shows its programme, dates and status as information with one Edit link, instead of four form fields and a Save button on a page you mostly come to read.
An assessment you've finished stops following you around
- Once you've used your attempts, the assessment leaves your browse list and your invitations instead of sitting there with a Start button on it.
- An assessment now allows one attempt unless the institute sets more — previously “unset” meant unlimited, which is why finished assessments never went away.
- You can decline an invitation you're not going to take. The institute sees that you declined rather than the invitation quietly going stale.
- Dropped the “Private” tag from assessment cards — every assessment is private, so it wasn't telling anyone anything.
Invited candidates can actually start the assessment
- A candidate invited to an assessment, or enrolled on one through a cohort, could open it from their dashboard but got “Invalid or missing access token” when they pressed Start. They can now start it from anywhere they can see it.
- Assessments still can't be started by anyone who wasn't invited, enrolled, or given the link.
Preview as candidate shows your assessment page
- “Preview as candidate” failed with a message about authoring questions for any workspace whose questions come from a pool we build. It works for everyone now.
- It shows your assessment exactly as an applicant meets it — your description, what it judges, what they need before they begin, and the enrolment panel with duration, questions and pass mark. Nothing starts an attempt, and no questions are shown.
Forms open over the page, and pools are called pools
- “Request a pool”, the CSV importer, and adding a link or pull request to your profile now open in a dialog instead of pushing the rest of the page down.
- One word for one thing: what used to be called a question bank in some places and a question pool in others is a question pool everywhere.
You always get a say on a pool we deliver
- If we answered your request with a pool you already had from an earlier request, the request got stuck on “in progress” and you were never asked to accept it, reject it or send it back. It now reaches you as a delivery every time.
- A request you send back for changes can be revised and delivered to you again — that round trip previously had no way to complete.
- Your request page now names the pool you were given and how many questions are in it, instead of making you open it to find out.
Analytics, rebuilt around one question per page
- Analytics is now one place with tabs — Results, Difficulty, Topics, Participation, Question quality and Compare — instead of three separate screens that each showed a bit of everything.
- Pick an assessment and a group once, at the top, and every tab narrows to it. Choose “All groups” to widen back out. The charts stay the same; only who they cover changes.
- New Difficulty tab: what students got right at each level, and — for the first time — how much of the hard material they never answered at all. Running out of time and not knowing the answer are different problems.
- Terms like reliability and “separates” now explain themselves: hover the question mark next to any of them.
- Group and assessment numbers now agree. A proctoring-flagged attempt awaiting review was counted on one screen and not the other; it now counts on neither until it's reviewed, so some totals may read slightly lower than before.
Analytics that lead with the finding
- All three analytics screens now open on the answer — the headline numbers and one chart — instead of every chart at once.
- The detail is still one click away, and each collapsed row says what it holds: “Hardest: Recursion — 61% wrong”, “20 questions · 2 flagged”. You can read the page without opening anything.
- Sections are easier to tell apart, and on Compare groups the picker folds away once you have a result so the comparison gets the space.
- Fixed the pass-mark label on the score chart, which was unreadable when it fell over a tall bar.
Creating a programme works when you're in more than one workspace
- Accepting a team invitation from another company no longer blocks you from creating programmes, intakes, or assessments in your own workspace.
- Anything you create is now filed in the workspace the switcher is on — switch to a client's workspace and the new programme lands there, not on your own account.
Analytics for one group, and every student in a section
- “Group analytics” is a new screen: pick one intake or section and see how it did on one assessment — who sat it, how the scores spread, and what caught them out. It no longer forces you into a comparison to ask about a single group.
- Compare groups has been rebuilt around the difference itself — paired bars on one scale, a topic chart sorted by the widest gap, and the finding stated as a sentence before any chart.
- Every student now sits in exactly one section. Existing cohorts get an “All students” section automatically; nobody is moved between cohorts.
- Inviting a group opens a dialog first, where you can set when the assessment opens, the last time to start, and when everything must be submitted.
Sortable tables, a pool request page, and an off switch
- Question pools, pool requests and programmes are now tables you can sort and filter, not lists you scroll.
- Every pool request gets its own page with tabs for the brief, the conversation and the delivery — and you can revise the brief after sending it, adding files or changing the description. We're told the moment you do.
- An assessment can be closed to new attempts and reopened later, without archiving it or losing a single result. Its page is now tabbed, so sharing and invites aren't stacked under the description.
- Sample questions show the correct answer, and a programme's sponsorship has its own tab explaining exactly how it combines with an intake's own figure.
Your workspace shows your work — and analytics you can read
- Assessments, programmes, intakes and analytics now show only the workspace you're in. If you hold a seat at more than one institute, the other one's material no longer turns up in your lists.
- Analytics has been rebuilt around a story: who sat it, how the scores spread, how hard it turned out, and which topics caught people out. The score distribution chart works now — every bar used to render the same height.
- Your dashboard leads with the intakes you're running instead of a hiring pipeline.
- Assessments built on a pool we supply now get the full retake policy — one attempt, a set number, or unlimited, with an optional wait between tries.
Programme tabs switch properly
- A programme's “Assessments” and “Cohorts & intakes” tabs did nothing when clicked — both sections rendered at once, stacked down one long page.
- They now show one section at a time, so the intake list is no longer buried under the assessment list.
Talk to us about a question pool, and accept it when it's right
- Every pool request now has a conversation attached — ask us anything the brief didn't cover, and we'll ask you. Both sides get a notification when the other writes.
- A delivered pool is an offer, not a fait accompli: accept it, or send it back saying what needs changing.
- New pool analytics show how much of a pool you've actually used, how your students score on it, and which assessments it backs. Pools we build for you stay sealed — the per-question results aren't shown, because they'd give the questions away.
- Sponsorship moved up to the programme, so you set once what share of your students' credits you cover for every intake.
- Every table sorts by any column, and the admin screens have been reorganised so each page answers one question at a time.
A tidier product, and one price for every assessment
- Navigation is regrouped so every heading says what's inside it, and creating a programme or cohort is now a button in the top right rather than a form you scroll past.
- Assessments cost a standard number of credits set by Skillatory — organisations no longer price their own — and every assessment is private, reached through the organisation running it.
- Candidates browsing assessments now see exactly what their institute has put them on, rather than a general catalogue.
- Programmes and cohorts get tabbed workspaces, students can be added in bulk by pasting a list or uploading a CSV, and the roster shows people's names once they've signed up.
- Analytics splits into exam analytics and cohort analytics, with average time to complete, average questions answered, labelled charts and clearer group comparisons.
Invigilation set by Skillatory, and every cohort in a programme
- Exam invigilation — webcam, screen recording, room scan, ID check — is now set by Skillatory rather than by each organisation, so a certificate means the same thing wherever it was earned.
- Organisations no longer see those switches on the assessment form; if you need a different level of invigilation for your exams, talk to us and we'll set it for your account.
- Every cohort now belongs to a programme. Cohorts created before programmes existed have been filed under a "General" programme you can rename or move them out of.
- Cohort comparisons stay inside a programme, so you're never shown a gap between two groups that never sat the same course.
Compare groups, and see whether the difference is real
- Put two cohorts or sections side by side on the same assessment: overlaid score distributions, means, spread, pass rates, and how big the gap actually is.
- If the two groups didn't sit the same questions, we say so — whether the pool changed, questions were edited, or the same pool simply dealt a different hand.
- Analytics now reads at any level: organisation, programme, cohort or section.
- Flagged attempts awaiting proctoring review no longer count towards results until a reviewer settles them, so figures may shift slightly.
Schedule an assessment for a cohort
- Set when a cohort's assessment opens, the last moment a student may start, and when work is due — starting late no longer means losing your time limit.
- Choose how much of the cost you cover for the group, from nothing to all of it; it's applied when you invite them.
- Leave any of it blank and nothing changes — assessments without a schedule behave exactly as before.
Students enrol, instead of being handed a link
- Give your class a join code and students enrol themselves — into the cohort, or straight into a section.
- Invitations now enrol too: accepting one adds the student to the cohort, so you don't add the same people twice.
- An assessment you run for a cohort is now only reachable by that cohort. Sharing the link no longer lets anyone else sit it. Public assessments are unchanged.
- Students get a Courses page showing every group they're in and its status.
Programmes and sections
- Group your cohorts under a programme — the track you run more than once. The programme holds the assessments it uses; each intake picks the ones it actually sits.
- Cohorts now carry start and end dates and a status, so an intake that's finished stops looking like one that's running.
- Split an intake into sections if you want to compare groups later. Sections are optional — keep everyone together and nothing changes.
- Cohorts have moved out of Hire and into Assess, next to Programmes where they belong.
Question pools built for you
- You no longer need to write your own questions. Send us a brief and your material, and we'll build the question pool for you.
- Track each request from sent to delivered, and see coverage on every pool you receive — how many questions, at what difficulty, on which topics — plus a fixed set of sample questions.
- Build an assessment on a pool in one step: pick the pool, the difficulty and the length, and we'll assemble the right mix. Choose a fresh set of questions for every candidate, or the same set for everyone.
- Pool questions stay sealed. Nobody at your organisation can read them, so candidates can't prepare against the answers.
Hiring is now switched on per organisation
- Talent search, job openings and the hiring pipeline are now enabled per organisation by Skillatory, rather than being on for everyone.
- Organisations without hiring no longer see any of it — the sections are hidden rather than shown and refused.
- Nothing is deleted when hiring is switched off: existing openings and shortlists come back exactly as they were if it's switched on again.
Fixes to names, navigation and the desk check
- Renaming yourself in Settings now sticks — your Skillatory profile name was being overwritten by the name you signed up with on every page load.
- Opening a candidate from the review queue now returns you to Review instead of dropping you in Talent Search.
- Turned off the pre-assessment desk-position check: it reported the same result no matter where the laptop actually was, so it gave reviewers false assurance.
Ceremonial certificate designs
- Three new certificate designs in the traditional idiom: an ornate filigree border, an engraved seal, a laurel wreath, and the recipient's name set in formal script.
- Added a course-credential layout with a ribbon and seal down the edge, for certificates that need to read as a formal qualification.
- Decorative borders, seals and wreaths can now be dropped into any design and recoloured to match your palette.
Design your own certificates
- Certificates are now designed in Skillatory: pick one of ten ready-made designs, then move anything, retype anything, and drop in logos and signatures where you want them.
- Text placeholders fill themselves in — candidate name, assessment, score, date, credential ID — and resize automatically so a very long name or title never overflows or gets clipped.
- Room for three sets of marks: your organisation, Skillatory, and a sponsor. Anything with nothing behind it is left off cleanly instead of printing an empty line.
- Companies can upload a signature and name a signatory under Settings, so certificates carry a real signature rather than a typed name.
Cohorts you can reuse for any assessment
- A cohort is now just a named group of students — build it once, then invite the whole group to any assessment, whenever you need to.
- Previously a cohort was locked to the single assessment you picked when creating it, so running a second one meant rebuilding the group from scratch.
- New group view shows how a cohort is doing across every assessment it has sat, alongside the existing per-assessment breakdown.
- Practice-test results can now be compared between cohorts and candidates who aren't in one.
Assessment publishing now needs Skillatory approval
- Organisations are approved by Skillatory before they can build assessments or question banks — a separate approval covers publishing to the public catalogue.
- Public assessments continue to be reviewed one by one before they reach the catalogue.
- If your organisation is waiting on approval, everything you've already built is kept exactly as it is and comes straight back the moment you're approved.
Practice tests can match the real test's difficulty
- A practice test used to pick questions completely at random, so one candidate could get mostly easy questions and another mostly hard ones.
- You can now have it mirror the difficulty mix of the real assessment, or set your own mix of beginner, intermediate and advanced.
- This makes the starting point it measures far more comparable between candidates.
Manage your question banks
- Create, rename and archive question banks straight from the Question Bank page — no CSV needed.
- Open a bank to work on just its questions — add them by hand or import a CSV into a bank you already have.
- Fixed being unable to add a question at all until a bank existed.
Camera and screen share now switch off when you finish
- Your camera, microphone and screen share are released the moment you submit a proctored assessment.
- The browser's "in use" indicator no longer stays on afterwards.
Run Skillatory under your own brand
- Organisations can apply for their own subdomain and run assessments under their own name, logo and colour.
- Choose what your candidates see: the whole catalogue, only your own assessments, or yours plus organisations you trust.
- Apply from your Organisation page — a Skillatory admin reviews each request before the subdomain goes live.
Reviewed public catalogue
- New public assessments are now reviewed by a Skillatory admin before they appear in the catalogue, so what you browse is vetted.
- Nothing changes for drafts or private assessments — publish and share those freely, and candidates you invite directly can take them straight away.
- Established organisations can be put on a trusted list so their assessments publish instantly.
Private invitations you can actually keep track of
- Candidates now see the private assessments they've been invited to right in Assessments, with the time left to take each one — no more digging through email for the link.
- Set a deadline when you invite people. It's shown in the invitation email and enforced when they try to start.
- The invite list now shows who has started and who has finished, not just who was emailed.
Question banks
- Organise your questions into named banks — upload a CSV as its own bank, tag it with the skills it covers, and filter within one bank or across your whole library.
- Questions can now carry several skills, and the CSV format takes an optional skills column. Leave it blank and questions inherit the bank's default skills.
- Build an assessment by rule instead of by hand: ask for "15 intermediate AI questions from this bank" and each candidate gets a fresh draw when they start.
- Mix and match — draw some skills from one bank and the rest from your whole library, alongside any questions you've written yourself.
Exams are now assessments
- One name everywhere: what used to be called an "exam" in some places and an "assessment" in others is now consistently an assessment.
- Pages moved from /exams to /assessments. Old links, invite emails, and certificate links redirect automatically — nothing you've already shared will break.
A faster, less fussy start to a proctored assessment
- The room sweep no longer has to be re-recorded — it captures your surroundings and moves on, instead of telling honest candidates it couldn't confirm a full turn.
- Removed the four-corner screen calibration step. Gaze monitoring now settles itself during the exam, so there's one less gate before you begin.
- Added a microphone check: we confirm your mic is actually picking you up, not just connected, since a muted mic can't be spotted once the exam is under way.
Smoother question editing for big exams
- Building an exam with lots of questions no longer turns the editor into an endless scroll.
- The question list now scrolls on its own next to the editor, with the selected question kept in view.
AI analysis for cohorts
- One click turns a cohort's results into a plain-language read of how the group is doing.
- It highlights the topics the class struggles with most, what they're already strong on, and what to reteach.
- Generated on demand and saved, so you can re-run it as more students take the exam.
Cohorts for institutes
- Group students into cohorts and run a free placement assessment across the whole group before a course.
- See how far the group grows by exam time — average scores, biggest improvement, and per-student baseline→exam progress.
- Spot which topics the class struggles with, and who still needs support.
See how far you've come
- If you took the free placement test before an exam, your results now show your progress.
- See your baseline score, your exam score, and how much of the gap you closed.
- A simple way to see the improvement, not just the final grade.
Free placement tests to see where you stand
- Exam creators can offer a free, no-pressure placement test drawn from the same question bank as the real exam.
- No camera, no lockdown — and it doesn't affect your profile or certifications.
- Take it once to get a private baseline score and a simple recommendation: prepare more, or go ahead and take the exam.
Delete your account and export your data
- You're now in control of your data, under Settings → Account actions.
- Download a copy of your account details at any time.
- Permanently delete your account — erasing your profile and all identity and proctoring media (face data, webcam and room-scan captures) for good.
- Certifications you've already earned stay verifiable.
Stronger proctoring integrity
- On exams that require webcam monitoring, a result is now only auto-certified when our servers confirm the camera was actually monitoring throughout the attempt.
- Anything that looks like monitoring was interrupted goes to a reviewer instead of quietly passing.
- So a Skillatory certificate keeps meaning what it says.
Refunds now return your credits correctly
- When a credit purchase is refunded or disputed, the credits from that purchase are now automatically reversed.
- Completed payments are reliably credited even if you close the tab before the confirmation screen loads.
Checkboxes and dropdowns you can actually see
- Unticked checkboxes, unselected radio buttons, and dropdown fields were rendering without their outline — effectively invisible until clicked.
- Most noticeable when answering a multiple-answer exam question or setting up filters.
- They now show their border in every state.
A reusable question bank
- Build a library of questions once and reuse them everywhere.
- Organize by category, skill, and tags, and search your whole bank.
- Drop questions into any exam in a couple of clicks instead of rewriting them.
- Questions added to an exam are a snapshot, so editing your bank never changes a test someone has already taken.
Exam analytics that show what's working
- A rebuilt analytics view shows how each exam — and each question — is really performing.
- See score distributions, pass rates, and how reliable the exam is overall.
- Per-question: difficulty, how well it separates strong from weak candidates, and which answer options people actually choose.
- Weak or mis-keyed questions are flagged for you, and an invitation funnel tracks people from invited to completed.
Filter your submissions, and a tidier profile
- Reviewers can now narrow submissions by exam and by date, not just by status — a busy queue gets to the right attempt in two clicks.
- Profiles (your own and the version recruiters see) are now clean, compact lists instead of boxes stacked inside boxes, with key numbers pulled into a side panel.
- Settings gained a proper edit flow: your name is first, middle, and last with an explicit Edit and Save; nothing sits editable until you ask.
Bring your team into your workspace
- Company owners can invite teammates into their organization and give each one a role: Admin, Author, Reviewer, Invigilator, or Viewer.
- The right people can build exams, review proctoring, or see analytics without sharing a single login.
- Invitees get an email link to join, and you can change anyone's role or remove them at any time.
A fairer exam setup: desk check and screen calibration
- Proctored exams now begin with two quick checks.
- Skillatory confirms your laptop is on a desk at a sensible height rather than balanced on your lap.
- It then asks you to look at a dot in each corner so it learns where your screen actually sits.
- "Looking away" is measured against your real setup — fewer false flags for honest candidates, a clearer signal when someone genuinely looks away.
- Neither check can lock you out of an exam.
AI integrity risk score for proctored exams
- When a proctored attempt raises any integrity signal, Skillatory reads all the evidence together — camera and screen activity, the room scan, and what was heard.
- It gives the reviewer a single 0–100 risk score with the specific reasons behind it.
- It's advisory: it never fails anyone automatically, it just points a reviewer to what matters.
- Reviewers can rate each assessment with a thumbs up or down so it keeps getting sharper.
A simpler question builder
- Pick single- or multiple-answer, then optionally mark a question as a scenario or odd-one-out to set how it reads.
- The old overlapping type options that all graded the same way are gone.
- Your existing questions and how they're scored are unchanged.
A room scan you actually control
- The pre-exam room scan is now candidate-led: stay seated, hold your laptop up, and turn a full circle so the camera sees the area around you.
- You start and stop the recording yourself instead of racing a six-second timer.
- Skillatory confirms the turn was real and complete, and tells the exam owner when it couldn't.
Cleaner profiles, and exams that show who published them
- Explore now shows each exam's publisher — their logo and name — instead of a generic document icon, so you can see whose assessment you're taking.
- Profiles got a clean-up: experience, repositories and publications are compact lists instead of oversized nested boxes, so more fits on screen.
- You can finally edit your full name in Settings.
Exam pages that get to the point
- Exam pages no longer make you scroll to find the start button.
- Price, duration, questions, pass mark, and the credential you'll earn now sit beside the description, with the start button visible on open.
- Large monitors get more from the screen: content spreads out instead of sitting in a narrow centered column.
A new look built around verified proof
- Skillatory has a new visual identity: a clean white surface with clearer typography.
- Serif headlines, and scores, dates, and credential IDs set in a precise monospaced style, like a real registry.
- Certifications are drawn as framed credentials with their unique ID; verification marks appear as a green seal wherever a skill or result is independently verified.
- The noisy colored boxes are gone, so what needs your attention actually stands out.
A sharper, more credible Skillatory
- We've redesigned the whole product around one idea: proof of ability.
- A cleaner layout with a grouped sidebar, bigger headings, and a calmer background make everything easier to scan.
- Dashboards now tell you what needs attention and what to do next — recruiters see assessments awaiting review and how their exams perform; candidates see their verified-profile completeness and best next step.
- Certifications look like real credentials, exam pages spell out what's required and what you'll earn before you start, and results are grouped by exam with feedback a click away.
Room scan for proctored exams
- Companies can require a quick room scan before an exam starts.
- The candidate sweeps their camera around the desk, and an automated check flags a phone, loose notes, another person, or a second screen for the reviewer.
- It's advisory — it never auto-fails an exam; a person always makes the final call.
Organizations: rosters, bulk invites & sponsorship
- Companies and institutions get a new Organization page to manage their people.
- Add or import a list of emails and invite everyone to an exam in one go.
- Optionally sponsor exam credits — choose how much to cover per person; your wallet is only charged when they actually start.
- Track each person's attempts, passes, and certifications in one place.
Refer & earn
- Organizations get an Affiliate page with a shareable referral link.
- When someone signs up through it and takes a qualifying paid exam, they get a discount and your organization earns credits back.
- A simple way to bring your people onto Skillatory and be rewarded for it.
- Rewards activate once the program is enabled for your organization.
Sharper proctoring review & a lighting check
- Reviewers now see the candidate's enrolled photo next to their exam-start selfie with the face-match score.
- Integrity signals are ordered most-serious-first so the flags that matter stand out.
- Candidates get a nudge to move somewhere brighter if the room is too dark during their identity check.
Clearer exam builder
- Marking the correct answer now has an obvious, clickable "Mark correct" control that clearly shows which option is the answer.
- The on/off settings toggles (Safe Exam Browser, webcam, screen recording, and more) are now clearly visible whether they're on or off.
Smarter, fairer proctoring review
- When talking is detected, the clip is now transcribed — in any language — and auto-triaged as harmless vs. genuinely suspicious.
- Reviewers can judge in seconds instead of listening to everything.
- Proctoring calibrates to each candidate's own camera angle and room noise to cut false alarms.
- Captured moments can be clicked to view full-size.
Release notes are here
- You can now follow everything we ship on this page.
- We push updates constantly — this is where the product story lives, newest first.
One-click exam launch
- Candidates can start a proctored assessment straight from their browser with a single click.
- No more downloading and opening a configuration file first.
- A big cut to setup friction on exam day.
Profile photos verified against your ID
- Profile picture uploads are now cross-checked against a candidate's enrolled verification photo.
- Keeps identity consistent across every proctored exam.
Rejected attempts are fully void
- When an examiner rejects a flagged attempt, its score and certificate are now withheld everywhere — results, history, candidate search, and hiring matches.
- A voided result can never leak through.
Fewer false integrity flags
- Camera and microphone access is now granted before the exam begins, so a routine permission prompt no longer trips a false "left the exam" flag.
- Screen sharing must cover the full screen to count.
Smarter live proctoring
- Live monitoring now detects additional people in frame and mobile phones during an exam.
- This is alongside the existing multi-face and voice warnings.
- Gives reviewers much stronger integrity signals.
Organization review dashboard
- Teams get a dedicated dashboard to review flagged attempts.
- Proctoring notifications are grouped so reviewers can act on incidents in one place.
Safe Exam Browser lockdown
- System-wide Safe Exam Browser support locks down the testing environment for high-stakes assessments.
- So companies can trust results from remote candidates.
Duplicate-identity detection
- The platform now automatically flags when one person attempts to sit exams under multiple identities.
- Protects the integrity of verified skills.
Webcam & audio monitoring
- Exams can now capture webcam snapshots and monitor audio as silent integrity signals for reviewers.
- Without interrupting the candidate.
Fairer, tamper-resistant exams
- Exam timers are now enforced on our servers.
- Every attempt gets a randomized question order.
- Makes results harder to game and fairer for everyone.
Shortlists with email invites
- Recruiters can build candidate shortlists.
- Send email invites to assessments.
- Track scores as results come in.