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DialogLoop Engage

August 2023

Welcome Page and Polls: Copy/Paste from Microsoft Word now pastes Text instead of image.

Q&A

    - Added new video backgrounds.

    - Improved Q&A preview.

    - Moderation: Deleted questions are now deleted everywhere.

When the Attendees' list is reset, the counting starts over with #1.

June 2023

Major Update:

    - The Q&A feature can now filter questions (Moderation).

    - Multiple users can be moderators simultaneously.

    - Questions appear directly in a PowerPoint Slide, using the free DialogLoop Engage Add-in available in the Microsoft Store.

    - Beautiful animated Backgrounds can be used to display the Audience's questions

    - Questions can be "Liked", and are ranking automatically on the PowerPoint Slide.

✓ Other New Features:

    - Add a new question type: WebSurvey

    - Possibility to transform a single-question poll into a multi-question survey/quiz

    - Polls Title is now auto-generated if not specified by the owner. 

    - NPS and Likert Polls now have a Chart visualization.

    - Add several preset fields to the Form question type.

Bugs correction:

    - Ease the drag and drop/Sorting of questions in the Quiz and Survey windows

    - Charts now accept multi-lines labels.

May 2023

New PowerPoint Features:

    - DialogLoop's console in PowerPoint now has new icons/features: Question Preview, Quiz correct answer reveal.

    - The Quiz feature now allows the Presenter to store an explanation for the Correct and Wrong answers.

New "Embed Code for Website" option :

    - Independant URL: All polls and quizzes can now be shown in a dedicated URL, without a Header and a Menu.

    - Website Integration: All polls and quizzes can now be embedded into a website using an HTML code to integrate into an iFrame.

    - Includes the option to allocate Points to answers.

Bugs correction:

    - Themes can now show a full image as a background.
    - Theme's color handling improved

April 2023

Quiz icon now offers Multi-questions as standard.

Bugs correction:

    - Drag and drop answers.
    - Improve correct answers management.

✓ Insert Video links in the Welcome page.

✓ Auto-insert Poll's name if empty.

March 2023

✓ New User Interface look and feel.

✓ New Attendees Pane:

    - See all attendees as they log in.

    - Delete all attendees if needed.

✓ Optimization of the Attendees' counting method.
✓ Visualisation in the PowerPoint Add-In:

    - New Output: Attendees connected to the session can be visualized inside a Slide.

    - Arrows added to the console to ease the Slides switch.

✓ Bug Corrections:

    - Event's Page: The header image can now be changed and saved.

    - The setting of the Randomized Answers feature is now marked accurately.

    - Deleting polls responses updates the Visualisation within the PowerPoint Slide.

    - Simplification of the first-time login process

    - Simplification of the Event's creation/cloning process

    - Improved User Interface Translation

July 2022

✓ Bug correction in Polls/Word Cloud/Survey's output now displays long questions fully.

✓ Surveys can now display questions one after another, or all at once.

May 2022

✓ Bug correction in Polls: When the text of the answers is too long to be displayed on the Chart, they can be automatically replaced by A/B/C/... or a/b/c/... or 1/2/3/....

April 2022

✓ Event's Welcome Page:

  - The Event name field has been removed to save space and offer more design flexibility.

  - The Event's name can be changed on the Events list page.

  - The Header and Left images are now updated automatically to the Attendee page.

✓ Poll/Quiz/Word Cloud/Survey:

  - User Interface: New Lighter design.
  - Improved charts: Response images are now larger.

✓ Simplified Settings Page.

✓ New Design Feature:

  - Add a background image to all Poll, question type, and Word Cloud charts.

  - The background gets updated LIVE in the output link even if the Poll has started.

✓ Bug correction: Reloading the page brings you back directly to the Pane you used to view.

✓ Cosmetic changes.

March 2022

✓ Updates to the DialogLoop Engage Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint/Excel/OneNote:

    - Improved compatibility and Integration.

    - Activities are sorted per creation date.

    - The Home icon is now available in all Activities.

    - It is now possible to have more than 6 polls appearing in a PPT (using the Add-in).

    - Polls are now actionable one after the other.

✓ New Poll type: Open Ended question.

✓ New Survey feature (Beta version).

✓ Cosmetic Changes.

February 2022

✓ MAJOR RELEASE:

DialogLoop Engage is now available as an Add-In for PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote directly from the Microsoft Store. The Add-In is Free. It enables to seamlessly visualize Activities created with DialogLoop Engage, directly from within PowerPoint/Excel and OneNote.

Other Updates:

✓ New "Cloning Event" button on the My Events page.

✓ Word Cloud: The Default number of times attendees can change responses is now 99.

✓ Public Chat and Q&A Output Links now display a Welcome Text.

✓ Corrected several Bugs when using DialogLoop™ Engage with Microsoft Web Viewer Add-in in PowerPoint:

    - Polls, Word Cloud, Questions, and Public Chat now appear every time.

    - Improved features in the Control Panel.

    - Change of DialogLoop™ Logo in the Polls Output Links.

✓ Added Wait-Notification-Spinners across the App.

November 2021

Added 8 languages to the Word Cloud Profanity Filter: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese.

✓ New Advanced Word Cloud Engine:

    - Allow participants to change their answers several times.

    - Recognizes single words (separated by comma) vs dual words and phrases.

    - Recognizes input done on several lines.

    - Supports Emoji input, multi-lingual text with accents, and logograms (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and more).

    - Set words number limit and max number of characters per answer.

    - Automatic, dynamic, and multi-lingual Profanity Filter:

             - Pick one or several languages to filter.

             - Profanity Filters are now available in English, French, German and Spanish.

             - Dual-mode filter: Remove profanity or replace it with a custom character.

             - Each Word Cloud can have its filtering setting.

    - Custom Appearance: Background, Colors, Words axis, Font Style.

    - The output link shows a Control Board, the number of participants/answers received.

    - New Optional Output layout to show Session URL.

    - Timer
✓ Multiple User Interface improvements

✓ Public Chat/Q&A: corrected a bug in the Settings page, disturbing changes validation.

October 2021

✓ Events list user interface simplification

✓ Polls:

    - New Selector user interface

    - Polls settings: New simpler user interface and new options

September 2021

✓ Attendees' Welcome Page can be hidden dynamically.

✓ Available Activities are now clickable on the Welcome Page.

✓ A link to the session's QR-Code can now be copied and inserted into PowerPoint Web viewer Add-in or any web software.

✓ User Interface now in Italian.

✓ Integration into PowerPoint using Microsoft's Web Viewer Add-in (available in the Microsoft  Add-In Store): Insert Polls/Word Cloud/ Chat Window links into a PowerPoint Slide to avoid the switch to the DialogLoop Engage Window!

✓ Added a Dynamic Control Board on Polls Charts to operate DialogLoop Polls directly from PowerPoint!

✓ Bug Corrections and App optimization.

August 2021

✓ Supports 10 Languages: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Japanese, German, Malaysian, Portuguese, Spanish.

June 2021

✓ Poll Engine improvements:

    - Four Chart types are now available: Pie Chart, Doughnut, Horizontal/Vertical Barres

    - Simplification of the User Interface for Polls Creation

    - Improvement of the Poll User Interface structure and intuitiveness

    - Correction of User Interface bugs

✓ New Emojize features (see below)

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June 2023

✓ New Features:

    - Add a new question type: WebSurvey

    - Possibility to transform a single-question poll into a multi-question survey/quiz

    - Polls Title is now auto-generated if not specified by the owner. 

    - NPS and Likert Polls now have a Chart visualization.

    - Add several preset fields to the Form question type.

Bugs correction:

    - Ease the drag and drop/Sorting of questions in the Quiz and Survey windows

    - Charts now accept multi-lines labels.

May 2023

✓ New PowerPoint Features:

    - DialogLoop's console in PowerPoint now has new icons/features: Question Preview, Quiz correct answer reveal.

    - The Quiz feature now allows the Presenter to store an explanation for the Correct and Wrong answers.

✓ New "Embed Code for Website" option :

    - Independant URL: All polls and quizzes can now be shown in a dedicated URL, without a Header and a Menu.

    - Website Integration: All polls and quizzes can now be embedded into a website using an HTML code to integrate into an iFrame.

    - Includes the option to allocate Points to answers.

Bugs correction:

    - Themes can now show a full image as a background.
    - Theme's color handling improved

April 2023

✓ Quiz icon now offers Multi-questions as standard.

Bugs correction:

    - Drag and drop answers.
    - Improve correct answers management.

✓ Insert Video links in the Welcome page.

✓ Auto-insert Poll's name if empty.

March 2023

✓ New User Interface look and feel.

✓ New Attendees Pane:

    - See all attendees as they log in.

    - Delete all attendees if needed.

✓ Optimization of the Attendees' counting method.
✓ Visualisation in the PowerPoint Add-In:

    - New Output: Attendees connected to the session can be visualized inside a Slide.

    - Arrows added to the console to ease the Slides switch.

✓ Bug Corrections:

    - Event's Page: The header image can now be changed and saved.

    - The setting of the Randomized Answers feature is now marked accurately.

    - Deleting polls responses updates the Visualisation within the PowerPoint Slide.

    - Simplification of the first-time login process

    - Simplification of the Event's creation/cloning process

    - Improved User Interface Translation

July 2022

✓ Bug correction in Polls/Word Cloud/Survey's output now displays long questions fully.

✓ Surveys can now display questions one after another, or all at once.

May 2022

✓ Bug correction in Polls: When the text of the answers is too long to be displayed on the Chart, they can be automatically replaced by A/B/C/... or a/b/c/... or 1/2/3/....

April 2022

✓ Event's Welcome Page:

  - The Event name field has been removed to save space and offer more design flexibility.

  - The Event's name can be changed on the Events list page.

  - The Header and Left images are now updated automatically to the Attendee page.

✓ Poll/Quiz/Word Cloud/Survey:

  - User Interface: New Lighter design.
  - Improved charts: Response images are now larger.

✓ Simplified Settings Page.

✓ New Design Feature:

  - Add a background image to all Poll, question type, and Word Cloud charts.

  - The background gets updated LIVE in the output link even if the Poll has started.

✓ Bug correction: Reloading the page brings you back directly to the Pane you used to view.

✓ Cosmetic changes.

March 2022

✓ New Poll type: Open Ended question.

✓ New Survey feature (Beta version).

✓ Cosmetic Changes.

February 2022

✓ New "Cloning Event" button on the My Events page.

✓ Word Cloud: The Default number of times attendees can change responses is now 99.

✓ Public Chat and Q&A Output Links now display a Welcome Text.

✓ Corrected several Bugs when using DialogLoop™ Engage with Microsoft Web Viewer Add-in in PowerPoint:

    - Polls, Word Cloud, Questions, and Public Chat now appear every time.

    - Improved features in the Control Panel.

    - Change of DialogLoop™ Logo in the Polls Output Links.

✓ Added Wait-Notification-Spinners across the App.

November 2021

Added 8 languages to the Word Cloud Profanity Filter: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese.

✓ Emojize: Solved a compatibility bug with Apple Safari on MacOS, and Microsoft Web Viewer Add-In for PowerPoint on Mac.

✓ New Advanced Word Cloud Engine:

    - Allow participants to change their answers several times.

    - Recognizes single words (separated by comma) vs dual words and phrases.

    - Recognizes input done on several lines.

    - Supports Emoji input, multi-lingual text with accents, and logograms (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and more).

    - Set words number limit and max number of characters per answer.

    - Automatic, dynamic, and multi-lingual Profanity Filter:

             - Pick one or several languages to filter.

             - Profanity Filters in English, French, German, and Spanish.

             - Dual-mode filter: Remove profanity or replace it with a custom character.

             - Each Word Cloud can have its filtering setting.

    - Custom Appearance: Background, Colors, Words axis, Font Style.

    - The output link shows the number of participants/answers received.

    - New Optional Output layout to show Session URL.

    - Timer
✓ Multiple User Interface improvements

✓ Public Chat/Q&A: corrected a bug in the Settings page, disturbing changes validation.

October 2021

✓ Events list user interface simplification

✓ Polls:

    - New Selector user interface

    - Polls settings: New simpler user interface and new options

September 2021

✓ Attendee Welcome Page can be hidden dynamically

✓ Available Activities are now clickable on the Welcome Page

✓ A link to the session's QR-Code can now be copied and inserted into streaming software (OBS Studio, vMix, Twitch Studio...).

✓ User Interface now in Italian

August 2021

✓ Supports 10 Languages: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Japanese, German, Malaysian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

June 2021

✓ Poll Engine improvements:

    - Four Chart types are now available: Pie Chart, Doughnut, Horizontal/Vertical Barres

    - Simplification of the User Interface for Polls Creation

    - Improvement of the Poll User Interface structure and intuitiveness

    - Correction of User Interface bugs

✓ New Emojize features

    - Now comes with a choice of seven customizable Emoji fountains

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DialogLoop Emojize

April 2022

✓ Event's Welcome Page:

  - The Event name field has been removed to save space and offer more design flexibility.

  - The Event's name can be changed on the Events list page.

  - The Header and Left images are now updated automatically to the Attendee page.

✓ Simplified Settings Page.

✓ Bug correction: Reloading the page brings you back directly to the Pane you used to view.

February 2022

✓ New "Cloning Event" button on the My Events page.

✓ Corrected several Bugs when using DialogLoop™ Engage with Microsoft Web Viewer Add-in in PowerPoint:

    - Flying Emoji now appear every time.

    - Improved features in the Control Panel.

    - Change of DialogLoop™ Logo in the Polls Output Links.

✓ Added Wait-Notification-Spinners across the App.

November 2021

✓ Solved a compatibility bug with Apple Safari on MacOS, and Microsoft Web Viewer Add-In for PowerPoint.

October 2021

✓ Events list user interface simplification

September 2021

✓ Attendee Welcome Page can be hidden dynamically.

✓ Available Activities are now clickable on the Welcome Page.

✓ A link to the session's QR-Code can now be copied and inserted into PowerPoint Web viewer Add-in or a video streaming software (OBS Studio, vMix, Twitch Studio...).

✓ User Interface now in Italian.

August 2021

✓ Supports 10 Languages: Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Japanese, German, Malaysian, Portuguese, Spanish.

June 2021

✓ Now comes with a choice of seven customizable Emoji fountains

Emojize - What's New
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DialogLoop PowerShare

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Which DialogLoop PowerShare version do I use?

✓ Latest Add-in Version: 1.0.1.111

✓ Version number available in the PowerPoint Add-in > DialogLoop Ribbon > How to DialogLoop icon > About DialogLoop™...

✓ When released, a "New Version Available" icon appears at the right of the DialogLoop Ribbon.

Add-in Updates require to be downloaded and installed.

✓ However, server-related updates are automatically done.

February 2022 - v1.0.1.111

IMPORTANT UPDATE for every user to continue to access DialogLoop Server after March 1st, 2022.
Updated Expiry, Security Key, and Installer certificates.

November 2021 Update

Misc server, performance and survey technology improvements and optimization.

April 2021 Update

Bug Fix:

  • Reset of the Anonymous Login

✓ Server Performance improvements

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March 2021 Updates

✓ Release Add-In version 1.0.1.108

 

✓ New Features:

  • Improvement to Star Rating

  • New Reporting Feature, and Export to Excel

  • Support for Likert Scale

  • Improved support for Anonymous Users as attendees

 

Bug Fix:

  • Survey Stopping when Start On Slide Enter and going backward

  • Reconnect Status UI automatically disappears when completed

  • New User Setup was moving too quickly through Account Summary.

  • 'Contact Support' now launches email program

July 2020 Updates

✓ Release Add-In version 1.0.1.89

 

✓ New Features:

  • Dynamic User Interface: icons appear/disappear when you need them.

  • 'How to DialogLoop' content.

  • Auto Poll: Auto-recognition of text to create a poll.

  • Quick Poll: Quick access to the single poll creation window.

✓ New Polling Features:

  • New user interface: more space for questions and cosmetic changes.

  • Rich question formatting: font type, text size, bold, italic...

  • Add photos, links, videos to the question.

  • Add a prefix (A/a/1) to answers automatically.

  • Define a maximum number of answers for Multi-choice questions.

  • Tiles view for answers (appearing on the web app).

✓ New Web App Networking Features:

  • 'Green Dot' presence notification.

  • New Extended Profile form.

 

✓ New Live Q&A and Discussions Features:

  • New icons in the ribbon: Moderator, Question list and Delete Questions.

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Earlier Updates

Feb 2020 - v. 1.0.1.72

  • IMPORTANT BUG FIX - Real-time survey results were broken.

  • IMPORTANT Bug fixes for Live Surveys - Real-time results were broken

  • Real-time survey results were not populating on the Slide.

Jan 2020 - v. 1.0.1.70

  • (Iteration #2) Important change to the expiry of the Add-in. Minor bug fixes.

  • Minor usability adjustments to the Addin Toolbar.

  • Support for Servers and Data Storage in Canada

  • Bug fixes for Live Surveys

  • Minor improvements and bug fixes to DialogLoop Survey Technology.

 

Nov 2019 - v. 1.0.1.67

  • *NEW* One-Time single presentation event

  • *NEW* Question types for your Surveys and Polls

  • Support for Single Answer, Multiple Answers, Word Cloud, Rating, Yes/No, Rank/Sort, Free Form, Custom Form

  • Improvements to the New user setup, My account management, Localized languages

✓ Oct 2019 - v. 1.0.1.61

  • Reorganizes the columns available for the Export Survey Data feature.

 

Sept 2019 - v. 1.0.1.60

  • Usability and stability improvements

    • Session Setup - all changes are applied by clicking the 'Apply and Close' button

    • Session Reports are now available in the Manage Events user interface

    • Presenter profile image upload management.

    • Logged-in users can now update their profile information including linking to Social Media Networks within the 'My Account' user interface.

    • Multiple Bug Fixes to improve the stability of the Add-in, including DRM settings not applied when updated before start sharing of presentation

    • Localized strings were updated (all supported languages)

July 2019 - v. 1.0.1.56

  • Potential bug fix for changes in latest Office Updates where UI does not appear sometimes.

  • Pricing changes.

  • Other Bug fixes

May 2019 - v. 1.0.1.52

  • Support for setting access codes for events.

  • Improvement to Reconnection options.

  • EU languages/Localization update.

  • Bug fixes

March 2019 - v. 1.0.1.46

  • Support for High-Resolution Screens.

  • Minor productivity enhancements.

  • Multiple Bug fixes

Jan 2019 - v. 1.0.1.36

  • Word Cloud for Survey Open Text question

  • Moderation integration

  • Export survey data to Excel

Oct 2018 - v. 1.0.1.33

  • Minor bug fixes.

28 Sept 2018 - v. 1.0.1.24

  • Minor bug fixes.

01 Sept 2018 - v. 1.0.1.19

  • New User Setup/Onboarding changes.

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