Release has been successfully smoke tested

Engineer is smoke testing deployment

Engineering team have begun the release

September 23th 2025
The EQUAL Dev team are planning a release on the 23rd September at 12pm.

If you've got any questions about the items in the release, please feel free to ask. Please feel free to share with any customers so they're aware of the upcoming changes.

New Features
EQUAL Sigma Sandbox
Now that Sigma has launched we are working on improvements to the quality of feedback produced. In this release we begin to launch our sandbox for testing. This will allow for trialling both new prompts and different LLM models to compare produced feedback. In this initial launch we have added the functionality to view and filter through completed submissions.

Accessibility Audit Fixes
We've began our work on the feedback provided from an external accessibility audit. Through this we aim to make EQUAL more accessible for learners who access our content through various accessibility tools and methods. In this release we've added some alternative tags to images, updated notifications to show for longer and updated some of the content authoring tools highlighted to be easier accessed using keyboard only. This process will be ongoing for the next few releases with functionality being updated all over the learner experience.