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Changelog

Currently on version 1.11.0

1.11.0

  • Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or Loom link into a reading and the video plays right there on the page, sized to fit the lesson around it.
  • Workspace admins can open any course their team has made and start editing immediately, with no invite to wait on.
  • Slack threads read like a conversation between people — your teammates appear by name wherever they reply.

1.10.0

  • Bring your own tools. Point Honen at a service and it works out the sign-in details itself, on the first try.
  • Once a tool is connected it stays connected, for as long as the service allows.
  • Connections work from your own domain, so teams on a custom Honen address get the same one-click setup.
  • A security review of the entire connection handoff. The keys to your tools stay yours.

1.9.0

  • Audience targeting for Explore. Curate a different front page for each group, so every audience lands on the paths meant for them.
  • A clearer path to a plan: set your exact seat count, see the cost broken down before you commit, and compare plans side by side.
  • Calendar and booking embeds size themselves to their content, so every date stays in view.
  • Your own branded Slack bot keeps its own starter prompts.

1.8.0

  • Sharing controls on every course. You decide exactly how far each one travels — private, your workspace, or anyone with the link.
  • Someone who needs a course they can't see asks for it in one click, and owners approve or decline from the share panel.
  • New positioning across honen.com: teaching and learning infrastructure for anyone.

1.7.0

Enterprise sign-in and LMS delivery

  • Single sign-on. Your people reach their workspace with the company login they already have.
  • Courses launched from your LMS carry their interactive pieces through, and a learner who opens several SCORM packages is recognized as one person, so their record stays whole.
  • AI assistants working from your Knowledge Base see the diagrams and screenshots in a document, not only its words.
  • Test analytics hold up after you edit a test — every past attempt is graded against the version that learner actually took.

1.6.0

Full Sandbox projects

  • Real coding assignments that run in the browser. Hand learners a starter project with folders and files, choose how much computing power they get, and stack up the checks that grade their work as they go.
  • See the learner's view of a course from inside the editor, without leaving to preview it.
  • Sites can live on your own domain, take on your brand's colors, and be renamed any time.
  • The Knowledge Base shows exactly what changed between two versions of a document.

1.5.0

  • The Knowledge Base runs on storage that keeps every document versioned and consistent, so your material is always there and always current.
  • Google Drive sync goes all the way down. Nested folders, PDFs, Office files, images, and Google Docs all arrive as searchable documents, a long import resumes where it paused, and each file appears the moment it finishes.
  • Knowledge Base search reaches every corner of a library, however large the collection grows.
  • Each workspace shows its own courses, so moving between clients or departments gives you a clean dashboard every time.

1.4.0

  • Free team workspaces. Bring colleagues in, build something together, and see it working before you spend anything. Coupon codes work at checkout.
  • Choose exactly how many seats your team needs during checkout, and see the total before you pay.
  • Drop screenshots straight into the explainer video editor, and every video takes on your course's branding automatically.
  • New courses open as soon as they're ready to teach, and anything still building finishes in the background, retrying on its own if it needs to.

1.3.0

Explainer videos and house style

  • Explainer videos. A narrated whiteboard walkthrough of any topic, generated for you, with the transcript beside the player.
  • Rules and Skills for your workspace. Write down how your organization teaches once, and every course and assistant works to it.
  • Average scores read from whatever a course actually grades on — tests, projects, or quizzes — so every course reports a real number.
  • Sort and filter any analytics table from a dropdown on the card.

1.2.0

  • Build a curriculum by talking to the assistant. Create it, add or drop courses, reorder them, set the passing grade, attach a certificate.
  • Reporting exports, learner profiles, and Knowledge Base search all reachable from the assistant, so you ask for the picture instead of assembling it.
  • Learners see what's left on an assignment as an itemized checklist, with a Resume button that drops them back where they stopped.
  • Clone a course to start your next one from something that already works.

1.1.0

  • Record a walkthrough of any product or workflow and Honen turns it into a click-through lesson, with the hotspots measured and placed for you.
  • Projects tailor themselves to each learner attempt by attempt — carry over the version someone had last time, or start them fresh.
  • Live preview for apps built in Honen surfaces errors as they happen, and sends one to the agent to fix in a click.

1.0.0

Honen opens to everyone

  • Start a team workspace yourself. Invite your people, pick a plan, and pay for it without a sales call in the way.
  • View as — see the platform exactly the way one of your learners will, before they do.
  • Run your workspace on your own domain, and members land there automatically when they sign in.
  • Every test attempt is kept, so you can read a learner's answers question by question, attempt by attempt.

0.9.0

Curricula, certificates, and SCORM

  • Curricula. Sequence courses into a program, set the rules for finishing it, and award a certificate from a template you design.
  • SCORM. Package a course and run it inside the LMS your organization already uses.
  • Send email campaigns to your learners from the dashboard, with filters and a preview before anything goes out.
  • The Knowledge Base gets its own place in the sidebar, with quicker browsing and search.

0.8.0

  • Accessible by design — keyboard paths, screen reader labels, skip links, and reduced-motion support across the product, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA.
  • Assignment emails follow the work. Change a due date and everyone assigned hears about it; pull new people in and they get the same welcome as the original group.
  • Link a whole course from your LMS, not just a single assignment.

0.7.0

The course creator

  • Describe what you want taught, approve the outline, and watch each lesson build with progress you can follow the whole way.
  • Interactive artifacts — hands-on pieces embedded inside readings, quizzes, and tests, with each learner's work saved as they go.
  • Workspace branding. Set your colors, logo, and style once, and every course you build starts from them.

0.6.0

  • A workspace assistant you can talk to, answering with real cards for courses, people, and assignments rather than walls of text.
  • Your workspace overview: alerts, courses, and training activity on one page, with the people roster in a home of its own.
  • Alerts that watch what you'd otherwise check by hand — assignments due soon or overdue, courses finishing, streaks slipping — delivered to an inbox in the top bar.