Upcoming Features

What's Next

Make it Easy

• Setup & Configuration Overhaul

  Streamline the way that sites are configured so that there isn't as much of a first time setup learning curve and time cost

  Related Features:

  • Setting / Configuration Search
  • Setup Wizard
  • Setting UI Enhancements
  • Hiding of settings that don't apply for the features you have enabled

Email

• Email Tracking - stats on number of emails delivered, and if an email has been opened.
• Email Preview - bulk email future preview every email that will be sent out
• Create custom email templates for all the emails that get sent out from your contest
• Send Emails from a custom address

Other Misc

• Custom Report Builder

  Create custom reports tailored to your needs and pull from any datapoint stored by zFairs

• Import Schools on Import Data page
• Import Teachers on Import Data page

• Automated Testing

  Create automated tests to run with each build so that any issues not caught in dev have another net to catch them before they impact events

• Improve Load Times
• Testing App

  Creating the ability to run Quizzes, Tests and Surveys using the zFairs platform

• Full Restore of Deleted Users
• Tag Feature Enhancements

  Custom Colors and added capabilities related to the current Tag Feature

  Related Features:

• Student/Participant Approval

  Students/Participants would be excluded from Judging and Showcase if they have not been approved by Staff / Admin user

• Results Reviewer Auto Assign Scores
• Retire all Old Online Judging UI and options

• This includes making all features of Old Online Judging available in the new setup

• Auto Renew & Invoicing
• Reminders for Appointments / Meeting Times
• Overall UI Update

  Goal with this is to streamline and update the look and feel of the sites but will also likely come with additional capabilities to customize your sites

• Video Interview Tests that Participants and Judges can use to verify on their own if they can successfully connect
• COPPA Gate

  Require participants under the age of 13 to include a parent's email and all correspondence to that participant will be copied to the parent's email

Completed

Showcase

• Showcase Overhaul

  Update the showcase to make it more flexible and improve the UI and visuals

Rework Registration, Profile & Search Pages

• The goal is to update the software behind these pieces of zFairs so that they can be visually cleaner, more flexible in their use cases and intuitive for Admins and Participants.

  Related features include:

  • Merging the My Students page into the people page and making the people page reactive / tailored to the user viewing it and their particular permissions

• User Registration and User Profile Overhaul

  Update the technologies used for User Registration and User Profiles to make it more flexible and refresh the look and feel

Tags

• • Bulk Assign Tags