Updates and Release Changelog

• Heights Community Algorithm - Your community is now its own social network! The community algorithm ranks posts, member reputation, and member engagement to help your community grow. Learn more in our Knowledge Base.
• Community Post Digest Emails - Powered by the new community algorithm, Heights sends automatic digest emails to help ensure the right people see the right posts at the right time.

• Public Community Post Pages - What if all the valuable info you and your community members have been sharing in your free community could get you discovered in Google and ChatGPT? Now your public community channels will auto-generate public post pages to help bring more traffic to your free community.
• Share Option on Public Posts - You and your students can easily click the share button on a free community channel's post to share a link to the post's public page that anyone will be able to view without a Heights account.
• Automatic Affiliate Commissions - Pro and Academy plan customers have the option of disabling all "powered by Heights" branding in their account, but there is a new reason you might choose to leave it on - we now automatically make these links referral links for the Heights affiliate program, meaning if a new creator joins Heights from a link on one of your public landing pages, you'll earn recurring affiliate commission!
• Autocomplete Search Certificate Granting - Like we added to badges, you can now autocomplete results to grant a certificate to a specific student by typing in the first few characters in their name or email.
• Webhooks Integration - In addition to using automation tools like Zapier, we now provide an easy UI to connect Heights and send events to any application that supports webhooks. Find this in your integrations list page.
• Customize Business Details for Student Invoice Receipts - You can now add details like your business address, tax ids, company name, and additional information to not only appear on your student's receipt emails, but on their internal invoice receipt pages as well.

• Autocomplete Search Badge Granting - Autocomplete results to grant a custom badge to a specific student by typing in the first few characters in their name or email.
• All New Video Analytics - You can now view detailed analytics about your video's performance, such as watch time, views and a retention heatmap that shows you which part of your video your students find most engaging!

• Heights AI Chat - On wider screens Heights AI Chat will stay pinned to the right side of your screen without covering any of your interface. Additionally, it will keep its state between pages so you can leave it open and work easier.

• UI Update - More modern interface frame to fit other changes over the last quarter.
• Cart Abandonment Email Timing - Cart recovery emails are now sent 4 hours after a cart is abandoned, instead of 24 hours.
• Indonesian Language Support - The student experience is now available in Indonesian.

• HEIGHTS AI 2

• Heights AI 2 Launch - Our biggest AI update yet, bringing intelligent assistance to every part of your creator business:
• AI Web Page Generator - Heights AI can generates a web page to promote your offer, in seconds! Heights AI will automatically understand the details of your product to help create any type of web page you need. Optionally provide text you want included, describe your preferred style, and it will generate a web page complete with text and images that is linked up to your product's checkout page and ready to go.
• AI Editing in Web Page Builder - simply describe what you want to change or create, and Heights AI will make it happen! In addition to editing any section of a web page, you can use the AI Web Page theme builder to style the overall look of your page. Describe colors, fonts, and styles for your web page, and let Heights AI adjust for you.
• AI-Powered Community Tools - Heights AI suggests post ideas you can share in the community. AI community moderation to automatically block spam, offensive, and self-promotional content. AI generated weekly round-up community emails (beta) to send to your members.
• Heights AI Coach Evolution - Get how-to guidance on any task from Heights AI Coach. You can now create tasks yourself, add priority, and view completion stats. The coaching dashboard has also been redesigned with a focus on task management.
• Enhanced Heights AI Chat - Smart presets with the ability to understand the page you are viewing. Try asking "what can you tell me about this?" Get lesson ideas for new lessons, comprehensive product reviews, and improved conversation memory for better follow-up responses.
• AI Student Engagement Scoring - Automated scoring and weekly emails to creators about student performance above or below baseline and within creator's own account
• AI Email Campaign Assistant - Simply choose the type of email you want to create, and the product it is related to and Heights AI will generate email campaigns written in your language.
• Enhanced AI Product Generator - After creating your product with AI, you can now seamlessly continue to create a web page for it, letting Heights AI use its understanding of your product to build the perfect landing page.

• Web Page Revision History - You can now load and restore web pages from previous saved versions.
• New Creator Dashboard Navigation - Redesigned navigation with a recent links section to help you focus with more breathing room.
• Reports for Digital Products - Generate detailed reports for your digital products.
• Categories for Digital Products - You can now add digital products to your product categories so students can find them easier.
• Certificate Issue Reports - View all issued certificates for a specific certificate template.
• Student Dashboard - Students can now view digital products in the all products list on their dashboard.
• Mobile Creator Experience - More pages of the creator experience are now accessible via mobile, allowing you to adjust and analyze better on the go.

• Heights AI 2 - Heights AI 2 is on the way! Stay tuned for more details. We'll have fewer major updates this month as we focus on getting Heights AI 2 ready for launch.
• Workshop How to Turn Any Product Into A High Ticket Offer - Live workshop by Bryan Harris.

• Leaderboards - Display a leaderboard of your top 5 students on your member list page based on who has the highest number of points.
• Program Pricing Depreciated - Our bundle membership feature is a more powerful and flexible way of offering paid membership programs, so the original "Paid Program Enrollment" setting in Heights is being depreciated.

• Web Page Builder Theme Designer - Easily adjust the colors and fonts of any web page template in one place
• New Web Page Templates - Many web page templates have been added and updated. Our web page builder now offers 32 preset templates to choose from, and they are all included free.
• Web Page Builder Style Editing - We've separated the style editor for web page builder blocks to have a "Basic" and "Advanced" section. This way web designers and those who want to customize in greater detail still can, but the most common adjustments are now easy to find.
• Free Digital Products - You can now offer digital products for free to use as lead magnets
• Heights AI Chat Navigator - When you want to know how to access a feature in Heights, Heights AI Chat will automatically add a button to take you there at the end of its response.
• Workshop The Psychology of Goal-Setting: A Powerful Framework to (Actually) Achieve Your Goals - Live workshop from Corey Wilks.

• AI Product Generator - Replacing our AI Course Generator, this is more than a v2. The AI product generator can help you generate any type of product in Heights, generate multiple products at once, give tailored recommendations, and set up your offer pricing!
• AI Quiz Builder and Quizzes - You can now create multiple choice quizzes inside Heights lessons. Plus Heights AI can review your lesson text and video to generate quizzes for you automatically!
• Lesson Comments - Regular courses can now have lesson comments just like challenges do.
• Heights AI Chat - Further improvements to Heights AI Chat's knowledge.
• Purchase Conversion Custom Code - You can make any script trigger or create an integration with any other software for tracking purchase conversions that happen in Heights, with the new purchase conversion section of your custom code tab.
• Workshop Boosting Course Impact And Profit Through Brand Partnerships - Live workshop from Justin Moore.

• Creator Climb Deals - We've negotiated exclusive deals on the most popular creator tools for our community. Find them in the new "Deals" channel.
• Creator Climb Plans - Most companies only raise their prices. We've not only lowered pricing on courses and content in Creator Climb, but we've given Heights subscribers on the Basic plan and above free lifetime access to the Plus tier!
• Changelog - New recent updates changelog to keep up with what's new, and what you are likely looking at right now.
• Workshop 3-Step Podcast Guest Speaking Framework - Live workshop from Mischa Zvegintzov.

• Heights AI Chat - We've made updates to ensure Heights AI can provide answers for many more questions and updated its knowledge so it will be much more likely to be able to help you. Recent messages stay visible in Heights AI Chat even if you leave or refresh the page.
• PDF Lessons - Add a PDF viewer to any of your video lessons to upload a PDF that will be directly viewable inside your lesson.
• Heights AI Product Editing Prompt Starter Link - On course and challenge edit pages.
• Workshop How to Use Your Podcast to Drive Sales - Live workshop from Joe Casabona.

• New Creator Navigation Design - Collapsible and remembers state + collapses automatically on narrow screens. Shows collapsed version on lesson editor, blog editor, certificate editor, and user edit pages, making it easier to get back to other creator dashboard areas in one click.
• Bundle Membership Setting - By default, students receive only the products included at the time of purchase. You can now optionally auto-grant access to future products by choosing "Make Membership" on any of your bundles.
• Workshop How to wake up to sales every day with a Day #1 Evergreen funnel - Live workshop from Abi Prendergast.

• AI Lesson Review - Heights AI can now review your lesson content for you. It can watch the videos you upload on your lesson as well as read through the content in your lesson and take into account the context of your course as a whole in order to give you suggestions on how you might improve.
• AI Student Action Items - We found that it's really helpful to add an action item for your students inside your lessons and found that many creators wanted a way not only to do this easier, but to highlight those action items in a style different from the rest of their lesson text. Now Heights AI will generate action items based on the video and text content in your lesson and you can simply click to insert the items that you like in order to add them wherever you want in your lesson text. And of course you can edit and make changes to that content however you please.
• Lesson Performance Optimizations - Significant lesson load time improvements for certain courses.
• Workshop How to Create Course Graphics That Students Can't Ignore - Live workshop from Jacob Cass.

• New Student Dashboard - The new Student Dashboard is available to everyone with a new editing experience.
• Heights AI Analytics - Heights AI can now generate charts for orders, sign-ups, enrollments, completions on lessons, and views on lessons.
• Coupon Reports - See a chart of redemptions for each coupon as well as an exportable list of the students who redeemed a specific coupon.
• Workshop Get Your Online Business Legally Legit - Live workshop from Brittany Ratelle.

• Student Dashboards - A fresh and customizable home page experience for your students. Feature the areas and products important to you.
• New Student Profile Design - Profiles are not only more modern and clean, but they also have tabs linking to all student details in one place.
• New Account Settings Design - Adjust account settings in less clicks with a more organized layout.
• New Color Theme Presets - 19 new color theme presets for your program.
• Live Color Theme Preview - Preview color presets or custom color theme updates live without saving.

• Redesigned Checkout - Cleaner, clearer, and more modern + customizable checkout pages for increased conversion.
• Order Bumps - Add an order bump product to the checkout of any other product! Offer a one-click order bump process with customizable text/price for any product you sell.
• Cart Abandonment Emails - Automatic and included free with all plans. Track how much revenue Heights recovers for you on the Cart Recovery view. Customize your cart abandonment email template on your email notification templates page.
• Customizable Checkout - Every product can now have its own customized checkout page. Add custom text, custom refund policy, images, and testimonials for every product you sell. Optionally collect billing address or disable location field during student registration.
• Performance Improvements - For navigating large courses as a student.
• Course AI Elevate Course - Learn how to leverage AI + build your own AI team with the first ever course teaching you how to build custom GPTs.
• Workshop Creator Roundtable: How to Save Time & Increase Productivity as a Solopreneur - Live workshop from Bryan McAnulty.

• Navigation Improvements - Find all links for a product from the dropdown on the right side of any product page.
• Various UI Improvements - Creator Dashboard and many other areas received polish.
• My Orders Page - Students can now view their receipts on their own by going to the "My Orders" page from the top right dropdown menu.
• Workshop How To Generate 6-7 Figures Through Client-Getting, Virtual Events - Live workshop from Michael Tucker.

• Workshop How to Double Your Course Revenue in Under Two Months - Live workshop from John Ainsworth.

• HEIGHTS AI COACH

• Heights AI Coach - The first autonomous AI coach. Get weekly recommendations and tasks for your unique goals.

• Increased Active Student Limits - We've increased the active student limits for Basic and Pro plan customers to 5,000 and 10,000 respectively, and created a clearer definition of what an active student is.
• Events - We redesigned the old "announcements" feature to become "events". You can now post events that will be shown for all students in a banner on top of your "courses" main page in your account. You can add links, set deadlines, schedule the event, and now add an optional call to action button! More updates related to this feature will come soon!
• Community Reactions - Inside the community, you can now react to posts with emojis! Try it in Creator Climb, the community for all of Heights creators.
• Community Tags - You can now mention @everyone in the community to notify all of your members about your post. This feature is only available to the account owner and admins, and will send an email to everyone who has access to the community channel you mention in.
• Language Customization Settings - This was a highly-requested feature for a while, and it is now available! You can now change the wording used in your program to better match your brand. For example, if using the word "Course" doesn't fit your branding, you can change it to whatever word you prefer, like "Cohort", "Path", or "Masterclass". Customizations override the default language you have selected and are designed to replace wording only in areas that students see. You can find this at the bottom of your Account Settings once you click "Edit Account Settings".
• Continued Improvements to Heights AI Chat and Heights AI Coach - Thanks to your feedback!
• Workshop The 3 “Business Choreography” Secrets to Avoid Failure - Live workshop from Michael Johnson.

• Product Categories - Create categories for your products to allow students to filter and navigate through your content easier.
• Publish All - Hover over a course in the Climb Outline to see a "Publish All" button which will allow you to publish your entire course with all of its modules and lessons in one click.
• One-Click Student Payments with Link - Stripe Link is now automatically activated in your account to allow students to checkout in one click with saved payment methods in Link. Experience increased conversion rates with access to a network that has millions of saved payment methods and growing. https://stripe.com/payments/link
• Student Checkout - If an existing student tries to purchase another product from you when not logged-in, they will see a more clear error message guiding them to access their existing account to complete the checkout process.
• Heights AI - Trial accounts can now use Heights AI inside their account before upgrading.
• Workshop How to Leverage AI in Your Business - Live workshop from Bryan McAnulty.

• Heights AI Product Editor - You can now ask Heights AI Chat to edit your products and apply the changes inside your account automatically and instantly!
• New Web Page Templates - We have added three new templates for you in the Web Page Builder!
• Web Page Builder Updates - New UI updates and functionality inside the Web Page Builder, giving you more freedom to design your website. New section templates and a section style setting.
• Workshop How to market your course with irresistible clarity - Live workshop from Dr. Michael Gerharz.

• AI Suggested Queries - When you chat with the Heights AI, it will now show you suggestions of other questions or commands you could ask it!
• Workshop My Unusual Method to Writing a Book in 30 Days - Live workshop from Azul Terronez.

• Workshop Strategies to engage and grow a Facebook group to sell online courses - Live workshop from Jono Petrohilos.

• HEIGHTS AI

• Heights AI Chat - Your AI creation assistant. Get instant answers about how to use Heights, how to market your courses, and more!
• Heights AI Product Generator - Generate a complete course draft from only a title! Get recommendations on your idea, a curriculum outline, course description, and Heights AI will even select a relevant cover image photo to kickstart your creation process.
• Workshop The Insider Secrets to a $4 Billion Website SEO Strategy - Live workshop from Barb McGrath.

• Live Creator Workshops - New monthly live workshops from the top creators worldwide.
• Course Creator Climb - We launched Creator Climb: a learning hub that includes a community to connect with other course creators, training, courses, interviews and learning materials to help you build and grow your online knowledge business!

• Pay-What-You-Want Pricing Plans - Let your students decide how much they want to pay for your products!
• New Completion Certificate Designs - 2 new completion certificate designs.
• Language Localizations - Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Greek, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Romanian have improved localizations.

• ActiveCampaign Integration - Many of you have been asking for this integration, and now you can connect your ActiveCampaign account directly to Heights to create contacts and trigger automations!
• Integrations Page - We have added a page in your Heights account where you can easily see all the available integrations in one place, and activate them from there.
• ReCaptcha v3 Integration - While we already provide enterprise Cloudflare protection to all our creators for free, you can enable ReCaptcha to further secure the student signup forms on your site.
• Google Analytics v4 - We've updated the Google Analytics integration to use Google's latest tracking code features.
• Footer Copyright Info on Web Pages - You can now edit the footer text that is present on all of your web pages and product preview pages.

• Completion Certificate Designer - design and issue certificates to your students! Issue certificates either manually or automatically upon the completion of a specific course.
• Communities Redesign - Updated design for our discuss community feature. The navigation, posts, and other areas of the interface have a more modern and consistent style.
• Community Moderation - Each student now has a moderation profile view where you can adjust a student's overall moderation status.
• Free .academy Domain! - In partnership with Name.com, we're offering Pro plan customers and above a free .academy domain for 1 year ($37.99 value). Simply go to the custom domain area of your account settings to register, no credit card is required and the domain will automatically connect to Heights for you, so there's no setup needed!
• Email Campaigns - The email campaign feature is now out of early access and available for everyone!
• Link Sharing - Added copy landing and checkout links to course/bundle/digital product page dropdowns under the cover image. Previously the only way for creators to find and copy these links easily was via the Product List tab. The design of these dropdowns has also been cleaned up visually.
• Video Uploads - Increased Video upload limit to 2.5GB per video from 2GB. For most lessons, shorter videos work best, but for those cases where it makes sense to upload a longer video, you can now do so easier.
• Projects 2.0 - Upload resources on your project for your students to download. Up to 10 resources can be added to each project. Upload zip folders if you need to add more.
• Project Post Attachments - Students can upload attachments to posts
• Assignment Answer Attachments - Students can upload attachments to assignments
• Lesson Answers - Ability to view all answers for a specific lesson from the lesson page.
• Virus Scanning of Attachments - Any content uploaded by students is scanned for viruses upon upload to better protect creators and their students
• Email Notifications - Added a separate "subscription cancelation" email template to be sent to students who cancel a subscription in your program
• Creator Email Notifications - New notification emails for student answers and comments, and the ability to adjust email preferences for each email type when going to your "Edit Profile" page.
• Editing Improvements - Lessons can now be created directly inside modules in the climb outline and lesson editor. Modules can also be created from the lesson editor directly for an uninterrupted experience.
• Climb Outline - The collapse state of your courses and modules on the climb outline is now saved as you edit, making it much easier for creators with hundreds or thousands of lessons to navigate.
• Module URLs - Click to copy a link to a module in order to direct students to a specific module of your course.
• Creator Dashboard Menu Design - Available pages in a section of the creator dashboard are now shown on hover of the creator admin menu for easier and faster navigation.
• "Challenge" Pricing Plan - A new entry-level plan allowing creators to start using Heights for as low as $19/month (paid annually) and offering the ability to create a single challenge course.
• Podcast The Creator's Adventure - Our new interview show, live every Tuesday, where we interview creators around the world, hearing their stories about growing an online business. The Creator's Adventure
• Course T-30 Launch Course - Learn how to build and launch your course in 30 days.

FIXES:

• Fixed an issue where under certain conditions discussion post notification emails might be missing some of the links added to the post text.
• Fixes for some monochrome and extremely bright custom color theme options.
• Various localization improvements.
• Fixes and improvements for tracking purchase conversions with our Facebook ads integration.
• Student "Login" link under checkout button will ensure the student is taken back to the checkout process after logging in.
• Many other fixes and minor adjustments!

• Challenges - A whole new way to sell and share what you know. Create challenges with specific calendar launch dates, lesson content that expires after a set number of days, automated email sequences built-in to match each of your lesson releases, a comment feature on challenge lessons, and the ability to upsell courses, bundles, or digital products after a challenge is complete. (No other tool has a dedicated challenge feature like Heights, and many creators resort to using FB groups to run a challenge which means they struggle to get all of their audience to see their challenge content, and that if they want to re-run the challenge in the future it is a huge hassle to reupload and reschedule all the posts.) To make it easier to understand the benefits of challenges and how they work we have a couple of youtube videos: Overview of Challenges in Heights Why to use Heights instead of facebook to create an online challenge How to create an online challenge
• Bundles - Put any combination of courses, digital products, message boards, and projects into a bundle sold with any combination of one-time, installment plan, or subscription payment plans. This combined with the “hidden product” feature we released around the same time means that creators can build any number of offers, pricing tiers, or pricing packages for their courses and products.
• Student Affiliate Program - Complete, built-in affiliate program software allowing creators to have affiliates inside their program who can help to refer new students for a commission.
• Blog - Create your public blog with Heights to run your entire online presence from one place.
• Student Notifications - Editable email notification templates
• Email Marketing - Send Bulk Email Announcements and Email Campaigns to Students
• Custom Color Themes - Easily design your own custom color themes and adjust program fonts without code!
• Language Localization for 20 languages! Professionally translated and verified, not google translate

Additional Major Improvements:

• Course landing pages, landing page checkout, and many features related to selling individual courses
• Customizable Author Permissions - Plus the ability to purchase additional author seats for $11/month
• Sell Community Access - Ability for creators to sell and grant access to community discussion boards
• Upsell Improvements - Ability to add upsells to any course, challenge, bundle, digital product, or paid enrollment.
• Coupon Code Links - Dynamic coupon code URLs that auto-apply coupons and product restrictions that also allow our creators to be listed on the AppSumo marketplace.
• Private Notes - Ability for students to take "notes" on lessons
• Custom Badge Improvements - Automated granting of custom badges
• Course Sidebar - A redesigned course sidebar navigation
• Video Player Updates - the ability to add timestamp links inside your lessons to link to times in your video and more
• Video Tutorials - plus more content added to our comprehensive knowledge base of 100 help articles
• Speed and Security - Enterprise Cloudflare service for speed and security across our platform
• Many More Smaller Updates! - Hundreds of smaller usability and design improvements (we’ve had almost 1000 releases to our production code in 2020)

• Zapier Updates - Creators can now grant access to a course that is sold separately via Zapier. This allows for selling of individual courses via Zapier!
• Individual Course Preview Landing Pages - You can now check off "Enable Public Preview Page" in your course edit view to make a separate course page available as a landing page for public visitors. If you have the course cards section of your landing page enabled, clicking on the course card will link to your public course preview page.
• Custom Code - Advanced users can now add custom scripts and styles both to their landing page and their program itself. This will allow you to add a custom live chat to your landing page, add custom CSS to your program, or add other custom analytics integrations. (Developers, this means you can create completely custom landing page styles and program themes!)
• Testimonial Images - Images can now be added to your testimonials! These will appear on your landing page and enrollment checkout page.

• Lesson Multimedia Embedding - Easily embed any custom HTML content to your lessons. Add a live stream, forms and quizzes, interactive content, or custom HTML/CSS.
• Color Themes - Multiple new color themes to make Heights better match your brand.

• Digital Products - Sell access to download products, coaching services, events, and more as add-ons to your courses.
• Upsells - Offer students a course or digital product as an upsell at a special price.
• Unsplash Integration - Search and add free images from Unsplash to your courses and lessons.

• Landing Pages - Customize a public landing page for your program.

• Zapier Integration Updates - Easily connect Heights Platform to thousands of applications. Improvements to our available triggers and actions.

• Heights Platform Launches to the Public - The first creator platform to combine online courses with community and gamification. Heights Platform's focus on improving how your students learn sets it apart.