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The following new Discussions features were implemented in December 2024.
New Features
Moderators can now upload and share visual stimuli (images and PDFs) directly within live sessions, enhancing participant engagement. Stimuli can be previewed, renamed, and presented to participants on-demand, with multi-page PDFs supporting moderator-controlled page flipping.
Introduced a new video management tab, which consolidates session recordings and clips across projects, offering easier access and organization. Users can sort, filter, mark favorites, and switch between list and tile views, as well as download files or open recordings directly from the details pane.
Moderators can now easily copy and paste the Observer Quick Link during a live session, allowing for quick addition of last-minute Observers without leaving the session.
Discussions now supports a multilingual interface, including participant enrollment, session selection, and the live session interface, automatically adjusting based on the user’s browser language. Supported languages include French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and more.
Participant emails now support multiple languages, which can be selected using the Session Language dropdown when creating or editing a session.
Discussions now allows participants registered in a project to join recurring sessions. Participants can only be assigned to subsequent sessions once the previous session has concluded or its scheduled time has passed.
Forsta Plus now allows survey respondents to select and enroll in Discussions sessions directly from within a survey, choosing from predefined session times or Open Sessions during their survey completion.