We are proud to announce several major milestones features in this mega Harmony release... . Harmony XI. It's primarily focused on dramatically improving the user experience of the Harmony admin console for teachers, program organizers and National Admins, and putting more power in their hands. We hope you love it!
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Home Dashboard for Teachers / Organizers
The home dashboard provides you with a central location to view key course/event info and perform the most common actions without requiring a single click:
1 - A snapshot of today’s programs with registration counts, with and links to check-in event participants
2 - Quick links to frequently used features such as ‘New Course’ and ‘New Event’
3 - Details of your upcoming and past courses and events4 - Quick link to 'New Course' and 'New Event'with registration and revenue stats
Universal Search
With universal search, you can find any Harmony related information instantly from any admin console page!
You can quickly and easily There is now an easy way to look up your courses, events or participants without having to navigate to go a specific page in Harmony, using the quick universal search available on the header of every page. It includes an auto suggest search results dropdown feature for maximum convenience. Several course, event and participant related actions, such as 'View / Transfer / Refund participants' can be performed in significantly fewer steps.
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The new Harmony skin design offers a collapsible vertical navigation menu and a compact header, presenting a clean and sleek look, yet offering . It offers more features and more screen space than before, while making navigation easier and more intuitive.
New Course / Event Wizard
The new wizard flow on the New Course and New Event pages breaks the lengthy process into manageable chunks. Additionally, the fields on the page have been more logically organized making the entire announcement process easier for teachers and organizers.
One-click Participant Check-in
Avoid having to manually keep a track of who attended and who did not attend your event. Use the new check-in page to check-in your attendees. The attendee list can be filtered easily by entering the attendee’s name, email or phone, and can be checked in using a single click. You can also add notes related to that particular participant. This page also allows you to add new on-the-spot attendees who show up at the event without having registered online.
Streamlined Page Design
The improved color scheme and fonts will make you want to stay logged into Harmony all day long!
Also, we have made various user experience optimizations for certain Harmony pages Our user experience experts have made the Harmony pages more visually attractive and new enhancements have been done on these pages, such as:
Login Page
On the 'Login page' and the 'Forgot password' we now have the country drop down and the language drop.
Courses & Events Listing Page
On the 'Find Courses' and 'Find Events' page we now have fewer columns avoiding the bottom horizontal scroll. Teachers and admins can still view all columns by clicking ‘Show all columns’. The 'Actions' menu gives you links to take relevant actions on the page.
The course and event strip displays quick yet relevant information regarding the particular course they are viewing. This strip is available on all pages related to a particular course or event.
Participants Listing Page
On the view participants page you can click on the three dots on the page header for course related actions. In addition to that, filtering criteria are available in a side menu, allowing the user to search for a particular participant or a set of participants that meet one or more search parameters.
New Course / Event Wizard
Announcing new courses and events just got quicker and easier! The new wizard flow on the ‘New Course’ and ‘New Event’ pages breaks the lengthy process into manageable chunks. Additionally, the fields on the page have been more logically organized making the entire announcement process easier for teachers and organizers.
One-click Participant Check-in
Managing intro talk attendees is now something to look forward to!
Avoid having to manually keep a track of who attended and who did not attend your event. Use the new check-in page to check-in your attendees. The attendee list can be filtered easily by entering the attendee’s name, email or phone, and can be checked in using a single click. You can also add notes related to that particular participant. This page also allows you to add new on-the-spot attendees who show up at the event without having registered online.
Registration for Recurring Events
Did you ever want to accept online registrations for recurring intro talks or satsangs, but ended up wasting time struggling to keep track of registrations offline? Now no more headaches!
Online Unlike earlier, online registration/RSVP is now available for free recurring events which saves program organizers the effort and pain of managing registrations offline and also have participants’ data in Harmony itself, so you can track all your registrations online from one place within Harmony.
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Quick RSVP for Events
Registering for free events is now smooth as butter!
We have now eliminated a step in the registration/RSVP process for free events (both one-time and recurring). Earlier, on clicking the registration button on the website, users were taken to a separate page to complete the registration which took time to load. Now, a pop up opens up instantaneously on the same page which allows the user to register/RSVP easily and quicklyimmediately. This feature is available for both , one-time and recurring events.
Smart Search on Website
We have now made it easy for the users to search any course in any location - all they need to do is to add the required course type or the location in the smart search bar. The search bar will auto-populate relevant suggestions for courses and the location.
Payment Success Optimization
Optimization done in the repayment flow will result in increased registrations and revenue.
Now the participants can repay without having to go In the case of a failed payment attempt by a participant, in order to re-attempt the payment, he/she would face an awkward user experience, having to manually navigate back to the start of registration form making the payment process friction-less., significantly decreasing the chance that they would actually attempt to do so.
Optimizations have been made in the re-payment flow, making it much easier and friction-less. This in turn will result in increased registrations and revenue. Intuitive redirection messages will be displayed to participants as they navigate through the screens in the registration process. When a transaction doesn’t go through, participants will Participants will also be emailed a re-payment link, giving as an additional way to give them a gentle nudge to re-attempt payment.
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Service Translations
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Tired of emailing back and forth spreadsheets of translation strings to the Art of Living Digital team? Frustrated finding some words’ translations not appearing in Harmony? No more frustration and time wasting!
Take control with the Launching a new self-service translation screen that will allow the country admin enables National Admins to instantly add / update translations in just a few seconds. Simply search for any string on the translation screen and add add / update with the relevant translation.
Expense Receipt Image Upload
Harmony now helps you go green! Course Course and event management can now go completely paperless!
The scanned receipts of course/event expenses incurred by the teachers / program organizers can now be uploaded in Harmony while filling out the CAF. This will make the CAF process quicker and easier, both for teachers / organizers and for Finance Admins, who can now manage the entire process online from within Harmony. No need any more more need to deal with bits of paper floating around, and no more need to send course paperwork and receipts by snail mail and deal with bits and pieces of paper!to the national finance office.
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Fees for National Admins
As a National Admin, did you ever get frustrated because you wanted to update the fees for an active course by yourself, but had to contact the Art of Living Digital team and wait for them to take care of it? No more waiting!
Now as a National Admin, you can take charge and immediately Earlier National Admins could only edit the default course fees under System Settings. Now, they can also edit fees for existing courses themselvesdirectly from the ‘Edit course’ page, without having to depend on the Art of Living Digital team.