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2025 Guroo Academy Roadmap

Here's a preview of some of what's coming to Guroo Academy in 2025 to help you deliver better learning and scale your learning operations. 

Guroo Academy empowers educators to create, sell, and deliver impactful short courses and microcredentials. Our focus for 2025 is to continue to enhance the learning and user experience while bring you even more powerful comms, marketing and finance tools. 

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Learning & Operations

Learning & Operations

Learning has always been at the core of Guroo Academy and in 2025 we take that even further with the addition of a brand new gradebook to work hand in hand with our recently released assessment and quiz activities. This year we will also be releasing improvements to the the in-person and live online program experience and adding a new masterclass experience and resource library. 

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Assessment
&
Gradebook

  • Launched new assessment & quiz activity late 2024 

  • Updated Gradebook feature that supports competency based outcomes and tradition grades

In Person
& Live Online

  • New Facilitator experience

  • Improved calendar layout for in
    person classes 

  • Hybrid sessions 

  • Teams, Miro Integration

  • In class polls & quizzes

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Resource Library
& Shared Resources

  • New cross platform resource library filterable by category and user groups. 

  • Shared resources for authors across programs.

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Masterclasses

  • New dedicated masterclass experience 

  • Masterclass event catalogue 

  • Masterclasses as lead magnets with follow up EDMs






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Evaluation Surveys

  • New customisable and cross program evaluation surveys

  • Survey reports and dashboards 

User Experience

First up in 2025, we will be releasing a brand new navigation experience for Guroo Academy with a new main navigation side menu, consolidated course menu and new facilitator view. Improvements to the authoring experience and new AI tools will make building courses faster than ever.

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Navigation

  • Updated and consolidated program/course menu  

  • New left hand floating main menu 
    








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Authoring
Improvements

  • Shared learning library activities 

  • New Program Settings and course setup wizard 

  • More flexible permissions to enable distributed editing 

  • LTI integration for inclusion of Learning Tools in learning eg H5P









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Embedded AI
Writing Tools    

  • AI content creating assistant 

  • Rephrasing assistance

  • Tone and style adjustment

  • Automated text generation

  • User-friendly interface for editing
    and refining

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New Class List &
Progress Report

  • New rebuilt Class List 

  • Updated Progress Dashboard
    









Comms & Marketing

Helping people select and enrol in the right courses is key to the success of any short course business or corporate upskilling academy, so in 2025 we will be releasing our new AI Learning Advisor to support individuals, managers and organisations identify the right courses for their capability needs. We will add marketing emails and enhanced landing pages to help drive enrolments in your courses. 

AI Learning

Advisor

  • AI Course Advice

  • AI Chatbot for Learners, Managers and Organisations 

  • AI Sales Assistant 

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Improved
Email

  • Updated email editor 

  • Email list unsubscribing 

  • New marketing emails for support enrolments

  • Program Comms Plan 

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New Support 
& Enquiries Inbox      

  • Customisable support inboxes 

  • Manage sales enquiries 

  • Distribute support to course owners  

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Enhanced 

Landing Pages       

  • Modern, refreshed layout with theme options to match your brand

  • New 'Course Benefits' section, including the option to add brand graphics

  • Designated ‘Course Overview’ section to highlight key course content

  • Dedicated prominent area for 'Who Should Attend'

  • Enhanced 'What You Will Learn' section to support a more detailed course description and insights

Sales & Finance

Managing course sales and finance can be a large overhead for any short courses business, that's why this year we will be releasing self-service finance so your customers can manage their own transfers, refunds and substitutions, all within your terms and conditions of sale. These features combined with our new dedicated sales area mean your team can spend less time on admin and more time serving your customers. 

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Dedicated
Sales Area

  • Improve new paying learner form 

  • Manage enrolments and invoices without going into each program  

  • Centrally manage program applications 








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Enhanced 

Pricing Plans    

  • Ancillary add ons like accommodation 

  • Option upsells 

  • Separate tax treatment 








Self-Service
Finance    

  • Codified refund policies 

  • Self service transfers

  • Self service refunds

  • Self service substitutions








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Credits on Hold
& Development Funds    

  • Credits on Hold instead of Cash Refunds  

  • Development funds for pre-selling open programs to Organisations 

  • Credits on Hold Report
     

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