See the evidence behind Optible's Rank & Explanation

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Optible's Rank & Explanation now shows its work

Open an application's Criteria tab. Under each Rank & Explanation there's now a source count. Expand it and you see what the rank was based on: the questions the applicant answered, and the documents they uploaded.

Click a source and it opens where you already are. A form answer scrolls into view and highlights. A document opens in the viewer on the right page, with the cited passage highlighted. Nothing opens in a new tab, so you don't lose the reasoning you were reading.

The evidence gets checked, too. If an answer was edited or a document replaced after the assessment ran, that source is flagged rather than dropped. A Rank & Explanation that has drifted from what it cited will say so, instead of looking better supported than it is.

So you can follow any rank back to the sentence or the page it came from.

Private notes, in your browser only

There's a notes panel now, which opens from any page. Write what you need while you assess. It's encrypted and stored in your browser, never sent to our servers, and nobody else can read it, including anyone else using the same browser profile.

Drag it where you want. Make it bigger for longer notes. It survives signing out and back in. Clear your browser data and the notes go with it. The panel says so up front.

What's new
  • A support menu worth finding. The old help icon was easy to miss. It's now a panel with service status, help-centre search, chat and release notes, plus articles suggested for the page you're on.

  • Support chat for applicants. Applicants can start a conversation without being sent off to a separate site.

  • Review before submitting. Applicants get a full read-back of their answers before they submit, and can go back and fix anything.

  • Document reuse. Applicants can attach a file they've already uploaded instead of uploading it again for every application.

  • Page-level conditions in forms. Conditional logic used to work on single fields. It now works on whole pages as well.

  • Sections in the form builder. Group questions into a named section and treat it as one unit.

  • Grouped conditions. Rules like (A and B) or (C and D), instead of one flat list.

  • Row limits on multi-column inputs. Cap how many rows an applicant can add.

Improvements
  • Headings render properly in Enriched analysis, instead of showing literal hash marks.

  • Re-running an Enriched field keeps the old value and its citations as history rather than overwriting it.

  • Enriched web-search fields now finish a full research pass, so they come back with more depth and more citations.

  • Submitting a large batch of applications no longer overloads document processing.

  • The PDF engine behind the document viewer has been upgraded.

Bug fixes
  • Cited passages are matched against the text as displayed, so highlights land on the right words in awkwardly formatted documents.

  • The applications list no longer skips or repeats rows when applications share a submission time.

  • Three fixes to the assessor view: a hidden Optible ranking score was showing in the application list, the requested amount showed as $0, and assessors couldn't see peer rankings.

  • A required question that only appears after a correction round can now be answered, and evaluators can see it.

  • Applicants no longer get stuck on an endless spinner when signing in.

  • Data extracted from an attachment links back to its source.

  • An email notification that had stopped sending works again.

  • Dates render correctly on client forms.

  • Paragraph spacing carries over from the form builder to the live form.

  • The Pull button keeps its label on narrow screens.

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