Welcome back to another LearnCard ChangeBlog! This month has some major events ahead for us, including the Transforming Global Education Summit on May 1st. Organized by the PVBLIC Foundation and co-hosted with the Governments of Antigua and Barbuda and the Kingdom of Tonga, we’ll be holding discussions about how to modernize education infrastructure for the benefit of all learners.

This week’s changelog includes some key privacy updates as well as UI refreshes. Let’s dig in!

LC-1602 - Gate-Sensitive Profile Fields

This PR strengthens user privacy by adding even more controls around sensitive profile information. We’ve refactored the profile retrieval system when interacting with users on the LearnCard Network. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to profile interactions, we’ve broken out different tiers of permissions and profile sharing based on context. These changes further minimize over-exposure of user data and reduce data shared between users to a minimum.

LC-1663 - Streamline Auto-Verify Email

This PR simplifies and accelerates our email verification process - if a user signs up to LearnCard via email & code, emails are automatically verified. Once verified, users can receive credentials via our Universal Inbox, which is mapped to their LearnCard’s unique ID.

LC-1637 - Connect Website Guide

This PR is for the devs - it upgrades our Connect Website guide in the Developer Tools menu to include updated instructions, improved readability, and accurate descriptions to ensure seamless, straightforward integration with the LearnCard stack.

As we continue to add new tools and guides for users to integrate with LearnCard, please let us know what kinds of guides you’d like to see! You can submit them at roadmap.learncard.com

LC-1661 - Self-Assigned Skills UI Updates

This PR improves our interface for adding and managing self-assigned skills! As part of a larger Pathways effort we’re rolling out, this new toolset empowers learners to articulate and reflect on their own skills.

With semantic search and skill suggestion capabilities, this set of features aims to give more agency to learners, while still placing guardrails around the verification of skills data - any self-assigned skills come with a “Self-Assigned” icon, to allow potential employers or education institutions to better assess the nature of any incoming skills data.

You can view all updates and fixes here