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Let's be honest. Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking:
"You know what I'd love today? More administrative overhead."
That's why we're excited about the TopClass August 2026 release, which focuses on making life easier for learners, administrators, and anyone who's ever spent too much time writing course descriptions or explaining where the navigation menu went. The release introduces new catalog designs, smarter enrollment options, AI-powered content generation, improved testing capabilities, and several enhancements designed to remove friction from everyday tasks. [documentat...advsol.com]
In other words, fewer headaches. More learning.
Your Catalog Called. It Wants a Makeover.
First impressions matter, and your learning catalog is often the first thing learners see.
With this release, administrators can choose from three catalog themes:
🔹 Modern Minimalist
🔹Professional Academic
🔹Classic Standard
The best part? It's all style and no disruption. Search, filtering, and enrollment work exactly as before. Think of it as giving your catalog a fresh haircut without changing its personality.
The new themes also bring:
🔹Cleaner layouts
🔹Collapsible filters
🔹Grid and list views
🔹A more user-friendly session selection experience
Because nobody has ever said, "I wish selecting a training session felt more complicated."
Navigation That Doesn't Feel Like a Treasure Hunt
We've all been there.
You click around a website looking for something important and suddenly find yourself wondering how you ended up in a completely different section.
The new navigation layout options give administrators more control over where menus appear and how they're structured. Whether you're keeping things simple or matching a specific brand experience, you now have more flexibility to make TopClass feel like part of your organization's digital ecosystem.
Credit Tracking Gets More Specific
For organizations managing continuing education credits, this one's a big deal.
Administrators can now award multiple credit subtypes from a single activity. So instead of awarding 10 credits and calling it a day, you can specify exactly how those credits are distributed across categories.
Your compliance team just nodded approvingly.
Free Activities. Zero Detours.
When something is free, learners generally expect to click "Enroll" and...well...enroll.
Now they can.
A new setting allows learners to register directly for free activities, even when external catalog integrations exist. No unnecessary redirects, no extra steps, and far fewer opportunities for someone to get distracted by an incoming Teams notification and forget they were signing up for training in the first place.
AI Is Helping with Course Descriptions Now
Staring at a blank text box and trying to write a compelling course description can be surprisingly difficult.
"Learn stuff about things" is generally frowned upon.
With the new TopClass AI Generator, course descriptions can be generated from existing activity content, helping administrators create polished descriptions in a fraction of the time.
Will it completely replace human creativity?No.Will it save you from writing your 47th compliance course summary of the year?Very likely.
Integrity Advocate Now Watches Interactive Videos Too
Integrity Advocate proctoring has been expanded to support interactive videos, helping organizations maintain assessment integrity across even more types of learning content. Learners can complete interactive videos while meeting configured proctoring requirements, and completion status is updated once the session has been reviewed.
Because sometimes "I totally watched the whole thing" isn't quite enough evidence.
Better Testing Without Making Tests More Stressful
This release includes several improvements for assessments and testing.
Anonymous Grading
Instructors can now grade manually scored tests without seeing learner identity information.
Less bias. More fairness.
Better Guidance for Graders
Question authors can provide instructional notes specifically for instructors who are grading responses.
Because "use your best judgment" isn't always a grading rubric.
Customized Pass and Fail Messages
Organizations can build libraries of customized feedback messages and assign them to specific tests.
Much nicer than:
"Congratulations. A thing happened."
SEO, Meet AI
Search engines aren't the only systems discovering content anymore. AI tools increasingly play a role too.
To help organizations stay ahead of the curve, TopClass now supports generating:
🔹SEO-friendly Catalog URL aliases
🔹llms.txt files that help AI systems understand your site's content more accurately
The future is arriving fast.
Fortunately, you don't need a computer science degree to keep up.
Lots of Little Wins
Some of our favorite enhancements are the ones that quietly make everyday work easier:
✅ Assign a dedicated course contact separate from the course owner.
✅ Configure completion points within interactive videos.
✅ Add certificate variables to custom certificate text.
✅ Display certification path information more clearly in the Learning Center.
✅ Share media assets across administrators with a centralized media library.
Individually they're useful.
Together they're the kind of improvements that save administrators time every single day.
The Bottom Line
The August 2026 release isn't about adding flashy features just to check a box. It's about making TopClass easier to use, easier to manage, and more enjoyable for everyone involved. From a refreshed learner experience and smarter enrollment workflows to AI-assisted content creation and enhanced testing capabilities, this release is packed with thoughtful improvements that add up to something meaningful.
And honestly?
If a software release can save you a few clicks, reduce repetitive work, and spare you from writing another course description from scratch, that's already a pretty good month. 😄
