Elevate Release 2026.02

This month's release may include product updates, new features, enhancements, essential bug fixes, and more.

Improvement

Updated Branding in Elevate

Elevate now features refreshed Cadmium branding, including updated colors and icons for a cleaner, more cohesive look (Fig 1). This update brings Elevate into closer visual alignment with the broader Cadmium platform and improves consistency across products.  There are no changes to functionality or workflows; everything works exactly as it did before.  (February 10, 2026)

Fig. 1 - Updated branding in Elevate

Enhancement

Speaker Import Without Existing Components

The Harvester import process has been enhanced to support speaker management workflows in Elevate when presentations are imported without associated components.

Administrators can now choose to automatically create a minimal (shell) component during import, allowing all presentation speakers to be assigned even when no component exists in the destination product.  This enables teams to manage speaker data in advance and configure webinar or content components later in Elevate.

This update improves flexibility for teams using Education Harvester primarily for speaker management while configuring content separately within Elevate.  (February 4, 2026)

Fix

User Creation Rate Limiting Implemented

We've updated how user creation rate limiting is handled to better balance protection and flexibility.  A rate limit is now in place to prevent automated or excessive account creation, allowing up to 100 users per 60 seconds per IP address.  The limit can be temporarily disabled when high volumes of legitimate users need to sign up at the same time.

The updated behavior has been verified to work as expected.  When enabled, new user creation is appropriately rate limited, and when the limit is temporarily disabled, it automatically reactivates after the configured time period.  (February 4, 2026)