In summer 2025, the Rubin team is working feverishly to prepare our Propel email etiquette tool for the 25-26 academic year.

Before we dove into product updates, we held a series of focus groups with teachers and students who used Propel in the 24-25 academic year. The students gave us starkly honest advice about what they like and don’t like from the tool, which is designed to teach professional email writing skills.

Here is a current list of changes we have implemented. The school year starts anew in six weeks so time is of the essence!

• After hitting “Reanalyze” score lightbulbs now work
• Discarding email now properly removes all popups related to Propel
• Emails completed label moved to the upper right corner of the initial popup
• Steps in the writing process changed to percentages
• Suggestions for addressing now static
• Added a simple bell curve to show how students’ scores compare with classmates
• Language for top shown error changed
• Domain label removed from dashboard
• Properly positioned user name on Propel completed certificate
• Add color coding to user score and make it out of 100
• Add badge symbol to show whether complete or not and
• Add label below telling them they need 20 emails to receive and make Propel optional
• Remove extension icon from Compose window