April 30th, 2026
We're excited to introduce the following updates to participant uploads, lifecycle email scheduling, survey translations, and questionnaire export.
A Faster Way to Add and Update Participants
Adding new participants mid-survey no longer requires the export-edit-import workaround. The Import dialog now gives you direct control over how a file changes your participant list.
What's new: When you click IMPORT on the Participants page, you'll see a new dialog with two options. Upload / Replace full list swaps your current list with the uploaded file. Add or update participants keeps your existing list and either updates demographics on matching emails or adds new rows. After your first upload, Add or update participants becomes the default.
Why it matters: Mid-survey participant changes were one of the clunkiest tasks in Compass. Whether you needed to fix a department name on five people or add a new cohort to a running survey, the only path was a full export, hand-edit, and re-import. The new dialog handles each case directly, with file validation that surfaces errors before anything changes.
How to use it: Open your survey, click Participants, then click IMPORT. Pick the option that matches your goal, attach your file, and click OK.
Add New or Updating Participants
Lifecycle Survey Scheduling: Defer Sends and Skip Weekends
Lifecycle survey emails can now wait a set number of days after a participant is added, and you can choose to count weekdays only so messages do not land on Saturday or Sunday.
What's new: When you click SCHEDULE beside any email on a lifecycle survey, you'll see a new Days After Respondent Added field and a Weekdays only toggle. Set the wait period in days, flip on Weekdays only if you want to skip weekends, and Compass times every send from the participant's add date.
Why it matters: Uploading participants on Friday afternoon and watching invites land in inboxes Saturday morning is a recurring frustration. Now you can upload anytime and trust the first email to arrive when employees are actually working. The same logic applies to every reminder, so a 3-day reminder always lands on a working day.
How to use it: Open your lifecycle survey, click Schedule Survey, then click SCHEDULE beside the email you want to configure. Enter the wait in Days After Respondent Added, toggle Weekdays only on if needed, and click OK. Repeat for each email in the campaign.
Scheduling Lifecycle Survey Emails
Translations Are Now Yours to Manage
Translation management has moved out of TalentMap-only territory. Survey Creators and HR Admins can now upload, preview, and export translations directly from the Design Survey page.
What's new: A new TRANSLATION dropdown sits in the top-right toolbar of every survey design page, with IMPORT and EXPORT options. Upload one Excel file containing every language you want to support, and respondents see a language picker on the survey page automatically.
Why it matters: Multilingual surveys used to mean a back-and-forth with TalentMap every time a translation needed a tweak. Now you can manage your own languages on your own timeline, export the file when you need to send it to a translator, and re-import the moment the updates come back. Same benchmark integrity, same survey logic, faster turnaround.
How to use it: Open your survey, click Design Survey, then click TRANSLATION in the top-right toolbar. Choose IMPORT to upload your translation file or EXPORT to download every translation already on the survey.
Adding Translations to a Survey
Export Your Survey Questionnaire to PDF
We're excited to introduce Export to PDF, a faster way to share your survey questionnaire with executives, reviewers, and translators without sending them into Compass.
What's new: When designing or reviewing a survey, you'll see a new EXPORT TO PDF button in the top-right toolbar. Click it, choose the language, and download a print-ready PDF that mirrors your participant survey, including your logo, instructions, and every question grouped by section.
Why it matters: Getting executive sign-off on a questionnaire used to mean screenshotting the design view or walking someone through the platform live. Now you can hand over a clean PDF that mirrors what respondents will see, so review feedback comes back faster and launches stay on schedule.
How to use it: Open a survey, click Design Survey, then click EXPORT TO PDF in the top-right toolbar. Select the language and click OK. The PDF downloads automatically.
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