Smarter Filtering and Smoother Scrolling in Smart Assessment — Here's What's New

[Utsav Murarka]

If you've been using Smart Assessment to respond to assessments, you've probably run into two friction points: a filter that only ever showed "Unanswered questions," and large sections that required manual paging to get through. We've addressed both, and the changes make a real difference in how you navigate and focus during an assessment. Here's what's new.

Filter by What Actually Matters to You

The old filter was one-dimensional. You could either see everything or see only unanswered questions. That's it.

The filter dropdown now gives you five options — and you can combine them however you need:

• Unanswered — Questions haven't been responded to yet
• AI assisted — Questions where AI has drafted a suggested response for you
• With comments — Questions that have comments
• Flagged — Questions marked for follow-up
• Resolved — Questions whose flags have been cleared

The real power here is in combining them. Need to focus on questions that are both unanswered and flagged? Select both. Want to review everything your AI assistant touched? One click. The dropdown label updates as you go — "Unanswered +2" tells you at a glance that three filters are active without making you open the menu to check.

A few other things worth knowing:-

• AI assisted only appears when AI features are enabled for your assessment, so the dropdown stays clean if you're on a standard assessment.
• If your active filters return nothing, you'll see a clear message — "Clear filters to see all questions", so you're never left staring at a blank section wondering what happened.
• If you use the AI suggestion banner to jump to AI-drafted questions, it adds to your existing filters

Infinite Scroll — No More Manual Paging

For longer assessments, the old experience required you to load the next "page" of questions manually.

Questions now load automatically as you scroll down the section. No page numbers, no manual navigation. When you get close to the bottom of the loaded questions, the next batch fetches quietly in the background and appends right below. And because your active filters travel with every scroll load, you'll never hit a point mid-scroll where filtered questions suddenly give way to filtered-out ones.

Skipped Questions — Cleaner, Less Noisy

Smart Assessment supports conditional logic: if your answer to one question makes a follow-up irrelevant, those questions are automatically skipped. Previously, every skipped question still appeared on screen individually — each showing its question number, a "Skipped" label, and an info icon. In a section with many branching conditions, this could mean scrolling past a long run of skipped cards just to get to the next question that actually needed a response.

Three improvements have been made here:

First, consecutive skipped questions are now clubbed together into a single horizontal ellipsis (•••) with a tooltip that reads "Some inapplicable questions have been skipped here based on your previous responses." Whether two or twenty questions in a row were skipped, you see one clean marker instead of a stack of individual skipped cards.

Second, the section navigation has been updated to handle skipped sections more gracefully. If all questions in a section are skipped and it effectively has nothing to respond to, the Previous and Next buttons now skip over it automatically. You won't land on an empty section and wonder what happened.

Third, the section progress indicator in the navigation sidebar now correctly represents sections where every question has been skipped. Previously it would show "Completed 100%" — technically true, but confusing. It now shows an inactive state with a "Not applicable" tooltip, which is a far more honest reflection of what's going on.

Bottom line: you can now zero in on exactly the questions that need your attention, unanswered, flagged, AI-suggested, or any mix — scroll through them without fighting the interface, and trust that any gaps you see are intentional and explained. For large, collaborative assessments especially, this should feel meaningfully smoother.