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What’s new in Jurika

Everything that has changed, month by month — improved every month, much of it from what judges and organisers tell us through the Feedback button.

October 2026

55 changes

For organisers

  • Practice competitions: rehearse the whole flow safely — every email goes only to your own test inbox
  • Test judges in a practice sign in with one-time links (no passwords) and can be reset
  • Practice documents carry a "PRACTICE – not valid" watermark and never count in stats or your competition limit
  • An admin can switch a competition between Real and Practice, with a preview of the impact and a recorded history
  • Choose when an excluded team is told: email them now, or tell them yourself first and send the notice later
  • Each entry records how, by whom and when consent was given — shown on the entry and in the CSV export
  • Judge and participant certificates can carry a verification QR, with its own size control for the code text
  • The QR in the certificate designer now matches its printed size and position
  • Certificate text lines up neatly to the longest real name, and the 8 MB upload limit is shown before you upload
  • The release panel shows exactly how many judges a click will email, and explains when the number is zero
  • Tick "Given out another way" so judges know you hand out letters or certificates yourself
  • Judges can ask you for a missing letter or certificate; you get one summary email a day, around 8 PM
  • Download or email a judge their letter or certificate as a PDF when they can't get it themselves
  • A plain-language "How we handle your data" promise, in English and Bahasa Melayu
  • Competitions inside an event now appear on your dashboard, and event sort settings save as you go
  • Judge requirements are no longer wiped when you re-broadcast a recruitment call
  • Events and competitions need a date before they can open
  • Edit your organisation name; dashboard entry and judge counts are consistent everywhere
  • Locking scores with unscored teams or undecided flags needs a recorded reason
  • Face-to-face: judging can't start while a team has no table, and judges are kept away from their own school's teams
  • A judge who withdrew can Undo within 10 minutes, or ask to rejoin — you decide, with at most one email a day
  • Replacement judges are named by exact email and only join after confirming for themselves
  • Every organiser now has a password, with a clearer sign-in page and "Forgot password?" by email

For judges

  • A new Documents tab: each competition's appointment letter and certificate in one place
  • Jurika issues a verifiable Confirmation of Judge Appointment and a Record of Judging Service, in English or Bahasa Melayu
  • Every Jurika document and judge certificate has a QR and a code anyone can check on a public verification page
  • Download problems now show a plain-English reason instead of an error page
  • A simpler Competitions page — Current, Open to join and History — with events merged in
  • Every competition card has the same View or Score button, and finished results leave the dashboard after 30 days
  • The dashboard opens on Invited when an invitation is waiting; withdrawn invitations stay visible with a way back
  • No more "Submit final scores": once every team is scored you're done and credited automatically
  • Standby judges tap "I'm available today" to check in, and still earn a certificate
  • Scoring saves are more reliable: a refused save explains why, offline marks stay on your device, unscorable teams are skipped
  • Suspended judges can still sign in to download their documents
  • Clearer reassignment, stand-in and missed-deadline emails, with a no-penalty hand-back option
  • Inactive judges no longer get deadline reminders or Reliability penalties
  • Rescue offers at the deadline are opt-in and shared fairly among judges who finished on time
  • Judges who haven't confirmed yet see "Please confirm to take part" instead of a scoring prompt
  • Every judge now has a password, with a new sign-in page, "Forgot password?" and an email when it changes

For teams and entrants

  • All entrant pages and emails in English and Bahasa Melayu
  • Excluded or absent teams are told on their status page and by email — the reason only if the organiser chose to share it
  • Under-18 members can be edited with guardian consent, and members without an email are kept
  • Certificates skip rejected and absent teams, and can carry a QR that proves they're genuine
  • Practice competitions show a clear TEST banner, so no one mistakes them for a real one

For everyone

  • A public page to verify any Jurika document or certificate, in English and Bahasa Melayu
  • This What's new page, and a My feedback page where judges and organisers see our replies
  • Feedback gets a reply by email when we answer it or finish it
  • The home page shows the whole judging journey and our promises
  • Updated privacy notice (feedback, short surveys, AI-assisted reading of feedback, the Reliability record)
  • Sign-in links stop working after an email change or password reset, and can't be used from another website
  • Passwords must be at least 10 characters; common ones are refused
  • Organisers can no longer add a judge to a panel without that judge's own consent
  • Uploaded images are checked more strictly, and sign-in emails are protected against abuse
  • Removing someone's data on request is more complete — consent records, certificate codes and feedback included
  • Outside monitors now alert us if the site, its background jobs, backups or email stop working

September 2026

29 changes

For organisers

  • Check conflicts of interest on one page: judges' and teams' organisations grouped, merged and sortable
  • The conflict-of-interest check works for standalone competitions as well as events
  • Judges with a conflict of interest can't be assigned to those teams
  • Teams can record their state and country, so organisations with several campuses are told apart
  • A warning when the same person is listed in more than one team
  • Sheet syncs show a "review before adding" preview, a banner of changes, and the rows that were skipped
  • The contact person on new teams is a tap-to-chat WhatsApp link
  • Events sort judges by their actual workload, with clear and preview options on each competition's sort page
  • Face-to-face groups keep judges from the same school apart where possible
  • Mark an invited pool judge as accepted, or re-invite a judge who withdrew
  • Give reasons when rejecting or withdrawing a judge, and contact judges by WhatsApp
  • An event's type shows as Online, Face-to-face or Mixed, from the competitions inside it
  • A new appointment-letter editor with real formatting and clean pasting from Word
  • Letters print exactly as previewed — letterhead on every page — and the signature can be dragged into place
  • Email judges their letter and certificate, and release certificates when you're ready
  • Open your competition's Google Drive files folder, read-only, from the competition page
  • A competition can only be deleted while it's in draft or recruiting, and finished ones keep their judges' records

For judges

  • A Joined tab on the dashboard lists the competitions you've joined
  • Event invitations appear on the dashboard (accepting needs a complete profile)
  • Give a reason when you withdraw from an event
  • Keep read-only access to your history, certificate and letter even if a competition is archived or deleted
  • Your appointment letter and certificate can be emailed to you

For teams and entrants

  • The privacy notice lists the team location details collected, in English and Bahasa Melayu

For everyone

  • Public pages are easier to find in search engines, with proper link-preview images
  • Private pages and practice competitions stay out of search engines
  • Stronger protection against fake emails pretending to be from our domain
  • Letter generation is hardened against abuse
  • Better contrast and form labels across the site, to the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard
  • Email sending recovers better when the mail service has trouble

August 2026

29 changes

For organisers

  • The team sheet and the public form now work together, and teams deleted or restored in the sheet are handled safely
  • Missing required fields are flagged when teams are imported or added from the sheet
  • The competition page shows when the team sheet is out of sync, with a clickable "Show differences"
  • Review notes are shown one reason per line
  • The setup wizard asks "Do teams submit anything?", and empty required fields are highlighted in red
  • Live judging progress: one card for the deadline, at-risk teams and a list of judges to chase
  • A Reassignments card shows who handed a team back and who took it over
  • A judge releasing a team must give a reason, and each team's movement history is kept
  • Released teams are offered to other judges; offers escalate after 6 hours and expire after 72
  • Accept an offer on a judge's behalf, or send the team back to its original judge
  • Assign a stranded team from a recommended-judge list with WhatsApp links; judges who already declined are listed last
  • Fix rubric wording during judging, such as typos, without unlocking or clearing scores
  • Multi-competition events with a shared judge pool, a coverage board and automatic sorting of judges
  • Events have a printable judge arrangement, a combined programme, pool emails and judge reminders
  • Events can mix online and face-to-face competitions
  • Practice events with dummy judges, and "Email me a sample of each type" to preview every email
  • Exports include every judge's raw score per criterion, and face-to-face walking-plan sheets
  • Results release times show in the right time zone, and deliberation flags can be undone
  • A new organiser FAQ page in English and Bahasa Melayu

For judges

  • See a team you released and its status, and take it back if you wish
  • Accept or decline teams offered to you
  • Other teams' entries stay hidden until deliberation, so you stay unbiased while scoring
  • A "revised" tag shows when rubric wording was corrected

For everyone

  • Letter design images are visible only to their organiser
  • Data-access and erase requests also cover organiser sign-up requests
  • Team submission confirmations survive a server restart
  • The admin is warned if the off-site backup fails
  • The progress page refreshes faster
  • Errors are caught and monitored in-house, with no outside service

July 2026

56 changes

For organisers

  • A rebuilt home page for organisers, in English and Bahasa Melayu, with a plain-English fairness explainer
  • The competition page shows your next steps in order, with clearer notices
  • Practice competitions with sample teams, judges and scores, and no real emails; Reset wipes it back to draft
  • "View as judge" previews the real judge experience, read-only
  • Face-to-face Event Day console: roll-call, mark-all-present, helper links, auto-refresh, CSV and PDF downloads
  • On the day, judges are regrouped from those present, never with two same-school teams in one group
  • Seating can be locked, and school names merged in one click so same-school conflicts are caught
  • Printable seating, judge sign-in, walking-plan and Judge Briefing PDFs, with the rubric filled in
  • Changing a venue asks entrants to re-confirm; a missing venue shows as a notice
  • Two-way Google Sheet sync for teams, with a preview — it can also repair missing columns
  • Add a late or offline team through the public form; team name is the only required field on import
  • Your own Teacher/Mentor labels, and a named contact person with WhatsApp on every team screen
  • Extra roles for non-participants, with their own certificate type
  • Mark teams withdrawn, disqualified or removed with a reason; edit team details after publishing
  • Disqualify a team from deliberation — it stays in the results, below Participation, marked DQ
  • Deliberation leads with decisions: flags, cut-off Decide buttons and clearer wording
  • Awards by score threshold, live medal counts, and one "Rubric & Tiers" page
  • Optional Yes/No qualifier questions for judges, tallied in deliberation
  • One-click "Generate assignments", a judge list showing co-judge overlap, and idle-judge flags
  • An alert when a team ends up with no judge
  • Set a judge recruitment target, track progress, and share a group-chat link with accepted judges
  • Withdraw an invited judge, re-invite a withdrawn one, and see when an invite wasn't emailed
  • Two-stage results: confirm them final, then schedule or broadcast, with a countdown and a Stop button
  • Release results to a tick-list of recipients, with follow-up links and "Send to more"
  • Download results as CSV, Excel or PDF, with award reasons and organisations
  • Certificates go in one Drive folder per team with one email each; regenerate for a single team
  • Finished competitions are filed automatically to a private Drive records folder
  • Public event pages show your organisation's branding and logo
  • A country-code picker on every phone number field
  • The host application carries over your organisation profile

For judges

  • A redesigned dashboard: what needs you now, invitation tabs and a recognition strip
  • Competitions grouped by stage; apply, profile and scoring screens match the new look
  • Join as a judge with just your email, and sign in with an emailed link
  • Get verified: apply for verification, reviewed by PaKSI
  • Withdraw after accepting with a message, or step back from scoring without penalty
  • Your own scorecard and a result appear once scoring closes, with a closing email
  • Reliability is shown as earned status, with a gentle on-time reminder
  • Scoring keeps a draft on your device and retries automatically if the connection drops
  • Clearer scoring: confidence levels explained, flags unified, scoring guide collapsed by default
  • Tap anywhere on a team card to score, and names are never cut off on phones
  • Honorific titles (Dato', Dr and others) on your profile and formal documents
  • Face-to-face panel shows your group, co-judges and walking list
  • Opt out of non-essential emails

For teams and entrants

  • A receipt and a private link to manage your submission, with self-editing and resend
  • Redesigned submission pages with your organiser's header, a timeline and clear expectations
  • The leader's email is optional for under-18 competitions, with the teacher as contact
  • The team-people form checks the contact person and phone number

For everyone

  • The platform moved to current, supported software, with security patches
  • Sign-in links last 48 hours and no longer leak to other websites
  • The admin account can't be locked out by someone guessing passwords
  • Stronger privacy: removal or anonymising on request, plain-language reassurance, a privacy notice and a breach plan
  • Backups are checked automatically every night, and uploaded images are backed up off-site
  • Disk-space watch and automatic log tidying
  • Better contrast, phone navigation and layouts, and a skip link for keyboard users
  • Emails come in plain text as well as HTML, so fewer land in spam
  • Results announcements can't be sent twice

June 2026

43 changes

For organisers

  • Apply for an organiser account through a form, with document uploads and a review by PaKSI
  • Guided setup for a new competition, and a tidier Edit page with one Save button
  • Rubric categories can be scored on their own, with no sub-category needed
  • Manage entries with search, batch actions, and Accept / Reject / Remove / Delete with reasons
  • Imports explain why an entry needs review (no consent, duplicate email) and give a plain-English summary
  • Organisers confirm consent for imported entries, and can accept all reviewed entries at once
  • Duplicate entries are flagged, and rejected entries stay rejected
  • Mark a team as a no-show — left out of judging, ranking and certificates
  • Choose how entries arrive: sheet import, the public form, or your own submission link
  • Several responsible adults per team, who can receive certificates too
  • Winners can also receive a participation certificate
  • Design certificates per award: upload artwork, drag the name into place, download a test
  • Certificates are made in the background with live progress, then emailed to each recipient
  • Design appointment letters: full-page background, formatted text, signature and an exact PDF preview
  • List competitions as Private or Public
  • Remind judges you invited by email, with a clear sent / skipped result
  • Mark a judge as accepted on their behalf; they confirm or decline, and their WhatsApp stays hidden until they confirm
  • Face-to-face competitions need a venue before recruiting judges
  • Assignments never give one judge two teams from the same organisation, and respect the same-school setting
  • Judges are told their real scoring deadline, and judge emails wait until judging starts
  • Progress pages show whether fair scores can be calculated, and broken assignments are repaired automatically
  • Judges who apply mid-judging become reserves, and judging can't start while judges are unassigned
  • Editing an entry keeps your accept / reject decision, and entries can't be deleted once judging starts
  • All emails use a branded design

For judges

  • Download your appointment letter and certificate yourself
  • See the full rubric and competition details before you accept
  • Easier scoring on phones, with bigger buttons and a "Save & next" bar always in reach
  • Scores save reliably, with a clear message if a save fails
  • Release teams you can't finish; others can rescue them and earn recognition
  • A judge who declined or was removed can accept the invitation again
  • Hide competition adverts you're not interested in
  • Your profile shows which required fields are still missing
  • Reliability and achievement levels recognise judges who score on time

For teams and entrants

  • The public form says "Responsible adult", and a team can list more than one

For everyone

  • Sign-in links can't be used up by email security scanners before you click them
  • A Feedback button in the top bar, plus short surveys for judges and organisers
  • A privacy notice in Bahasa Melayu
  • Suspended or rejected accounts are signed out straight away
  • Daily backups are also copied off-site
  • Better phone layouts across the app: tables scroll, grids stack, buttons are bigger
  • Better accessibility: dialogs, linked form labels, and errors announced to screen readers
  • Error messages no longer reveal internal details
  • Scoring and fairness calculations are checked automatically before every release

Curious how Jurika is built and looked after? See Behind the scenes.