Get a more accurate picture of your customer health by including training data into your Gainsight health scores. With our new Gainsight Data Export you can also:

• Alert CSMs of incomplete training or certification on accounts, empowering them to proactively nudge or intervene before renewal.
• Highlight accounts in a dashboard that have not completed essential training to boost account stickiness and retention rates.
• Trigger automated actions based on training activity occurring in Skilljar such as reminder emails, achievement notifications, or health score warnings.

The holidays are here, and so are our latest updates! 🎁 Unwrap last month's new features and improvements:

👥 External Management: Allow people outside your organization to add and manage students while maintaining control over your Skilljar dashboard. Now available on Professional and Enterprise plans. Try it out!

⏰ Scheduled Reports: Automatically email custom reports to key stakeholders, keeping them informed on essential metrics without the manual effort. Learn how to schedule a custom report.

⚡️Path Actions–Registrations & Completions: We’re bringing our powerful course Actions to paths! Send automatic registration and completion emails by selecting a published path and visiting the "Actions" tab. More Actions on paths, coming soon.

🎨 Parta.io Integration: Skilljar now integrates with Parta.io, a collaborative eLearning creation platform. Easily publish Parta.io courses to Skilljar with a single click and make updates to content directly from Parta.io.

➕ Small Improvements & Fixes:

Calendar Page Improvements: We’ve increased load speed by 50% and ensured any course visible to students will appear on the calendar, no longer requiring catalog page placement.

• Add "/calendar" to the end of your Skilljar domain to access your calendar page.

VILT/ILT Timezones: Session times for ILT/VILT are now automatically adjusted to display in each student's local timezone.

Stay tuned for more updates on feature releases and improvements to our platform. If you ever spot a bug or improvement needed, feel free to email support@skilljar.com.

Now available on Professional and Enterprise plans, External Management allows you to delegate student management without granting external users access to your Skilljar dashboard.

Now, Global Admins can give any student the ability to be a “Student Manager.” Directly from your branded Academy, Student Managers can:

✅ Add new students to your Academy and their managed group

✅ Enroll students in specified content

✅ Track what content individual students are enrolled in, completion status, and due dates

This means less administrative work for you, while keeping full control over what others can do. Check out the interactive demo to see External Management in action!

We’re sending Custom Enrollment Reports straight to your stakeholders’ inboxes.

• Tailored Insights: Easily show your program’s impact with automatic delivery of the metrics that matter most.
• Set & Forget: Schedule reports once and let Skilljar handle the rest–no more manual downloads.
• Keep Data Secure: Share student enrollment analytics without needing to grant additional dashboard access.

Here's what's new at Skilljar from the month of October:

✍️ Course Drafts: Easily make updates to your courses and save changes as a draft before publishing—offering greater flexibility over your content without affecting what learners see.

➕ Small Improvements & Fixes:

Catalog Page Access: Control access to specific catalog pages, ensuring dashboard users only see and manage content relevant to their permissions.

• Organization → Dashboard Users → Edit/New User → Select Domains & Publishing → Catalog Page Access

Quiz & Lesson Completion Webhooks: We’ve added the “Course Enrollment” object, included in the Course Enrollment and Completion webhooks, to the Quiz Completion and Lesson Completion webhooks.

Calendar Page Improvements: We’ve increased load speed by 50% and ensured any course visible to students will appear on the calendar, no longer requiring catalog page placement.

VILT/ILT Timezones: Session times for ILT/VILT are now automatically adjusted to display in each student's local timezone.

Stay tuned for more updates on feature releases and improvements to our platform. If you ever spot a bug or improvement needed, feel free to email support@skilljar.com.

In addition to releasing our Fall 2024 Product Showcase, September brought a variety of updates to the platform. Here’s a quick recap of what’s new:

✍️ Course Drafts: Easily make updates to your courses and save changes as a draft before publishing—offering greater flexibility over your content without affecting what learners see.

📽️ New Content Type–Synthesia Video: Synthesia videos are now supported as an embedded content type in lessons, enabling the use of AI-generated videos in your Academy.

🎨 Catalog Page Builder

• Location Settings: Make builder pages available in the location settings for courses, plans, legacy pages, and paths to improve organization and navigation.
• Group Visibility: Control which groups see specific builder pages, similar to legacy pages. Simplify your publishing flow by showing or hiding pages from selected groups directly in builder page settings.

➕ Small Improvements & Fixes:

Inactive Enrollment Reports Filter: A new filter in Enrollment Reporting excludes inactive enrollments from custom reports.

• Analytics → Enrollments → Student Groups Filter → Exclude Inactive Enrollments or Students

Group Analytics Labels: Group Analytics charts now display numerical data labels on bars and columns.

Enrollment Actions: Added consistency across enrollment channels to ensure Skilljar Actions are triggered reliably when learners enroll in a course.

Stay tuned for more updates on feature releases and improvements to our platform. If you ever spot a bug or improvement needed, feel free to email support@skilljar.com.

Easily make updates to your courses and save changes as a draft before publishing—offering greater flexibility and control without affecting what learners see.

Need to refresh your content? Head to any course page, select "Edit as Draft", and start making your updates!

We're excited to share our Fall 2024 Product Showcase with you! 🎉

During this 15-minute recording, you'll explore:

✓ An exclusive sneak peek at our roadmap and upcoming features.

✓ New features available for you to use today.

✓ Observations from 2024 and our vision for the months ahead.

Watch Senior Vice President of Product, Tammy Hahn, and Director of Product, Nate Whitley, discuss how Skilljar's latest innovations will help you drive maximum impact in your Academy—with minimal effort. ✨

August updates? We’ve got them! Let’s catch you up on what’s new.

🔁 Required Login for Content Syndication: You can now require students to log in with their personal or business email addresses before accessing syndicated content, enabling SSO and unlocking certifications and Skilljar Actions.

🚀 Bulk Publishing: Easily publish a single course to multiple domains with just one action, saving time and reducing repetitive tasks.

⚡New Data Connector Documentation: Skilljar’s Data Connector offers the most comprehensive customer training data set available, now paired with equally comprehensive documentation. Check out our new resource to discover its full potential.

❌ Skilljar Actions–Deactivate Enrollment: Automatically deactivate course enrollments upon completion or post-completion actions, giving you greater control to ensure learners access only relevant content while maintaining access to related courses in a learning path.

➕Small Improvements & Fixes:

• Enhanced VILT Instructor Access: Restrict VILT instructors to only see their assigned training events.
• New Date Filter for Historical CSV Backfills: Apply a date filter when downloading Salesforce backfill data.
• Theming Update: Add, edit, and reorder up to 5 customized header links directly from the dashboard.
• Consistent Groups Access: Apply Group-level restrictions consistently across the Skilljar dashboard, ensuring all fields, data tables, and pages align to defined access settings.
• Improved Student Navigation for ILT/VILT Sessions: Selected ILT/VILT sessions from the calendar stay visible through the checkout experience.

Stay tuned for more updates on feature releases and improvements to our platform. If you ever spot a bug or improvement needed, feel free to email support@skilljar.com.

Dive into July's latest updates—here’s a quick look at what’s new:

☁️ Salesforce & Skilljar: If you missed last week’s Salesforce and Skilljar Coffee Chat, catch up with the recording here.

• Salesforce Integration Playbook: Walk through a step-by-step checklist, hear from those who have integrated, and learn helpful tips. This is your comprehensive guide to getting started with Skilljar’s Salesforce integration.

⬆ Caption File Uploads: Directly upload, delete, and view multiple caption files for Skilljar-hosted videos.

• Simplified Localization: Cater to a global audience by directly managing and uploading multiple localized caption files.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Caption files enhance SEO by making video content indexable and optimizing it for keywords.
• Enhanced Accessibility: Ensure all viewers can access and understand your video content.

✨ Accessibility at Skilljar: Caption File Uploads are just one example of Skilljar’s dedication to fostering a user-friendly educational environment where every learner can thrive. Find more information on our compliance and Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT) on our new Accessibility page.

📧 Group Assignments Based on Multiple Email Domains: Add learners to designated groups by entering multiple email domains, streamlining group organization. This functionality is now available on the New Group and Edit Rules pages.

➕ Small Improvements & Fixes:

Search & Select in Promo Code Datatable: The promo code “offers” datatable has been updated to include search and select functionality, allowing you to easily find and apply the right offers when defining promo codes.

Monthly Training Reports Update: We have updated the "Active Students" table with the following.

• Merged students will be included in the Active Students Report.
• Merged records will display as "Merged Student" with their activity domains.
• Enhanced clarity in both the dashboard and CSV download formats.

Expanded Live Event Dataset: As a VILT admin, gain insights with new columns in your Live Event Analytics CSV download. New columns include:

• Total Seats: View the total number of seats available for each event.
• Domain: See which domains your attendees are coming from, especially useful for courses published across multiple domains.
• Waitlist Enabled: Quickly identify if an event has a waitlist with a simple "yes" or "no."
• Waitlist Count: Know exactly how many people are on the waitlist for each event.

Stay tuned for more updates on feature releases and improvements to our platform. If you ever spot a bug or improvement needed, feel free to email support@skilljar.com.