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Our Latest Improvements & Fixes

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Shared by Rebecca • October 10, 2024

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.

Feature update

Prepare content updates ahead of time with Course Drafts

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Shared by Rebecca • October 08, 2024

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!

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Watch the Fall 2024 Product Showcase!

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Shared by Rebecca • September 26, 2024

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. ✨

Improvements & Fixes
Feature update

Our Latest Improvements & Fixes

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Shared by Rebecca • September 12, 2024

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.

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Feature update

Our Latest Improvements & Fixes

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Shared by Rebecca • August 08, 2024

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.

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Feature update

Our Latest Improvements & Fixes

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Shared by Rebecca • July 15, 2024

We’re thrilled to share the latest updates we’ve made since June to help you achieve greater success. Here’s a round-up of what’s new:

🎨 Catalog Page Builder: A tool for creating custom pages using pre-made elements and low-code blocks for streamlined site design.

🔑 API Read-Only Keys: API keys limited to only allow Read or Get operations, enabling you to securely grant integration partners access to your Skilljar data.

✨ Custom Footer in Themes: A dedicated HTML block for admins to add custom footers on pages, course details, paths, and plans as part of ongoing improvements for a more maintainable theming experience.

Small Improvements & Fixes:

  • Monthly Training Report Metric: We are renaming the "New Students" metric on the Monthly Training Report to "New Domain Signups". This will distinguish it from the "New Students" metric on the Analytics Overview, helping you understand your data even better.

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.

New feature

Create Academy pages using pre-made elements and low-code blocks with Catalog Page Builder 🎨

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Shared by Rebecca • July 10, 2024

In addition to our classic catalog pages, Skilljar's new builder pages allow you to quickly design your Academy, without heavy coding.

  • Customization: Utilize pre-made hero images, course tiles, low-code blocks, and more for quick and effective site design.
  • Flexibility: Achieve your desired look and feel with HTML blocks. Switch between legacy and builder-style blocks as needed.
  • Simplicity: Navigate the new Catalog Page Builder view with simplified actions to easily add, edit, and clone pages, along with intuitive tools and settings.

Improvements & Fixes
Feature update

Our Latest Improvements & Fixes

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Shared by Sonia • June 12, 2024

The weather is warming up, and so are our development efforts. Below is a round-up from May of the feature releases and improvements we've made to make Skilljar better for you!

🔍 Proctoring Validation setting on Skilljar Lessons: You can now set Skilljar Quiz and other select lesson types to require validation by a proctor before the lesson will be marked complete.

Content Syndication supports Seismic ( formerly Lessonly): Content syndication extends the reach of your content by embedding Skilljar courses into another LMS while retaining control and analytics. Seismic (Lessonly) now joins the list of supported LMSs along with Cornerstone, Litmos, and Bridge.

🏷️ Enhanced Label Management: You can now add, edit, delete, and bulk apply labels from one location, making it easier than ever for admins to find content.

🤝 Learn Experts Integration Improvements: LEAi is now able to export courses to Skilljar and automatically separate your content into lessons. All you have to do in Skilljar is review and publish!

This integration is built and managed by Learn Experts. For support with functionality, reach out to info@learnexperts.ca

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 .

Feature update

Sign Up Field Creation API Endpoint

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Shared by Sonia • May 14, 2024

This update makes updating sign up fields via API or token-based SSO more efficient than ever. You can now call the Skilljar API once to update ALL sign up fields for a student, significantly reducing the number of API calls being made.

Improvements & Fixes
Feature update

Our Latest Improvements & Fixes

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Shared by Sonia • April 17, 2024

At Skilljar we believe innovation never stops. Below is a round-up since March of the feature releases and improvements we've made to make Skilljar better for you!

🔍 Go Behind the Dashboard with Skilljar: Skilljar is always working behind the scenes to ensure your Academy is best-in-class. Check out our latest SCORM analytics enhancement, Group API update, and more. Little things can go a long way to improve your experience.

New Salesforce Integration Settings: There are two new options on the Salesforce Integration page within the Skilljar dashboard! The first allows users to control what happens with a Linked Contact when there’s no match in Salesforce, and the second is the ability to enable or disable High Volume APIs, which could reduce API calls to Salesforce by more than 50%.

Group Level Discount: Admins now have the ability to set specific percent discounts for different groups for all purchasable objects, enhancing flexibility and customization in pricing strategies. This also allows for both group discounts and promo codes, applying them sequentially for additional savings.

Content Creation and Group Level Discount API Endpoints: Skilljar has made it possible to create courses and content without the need to log into the dashboard. For users utilizing Skilljar's API or 3rd-Party Content Management Systems, you'll be able to:

  • Create and structure Courses, Lessons, and Lesson Content Items via API
  • Assign Web Packages, Videos, and Quizzes to a Lesson via API

We've also introduced an API endpoint for managing group-level discounts, enabling automation and scalability in discount management.

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 .