What’s New

Assigning learning resources:

• Ability for administrators to assign learning resources to the members of the groups they manage

Books:

• Design revamp of books to improve readability

Snippets:

• Ability for content managers to share multiple images in snippets

SCORM:

• Optimizations to improve loading time of SCORM content

Bug fixes and improvements

Audio content:

• Ability for content managers to upload audio as course content
• Ability for learners to consume audio content as they learn courses

Content dripping:

• Ability for content managers to enable content dripping to enforce sequential learning.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Ability for administrators to restrict course access to only those who are enrolled in it
• Ability for learners to enroll and get full access to the courses for which preview is restricted.

• Ability for administrators to manage the venues of Instructor-led trainings

• Ability for administrators to bulk import users

• Ability for managers to see their reportees’ rank in the organization and department level leaderboards

• Ability for administrators to manually set passwords for users while onboarding them
• Ability for administrators reset the password either manually or by sending the password reset link with them

Leaderboard

• Ability for learners to see their ranking in the organization and department level leaderboards
• Ability for administrators to see their team members’ rank in the organization and department level leaderboards

Time tracking

• Ability for administrators to track the time spent by each learner on a course

Lock video scrubbing:

• Ability for administrators to configure whether scrubbing to be enabled or disabled for videos in courses

User interface:

• Revamp of organizational units management to enhance the usability

Bug fixes and improvements

Reports

• Report with test scores to determine which learner did the best
• Ability to export the competency/ skill matrix and skill gaps across the organization
• Report with the summary of assigned and self enrolled courses for learners and their status.

Upload attendance

• Ability to upload attendance data of the participants who attended the online sessions

Open APIs:

• Added Open APIs to support user onboarding and user management from third party applications

Bug fixes and improvements

User interface

• Revised the color theme and improved the overall readability of content to make Skill Lake more user friendly

Course feedback

• Ability for content managers to manage course feedback forms
• Ability for content managers to enable feedback form for courses
• Ability for learners to share their feedback on course completion

Reports:

• Ability for content managers to evaluate the responses received through course feedback

AI:

• Ability for content managers to create course with the help of AI

Announcements

• Ability for administrators to pass general announcements with the entire organization/ specific groups
• Ability for all users to see the announcements available for them

Language support:

• Ability for all users to switch the platform’s language to Hindi

Bug fixes and improvements

Integrations

• Azure AD integration to enable user onboarding
• MS Entra SSO integration to enable login with Microsoft
• Google SSO integration to enable login with Google

Course bundling

• Added 60+ courses as part of the product offering

Bug fixes and improvements

Tech stack upgrade:

• Complete technology stack upgrade of Skill Lake to enhance the efficiency, reliability, security, scalability and maintainability

Performance management:

• Ability for HR teams to reopen performance reviews
• Ability for HR teams to configure whether or not to calculate the performance review rating
• Ability for employees to see how their self rating, manager rating and overall rating
• Ability for managers to see their team members’ self rating, manager rating and overall rating
• Ability for employees to see their performance review as a feedback journal entry

Reports:

• Ability for managers/ mentors, content managers and administrators to see visualizations and summary over reports to get a quick snapshot

Bug fixes and improvements

Course credits

• Ability for content managers to assign credits for courses
• Ability for learners to earn credits by completing the courses

Performance management:

• Ability for HR teams to create and manage performance reviews for organization/ departments/ individuals
• Ability for employees to submit their self evaluation
• Ability for managers to evaluate their employees
• Ability for moderators to support the process and close the reviews on time
• Email notifications
• Reports

Bug fixes and improvements

Performance review:

• Ability to create and manage rating scales for performance review forms

Instructor-led courses:

• Ability to publish batches inside the organization and allow employees to self enroll to those
• Ability to make batches available outside Skill Lake and accept enrollments

Bug fixes and improvements

Global search

• Ability for learners to easily find all available learning resources related to what they are looking for

Snippets:

• Ability for content managers to upload videos as part of snippets

Self paced courses:

• Ability to make self pace courses available outside Skill Lake and accept enrollments

Performance review:

• Ability to create and manage forms to conduct performance reviews

Bug fixes and improvements

Content management:

• Ability for group administrators to create and publish courses, snippets, events, learning paths and books to the groups that they are managing.
• Ability for group administrators to see the reports related to the members who belong to the groups that they are managing
• Ability for group members to consume the learning resources made available to the group to which they belong to and their parent groups

User deactivation:

• Ability for administrators to deactivate a user’s account when they leave the organization, thereby removing them from all the ongoing transactions while retaining their historical information.

ILT sessions – Recording attendance:

• Ability for administrators to print out the attendance QR code generated for each session in the instructor-led training, which can be scanned by the participants to record their attendance.

Images in snippets:

• Ability for content managers to share images as part of the learning snippets they create
• Ability for users to see the images shared as part of the learning snippets

Bug fixes and improvements

Learning path

• Ability for admins to enroll groups to learning paths and enable auto enrollment of members

SOPs/ Books:

• Ability for content managers to create and publish SOPs/ Books
• Ability to limit the visibility of SOPs/ Books to one or more groups alone
• Ability for users to see the list of SOPs/ Books in the library and refer to those as required

Mentoring/ Managing direct reports:

• UX improvement – List of direct reports/ learners that the managers/ mentors see and all the associated actions are revamped to help them perform more efficiently

Quick actions:

• Ability for admins to quickly assign courses/ activities and share journal feedback with the members of the groups that they are managing.

Bug fixes and improvements

Learning path

• Ability for content managers/ administrators to create and manage learning paths which can have courses or activities in it.
• Ability for content managers/ administrators to publish learning paths to the learning library so that learners can self enrol and learn if they wish to. Mentors can also find the appropriate learning paths for their learners and assign it to them.

Bug fixes and improvements

Reopen batch

• Ability for instructor-led course managers to reopen a closed batch and make the learning resources accessible for learners.

Rebranding

• Product rebranding with new logo and icon that better reflect our mission and values

Tech upgrade

• Angular version upgrade

Bug fixes and improvements

Learning to-dos

• Ability for mentors to assign courses/ activities as part of a journal feedback that they have shared with their learners.
• Ability for mentors to assign events to their learners thereby auto enrolling them to it.
• Ability for learners to add activities as to-dos for themselves

Powerpoint presentations:

• Ability for content managers to upload powerpoint presentations as learning content within a course.
• Ability for learners to consume the powerpoint presentations as slide shows as they consume the course.

Vimeo video visibility:

• Ability for content managers to deliver unlisted/ private vimeo videos as course content.
• Ability for learners to consume unlisted/ private vimeo videos which are added as part of the course content.

Bug fixes and improvements

Learning to-dos

• Ability for mentors to assign courses/ snippets/ activities as to-do items for their learners. Ability for learners to see all their learning to-do items in one place (courses, snippets and activities assigned to them) and take necessary action to finish those.

Topics landing page:

• Ability for learners to click on any topic of their interest and see all associated learning resources in one page

Confidential journals:

• Ability for mentors/ managers to share confidential journal feedback which will be visible only to the person who shares it, the one who receives it and the recipient’s reporting managers.

Topic management:

• Ability for administrators to merge similar topics as required to cleanup the topics list.

Share snippets and events:

• Ability for everyone to share an interesting snippet/ event with their peers.

Learning journey:

• Ability for learners to see a timeline of the major milestones that they achieved since they were onboarded to Skill Lake

Reporting snippet:

• Ability for learners to report a snippet as not useful, to help with content moderation

Bug fixes and improvements

Hard deadline for courses:

• Ability for mentors to define whether the course should be locked for learners if they have not finished learning by the due date set

Learning recommendations (AI ML powered):

• Course recommendations based on learner’s knowledge areas and journal entries they received

Topic management:

• Ability for administrators to manage the topics added by various users as they add learning resources (courses, snippets etc).

Bug fixes and improvements

Organizational units and groups:

• Ability for administrators to configure their organizational units and groups that fall under each unit, based on their organization definitions.

Instructor led course batches:

• Ability for course administrators to create multiple batches (as required) for instructor-led courses.

Course prerequisites:

• Ability for course administrators to define prerequisites for instructor led courses

Bug fixes and improvements

Snippets

• To encourage and enable microlearning, we have introduced learning snippets where the SMEs can post external reads, or any short learning items which can be consumed by learners. This will be retained in a repository if learners want to look up for the same in the future.

Bug fixes and improvements

Events:

• Ability for event managers to schedule short events and send organization wide invites.
• Ability for employees to see the event details and register for the ones that they are interested in.

Learning recommendations (AI ML powered):

• Course recommendations based on learner’s learning interests and what others with similar interests are learning.

Learning home feed (Premium add on):

• To make learning more engaging, we have introduced learning home feed, where the learners get the latest updates in a timeline view (similar to social media feed). Learners will be able to see their learning recommendations, new courses assigned to them, new courses added to the library, new events, journal updates, knowledge area updates and many more on the feed.

Bug fixes and improvements

Report:

• Ability for managers to see the learning summary of their entire reporting line. The summary will now include the name of the employee, their department, their reporting manager, number of courses that they are enrolled in and completed, number of journal entries that they got and when they got the last entry and their last login date.

SCORM compliance:

• Ability for content managers to upload SCORM content in courses and for learners to consume them.

Archive courses:

• Ability for managers to archive obsolete courses. Once archived, these courses will be removed from the course library. Learners who had already enrolled in such courses will no longer be able to access these archived courses.

Email address in reports:

• Learner’s email address are included in all the reports, making it easier to distinguish between people with similar names. Exported Reports will feature learners’ email address against the learners’ name in a separate column.

Bug fixes and improvements

Learning journal:

• Ability for mentors/ managers to record the progress of their learner’s learning journey and share feedback/ suggestions to help them achieve their learning goals.
• Ability for learners to see the learning journal entries added by their mentors/ managers and act upon the feedback/ suggestions received.

Video content:

• Ability for course managers to upload videos directly to a course and make it available for the students to consume. They could also add title and description to such videos which the learners can see under the course
• Ability for course managers to add title and description to YouTube and Vimeo videos that they add as course content.
• Ability for learners to watch videos that are uploaded and added as course content

Knowledge areas:

• Ability for administrators to do basic text formatting like bold, italics, bullets while adding description for knowledge areas

Bug fixes and improvements

Knowledge areas – Learning objectives:

• Ability for learners to create and manage learning objectives under their knowledge areas.
• Ability for mentors to create and manage learning objectives under the knowledge areas of their learners.
• Ability to tag knowledge areas to learning objectives while creating those under the learning plan.

Reports for content managers:

• Summary of enrollments in the courses that they are managing.
• List of learners enrolled in the courses that they are managing with their learning progress.

Notification settings:

• Ability for administrators to configure which all notifications Skill lake should send to the users. Includes both email and push notifications.

Courses:

• Improved the font size of the learning materials to enhance readability.

Bug fixes and improvements

Knowledge areas:

• Ability for the administrators to add and manage knowledge areas which can belong to one or multiple departments/ all departments.

Job titles:

• Ability for administrators to create and manage job titles that could belong to one or multiple departments/ all departments.
• Ability for administrators to assign knowledge areas to job titles and set the required level for those.
• Ability for administrators to assign job titles to users which also maps the respective knowledge areas and required levels to their profile
• Ability for mentors to set the current level for each knowledge area of their learners in the learner profile and to plan their training based on the gaps that they identify.
• Ability for the learners to see the expected level and current level against each of their knowledge areas in their profile and set their learning goals based on the gaps.

Reports

• Ability for administrators to see the summary of learning objectives created for the learners.
• Ability for administrators to see the knowledge area report of all the employees based on their job titles.

Course management:

• Ability for course managers to make necessary edits to a question even after the learners have submitted the test so that mistakes can be corrected.

Test result:

• Ability for learners to see if they passed/ failed in each of their test attempts.

Learning home:

• Improvements in learning home to make it easy for learners to navigate to their courses, learning objectives and knowledge areas.

Learner profile:

• Learner profile is made compact to make it easy for the users to navigate through the different sections.

Bug fixes and improvements

Restricted courses

• Useful when the course creator wants any course that they create to be visible only for selected departments/ teams. They can make such courses restricted under the “course visibility” option in the course settings page and select only those departments/ teams for which that has to be visible.

Group enrollment – teams

• Useful when the user wants to create custom teams and enroll such teams into the required courses. While enrolling, you can also decide whether to enroll only the existing members, future members, or both the existing and future members of the selected team.

Custom roles

• Useful when the organization wants to create fully customized user roles with the required permissions alone so that they have better control over who has access to what.

Unit description

• Useful for the course creators to add an introduction to every unit in their courses so that it’s clear for the learners what they can expect in those units, before starting to access the learning materials in those.

Bug fixes and improvements

Course administrators

• Ability to add one or more course administrators in self paced courses to enable better collaboration.

Reset test

• Ability for mentors to reset the number of available test attempts of individual learners. This will reset all their previous attempts so that they can start over.

Certificates

• Ability to share certificates on LinkedIn.
• Ability to download certificates as image.

Group enrollment settings

• Ability to define whether to enroll the existing members, future members, or both the existing and future members while enrolling groups to courses.

Email notifications

• Improvements in the learner activity email that is sent out every week.
• New email notification for learners when a new learning objective is created for them, or when new items are added in their learning objectives by mentors.

Department administrators

• Ability to add non department members as department administrators.

Bug fixes and improvements

User roles and permissions

• Ability for administrators to customize the default user roles in Upskill and assign it to the required users.

Teams

• Ability to create and manage teams, add team members and team administrators.

Share course

• Ability to copy and share course URL with others.

Bug fixes and improvements

New
report for administrators

• Learning activity report of all learners for the last 7 days.

New reports for mentors

• Summary of course enrollments by their learners.
• Learning activity report of all their learners for the last 7 days.
• Enrollment summary of their learners in courses.
• List of their learners enrolled in each course with their learning progress.

Email notification

• Weekly email notification to mentors with the information about the learning activity of their learners in the past week.

Expertise tags

• Ability for the administrators to add multiple expertise tags to the repository in one go.

Bug fixes and improvements

Learning plan

• To encourage structured and goal oriented learning, we have brought in the ability for learners to create their own learning objectives under their learning plan.

Unenrollment

• Ability for learners to unenroll from courses that they have self enrolled to.

Course restructuring

• Ability for content managers to move learning items from one unit to another.

Email notifications

• Email for learners when they complete a course.
• Email for instructors when they are added to a course/ removed from a course.
• Reminder for learners to resume their learning, if they have not been learning for a while.

Bug fixes and improvements

Learning plan

• To encourage structured and goal-oriented learning, a “Learning Plan” has been introduced.
• Mentors can create multiple learning objectives for a learning plan for each of their learners and assign courses and activities for achieving learning objectives. Learners are expected to complete the assigned courses and activities.

Mandatory course

• Courses can be set as mandatory while assigning courses for individual learners.

Profile – Expertise tags

• All users can add the available expertise tags to their profile (Provided the administrator has added expertise tags in the repository).

Profile – Upcoming

• Learners are allowed to see the four most recent upcoming sessions and assignments in their profile.

Reports

• Ability to export reports as CSV.

Bug fixes and improvements

Certificates

• Administrators to create and manage certificates.
• Content managers can deliver courses that offer certificates.
• Learners can complete courses and get certificates.

Edit profile

• Users can edit their own profile and add areas of expertise and profile summary (which will be seen as your instructor bio).
• Administrators can edit user profiles and can add or modify their areas of expertise and profile summary.

Expertise tags

• Administrators can manage the expertise tags and filter the user list using expertise tags.

Course progress summary

• Learners can see the learning progress summary for each course that they have enrolled for.

Minor bug fixes and improvements

Group enrollment

• Admin is enabled to enroll one or more departments into a course.

Mandatory course

• Admin is enabled to set a course as mandatory while assigning it to a department.

Departments

• Admin is enabled to see the departments in Skill Lake along with the members in it. Also, they can see the list of courses assigned to the departments and assign new courses.

Reports

• Learners – List of all learners with a specific number of courses that they have enrolled for and completed.
• Course summary – List of all courses with the number of learners – enrolled, yet to start, and in progress.
• Enrollments – List of learners in a selected course with their current status, progress percentage, etc.

Instructor role

• The Instructor’s role is rewired in such a way that once someone is added as an instructor of a course, Skill Lake automatically assigns that role to him/ her. As this eliminates the need of assigning Instructor roles to a user, the role is removed from InfinCE as part of the cleanup.

Question bank

• Unit tagging for questions has been removed to ensure tests can be created using any of the questions in the question bank without being limited to the ones tagged to specific units.