What’s New
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Web app:
User interface
- Revised the color theme and improved the overall readability of content to make Skill Lake more user friendly
- 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
- Ability for content managers to evaluate the responses received through course feedback
- Ability for content managers to create course with the help of AI
- Ability for administrators to pass general announcements with the entire organization/ specific groups
- Ability for all users to see the announcements available for them
- Ability for all users to switch the platform’s language to Hindi
Mobile app:
Course feedback:
- Ability for learners to share their feedback after course completion
- Ability for all users to switch the platform’s language to Hindi
Web app:
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
- Added 60+ courses as part of the product offering
Mobile app:
Integrations:
- Google SSO integration to enable login with Google
Web app:
Tech stack upgrade:
- Complete technology stack upgrade of Skill Lake to enhance the efficiency, reliability, security, scalability and maintainability
Web app:
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
- Ability for managers/ mentors, content managers and administrators to see visualizations and summary over reports to get a quick snapshot
Mobile app:
Instructor-led courses:
- Ability for browse the available instructor-led course batches and enroll into those
Web app:
Course credits
- Ability for content managers to assign credits for courses
- Ability for learners to earn credits by completing the courses
- 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
Mobile app:
Share:
- Ability for content managers to share external content to Skill Lake as snippet
- Ability for managers/ administrators to assign courses as to-do for their team members
- Ability for learners to earn credits by completing the courses
Web app:
Performance review:
- Ability to create and manage rating scales for performance review forms
- 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
Mobile app:
Global search:
- Ability for learners to easily find all available learning resources related to what they are looking for
Web app:
Global search
- Ability for learners to easily find all available learning resources related to what they are looking for
- Ability for content managers to upload videos as part of snippets
- Ability to make self pace courses available outside Skill Lake and accept enrollments
- Ability to create and manage forms to conduct performance reviews
Mobile app:
Snippets:
- Ability for content managers to upload images and videos as part of snippets
- Ability for learners to watch videos in snippets
Web app:
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Mobile app:
Learning path:
- Ability for learners to consume learning paths
- Ability for learners to click on any topic of their interest and see all associated learning resources in one page
- Ability for learners to consume books/ SOPs
- Ability for learners to see the images shared as part of the learning snippets
Web app:
Learning path
- Ability for admins to enroll groups to learning paths and enable auto enrollment of members
- 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
- 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
- Ability for admins to quickly assign courses/ activities and share journal feedback with the members of the groups that they are managing.
Mobile app:
To-dos:
- Ability for learners to add their own to-dos
- Ability for learners to consume courses/ activities assigned to them as part of a learning path from their to-do list
- Ability for learners to filter their to-do list
Web app:
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.
Mobile app:
To-dos:
- Ability for learners to see their to-dos and complete those.
- Ability for learners to share the course, snippet, or event links with their peers to spread the word and share knowledge.
Web app:
Reopen batch
- Ability for instructor-led course managers to reopen a closed batch and make the learning resources accessible for learners.
- Product rebranding with new logo and icon that better reflect our mission and values
- Angular version upgrade
Mobile app:
Rebranding
- Product rebranding with new logo and icon that better reflect our mission and values
Web app:
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
- 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.
- 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.
Mobile app:
Share learning snippet:
- Ability for SMEs to share micro learning content/ external learning resources with the learners as short snippets
- Ability for learners to report a snippet as not useful, to help with content moderation
- Ability for learners to consume unlisted/ private vimeo videos which are added as part of the course content.
Web app:
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.
- Ability for learners to click on any topic of their interest and see all associated learning resources in one page
- 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.
- Ability for administrators to merge similar topics as required to cleanup the topics list.
- Ability for everyone to share an interesting snippet/ event with their peers.
- Ability for learners to see a timeline of the major milestones that they achieved since they were onboarded to Skill Lake
- Ability for learners to report a snippet as not useful, to help with content moderation
Mobile app:
Snippet recommendation:
- Ability for learners to see the learning snippets recommended for them on their learning home feed
- Ability for learners to the confidential journal feedback that their managers/ mentors have shared with them
Web app:
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
- Course recommendations based on learner’s knowledge areas and journal entries they received
- Ability for administrators to manage the topics added by various users as they add learning resources (courses, snippets etc).
Mobile app:
Learning home feed:
- To make learning more engaging, we have added learning home feed in the mobile app, 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
- Ability for learners to browse through the upcoming events and register to the ones that they are interested in
- Ability for learners to browse through the learning snippets and consume those
Web app:
Organizational units and groups:
- Ability for administrators to configure their organizational units and groups that fall under each unit, based on their organization definitions.
- Ability for course administrators to create multiple batches (as required) for instructor-led courses.
- Ability for course administrators to define prerequisites for instructor led courses
Web app:
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.
Web app:
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.
- Course recommendations based on learner’s learning interests and what others with similar interests are learning.
- 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.
Web app:
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.
- Ability for content managers to upload SCORM content in courses and for learners to consume them.
Mobile app:
Assignments:
- Ability for learners to view their assignments in the mobile app.
- Ability for learners to see their journal entries in the mobile app and receive push notification when they get a new journal entry.
- Ability for learners to consume SCORM content
Web app:
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.
- 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.
Mobile app:
Bug fixes and improvements
Web app:
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.
- 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
- Ability for administrators to do basic text formatting like bold, italics, bullets while adding description for knowledge areas
Mobile app:
Video content:
- Ability for learners to watch videos that are uploaded and added as course content
Web app:
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.
- 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.
- Ability for administrators to configure which all notifications Skill lake should send to the users. Includes both email and push notifications.
- Improved the font size of the learning materials to enhance readability.
Mobile app:
Tests:
- Ability for learners to attempt both graded and guided tests in the mobile app
Web app:
Knowledge areas:
- Ability for the administrators to add and manage knowledge areas which can belong to one or multiple departments/ all departments.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ability for learners to see if they passed/ failed in each of their test attempts.
- Improvements in learning home to make it easy for learners to navigate to their courses, learning objectives and knowledge areas.
- Learner profile is made compact to make it easy for the users to navigate through the different sections.
Web app:
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Mobile app:
Restricted courses
- Learners can access and learn the courses that are restricted to their teams or department in the mobile app.
Web app:
Course administrators
- Ability to add one or more course administrators in self paced courses to enable better collaboration.
- 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.
- Ability to share certificates on LinkedIn.
- Ability to download certificates as image.
- Ability to define whether to enroll the existing members, future members, or both the existing and future members while enrolling groups to courses.
- 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.
- Ability to add non department members as department administrators.
Mobile app:
Certificates
- Ability to download certificate as image.
- Ability to share certificates on LinkedIn and Instagram.
- Ability to control the playback speed of YouTube and Vimeo videos.
- Ability to resume YouTube and Vimeo videos from where it was left off the last time.
Web app:
User roles and permissions
- Ability for administrators to customize the default user roles in Upskill and assign it to the required users.
- Ability to create and manage teams, add team members and team administrators.
- Ability to copy and share course URL with others.
Mobile app:
Bug fixes and improvements
Web app:
New
report for administrators
- Learning activity report of all learners for the last 7 days.
- 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.
- Weekly email notification to mentors with the information about the learning activity of their learners in the past week.
- Ability for the administrators to add multiple expertise tags to the repository in one go.
Mobile app:
My profile
- Ability for learners to see their profile details and their achievements (badges/ certificates).
- Ability for learners to manage their expertise tags and profile summary.
Web app:
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.
- Ability for learners to unenroll from courses that they have self enrolled to.
- Ability for content managers to move learning items from one unit to another.
- 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.
Mobile app:
Pick up from where you left off
- Ability for learners to resume what they were learning when they launch the app.
- Ability for learners to unenroll from courses that they have self enrolled to.
- Push notification for learners when they are enrolled in new courses.
- Push notification for learners when new courses are added in the library.
- Push notification for learners to resume their learning, if they have not been learning for a while.
Web app:
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.
- Courses can be set as mandatory while assigning courses for individual learners.
- All users can add the available expertise tags to their profile (Provided the administrator has added expertise tags in the repository).
- Learners are allowed to see the four most recent upcoming sessions and assignments in their profile.
- Ability to export reports as CSV.
Mobile app:
Course progress
- Learners can see the progress of an ongoing course and see all completed units.
- Learners can complete a course, and download the certificate themselves (if the course offers one).
- Learners can see the badges and the certificate for an ongoing or completed course.
Web app:
Certificates
- Administrators to create and manage certificates.
- Content managers can deliver courses that offer certificates.
- Learners can complete courses and get certificates.
- 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.
- Administrators can manage the expertise tags and filter the user list using expertise tags.
- Learners can see the learning progress summary for each course that they have enrolled for.
Mobile app:
My courses
- Learners can see the list of the courses they have enrolled for and continue their learning.
- Learners can browse through the list of all courses, preview, and even self enroll for a course.
- Supports dark mode (inherited from phone settings).
- iOS 13 and above.
- Android 8 and above.
Web app:
Group enrollment
- Admin is enabled to enroll one or more departments into a course.
- Admin is enabled to set a course as mandatory while assigning it to a department.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Mobile app:
- iOS and Android apps are available as part of this release.
- Learners will be able to see the list of courses they are enrolled for and can consume those using the app.
- They can also browse through all courses available in the library as well (the ability to self enroll will be added in the next release).
Important note
- If an older version of the Skill Lake mobile app is already installed, please ensure to remove it before installing the new version from InfinCE.
- The iOS app is currently not functional in iOS ver 14.3. The team is trying to fix it.
