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SkillBuilder® LMS Release Notes

We're always updating SkillBuilder® LMS with new features and ideas.

Releases

5.24.271 (September 2024)

  • Data export - Include group information for Accounts, Learning Item Completions, and Learning Path Completions exports
  • Exams - Ability to hide exam status from learners
  • Organizations - Allow Organization Administrators to manage their own organization and suborganizations

5.24.234 (August 2024)

  • API toolkit - Exam attempt API endpoint
  • Data Export - Ability to specify date ranges for exporting completions and orders data

5.24.205 (July 2024)

  • Custom pages - Enhancement to support, External .css, inline Style, basic javaScript and JQuery
  • Exams - Ability to hide exam score and exam passing score from learners
  • Exams - Ability to select proctoring options (scheduled/not scheduled, in person/online)

5.24.163 (June 2024)

  • Accounts - Ability to add admin notes to user accounts
  • Exams - Ability to schedule exam sessions

5.24.86 (March 2024)

  • Exams
    • Update to exam questions status and filters
    • Ability to import exam questions using .csv files
  • Storefront
    • Exclusive Products - Ability to limit products to groups or organizations
    • Ability to sell additional exam attempts
  • Advanced catalog
    • Ability to add tags to products
    • Ability to filter products using tag generated filters
  • Seminars/Webinars - Ability to add Seminars and Webinars to calendars that use .ics files, such as Apple’s iCalendar, Outlook and Google Calendar

5.24.44 (February 2024)

  • Exams - Ability to create exams using forms
  • Custom pages - Updated to support external .css, inline Style, and basic javaScript and JQuery

5.24.29 (January 2024)

  • Exams - Ability to add External Id and Admin Comments to exam questions
  • Exams - Ability to delay exam scoring

5.23.353 (December 2023)

  • Discounts - Ability to limit discount usage to Organizations
  • New Product Discount - Ability to create discounts limited to specific Products
  • New Work History Learning Item - Ability to verify learner’s professional experience
  • Learning Items - Redesigned and updated the Edit Learning Item pages

5.23.264 (September 2023)

  • Navigation Bar
    • Redesigned the navigation bar
  • Menu
    • Learning Plan moved from the navigation bar to the learner menu
    • Catalog moved from the navigation bar to the learner menu when user signs in
    • Inventory moved to the learner menu
    • New Administrators submenus under Catalog
  • Catalog
    • Ability to create and edit Products for the Catalog
  • Products
    • Ability to publish, unpublish and archive Products
    • Ability to add SEO metadata to Products
    • Ability to set up Products for sale
    • Ability to add a Product to a Category
    • New Bundle Product – Allows for the sale of Bundles in the new Advanced Catalog
    • New Bundle Product – Ability to add Products to a Bundle
  • Advanced Catalog
    • New Advanced Catalog released
    • Ability to create a Catalog homepage and select enabled sections: Categories, Featured Products, Recommended Products and Most Popular Products
    • Ability to create and edit Categories
    • New Categories page and filters
  • Shopping Cart
    • Redesigned and updated the Shopping Cart
  • Learning Paths
    • Updated the Edit Learning Path page to enhance the management of Learning Path versions

5.23.124 (May 2023)

  • Organizations
    • Ability to structure Organizations in a hierarchy
    • Ability to set tax exempt Organizations
  • Self-registration
    • Signup Code and URL features as options for users to self-register into Organizations
    • Ability for users to select their Organizations from a dropdown list
  • Signup up page
    • New self-registration options and layout updates
  • Organizations page
    • Updated to show hierarchical Organizations (when hierarchy enabled)
  • Organization edit page
    • New page to manage the new organization and self-registration features
  • Organization Administrators
    • Enhancement to role
    • Ability to manage learners in a hierarchy
    • Update to admin permissions when editing learners account
    • New notifications sent to Organization Administrators when users are added to their Organization

4.105.0 (January 2023)

  • System upgrade – .net updated to version 6.0

4.104.0 (August 2022)

  • Sign in – Ability to recover a username using the email address associated with the account

4.103.0 (July 2022)

  • Forums - New online discussion board promotes community and social connection among users

4.102.0 (April 2022)

  • Evaluations - New Exam Attempts Management Page
  • Reporting - Ability to view exam attempts information and export data to CSV

4.101.0 (March 2022)

  • Self-registration - Group Signup Link allows learners to self-register into specified group
  • Accounts - Ability to merge duplicate accounts
  • Organizations - Ability to bulk move people from one organization to another
  • Learning Plan - Ability to hide a Learning Path from all Learning Plans and by status
  • Learning Path - Previous Learning Path version is hidden when a new version of the Learning Path is assigned
  • Groups - Ability to Remove Groups

4.99.0 (January 2022)

  • Open Badges - Ability to post Open Badges on LinkedIn
  • Open Badges - Ability to add Open Badges to Certificates and Achievements on LinkedIn Profile

4.98.0 (December 2021)

  • Data Privacy - Ability to anonymize or delete account data on request
  • Data Privacy - Users can opt out of allowing their data to be sold

4.97.0 (November 2021)

  • Web API - New Organization endpoints to Add, Edit, or Update Organization data
  • Organizations management - Allows storing and searching by external ID
  • Evaluations - Faster record searches
  • User Audit logging - Tracking last accessed date (timestamp)

4.94.0 (October 2021)

  • Learning Path - Ability to set a Learning Path Access expiry
  • Path to Learning Assignments - Ability to manually assign a Learning Path updated

4.93.0 (September 2021)

  • Stripe - New payment processor added
  • Exam Attempt - Ability to enable/disable exam attempt requests
  • New Path Assignment Web API end point - Allows the assignment of a Learning Path regardless the learner's assignment status

4.91.0 (August 2021)

  • Admin Dashboard - Shows recently logged in users, recent completions, and learners with expiring learning paths

4.89.0 (July 2021)

  • API Toolkit documentation - New Get Account by Username field

4.88.0 (June 2021)

  • iCalendar integration - Allows learners to add registered events (Seminars and Webinars) to their iCalendar
  • Organization Data Export - Pricing tier added
  • New web API end point - Allows to fetch records by userName
  • Open Badges - My Badges added to learner menu when Open Badges are enabled

4.87.0 (May 2021)

  • Non-storefront signed in catalog - Ability to select courses from a catalog to add to a Learning Plan for free

4.86.0 (April 2021)

  • Home page - Logo links to designated home page
  • Footer banner - New tenant footer banner on sign in page and catalog
  • Menu - New learner menus
  • My Certificates page - User transcript now visible from My Certificates page
  • Storefront 2.0 - New catalog and category carousel banners, new graphical look and feel, and filter enhancements
  • Learning Plan - New graphical look and feel, and updates to the administration of Learning Paths
  • Categories page - Updates to better align with catalog and learning plan changes
  • Custom certificates - New Path and Version Name acrofields added
  • Certification Check enhancement - Allows search by organization and download of a CSV file of all certifications by organization

4.85.0 (February 2021)

  • Data export enhancement - Ability to export people/person data, completion data and custom registration question data into a CSV file
  • Data export enhancement - Ability to to export detailed order and inventory data into a CSV file
  • New web API end point - API end point completions with personal data added

4.82.0 (November 2020)

  • Custom certificates - New buttons ('Logo' and 'Signature') and new acrofields ('SignatureName' and 'SignatureTitle') added

4.80.0 (October 2020)

  • Completions API - Date range parameters and continuing education hours added
  • Catalog - category filter updated to a expandable filter at the top of the screen

4.79.0 (September 2020)

  • Continuing Education Credits - Ability to activate continuing education credits
  • Storefront - Option to configure tenant address and tax #ID on all invoices added

4.77.0 (July 2020)

  • Exam print jobs - Ability to create a new exam print job, view list, view exam, print and delete exam from print records

4.74.0 (May 2020)

  • Storefront - Payment options by purchase order and by invoice order added
  • Reports - Records purchased by purchase order as a sale and pending items included on reports
  • Order Details - Updated to include purchase order information
  • Reporting - Ability to view pending orders and update order status to paid
  • Certificates - Ability to remove the signature from completion certificates
  • Learning Item - Ability to require a learner to redo a previously completed Learning Item, without having to recomplete the entire Learning Path
  • Custom Questions - Ability to run reports on custom registration questions

4.72.0 (April 2020)

  • Dashboard - New Group Admin and Organization Admin Dashboard Section added
  • Dashboard - My Certificates container added to learner dashboard
  • User's profile administration - Ability to see the user's profile picture and gamification points
  • Webinars and Seminars - Waitlists and ability to restrict the number of learners who self-enroll added
  • New API Toolkit endpoints - 'Get Completions with Group' and 'Get Completions with Organization' added

4.69.0 (February 2020)

  • Custom Certifications - Ability to upload Acrobat Forms (AcroForms), which are PDF files that contain form fields (or AcroFields)
  • Impersonation - Ability to allow Super Administrators and Site Administrators to impersonate learners
  • Reports - New impersonation report added

4.66.0 (December 2019)

  • Custom Certificates - Ability to change the certificate for the version and localization when editing a Learning Path

4.65.0 (November 2019)

  • Webinars - New enabled/disabled search feature added to the schedule webinar page
  • Completions API - Update to pull UserName
  • Custom Certificates - New multilingual stamps created

4.63.0 (October 2019)

  • Inventory - Ability to transfer the administration of purchased inventory to another user
  • Notifications - New autogenerated notification created to notify inventory receiver and sender about transfers

4.62.0 (September 2019)

  • New Iframe Learning Item Option - Ability to upload online and video content into an Iframe and edit the window size
  • Inventory - Ability to view another user's inventory from the user's My Profile page added to Administrators

4.60.0 (August 2019)

  • Custom Certificates - 'Organization Name' added to customized certificates and certification wallet cards
  • Recognition Item - Updated to show the completion date of individual Learning Items in addition to the full Path completion date
  • New 'send path expired notification' setting - Ability to disable notifications sent to learners when a Learning Path has expired

4.57.0 (July 2019)

  • Certification Check - Allows anyone to look up a certification by registration number
  • Certification Monitor Role - Allows a user to search for completed/valid certifications by registration number, first and last name, and/or email
  • Navigation bar - Redesign of mobile and iPad navigation bar
  • Accessibility - 'Launch in a new Window' button recognizable for a screen reader only added to Online Lesson Learning Items

4.55.0 (June 2019)

  • Learning Paths - Path expiry settings updated
  • Subscriptions - International subscriptions updated