🍂 What’s New: Our Fall 2025 SkillBuilder® Update! 🍂

Dear SkillBuilder community,

Welcome to the October edition of our newsletter! As the leaves turn and we settle into the final few months of the year, I’m excited to share with you what’s new at SkillBuilder^®, highlight some of the great work our team is doing, and give you a few pointers to help you get the most out of our products and services.

This fall, we’re doubling down on innovation, on supporting our customers’ evolving needs, and on lifting the voices of our team.

We’re also expanding our support across the entire lifecycle of developing learning programs, from planning and design to development and implementation. Many times, organizations we work with have secured funding or have a learning need but are unsure how to translate their ideas into a fully realized program. If this sounds familiar, our team can guide you through each step, helping turn your vision into an effective, scalable learning solution for employees or external audiences.

We strive to partner with organizations to create effective learning experiences that ensure compliance, strengthen culture, and enhance employee satisfaction, because a well-trained workforce drives safety, engagement, and growth.

Thank you for being part of the journey with us. As always, please reach out if you have ideas, feedback, or just want to chat about a new learning challenge.

Now, grab a coffee (maybe add some pumpkin spice to it!), and enjoy the tidbits in our newsletter.

Sarah Flesher, Ph.D.
President
BaseCorp Learning Systems

Whatever your training challenge, our team can help.

Contact us today!

👀Sneak Peek: SkillBuilder^® Academy Is Coming Soon!

Big news — we’re getting ready to launch our new white label courseware library, SkillBuilder^® Academy! Soon, you’ll have access to a ready-to-use collection of expertly designed courses that you can brand as your own and use to deliver “right-now” learning solutions to your audience.

SkillBuilder^® Academy will cover a wide range of in-demand topics, from Workplace Safety and People & Performance Skills to Project Management and more. Each course is built by our passionate team of learning professionals and designed to engage, inform, and deliver results.

Whether you’re expanding your training catalogue or looking for a quick, high-quality way to offer new learning opportunities, SkillBuilder^® Academy will make it simple to deliver polished, professional eLearning and certifications — all under your brand.

Stay tuned for more details!

Learning Resource Development – What’s New!

This fall, our team continues to focus on the role of AI in our work, microlearning, and personalization. Artificial intelligence is streamlining course development by automating the creation of quizzes, simulations, and bite-sized learning modules, while microlearning remains the preferred format for quick, focused skill-building. But we’ve also learned and feel very strongly that AI can’t be used for everything, especially if your content is proprietary. As soon as an AI tool is integrated into the workflow, that information becomes public… even the meta data of a document, which is often forgotten.

Our recent work also focuses on telling stories. We’re huge proponents of scenario-based learning. Using scenarios helps learners apply knowledge in realistic, job-relevant contexts. By simulating real-world situations, scenarios encourage critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making, allowing learners to safely practice skills before applying them on the job. This experiential approach boosts engagement, builds confidence, and leads to stronger skill retention and performance outcomes.

Check out some of the recent scenarios we have created:

Secure Services

Providing Exceptional Customer Experience Through Problem-Solving

Providing Product Knowledge in Customer Interactions

SkillBuilder^® Technologies – What’s New

Our SkillBuilder^® technologies are empowering learners in their learning journey. SkillBuilder^® LMS is a platform built on proven principles of competency and adult learning science. We’re helping our customers understand that adult learners thrive when they have control over their learning journey and engage better with the content when the training meets a specific need.

What’s new?

Skill Check Learning Item

We had hinted that a new Learning Item was coming soon in our last newsletter. Well, the time has come! Administrators can now create and complete on-the-job skill checks. A skill check is a structured evaluation used to assess how well an employee applies newly learned skills in their actual work environment. It typically involves observing performance against defined criteria or checklists to confirm competence and consistency. These assessments help ensure that training translates into real-world proficiency and measurable results.

New Supervisor Role and Hub

We’ve introduced a dedicated page (or hub) for users with the new Supervisor role. When a learner is assigned a supervisor, that person can easily view the learner’s progress, completions, upcoming and expired learning, and all completed skill checks.

Account Anonymization for Marking

In some cases, you may not want your evaluators to view the names of the individuals they are grading. Administrators now have the option to anonymize learner identities when an evaluator scores assignments or exams.

Concierge Services

We understand that administrating an LMS can be a lot of work, so we’re now offering concierge services for setup and customization, ongoing site maintenance, and end user program support. This expert LMS implementation and management service, led by our highly skilled and academically credentialed team, is designed to relieve your organization from the day-to-day administration of your learning program.

We will take the opportunity to evaluate your program requirements from set up through to ongoing support and determine the appropriate service levels and associated costs.

🔥Hot Tip!🔥

Consider incorporating “micro-practice” quizzes after each of your eLearning modules.

One of the best ways to cement learning is through spaced retrieval. After every major module, insert a 2- to 3-question micro-quiz to prompt recall. This not only reinforces retention but also helps you spot weak points early and send remedial content.

For customers using an LMS like SkillBuilder^®, a handy trick is to set up a delayed release of these micro-quizzes, via dynamic rules and branching logic, so learners are nudged automatically. If you want help including these in your courses, our team is happy to assist!

Employee Spotlight

Meet Jasmin!
Jasmin runs the Alberta Level 1 Online Orientation Program, which has over 30,000 enrolled students! She is also the Program Manager for Staff Working in Licensed Child Care Facilities in the Northwest Territories.
Fun fact about Jasmin is that she’s known as Mrs. Santa around the office, bringing the Christmas cheer as early as September. She also enjoys gardening and has an amazing indoor plant collection.