New Features in Skillport Administrator

Skillport Administrator has many new features and enhancements to enhance your organization's elearning experience.

The Skillsoft logo was updated throughout Skillsoft products, web sites, and all forms of communication.

Live Learning has been re-branded to Skillsoft Bootcamp. This change effects the name only. Functionality has not changed. All instances of Live Learning are now referred to as Skillsoft Bootcamp in assets and sub-assets, the user interface, the search results, the documentation, and any other location where the term "Live Learning" previously appeared.

Sites with Advanced Groups enabled can now create up to three separate Browse Views for each Advanced Group. Browse views designated for Advanced Groups can be different from the designated site-wide browse views. Learners assigned to an Advanced Group will see only the browse views active for that group.

A new Library Detail Export report is now available. This report provides greater flexibility for selecting assets from your entitled collections and Subscription IDs, and for selecting single or multiple assets and folders from the Library. See About the Library Detail Export Report for more information.

When downloading asset metadat in OLSA, you can now control the default download behavior of courses and course topics to which you are entitled. See Select Courses for Future Downloads in the OLSA v8 Knowledge Base for more information. Additionally, a new option allows you to add Catalog Folders from any Browse View to your future downloads. See Select Folders for Future Downloads in the OLSA v8 Knowledge Base for more information.

OLSA for Skillport 8 now supports downloading Asset Metadata for catalog folders. The Select Catalog Folders option allows you to add Catalog Folders from any Browse View to your asset downloads. When you select a folder for download, a Referral Object (RO) for that folder is included. When a learner launches a Folder RO, Skillport opens in either Books Limited or Full Skillport mode and the learner is given access to all assets within the folder. For more information, see Download Asset Metadata in the OLSA v8 Knowledge Base.

OLSA for Skillport 8 now supports Java Free integration with Third Party LMSs (TPLMS). With the Java Free for OLSA Sollution, organizations can keep their TPLMS behind their firewall in order to prevent access from any outside servers, including Skillsoft servers. For more information, see Java Free OLSA Solution in the OLSA v8 Knowledge Base.

The Asset Metadata file downloaded from either the OLSA Admin or the OLSA web service can now be formatted differently based on the configuration of your OLSA site. Additionally, some fields may or may not be included in the metadata based on the configuration. See About Asset Metadata Formatting in the OLSA v8 Knowledge Base for more information.

The Reporting feature now includes Data Export Reports for exporting report results to an FTP site. See Managing Data Export Reports for more information.

Advanced Compliance is now available for learners who use the Skillport 8i platform.

To prevent learners from bypassing content or potentially missing critical content, two new Player settings that control video playback speeds are available in Skillport Administrator:

Note: These new settings will not be available in the Player until the release of RIA 3.1.

The Learning Program Listing report was added to provide a list of the Learning Programs and assets contained within each Learning Program.

Two new reports were added to provide information on the source and device that learners use to access content. The Access Detailed by User report displays details, by user and asset, on every content access, including the source and device type used.

The Access Summary by Content report includes summary information showing the number of accesses by source, distributed across the various asset types and sub-types.

A new web site switch, Enable Learner Transcript View Duration Fields, was added that allows administrators to enable or disable displaying the Expected Duration field and the Actual Duration field in the Learner Transcript. Expected duration is the published duration associated with the asset. Actual duration is associated with the learner's progress record for the asset, and is the cumulative time spent within the asset.

The default value for this switch is no (the fields are not displayed).

Enable the Duration fields in the Learner Transcript

When the duration fields are enabled, they will display for the learner as follows:

On the Learning Transcript page, for Core data, Training Credit data, and Imported data
In the Learning Transcript print report, for Core data, Training Credit data, and Imported data

For more information, see Web Site Switches.

Custom user profile fields with a Text data type no longer display in Report filters from a drop-down list. Now, filter criteria is entered into a text box. If an existing template was created using a select box, and only one value was selected, that value now is entered into the text box, and is used as the criteria for the filter. If multiple values were selected, the filter is disregarded. To continue filtering by the same criteria, edit your template and enter your desired values in the text box.

If you still want data displayed in a select box, change the data type of the custom user profile field using the Manage User Profile Fields page.

The Recommended for You carousel displays on the What's New page and provides learners with personalized and popular content recommendations. A new web site switch, Enable Recommended for You Carousel, was added that allows Company Admins to enable or disable the carousel on a Skillport site. By default, this switch is set to Yes, which enables the carousel.

For more information, see Web Site Switches.

Enable Recommended for You Carousel in Skillport

A new topic was added to the Knowledge Base to further define the Time Zone Selector and help users understand how this feature affects the display of report output. See Understanding Time Zones and the Time Zone Selector.

Use color group 1 to change the text color of the Welcome Text header, Upcoming Events header and links, and Featured Topics sections on the What's New page. For more information, see Web Site Colors.

Color Group 1: Welcome Text header, Upcoming Events, and Featured Topics text

Two new columns are visible in the Courses template for ILT Batch Add:

Spoken Language: This required field must include a valid spoken content code and sets the spoken language of the course (for example, the language spoken by the instructor or the learners).
Content Language: This required field must include a valid content language code and determines where the ILT course displays when a user searches or browses within a selected language. Select und to ensure the course displays in all searches regardless of a learner's selected content language, or select a language to include it only when a learner searches within that language.

Use color group 7 to control the color of the active page header link and the inactive page header hover links. See Web Site Colors for more information.

In the image below, in the Skillport header, the See What's New link and the Browse the Library link are the same color as they are controlled by color group 7.

The active page header link is the See What's New link, because the learner is on that page in Skillport.
The inactive page header hover link is the Browse the Library link, as the learner is hovering his mouse over it.

Color Group 7: Some header links

When creating Instructor-led Training (ILT) courses, External Learning Objects (ELOs), and Learning Programs in Skillport, a new Content Language field is available. Selecting a language in this field places these content types in a learner's search results when they've opted to search for content in that content language.

When creating a new or editing an existing ILT course, you can specify both the Spoken Language (that of the Instructor) and the Content Language (that of the course itself). Sessions inherit both the Spoken and Content Language of their parent ILT course.

Note: Selecting Not Specified ensures the course displays in a learner's search results regardless of their chosen content language.

New Language Fields in ILT

When creating a new or editing an existing ELO, you can specify its content language.

Note: Selecting Not Specified ensures the ELO displays in a learner's search results regardless of their chosen content language.

New ELO Content Language Field

When creating a new or editing an existing Learning Program, you can specify its content language.

Note: Selecting Not Specified ensures the Learning Program displays in a learner's search results regardless of their chosen content language.

Create a New Learning Program