A custom course is organization-specific web-based instructional content delivered to you on your computer. During a custom course, you practice and are assessed on your mastery of the skills and knowledge learned in the course.

Instructor Led Training (ILT) courses are scheduled courses that you attend at a specific time. An ILT course can have one or more sessions, which are scheduled instances of the course. There are two types of ILT sessions:

• ILT physical sessions: These sessions are held at physical locations, for example, a classroom or conference room.
• ILT virtual sessions: These sessions are delivered online via web conferencing applications.

You can enroll yourself in an ILT session, or your manager or training administrator can enroll you. Depending on the configuration of your site, your manager may need to approve the enrollment if you enroll yourself. If your manager enrolls you, you are notified by email of the location, duration, time, and date of the scheduled session.

If sessions of a course are currently unavailable (that is, there are no scheduled sessions or all scheduled sessions are full), you can add an ILT course to your watchlist in order to be notified when a new session is scheduled.

A Learning Program is a collection of learning assets that are grouped together based on subject matter, target audience, learning goal, or another organizing principle. Learning programs can include required and elective assets, have a defined structure that requires completion in a prescribed order, and a learner's progress can be tracked.

An external learning object (ELO) is a reference to a learning activity or resource such as:

• A membership in a professional association
• A subscription to, or an article in, a journal or magazine
• An on-the-job or off-the-job experience
• A web site (for example, http://www.mywebsite.com/usefulinfo.html)
• An Internet newsgroup
• An in-house policy and procedure manual (for example, http://www.mywebsite.com/manuals/newemployeemanual.pdf)

External learning objects can be displayed, and searched for, in the Library. However, Skillport cannot track their completion by learners.