Retired Content Report

The Retired Content report provides details about content that has been used on your site that has been retired.

Percipio may take up to 24 hours to include relevant activity in this report. You can see at the top of the report when the data was last updated.

Report insights

The Retired content report shows you:

  • A list of retired content on your site including Skillsoft and custom content with the date the content was first published and the date it was retired.
  • Only content that has been used in promotions, assignments, journeys, and channels or has activity logged against it and has been retired.
  • Replacement content if it has been identified and the reason for retirement.
  • Books, book summaries, audio books, and audio book summaries are included on the report, but will not have a date in the Retired Date column. They can have a status of Removed or Deleted and in those cases are included as Retired on the report.

Use this report along with the All content listing report to locate where retired content is located including assignments, promotions, journeys, and channels so you can replace it.

Access the report

To access the report and customize it for your needs:

  1. From the Analytics menu in the left navigation bar, select the All reports tab.
  2. From the Content section, locate and select Retired Content.
  3. Select to update your report.
  4. You can select to Download report at this point so you can share with others in your organization.
  5. If you save the initial custom view, you can then:

Columns displayed by default

The following columns are available in the Retired Content report.

  • CONTENT TITLE: The title of the asset.
  • ASSET TYPE: The type of asset. Types may include assessment, audiobooks, audio summaries, books, book summaries, course, journey, linked content, scheduled content, and video. When you see the asset type for linked content, it could be associated with any of following Skillsoft content types: AI simulator, cheatsheets, interactive courses, test preps, labs, bootcamps, partner content and any custom content items you added. When you see the asset type, scheduled content, it could be associated with any of following Skillsoft items: live courses or live events. When you see the asset type, assessment, it is associated with the content type of Skill Benchmarks.
  • CONTENT TYPE: The type of content. Content types can be subsets of asset types. Content types are equivalent to the asset type for courses, videos, books, audiobooks, audio summaries, book summaries, and journeys. When an asset type is set for assessment, you can see a content type of Skill Benchmark. When an asset type is set for linked content, you can see content types for AI simulator, cheatsheets, interactive courses, test preps, labs, bootcamps, partner content, and any custom content items you added. When an asset type is set for scheduled content, you see content types of live courses and live events.
  • CONTENT ID: Unique identifier for the Skillsoft content item.
  • AVERAGE RATING: Average rating based only on your organization's star ratings for the content item.
  • PROVIDER: The name of the content provider.
  • PUBLISHER:  The name of the content publisher.
  • SOURCE: The source of the content item.
  • LANGUAGE: The language of the asset. Available languages and their codes are listed here.
  • BADGE ELIGIBLE: Displays a Y if the learner can earn a Digital Badge for the content or an N if he cannot.
  • STATUS: The status of an asset (published, retired, pending retirement, and archived).
  • RETIRE DATE: The date the content item retired or is scheduled to retire.
  • FIRST PUBLISH DATE: The date the content item was first added to Percipio.
  • REPLACEMENT CONTENT ID:The unique identifier for a specific content asset that replaces the retiring one. There may be more than one ID listed.
  • REPLACEMENT CONTENT TITLE: The title of the asset(s) that are replacing the retiring one.
  • REASON FOR RETIREMENT: A description of why the content item is being retired. The options include:
    • TECHNOLOGY_NOT_SUPPORTED: Technology required for the course is no longer supported
    • TECHNOLOGY_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED: Technology version is no longer supported
    • CONTENT_OUT_OF_DATE: Content is out of date
    • EXAM_RETIRED: Exam is retired
    • REPLACEMENT_CONTENT_AVAILABLE: New or updated content is available
  • ENGLISH EQUIVALENT ID: If a non-English content item has an English equivalent, this field is populated with the ID of the English equivalent content.
  • ENGLISH EQUIVALENT TITLE: If a non-English content item has an English equivalent, this field is populated with the title of the English equivalent content.
  • ESTIMATED DURATION (HHMMSS): Total estimated amount of time it takes a learner to complete the specified content. Time is listed in (00h00m00s) format.
  • DESCRIPTION: A detailed description of the asset.
  • CONTENT OWNER: Identifies who created the content.

Other columns available

  • CONTENT UUID: A unique identifier for a specific content asset.
  • PDU CREDIT: Indicates whether the content is available for PDU credit.
  • CPE CREDIT: Indicates whether the content is available for CPE credit.
  • KEYWORDS: A comma-separated list of keywords associated with the custom content item.
  • TECHNOLOGY TITLE: The title of the content technology (such as Mac, Linux, etc.).
  • TECHNOLOGY VERSION: The version of the content technology (such as Excel 2018, Windows 10, etc.).
  • LAST PUBLISHED DATE: The date the asset was last updated in Percipio.
  • ENGLISH EQUIVALENT COURSE CODE: If a non-English content item has an English equivalent, this field is populated with the course code of the English equivalent content.
  • ESTIMATED DURATION (HOURS): Total estimated amount of time it takes a learner to complete the specified content. For online courses this only includes the video playback time. Time is listed as fraction of hours. Something that takes 90 minutes to complete is listed as 1.50 and something that takes 15 minutes is listed as 0.25.
  • EXTERNAL ID: A unique identifier for custom content that you can use as a cross reference to another system.
  • EXTERNAL LINK: For linked content items, it is the URL that links directly to the content item.
  • WCAG: Indicates whether the content conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. A value of true indicates the content conforms to WCAG; a value of false indicates that it does not.
  • COPYRIGHT YEAR: The year the content was copyrighted.