💙 What we’re excited about in this month’s release…
Self-enrollment courses now available in channels
I gotta be honest, this update sparks joy! When I first heard this feature was coming I sang a little song - Hit it Etta James!
Social, informal and formal learning are coming together. My love has come along, my lonely days are over, and life is like a song...🎵 There are a few use cases below, but I know there are many, many more and I really look forward to you sharing!
First a recap: Catalog vs Channels
Understandably this update has led to the question - so, what is the difference between channels and catalog now? Let’s borrow from @ Adam’s notes and do a quick review of the difference.
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Until now, courses only appeared in channels if you were already registered. No more! Now we can showcase courses in both catalog and channels. If I can quote the initial idea post, “We've been using the channels as social ways for experts to promote their own information. Many of them have also wanted to promote some of the good courses our enablement teams are formalizing...” This I love and this we can now do!
Configuration
Configuration on this one is nice and easy, but keep in mind, it is a global setting. From the Admin menu, go to Advanced Settings > Channels. You will see a single option, select and you are good to go.
Rules on engagement
Learners can self-enroll into courses from channels only if:
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the course enrollment policy is set to free (learn more about enrollment policy for courses)
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learners have visibility on at least one catalogue the course is assigned to
Remember that courses under maintenance are not shown in channels and that learners cannot see learning plans available for self-enrollment in channels.
🆕 What else is new in the docebo suite this month:
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Enrollment rules enhancements
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Shapes are now supported in the Go.Learn App
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Blue Jeans V2
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Mobile: Open Source Software Terms of Service page
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Docebo Learning Impact: New APIs for Evaluation Data
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Docebo Flow: New CSS token giving you greater flexibility in the launcher design
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Docebo Flow: Number of published launchers you can create increased to 50
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Docebo Flow: Number of static courses available in a static course
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Get into the nitty gritty👇👇👇
📚 Want to learn more?
Here’s a list of resources available to you for the November 2021 Release:
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Docebo Resources
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November 2021 Release course
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November 2021 Release Readiness webinar
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November Release Webinar Q&A - coming soon!
(We have an oops - We love Zoom, but we are having some fun pulling out the Q&A at the minute.)
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Updated in Docebo Help
💡 3 ways these updates could help you:
1️⃣ Learning leaders, it is your time to shine 🌟🌟🌟
It is security compliance time… Hold the excitement! You know the routine. You are looking for 100% compliance (could happen), your security team wants to send an email a day reminding everyone of the importance of security and your leadership team is reminding everyone about the upcoming SOC audit and, and, and…
How can you help? Well you can be the glue that holds it all together and reduce the number of emails in everyone’s inbox (hero status 🦸🦸♀️)! Let us help you. Picture this!
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Create a new Security Hub page that speaks to the monthly activities.
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Create a new channel dedicated to the theme of the month - Security!
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Give a voice to your security team to share additional documents and information.
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Post a video from your executive team supporting the cause and reminding everyone about the upcoming audit.
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Showcase additional security training for your employees to self-enroll
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Add an Ask the Expert widget and filter on the security channel so that all of the relevant questions and expert answers can be shared with all.
2️⃣ And what about your customers?
Well here is your hero moment! Do you have a new product rolling out? Consider using pages + channels to showcase your offering!
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Create a new product page. (🎨 I am confident marketing will help you out on this one!)
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Mix customer training courses and how-to guides along with product “one-pagers”, quick informal product demos or customer testimonials to help drive interest.
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Add your Q&A widget for customer questions and ensure your product experts and sales team are ready and able to respond.
3️⃣ Updates to enrollment rules
The enrollment rules interface has been given a facelift making it easier to search and navigate your rules. Not to be missed, you now have the ability to add codes to your enrollment rules. This addition can help with standardizing and sorting through your rules.
Tell me, who doesn’t love a little standardization?
📰 ICYMI, now you won’t!
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NEW What’s in your sandbox!?! series is live in Docebo Community
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NEW Ideas experience is now live to Docebo Community
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NEW Product Research & Design Category in Docebo Community
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NEW TUTORIAL Set Up Google Analytics to Show Aggregate Search Query Data
📢 We want to hear from you!
Do you have any ideas or plans to use these updates? Share with us in the comments below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
🤓 Give me the details
For those of you interested in the nitty gritty, here’s all that’s changing in this month’s release:
Self-enroll to courses from channels
For those using channels, starting from this monthly release, if users have courses in which they can self-enroll and those courses are published in channels, they will see them in channels by enabling the Show courses in which users can self-enroll filter and self-enroll from there.
Revamped Interface for the Enrollment Rules app
For those using the Enrollment Rules App, starting from this monthly release, the whole app has been completely redesigned to make the user experience of Superadmins smoother and more intuitive, while keeping the existing functionality. Learn more.
Renewed BlueJeans integration with Docebo
Starting today a new version of the BlueJeans integration is released. BlueJeans V2 retains all the same functionality as the previous release but now matches the look, feel and behavior of the Docebo Platform’s interface and relies on the new Docebo microservice infrastructure. This new version will completely replace the previous release by the end of December 2021. Learn more on BlueJeans V2.
Spaces no longer considered as characters before and after the text of fill-in-the-blank questions
As communicated on October 19, 2021, for those using fill-in-the-blank question types for tests, starting from this release, the platform will no longer consider the spaces before and after the text of the answer as characters and will remove them. This change will impact both the Superadmin when typing the correct answer while configuring the test, and learners when answering the question.
Go.Learn version 3.10.2 is here!
In this update, a handful of minor issues have been addressed to give you a better, smoother learning experience on mobile.
Docebo Flow launcher accepts CSS tokens for customization
The Docebo Flow Launcher now uses CSS Tokens to allow the hosting page to control the look and feel of the launcher, allowing users to match the appearance of the launcher more closely to the page it is contained within. Learn more.
New returned format for the /learn/v1/lp/{lp_id} API
As communicated on August 23, 2021, for those using the /learn/v1/lp/{lp_id} API, starting from this release, the short_description attribute will return the course description with the stripped HTML replaced by spaces.
📆 Incase you missed it in our October weekly releases
Sometimes things get missed in the weekly release, be in the know!
New interface for user data mapping in Salesforce
As communicated on October 5, 2021, for those using Salesforce, starting from this weekly release, the interface to map user fields when synchronizing users from Salesforce to Docebo has been redesigned, and it will use dropdowns instead of drag and drop. This enhancement will help you in reducing the number of errors when mapping fields.
In-platform notification for Docebo Learning Impact
For those using Docebo Learning Impact, starting from this monthly release, learners can access learning measurement surveys through an in-platform notification for initial evaluation, besides reaching surveys from the email they receive upon completing a course. The in-platform notification is enabled by default and managed from the Advanced Properties area of the platform.
Filter channels in the All Channels page
For those using Channels, starting from this weekly release, users will be able to filter the All Channels page and widget by channels, thanks to the Channels filter.
New limitation for the creation of menus through the POST /pages/v1/menu API
As communicated on August 3, 2021, for those using the POST /pages/v1/menu API to create menus, starting from this weekly release, the maximum number of menus you can create with this endpoint will be limited to 200. This new limit aligns the API behavior to the user interface.
Global Search returning full titles on the All Results page
As communicated on November 2, 2021, starting from this weekly release, when searching for one or more keywords in the platform Global Search, the All Results page will always show the full title of the search results, instead of a portion of the title containing the matched keyword. The same behavior will also be reflected in the highlight field of the manage/v1/globalsearch/search API.
User Personal Summary report chart description improved
The User Personal Summary Report chart axis descriptions now accurately describe their purpose which is to show a count of the number of times the user has accessed course material in the last twelve months.
Changes related to mentions for users, channels and assets
For those using Discover, Coach & Share, starting from this weekly release, mentions will be based on the visibility of the asset or channel in which the mention is made.
Unused notifications no longer available
For those using the Notifications app, please note that starting from this weekly release, the following notifications will be removed from the list of available notifications, as currently not used by the e-commerce functionality :
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Transaction Created
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Transaction Updated
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Transaction Deleted
⚠️ Heads up! Some changes coming your way
We don’t want you to miss any upcoming changes!
Task list widget redirecting to the course Report tab
For those using the task list widget, please note that starting on December 23, 2021, when clicking on an assignment in the Assignment to Evaluate tab, you will be redirected to the Reports tab of the course instead of landing on the Properties tab. This enhancement reduces the number of clicks needed to evaluate an assignment.
Power User having visibility on the resources of the users in their teams
For those using the Power Users app, please note that starting on December 2, 2021, if your Power Users are also managers, they will also have visibility on the resources assigned to the users of the teams they are managing.
New API for the management of the thumbnails
For those using the following APIs:
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GET /course/v1/thumbnails/{id}
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GET /learn/v1/courses/{course_id}
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GET /course/v1/courses/{id}
please note that starting on February 10, 2022, the used_by attribute will be removed from the APIs output, and a new API will be available to retrieve the list of courses where thumbnails are used. The name of the new API is GET /course/v1/thumbnails/{id}/usage
Global Search returning full titles on the All Results page
Please note that starting on November 18, 2021, when searching for one or more keywords in the platform Global Search, the All Results page will always show the full title of the search results, instead of a portion of the title containing the matched keyword. The same behavior will be also reflected in the highlight field of the manage/v1/globalsearch/search API.
401 error response returned by the POST /manage/v1/user/password API
For those using the POST /manage/v1/user/password API, please note that starting on February 3, 2022, when the API is called with an invalid token because the session has expired, the endpoint will return a 401 error status code response and no longer a 400 error response.
New format for the response of the /lms/index.php?r=aicc/hapc&id_org=ID API
For those using the /lms/index.php?r=aicc/hapc&id_org=ID API API to play AICC training material, please note that starting on February 3, 2022, this endpoint will no longer return the error=0 and error_text=successful after the error response.
