Docebo’s December 2021 Release! 🎉

Starting from this monthly release, the Results page of the global search becomes accessible, allowing all users to browse the results of their searches also using screen readers, keyboard navigation and zooming the area up to 400%. Learn more on accessibility in your platform.

For those using the Hide the My Profile and the Preferences sections in the user personal area for learners and Power Users, and the My Profile section only for Superadmins option in the platform Advanced Settings menu, starting from this monthly release, this option is split into two. This change will enhance the flexibility of the tab visibility of the My Profile area. The new options are: 

• Hide the Personal Info tab except for the avatar image in the My Profile area for all users

• Hide the Preferences tab in the My Profile area for users and Power Users. 

Your current option configuration will be reflected in the new options: both of them are active if you activated the Hide the My Profile and the Preferences sections in the user personal area for learners and Power Users, and the My Profile section only for Superadmins option, both of them are inactive if you haven’t.

For those allowing users to customize their time zone, starting from this monthly release, when users move to a location having a different time zone than the one set, the platform will prompt them to adjust their time zone according to the one detected by the browser. Learn more on the time zone management in your platform.

As communicated on November 23, 2021, for those using the task list widget, starting from this monthly release, 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.

For those who using Discover, Coach & Share, starting from this monthly release, if the default AI-Based channel is activated or deactivated from the Channel Management menu, this action will no longer have any impact on the user menu: if the default AI-Based channel is activated, then the corresponding page will no longer be automatically visible in the user menu and, vice versa, when deactivated, the corresponding page will not be automatically removed from the user menu. The removal must be done manually from the Manage Menus area. Learn more about how to customize your menus.

Starting from this monthly release, there are 19 new events available in the New Audit Trail, adding functionality found previously only in the Audit Trail App, as well as new events exclusive to the New Audit Trail.

For those using the Docebo Content Library, starting from this weekly release, the Mobile Optimized label for courses in the library has been updated to Mobile Responsive for accuracy, as the courses marked with this label have a layout that adapts to smaller screens, but do not have a dedicated mobile format.

As communicated on November 30, 2021, starting from this monthly release, Docebo adds two new technical cookies exempted from user consent to the list of cookies of Docebo Learn. The new cookies are used to manage preferences when the user time zone changes, and the platform prompts users to automatically update it.  

• dontAskForTimezoneUpdate: needed to store the Don’t ask me again information to avoid showing the New Time Zone Detected pop-up again if the Don’t ask me again button has been clicked

• timezone_update_dialog_snooze: needed to delay the display the New Time Zone Detected pop-up of at least 12 hours after the user has clicked Remind Me Later

As a Superadmin, make sure you take action according to the currently applicable law of your Country. Learn more about the Cookie Policy in your platform.

Starting from this monthly release, you can create customized templates for your Learning Impact surveys according to your needs. These templates are then available for selection in the Course Additional Fields section of the course Properties tab. Learn more.

For those using the Docebo for Google Drive integration, starting from this monthly release, the app interface in Docebo has been redesigned to align with the latest platform style. Learn more on Docebo for Google Drive.

For those using the Docebo for Elucidat integration, starting from this monthly release, the app interface in Docebo has been redesigned to align with the latest platform style. Learn more on Docebo for Elucidat.

Starting from this monthly release, two new API endpoints are available for integrators to retrieve and delete a list of failed webhooks calls by the ID of the webhook:

• notifications/v1/webhooks/{id}/dlq – a GET API call that retrieves a paginated list of webhooks calls that failed after ten attempts by the ID of the webhook.

• /notifications/v1/webhooks/{id}/dlq/batch – a DELETE API call that deletes the list of webhooks calls that failed after ten attempts by the ID of the webhook.

In this update, the following new features have been added to the mobile app:

• For those using gamification, badge sharing has been improved! In addition to a redesigned and enhanced user interface, now when your learners share their badges on social networks or via any compatible apps installed on their devices, they share the link to a public page of Docebo platform, accessible by anyone (even by people who don’t have an account on Docebo), where all of the details of the achievement are displayed. Linking the official authority which has awarded the badges makes them more reliable in the eyes of the public.

• For those using e-commerce, the price of courses or learning plans on sale in catalogs is now displayed also on the mobile app, giving you more information about the content you are going to purchase on your desktop platform.

• For those using the branded mobile app, you as a Superadmin can now take advantage of certificate pinning, a technique that increases the security of your mobile application and enables you to protect your app from phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks by validating your digital HTTPS certificate. 

Starting from this monthly release, Docebo Flow users can use Building Blocks, allowing widgets presenting the content of the Docebo platform to be embedded directly into any web page. Check out Docebo Flow for more information.

Starting from this monthly release the Docebo Flow Launcher start command promise resolves only after the Launcher is ready to be displayed. This provides some extra functionality behind the scenes like allowing searches to be executed prior to showing the Launcher.

Docebo Connect is now able to make use of Message Templates, allowing you to create static templates for frequently used messages and deliver them in various formats such as HTML, XML, JSON or text.

For those using the Power Users app, starting from this weekly release, the Manage Thumbnail and the View and Select Thumbnail permissions will be extracted from the Course permissions area, and will become part of the newly created  Image Management area.

For those using the POST /learn/v1/enrollment/batch API, starting from this weekly release, this endpoint offers an additional, optional, parameter, called enroll_disabled_users, only available for Superadmins. Use this parameter to create enrollments also for expired and deactivated users.

As communicated on September 14, 2021, starting from this weekly release, when the Use Email as Username option is enabled in the platform Advanced Settings area, this parameter will also affect the user updated via the PUT /manage/v1/user/{id} API.

As communicated on September 14, 2021, for those using the POST learn/v1/enrollment/batch_import/ API, this endpoint will no longer be available starting from this weekly release.

The deadline for the migration of the courses having the Webinar (Deprecated Soon) course type to ILT courses will be postponed from January 24, 2022 to February 23, 2022. Starting from February 2, 2022, you will be able either to enter the pre-migration phase or to manually migrate courses.  Learn more on how the migration will be carried out in the Knowledge Base. 

The new deadline also applies to the deprecation of the APIs listed in the Transition to the New Management of Classroom Courses and Webinars KB article.

For those using Gamification, starting from this weekly release, if you, as the Superadmin have selected the Anonymity parameter from the Availability tab of the leaderboards, you will still be able to see the names of  users in the leaderboards in clear, while other users will keep seeing anonymous entries.

In this update, a handful of minor issues have been addressed to give you a better, smoother learning experience on mobile.

For those using the branded mobile app and publishing the app on the Apple App Store or via a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system, please note that in order to be able to re-sign and then publish your app, you need to download and run the new version of the resign.sh script. This file is also attached to the Re-signing the .ipa chapter of the Re-signing and Publishing the Branded Mobile App KB article. 

For those using the POST /learn/v1/sub_bundle/{bundle_id}/item API, please note that starting from this weekly release, the API will be replaced by the POST /learn/v1/sub_bundle/{bundle_id}/items API. The new API allows you to assign one or multiple items to a bundle.

Starting today six new CSS Tokens are available for customizing the look and feel of the Docebo Flow Launcher. You’ll be able to customize:

• the colors of the title bar’s icons

• the widget separator height

• the Launcher’s border

• the Launcher button’s shadows and hover shadows

• the Launcher button’s shadow color

For those evaluating users in the sessions of ILT (Instructor-Led Training) courses, please note that starting from March 10, 2022, it will no longer be possible to perform evaluations for the users in the session waiting list. This will prevent users from being evaluated before they actually attend the session. Learn more on evaluations.

For those using subscription plans in their platform, starting from January 26, 2022, a new built-in page will be available to provide better visibility on the catalogs included in the subscriptions of the user logged in the platform. The page name is Catalogs in My Subscriptions. As a result, the Course Catalog page will no longer show the courses and the learning plans listed in the catalogs purchased via subscriptions.

For those using public catalogs, please note that starting on January 13, 2022, when updating these catalogs, it may take up to three minutes to see your changes applied.

For those using the GET /course/v1/sessions/{session_id} API, please note that starting on March 24, 2022, the value returned by the score_base attribute will be null for all session completion types different from Evaluation Based.