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In this month’s roundup, you’ll find more information on:
For those of you who tuned into the Sandbox post earlier this month, I did hint at something big happening this release and I’m not even going to tease you with musings.
Without further ado, let’s dive right in folks:
Update as of April 23, 2024:
Hello Everyone,
We appreciate your honest feedback on the new course player experience! We're working hard to address your concerns and make it more user-friendly.
Here's what you can expect in the upcoming releases:
- Simpler navigation: We're streamlining navigation to get you learning faster with fewer clicks.
- Enhanced clarity: A clearer table of contents will help you track progress and understand the flow of your training.
- Focus on learning: We're creating a cleaner interface with less emphasis on graphics to put the learning materials front and center. Instructors will also benefit from an improved interface clarity when sessions end.
- Familiar features return: For e-learning courses, the familiar pre-page option will be making a comeback!
We're also excited to announce a new feature coming later this year:
- Focus Mode (December release): This optional mode minimizes distractions so you can truly delve into the content. It allows for navigation within courses and learning plans without switching between pages.
Cut-off and Early Access:
The new course player will be mandatory by the end of the year (2024). However, we encourage you to test and activate the new player at your earliest convenience. While you can still use the old player until the deadline, there will be additional features released in the coming months that won't be available on the old platform.
We'll continue to keep you updated on new features and functionality. We'll also be dedicating time in the upcoming release readiness webinar to answer any questions you may have.
Additional Notes:
During this development period, we're also fixing numerous glitches discovered internally and by clients. These fixes will further enhance the overall experience.
We look forward to your continued feedback!
New UI/UX for Course Player, Courses & Learning Plans
Community, this is BIG: We are constantly seeking ways to address accessibility and enhance user experience, but we also recognize that it takes some of us time to get used to new perspectives and ways of doing things. We have explored this big change in a previous community post and are very excited to share that we are giving you the opportunity to preview the new UI/UX of our courses, course player, and learning plans with this release!
Note: We are going to move to the new UI/UX in the October release. So, you have 6 months to preview and get your learners acquainted with the new look and feel! (Update: October date has been pushed to June 2024).
How does this work?
As a super admin, you will be able to view a new panel which will lead you to Enter The Preview Mode of the new UI. Click on the button “ENTER THE PREVIEW MODE”
Confirm and reload the page
You will now see the blue box turn orange which indicates that you are now in preview mode.
What does the new UI look for a course? Well, here it is:
If you’d like to see this in real time, click here to watch the video!
So folks, I welcome you to preview the new UI/UX and share your feedback with us in the Ideas section of the Community - be sure to select “Course and Learning Plan Player (Preview Release)” option in the “Product Area” drop down menu.
Improved Filters and Sorting Options
The best part about online shopping is that you don’t have to sort through big piles of clothes or books; everything is a few mouse clicks away before you can put things in your shopping cart. Well, what if I were to tell you that we are bringing some of that filtering and sorting magic to Docebo Content which means that you spend less time looking around for relevant courses! With this new feature you’ll see more filtering and sorting options in Content Marketplace.
You will be able to filter and sort in the following ways:
A few quick notes here with this update:
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We have added an additional filter option: for 'Already Imported' content under the Course Availability filter
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We have removed 'Microlearning' from the Optimization filter as you can explore Durations with the new filter
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The Filter panel on the left opens by default for visibility, allowing superadmins to hide the Filter options if needed
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The term 'Optimization' as the header of the filter is replaced with 'Usability'
A.I. Image Selection Improvement
The magic of A.I. is to help you be more productive and give you greater flexibility to spend more time being more creative and less tactical. We get that! We are therefore focused on product enhancements that enable content creators to also enjoy the luxury of greater productivity and flexibility!
This month we have enhanced the quality of visual assets selected by A.I. while it builds new content within Shape.
What does this mean?
- Automatically selecting the most relevant assets for a slide, leading to more engaging visuals
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Better alignment between text and images with the Semantic Image Matching model, the feature can ensure that the selected assets are closely aligned with the input text, making the presentation more coherent and relevant
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Integrating with more media libraries, giving your content creators access to a broader range of assets, making it easier to find the perfect image to complement the text.
Enjoy flexing those creative muscles as you build better and more engaging shapes!
Advanced Customization for Slide Layouts
Creating engaging content is top of mind for you content creators out there and we’ve worked a little customization magic on Shape so you have a little more flexibility on the size, position and color of the text and the background.
Wanna see what I mean?
HiBob Recipes: Automatically Sync Users from HiBob to Docebo
Folks that use HiBob as your HR platform, you can now automatically sync users from HiBob into Docebo Learn to reduce manual efforts, streamline onboarding and manage employees in one place. New recipes allowing for the importing and updating of users from HiBob are now available for use with Docebo Connect.
Enhanced User Provisioning Recipes Available For Existing Integrations
For those using user provisioning integrations, an enhancement was made to the existing integrations by using a new API call in the Docebo Learn platform.
This enhancement, which does not require any additional configuration, adds an additional recipe and the improvement impacts the following integrations:
Docebo Connect for Azure Active Directory
New User Interface and User Experience For Learner Questionnaire
Are you ready for a Learning Impact makeover? We are excited to share with you our new and intuitive UI and UX that addresses survey fatigue, and improves the learner experience, thereby increasing those response rates. So now your learner gets to enjoy a more engaging experience when they fill, complete, and send out their evaluations.
Have a look:
The changes your learners will see:
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An overall more engaging design
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A welcome page that is personalized to each learner and course including the estimated completion time for the questionnaire and a link to access the questionnaire from a different device
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An optimized questionnaire that can now be displayed on all devices - desktop and mobile, and it’s designed with the accessibility guidelines in mind to be usable for all users regardless of ability and condition of usage
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A multi-device experience that can easily be switched from desktop to mobile with an individual QR code;
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A new ‘Thank You’ page with direct links to pending evaluations.
Now, you can get more accurate and relevant responses that can become valuable data points to leverage when making strategic decisions.
📚 Want to learn more?
Here’s a list of resources available to you for the March 2023 Release:
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Docebo Resources
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DU Course - March 2023 Release
- [On-demand] Webinar - March 2023 Release Readiness
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Updated in Docebo Help
📢 We want to hear from you!
Which update(s) are you most excited about? 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 all the nitty gritty, here’s all that’s changing in the March 2023 release:
Try out the new course page!
As part of the Docebo accessibility journey, Superadmins can now preview and test the new course player as well as the revamped course and learning plan page. This revamp aims at increasing the level of compliance of Docebo Learn with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), in particular for the course player and the courses and learning plans page in catalogs (for not enrolled users) and in the My Courses and Learning Plans area (for enrolled users).
New option to retain the language selected for the mandatory pre-login steps
A new option is available in the platform Advanced Settings menu (Users tab) to set the language selected by users during the pre-login phase to read and give consent to the conditions of use as their preferred platform language. When this option is activated, it will ease the user experience since users will set the platform language with a single click. For those using the Extended Enterprise app, the same option is available for every client in the User Options tab. The option name is: Make the language selected during the pre-login mandatory steps as the user’s default language.
Enrollment additional fields for courses purchased via e-commerce
For those using enrollment additional fields in conjunction with the E-Commerce app, when you add a new mandatory field visible to learners after some users already enrolled in the courses they purchased via e-commerce, those learners will be required to fill in the new field only if they have never filled out any enrollment additional field for the same course, and they will also be prompted to fill in the other fields too. This new behavior only applies to e-learning courses sold via e-commerce.
The GET /course/v1/courses/importer_fields API no longer available
As communicated on March 13, 2023, for those using the GET /course/v1/courses/importer_fields API, please note that this endpoint is no longer available.
Go.Learn Version 5.3.0 and Branded Mobile App Version 5.3.0 are here!
In this update, a handful of minor issues have been addressed to give you a better, smoother learning experience on mobile.
New formatting options for classic scenes
For those using Shape, more formatting options are available for classic scenes.
Stock Library improvement
For those using Shape, the Stock Library now contains assets from Pexels. The user experience will be more linear as the management of tags will be automatic in the Stock Library, and advanced filters will be removed, so you’ll just need to type what you’re looking for.
Questionnaires have been refactored for a better User Experience!
Docebo Learning Impact questionnaires are completely revamped for a better user experience. Find all the information to answer questionnaires as a learner, a manager and an Instructor in the Docebo Knowledge Base.
⚠️ Heads up for Docebo Learn! Some changes coming your way
For those using the e-commerce app, starting on June 28, 2023, when a course, a session, or a learning plan listed in a pending transaction is marked as paid, the user who performed the transaction will be enrolled in the course, session or learning plan even if the whole transaction is not be marked as paid.
