[AUGUST 2023] Monthly Release: Dashboards, Shapes, and Flows

Happy August, everyone!

Here’s a super-random fact: As long as it’s not a leap year, no other month will begin on the same day of the week as August. This year, August 1st was on a Tuesday and no other month starts on a Tuesday.

Weird? Cool? Who knows. But maybe it can help you out at your next trivia night. 

Here’s another one: August is traditionally stuffed full of exciting Docebo product releases. And this year is no exception. 

Let’s dive in:

Usage Dashboard Improvements

This month, we’re adding some big improvements to the dashboard. And we’re not talking about a phone holder or pine-scented air freshener. These are the features coming to your dashboard:

Audit trail events. The audit trail now keeps track of a few additional behaviors. The following events related to the Usage Dashboard are tracked in the Audit Trail, and you can filter them in the Usage Dashboard section:

• User accessed Usage Dashboard
• User downloaded Active Users report CSV with clear information

The Dashboard now opens in an iframe instead of a new page. If you’re anything like me, you have too many browser tabs open. This update will help. When you open the Usage Dashboard, you’ll now go directly to that page in the LMS instead of having to open a new browser tab. Sometimes the simplest fixes are the best.

Skills will now behave consistently across mobile and desktop. Users can no longer incorrectly modify their skills on mobile. This applies specifically to situations where SKILLS integration mode is enabled.

Superadmins can disable auto-tagging of training materials

Auto-tagging is great…when you want it. But when you don’t, tags can clog global search results and lead to additional work. We also heard your feedback about occasional glitches with the auto-generated tags and are working on some fixes. 

To address these issues, Superadmins can now enable and disable the auto-tagger functionality on Training Materials and Informal Assets. Superadmins can find this new option in Advanced Settings. Easy-peasy!

Shoutout to our Community for this one! Keep sharing your suggestions.
 

Increased skills per learner from 10 to 50

For the average innovative superstar team-player learner, ten skills (or ten adjectives) just isn’t enough.

So we quintupled it.

That’s right: Learners can now have up to 50 skills! So add rockstar, ninja, closer, and several dozen new ones to the list.

Skills API improvements

We’ve added a set of batch operations to handle the synchronization of skills from third parties like Workday. This is an important prerequisite for Workday example recipes, so stay tuned for more news on those in the coming months. In the meantime, feel free to check out the skill service in your API explorer to leverage the new endpoint functionality.

GoLearn: Support skills in integration mode

If you have the SKILLS integration enabled, users will no longer be able to incorrectly modify their skills on the mobile app. This standardizes the behavior between all platforms. 

GoLearn: Rendering of original gamification badge icon

Gamification badges should now display properly (and beautifully!) on mobile devices. Gold star ⭐

Enhanced course import flow

Did you know that the majority of admins import content from the marketplace directly into a Docebo LMS course? Well, we did! With this new update, we’ve moved this most commonly used option to the first spot in the course import list, making it quicker and easier to do the work you do most. 

We’ve also tightened up some of the language and added the ability to categorize content during the import flow, streamlining the implementation of the content that you love to use.

Create Shapes from scratch

Take the AI powers of Shape into your own hands with this newest update. In this release, content creators can create new Shapes without a link or document prompt, while still leveraging the AI features like auto-generated voiceovers, translations, and more. 

Three new Baltic languages added to the Shape Translation system

You asked, we listened! Now, you can support an even greater number of global learners by automating Shape translations into Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian with this new update.

All e-learning training material types are now enabled

Last month, we began rolling out functionality for Flow that would let learning materials be viewed directly in the flow interface instead of forcing learners to open a new window. Wistia was the last platform we were rolling this feature out for, and it is now available 🥳

Salesforce: Workflow rules and process builder updates

Salesforce has created a new tool called Flow (not to be confused with Docebo Flow!). And there’s good news and bad news.

The good news is that this tool is designed to help automate business processes.

The bad news is that Salesforce is blocking the ability to create new workflow rules and processes, which will impact you, Docebo customer, as you won’t be able to create new workflows if you haven’t activated the integration to the latest version.  

In order to keep your workflows and process builders operating correctly, you’ll need to activate your Salesforce integration to the latest version following the steps in the Knowledge Base. 

This new Salesforce tool will now automate business processes in a no-code/low-code approach, and will provide the following improvements: :

• We’ve streamlined the experience by removing deprecated processes
• We’ve fixed several annoying bugs related to Learning Plan % calculations
• We’ve significantly improved the performance of synchronization operations

So it turns out, going with the Flow might be pretty good!

📚  Want to learn more?

Here’s a list of resources available to you for the August 2023 Release:

• Docebo Resources
  • DU Course - August 2023 Release
  • [On-demand] Webinar - August 2023 Release Readiness
  • [Q&A] August 2023 Release Readiness Webinar

• Updated in Docebo Help
  • My Skills
  • My Skills on the Go.Learn App
  • Managing the Platform Advanced Settings
  • Creating and Managing Users
  • The Usage Dashboard
  • New Audit Trail Events Details
  • Go.Learn App Info and Limitations
  • Managing Your Shapes
  • Creating New Shapes from a Document, Link or Custom Text
  • Creating New Shapes from a Storyboard
  • Managing Docebo Content Classic
  • Managing Skilla for the Content Marketplace
  • Managing LinkedIn Learning for the Content Marketplace
  • Addressing Branded Mobile App Rejections by Apple App Store
  • Branded Mobile App Publisher
  • Managing the Content Curation in Your Platform
  • Introduction and FAQs on Artificial Intelligence
  • Uploading and Managing SCORM as Training Material
  • Uploading AICC Standard Training Material
  • Uploading xAPI (formerly Tin Can API) Content
  • Uploading and Converting Video Training Material
  • Creating a Video Training Material from a Video URL
  • Managing Assignment as Training Material
  • Using the Slide Converter Tool to Create Presentations
  • Using the Platform's Global Search
  • Docebo for Google Drive
  • Managing LTI Training Material
  • Creating an HTML Page as Training Material
  • Managing Screencasts as a Superadmin
  • Managing Observation Checklist Training Material
  • Sharing and Managing Content
  • Managing the Skills of Your Users

 📢  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 this month’s release:

⚠️ Heads up for Learn

Changes to GET /learn/v1/instructor/getInstructorData API

For those using the endpoint GET /learn/v1/instructor/getInstructorData, after November 22, 2023, the following changes are applied to the behavior of the API call:

• the values passed for the parameters course_id, user_id and session_id will be strictly validated, accepting only integer values
• the status 1003 error message (Cannot find course with the passed ID) will be removed

⚠️ Heads up for Learn Data

Changes to Learn Data tables

For those using Learn Data, please note that starting from the end of October 2023, some changes to Learn Data tables will apply due to the introduction of DataLake v3. With the introduction of DataLake v3, you will benefit from near-real time raw data refresh. Moreover, you will be able to get only the delta updates thus saving time and bandwidth. The list of all changes is available on demand.