Video Demo Available on November 22nd!

Please visit Absorb Academy to enroll into our Release Demo Course. This course contains video demonstrations for you and your team to learn more about the new features launched in our Q4 Release.

The Absorb LMS release is planned for deployment on:

• China (CN): Monday, November 25, 2024, 9:00 AM MST / Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 12:00 AM CST

• Australia (AU): Monday, November 25, 2024, 9:00 AM MST / Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 3:00 AM AEDT

• Europe (EU): Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 1:00 PM MST / Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 8:00 PM GMT

• Canada (CA): Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 5:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM MST / 7:00 PM CST
  / 8:00 PM EST

• United States (US): Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 5:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM MST / 7:00 PM CST
  / 8:00 PM EST

Analyze Essentials Release Dates:

• China & Australia: November 26th, 2024

• Europe: November 27th, 2024

• US & Canada: December 4th, 2024

Create AI Features Release Dates:

• November 30th, 2024

Mobile App Certificates Release Dates:

• December 2024 (Exact dates TBD)

Salesforce Learner Engagement Reporting Release Dates:

• December 2024 (Exact dates TBD)

Bulk Course Edit Notifications Release Dates:

• Q1 2025 (Exact dates TBD)

This quarter's updates are focused on helping our customers manage their Learners better and building a learning experience that fits their unique use cases.

These updates pertain to version 5.120.0 of the Absorb LMS.

New Features

The following components are new to the LMS.

Stronger Learner Engagement Reporting

New features specific to Learner Engagement Reporting include:

• iPaaS CRM Connectors: Writing new information from the LMS to the contact activity log of a client CRM.
• Salesforce Connector: Available activities now include Assessment attempts and completed Tasks.

iPaaS CRM Connectors

Share Learner engagement activities such as ILC attendance, Curriculum Enrollments, Assessments, Tasks, Competencies and Certifications for more visibility of Learner activities.

• For more information click here.

Salesforce Connector

Capture new activities such as Assessment attempts and completed Tasks.

SCIM API

Automate User Provisioning and updates across platforms with SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) within Okta. Administrators can now centrally manage User identities, ensuring real-time synchronization between Okta and Absorb LMS for large-scale identity management.

• For more information click here.

Create AI Quiz Generation

Generate relevant quizzes for courses in Create AI, enabling Admins to measure Learner comprehension and develop better quizzes. These comprehensive quizzes cover the entire Course and include multiple-choice, multi-answer, and true/false questions to ensure Learners engage with and understand the material. In the Create editor, you can add custom questions, adjust language, shuffle questions and answers, and modify point values to suit your needs.

• For more information click here.

Create Lessons Playback Rate

Optimize comprehension with Create playback rate. Learners now have the ability to control playback rate so they can consume Create Lessons at the speed that works best for them.

Mobile Course Certificates

Access Certificates from our mobile app for easy access to Course completion Certificates. Share, or save the Certificate as a PDF locally on the device.

Skills Product Enhancements

New features specific to Skills:

Automated Content Recommendations by Job Role

More personalized Job Role related content delivered to the Learner dashboard with AI-powered skills and Course matching for over 1600 Job Roles.

Change or Reset Learning Goals

Learners can now reset their learning goals at any time, to accommodate changing learning goals. This allows them to select a new target role, redo their self-assessment and select new Courses. At the bottom of the Overview tab of the Learner’s profile, there is a pink ribbon where the Learner can reset their goals and start a new pathway.

Tag Curricula with Skills

Courses often have dependencies that require the Learner to take the Courses in a specific order. In Absorb, Curricula help enforce Course order. Course Administrators can now tag Curricula with Skills and Competencies enabling them to be offered as options in the Learner’s pathway and thereby allowing Course Administrators to define the order of Courses being delivered.

Enhanced Job Role Management

Admins can swiftly find and customize Job Roles, streamlining the on-boarding process. This will enable Administrators to do more advanced searches of roles.

Custom Categories for Job Roles

Organizations can arrange Job Roles into Categories that match their internal groupings. We now have the ability to reassign multiple roles at a time to a Category, making it easier to re-organize roles.

Updated Features

The following existing LMS components have been modified or expanded.

Streamlined Free Course Checkout Workflow

Reduce the time to complete transactions containing only free Courses with express checkout for free Courses.

Present $0 Courses as Free in the Catalog

Courses with a price of $0 can now be set to appear as Free in the Catalog, giving clients more flexibility with how Free content is displayed to their Learners.

When this is enabled, all Courses with a cost of 0$ will appear as Free.

Express Checkout for Free Courses

Learners can skip the shipping/billing information step of the checkout process when all of the Courses in their cart are Free or cost $0.

When this is enabled, all Transactions with $0 value carts will skip the shipping/billing step.

Improved eCommerce Reports

Get more out of Transaction Details Report with new fields such as Audience, Goals, External ID, Vendor and Enrollment Keys.

Updated Learner UI

More modernized feel for the Learner UI with rounded corners and drop shadow settings.

Surface New and Top-Rated Content in Absorb Content Tile View

Streamline the content experience further with discovery tools to spotlight new additions to your content subscription and find relevant content faster within your content subscription.

Note that these content highlights are only available on the card view of the Absorb Content report.

• For more information click here.

Core Reports Enhancements

Refined reporting for Multi-Curricula & ILC Activity Reports! Lower the need for post-processing reports outside the LMS and report on up to 30 Curricula or ILCs in the Activity Reports.

Bulk Course Edit Notifications

Accelerate the management of Courses in a few clicks. Email notifications are now sent when Bulk Edit work is finished so the Administrator knows the change completed successfully.

The email includes a list of the Courses updated and error messages for any updates that failed.​

ILC Waitlist Banner Color Change

There is no longer an orange warning banner to communicate that a Learner has been added to a Waitlist. The Waitlist banner now appears in a more sleek and small grey banner at the top.

• For more information click here.

Analyze Essentials (Paid Add-On)

Updates specific to Analyze Essentials:

Standardize Custom Report Layouts

Easily share Custom Report Layouts and maintain Report consistency across your organization. Custom Report Layout updates will automatically sync recipient-wide, centralizing changes in one place.

Recipients can configure shared Custom Report Layouts to be delivered on their preferred schedule and share Custom Report Layouts as Templates with the Duplicate Action.

• For more information click here.

Certification Data

More analytics at your fingertips with expansive analytical reporting on Learner Certification. We have added 20+ Certificate fields and pre-calculated Certificate aggregations to Course Enrollments and Users.

Translations

The Learner Experience has been updated for the following Languages:

• Hindi

• Hungarian

• Bahasa Melayu

• Brazilian Portuguese

The Admin Experience has been updated for the following Languages:

• Brazilian Portuguese

• French

• German

• Spanish

• Italian

Knowledge Base Updates

The above announcements include links to new and updated articles across our Knowledge Base. A collected list of all articles is available below:

New Articles

Articles newly created for the Q4 2024 release.

• Creating Quizzes with AI in Absorb Create
• Analyze Essentials Share Custom Report Layouts

Updated Articles

Articles updated for the Q4 2024 release.

• Connectors Overview
• Absorb Content Search
• Skills: Administration
• Skills: Reports
• ILC Activity Report
• Analyze Essentials
• Curricula Activity Report
• Video Pages
• Settings
• Department Templates: Theme Tab
• Transactions
• Configuring E-Commerce
• Incoming SAML 2.0 SSO Account Provisioning
• Skills: Self-Assessment
• Getting Started with E-Commerce

Change Logs

Change logs with updates for the Q4 2024 release.

• Absorb Create Change Log
• SSO - Single Sign On Change Log
• Absorb Skills Change Log
• SCIM Change Log
• Connector Change Log