This quarter, Absorb LMS brings AI and smart automation together to make learning seamless for Admins to manage and Learners to engage in. Admins can manage workflows with automated tasks, automatic unenrollment and keep data connected across systems, while Learners engage anytime, anywhere with mentorship programs, and enhanced skills coverage—making learning easier, smarter, and more accessible for everyone. These features are designed to enhance User experience through modern and intuitive design, while providing extensive customization options for Learners and Administrators. These updates pertain to version 5.125.0 of the Absorb LMS.

 

Introducing new features to enhance Reporting, Absorb Skills, Subscriptions, Mentorship, and Enrollment management.

 

Analyze Essentials Live Edit

Reporting made interactive and responsive so you can focus on insights with customizable columns, layouts, filtering, and sorting.

 

More information is available here.

 

 

Manual User Assignments to Subscriptions

Enable Admins to manually add Users to a Subscription when it is paid for offline.

More information is available here. 

 

Empower Social Learning through Mentorship

Enable Learners to connect with colleagues to collaboratively grow together. 

• Flexible Program Design: Support upskilling, peer connection, or casual coffee chats.
• Smart Matching and Scheduling: Help Learners find the right mentor and manage upcoming sessions.
• Seamlessly Sync Users in Real Time: Updates to Learners are pushed to the Mentorship tool.
• Track Progress and Impact: Give Admins and Learners visibility into Mentorship growth and accountability.
• Note: this feature is unavailable in China.

 

More information is available here. 

 

Automatic Learner Unenrollment

Save Admin time and keep Learner views clean by automatically removing Learners from unrelated training and filter ineligible Enrollments.

 

 

More information can be found here. 

 

 

Skills Product Enhancements

• Skills Taxonomy: Admins can access a broader, ever-evolving set of Job Roles and Skills with our new Lightcast powered taxonomy now available in the Job Roles and Skills Catalog.
  • More information can be found here.

• Automated Skills Tagging: Use the Bulk Course Editor to auto-tag any Course with relevant Skills, eliminate manual tagging, and reduce time-to-launch while ensuring consistent Skill mapping.
  • More information can be found here. 

• Empower Admins to streamline set-up: Bulk imports of Job Roles and Skills added to streamline Skills setup and customization! More streamlined Admin tools for rapid library building and simplify organization alignment with custom Categories and bulk imports.
  • More information can be found here. 

• LinkedIn Learning Support: Absorb Skills is now supported by the LinkedIn Learning Integration.
  • More information can be found here. 

 

Updates to Integrations, Administrator controls for Observation Checklists, and Custom Tiles. 

 

iPaaS Connectors User Sync Back

Push Absorb LMS User data to your CRM for deeper customer insights.

• More information can be found here. 

 

Ownership Transfer and Audit for Observation Checklists

Admins can keep training moving by resolving stalled checklists quickly with Admin control and flexibility and full auditability for compliance.

More information can be found here. 

 

 

 

Custom Tile Update

Video Tag Support

Added support for the video tag to allow for embedding videos in a Custom Tile. 

 

Example:

<div>
<video style="max-width: 100vw; display: block; margin: 0 auto;">
<source src="https://developer.mozilla.org/shared-assets/videos/flower.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="https://developer.mozilla.org/shared-assets/videos/flower.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</div>

 

Style Tag Support

Added support for the style tag to allow for cleaner code. Follow these steps to apply style tags to existing CSS code:

1. Group all CSS in the tile in once place between <style>…</<style> tags.
2. Use CSS classes instead of adding inline CSS styles for each html tag.

 

Example:

<style>

.myVideoStyles { max-width: 100vw; display: block; margin: 0 auto; }
</style>

<div>
<video class="myVideoStyles">
<source src="https://developer.mozilla.org/shared-assets/videos/flower.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="https://developer.mozilla.org/shared-assets/videos/flower.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</div>

 

More information can be found here. 

 

Recently Released Features (July and August 2025)

Key features deployed in the months leading up to the Q3 release, providing further scheduling and bulk action capabilities, E-Commerce enhancements, and new Integrations capabilities. 

 

Scheduled Enrollments

Absorb has added new functionality to Scheduled Enrollments to improve automation and customization. 

 

Adding Curricula and Course Bundles

Admins can now automatically add Users into Curricula and Course Bundles through Scheduled Enrollments. 

• For more information, review the article here. 

 

 

Custom Date Support for Enrollment Triggers

Admins can now select any custom date field assigned to a User (e.g., Promotion Date) as a trigger for Enrollment. This functionality is available across all Course types.

• You can learn more about this update here. 

 

Course Conversion Enhancements

The LMS now offers improved Course conversion capabilities with automated time calculation and language detection features for clients who have purchased Absorb content.

• More information about these updates can be found here. 

 

pawaPay Payment Gateway Support

pawaPay is now available as a supported Payment Gateway for E-Commerce.

• More information is available in the articles here and here. 

 

Daily Subscription Billing

Added support for daily Subscription Billing.

• More information can be found here. 

 

Rich Text Editing for Assessment Questions and Answers

Admins can use rich text when crafting their Assessment Questions and answers from Question Banks through the Course edit workflow.

• You can learn more about these updates in the articles here and here. 

 

Enhance Category Endpoints in Infuse

Infuse clients can request Catalog Courses to include parent/child relationship information to enable nested Category custom interfaces.

 

Enable Non-System Admins to Manage Portal Templates

LMS Administrators can now be granted permission to manage their Department's Template to control the presentation of the Learner Experience for their Users.

• More information can be found here. 

 

 

Self-Managed Authentication for iPaaS Connectors

Gain more autonomy in managing authentication for iPaaS Connector integrations.

• More information can be found here. 

 

Bulk Online Course Access and Download Support for Mobile Users

Save time and maximize Learner engagement by enabling mobile access and content download for offline use across many Courses at once.

• More information can be found here. 

 

 

Swiss Franc Currency Added for E-Commerce

Absorb has added support for Swiss Franc (CHF) across Absorb's E-Commerce and Learner-facing experiences.

• For more information, review the article here. 

 

Course Due Date Reminders

Admins can now set due date reminders and overdue reminders for Courses.

• More information about this update can be found here. 

 

 

 

Change Log Updates

The following Change Logs were updated as part of this release:

• Analyze Essentials Change Log
• Skills Change Log

 

Translations

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