Sarah Southerland

Recent Posts

New Feature: Custom CSS Styling and Javascript Analytics

Our newest feature, custom CSS, enables you to customize the visual style of your training site even more than before.

While you've always been able to change your logos and colors in the Theming area of the dashboard, custom CSS can be used to modify additional style elements like fonts and backgrounds.

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Topics: Features

New Feature: Advanced Analytics and Reporting

Here at Skilljar, we understand how important it is measure the quality of your training program. We've been working hard to bring you the most useful analytics. We're collecting an enormous amount of data, and our new, robust reporting makes it easier than ever for you to track user engagement and performance at every level.

In Skilljar's newly revamped learner tracking and reporting, we make it easy to view training in aggregate, by course, by group, and by user - even down to individual quiz responses by user.

Let's take a look at the details.

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Topics: Features

What You Need to Know About Delivering SCORM on Mobile

Learners are taking advantage of mobile learning more now than ever. If you have SCORM content, there’s a lot of confusing information to wade through on how SCORM can, and should, work on mobile devices. Does the mobile experience depend on the authoring tool used to create the content? How does your LMS affect SCORM delivery on mobile devices?

Since Skilljar recently released support for SCORM 1.2, we thought we’d take the opportunity to demystify the subject of SCORM on mobile. Skilljar’s software engineer and resident SCORM expert Morgan Marks shares her insight into key questions about delivering SCORM content on mobile devices.


Q&A with Morgan

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Topics: Creating Content

New Feature: Analytics Managers

We are happy to anounce our newest feature: analytics managers. At Skilljar, we understand that you may need to share read-only analytics access with other collaborators. Examples include:

  • Customer success managers at a software company who are viewing onboarding progress for each of their client accounts
  • School administrators who are verifying that teachers have completed their professional development training
  • Certification managers who are checking the hours spent in an approved training course

Skilljar's analytics manager role enables administrators to create analytics-only access by user and group.

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Topics: Features

New Feature: Custom Registration Fields

With our newest addition to registration management, instructors can customize the fields displayed to trainees during registration. This provides the opportunity for you to collect data about registrants that is unique to your company's needs.

Create a custom field to request information like:

  • Company Name
  • Employee ID
  • State License #
  • Address 
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Topics: Features

New Feature: Analytics by Group

I love announcing new features! With our latest release, we can now deliver analytics for different groups of users, so trainers can review performance by group.

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Topics: Features

New Feature: SCORM 1.2 Support

We are very excited to announce our newest feature: SCORM! With our newest feature, you can upload SCORM packages, register students (free or paid), deliver the course, and track completion and results. This includes content authored by tools like Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline and Articulate Studio. We wanted to take this opportunity to provide some details about SCORM and share some of our thoughts about the new feature, since it's a hot topic among the eLearning industry.


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Topics: Features, LMS

The Guide to Customer Lifecycle Training [Free eBook]

Calling all content marketers, training managers and customer success executives who are interested in improving and expanding your programs. Have you considered offering customer lifecycle training?

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Topics: Training

Tips and Trends: Skilljar's Top Blog Posts of 2014

Today's post is a list of our most popular blog posts from 2014. I hope this list provides an easy way for you to find helpful articles we've shared in 2014 about the eLearning industry. We cover topics ranging from content production tips, to best practices as you plan your training strategy, to our thoughts on the latest eLearning trends.

It was fun looking back and putting this list together, and I hope it’s helpful for you.


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Topics: Training

New Feature: Course Credits

With our newest addition to course settings, instructors can define the number of credits that a course is worth. This provides specific insight into the quantitative value that learners will gain from a course. This feature is especially important for the following training examples:

  • course hours for Continuing Education courses
  • course credits for state or court-mandated training
  • course points for any type of training utilizing gamification
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Topics: Features

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