Here at Skilljar, we’ve got an ongoing com-paww-tition that might just turn your week around.

Over the past year, the Skilljar team has grown by leaps and bounds, with purr-fessionals joining us from all walks of life. And we’re paws-itively thrilled with our progress!

Skilljar launched so many new features in 2018 that we couldn't resist taking a moment to pick favorites! I asked some colleagues here at Skilljar what their favorites were -- here's what they said. 

Skilljar recently released optional lessons, which are lessons that appear in courses, but aren’t required to complete a course. Any lesson type (e.g. text, Live Training, SCORM) can be set as optional. This gives you the ability to add supplementary content like surveys and reference material, while providing learners the flexibility to choose which lessons they want to view. And since your course completion rate will only calculate the completion of required lessons, you can more accurately see the completion rate of the lessons you want your learners to take.

Here are a few ways to use optional lessons to improve your training program!

The market is full of products designed to communicate with one another, so it’s perfectly reasonable to expect the sophisticated software running your customer education and support services to communicate with one another too. Yet for some reason, so many of us are still using dated and legacy business systems that don’t integrate, and house customer engagement data in silos.

When customer education teams design programs to successfully onboard, engage, and retain customers, they have three types of training to choose from: self-paced, online training; live, instructor-led training (in-person or virtual); or a blend of both self-paced and instructor-led training.

Since Skilljar was founded, we’ve focused our efforts on building the best system for external training and certification. We enable training teams to experiment with their training programs and encourage our customers and partners to use data to evolve their programs to maximize the impact of their efforts.

You can now enable search on your Skilljar training course catalog so your students can find the courses they want to take quickly and easily!

Try our new Fill in the Blank quizzing functionality to test your students' knowledge! With Skilljar's quiz creator, you can use Fill in the Blank and Multiple Choice questions to challenge your users and ensure they're retaining your training content.

We always like launching new feature enhancements that come from your requests, and today we wanted to share that you can now turn on/off the automatic Skilljar course registration emails for you and your users! 

We love launching new dashboard functionality, and are very excited about our new Upload tool for the Live Training feature! With this feature you can: bulk add users to a live event, bulk mark them as having attended, and download your Live Training roster.