{"id":4615,"date":"2016-02-17T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talentlms.com\/blog\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:53:12","slug":"talentlms-cloud-update-is-raining-exciting-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talentlms.com\/blog\/talentlms-cloud-update-is-raining-exciting-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"TalentLMS Cloud Update Is Raining Exciting New Features"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh hi. Your TalentLMS portal just got better.<\/p>\n

And you didn’t have to do anything about it. Nice, right?<\/p>\n

It’s not one of those big heavy releases, but with our frequent update schedule it doesn’t have to be: we’d rather roll out new functionality as soon as it is ready for the forefront instead of holding stuff back and giving it to you all at once.<\/p>\n

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That said, the new release brings a number of important new features that will be a godsend for the customers that need them (you know who you are). Plus, it landed just after the release of the TalentLMS mobile app<\/a> and the new native Shopify integration plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, let’s see what this new release brings to the table, aside from the usual assortment of fixes, performance improvements and polish:<\/p>\n

First, there are several new security settings<\/strong>, mostly concerned with the TalentLMS login options. Specifically, administrators can now set a password expiry policy<\/span>, and define a number of maximum retries for unsuccessful login attempts<\/span>, as well as a locking period<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Combined, these new features will strongly protect your eLearning portal against brute force hacking attacks.<\/p>\n

Talking about login options, TalentLMS now allows to setup a different Single-Sign-On method per Branch<\/strong>. This feature comes directly from customer requests, and is perfect for enterprises and organizations with multiple facilities, each with its own intranet and SSO configuration.<\/p>\n

Next, there are a couple of goodies for TalentLMS learners.<\/p>\n

Namely, we’ve added a new Learner Search<\/strong> function, allowing learners to search within shared files, courses and units that they have completed. Quite a time-saver, especially for learners who are enrolled in many courses.<\/p>\n

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Plus, TalentLMS can now connect to LinkedIn, allowing learners to post their training Certifications directly on their LinkedIn profiles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Last, but not least, this release brings several new features related to content creation:<\/p>\n

Smart Tags<\/strong> allow you to extend your content with placeholder tags that are translated in real time to personalized content (e.g., Hello {username}). If you’ve used the Events\/Notifications features, you already know how to use them.<\/p>\n

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Course custom fields<\/strong> allow you to extend your courses with additional data fields, similarly to how you can extend User Profiles. Besides keeping some business-specific information for your classes, this feature will also be handy for reporting, filtering, mass actions and in any other places where you want to operate on a subset of courses.<\/p>\n

Speaking of courses, instructors can now configure an alternative course start screen<\/strong> that can be set to display any kind of course related information, welcome message etc., to learners visiting the course page.<\/p>\n

Test analysis<\/strong> has also been enhanced, now giving you the option to switch between First and Last execution of a test, thus letting you see how your learners progressed from their first try until they finally passed a test.<\/p>\n

Finally, we added the ability to incorporate and reuse Wistia videos<\/strong> in your courses, in the same way that you can reuse YouTube and Vimeo videos. Wistia, in case you haven’t heard of it, is an hosting service for business videos, a “YouTube for the enterprise” so to speak, that’s quite popular with a lot of our customers.<\/p>\n

And that’s about it. Come to think of it again, it’s not that small a release. And it’s already available on your TalentLMS portal, without you having to lift a finger. Ain’t the Cloud grand?<\/p>\n