Assessments is one of the main tools available in LMS to measure the performance of the student in a training. In the LMS Admin Content editor you can set up some Activities within a Course to be evaluable. So when the user passes them he will be rewarded with a score based on his performance, and as administrator you can check his academic results in the Reports tool. In this article you will see what kind of activities you can evaluate and how to set them up. In order for the Assessments tool to be available, it is necessary to activate the sprint (course) evaluation feature for the instance. To do so, contact your Learning Consultant or KAM, or access the Support page and request a Task ticket. Difference between completing and overcoming First of all it is necessary to clarify the difference between completing a course and overcoming it: An activity is considered as Completed when the student achieves the completeness criterion marked when editing the activity, in the Gamify activity section. If none is selected, the default criteria is that the activity is completed simply by opening it. Depending on the type, there are several options: When opening the activity. When overcoming the activity, depending on the assessment criteria. Upon completion of the activity (for SCORM/xAPI activities), according to the criteria set by the xAPI file. Correctly answer the questions in the activity for Question set type activities or activities with integrated questions. Trainer marks activity as completed, even if the student completes the activity, it is not considered completed until the trainer approves it through an external tool. In order for the Grade established by trainer option to be available, it is necessary to activate the Activity assessment via API feature for the instance. To do so, contact your Learning Consultant or KAM, or access the Support page and request a Task ticket. Text Block, Image, Audio and Timeline type activities do not have completion criteria because they do not have any interaction with the student, therefore they cannot be gamified. An activity is considered as Overcome when the student reaches the cut-off score, that is, when he passes the Assessment criteria. The difference is that a course can be overcome but not completed, if the cut-off score is reached but some activities have not been completed. Or vice versa, it can be completed but not overcome if all the activities have been completed (for example, just by opening them), but the overall cut-off score has not been reached. Activate assessments All activities can be evaluated, except for those that cannot be gamified because they have no user interaction. The first step is to set up the assessment in the Course details tab, when creating a new course or modifying an existing one. If you are editing an already created course, the assessment can only be activated if the course has not been published, that is, if its status is Draft. If it is Unpublished, this option is disabled. In the Course Details tab, activate the Assessment flag and the course activities will show this option, otherwise it will not be enabled. The student's score will be a value between 1 and 100, and is determined automatically by the system, although you can set it to be subject to approval by the administrator. You can also mark a Cut-off score, that is, the score that the student must reach to overcome the course. The default cut-off score is 100, which means the student must achieve the total score to overcome the course. Set up the assessment Now you can activate and set up the assessment for the activities you want. Regarding the score awarded for each activity, the total points are divided by the number of evaluable activities in the course. For example, if there are 2 evaluable activities, each one will award 50 points (100/2 = 50). The final grade is rounded up without decimals, if the student has overcome 2 out of 3 activities in total, the grade will be 66.6 → 67. To activate the assessment in an activity, click on the icon in the upper corner. A side menu is displayed with the flag to activate or deactivate it. Depending on the type of activity there are one or several options: Automatic, when the student completes the activity it is considered as overcome and the total score is awarded. In the previous example of a course with 2 evaluable activities, 50 points are automatically awarded. Automatic, depends on score sent by content. This option is available for activities that provide student assessment data (xAPI, Question set, or activities with integrated questions). Depending on the student's performance, a percentage of the total score of the activity is awarded. In the above example of a course with 2 evaluable activities, if the student has answered half of the questions correctly, he is awarded half of the score, 25 points. Grade established by trainer, even if the student overcomes the activity, the score is not automatically added until it has been approved by the trainer through an external tool. In order for the Grade established by trainer option to be available, it is necessary to activate the Activity assessment via API feature for the instance. To do so, contact your Learning Consultant or KAM, or access the Support page and request a Task ticket. Assessment type by activity Activities that cannot be gamified because they have no interaction, cannot be evaluated either: text block, image, audio and timeline. Besides, only those that provide assessment data have the Depends on score sent by content option available. You can see each case in this summary table: Activity type Can be completed Can be gamified Can be overcome Depending on score assessment Text block No No No No Image File Yes Yes Yes Automatic only External SCORM/xAPI Yes Video If it has integrated questions Audio No No No Course presentation Yes Yes If it has integrated questions Question set Yes Timeline No No No

What is Multi-language? Multi-language is a feature of the LMS platform that allows the headings and descriptions of training content to be displayed in multiple languages. As author, you can set up one or more translations from among the languages available on the platform, and it will be the learner himself who selects, through the configuration of his profile, which one will be displayed. How does it work The Multi-language is set up through the Manage translations tool of the content Editor, available in courses, pathways and learning programs. It is therefore only accessible to users with Administrator or Author role. When creating a new content you choose the default language, which is the one you will start working with, and then add new translations in other languages, which you can enter manually or import through an XLIFF translation file. Therefore, it is not necessary to create more than one course or duplicate it to make it available in multiple languages. The learner chooses which language to display by selecting the language in his or her profile, and can change it once the content has started without affecting the progress of the course. To make the translation management tool available, the Multi-language feature must be enabled for the instance. Choose the default language Every time you create a new course, pathway or learning program, you must choose a Default language. It is the language in which you will start to create your content and it will serve as a base for the first translation you make, in the following translations you will be able to start from other languages. Its main function is to set the default language that will be shown when there is no translation available for the language selected by the student. When creating a new content, in the Details tab you will see the Default language drop-down menu, where you can select the language in which you will start writing the contents. Once the content has been created, you can change the default language as many times as you want, as long as it is not published. Once you publish it this option is blocked, even if you unpublish it later. Manage translations Once inside the Editor click on the three dots menu at the top right and you will see the option Manage translations, which you will use to work on this feature. Click on this option and a side menu with options will be displayed: Translation tabs: at the top there is a bar with a series of tabs, one for each language set. At the beginning there is only one tab, for the default language, the rest will appear as you add new translations. The tabs lead to the translation sheet for each language. Translation sheet: in the central part of the screen you can see a list of all the content sections (mission blocks, activities...), each one with its title and description. Here you can enter the translations, although you can also do it with through an external file as you will see below. New language: at the bottom right the + button allows you to add new translations. Clicking on it displays a menu with the available language options: To add a language check the box next to it, several languages can be selected at once. At the top is the Based on tab, where you choose which of the available languages to start from for the new translation. Finally click on Add to save the changes. Import and Export: If you go to one of the translations, you will see three buttons at the top. Import and Export are used to download and upload the files for the automatic translation. These text files in XLIFF format contain all the titles and descriptions of the content, plus a series of metadata, and can be processed by translation applications. To get this file with the content click on the Export button and it will be downloaded to your computer. Once translated, click on Import and upload the file. The upload process takes a few moments. If it is successful, when we go back to the tab you will see that the contents have been updated. If the message Error when trying to upload the file is displayed, check that the file format is correct Delete language: to delete any of the translations that have been added. Simply click and confirm the action, the translation file disappears from the list and the language will no longer be available. Save: to save changes. Choose the language in the LMS The language in which content is displayed in the LMS depends on the language the student has selected in his or her profile. If this matches one of the available translations, the content is displayed in this language. If it is not available, it is displayed in the default language of the content. The student can change his/her profile language at any time and access the content in other languages. Simply click on the profile icon in the upper right corner, and select the option Your account. Clicking on the Edit account button your profile card is displayed, with the Language drop-down menu. Switch to any of the available languages and click the Save button at the bottom of the tab. For further questions about multi-language, please refer to the FAQ article.

There's a change in the way to complete an activity when you are in the Preview mode of the course editor. So far, although it is a preview, it was necessary to meet all the criteria of the activity to complete it. This was an inconvenience if you wanted to test the activity quickly. From now on, in Preview mode activities are completed by simply opening them. This makes it easier to navigate quickly between content, especially if there are milestones, activities that unlock access to others. If you still want to test the function of the activity requirements, you can do so in LMS, creating a test training and enrolling your own user. This is complemented by another feature added previously, the Unlock All Milestones button at the bottom, to allow immediate access to all content without completing other activities.

A feature that makes it easier to edit and manage courses. So far the Duplicate function allowed you to create an exact copy of an existing course and change it, but the courses did not keep any connection with each other. With the Versionate option, the copy of the course will be stored as a new version itself, and the system will keep a record of all existing versions. The versioning tool will have new practical applications that will be incorporated in future versions of the LMS. Creating a new version To create a new version of a course, click on the three-dot drop-down menu on the right side, and select the Versionate option. Copies of the course are created and numbered consecutively: the first one will be v1.0, and the new versions created from them will be v2.0, v3.0... You can see which one it is by checking the Version column, next to the course title. The original version is the one with the empty field (-). To version a course you must take the most recent copy. It is not possible to version a copy that already has a newest version. If you try this, the system will return an error message. All new versions have the status Not yet published, like new content, regardless the status of the original course.

The pathway editor is structured around two tabs that separate the types of content that can be added: Structure for the training content itself (courses and events) Resources for other support materials (external URLs) Structure The content of a pathway is divided into stages. Each stage represents a training unit within the learning pathway, and can only include one type of content. Clicking on the button + Add stage there are two options depending on what you want to add: Stage of course Stage of events Once the stage is created, the type of content cannot be changed, but you can delete it using the option in the menu, and create a new one. In the header you can see the number of the stage (position in the pathway) and the type of content it includes. By clicking on the button + Add course o + Add event you can start adding the training. It is not possible to create the next stage until content has been added to a stage. In each of the courses or events that form the stage you can see the following information: The row of dots on the left allows you to move the content. Clicking on them you can change its position within the stage. If the row of dots does not appear, it is because the content depends on a marked requirement, and therefore cannot be moved. Clicking on the title takes you directly to the course editor, or to the event details. The information symbol warns you that the language of the content is different from that of the pathway. The green or red label indicates that the content is published or unpublished. Activate the flag to make the content required, which means mandatory to pass the training. In the three-point menu you can access the details of the courses, manage requirements or delete the content. Requirements Clicking on Manage requirements displays a side menu with the structure of the pathway, where you can select which contents will need to be previously completed in order to access the current content. You can select the contents individually, or the stage as a whole. Until the student has passed these requirements, the content remains blocked. In the main menu of the pathway, next to the Publish button, there are two other options: Set linear requirements to make it mandatory to pass the previous content to access the next one, throughout the whole pathway. Beware, this option deletes any requirement settings you set before. Delete all the requirements deletes all the requirements you set along the pathway. Other options are available in this menu: Details to access the pathway settings tab. Publish the pathway. Create training from the pathway, or See trainings already created. Remember, to create a new training, the pathway must be published. Delete the pathway. Manage translations to access the tab where you can edit the titles and description of the pathway in other languages (multi-language). Resources These are complementary resources that you make available to the student to support him in the training. It can be a web page, an online document or video, a social media post... that you can add through an external URL. To do so, click on the New resource button, add the URL of the resource in the new tab and click on Next. The tool displays some information on the resource, as it will be shown to the student, that you can edit: Thumbnail image. Name of the resource. A brief description of the content. URL of the resource. You also have the option to hide URL and show content inside fullscreen window. Finally, click on Save to add the resource to the pathway. When you finish editing the pathway, remember to click the Publish button to start creating trainings.

Regarding the courses within the training of a pathway, so far it was only possible to switch from one to another using the tree menu on the left side. From now on you can also use the menu in the central window. Clicking on any of the courses shows the particular data of activities, students, comments... related to it. To return to the pathway overview, click on the pathway title at the top of the tree. Besides, if the tree is too long (pathway with many courses) and exceeds the height of the screen, you can now scroll on it up and down.

The capacity of the Pathways is expanded by opening up the possibility of blended learning of courses and events. Previously it was only possible to include courses, online content that the learner completes on his own schedule. From now on, the learner can be summoned to events within the pathway itself, with the possibility of delivering several sessions for different learners. In this article you will see how to manage these events from the LMS Admin, and how they are displayed in the LMS. The hybrid or blended learning feature is active by default for all instances, it is not necessary to request it. However, it is necessary to activate the Events functionality beforehand. Adding events to a pathway Events are added to the pathway as another content, in the same way as courses. The only point to take into account is that courses and events cannot be combined in the same stage. If you add one of them to the stage, it gets set up only for that type of content. In other words, the way to combine courses and events in a pathway is to create different stages that include one or the other type. In LMS Admin, in the Contents section, look for the path you want and access the editor. By clicking on the button + Add stage you can see that two options are now displayed, Stage of courses and Stage of events, depending on the content you want to add. By selecting the second option you can add events you have previously created to the pathway. Next to the title of the stage you can see the type of content it includes in brackets. Clicking on the button + Add Event displays a side window with all the events published in the instance. You can add as many as you want to the stage, as well as sort or delete them. Remember that to add an event to an pathway you must first create it and publish it from the Events section in Contents. You can also add requirements to the events, so that it is necessary to complete other contents before accessing them. Click on the three dots next to the event and choose the Manage requirements option, a side window appears with all the previous contents, courses and events, to select the ones you want to be required. Also, in other course stages you can mark a previous event as a requirement so that it is mandatory to complete it before accessing the course. Training of an event inside a pathway For the training, the interface is also similar, but the new concept of Session is added. Each event can have different trainings within the pathway training itself, since in practice there can be several editions of the same event for different attendees. The different trainings of the same event are called sessions. For example, if in the pathway training there are some students with a more advanced progress, you can make one session with them, and another one later with the rest. It is also useful if you teach several sessions of the same event in different locations, for example different offices, so you can enroll the same student as recommended in all of them, and it is he who decides which one he attends. To be able to enroll a student in the session of an event, he must be previously enrolled in the pathway's training. When you are going to manage the students enrolled in a session, only the students enrolled in the pathway training will appear in the list. Entering the pathway training you can navigate through the tree of contents on the left to click on the event you want. A main screen is displayed where you can manage the sessions for that event. To create a new one click on the New session button, the usual Training details window appears. Session dates must be within the date range you have set for the training, if you enter a date outside that range, the platform returns an error message. After setting the parameters and creating the session, click on it to enrol students, and manage the trainers and the attendance. Remember you can only enroll students who are included in the pathway training. Sessions can only enroll students individually, the options to enroll by CSV file or by group are disabled to avoid incompatibility problems. As long as there are sessions in any of the events of the pathway, regardless of their status (open, planned or closed), it is not possible to modify the Training details, the platform will return an error message Attending an event within an pathway When the student accesses the LMS the pathway and events are displayed as usual. If there is a milestone marked, clicking on the padlock icon displays a new window with the contents to be previously completed. If an event has several sessions, clicking on it displays a new window with the options for the learner to choose which one to attend. If the learner attends one of the sessions (the trainer approves his attendance) the event is completed, and new contents are unlocked if there are milestones marked.

The Pathway editor allows you to set a badge as a requirement, not just courses as before. Thanks to it, you can block the progress of a user in the path until he achieves that badge, within the same path or in other training content. To do this, click on the three-point menu of the course you want to block, and select the Manage requirements option. In the pop-up window click the Select badge button and look for the one you want from the list of all the badges available in the instance. Select one or several badges and click the Select button. Back in the requirements window, click the Save button to set the new requirements. If you hover the mouse pointer over the padlock icon, you will see more info on the required badges and courses. The same happens in the LMS if you click on the locked courses icon. Remember, the badge does not have to be obtained within the same pathway, it can belong to other training contents. This option is also available in the Learning Programs to block access to pathways.

Events is a different way of providing training to the students. Unlike Courses and Itineraries, Events cover the need to complete your learning plan with non-consumable content, external to the platform itself. What does this mean? Usually the training content (written lessons, evaluable questionnaires, videos...) is completed with other more direct and simultaneous activities: a face-to-face event with the tutor, an online master class with videochat, a webinar... The new Events feature is aimed at this type of actions, from now on you will be able to create these events through the LMS platform itself and manage all its features: event data, support materials, chat room, attendance register... These new Events created will be displayed in the LMS, the same way as the Courses and Pathways. There the student will be able to register or check his progress, and access all the data, materials and useful links. The new Events tool is mainly intended for users with Trainer role. They will be the ones who, in addition to providing the online or face-to-face training, will use this tool to access the list of students and register their attendance and participation. But other roles, such as Administrator, are responsible for the creation and management of these Events. To learn more about the creation, management and use of Events check these articles.

A tool for grouping educational content and creating training actions on a larger scale. Learning Programs is a new level, above courses and pathways, designed for longer-term training that the user can complete step by step, over a longer period of time. A Learning Program is in practice composed of a series of pathways, organized in a certain way and with goals or milestones between them. This is a new layer in the structure of your learning system that will allow you, for example, to create more extensive and ambitious training campaigns, in which users follow at their own pace a path marked by thematic pathways, formed by those small pills or content units, the courses. This new system also allows you to group and organize a large amount of content under the same program. And to mark the student's passage between them, not only by the completeness of the contents, but also by the rewards received. Regarding the user experience in LMS, the Learning Programs will have a unique and differentiated appearance from the other contents, each one standing out as an independent carousel, which makes them more visually attractive and easier to use. This new feature is not available by default. In order to activate it please contact your Learning Consultant or KAM, or access the Support page and request a Task ticket. To learn more about the creation, management and use of Learning Programs please check this help section.