Changes to Perform to allow group administrators to see the members of specified groups within the system.

This extension will focus on giving group administrators access to certain data without showing all users within the system.  

You can contact the Product Manager :  mike.smithers@kallidus.com

Improving permissions within Perform for Group administrators

Learners will be empowered to track their CPD with a new interface in Learn; reducing the need for manual admin or reports to keep people on track.

Continuous Professional Development

We've added a brand-new Global Objectives report to Kallidus Reporting and Analytics. We designed this report to help Perform customers understand how individual objectives align with their organisational goals.

Global Objectives Report

AI SMART objectives - this item is already available to customers.  It helps your managers and users to write better objectives based around the SMART format.  Using AI, it helps to ensure objectives are specific and measurable.

You can request this is switched on by raising a ticket with our help desk.

We are, in the next few months, adding a toggle so you can switch this on for your organisation in a self service way.  

AI SMART objectives ✨

Based on your feedback, we're making a number of enhancements to your reports. You can read more about those improvements 

Improvements to Learning Reports

We are currently researching what reporting requirements you have for reporting on skills, skill levels or skill gaps in your organisation.

If you would like to be involved and help shape this please contact our Product Manager, Phill - Phill.lord-david@kallidus.com 

Skills reporting

We have updated SAP BusinessObjects to the most recent version, 4.3, to allow us to continue to fully support customers until all customers adopt Power BI.

You can read more about this update 

BusinessObjects 4.3 Update

Check out this new feature in Kallidus Reporting & Analytics! This feature is currently in beta release, with general availability for all customers targeted for mid-April.

We're giving customers the ability to specify which reports are available to your team members within their reports hub. This helps ensure users only see the reports they actually need!

Learn more about this new feature in our 

Specifying access to reports (beta)

Allowing administrators to see the breadth of notifications available to them and to switch them on and off without having to raise a ticket with our support desk.  

Self service - enabling organisations to self serve switching on of emails

We're looking to create a set of 3rd party learning content integrations, enabling you to showcase the content you curate to your organisation without the hassle!

Let us know what providers you would like to see!

3rd party content integrations

We're looking at ways we can bring in AI to help you understand your data better. Whether that is categorising response sentiment, trend analysis, or helping you to author and refine reports, we're exploring all the options!

Let us know of any useful suggestions below, and we'll take them into account!

Reporting AI-assisted analysis ✨

Connecting tools to Kallidus Reporting

Improving how we can enable Learn to deliver repeat/refresher training for customers. Making improvements to the user experience in the learner and manager views.

Accreditation/refresher improvements

A new skills profile will show learners what skills they need and have to perform in their role, whilst enabling them to take ownership of their own skills gaps; seeing what progress they need to make and discover relevant content. 

We are also exploring how to recommend and surface recommended skills to learners as new skills emerge in your business

There will also be AI supporting you in suggesting which skills might be useful for your profiles

Skills profile - Learner

Check out this new feature in Kallidus Reporting & Analytics! 

Report reminders enable you to share links to key reports with your team members via email on a schedule. Reminders serve as a call to action, ensuring reports are being reviewed in a timely manner and that team members are always viewing the latest data. 

Sharing links to reports via email

We've added a brand-new Objectives Summary report to Kallidus Reporting and Analytics. We designed this report to provide Perform customers a high-level overview of objectives so they can effectively monitor progress across their organisations.

Objectives Summary Report

Assess peoples skills and set what skill level is needed for specific roles whilst giving people clear targets of what skills to work on. Central teams will be able to identify skill gaps and define the required level needed for core skills vs additional skills people wish to develop

This feature is still in the research stages. Please do get in contact if you are interested in helping shape our skills roadmap, take part in any research or user testing early protypes. Contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Skill levels

Introducing three new question types within the review form:

These question types will enable you to build comparison grids across these criteria.  You will start to be able to identify those individuals who are possible talent risks, consistent performers and stars within your business.  

In addition, you will be able to cross correlate behaviour against performance.  Identifying those individuals who are performing well but at the cost of others through their behaviour can also be shown.

Potential, Overall performance and Behaviour questions within Reviews

We're exploring leveraging the power of AI to help you to get reports that meet your needs. We'd love your thoughts on how this would work for you!

AI-assisted report creation✨

We will be adding the option to have OTS refresher mode only show the refresher mode dialogue if a user has completed the course in question before.

This will affect any second completion of the course, whether the course is a part of continuous accreditation or not. This option would suit setups where refresher behaviour is desirable but going through the full course on the first completion is desired to be mandatory.

Existing users will not be affected without action as this will be an entirely opt-in behaviour. 

Update to OTS course refresher mode

For some time customers have fed back that the timings of batch emails (emails sent by the overnight processes) are frustrating. This item is to find a fix for that.

More control over notifications

Bulk tag existing content with skills using AI powered suggestions.

Bulk tag content with AI ✨

Manually import a list of skills you have already identified for your business. This can be used along side the Ai Skills Generation which is currently in Beta. 

These skills will later be used to be able to tag content and map to people to create a skills profile

Manually Import Skills

We will be adding a new interaction to the OTS player which will allow our learning designers to create multiple-choice questions (MCQ) contextualised within a carousel containing information about the scenario.

Once the new interaction is released, watch out for it starting to appear in new courses and course upgrades.

New OTS course interaction (Scenario MCQ)

Analytics can be a powerful ally in delivering a great Learning experience. We're adding support for SCORM 2004 in our new Reporting and Analytics tool, so you can get into the detail of how your users complete your learning.

You can read more about this report in our 

Reporting and analytics for SCORM 2004

We're introducing a new Sapling admin workflow to facilitate seamless employee role changes. 

The first phase of this workflow will help ensure you update all relevant custom tables and effective dates when a user is promoted/relocated. ​

Future phases of this feature will include document, email, and task assignments as well. ​

Role Change (phase 1)

Adding integrations to different learning tools, such as LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Viva Learning, to improve how Learning integrates into your ecosystem. 

We've recently delivered a search integration to LinkedIn Learning (read more 

) and an integration for Microsoft Viva Learning (currently in Beta, read more 

Are there other integrations you'd be excited to see? Pop in a suggestion to let us know!

Learn Integrations: LinkedIn and MS Viva

We've added a brand-new Reviews Summary report to Kallidus Reporting and Analytics. We designed this report to provide Perform customers a high-level overview of reviews so they can effectively monitor progress across their organisations.

Reviews Summary Report

We are working on enabling individuals to record skills against Development Activities.  

Recording skills will enable both the individual and their manager to work on these skills together.

Reading from your skills taxonomy, your users can really focus in on their development of skills within your organisation.  

Skills - allowing skills to be recorded against development activities

We're considering how best to expand our reporting capabilities to serve more of your HR ecosystem... and we'd love your thoughts! Please reach out and share what you'd like us to connect with.

Cross-product reporting expansion

Connect to other parts of your HR Ecosystem

Customers can connect Learn data to other applications

Customers can surface Learn content in other applications

Customers can create Learn results from other applications

Learn API Gateway

Link content to specific skills development by tagging lessons with skills.

This feature is currently in Beta. If you would like this enabled contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Skills tagging

We are introducing a new course sidebar to OTS courses designed to enhance navigation and progress tracking. This feature will help users to understand their position within the course, navigate easily to different sections, and quickly see how much content remains to complete. 

OTS course sidebar

May 2024 update - since February, we've launched the all-new Kallidus Reporting & Analytics to about 16% of our customers as early adopters, and will begin adding access to the rest of our customers over the next few months. You'll also see additional ideas on the roadmap relating to further enhancements we're considering for Reporting.

We're reimagining the way you access business-critical data and insights from our products. Expect brand-new reporting tools, powered by Power BI, to monitor and understand your L&D data easily. 

The new Reporting & Analytics hub will: 

Reporting Reimagined

Data connections enable you to export Power BI datasets to your own SFTP locations on a continuous cadence. Once exported, you can extract, transform, and load the data into your external reporting tools however needed.

Export reporting data to SFTP

This item covers some improvements to the Competency Check functionality in Learn.

Competency Check improvements

This is currently in Beta. If you would like this to be turned on for you then please contact the Product Manager, Phill - phill.Lord-David@kallidus.com

Create a skills taxonomy in seconds rather than months! Utilising Ai you can generate a list of relevant skills for your organisation. Later, these skills will then be used to tag content or map skills to individuals to create a personalised skills profile

AI Generated Skills ✨

Check out these new features in Kallidus Reporting & Analytics!

Saved views allow you to filter a report and save the specific slice of data as a reusable report view - allowing you to focus on data relevant to you and your teams quickly and repeatably.

Shareable Links will allow you to securely share your reports and saved views with ease. 

Learn more about these new features in our 

Saved Views and Shareable Links

Check out this new feature in Kallidus Reporting & Analytics!

If you have a report view you find especially useful or visit frequently, you can now set it as your default view! Once set, the default view will automatically apply when you launch that particular report.

Set a default report view

We know sometimes customers want to grant people access to specific reports and information (either on a one-to-one basis, or collectively) but without them having access to the full reporting experience.

These people can be employees, and sometimes might be external people who for some reason need access. How can we enable this, while giving a safe and secure way of customers managing that sharing?

Making a report available to more people

Enable personalised learning journeys by allowing learners to create their own playlists. Enabling them to create their own learning plan, save content to come back to at a later date or favourite content they consistently go back to.

Create playlists

We're investigating more ways of increasing how often report data refreshes, so you can have even more up-to-date information to carry out your needs!

Improving how often reports refresh

We're looking for feedback on the most effective areas to apply optional generative AI to summarize information you or your team members have added to Kallidus products.

Generative AI for summarizing

If you have a collection of similar report views, you can now organise them into groups for better management and easier navigation. Whether or not you've grouped your views, the views search bar will help you quickly find any view you need.

Group your report views

We're going to build reports that help to bring Learning and Performance to life across the teams, all in one view.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this; please use the feedback button below to share!

Cross-product reports

This piece of functionality uses AI to recommend courses using a clustering algorithm.  In short, it uses similarity features to recommend courses to an individual based on their similarity to someone else who has completed learning that this person has not.

Recommending in this way means people get intelligent and refined recommendations which grow over time.  

AI Course Recommender ✨

We are working on a new identity and login service that will give our customers modern identity management capabilities. Whether you use Single Sign On, or Kallidus manages your identity and login journey, we're working to make this the best journey possible for you.

This development allows for you to use multiple single sign on (SSO) providers.  It will, in 2024, allow you to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) through the use of authentication apps.   

May 2024 update:  We have received lots of helpful feedback about our new offering.  It is great to hear it is resolving issues for customers.  We are working through your other bits of feedback and starting to work on some improvements to the login flow.

We are also working on a self service upgrade page to make upgrading easier and more in your control.  This is being tested throughout April with a view to getting this available in May/June.    

Please share any thoughts or ideas with us as we build out this capability!

Suite-wide Identity and Login

Adding more capabilities to Learn's powerful group rules functionality, allowing our customers to better reflect how they'd assign learning in their organisation.

We've added:

Enhancements to Group Rules

Learners can share their created Playlists with others, enabling easy knowledge sharing across your organisation.

Please do get in contact if you are interested in learning more about Playlists. Contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Share playlists

We want our customers to say “I can share the data that I can see with others”. We'll help them with this by allowing their administrators to share their view of data with other people, allowing for a more complete view of data.

Sharing reporting data with other people

We're making several highly requested improvements to Sapling's signature request documents. 

Document Enhancements

Improving our feature-set to make Learn a next-generation learning environment, supporting social and collaborative learning.

We have now delivered the following:


You can read on up on the features in Zendesk. 




Please share any other thoughts you have on this topic!

Sharing knowledge

Support longer and more complex learning journeys such as onboarding, leadership programmes or apprenticeships. Showing learners a clear path of learning to complete; including sections, pre-requisites and longer term linking to skills development

Learning Pathways

Get Ai recommended content to add you your playlists and all new playlists suggested to you based on your interests and learning activity.

Please do get in contact if you are interested in taking part in any research or user testing early protypes. Contact the Product Manager phill.lord-david@kallidus.com

Ai Recommended Playlists

Administrators can create and edit data entries when they need to make amendments.

We have now completed this tranche of work and we welcome your feedback on it.  We have made it possible to fully edit objectives as an administrator.

We have also made it possible for you to close reviews which remain open and also re-open reviews which are fully signed off if needed.

Please do leave us feedback on this.  You can contact the Product Manager :  mike.smithers@kallidus.com 

Perform - Administrators can create/edit entries

We've worked hard to deliver a revamped PTO solution for Sapling called Absence Management. 

This re-work makes many improvements on existing behaviours, and it adds new functionality that is essential to managing people in dynamic organisations!

As part of the new Absence Management module, we are introducing Working Patterns.

A Working Pattern allows you to capture an employees expected working day(s) and number of hours they work each day in the morning and/or afternoon. There is also support for multi-week Working Patterns.

Working Patterns will bring several benefits to Absence Management:

Absence Management (PTO revamp)

Further improvements to our user generated content functionality.

We have completed two pieces of work on this recently:

Your feedback is encouraged.  Please do let us know.  Thanks

User generated content - further improvements

Based on your feedback, we've added the ability to turn off automatic generation of Closed Captions for video content in Learn.

We've also added the capability to use 'review mode' with Learn video content.

You can read more about this change 

Video enhancements for Learn

We've seen great adoption of our new Course Promotion tool, and had some really useful feedback. Based on what you've shared, we are adding a number of new features... first up is the ability to target the promoted course to specific groups.

Course Promotion improvements

We are making a small improvement to the group rules in Learn which should give greater flexibility for customers to create pathways for learning.  

You can assign lessons to users who do not pass a lesson with 100%, by adding them to a specific group.

For example:
"Lee completes their Fire Safety training, but scores 80%. While 80% is a 'Pass', Lee is also enrolled onto a 'Fire Safety extra learning' course so they can have additional learning in this area."

You can find out more about this improvement in our Help portal:   

Add learners to groups using lesson score

Improving our feature-set to make Learn a next-generation learning environment, supporting social and collaborative learning.

We've added user-generated content to allow your users to share their knowledge. We have also made sure the tools for Administrators to effectively control and moderate  are in place.

We have started with videos (MP4 and .Mov format).  These can be videos that are pre-recorded or you can record directly from a phone.  

You can choose who you wish to make this available to.  You could choose all your users or narrow it down to a more focussed group of Subject Matter Experts. 

If accepted through moderation, all UGC videos will create courses and lessons which are made available to a specific catalogue.  These can be moved around like any other course/lesson within the system.  

 
We'd love your thoughts on this one, so please share your views!

User-generated content in Learn

Enabling administrators to promote a course on your Home page.  This will show the promoted course to all users enabling them to click through to it. You will be able to customise the title and description to suit your use case. 

As an administrator you will be able to promote a course of your choice to your organisation.    

Course promotion in Learn

Add capabilities for our users to control whether somebody successfully watches a video based on the %age they have watched.

Our administrator video experience allows you to:

You can read more widely about our video lesson solution here:  

Set a percent to pass in Video

A number of improvements to the course upload capability in Learn, to improve performance and stability, and make it easier for administrators to load new content.

March 2024:  We are delighted to add in the ability for you to upload content without the need to create a new course.  We are sure this is a welcome improvement!

This workstream is concluded.  We really welcome your feedback on it.  

Content upload improvements in Learn

Adding support for the latest version of Google Analytics for customers on Learn, Perform, and Recruit.

Google Analytics upgrade

We've made improvements across Sapling onboarding and offboarding to ensure a more seamless experience for both admins and users. 

Onboarding and Offboarding Enhancements

We've given customers more control over their Sapling calendars, allowing them to choose what events their employees can see.

Calendar Enhancements

A number of enhancements for Recruit to improve performance and stability. Updates made across the Back Office for Recruiters to improve page load times.

Recruit performance enhancements

OTS in-app speech translation allows your learners to hear the lesson voiceover in their preferred language, at the touch of a button. This feature will be available for Kallidus OTS responsive player content, and augments the text translation ability. Speech translation will be available in the 29 most commonly requested languages by our learners. 

OTS speech translation

Improved accessibility for the eBooks that accompany Kallidus OTS lessons in our responsive player. Learners with access needs will be able to use screenreaders for both lesson and eBook. These improved eBooks will be rolled out across all our responsive player lessons and will be attached to all UK library lessons as they are upgraded to this player during 2025.

Roadmap