We just added a significant new feature to Articulate Online.

Since the release of Articulate Online back in January, one of the suggestions that we have heard time and time again from customers is that they wanted a "User Portal" in Articulate Online. To show you that we are listening, today we added a User Portal to Articulate Online!

Question: What is a "User Portal"?

Answer: The Articulate Online "User Portal" is a place where your private users can securely login to a personalized training site to view and access all content items that administrators or publishers have assigned to them.

When we originally designed Articulate Online we didn't include a "User Portal" because we wanted to focus on creating a platform for easily hosting training content that could then be incorporated in existing websites, blogs, or linked to in emails sent to users. I think we did a pretty great job on this front.

However, shortly after release of Articulate Online in January we started to get requests from customers who also wanted a "User Portal" added to Articulate Online as another means of distributing their training. They wanted a place where users could login, view a list of content they are assigned to view and be able to view the content.

Question: So what does the "User Portal" include?

Answer: By enabling the "User Portal" in Articulate Online, you have the option of allowing your users to do the following in the "User Portal":

• Show a list of all content items the users is given permission to view
• Show user history reports
• Enable users to print the History report (a list of all items viewed) or Attempt Detail report (a print out of the specific attempt at a quiz), which can be used as a completion certificate
• Manage their e-mail address and password settings in the "User Portal"
• Give your users a customized message in the "User Portal"

Question: Cool, so what is this going to cost me?

Answer: Nothing! Great part about it is that all of our existing plans will be able to enable the "User Portal" in Articulate Online, so it won't cost you a thing.

So that's it. I hope you guys like the "Users Portal" and thanks for reading my blog. :-)

For more information on the User Portal visit this Knowledge Base article.

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