Smart Courses for Confluence update : What’s New
Confluence is widely used for team collaboration and knowledge sharing, but by itself, it isn’t a training platform. Smart Courses for Confluence fills this gap by turning Confluence into a full-featured Learning Management System (LMS).
You can create interactive courses, quizzes, and even SCORM-based training right inside your Confluence site. Because Smart Courses is built on Confluence, there’s no separate LMS to manage; you reuse your existing Confluence pages and content as course components. Administrators and learners stay in the same familiar experience of Confluence, which simplifies everything.
In short, Smart Courses brings rich LMS capabilities directly into your Confluence environment, so your teams learn in the same place where they collaborate.
TL; DR
- Expired session email notifications in recurrent courses keep learners on track with compliance by reminding them when it’s time to retake training.
- Outdated and missing translation indicators ensure multilingual courses stay accurate by flagging any language version that falls behind the default.
Recurrent courses notifications
Many compliance or certification programs require periodic refreshers on a schedule. Smart Courses’ recurrent courses feature automates this process. When a course is set as recurrent, it automatically repeats after each interval; any expired sessions are reset when a learner revisits the course. In practice, this means a learner must retake the course on the new schedule.
The latest update adds email alerts for expired sessions. Now, whenever a learner’s prior session in a recurrent course lapses, Smart Courses sends them an automated notification. This expiration email prompts the learner to retake the course, ensuring nobody misses a mandatory refresher. Administrators can set up an annual or quarterly training and trust that the system will both reset progress and nudge learners to complete it on time.
- Expiration notifications: Learners now receive an email when their previous session expires, reminding them to relaunch the recurring course.
- Automatic session reset: Once the recurrence period ends and the learner revisits the course, Smart Courses resets the session so they can begin the new cycle fresh.
These enhancements make Smart Courses ideal for compliance workflows. You get a complete in-Confluence compliance LMS (with exams, pass thresholds, insights, and more) that automatically handles session renewal. With email reminders built in, both managers and learners no longer need manual follow-up – the system keeps everyone on track.
Multilingual learning and up-to-date translations
Global teams need training in multiple languages. Smart Courses already supports multilingual courses: you can enable up to 24 languages and add translations for each course, even using an AI translation engine to speed up translating the course’s content. In practice, an employee can switch the course player to Spanish, French, or any other enabled language and view the translated content immediately. This avoids duplicating entire courses: everything is managed under one course ID in Confluence.
The new release improves translation management by flagging outdated versions. Now, if you edit the default (source) language of a course after translations exist, Smart Courses marks each translated version as outdated. Course editors will see a clear indicator on any translation that no longer matches the default content. This makes it easy to spot and update older translations. For example, if you update the English course text, the Spanish and French versions will show that they need review. Translators can then use the built-in AI “translate” button (if enabled) to quickly refresh the content. The result is that every learner always sees accurate, up-to-date course material in their language.
- Multi-language support: Smart Courses handles up to 24 languages with AI-assisted translation, so you can offer training to global teams without duplicating work.
- Outdated translation alerts: When the default language of a course is updated, any existing translations that are no longer aligned are highlighted in orange, so administrators can quickly identify which versions need revision.
- Missing Translation alerts: If a course already includes translations but some parts of the content haven’t been translated yet, Smart Courses highlights them in red, making it easy to see what’s incomplete.
Together, these features ensure no translation “falls behind” when you update a course. Administrators can confidently maintain training content in multiple languages, knowing that Smart Courses will both translate new content and alert them to any outdated material.
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