2025 Yearly Round-Up: Skill Lake Product Updates & Enhancements

As 2025 closes, we’re taking a moment to review the key innovations that transformed Skill Lake and maximized your investment’s value. This year, we’ve extended our product updates to give your organization unmatched leverage in learning and development. Get ready to explore this roundup of the essential Skill Lake 2025 product enhancements and see how they empower your teams.

AI Role Play: Instant Feedback for Real-World Performance

Workplace interactions are critical, demanding flawless communication. Recognizing your team’s demand for practicing real-world conversations in a risk-free environment, we introduced AI Role Play this year.
Powered by advanced AI, the role play simulates realistic scenarios, giving employees a fully-guided and secure space to practice and refine their skills coupled with real-time, personalized feedback. This ensures your team quickly masters conversations and performs successfully in any professional context.

More AI Features Unveiled

Our popular AI Course Generator now gets a new partner—AI Question Generator. This advanced AI feature can automatically create test questions from your content, making learner evaluation effortless.
Another remarkable recent launch is AI Copilot—an AI assistant that works alongside you directly in your editor to help with the instant refinement of text (course) materials.

Custom Reporting Features

Organizations and L&D teams spend significant time on repetitive tasks, especially generating reports. To ease this problem, we’ve introduced a few crucial capabilities:

• Report with Test Scores: Now you can generate performance reports consisting of test scores to determine which learner did the best in a specific assessment.
• Skill Matrix Export: Identify organization-wide skill gaps by exporting your employees’ competency maps or skill matrix to relevant reports.
• Course Enrollment Summary: Generate exclusive reports encapsulating the list of both assigned and self enrolled courses for learners, along with their corresponding statuses.
• Attendance Reports: You can now export your team’s attendance data into reports highlighting learner participation in a particular course or session.
• Progress Reports: We’ve also added learning path enrollments and learning progress reports to Skill Lake for helping mentors access necessary data.

Leaderboard to Amplify Engagement

This year, we launched the dynamic Leaderboard—a powerful feature that revolutionizes engagement in the Skill Lake LMS. Here’s how the Leaderboard helps you:

• Learners: Gain instant visibility of their rank at organization or department level. This fuels healthy competition and drives higher course completion rates.
• Managers: Receive essential oversight to track their reportees’ performance and ranking across both organizational and departmental levels.
• Admins: Clearly view and track the performance and ranking of their team members at both organizational and departmental levels.

Features to Protect Content and Users

This year, we built an even stronger wall—introducing critical new features to secure both our users and their valuable learning content.

• Restrict Course Preview: New controls allow Admins to limit course preview strictly to enrolled learners, protecting exclusive materials.
• Robust Content Security: Skill Lake allows admins to actively block screen recording, copying, and screenshots, stopping unauthorized distribution at the source.
• Efficient Password Management: Admins can manually configure new user passwords to enable faster onboarding or send quick password reset links to the new users.
• Single-Use Code Login Authentication: Learners enjoy a fast, secure, and hassle-free login experience by using a unique one-time verification code.

Take Charge of Your Learning Activity

We’ve introduced powerful features to give everyone greater control and oversight in managing assigned learning activities:

• For Learners: Learners can immediately validate their progress by uploading the proof of completion, with the flexibility to resubmit if an activity is reopened.
• For Admins: Admins can formally request and track proof of completion for assigned activities, ensuring accountability, and can reopen activities as necessary.
• For Mentors: Mentors can directly ensure learning standards are met by reopening activities when the submitted proof of completion does not meet requirements.

Add Assessments, Track Time, and Review Performance

Success is built on meticulous evaluation. Our latest enhancements integrate precision assessment with seamless time tracking to fast-track your progress.

• Time Tracking for Admins: Are learners engaging effectively with your course materials? You can know this by tracking the time spent by each learner on a specific course.
• Anonymize Review Elements: Performance review moderators can now hide specific feedback questions and responses raised by employees as part of manager reviews.
• Pre- and Post-Assessments: Content managers can include pre- and post-assessments as part of a course or session to analyze training effectiveness. It is also possible to generate reports based on the evaluation.
• Course Feedback Sharing: Skill Lake now allows learners to share their feedback on completed courses. This crucial input directly enhances future learning experiences, refining teaching methods and content quality.
• SCORM Performance Optimization: We improved SCORM loading speeds on Skill Lake this year. Learners now enjoy quicker access and smoother playback, maximizing efficiency.

User Interface and Experience Upgrades

To make your learning journey smooth and fast, we’ve reimagined Skill Lake’s web and mobile interface. The top enhancements include:

• Refined Navigation: Our rigorous UI/UX fine-tuning simplifies your journey from login to lesson. By removing friction, we’ve made finding courses and resources nearly instantaneous.
• Reimagined Books List: The Books List in Skill Lake now features a sleek, modern redesign for improved visual clarity and organization. This faster layout helps you navigate vast content collections without any clutter.
• New Dark Mode Support: Learners can now choose between light and dark interfaces to match their environment perfectly. This flexibility minimizes fatigue, keeping learners engaged and focused for longer.

Upgrades to Elevate Learning Management

We’ve delivered powerful new updates to standardize and elevate the learning experience across the LMS.
Versatile Tools for Content Managers: Content Managers can now upload audio content for learners, design impressive e-books, and easily share images as part of course snippets.

• Content Dripping: To overcome learner burnout caused by information overload, we now offer content dripping—a feature that allows you to release materials in stages, guaranteeing sequential learning at a manageable pace.
• Lock Video Scrubbing: Admins can choose to lock video scrubbing thereby preventing users from simply skipping past crucial training videos. It ensures learners view videos in their entirety.
• Assign Learning Resources: Admins can effortlessly manage enrollments and assign specific learning resources or materials to members within the groups they manage.
• Nudges to Re-Engage Learners: Mentors or Admins can automatically draw learners back to courses requiring more attention, boosting completion rates.
• Content Import Flexibility: Content Managers can instantly import selected lessons, complete units, or bulk question banks directly between courses. This ability helps maintain your curriculum perfectly aligned.
• Bulk Import Users: Administrators can now utilize Skill Lake’s Bulk Import capability to facilitate quick, simultaneous, high-volume user onboarding.
• Event and Venue Management: Event Managers can efficiently add participants to their events, while Admins can manage ILT venues and easily upload attendance data for online sessions.
• Open API Integration: We introduced Open APIs to simplify user management and effortlessly onboard users from third-party applications.

That’s a Wrap! Get Ready for 2026

We love seeing the impact of our 2025 updates, but we’re fueling the coming year with a massive roadmap. Besides a dynamic Learning Calendar to empower admins and an Automated Recertification tool to redefine your workflow, there are a few surprises we aren’t ready to reveal just yet. Want to discover how the new features can scale your learning ROI and success? Schedule your demo today and see what’s possible.