Changelog 2025

September 2025

TMS Enhancements

• User security: End users now see a clear Access Denied message if their site or organization doesn’t allow anonymous registration, reducing user confusion.

Integration Enhancements

LTI 1.3

• A user-friendly error page displays when launching a disabled lab, improving clarity for end users.
• Enhanced deep linking support handles optional parameters not passed in the request, ensuring smoother integrations.

SCORM: A new Passed/Incomplete scoring option provides greater flexibility in supported scoring variations.

APIs: New endpoints for creating lab instructions complete the set of previously released APIs to support updates to existing lab instructions.

August 2025

Release Highlights

Lab instructions

• Lab authors can build instructions using a user-friendly visual editor with formatting tools, drag-and-drop tokens, spellcheck, and the ability to switch seamlessly between visual and code modes.
• Learners can review instructions immediately while labs load, reducing downtime and keeping them engaged.

Lab Client API: A new client-side API allows safe customization and automation within labs using JavaScript or iFrame integrations.

Temporary Access Pass (TAP): Azure Cloud Slice labs support Microsoft TAP, ensuring seamless MFA-compliant access ahead of Microsoft's September 2025 enforcement.

Studio Enhancements

Lab details

• Lab Profile and Lab Instance search pages support filtering and searching by product, making it faster to find relevant labs.
• The Lab Instance Basic Details page now includes a Products field, ensuring consistency with lab profile details and improving troubleshooting for lab developers.
• New Product Chooser modals and a Product Find page make it easier to select, search, and manage products when working with lab profiles.

Lab instructions

• Lab titles display in Lab Instructions for easy reference.
• The Instructions Editor provides a smoother pop-up experience when switching from visual mode to code mode.

Secure logout: An enhanced logout process clears tokens and cookies across applications, strengthening session security. (No user action required—this happens automatically.)

TMS Enhancements

• Security headers: Configurable response headers for Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy, giving admins more control over browser security behavior.
• Achievement tracking: An improved caching strategy for user achievements reduces database load and improves performance.

July 2025

Release Highlights

• Insights portal: The Insights portal was redesigned with improved dashboards, refreshed reports, streamlined invoicing, and Power BI integration for deeper lab performance insights. For more details, check out our Skillable Insights documentation.

Studio Enhancements

• Product permissions: A new Product Permissions section in the permissions UI lets admins manage product-level access more clearly and consistently.
• Skills Framework: The Skills Framework details page now shows the framework key alongside each skill name (e.g., [KEY]: [Skill Name], making it easier for lab developers to identify and manage skills.
• End-of-lab reports: End-of-lab reports now only show skills from frameworks enabled for the organization, ensuring reports display only relevant skill data.
• SCORM: SCORM package behavior updates include improved progress tracking accuracy. Completion is now based on defined criteria rather than being marked complete on viewing.

Integration Enhancements

• Tagging: Skill tags are now included in activity group reporting, along with a few additional endpoints that simplify reporting analysis and offer more robust reporting capabilities.
• LTI: Geolocation is now available on LTI 1.1, promoting lab security, compliance, and a better learner experience.

June 2025

Release Highlights

• AI Vision Activities: Lab authors can create AI-powered activities that use computer vision to verify whether learners completed tasks correctly, without requiring scripts. Fore more details, check out our.
• Activity Group scoring: New passing policies let authors score activities as a group, providing clearer measurement of task or objective mastery.
• Scaled scoring: High-stakes labs can use scaled scoring to standardize results across different versions for fairness and consistency.
• Instruction File Import tool: Lab authors can import Word, RTF, or Markdown files --including images-- directly into the Instructions Editor to save time.

Studio Enhancements

Lab authoring

• Lab authors can define a custom display order for VM endpoints, ensuring a user-friendly tab layout that supports structured, intuitive lab building.
• Lab authors can reference VM endpoint properties like selection links, usernames, and passwords using @lab replacement tokens, which improves authoring efficiency and promotes a clear, consistent lab experience for learners.
• Scrolling functionality for VM endpoint tabs ensures all tabs remain accessible, regardless of the number of tabs or the window width.

TMS Enhancements

APIs

• The Completed property in a course assignment now updates as expected when using the UpdateCourseAssignment endpoint.
• The GetOrganization endpoint now includes an Enabled property.

Lab Launches: The Limit Maximum Lab Launches per Delivery options works as expected when lab activities are limited to only one launch.

May 2025

Studio Enhancements

• Lab Profile Updates: Lab authors with proper permissions can now update VM lab profile disk changes without entering notes for each VM, streamlining the save process and reducing errors.
• Text Swap Panel: The Text Swap Panel in the Instructions Editor now supports dynamic resizing and hover tooltips for improved visibility and accuracy when editing content.

Enhancements

• Resolved intermittent Azure launch failures by updating subscription and resource group management to wait for resource allocations to complete before continuing processing.
• Invoices under $1 that are normalized to $0 will now be filtered out from the Skillable Invoices page, as these invoices will not be billed to customers, helping reduce clutter and improve clarity.
• Added the Resource section to the Course Assignment Details View in TMS so course resources can be accessed directly from active course assignments.

TMS Accessibility Enhancements

• Added ARIA parent roles to top navigation bar elements (e.g., My Training, Classes, Contact) to improve assistive technology support.

April 2025

Studio Enhancements

• Increased the capabilities of the Studio User Dashboard’s to support multiple filter operators, improving filtering flexibility and accuracy for users.
• Made VM notes optional when saving lab profile changes for users with the correct permissions.
• Updated the user dashboard date filtering to now support date ranges effectively.
• Enhanced the text swap panel to support dynamic resizing and hover tooltips for better readability and accuracy.
• Updated referenced activity logic to now display all activities within referenced groups and made “All Activities” the default tab.
• Updated the user dashboard grid to support dynamic filtering, sorting, and pagination.

TMS Enhancements

• Updated the Redeem Training Key field to be announced by screen readers as a required field.
• Improve heading roles for Badges and Achievements on the Student Dashboard to support accurate screen reader tracking.
• Enabled wider text spacing on Active Class Titles and Course Assignment Names to prevent truncation.
• Added underlines to links on the Class Enrollment screen and related views for clearer visual distinction.
• Added ARIA parent roles to top navigation elements (e.g., My Training, Classes) to improve assistive technology support.
• Enabled Course Activity Name headers to expand and reflow properly without truncating text when enlarged.
• Corrected the validation message when the Program field is left as “Choose Program” during course creation; the message now properly states “The Program field is required.”
• Added an Edit User Group dialog, allowing Super Users to more easily add or remove users from User Groups directly.

March 2025

Release Highlights

• User dashboard: Studio's updated dashboard highlights quick actions, personalized Lab Advisor recommendations, and an improved lab grid for managing labs.
• Instructions Editor: Lab authors using Markdown (code mode) have a ribbon bar with formatting shortcuts for faster instructions editing.
• Lab themes: Lab authors can test labs with different themes at launch time, without altering the default profile theme.
• Revert VMs via API (beta): Lab instructors and admins can restore lab VMs to a prior state using a new beta API endpoint.
• Custom VM Endpoints (beta): Labs support direct connection (via SSH, RDP, and HTTP/S) to VM endpoints with a tab-based interface, persistent sessions, and nested VM support.

Publishing Groups

• Error messages have been improved to show more details, when attempting to delete a Publishing Group.

Accessibility Enhancements

• When using the on-screen keyboard has been updated to allow scrolling with the keyboard for pages that are displayed in an iframe.
• The User License Agreement has been updated with an ARIA label that allows screen readers to read the contents and enables the user to navigate and interact with the page more effectively.
• The dashboard has been updated to have the proper contrast ratio when viewing the top navigation buttons or viewing the Last Modified date on the User License Agreement.
• The top navigation bar elements have been updated with an ARIA parent role, to inform assistive technologies to treat them like interactive elements.

February 27, 2025

Lab Profiles

• Lab Profile details pages have been updated to show all Life Cycle Actions that are configured on the Lab Profile. This simplifies Lab Profile management and ensures lab authors are making informed decisions with Lab Profiles.
• Lab Profile export performance has been improved to prevent erroneous clicking when confirming the export dialog.