What's New for May '19

This enhancement was released with the March 8 patch.

With this enhancement, a new ADP Workforce Now Single Sign-On integration is now available from the Edge Marketplace. This enables organizations using ADP Workforce Now as their HCM to quickly purchase, configure, and enable single sign-on (SSO) from ADP WFN to Cornerstone.

The color scheme in Online Help is being updated to the most current Cornerstone branding. Updating the colors creates a consistent look and feel across the Cornerstone platform.

These changes will not be visible during UAT.

This functionality will be released with the 17 May 2019 post-release patch.

With this enhancement, partner access to configure or administer a portal is now controlled directly by the client administrator through the new Partner Access Administration page. Partners who require administrator access to configure a portal now request the client to add them and will no longer be administered by Cornerstone.

This functionality is available for testing in Stage portals with the 17 May 2019 post-release patch. This functionality will not impact Production portals until the August '19 Release.

As part of Cornerstone’s ongoing commitment to client data security and a consistent user experience, we are standardizing the strength of security anywhere a text box is used. The standardized validation will first be implemented in the May '19 Release, in Stage environments only, to allow ample time for client testing prior to being implemented in production environments with the August '19 Release. Cornerstone strongly suggests clients use the three month period for testing in Stage to understand the impact this change may have, before it is pushed to production.

The following features are available with the May '19 release:

• Folders
• Color Palettes for Charts
• Summarized Reports
• Additional Learning Fields
• Excel Report Header Update

This enhancement is not available during User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

A new Employee Record Change Outbound Feed is available in the Edge Marketplace. Employee record outbound feeds are now automated, so that once this feed is enabled, administrators can schedule a daily outbound feed of all changes made to the employee master data in the last 24 hours when Cornerstone is the system of record.

With this enhancement, a new feature called Edge Answers is available through the Edge platform. Edge Answers provides a searchable repository of frequently-asked questions (FAQs) about Cornerstone’s APIs, Edge Integrations, and Edge Import. Using Edge Answers, users can quickly find solutions and answers to questions without needing to wait for support.

This enhancement is not available during UAT.

In 2019, Cornerstone will retire the Course Publisher, and all portals will be automatically upgraded to the Content Uploader with Online Course Versioning, which was made generally available during the October '17 release. The exact date of the automatic upgrade is yet to be determined, but is being announced far in advance to provide administrators with sufficient time to plan for the change.

This feature is being released in June 2019.

The new Cornerstone for Salesforce (CFS) integration surfaces content directly in Salesforce. Training is available when and where it's most valuable, and content can be distributed to a wider audience through Salesforce communities. All administration, including reporting, is still hosted in the Cornerstone portal.

With this new feature, the Create Tool allows users to create and manage learning content using a content authoring solution that is directly integrated with the Course Catalog. Using the Create Tool, content creators can do the following:

• Create new micro-learning content to fill knowledge gaps

• Take pre-made Grovo content (if purchased) and edit it to fit your organization’s unique needs

• Enable easy mobile delivery of learning content

The Create Tool is not available during UAT.

The Create Tool can only be accessed by license holders, and additional enablement must be done in order for the Create Tool to be accessible to license holders in the portal. The Create Tool is currently priced at $3,000 per license (annually per user). For more information about enabling this functionality, please contact your Client Executive.

With this enhancement, the method by which training was delivered to a user's transcript displays in the Assignment History section of their transcript. The Assignment History section is dynamically renamed to the Assignment and Version History section if the training has been reversioned. This section also indicates which training is the latest active registration.

This enhancement is part of the larger Learning Compliance Scalability Initiative project.

Prior to this enhancement, Express Class was released as Early Adopter functionality. With the May 2019 release, Express Class is now generally available and includes the following new features:

• Material training items can be created using Express Class, allowing the Express Class creator to record training that does not yet exist in the Course Catalog
• A default provider can be specified via preferences for material type training items created through Express Class
• The Express Class creator can search for and select organizational units (OUs) and groups when adding attendees to the Express Class
• The Express Class creator can upload a CSV file of attendees to the Express Class
• Files can be attached to attendees in the Express Class
• Express Class training recorded to a user's transcript is clearly indicated as Express Class training
• More read-only information is available when searching for training within Express Class, allowing Express Class creators to more easily differentiate between similar training items

With this enhancement, when creating an ILT Session Register email, administrators can select whether the meeting invitation should be formatted specifically for Outlook, or whether the email should be formatted correctly for alternate email providers, such as Gmail, Yahoo, and others.

With the introduction of new obfuscation preferences, administrators can define when this instructor data should be anonymized by defining a retention period. After this retention period expires, this data will be automatically obfuscated, thus complying with GDPR data obfuscation laws. The following instructor data can be obfuscated using these new preferences:

• First name
• Last name
• Instructor reference ID
• Email

With this enhancement, the following features have been added to the Learning Experience Platform (LXP):

• The carousel headers on Learner Home can be renamed by an administrator

• When a login message is enabled in a portal and Learner Home is set as the portal home or landing page, the login message displays to users when they log into the portal (This portion of the Learner Home Enhancements project will be available during the second week of UAT)

With this enhancement, several user interface (UI) updates have been made to the Learning Assignment Tool (LAT) to help make managing and creating learning assignments easier and more intuitive. The following updates have been made to the LAT:

• The footer of the LAT has been redesigned
• The Assignment Type section of the assignment creation process has been moved to the first page of the process
• The Email Settings section of the assignment creation process has been redesigned
• The filters on the Manage Assignments page are collapsed by default and can be expanded when needed

As part of an ongoing initiative to improve learning compliance, several compliance enhancements have been made to the Learning Management System with the May 2019 release. With this release, the following updates and fixes have been applied to the system:

• The method by which training was delivered to a user's transcript displays in the Assignment History section of their transcript.

• The issue of transcript statuses populating incorrectly for materials or online courses as a result of the following scenario has been fixed: the material or online course is versioned and set as "Version Equivalent" to the prior version. After getting the new version in a Completed Equivalent status, the user re-requests or is re-assigned a new registration of the material or online course by a manager. With this enhancement, the training status will be correctly populated as Registered (NOT as Completed Equivalent).

• The version numbers of materials, online courses, and tests are visible within the structure of a curriculum, for both existing and new curricula.
• More settings automatically persist from the old version to the new version when an administrator reversions a curriculum, material, online course, or test.
• Updates have been made to the Assignment Summary page for the Learning Assignment Tool
• The following updates have been made to reporting:
  • The Curriculum Training custom report, previously made available in Custom Reporting with the Feb 2019 release, is now available in Reporting 2.0
  • A Maintain Progress toggle status field is available in the Assignment custom report field section in Reporting 2.0
  • The Last Transcript Status Change Date field has been updated to generate data more reliably

With the February 2019 release, a redesigned Learning Details page was released as an Early Adopter enhancement. With the May 2019 release, the Learning Details page remains in an Early Adopter status, but the following additional enhancements have been made to this feature:

• Users can view and access pre-work and post-work associated with the training on the Learning Details page
• Users can preview the video of video training items from the Learning Details page

With this enhancement, a Machine Learning Preferences page is available, and administrators can customize the way in which the Machine Learning Platform parses content and displays recommendations to learners.

With this enhancement, more settings automatically persist from the old version to the new version when an administrator reversions a curriculum, material, online course, or test. This helps to reduce the amount of time administrators need to spend on the reversioning process.

This enhancement is part of the larger Learning Compliance Scalability Initiative project.

With this enhancement, material and online course versioning behavior has been updated. For material and online course reversioning, when a user has a Completed Equivalent status for a training item, and that training is reversioned using the Replace option and set as a training equivalent for the new version, the user's status for the new version of the training will be Registered.

This enhancement is part of the larger Learning Compliance Scalability Initiative project.

With this enhancement, the following enhancements have been made to reporting:

• The Curriculum Training custom report, previously made available in Custom Reporting with the Feb 2019 release, is now available in Reporting 2.0
• A Maintain Progress toggle status field is available in the Transcript section of the Assignment custom report in Reporting 2.0
• The Last Transcript Status Change Date field has been updated to generate data more reliably and has been renamed to "Transcript Last Modified Date"

This enhancement is part of the larger Learning Compliance Scalability Initiative project.

In May 2019, Designations functionality, also referred to as Certifications 1.0, will be retired, and will no longer be available for use. Designations functionality was the first iteration of Certifications offered in the Cornerstone system, and most organizations have migrated to the current version of Certifications.

With the introduction of new obfuscation preferences, administrators can define when this instructor data should be anonymized by defining a retention period. After this retention period expires, this data will be automatically obfuscated, thus complying with GDPR data obfuscation laws. The following instructor data can be obfuscated using these new preferences:

• First name
• Last name
• Instructor reference ID
• Email

With this enhancement, the version numbers of materials, online courses, and tests are visible within the structure of a curriculum, for both existing and new curricula. This allows administrators to quickly and easily ascertain which versions of child training items are contained within a curriculum.

This enhancement is part of the larger Learning Compliance Scalability Initiative project.

With this enhancement, a Virtual Instructor-Led Training (vILT) connector is available, allowing organizations and partners using Cornerstone to build integrations with the virtual meeting provider of their choosing. This connector allows seamless integration with Cornerstone Learning portals, connects end users to virtual meeting sessions, allows attendance tracking, and provides scheduling tools for instructors.

This connector will not be available at the start of UAT. It is targeted to be available in Stage with the April 25 deployment.

• Location Validation - With this enhancement, the Location field will now be a required field on the Start Onboarding page if there are onboarding tasks that include either Tracker I-9 or WOTC.
• Start Onboarding Validation - With this enhancement, error messages are added so that if certain user record settings are causing an error when Start Onboarding is clicked from the Start Onboarding page, the recruiter can provide the error information to their system administrator to correct the issue.

The following enhancements have been added to improve the usability and flexibility of the Performance functionality:

• Prevent Playlists from being added to Dev Plans: Users can no longer search for or add a playlist to a development plan. This eliminates scenarios in which a playlist prevents a development plan from being completed.
• Off Cycle Review - Enhancements to Permissions: The Launch Off-Cycle Performance Review Task permission can now be constrained by OU and User's Subordinates, which prevents reviewers from searching for and seeing all users in the organization.

With this enhancement, for background check integrations created using the Background Check connector, new fields are available on the integrations' Settings page. This new section allows administrators to control which fields are sent to background check vendors in the initial request payload.

The Job Application API (Early Adopter) enhancement was released as part of the 22 February 2019 Patch Release.

The Job Application API delivers a seamless candidate experience with the ability to send job board application data to Cornerstone, enabling candidates to apply directly to requisitions using their information from job boards.

The Job Distribution Connector enhancement was released as part of the 5 April 2019 Patch Release.

The Job Distribution Connector provides organizations the ability to integrate their preferred job distribution provider with Cornerstone. Cornerstone provides the end-to-end workflow information and the toolkit in the API Explorer for external developers to build services required to set up the integration. Clients configure endpoints and credentials for the job distribution provider in Edge, including which fields to send to the job distribution vendor from a list of available standard fields. Job posting data exchanged using this connector is displayed on the Job Posting page in Recruiting.

With this enhancement, an "Additional Attachments" section appears on the application by default for career sites configured via the Mobile-Friendly Candidate Experience that include an Upload Attachment action item in the workflow. This section can be removed by the administrator when configuring the Upload Attachments section in the application workflow template and can also be made required.

The Branched Prescreening Questions enhancement was released to Production portals as part of the 22 March 2019 Patch Release.

With this enhancement, you can create branched prescreening questions for application workflows. Branched prescreening questions enables you to show or hide follow-up questions based on a candidate’s answer to the previous question. For example, if a candidate answers “Have you worked at this organization before?” with “Yes,” then you can ask them follow-up questions such as “In what department?”, “What dates were you at the company?”, and more.

The One-Click Apply with Stepstone (Early Adopter) enhancement was released as part of the 22 February 2019 Patch Release.

One-Click Apply with Stepstone delivers a seamless candidate experience with the ability to send job board application data to Cornerstone, enabling candidates to directly apply to requisitions using their information from job boards.