What's New for July '21

With this enhancement, organizations can view and manage their PGP key information within Edge Import. This key is used in Edge Import and Bulk API. Organizations can download their active PGP key, view the key's expiry date, and generate a new PGP key that expires in 180 days. Administrators are notified if a PGP-encrypted file is present in an active Edge Import feed.

This functionality is available in Stage portals as of July 13.

With this enhancement, when a default password is enabled for a portal, then the checkbox “Assign default password to new users” will be checked and disabled, and radio buttons for Top Corporate Password or custom password will no longer display for Data Load Wizard User Loads. Users created via the Data Load Wizard User Load will have their password set per the default password preferences.

Production and pilot rollout is delayed and is now targeted for the October ’21 Release time frame. This functionality is currently available to test in stage environments.

With this enhancement, a new Default Password Management tab will be visible on the existing Password Preferences page. Here, administrators can set a portal-wide default password or configure a default password by organizational unit (OU), change the default password, and manage default password rules such as lifespan and expiration date. Furthermore, default passwords must comply with the password complexity rules defined on the General tab in Password Preferences. Administrators can use the Default Password Email Reminder Template in Email Administration to setup email reminders to be notified prior to default password expiration.

Production and pilot rollout is delayed and is now targeted for the October ’21 Release time frame. This functionality is currently available to test in stage environments.

After this enhancement, if a training is part of a certification, it is supported when included in the following transcript load types:

• Video Transcript Load
• Test Transcript Load
• Material Transcript Load
• Curriculum Transcript Load
• Online Course Transcript Load

With this enhancement, organizations can view and manage their PGP key information within Edge Import. This key is used in Edge Import and Bulk API. Organizations can download their active PGP key, view the key's expiry date, and generate a new PGP key that expires in 180 days. Administrators are notified if a PGP-encrypted file is present in an active Edge Import feed.

This functionality is available in Stage portals as of July 13.

With the July ’21 Release, the following new sections are added to Email Digests, enabling employees to receive an email digest about the skills feedback that they are receiving:

• Skill Endorsements
• Skill Feedback
• Skill Feedback Requests

New updates to Cornerstone Language Packs and additional languages, are available with the July ’21 Release. Please visit the July '21 Language Pack Updates posting in the Success Center to review the full list of changes and their targeted availability in stage and production environments.

This functionality is not available at the start of UAT.

With this SSO integration, the one-click functionality provides customers with a quick and simplified process to configure and enable the integration in both Cornerstone and Azure AD with minimal manual effort.

This functionality will be released in a post-release patch.

The August '21 release includes the following smaller enhancements that are intended to improve the user experience for Reporting 2.0:

• Summarizing and Aggregation Improvements
• Display Filter Criteria on All Export Formats
• New "Is Empty or Null" Filter

The following enhancements to the skills feedback experience are included with the July '21 Release:

• Display the person being rated throughout the feedback experience
• Submit button now available on all feedback pages (Submit, Next, Previous always visible at bottom of page)
• Comment preview in Skill Details (when logged in user does not have any previous ratings)
• Optimized Comment View in Feedback History
• "Rating" changed to "Feedback" on some pages to more accurately describe the multiple response formats that are supported.

As part of an ongoing effort to allow all customers to store their Create Tool data in the region aligned with their Cornerstone portal, Create Tool course data can now be stored in the following additional data centers:

• CDG
• LAX (including LAX secure swimlanes)
• LHR

Cornerstone will make backend optimizations to improve the stability and reliability of curriculum child training versioning.

While customers will not experience any changes to functionality, workflow, or user interface, these optimizations aim to:

• Improve reliability of user assignment calculations and processing
• Address issues surrounding back-to-back versioning and resulting incorrect curriculum structures
• Further our goal in migrating services to AWS infrastructure

Ability to perform learning data loads using Data Load Wizard will be deprecated with an end-of-life in the February ‘22 Release, at which point defects will no longer be fixed and Data Load Wizard learning loads will no longer be visible or accessible in customer portals. Data Load Wizard is a legacy data load tool which was built on older technology, is accessed using an older user interface (UI), and experiences slow performance and limited load type support.

Edge Import addresses these issues with a modern interface and an intuitive workflow that can support a greater number of concurrent loads, while providing administrators with a delightful user experience.

Existing customers who are ready to migrate to Edge Import can enable it in the Edge Marketplace and review the migration and starter guides to help them through the migration steps. All customers are required to complete their migrations before the February '22 Release which will be the end-of-life date and end of support for Data Load Wizard learning data loads.

Upon the release of this enhancement, learners can access and complete assessments via the Cornerstone Learn app. This enhancement will be available with a post-release patch.

Additional documentation will be made available when this feature is released.

Learning Assessments are a reimagining of the legacy Test Engine experience. The first phase of this multi-release project was introduced with the February ’20 Release, and Learning Assessments functionality has continued to evolve during subsequent releases.

With the July '21 release, the expansion of the Learning Assessments open beta continues with the addition of assessment versioning.

This enhancement will be available with a post-release patch.

The Microsoft Teams "Learning in the Flow of Work" integration brings the Cornerstone Learning catalog directly to learners in their key productivity application. With this enhancement, Microsoft Teams users can add a chatbot to Teams that lets them search for and share training, all linked to the Cornerstone portal. Learners can also receive notifications about training with upcoming due dates.

This integration enables users to interact with learning content from within Teams and includes the ability to:

• Receive a welcome message with instructions on how to use the Learn Bot
• Search for, find, and access relevant content directly within the Learn Bot
• Search for relevant content directly from any message thread with a new Teams message extension
• Stay up-to-date on outstanding training via proactive nudges
• Launch learning content directly from the bot

This integration was made available in the Edge Marketplace on July 1, 2021.

A new Microsoft Teams vILT integration is now available in the Edge Marketplace. The Microsoft Teams vILT integration provides the following features:

• When administrators create, update, or cancel a single or multi-part session in the Learning Management System (LMS), its corresponding Teams meeting will be created, updated, or cancelled through the integration
• End users and instructors can launch MS Teams sessions through the Learning Management System
• Attendance information can be retrieved

• Multi-part sessions are created with each session part as a separate meeting in MS Teams

• Virtual meetings can be managed for multiple accounts

This integration was made available in the Edge Marketplace on July 1, 2021.

With this enhancement, the INSTRUCTOR.LAUNCH.SESSION.LINK email tag has been added for instructors for the following email types:

• ILT Session Becomes Available
• ILT Session Register
• Session Start Date
• Session Changed

With this enhancement, when the learner clicks the View Prerequisites button from the Prerequisites pop-up for a session, the learner is redirected to the session flyout, and the flyout is anchored so that the prerequisites are in view. The learner does not need to scroll to see the prerequisites.

With this enhancement, the logic for the designation of curriculum completion dates has been standardized across various training completion scenarios in the Learning Management System (LMS). The general rule is that the date of curriculum completion will be the date the user completed the last child training item within the curriculum.

This functionality is in an Early Adopter status with the July '21 release, and organizations can choose to opt-in at this time. With the October '21 release, all portals will have the standardized curriculum completion date logic automatically enabled.

The Training Removal Tool page enables administrators to remove a single learning object from multiple users' transcripts at one time. With the July 2021 release, the following enhancements have been made to the Training Removal Tool:

• Administrators can remove up to 20 training items with a single training removal job
• All training types are now selected by default in the Search Training section
• All applicable statuses are selected by default for all training items on the Status step (not available during UAT, and only available in Stage with the July '21 release)
• User interface updates have been made to support these enhancements

With this enhancement, organizations can now autonomously enable the automatic cancellation of sessions and extended options at the vendor/provider level in the learning management system (LMS).

With this enhancement:

• When adding a new vILT integration, the integration ID will be automatically generated and no action will be required from the administrator to populate this information.
• When adding a new vILT integration or when accessing the Edge Integration Center to manage an existing vILT integration, the Delete icon is no longer available. If an organization needs to remove an existing vILT integration that has already been configured, the best practice is to inactivate the vILT integration. This inactivates the vILT provider in the Learning Management System without resulting in a loss of the vILT integration data in the database.

Enhancements are being made across multiple areas of the Recruiting solution to ensure that candidates and recruiters who are using screen readers can perform the same actions as those who are not using one.

Additional accessibility enhancements will be included as part of the July '21 release, and release notes may be updated during user acceptance testing as these enhancements become available.

With this enhancement, a new backend process enables new candidate records to appear on Manage Candidates more quickly in the following scenarios:

• Candidate submits an application
• Recruiter adds/moves a candidate to a new requisition from Manage Candidates
• Recruiter manually adds an applicant from the Requisition Snapshot

With this enhancement, when a candidate password is reset, the system will now validate that the new password is unique and does not duplicate a previously used password for the account. Prior to this enhancement, there was no such validation when a candidate's password was reset.

Upon implementation, this enhancement is on by default for customers that have a default password set for their portal; this will be a phased rollout by swimlane and will follow the same rollout schedule as the Default Password Management enhancement. Customers that do not have a default password set for their portal will not be impacted by this enhancement.