We know how valuable your time is and how limited your resources can be in L&D. In early 2019, we created OpenSesame Curated Lists to help you get a head start on curating courses for your training program. 

We’re excited to announce that we are adding more Curated Lists to help you save even more time curating the courses you need. Our Curation Team has been busy researching the latest training trends to create timely, relevant, and impactful course lists that you can easily add to your LMS and quickly deploy to your learners.

And the best part—we’ll be releasing 5–10 new Curated Lists per week to help you tackle new and emerging training needs in record speed. Topics may include:

• • Finding and Maintaining Top Talent
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • 21st Century Skills
  • Multigenerational Business Operations
  • Organizational Agility
  • Microsoft Office® 2019
  • CompTIA Certifications

Our goal is to make your job easier and help you set up your organization for success through effective training. So, we want to hear from you! Share your ideas for new Curated Lists with us by emailing curationrequests@opensesame.com and let us know what training topics can help your organization.

Find Curated Lists and new content in a flash.

But wait, there’s more! Along with more Curated Lists, we’re continuing to enhance our catalog search to make finding content easy and provide recommendations that engage your learners. If you haven’t already, check out our last blog article on the recent catalog search enhancements or the recording of the October Customer Conversations webinar to learn more about recent enhancements as well as what’s to come.

Available in mid-November 2019, new enhancements to the catalog search will help you find and identify Curated Lists more easily. First, the Curated Lists will have a new look to help you easily distinguish them from individual courses.

You’ll also be able to filter for Lists, courses, or see all results using a new Product Type filter. Selecting All will show you recommended Curated Lists along with popular and new course recommendations. Selecting Lists will show only Curated Lists, and selecting Courses will show only course results that match your search criteria.

We want to hear from you on these and upcoming product enhancements to help you streamline processes and work more efficiently. To submit a product enhancement requests or join the OpenSesame Customer Beta Group and be the first to see and try new enhancements, email us at featurerequests@opensesame.com.  

For more information on how OpenSesame can help you find the right elearning courses for your training program, contact your Customer Success Manager, our Customer Support team, or call (503) 808-1268. 

And don’t forget to check out the OpenSesame Community to get answers to your questions, find tips and tricks for your training program, and network with other OpenSesame customers.

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We often hear from our customers that our extensive, high-quality catalog is one of the primary reasons they choose OpenSesame for their elearning needs. While a large, comprehensive course catalog is crucial for a successful training program, finding the courses you need without the proper tools can be challenging and time consuming. 

Nevertheless, finding, curating, and deploying fresh, relevant content regularly can make the difference between a poorly-utilized program with stale content and a thriving learning ecosystem that exhibits the value of training to your stakeholders.

Find the content you need, faster.

We’ve helped hundreds of organizations like yours develop effective training programs with our world-class tools and services such as the machine learning-driven OpenSesame SmartLists, OpenSesame Curated Lists, and personalized curation assistance from our team of experts.

And now, we’ve enhanced the catalog search and added recommendations to your results to further help you find the courses you need as well as discover new content more efficiently. Check out these time-saving search enhancements today. 

An intuitive way to search.

When you click the Search courses box OpenSesame catalog you’ll now see the most popular search terms used in the catalog—a quick and convenient option to browse trending training topics. 

As you begin typing your search term, you will see new search suggestions grouped by Popular searches, Lists, and Courses—helping you eliminate misspellings while displaying relevant topics that match your entry. 

When you search by a specific term or select a popular search topic from the menu, you will see courses and now Curated Lists filtered to match your search. 

When you select a Curated List from the Lists section (if applicable to your search), you will go directly to the Curated List details where you can follow or duplicate the list, add the courses to your LMS, and more.

Meaningful, relevant content recommendations.

As you browse or search the catalog, you will now receive grouped course recommendations, including:

• • Curated Lists for you: Curated Lists relevant to your search terms that help you easily find and deploy curated training paths for popular topics and skills. 
  • Popular courses for you: course recommendations based on your search and usage history to help you find more of what your learners like.
  • New courses for you: new courses recommended specifically for your organization to help you energize your training program.

For more information on how OpenSesame can help you find the right elearning courses for your training program, contact your Customer Success Manager, our Customer Support team, or call (503) 808-1268. 

And don’t forget to check out the OpenSesame Community to get answers to your questions, find tips and tricks for your training program, and network with other OpenSesame customers.

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To say that L&D runs lean is an understatement. With limited time, budget, and resources, L&D teams like yours are relying more on their trusted content partner for curation to save time, learn about hot training topics, and prepare the organization for the future.

This is where OpenSesame and our team of curation experts can help. We’ve worked with hundreds of organizations like yours helping them find, curate, and deploy courses to learners. Harnessing this experience we’ve created OpenSesame Curated Lists—a quick and easy way for you find expertly curated courses to help your learners hone critical business skills, prepare for a new role, achieve organizational competencies, and more.

Check out the new OpenSesame Curated Lists

With Curated Lists, you’ll save time searching for courses and get a head start with pre-curated learning paths for the most common training challenges. To see the first available Curated Lists, go to www.opensesame.com, click Courses in the page header, and then click View Lists in the new Curated Lists section. Curated Lists are organized into intuitive groupings to help you quickly find the training topics you need, including:

• • Frequently requested learning paths,

  • Introduction to new topics and skills,

  • Advancement in critical business and interpersonal skills, and

  • Preparation for new positions and responsibilities.

At a glance, you can see how many courses are in each Curated List and whether the courses in each List are included in our most popular subscription offering, OpenSesame Plus. Within each Curated List, you’ll be able to see additional information including course ratings, length, publishers, and (when logged in) you can view a course demo if one is available. Our curation experts regularly update Curated Lists to ensure you always have access to the most current and relevant content. You can easily stay up to date with changes to Curated Lists by following your favorite ones. Just click the List and then click the Follow button.Log into your OpenSesame account or, if you’re new to OpenSesame, register to create one. You’ll see the Curated Lists you’re following within My Lists in the All tab as well as the new Following tab.Need to make changes to a Curated List? No problem. Within the List, select Duplicate from the List settings menu (gear icon) to create a copy, enter a list title and description, and click Duplicate. Your new duplicated List can be found in the All and Created tabs. You can now add, remove, and organize courses as needed. Note that duplicated Lists will not reflect any course updates from OpenSesame.From here, Lists you’ve duplicated and modified work like all your other Lists. You can collaborate with stakeholders, collect feedback, view course demos, and easily add courses to your LMS for quick deployment to learners.

We’re here to make your job easier, including curating so you don’t have to. Share with us what other Curated Lists you would like to see in the future by visiting the OpenSesame Community, click the Looking for elearning recommendations topic, and then select the Request new Curated List topics post. Our curation team will review your requests for future Curated Lists.

For more information contact your Customer Success Manager or our Customer Support team.

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The same is true in L&D when curating elearning courses for your learners. We often hear from organizations like yours that the time it takes to find, curate, and deploy courses in your LMS can be enormous.

This is why we’re so excited about OpenSesame Smart Lists—leveraging machine learning for content curation, it’s built specifically to help you create lists of courses on one or multiple training topics specific to your organization. Smart Lists use a powerful algorithm including your prior course selections, course completions, and learner ratings, combined with an intuitive list builder to recommend courses that fit your training needs.

How to use Smart Lists

Using Smart Lists is easy—and fast. Log into your OpenSesame account and select My Lists from your account menu in the top right corner. If you’ve used OpenSesame Lists, you’ll see your existing Lists. To quickly find new course recommendations, simply click New Smart List.Next, provide your preferences for training topics, language, seat time, and if you prefer courses in the OpenSesame Plus subscription.

You can create your course list from here by clicking Create your list, or choose advanced options to select specific publishers, course features, and if you prefer new courses.

Your course recommendations will be presented in a new List with each training topic organized in a separate group with the top five courses each. For easy organization and tracking, the List title defaults to the date it was created, which you can edit, along with the description.As with other Lists you’ve created yourself, you can share them with your stakeholders to collaborate, give and receive feedback, preview course demos, and add all or selected courses to your LMS.

How to use Smart Groups

To further save you time curating courses for your learners, we’ve also added Smart Groups—a quick way to add courses to Smart Lists or lists you create yourself. To search for and add additional courses to an existing List, simply click Add Courses located next to the course group.With the Smart Groups panel, you can browse additional course recommendations for the selected group. The courses displayed are based upon the keyword (group name) and the recommendation algorithm tailored to your organization’s preferences.You can change the keyword or set a variety of filters to further refine your results, including seat time, languages, course features, publishers, new or mobile-ready courses, and those available in the OpenSesame Plus subscription. See a course you like? Add it to the List by clicking on the Add to list icon. Once you’ve created and refined your course list, you can easily add it to your LMS and deploy it to your learners.

For more information contact your Customer Success Manager or our Customer Support team.

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