The TopClass Blog

Discover the newest features in TopClass LMS designed with association member learning in mind. The TopClass team has been heads down adding great new features as well as enhancing current capabilities to TopClass.  For more details, visit the Release Notes for 10.7.1 

💻What’s New in the Latest TopClass Upgrade. 

Push Badges to LinkedIn 

On the learner profile, there is a new option to publish earned badges to LinkedIn. Learners can share the badge information to their LinkedIn profiles. 

The badge information will be pre-filled into the form on the LinkedIn side and any required updates can be made before saving. For anyone viewing the learners LinkedIn profile, they will find the new badge under the Licenses & Certifications section. The Show Credential button in LinkedIn will take them to a new anonymous screen in TopClass to display the full badge information, including the badge description, issuer, award date and expiry date. 

Manager Reporting 

Manager users in TopClass LMS can now access a comprehensive set of reports to monitor and analyze learner course progress and completions. 

A distinction can be made on the manager user to determine if they have access to their indirectly managed users, meaning any users who are in a sub-group of a group that they are managing. 

Once you have provided reports access to the relevant managers, to access these reports manager users can simply log in to their account, navigate to the reporting section, and select the desired report type. 

The standard set of report options are available to managers to allowing them to show and hide columns, sort and filter data, and export data as various file types. 

Two Factor Authentication 

Up next is Two-factor authentication. The security of our clients is our top priority, and 2FA adds an extra layer of protection to your account when logging in directly to TopClass LMS. With 2FA enabled, you need to provide two forms of verification when logging in, making it significantly harder for unauthorized users to access your account. 

The 2FA setup works the same way as it does for iMIS (if you’re using iMIS as your membership management software). Once enabled at a system level, users will be prompted to set up 2FA on login. They can choose to skip this step up to 3 times before being required to complete the 2FA setup in order to login. 

User Interface Updates 

We strive to  make your experience smoother, more intuitive, and more efficient. And with that, we're excited to announce that we've made some significant user interface enhancements to our product, all designed with our users in mind. 

Our refreshed design offers a cleaner, more modern look that reduces visual clutter and highlights key information. This allows you to focus on what's important without distraction. We've made several adjustments to ensure our product is more accessible to all users, including better contrast and larger clickable areas.  

Learn about additional Enhancements in 10.7.1 

• Shipping Fees 

• Learning Center Archiving 

• Salesforce OAuth SSO Support 

• SAML SSO Improvements 

• Multiple iMIS Vendors 

• Content Branding 

• Certificate Ranges 

• Certification Program Updates 

I do want to highlight one  enhancement already rolled out to customers in the May 2024 release of TopClass.

Recommendation Engine 

TopClass LMS now can  recommended activities based on a number of factors: learners can select areas of interest to them, managers can recommend courses to their managed users, activities can be set up to recommend to all learners by default, and certification programs can be automatically recommended to learners if they complete an activity that is linked to a certification program. 

If you made it this far, then I encourage you to see further TopClass enhancements we’re considering and recommend a few of your own enhancements by visiting our product portal page:  https://portal.topclasslms.com 

The product portal also shows when an enhancement or feature has been completed that you recommended.