Managing the My Skills Channel

Managing the My Skills Channel

The skills management feature relies on the My Skills channel. If you are using this feature, make sure that the channel is activated. To do so, log into the platform as the Superadmin, access the Admin Menu from the gear icon in the top right corner, and then press the Channels item in the E-Learning section. In the list of channels on this page, find the My Skills channel, and make sure that the checkmark in the channel’s row corresponding to the Published column is green. 

When configuring the My Skills channel, besides the general options available for channel management, you are required to configure the channel content population mode. To do so, move to the Content Settings section and select the types of content you want the platform to collect and show in the My Skills channel. Select one or more of the available options:

Formal Content

The channel will collect and show formal courses according to the skills selected by each user. You can assign skills to courses from the Course Management area. Select the course, then move to the course Advanced Properties tab, and to the Skills tab. Find out more in the Assigning Skills to Courses chapter of this article.

Informal Content

The channel will collect and show the contributions available in the platform, according to the skills selected by each user. Content of this type is available only when Discover, Coach & Share is active in your platform. Find out more in the Assigning Skills to Assets chapter of this article.

The external informal content of the My Skills channel (Discover content) will be selected only based on Docebo Skills, not on custom skills created by you. Find out more on custom skills and Docebo Skills in the following chapters.

External Content

The channel will collect and show content from external web sources, filtered in order to exclude inappropriate content. You can manage the sources used to collect this type of content either by:

• defining a list of unwanted sources (deny list) that will be excluded from the content selection, or 
• building a list of approved sources (allow list) that the platform will use for selecting content, restricting the search to this list of sources only

By default, the selected option is Don’t Manage Sources, meaning that the content selection relies on the default platform filters only. Depending on your needs, either select Sources on the Deny List to set a deny list of sources you don’t want the platform to include in the content selection, or choose Sources on the Allow List to restrict the content search to the sources you identify. Remember that, independently from the selected option, the platform's default filtering capability to avoid inappropriate content is always active.

Enter the sources in the dedicated areas; their format does not need to include prefixes (http://, https://, www) and subdomains.

Please note that you can insert only the sources included in the set of domains from which Docebo Discover selects content (the Sources on the Deny List or the Sources on the Allow List fields do NOT work with any websites, but only with those in the list of domains).

After you type the third letter of the domain, the autocomplete function will propose all the domains included in the set of sources used by the My Skills channel and match the text already inserted.