March brings fresh learning opportunities, exciting product updates, and a new customer success story to inspire your workforce development strategy. This month, we’ve added hundreds of new courses, we’re highlighting our Course of the Month, making it easier to find the right training, and celebrating a customer transforming multilingual learning. Read on for everything new at OpenSesame!
New courses now available
We’re constantly expanding our content library to bring you high-quality learning opportunities. In February, we added more than 500 new courses to the OpenSesame Marketplace, 300 of which are included in the OpenSesame Plus subscription. These new courses cover in-demand topics like leadership & management, workplace safety, HR & compliance, as well as book summaries for top business titles.
And, to ensure our training offerings remain relevant and up to date, more than 1,000 Marketplace courses and 900 Plus courses were refreshed with the latest insights and best practices. Explore the latest additions here.
Course of the month: National Women’s History Month
March is National Women’s History Month—a time to recognize the remarkable contributions of women throughout history. Our Course of the Month, National Women’s History Month (U.S.), highlights the impact of women across industries and explores their lasting influence on society. Share this course with your team to celebrate diversity, inclusion, and progress in the workplace.
Product updates: A smoother learning experience
Better search, faster results
We’ve made it easier than ever to find the right training in the OpenSesame Marketplace. Now, when you search for courses, the most useful filters are easier to access, saving you time and helping you find the best content faster. Here’s what’s new:
✔️ The most-used filters, like Category, Publisher, Language, and Skills, now open by default.
✔️ Less-used filters stay collapsed until you need them.
✔️ The Seat Time and Accreditation filters have been moved up, so you can spot them faster.
✔️ When selecting skills, your chosen filters now appear at the top—making it easier to adjust and refine your search.
Simon just got even smarter
For those creating custom training with Simon, we’ve rolled out new features to streamline content creation:
🎙️ Create & edit voiceovers in real time. Now, you can preview, tweak, and finalize voiceovers before adding them to your course—saving time and ensuring high-quality narration.
📸 Smarter media management. You can now preview images and videos before inserting them and edit asset details like title and description, improving accuracy and customization.
These updates make it easier to create engaging, effective training in less time. A win for everyone.
Upcoming webinar: The competitive edge
Join us on March 13 at 12:00 pm EDT for The Competitive Edge: Creating a Learning Culture That Fuels Performance. This panel discussion features a panel of rockstar OpenSesame customers sharing strategies for driving engagement, innovation, and business success through a culture of continuous L&D. Don’t miss this chance to learn from your peers! Register now.
Customer success spotlight: Hankook’s multilingual L&D transformation
Hankook & Company, a leader in automotive battery manufacturing, needed an efficient, scalable way to train its multilingual workforce while ensuring OSHA compliance and fast onboarding. With OpenSesame, they achieved:
✔️ 80% faster course translation, creating bilingual courses in under 30 minutes.
✔️ Rapid compliance training delivered instantly after incidents.
✔️ Accessible learning, allowing employees to train on any device.
✔️ Scalability that frees time for strategic L&D initiatives.
Read the full story here.
OpenSesame recognized in Traliant’s 2024 Partner of the Year Awards
We’re thrilled to be recognized in Traliant’s 2024 Partner of the Year Awards, honoring excellence in compliance training partnerships. This award highlights our commitment to providing impactful learning solutions that create better workplaces for everyone. Read more about the award here.
That wraps up everything new from OpenSesame this month! Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, we’re here to help you build a smarter, stronger workforce.
