Announcements: Knowledge or news that's been shared across your organisation. They'll typically show up in your Announcements section on your organisation's Workspace.

Apps: The tools you work with on a regular basis. From Google Drive, to Slack, to Sharepoint and more.

API: 'Application Programming Interface' is a tool that allows different applications to talk to each other. Learn more about APIs here: APIs explained on YouTube.

Assessments: From Multiple-Choice Quizzes (MCQs) to Open Answer and Multimedia questions. A clear way for Users to see their strengths and weaknesses, across different subject matters.

Author: The User responsible for creating content to be shared among your team(s). They can create this via the HowNow Studio, or Browser Extension, for example.

Badges: Receive Badges when a Lesson or section has been completed, motivating you to keep your learning consistent.

Bookings: Events, Live Classes and Webinars that you've booked on to, or have been auto-enrolled onto.

Content Cards: These are the squares you see on your Workspace and in the Studio, that represent the content across the platform.

Commonly Used File: When integrating your tools, you can search for your files within the HowNow platform, which appears at the bottom of the page.

Collaborators: A Collaborator can be added to support Authors, when creating and editing content.

Contributor: A Contributor will be able to create and publish content for their team members to view, as well as access all the amazing content (internal and third party) on the Workspace. 

Course: Longer-form structured content that keeps Users engaged through a learning journey focusing on a specific topic, straight from that first Lesson, until the end!

Certificates: Certificates to celebrate your achievements for completing specific sections or Lessons of a Course.
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​Channels: Topics of content that you can subscribe to. Once you subscribe to a Channel, relevant curated content will show up dynamically on your feed. 

Custom Tags: A great way for Admins and Managers to communicate with each other, by adding short notes or keywords to User or Content Insights.

Dashboard: The science behind how your Users learn, what they learn and when, can be found all through the various pages of your Dashboard!

Deadline: The date and time by which a User must have completed an Assessment or Course.

Downloads: Content that can be consumed offline on the Mobile App.

Events: In-real-life or hybrid events for Learning and Development.

Existing Content: Bring together different content types (Courses, Nuggets, Events, etc.) by housing them all inside one Nugget as a playlist.

Expiry Date: Sometimes referred to as a "Renewal Cycle", this is the date from which assigned Users must re-do content (excluding Nuggets), to keep their [often compliance] training up-to-date (monthly, quarterly, annually, or customised).

Filter: Drop-down options for you to tailor the data you can view within your Dashboard tables.

Groups: How you group together your Users to make sure it's easy to assign content that's relevant to them, collectively.

HowNow Browser Extension: The best way to capture learning material to share, quickly find answers to queries, and learn in the flow of work!

Insights: All of the quantitative and qualitative data present within the pages of your Dashboard.
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​Integrations: Whether apps to share files, provide further 3rd-party learning materials or used for content creation, "integrations" is a word Admins will hear often.

Learning Budget: Allocate a Budget for Users to spend towards extra learning resources including books, conferences and materials related to their personal and professional development - all in the name of upskilling!

Live Class: Live Classes are smaller, instructor-led sessions that encourage more social learning and knowledge sharing such as an Onboarding session or team upskilling workshop.

Manager: Another of our User Roles, which give you the ability to share content and assess progress and skill development.

HowNow Mobile app: You can now share knowledge and digest content no matter where you are working from.

Must Do: Essential or compliance-related content - this is super important!

My Library: This is where you can access content that's in progress, see your Must Dos, content shared with you, your History and upcoming or past Bookings.

Nuggets:  You might visualise some type of fried chicken at first but in the HowNow jargon, Nugget is a piece of knowledge worth sharing with others: quickly, easily and efficiently. 

Pathways: Create a personalised learning journey for your teams or key individuals, guiding them through the steps necessary for strengthening skills and knowledge as they progress.

Pending: Content awaiting verification. Experts can give the green light to content by verifying it as up-to-date with industry standards, and still relevant to Job Role requirements.

Profile: Your space to review your Achievements, Budget Requests and personal settings.

Read Only: Users who can learn but don't have any higher access to the workspace.

Replays: Recorded Live Classes and Webinars that Users can play back, to watch in their own time.

Request Approval: The process of requesting a Budget Owner's approval to spend part of your learning funds, on personal and professional development. (Note: no actual transactions happen on HowNow - this is more for keeping track of actions made.)

SCORM: 'Shareable Content Object Reference Model', is a series of standard requirements necessary for e-learning software to communicate course content between the user, and the tech system. Resulting in amazing courses pre-packaged as one SCORM file.

Skills Mapping: You can add Skills when creating content - associating it with the relevant Skill.

Studio: Create Nuggets, Courses, Live Classes and much more, from the Studio.

Tasks: Complete this important to-do list! Verify content, respond to approval requests and mark completed Assessments.

Top Picks: The best and most engaging content will appear as Top Picks in the Spotlight section of your HowNow homepage.

Top-Up Request: A great feature allowing you to spend more on the same learning content.

Users: These are the wonderful people who are invested in their personal and professional development, by taking Courses and engaging with content on HowNow!

Verification Interval: The amount of time a Verifier has to make sure that the content submitted is still accurate.

Verifier: The expert on your team responsible for checking the quality of the information provided in a Nugget or a Course.

Webinar: An opportunity to broadcast to up to 10000 viewers at once.

Workspace: This word describes the entire platform used by your organisation. Powered by HowNow, yes, but created by your genius L&D team!

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