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Platform Extensibility & Integration

Live meetings and webinars

Will I be able to conduct live training sessions using Microsoft Community Training platform?

Microsoft Community Training do not inbuilt support for live training sessions. However, we recommend customers use third-party applications such as Microsoft teams, Zoom, etc. and embed the meeting link as lesson in the course.

Post session, to mark the completion, you can give learners quizzes which they can attempt in order to validate their training progress and achieve certificate.

Achieve certificate

Also, you can replace the live training link with the actual recording of the training session on the platform for people to view and consume the content later.

For more details, please reach out to us via HelpDesk.

Can I integrate Cisco WebEx, Microsoft Teams, Zoom etc. with Microsoft Community Training for live sessions?

Customers can have the meeting or webinar links added to the Microsoft Community Training platform as external URLs which will allow learners to simply redirect to the respective application such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, etc. and attend these sessions.

Having said that, for Microsoft Teams, the platform can be embedded as a tab where users can easily access the course contents within the team's environment.

For more information on MS Teams integration, refer here.

Will I be able to deliver webinar using this platform?

Microsoft Community Training doesn’t provide inbuilt functionalities to host webinars but customers can add the meeting or webinar URLs as an external lesson on our platform. This will allow users to easily redirect to the respective application hosting the webinar and attend the sessions.

Integration with external system

Are there any out of the box integration with existing HRMS, CRM, etc. application available in the market?

Microsoft Community Training doesn't come with any out of box integrations with 3rd party HRMS & CRM applications. However, customers and partners can use our APIs to integrate with other systems.

Can I embed or integrate Microsoft Community Training to our existing mobile application?

Yes, Customers can integrate Microsoft Community Training platform to their existing mobile application.
For example, you can add a 'Training' button on the home screen and clicking on the button will launch the Microsoft Community Training platform inside the existing app as a web view.

Embedding webview of MCT in your existing mobile app

Steps to embed webview of MCT in your custom mobile application in case you have a B2C based social login instance.

  1. Set the following configurations in the App Service Configuration, if the secondary navigation bar is needed:

    • Features:Navbar:EnableCustomNavbar => true
    • Features:Navbar:EnableProfile => false

  2. Set the following feature configurations to true only if that specific functionality needs to be provided, else set it false explicitly.

    • Features:Navbar:EnableLogo
    • Features:Navbar:EnableSearch
    • Features:Navbar:EnableLanguageSelection
    • Features:Navbar:EnableCustomProfile

  3. In your Android Application, include a WebView element in the activity where you want to show the MCT application. Set the source of the webview as the URL

    • https://<DOMAIN>.azurewebsites.net/home/defaultsignin?whr=uri%3aB2C&referrer=basedomain&domain_hint=DOMAIN
    • Where Domain is name of your instance. eg: if your instance url is https://contoso.azurewebsites.net then replace DOMAIN with 'contoso'

Alternatively, you can also use REST APIs to create your own learning experience within your existing app/service.

Please contact us via HelpDesk to get help on the integration.

Identity Mapping between external portal to MCT (via ADB2C)

MCT allows you to map identity with external portal i.e., if you have an external portal where you want to authenticate users (via email, User name, local IDP) and then have them redirected to MCT. This flow can be acheived via setting up custom policies in your B2C tenant as mentioned in steps below:

  • Setup ADB2C tenant
  • You need to set custom policies in your ADB2C (we are sharing sample codes for your reference) please make necessary changes based on your login requirements
  • ADB2C Policies
    • The sign-in page has the option to login only via custom id
    • Upload the custom files in the order mentioned here
  • Function app
    • The sample code has feature of updating user’s FirstName and LastName via Service2Service auth on user’s login.
    • This implies that MCT will always have the same FirstName and LastName of the user as present in your external portal, and it will be updated automatically whenever the user logs in.
    • Please update the required params in code following the documentation of S2S here Service to Service Authentication and then publish the function app.
  • Here is a sample recording for your reference.

Does Microsoft Community Training provide any job matching capabilities? How can I integrate Microsoft community training with external job portals?

Microsoft Community Training does not come with any job matching capabilities out of the box. However, the platform can be integrated with external job portals to push learner progress and course certificate using the REST APIs.

For more information, please reach out to us via HelpDesk on how to integrate the platform with external application.

Is e-commerce and payment integration available on the platform?Can I use Microsoft Community Training platform to sell courses directly to end users?

E-Commerce and Payment functionalities are not available on our platform out of the box. However, customers can build these functions using our APIs.

Example: You will be able to integrate our APIs with your catalog page, whenever someone purchases a course, the learner can be enrolled to the respective courses.

For more details, reach out to us via HelpDesk.

Alerts and reminders

How to trigger periodic reminders for learners via email or SMS?

Whenever a new course is assigned or updated to the users by the administrator, an in-app notification is sent which can be viewed by users under the Notifications section identified by the icon.

Periodic email or SMS alerts to users such as information on new course addition or course completion reminders can be sent by integrating our platform with external services like Logic Apps, Microsoft Flow, etc.

For Example: Customers can leverage our APIs and use 3rd party tools to extend platform capability and send emails to the learners as required. It can be welcome emails when they first login to the platform or it can be update email when a new course is assign to them.

For more details, reach out to us via HelpDesk.

Is there a feature to create additional notifications through emails?

Microsoft community training does not have this function out of the box. However, customers can achieve this by using our APIs.

For more details, reach out to us via HelpDesk.

Yes, the administrators can obtain the deep link of each course on the MCT portal and share the same with the learners. To obtain the deep link of a course, the administrators need to follow the below steps:

  1. Go the Administrator view of your MCT instance.

  2. Go to the course for which you want to obtain the deep link.

  3. Click on "View as Learner" icon on the top-right pane of the course.

    Course options

  4. On this learner's view, copy the URL that is displayed on the browser.

This link obtained above is the deep link of the course and can be shared with the learners.

Rest APIs

Are there any Rest APIs available for integration with existing systems or applications?

Microsoft Community Training platform provides REST APIs to help organization integrate the platform with the existing system and consume training via custom endpoints such as your own mobile app or website.

For more information, refer here.

How can I sync / import users data from my existing system to Microsoft Community Training?

Microsoft Community Training platform lets global administrators import user progress from other learning portals which will enable seamless experience for learner.

Pre-requisites

  • Proper mapping of content between MCT and other portal from where user progress needs to be imported.
    • For e.g.: In the external portal if there is a course with 3 lessons and 5 quizzes (graded or non-graded), then in MCT there should be the course present with same number of lesson / assessment placeholders in the same sequential order.

Steps to how to integrate APIs to import progress

The new APIs enable to import the progress of a user. It comprises of the three components:

  1. Obtaining Resource ID
  2. Lesson Progress
  3. Quiz Progress
Step 1: Obtaining the IDs of the Resources

The course content API mentioned in the URL below must be parsed to obtain the Ids of the resources (lessons, quizzes,questions) for which the progress needs to be imported. The API response contains the complete details of all the resources present in the course. The specification of the APIs is given below:

URL <hostname>/api/v4/Courses/${courseId}/Content
Description Get course content with course Id = courseId
Supported verbs POST
Request header contract Json:
“cookie”: [Required.Always]
“requestVerificationToken”: [Required.Always]
OR
S2S Token
Response body contract Json:
{ …
  "CourseItems": [
  {
      …
  "ItemType": "Lesson",
   "Data":  {
   "Id":   4143
  }
},
{
    …
 "CourseItemId": 4712,
 "ItemType": "Quiz",
 "Data": {
   "QuizData": {
      "Id": "476"
            …
      },
     Questions": [
    {
       "Id": 4124
            …
        }
      ]
  }
Response contract 200 for successful response 400, 429, 403, 500, 503 for various error response.
Step 2: Importing the Lesson Progress

The lesson progress of a particular user for a particular course can be imported by using below API.
Lesson ID can be obtained by Step1. The specification of the APIs is:

URL <hostname>/api/v1/Course/${courseId}/Lesson/ImportProgress
Description Import progress of user with course Id = courseId
Supported verbs PUT
Request header contract Json:
“cookie”: [Required.Always]
“requestVerificationToken”: [Required.Always]
OR
S2S Token
Response body contract Json:
“userContact”: [Required.Always]
“lessonProgress”: [Required.Always]
         [ “lessonId”: [Required.Always]
           “lessonStatus”: [Required.Always]
         (notCompleted/completed)
           “lessonScore”:
           “LessonMetadata”:
          ]
Sample Request Body “userContact”: “+91 1234567890”
“lessonProgress”:
       [
           {
            “lessonId”: 1
            “lessonStatus”: “notCompleted”
            “lessonScore”: 60
            “LessonMetadata”: “scorm.api.playback = 55..”
           },
           {
            “lessonId”: 2
            “lessonStatus”: “Completed”

           }
       ]
Response contract 200 for successful response.
400, 429, 403, 500, 503 for various error response.
Step 3: Importing the Quiz Progress

The quiz progress of a particular user for a particular course can be imported by using below API. QuizId can be obtained by Step 1. The specification of the APIs is:

URL <hostname>/api/v1/Course/${courseId}/Quiz/ImportProgress
Description Import progress of user with course Id = courseId
Supported verbs PUT
Request header contract Json:
“cookie”: [Required.Always]
“requestVerificationToken”: [Required.Always]
OR
S2S Token
Response body contract Json:
“userContact”: [Required.Always]
“quizProgress”: [Required.Always]
         [ “quizId”: [Required.Always]
           “questionProgresss”: [Required.Always]
                   [ “questionId”: [Required.Always]
                      “isCorrect”: [Required.Always]
                    ]
          ]
Sample Request Body “userContact”: “+91 6758493021”
“quizProgress”:
       [
           {
            “quizId”: 1
            "questionProgress":
                 [
                    {
                          “questionId”: 1
                          “isCorrect”: “true”
                          “answer”: “[4] (Option A |Option B |
                          Option C)"
                          },
                           {
                          “questionId”: 2
                           “isCorrect”: “false”
                           },
                 ]
           },
           {
            “quizID”: 2
            "questionProgress":
                 [
                    {
                          “questionId”: 3
                          “isCorrect”: “true”
                          “answer”: “[2,3]"
                           },
                 ]
           },
       ]
Response contract 200 for successful response.
400, 429, 403, 500, 503 for various error response.

Warning

  • If you want Assessments to be evaluated in MCT platform, please provide the Answer Strings in the request body.
  • In case if the Answer Strings is empty, isCorrect would be considered and assessment evaluation won't happen in MCT

Export Course content to other LMS

Microsoft Community Training platform lets global administrators export course content from MCT to other learning portals enabling reuse of content.

Steps on how to export course content by using API

Course content export can be done with the help of the API below. The specification of the APIs is:

URL <hostname>/api/v4/Courses/${courseId}/Content
Description Export courses
Supported verbs POST
Request header contract Json:
“cookie”: [Required.Always]
“requestVerificationToken”: [Required.Always]
OR
S2S Token
Response body contract Json:
“commaSeparatedIds”: [Required.Always] (CSV of course Ids)
Response contract 200 for successful response.
400, 429, 403, 500, 503 for various error response.