Welcome to the February 2026 update!
This month brings a powerful set of improvements that will streamline your workflows, improve visibility, and enable more control for managers, delegates, and content creators. Let’s dive in.
Learn365
AI enhancements across content creation
This month’s AI improvements are all about making content creation feel smoother, helping you build, tweak, and polish learning content without breaking your flow. These updates bring more flexibility to the areas of Learn365 where you spend the most time creating.
- AI inline generation now works across learning modules, quizzes, question pools, questions, and description fields, letting you update and refine content right where you're already working.
- Character counter for AI generation helps you stay within limits by showing real-time remaining capacity and visual warnings.
- Follow-up prompting enables iterative refinement of AI generated text, supporting smoother creative workflows.
Smarter course management in Content365 Authoring
Duplicate Courses
Catalog Admins can now duplicate any course created in Content365 Authoring. This makes it easy to create region or department‑specific variants, build template‑based courses, or quickly produce multiple versions with only small content differences.
Both the original and the duplicate remain fully independent.
Disable AI in Content365 Authoring
In many regulated industries, admins need to be thoughtful about how and when AI is used. To support that, we’ve added more flexibility and control, so you can decide what’s appropriate for your organization’s needs.
You can now turn off AI features in Content365 Authoring at the tenant level. This includes the option to disable all AI‑based features, or only specific capabilities like narrations or translations. Each toggle clearly explains what it controls, so you can tailor the setup in a way that aligns with your internal policies.
When AI is turned off, all “Generate with AI” actions disappear, manual creation becomes the default, and narration or translation features follow the settings you’ve chosen.
New UI updates
We continue expanding the new interface with key updates that make navigation clearer and day-to-day work faster. With these additions, the Training Dashboard experience in the new UI is now complete with refreshed Leaderboard and Assessment pages, Manage course settings added into the My Training Dashboard, full support for filtered URLs, default alphabetical sorting across catalogs and categories, and a new Match‑all vs. Match‑any filtering mode.
In the Assessments page for supervisors, you can filter by department or job title, quickly see when something was completed, and review files and statuses without extra steps.
Also, you can now place assessments right inside a learning module. This gives learners a chance to pause, reflect, and practice throughout the course, not just at the end.
These improvements make the new UI more intuitive and consistent across pages, streamlining structure, and giving learners a smoother progression.
Have you tried the new UI experience yet?
Over the past year, we’ve rolled out a wave of updates: from a redesigned catalog and smarter search to a cleaner course player, richer transcripts - a much smoother experience overall. If you tested the new UI early on, this is a great moment to take another look, as the new experience is almost complete. And if you haven’t tried it yet, now’s the perfect time. Switching is easy, and your learners will benefit from a faster, more intuitive experience that makes it easier to find, take, and track learning.
The old UI will be fully deprecated in October 2026, so we encourage you to start exploring the new design now and get comfortable well ahead of the transition. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Here's how you can enable it:
Learn365 Admin Center -> LMS Configuration -> Preview features
Navigation persistence in Learn365 for Teams
Interruptions happen; calls, chats, notifications. Now, Learn365 in Teams remembers where you left off. In the new UI, you can now resume exactly on the same page, and it works seamlessly across dashboards, the Catalog, the Player, the Line Manager Dashboard, and the Admin Center. This is especially helpful for learners moving in and out of Learn365, so it doesn’t break their flow as they learn.
Delegates: Expanded capabilities
When managers are not available, teams can lose momentum: deadlines slip, approvals stall, errors happen, and admin tasks pile up. To keep work moving, delegates now have nearly the same permissions as line managers.
New capabilities:
- Access the Line Manager Dashboard to keep track of team skills proficiency
- Receive the same learning related notifications as line managers
- LMS admins can assign groups (Entra ID or Learn365 custom groups) to delegates, giving them oversight of all members of those groups. Access automatically updates as group memberships change
Flow365: Bulk user creation improvements
If you are an admin adding frontline or deskless workers without Microsoft 365 licenses to Learn365, new features bring additional flexibility to security and user management.
- Add custom passwords directly to the .CSV template to speed up bulk user setup.
- Choose to turn off welcome emails when creating users, helpful when you need to get users set up in advance of their start date and notify them later.
- Assign a manager by email during import, making it easier to get users set up with the right support from day one.
These enhancements make onboarding smoother, especially when you have to get employees up and running quickly.
That’s it for February 2026! For detailed guides on these new features, visit the Help Center, and if you have any questions about what we’ve covered, reach out to your Customer Success Manager. We’re here to help you make the most of these updates.
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