Key Features of Thrive

User-generated content (UGC)

Break down those knowledge silos, create buy-in and build a community within the business by encouraging your end users to post and share their own content.

Thrive hosts a variety of content types which can be posted by both admins and end users, through UGC. UGC can be turned off or restrictions can be put in place.

One click posting

Empower users to create and share updates at the touch of a button, building a powerful and collaborative environment for information and knowledge sharing.

Machine learning and personalisation based on interests, skills and behaviour

Thrive helps to encourage a self-directed learning culture by recommending the most relevant content to your users based on what it is they want to learn.

Merge tags

Merge Tags gives you the ability to easily manage and maintain your skills and topics. You will be able to quickly solve any issues with duplicates or incorrectly named tags by selecting them and merging them into another tag.

An AI tool to suggest merge tags is also available (see AI features section).

Dynamic audiences / groups

Thrive provides you with functionality to group users together and place them into audiences. This allows you to segment data and push content to relevant audiences. 

Audiences can automatically be created and updated using an API with your HRIS.

You can also manually add users to audiences either individually or, for a large volume of users, via a CSV import.

User profiles

Each user will have their own profile page where they can manage their skills & interests, keep track of their learning, contributions and achievements. Other users will also be able to discover new experts and view their profiles to see their contributions.

Follow people

Thrive allows users to follow other people on the platform to build a network and ensure that contributed content posted by that followed person is recommended.

Identify experts

Empower your learners to explore and connect with their network by identifying subject matter experts, understanding their experiences and giving recognition to colleagues.

Gamification & points

Thrive rewards users for any activity they do on the platform to keep your users motivated through points, team leader boards and achievements. Each activity will equate to a different amount of points.

Badges

Thrive includes a suite of pre-defined achievements that are related to the users behaviour on the platform to encourage more interaction and activity from your users. As an admin, you can create custom badges which are assigned to learners upon various criteria, and can be  tailored to any brand or themes.

Content interactions including

like, comment, share, link, pin,

flag and report

On every piece of content Thrive encourages social interaction through the likes of commenting, liking and sharing and provides the ability to pin content to be viewed at a later date.

Skills & interests

Thrive allows users to select their skills and interests from a predefined list or add their own in the form of tags. This helps with the personalisation of the home feed and the discovering of new experts

Skill progression

Thrive harnesses skill levels to represent progress and data to connect the right people to the right learning opportunities that progress an individual’s or team’s goals.

Goals

Connect people to meaningful learning opportunities through custom goals made up of different learning journeys that demonstrate your learner’s achievements.

Learn page

Focused learning page for users with in progress learning and skills & goals they are working towards all in one place

Skill boosting

Automatically boost skill levels through the completion of content or by achieving a score on a quiz or eLearning assessment. Content that will boost a learners skills is recommended to them through dynamic banners.

Thrive Content

Thrive has a suite of microlearning modules available including eLearning, videos, articles, infographics and more. Thousands of modules are available and are created to change behaviours, attitudes, experiences and mindsets.

Thrive Content also includes sector and topic specific modules, including compliance, health and safety, hospitality, entertainment, financial services and so much more.

Content tagging with

suggestions

Thrive makes posting and tagging content quick and easy by suggesting tags to you and your users based on metadata, keywords and tags you use often when creating content.

Video

Thrive allows you to upload videos for your users to stream within your platform.

Pathways

Curate content together to create programmes or a structured journey through content. This can be split up into sections, with the ability to restrict moving on to the next section until all content in the previous one is complete.

Tasks in pathways

Support your learners to evidence their compliance, achieve their goals and demonstrate their progress by adding tasks to your learning pathways.

Quiz

Thrive allows you to test your users knowledge by setting up quick multiple choice quizzes or bring them to life by adding images to test understanding.

Article

Users can write articles directly onto the platform using the simple text editor. This is also great for writing quick updates, announcements and step guides. Alternatively add in images to help bring the text to life.

File upload

Thrive accepts a range of file types, most of which embed nicely on that platform. You can upload files and general resources for your users such as PDFs, Infographics, images and templates to download.

Mixed Media

A blended piece of content which can include a variety of different information including text, images, quizzes, videos, links and more. AI tools are available when creating mixed media, allowing you to create courses, scripts, text, images, video, and quizzes using AI tools.

Link posting

Make the most of content that already exists on the web. Thrive allows you to easily post links to any external resources such as youtubes or blogs that you want to share.

Elearning (SCORM 1.2, 2004,

CMI5, TinCan)

Thrive allows you to upload different types of elearning packages which can be launched by users and tracked on your platform.

Professional development - CPD training log

Thrive has the capability for users to log development hours that they have done both on and off the platform. This is separate to their platform learning record.

Discussions and comments

(questions)

Encourage your users to ask questions and post images on the platform using the Question feature to seek out answers from anyone in the business. This can help form discussions and create a bank of FAQs that future users can also benefit from.

Comment disabling

Administrators can now choose to turn on or off commenting to prevent users from commenting on content and to control the narrative on information only posts.

Personalised search

Thrive’s search functionality helps users find content and answers on the platform easily and that is also relevant to them. Users can also refine these results by using the filters available such as content type, Tags and association.

Thrive’s AI Assistant, Kiki, can also support providing answers and suggesting content based on natural language search queries.

xAPI activity tracking

Thrive supports a number of widely adopted standards for tracking learning activity such as xAPI.

Collaborations

Allows assigned groups of users to post and share new or existing content on behalf of an internal team, brand, or subject. Complete with their own unique name and thumbnail.

Endorse content

Thrive allows you to endorse content which is really important and is a great way of differentiating from UGC content.

Live broadcasting

Thrive has a built-in broadcasting tool, which allows you to stream live broadcasts to your entire organisation, or a selected group. Users can react, comment during the live stream, and answer polls. Broadcasts will be automatically recorded and posted to the platform.

Broadcasts can also be scheduled as events to allow users to register for future sessions.

Content versioning - files, eLearning and links

Thrive supports the ability to replace content such as files, eLearning and links, without having to delete the old piece of content and lose all records and analytics

Off platform tasks - entries

Thrive enables you to capture off platform tasks as part of your learning history

Recommended learning with goals

Automatically recommends learning items that will help users achieve their performance and developmental goals

Content archiving

Content can be removed from the general view but still remain available to the author and admins to either delete, or restore.

Importing completions

Import completions that have occurred offline

Video versioning

The ability to to replace video files in existing video items

Video subtitles, captions and translations

The Thrive platform can automatically generate subtitles for videos, which can then be downloaded, edited, and translated.

You can also manually add .VTT files for subtitles & captions on video items.

Tag localisation

The ability to add translations of tags in line with tenant configured languages

Certificates

The ability to view and export a PDF certificates showing assigned learning completion data

Host events

Thrive allows you to create events on the platform where users can sign up for sessions they want to attend, or can be manually signed for, if it is something they have to go to.

These events can be hosted outside of Thrive for example in Teams or a Google Hangout, or scheduled as a Broadcast within the platform. Broadcasts hosted within the platform are automatically and immediately available for users to catch up and watch again in their own time.

Reminders and notifications

When users sign up, or are signed up for, an event, the platform will send a confirmation email with an ical attachment so that it is added to the attendee’s calendar. Users will also receive automatic reminders prior to the event or notifications if anything has changed.

Waitlists

Thrive facilitates a waitlist, where as soon as a space or additional date has been added, anyone who has added themselves to the waitlist will automatically be notified. This can also be used to facilitate the registering of interests.

Attendance tracking

Thrive allows you to download the register of attendees for you to use as a register. Aer the event has ended, Thrive will remind you to fill in the attendance on the platform.

Attach pre-reading

Thrive can help you provided pre-reading for an upcoming event that a user is attending.

Notifications

Thrive ensures your users do not miss anything by sending out notifications for various things such as: content shares, reminders, campaigns and social interactions such as comments and mentions.

Notifications preferences

Admins can configure the default notification settings for the site. Users will also be able to manage their personal notification preference.

Branded notifications

All notifications sent out from your Thrive platform will include your platform logo and colour scheme.

New share notifications

Thrive allows you to choose when you want to notify users of a new piece of learning that has been posted, with the ability to write a little message to go with it.

Campaigns

Thrive’s campaign feature allows you to create a buzz around various initiatives, releases, events and announcements. Campaigns are a great way of drip feeding and scheduling content to go out to your users for these.

Custom messages

Login page, forgotten username, activation request, password reset

Configurable theme & homepage

The platform homepage is made up using various configurable blocks. Thrive allows you to tailor the homepage using these blocks to come up with a learning experience that works for you, including creating blocks for specific audiences.

Thrive also supports the ability to have multiple themes for different audiences, such as branding colours and logos. Users can also seamlessly switch between light and dark modes, tailoring the interface to their preferences.

Configurable onboarding process

Thrive provides you with the ability to turn on and create an onboarding process that your users must complete before entering the platform for the first time. This is great for capturing a user's interests, and introducing them to the platform before they dive in.

Terms and conditions

As part of the onboarding process you can opt to provide your users with a T&Cs statement before entering the platform in any enabled language on your platform

Suggested / relevant content

Blocks on the homepage can be used to display recommended content to your end users based on associations such as what they are interested in, what their team is looking at and suggested content from users they are following. This provides a more personalised experience for end users.

Logging into the app

Users can get access to Thrive by creating a username and password or employers can choose to enable biometric access for their users which opens up access to non-desk based employees.

Languages

Learners who have different language preferences can customise their experience by choosing their first language, subject to it being enabled by the company admin.

User Interface

The Thrive user interface is designed and refined with accessibility in mind. Taking inspiration from some of the world’s leading software, social media, and platforms, your people can navigate the Thrive platform with ease.

Audience based enrolment

Thrive allows content to be shared, assigned and restricted to certain audiences to allow for targeted training. Campaigns can also be audience specific.

Audience manager

permissions

Thrive allows you to appoint one or many users to be an audience manager for a given audience. Each audience manager can have certain permissions toggled on or off for each of their specified audience which will enable them to do things such as see insights and reports, approval tasks and goals, create and edit individual goals for their teams, and assign learning content.

Structures

Structures enable you to group and nest audiences together, before then being able to delegate permissions to manage and create audiences.

A Structure itself is just like a Smart Audience and has the same rule builder. These rules will determine who can be added to audiences that sit in that Structure.

Structures can be helpful for organisations with different geographical regions, different business units, or sub-brands within a parent company.

Site Administrator

A site admin has access to everything on the platform such as user information and all data. They can also perform all actions, including configurations and the removal or editing of any content and comments added to the platform.

Learning Administrator

A Learning Administrator is able to view all content, as well as endorse content and manage audiences without needing to make them a full site administrator.

Multi domain tenants

Got multiple brands that need separately designed platforms? No problem! We allow you to create multiple variations of your Learning & Skills Platform, assign users to separate brands and share content across all your domains.

Manager’s Dashboard

Managers will have access to a teams dashboard which will allow them to keep track of their teams activity and compliance progress. This includes the ability to view what events your team has signed up for, monitor CPD entries, track who is the most engaged and also assign learning.

Manager’s Digest

Managers can receive an automated weekly digest to inform them who in their direct team, and indirect if they have one, is outstanding or over due on essential learning.

Trends

Thrive’s content analytics will let you view which type of content and tags users are viewing during a specified period of time, popular searches, popular times for your users to access the platform, and highly engaged content.

Thrive Analyse

Thrive Analyse is Thrive’s package of in-platform reporting. It comprises a number of different dashboards, giving admins and managers with the insights permission the power to view and interpret a wide range of different data related to their organisation. The dashboards included in Thrive Analyse are detailed below.

Thrive Analyse AI

An additional add on to the Thrive Analyse package, empowering your managers to create data visuals using natural language prompts. Thrive Analyse AI is available at additional cost.

Leadership Dashboard

Provides managers and administrators with a customisable overview of learning compliance and engagement metrics, including views, durations, social interactions, content discovery methods, and trending topics.

Content Management Dashboard

Includes metrics such as content engagement, campaigns, flagged content, searches, and comments. Enables managers and platform administrators to understand what is working well on the platform, and potential content gaps which can be used to inform future strategy and plans.

Learner Progress Dashboard

Gives people managers an overview of their learner's performance in the platform. It includes information such as progress against assigned learning, content completions, progress through pathways and tasks in pathways, pass/fail statistics and question level detail

User Engagement Dashboard

Covers all the essential metrics to illustrate how users are engaging with the platform, including information such as overall platform adoption and engagement which can be filtered by audience, badge achievements, and points allocated.

Events Dashboard

An overview of past and future event performance and visibility of waitlists. This dashboard is particularly useful for customers who run lots of both online and offline events which are organised and monitored through their Thrive platform.

Talent Development Dashboard

See how people across your organisation are performing. How many skills have they added, and how are they progressing through these skills levels? Has everyone added goals and associated tasks? Are the relevant colleagues logging and completing their CPD requirements? All this and more is available as part of the Talent Development Dashboard.

Track completions with

reporting

Allow admins and audience managers to track completion of mandatory training on the platform. View who is complete, outstanding or due soon.

Development log

Track and view user’s development log to see if they are hitting their specified hours.

Reminders

Automatically send reminders to users about mandatory training that are due soon or overdue.

Assignments

Thrive supports both recurring and non-recurring assignments with an easy to use slider to set the completion period.

Equivalence

Thrive enables you to assign multiple pieces of content to one single assignment. Completion of any of the content selected will complete the assignment.

SAML2 or OAuth for single sign on

Thrive supports Single Sign on integrations to make it slick and seamless for your users to login.

SCIM2 Identity Management

for Microso Azure, OKTA or

PingId etc

Thrive supports user provisioning integrations using the SCIM2 standard.

Content Provider Integrations

Integrate with top content providers and import high-quality learning content directly into Thrive. Content provider integrations include LinkedIn Learning, OpenSesame, Udemy, Blinkist, Go1, Anders Pink, Hygraph, and getAbstract.

HR System Integrations

Effortlessly sync users from your HR system with support for Workday, SAP, ADP, Ceridian Dayforce, Sapling, and many more, enabling you to automate provisioning and keep your data and audiences up to date

Microsoft teams

Thrive’s integration with Microsoft allows you to share content and have notifications sent straight to groups in teams.

Slack

Thrive’s integration with Slacks allows you to notify and share content directly into slack channels to ensure your users do not miss it.

Unsplash

Thrive makes it easy for your site to look great with content thumbnails. Thrive has integrated with Unsplash to suggest images for you to use as thumbnails while uploading content.

Question Mark

Thrive’s integration with Question Mark allows you to deliver more comprehensive assessments to your users. Create the assessments within Question Mark and then embed the assessment easily in the platform with a link.

UI language translation

Thrive will translate the site text based on a user’s selected preference.

Auto translate articles

Thrive will automatically translate articles into languages set on your platform. This allows users to view articles in the language they have set via their preferences.

Manual translate articles

Thrive allows you to add different language versions manually for a piece of article. This allows users to view articles in the language they have set via their preferences.

Auto translate Comments

Thrive has the capability to automatically translate user comments, allowing users to comment and talk to each other even when they don’t share a common language.

Auto translate video subtitles

The ability to create subtitles for a video, and also create local language versions subject to that language being available in the platform.

T&Cs localisation

Thrive has the ability to add localised versions of your terms and conditions, available for users to view in their native language.

User Experience

The Thrive Mobile app has been designed to give parity with the desktop experience; users will see the same homepage which has been curated and personalised wherever and whenever they access the platform

Creating content

Admins are able to create video, files, links and questions

Accessing content

Users can view and complete content, engage with articles, watch videos and more  via their mobile phone.

Content interactions

On every piece of content Thrive encourages social interaction through the likes of commenting, liking and sharing and provides the ability to pin content to be viewed at a later date.

Search

Users can search for content via the mobile to get answers to those questions, or ask questions at the point of need; Kiki - your always on AI assistant - works in the Mobile App in the same way it will work via desktop access.

Logging into the app

Users can get access to Thrive by creating a username and password or employers can choose to enable biometric access for their users which opens up access to non-desk based employees.

Push notifications

Help your learners to engage, re-engage or simply notify them of important company updates straight to their mobile device.

Discussions, comments, and questions

Encourage your users to ask questions on the platform using the Question feature to seek out answers from anyone in the business. This can help form discussions and create a bank of FAQs that future users can also benefit from

Build a network

Thrive allows users to follow other people on the mobile app to build a network and ensure that contributed content posted by that followed person is recommended.

Content

Completion of content on your platform  including files, videos, links, quizzes etc

Users

All user profiles on the system.

Tags

Tags, including their usage by users and content.

Activities

Records of all user actions on the system.

Tags - CPD

Continuous professional development user entries, user summaries and categories on your platform.

Compliance

Retrieve the assignment details and enrolment statuses for assigned learning.

Completions

Access completions of content.

Kiki (AI Assistant)

Your always on AI Assistant can be personalised to your company brand and tone of voice. Powered by Thrive Help, KiKi will be able to support your learners with their questions in their moment of need. KiKi will also provide summaries of content and translate them into a users preferred language.

Summaries

Generate concise summaries of PDF, Article, Video and Pathway content, helping learners quickly understand the key points at a glance.

Merge Tags

Use the AI Merge Tags tool to suggest tag improvements, whether that’s detecting spelling errors, duplicate tags, similar references and variations of the same word. Admins can then decide to accept or dismiss the suggestions.

Suggested Tags

The feature analyses articles and suggests relevant tags with just a click. These intelligent tags focus on the content’s key topics and skills, ensuring they’re highly relevant. Admins have full control to review and decide which tags to apply before publishing.

Content Creator

The Content Creator allows admins to create pieces of mixed content with ease, using AI tools to supercharge content creation with tools such as creating a course from a PDF, generating text and scripts using prompts, creating original images and creating a quiz to test knowledge at the touch of a button.

Video Translations

Create video subtitle scripts and translate them for your users who have different chosen first languages within your platform.

Video Thumbnail Generator

Use AI to generate thumbnail images for your videos.

Video Generator

Create and embed AI generated videos into your content via Thrive’s access to the Google Veo2 tool