December 29th, 2025
We're excited to announce our last release of the year, packed with powerful new features to enhance your learning experience!
What's New
Events in Courses
Admins can now add events as part of course content to support flipped classroom approaches—combine live training sessions with pre-work and follow-up assessments in a single course.
Add online or in-person events directly to course content
Pre-assign learners to specific sessions
Flexible attendance tracking: learners self-mark or admins track for them
Cohort CSV Upload
Create and populate cohorts in seconds! Upload a CSV to add members in the cohort in bulk instead of one-by-one.
Enhanced User Profile Management
New Skills tab in user profile pages (Admin) displaying user competencies, plus quick-edit capabilities for roles and profiles directly from People page
Enhanced Workspace
We've completely redesigned the workspace section on both Web and Mobile App, making it easier for learners to visit their content.
Course Search – Quickly find any course with the new search box
Overdue Labels – Easily spot expired course enrolments with clear visual indicators
Smart Sorting – Sort courses by progress or due date
Logo Customisation
Upload separate logos for dark and light modes to ensure your branding looks perfect in any theme
Precise resize controls let you position and scale your logo exactly as needed
November 25th, 2025
We are excited to announce several new features and key updates designed to enhance course management, learner enrolment, and the overall learning experience on the platform.
1. Course Retake Quizzes Feature
Admins can now allow learners to retake failed courses without a full re-enrolment, significantly improving the learning flow for compliance and refresher courses.
Functionality: If a course pass score is enabled, users are automatically granted two to three attempts to retake failed lesson quizzes, situational tests, and multiple-choice assessments.
Reporting: Admin scores are automatically aligned to the latest attempt.
Availability: Currently available on the web, with mobile app support planned for the next release.
2. In-person Events
A dedicated Events feature has been released to manage both in-person and online events, supporting a blend of self-paced learning and live sessions.
Current Release: Standalone events can be created and managed now.
Attendance Tracking: Learners can select which session they want to attend, and Admins can manage attendance and download a report.
Coming Next: Course events will be introduced in the next release, enabling 'flipped classroom' functionality by embedding live events directly inside a course.
3. Audio as a Lesson Type
A new lesson type allows Admins to upload audio files directly to the platform, expanding content possibilities, particularly for sales enablement.
Admin Upload: Easily upload and create audio lessons.
Learner Experience: Users will see a waveform while the audio is playing and can listen in the background without needing to keep the platform open.
Use Case: This is especially useful for uploading sales calls or other recorded content for on-demand training, with the ability to auto-generate quizzes.
4. Sign up with Code
A new method for user registration is now available. Users can now sign up using a mobile number and an access code, eliminating the requirement for an email address. This is particularly helpful for companies where a lot of their employees do not user emails for their employment.
Simply head to Account & Settings to activate “Mobile Number Authentication”
5. Enhanced Learner Management & User invitations
Cohorts: Cohorts are now under People & Teams section for better visibility. This allows Admins to easily create and add learners to a cohort for better management and reuse across courses.
Optional Fields for Users: When inviting users, new optional fields for "region" and "join date" are now available. These fields can be included in the CSV template for bulk uploads to simplify automation processes and reduce the need for external integrations.
Learning Records Update: Learning records now include an "attempt" label to clearly indicate if a record is the latest enrolment or a previous one, which helps to address confusion when a user has multiple enrolments in the same course.
October 9th, 2025
We're excited to share the latest updates to your 5Mins platform! This release includes powerful new features designed to enhance collaboration, streamline course management, and improve the learning experience for your teams.
Course Reminders and Notifications
When updating a course that has been completed by learners, notify those users about new content
Send targeted reminders to learners based on their course progress status (not started, in progress, completed, passed/not passed), making communication more relevant and effective
Shared Content Library Across Roles
Managers and Subject Experts can now easily view and utilise lessons uploaded by their colleagues, fostering a more collaborative environment.
When creating courses, access all lessons uploaded by everyone in the system
External Trainings certificate upload
Upload certificates (PDF, PNG, or JPEG) when adding or editing individual training records on external trainings in Learning Records
TikTok Video Integration
Add TikTok links directly to create lessons and TikTok lessons to courses
TikTok content plays seamlessly within the platform feed, just like YouTube / Loom videos
AI quiz generation is also available for this type of content!
Integrated Help Center with AI Chatbot
New help section accessible from the admin panel
AI-powered chatbot that answers questions based on our help articles and provides instant answers
Users can escalate to human support when needed
If you have any questions or need assistance with any of these new features, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team: support@5mins.ai
Happy learning!
The 5Mins Team
August 22nd, 2025
We've just shipped several powerful updates to help you create better courses faster and give your learners an exceptional experience.
What's New:
🚀 Course Creation Made Simple
Streamlined workflow - Our new compact view lets you build courses with fewer clicks
Instant video embedding - Add YouTube videos and external content in seconds with quick links
Automatic duration tracking - Know exactly how long your courses are without manual calculations
📚 5Mins Academy Access step-by-step "how-to" videos for Admins, including guides on building courses, using the AI Transformer, and more to quickly refresh your knowledge.
🗂️ Lesson Categories Organize your content with categories, making it easier for learners to navigate and find what they need.
Questions or feedback? Just hit reply - we'd love to hear from you. Alternatively, you can also visit feedback.5mins.ai to give us feedback.
Cheers,
The 5Mins Team
June 24th, 2025
Course Completion Reports
Admins can now check course completion reports and breakdown the completions at team or category level
Admins can also add filters such as start date, end date, courses, and category etc
Admins can find the new report on Reports»Course Completion. Check it out here
Learning Records
One place for you to store all 5Mins course progress and external trainings progress.
Admins can download 5mins course progress data for all their users from Learning Records»5Mins Courses tab
Many companies do offline training such as workshops, external webinars etc.
Admins can now bulk upload external trainings to maintain the records for all their employees trainings from Learning Records»External Training tab
Read more about learning records here
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New Course Creation Flow
New and fresh way to create a course - making course creation a breeze!
Add lessons, embed links, assessments in few clicks in our new and improved UI
Cohorts in automation
Admins can now set trigger rules based on cohorts as well
This helps admins to set up more deeper use cases for automations
Please do give us your feedback to divjot@5mins.ai or nicolas@5mins.ai
June 6th, 2025
Recurring Course enrolments - Admins can now add recurrence rules for individual course enrolments. This would be helpful for courses that need to be done every few months such as compliance courses.
Course Categories - Admins can now add categories to courses
Learning Records - Admins can now look at all the course completion records on 5Mins courses learning records section. Admins can also filter by fields such as email address of learners, course name etc. New version of Learning Records is coming on 18 Jun 2025!
Integration with Loom and Synthesia - Now videos from Loom and Synthesia can now be embedded on 5Mins. Admins can add lessons with links from Synthesia and loom. Go check it out.
Pause / Unpause Streaks - Learners can now pause / unpause their streaks! Learners can use their jewels to pause streaks if they go on holidays and unpause when they come back.
April 17th, 2025
Learning Records External training: Admins can now add external training for an employee and keep all their employees learning activities on 5Mins. In subsequent releases, we would be adding two more additional features: all the learning records of 5Mins course activities and ability for admins to upload external training via a csv file.
Learnings in Lessons: After this release, all the 5Mins lessons will have a new button called “Learnings” - where a user can see all the Key Concepts and Learning goals of each lesson.
Jump the Skill Levels: Users would now be able to jump the skill levels instead of starting from level 1. Users can simply go to a skill and answer a quiz to jump levels.
Mobile web experience improvement: An improvement in mobile web experience for courses
Course Setting for Forward and Video in background - Admins can now choose if they want users to fast forward lessons in courses or not. They can also select if they want to allow users to watch a course in the background. These are useful settings for compliance courses
Automations for existing employees - Admins can now create automation of courses for existing users as well. This is available via Course Program Enrolment option. Admins can also set repeatability rules for the entire program, this is very useful if there is a compliance program that runs every year
PDF Navigation improvements - Improvement in navigation of pages inside a pdf and flashcard.
Bugs fixes
February 17th, 2025
Polls at the end of Course: Admins can now add Polls at the end of the course. Users can select one option among the options provided and results of the poll would be available for admins to view.
Exercise as an assessment: Courses on 5Mins will now have support for Exercise / Activity type assessment. Users can now upload files in response to a question, for example - upload yourself practicing a sales pitch. Admins can then review the files submitted by the user. We support excel docs, pdf and word docs, audio files, and video files.
Enrolment Automation - Admins can now automate onboarding courses for new employees or new users who join 5Mins. This will help admins to automate enrolment of courses.
AI Generated Lesson Quizzes - Admins when they upload lessons can now generate lesson quizzes via AI. This means all the lessons(video, pdf, and flashcards) would allow admins to generate quizzes.
Sender Email Customisation - We can now change email sender for a specific tenant such that all the emails would come from the same sender. For example, a tenant might like to send all the emails from john@company.com instead of noreply@5mins.ai. This feature enables sender email address customisation. Please connect with Customer Success for more information
View lessons in courses sequentially - With this feature, admins can decide if they want users to access all the lessons in courses in one-go or in the order of their listing in courses. Admins can change the settings from the Course Settings page in the course page.
Course Certificates on Progress Page - Some admins pointed out that we do not show course certificates on My Progress page for users and this was confusing for users. With this feature, users can find all their certificates in the Certificates section on the My Progress page.
Flag a lesson - Users can now flag a lesson from their feed. 5Mins team would review flagged lessons regularly and take corrective actions if required.