Skills Hub Web Portal FAQs

What is Skills Hub?

Skills Hub is a platform developed by Skyscape that includes an app for iOS and Android devices, as well as a web portal. The platform:

  • Uses different learning styles
  • Tracks skills students perform in a clinical environment
  • Builds student portfolio
  • Aids in NCLEX licensing exam preparation
  • Addresses challenges faced by clinical faculty
  • Tool to identify struggling students to reduce attrition rates
  • Paperless data repository for reports for accreditation bodies
  • Content authoring tool (coming soon)

The app features:

  • Step-by-step instructions on performing nursing skills
    • Includes prerequisite skills
    • Provides links to supplemental information for students who want deeper understanding
  • Pre-screened nursing skill videos posted on YouTube
  • Students indicate learned or mastered skills
  • Track skills practiced in lab and/or clinical
  • Upload student videos performing skills for faculty review
  • Seek peer feedback or record reflections (enhances learning)
  • Seek on the spot faculty/instructor/preceptor feedback:
    • Enter code
    • Select proficiency
    • Type comments
    • Dictate feedback
      • Also acts as signature
      • Audio captures emotions, etc.
  • App tracks clinical site GPS coordinates
  • Each skill includes five NCLEX style questions with rationales:
    • Multiple choice
    • Fill-in-the-blank
    • Select all that apply
    • Reorder
    • True/False
  • App tracks
    • Correct answer score on first attempt
    • Correct answer score after multiple attempts
    • Incorrect answer score
  • Metrics available on the web portal
    • Individual student
    • Student cohort

The web portal (http://skillshub.skyscape.com) allows:

  • Students to:
    • View uploaded videos
    • View faculty/instructor/preceptor feedback
    • Share portfolio with prospective employers (Coming soon)
  • Administrators to:
    • Create cohorts based on courses, etc.
    • Build modules with sub-set of skills
    • Assign faculty to cohorts
    • View reports for all the cohorts
  • Faculty to:
    • Track students' progress
    • View uploaded videos
    • View NCLEX question responses
    • View instructor feedback
Skyscape Account

A Skyscape account is required to back-up data and upload videos to the cloud server. The backed up data can be restored on a different device and the uploaded videos viewed using a web browser. If your school is using the Skills Hub web portal, signing in with a Skyscape account is the ONLY way of getting custom modules and submitting reports for faculty review.

Users must sign-in to back up their data for faculty review, upload videos and download custom modules. This can be done in several ways. If you have the Skyscape Medical Library app (SML) installed:
  1. Tap on the Sign In label on the Home screen of the app.
  2. If you already have the Skyscape Medical Library (SML) app installed and have signed in, tap on Continue to link the accounts.
  3. If you would like to sign-in with a different Skyscape account, tap on Use Another ID.
If the SML app is not installed, either sign-in with Skyscape user credentials or register and create a new Skyscape account.

In the Skills Hub app, there is a Compass icon. Tap on the Compass icon and select Backup to back up your data to the cloud server - Internet connection will be required.

When the app is linked with a Skyscape account, the app checks to see if a backup exists on the server. If so, an option is given to restore the backup.

Sign-in is required to use the Web Portal. This is done either by clicking Sign In in the top right hand corner or by clicking on Get Started.

Roles

Student role allows students to view:

  1. Personal portfolio
  2. Uploaded videos
  3. Faculty/Instructor/Preceptor feedback
  4. Membership of cohorts
  5. Skill details
    1. Step-by-Step instructions
    2. Questions
    3. Videos

In the Faculty role, you can see

  1. All your cohorts
  2. Cohort members i.e. students
  3. Student reports
  4. Videos uploaded by students
  5. Modules assigned to the cohorts and the details

As a Program Administrator, you can:

  1. Create new cohorts
  2. Configure and publish custom modules
  3. View student reports
  4. Watch videos uploaded by students
  5. Assign faculty members to cohorts (and un-assign)
  6. Remove students from cohorts
Cohorts

A cohort is a group of students, such as:

  1. Class of 2020
  2. LPN Program (2019)
  3. BSN Program - Fast Track

This page shows the cohorts. Below is what the Program Administrator sees. Students and faculty do not have the option to invite students or to edit cohort details.

On the Cohort(s) page:

  1. Click on the Create New button located to the right of the Cohort(s)
  2. Enter Cohort Name*
  3. Enter Cohort Description

The Cohort Detail page has the following tabs:

  1. Students
    1. View students in the cohort
    2. Add students
    3. Remove students
    4. "Last Seen" - date of data backup
  2. Modules
    1. View skills available in the default module
      1. Step-by-Step instructions
      2. Questions associated with the skill
      3. Video associated with skill
    2. Build a custom module by replicating the default module
    3. Publish custom modules
  3. Reports
    1. View aggregated cohort reports
    2. View individual student report
  4. Faculty
    1. View faculty members assigned to the cohort
    2. Assign/de-assign faculty members
Managing Students in a Cohort

From the Cohort(s) view:

  1. Click on the name of the cohort you would like to manage.
  2. Click on the Students tab.

From the Cohort(s) view:

  1. Click on the name of the cohort you would like to manage.
  2. Click on the Students tab.
  3. Click on the Add Student(s) button located to the right of the webpage.
  4. Enter the email address of the student you would like to add to the cohort. You can add students in bulk by entering a comma separating the email address.
  5. Click on the Add Students button to finish.

If a student does not have a Skyscape Account with the email address you have added to the cohort group, then a Skyscape account will automatically be created for the student with the default password of ‘skyscape.’

From the Cohort(s) view:

  1. Click on the cohort name you would like to manage.
  2. Click on the Students tab.
  3. Click on the ‘-’ to the right of the student listing you would like to remove.
Modules

A module is a bundled skill set that can be published for students within a cohort, to download and view through the Skills Hub app. Each module contains individual sections and contained within each section are skills. By default there will be 'SkillsHub' at the top of the module listings. The default module is available to replicate. You must have at least one replicated and published module for students to use to upload videos and tracking.

From the Cohort(s) view:

  1. Click on the cohort name you would like to manage.
  2. Click on the Modules tab.
  3. Click on the Replicate button to the right of the ‘NursingSkills’ module listing. This is the available default module from which you can pick the skills.
  4. Enter in a ‘name’ for your new module and click on the Save button.

    5. Your newly named replicated module will now appear on your module listings.

Click on Add Section in a replicated module.

While viewing the ‘Cohort Details’:

  1. Click on the Modules tab.
  2. Click on the Module name you would like to edit.
  3. Click on the section name you would like to add skills to.
  4. Click on the Add Skill(s) button located to the right of the webpage.

  5. Click and drag the skill from the Un-Associated Skills side to the Associated Skills side.

    6. When successfully associating a skill to the section you will see the green ‘Success’ alert.

    When successfully un-associating a skill from the section you will see the red ‘Success’ alert.
  6. Click on the Close button to return to the section listing.

  1. Click on the cohort group that contains the module of the skill you want to view.
  2. Click on the Modules tab.
  3. Click on the module name that contains the skill you want to view.
  4. Click on the section name of the skills you want to view.
  5. Click on the skill name to view the step-by-step instructions.

While viewing a skill, click on View Questions to the right of the skill name.

While viewing a skill, click on View Video to the right of the skill name.

While viewing the Cohort Details:

  1. Click on the Modules tab.
  2. Click on the Module name you would like to edit.
  3. Click on the section name you would like to add skills to.
  4. Click on the Add Skills(s) button located to the right of the webpage.

  5. Click and Drag the skill from the Un-Associated Skills side to the Associated Skills side.

    6. When successfully associating a skill to the section, you will see the green ‘Success’ alert.

    When successfully un-associating a skill from the section you will see the red ‘Success’ alert.
  6. Click on the Close button to return to the Section listing.

Multiple modules can be published at any time. Once a module has been published you cannot edit the module.

While viewing the Cohort Details:

  1. Click on the Modules tab.
  2. From the modules listing, click on the Not Published link located to the right of the module name, under Status.
  3. Click on the Yes button to publish the module.

Students can download custom modules through the Skills Hub App by first signing into the app.  Modules are also available for students to view on the web portal at: http://skillshub.skyscape.com.