Translate a skill

This feature requires the Globalization Solution. Contact your Customer Success Partner (CSP) to learn more.

The full workflow for making a skill available in a new language is:

1. Declare a new language.
2. Translate a skill into the new language.
3. Make all skills translated into the new language available to learners.

Platform admins may assign translators to a language.

Declare a new language

Platform admins can declare a new language for skills.

1. At the top of the homepage, click Skills.
2. At the top right, click .
3. In the Skills section, click Manage languages.
4. Click ADD LANGUAGES.
5. Select the language(s) you'd like to add.
6. Click ADD LANGUAGE(S).

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  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Bengali
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Taiwan)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • French (Canada)
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Lao
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Malay
  • Marathi
  • Norwegian
  • Oriya
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Sinhala
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tamil
  • Te Reo Maori
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese
  • Welsh

Assign a translator to a language

Platform admins can assign translators to a language:

1. At the top of the homepage, click Skills.
2. At the top right, click .
3. In the Skills section, click Manage languages.
4. Under the Translators column, click Add.
5. Select the translator(s).
6. Click CONFIRM.

Translators then receive an email inviting them to translate the skills in the specified language, with a button to open the translation interface directly.

To remove a translator from a language, follow the steps above and unselect the user in step 5.

Send a reminder email to the translators

Platform admins can send a reminder to users who have a translator role in a language. This will instantly send the same email as the one that was sent when they were first added as translators.

1. At the top of the homepage, click Skills.
2. At the top right, click .
3. In the Skills section, click Manage languages.
4. Under the Actions column, click .
5. Click Notify translators by email.

Translate a skill

Platform admins and translators can translate skills.

If you’ve been added as a translator, click the button TRANSLATE SKILLS in the notification email you received to access the translation interface.

You can also access the translation interface by following the following steps:

1. At the top of the homepage, click Skills.
2. At the top right, click .
3. In the Skills section, click Translate.

Under the Translate tab, you can see the Reference content (in gray, which cannot be edited) on the left, and the Translated content (which you can edit) on the right.

From here, you can translate the skills in the Translated content block. All changes are instantly saved when you click outside the text field.

If you want to make the language available to learners directly after translating the contents, toggle on the Available option at the top right of the Translated content section.

Make all skills translated into the new language available to learners

Once the skills are translated, you can make that language available to learners.

1. At the top of the homepage, click Skills.
2. At the top right, click .
3. In the Skills section, click Manage languages.
4. Under the Available column, enable the language.

If the skills are available in the learner's profile language, they will be displayed in that language. Otherwise, they will be displayed in the default language.

Delete a translation language

Platform admins can delete a translation language for skills. 

1. At the top of the homepage, click Skills.
2. At the top right, click .
3. In the Skills section, click Manage languages.
4. Under the Actions column, click .
5. Click Delete.
6. In the dialog box, click CONFIRM.