v.1.50.7 (05/11/2026)

Connect your iHasco account with an API key

Once connected, the iHasco page shows the connection status, the last four characters of your key and when it was last checked. Use Reconnect if you rotate your key in iHasco, or Disconnect to remove the connection and delete the stored key.

The key is encrypted and is never shown in full after you enter it.

Choose which iHasco courses go into your Course Library

The iHasco page lists every course on your iHasco licence, with search and filters by language and category. Each course shows its summary, duration, categories, languages, pass mark and how often it needs retaking, plus a status of Never synced, Changed since sync or Up to date.

Choose how courses are synced:

• Manual: tick the courses you want.
• All courses: every licensed course.
• By category and language: only courses that match the categories and languages you pick.

Synced courses arrive in your Course Library with their image, a full description listing each section and its learning outcomes, the duration, number of lessons, retake frequency, pass mark and a link to the course. Categories are matched to your existing Course Library categories by name, and any that don't exist are created. Turn on Autosync to keep courses up to date automatically. If iHasco withdraws a course, it is archived in your Course Library rather than deleted.

Skills linked to every iHasco course

Each iHasco course comes with two to four relevant skills, each at a level from 1 (Entry) to 4 (Expert). When courses sync, StaffCircle uses AI to match these to the skills you already have by meaning as well as name, so a course skill called "Manual Handling" can link to your existing "Safe Lifting Techniques" skill rather than creating a duplicate.

Sync skills is on by default. Turn it off if you only want courses linked to skills that already exist in StaffCircle. Skills you add to a course yourself, or levels you change, are never overwritten by a sync.

Completions, training logs and certificates recorded for you

iHasco users are matched to people in StaffCircle by email address. When someone passes an iHasco course, StaffCircle picks it up within about ten minutes and creates a training log with the completion date, expiry date and score. If they have an open training objective for that course, it is set to 100% as well.

The iHasco certificate (PDF) is saved on the training log, so you keep proof of training even if you later disconnect iHasco. Certificates are stored in a protected folder: they open from the training log for anyone who can see it, and can't be moved or deleted from Documents.

My Training: iHasco learning inside StaffCircle

Turn on Embed courses in the iHasco sync settings and each person gets a My Training page on their profile, also linked from My Development in the Development menu. It opens their iHasco learning straight away, with no second login.

The existing Training item on the profile is now called Training Logs. If a browser blocks the embedded sign-in (Safari, private browsing or strict privacy settings), an Open in new tab button is shown. People without an iHasco account are asked to contact their training administrator.

Training articles in the news feed

A new Training article type in the Content Wizard lets you post an iHasco course to the feed. The post shows the course image, name, duration, number of lessons and description, with a Start course button that opens the course inside StaffCircle.

Everyone who can see the post can see the course. Anyone not enrolled on it is told to ask their manager, and if the course is later removed the post says it is no longer available. Training articles are available once Embed courses is on.

Build Training Pathways

Give the pathway a name, description and icon, then add courses in the order they should be taken. Drag courses to reorder them. Each course can appear once, and archived courses can't be added.

Pathways you no longer need can be archived. They can't then be assigned, but stay visible on objectives already using them.

You'll find pathways under Development settings → Courses → Course Pathways if you have the Summer UX update turned on, or Settings → Training → Course Pathways if not. Creating and editing pathways needs the Training & Skills add, update or delete permission.

Assign a pathway as one objective

Choose Training Pathway Objective when adding an objective, pick a pathway and assign it to one or more people. Each person gets one pathway objective containing a training objective for every course, in order. The title and description are filled in from the pathway.

• Progress is the average across the pathway's courses. Courses declined by an approver are left out.
• Any course the person has already completed, with a training log that hasn't expired, starts at 100%.
• Courses completed in iHasco or another connected learning platform update on their own.
• The person gets one notification and one reminder for the whole pathway, not one per course.
• The reviewer can close the pathway once every course is at 100% or declined.

The list of courses is fixed when the pathway is assigned, so later changes to the pathway don't affect objectives already in progress. The objectives list has a new Training Pathway filter.

Half-day company holidays

When adding or editing a company holiday, you can now choose Full day, Morning or Afternoon. This covers days like Christmas Eve when you close at lunchtime, without having to gift everyone an extra half day or add a half-day absence for each person.

The closed half can't be booked, and the open half books as a normal half day. A full-day booking on that date uses half a day of allowance. Half-day holidays show an AM or PM tag in the company holiday list and on the absence, team and personal holiday calendars. Existing company holidays stay as full days.

For hours-based bookings, only the hours outside the closed half are counted, using your default morning end and afternoon start times in Holidays & Absences settings.