Introduction

For this release note we have 11 existing lessons updated in Create, and 1 new lesson and 2 existing lessons updated in Adapt.

We have also refreshed all 3 of the partner collections we offer from Filtered - covering Business Skills, Personal Skills, and Microsoft Office Skills. These updates are quite lengthy so are detailed in their own section at the end of the release note.

Updated Lessons - Create/Adapt

Collection: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)

The following 14 lessons in our EDI collection have been reviewed by our subject matter experts and the content refreshed. 

Key updates included signposting of the changes to the Employment Rights Act 2025 (to include extra provisions around third-party harassment), and to the Mental Capacity Act (in light of the Supreme Court June 2026 ruling, which changes how the law defines a deprivation of liberty). 

Lessons:

• Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging: Core (Manager and Team)
• Dignity and Respect (Manager and Team)
• Trans & Non-Binary Inclusion (Manager and Team)
• Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace (Manager and Team)
• Preventing and Managing Sexual Harassment at Work
• Allyship in Practice (Manager and Team)
• Micro Behaviours
• LGBT Inclusion in Practice (Manager and Team)

Collection: Adult Social Care 

The following lesson has been updated to reflect operational shifts following the June 2026 Supreme Court ruling regarding changes to the definition of deprivation of liberty. 

Lesson:

• The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

Collection: Care Certificates 

Lessons:

• Care Certificate Standard 9 corrected to remove reference to learning disability (now covered in Standard 16). Also adjusted to reflect legislative changes regarding deprivation of liberty (as per Supreme Court judgement June 2026)
• Care Certificate Standard 11 updated - instructions around submission of answer options in the assessment section have been slightly adjusted to make these more clear for learners. 

New Lesson - Adapt 

Collection: Financial Services: FCA Regulations
 

Lesson title: Non-Financial Misconduct

This lesson is designed to cover the new FCA offence of non-financial misconduct, as set out in the FCA rule COCON1.1.7FR, which came into force on 1st September 2026. 

The course will teach a learner how to:

• define non-financial misconduct
• identify how non-financial misconduct links to HR legislation
• recognise the FCA’s rules regarding non-financial misconduct
• explain the implications for breach of the FCA rules.

This lesson is in the FCA Regulations collection, and is available in Adapt.

Updated Lessons - Adapt

Collection: Financial Services: FCA Regulations

As part of our normal annual review of the financial services lesson we have made several changes to the following 2 lessons. If a detailed list of all changes is required, please ask and we can provide one. 

 

Lessons

• Customer Vulnerability In Financial Services
• Conduct Risk

Release Notes for FILTERED partner collections

Release date: 26th September 2026
 

We have made quite a lot of changes and updates to the 3 Filtered collections we currently offer (Business Skills, Personal Skills, and Microsoft Skills) which are detailed below. All these changes were live as of Friday 26th September.

Another change we have made is to add indexing and updated course descriptions to all the Adapt delivery listings for these collections, so that it will now be easier to find the courses you wish to download for your LMS.

As the Microsoft Skills collection in particular has gone through a lot of changes we have listed all the lessons currently being offered in each collection at the end of this note.
 

Details of Changes Made

Business Skills

Overview: This collection has 13 new lessons added, and 3 old lessons being retired. 

New Lessons:

• Advanced Agile Scrum
• Agile Scrum
• An Introduction to Canva: Creating and Editing Images
• Introduction to Asana for Project Management
• Introduction to Google Calendar
• Introduction to Google Chrome
• Introduction to Google Docs
• Introduction to Google Slides
• Introduction to Jira
• Introduction to Pipedrive
• Introduction to Wrike for Project Management
• Setting up and Running Agile Projects in Jira
• Smartsheet for Project Management and Collaboration

Retired Lessons: 

• Microsoft PowerBI
• Mindfulness at Work
• Photoshop Elements 15

Personal Skills

Overview: This collection has the fewest changes, with just 1 new lesson added, and 2 existing lessons being renamed to add clarity to their offerings.

New Lessons:

• How to be an Effective Coach

Renamed Lessons: 

• ‘Emotional Intelligence’ changed to ‘Building Emotional Intelligence’
• ‘Compounding Habits’ changed to ‘Compounding habits to maximise productivity’

Microsoft Skills

Overview: This collection has the most changes with 44 new lessons added, 19 old lessons being retired, and 14 existing lessons being renamed so they match the new naming format for this collection.

New Lessons: 

• Apply Formatting to Cells, Rows and Columns in Excel
• Boost Productivity with Keyboard Shortcuts for Excel in less than 10 Minutes
• Build Interactive Presentations with Zoom in PowerPoint
• Conditional Formatting Insights: Excel Quick Wins
• Copilot in Microsoft 365 for Beginners
• Data Analysis in Excel
• Dropdown Menus Simplified: Excel Quick Wins
• Excel Custom Formatting to Control your Data
• Excel for Accountants (Basic)
• Excel for Accountants (Intermediate)
• Excel Tables Made Easy: The Smarter Way to Manage Data
• Fix Your Data Fast: Power Query Cleaning and Importing in 15 minutes
• Forecasting Fundamentals: Excel Quick Wins
• Formatting Bullets, Numbered Lists, and Paragraphs in Word
• How to Use AI to Generate Sample Data for Excel
• INDEX and MATCH For Lookups in Excel
• Introduction to Power BI: Quick Wins
• Introduction to Visio 365
• Keyboard Shortcuts Accelerator Excel Quick Wins
• Keyboard Shortcuts and Key Tips for PowerPoint
• Microsoft Access (Basic)
• Microsoft Access 2021
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Excel 365: Ultimate Beginner Guide
• Microsoft OneNote
• Microsoft Power BI Essentials
• Microsoft Project (Advanced)
• Microsoft Project 2021
• Microsoft Publisher 365 Fundamentals
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Word 2021
• Microsoft Word 365 Essentials
• Microsoft Word 365 for Beginners
• Microsoft Word Styles for Professional and Consistent Documents
• Naming Data in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Power BI for Beginners: DAX, Data Modelling, and Data Visualization
• Power BI: Data Visualization for Dashboards and Data Analysis
• Power Query Essentials: Excel Quick Wins
• Present Easily and Professionally with Presenter View in PowerPoint
• Principles of Modelling in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Quick-Start PivotTables: Turn Data into Insights
• Slide Transitions In PowerPoint for Professional Presentations
• Time Saving Keyboard Shortcuts for Word
• Use Excel Data Validation to Keep Your Spreadsheets Clean

Retired Lessons:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel 2019
• Advanced Microsoft Projects 2019
• Microsoft Access 2013 Beginners
• Microsoft Access 2016 Beginners
• Microsoft Excel 2016
• Microsoft Excel 2019
• Microsoft OneNote 2016
• Microsoft Outlook 2019
• Microsoft Powerpoint 2016
• Microsoft Powerpoint 2019
• Microsoft Visio 2019
• Microsoft Windows 10
• Microsoft Word 2016
• Microsoft Word 2019
• Outlook 365 Essentials
• Power BI: Beyond the Basics
• Top Ten tips: Data Analysis
• Top ten tips: Excel for Accountants Beginners
• Top ten tips: Excel for Accountants Intermediate
   

Renamed Lessons:

• 'Advanced Microsoft Excel 2021' changed to 'Microsoft Excel 2021 - Advanced Course'
• 'Advanced Microsoft Word 2019' changed to 'Microsoft Word 2019 (Advanced)'
• 'Advanced Pivot Tables' changed to 'Pivot Tables in Excel (Advanced)'
• 'Advanced VBA' changed to 'Microsoft VBA (Advanced)'
• 'Excel 365 Advanced' changed to 'Microsoft Excel 365 Advanced'
• 'Microsoft Advanced Access' changed to 'Microsoft Access (Advanced)'
• 'Microsoft Excel 2021 Beginners' changed to 'Microsoft Excel 2021 - Beginner Course'
• 'Microsoft Excel 2021 Intermediate' changed to 'Microsoft Excel 2021 - Intermediate Course'
• 'Microsoft Projects for Beginners 2016' changed to 'Microsoft Project 2016 (Basic)'
• 'Office 365' changed to 'Microsoft Office 365'
• 'Power Automate for Beginners' changed to 'Microsoft Power Automate'
• 'PowerPoint 365' changed to 'Microsoft PowerPoint 365 for Beginners'
• 'VBA for Beginners' changed to 'Microsoft VBA (Basic)'
• 'Visio 365 Essentials' changed to 'Microsoft Visio 365 Essentials'

Revised Complete Collection Contents

Business Skills (26 lessons)

• Advanced Agile Scrum
• Agile Scrum
• An Introduction to Canva: Creating and Editing Images
• Business Analysis
• Business Maths
• Business Writing
• Communication, Influence and Teams
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
• Developing As A Leader & Manager
• Finance For Non-Financial Professionals 
• Introduction to Asana for Project Management
• Introduction to Data Science
• Introduction to Google Calendar
• Introduction to Google Chrome
• Introduction to Google Docs
• Introduction to Google Slides
• Introduction to Jira
• Introduction To Leadership & Management
• Introduction to Pipedrive
• Introduction to Python
• Introduction to Tableau
• Introduction to Wrike for Project Management
• Project Management
• Setting up and Running Agile Projects in Jira
• Smartsheet for Project Management and Collaboration
• Strategy & Business Models

Microsoft Skills (98 lessons)

As this collection is so large we have broken it down into areas of study.

Access (3 lessons)

• Microsoft Access (Advanced) 
• Microsoft Access (Basic) 
• Microsoft Access 2021

Excel (54 lessons)

• 15 Essential Advanced Excel Formulas 
• Advanced Formulas in Excel 
• Advanced Macros and VBA in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Analysing Large Datasets in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Apply Formatting to Cells, Rows and Columns in Excel
• Basic Macros in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Basic Navigation and Editing in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Boost Productivity with Keyboard Shortcuts for Excel in less than 10 Minutes
• Chart Formatting in Excel
• Cleaning Data in Excel
• Conditional Formatting Insights: Excel Quick Wins
• Controlling User Input in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Data Analysis in Excel
• Dropdown Menus Simplified: Excel Quick Wins
• Excel Custom Formatting to Control your Data
• Excel Dashboards
• Excel for Accountants (Basic) 
• Excel for Accountants (Intermediate) 
• Excel for Business Analysts
• Excel PivotTable and PivotChart: Mini Masterclass
• Excel Tables Made Easy: The Smarter Way to Manage Data
• Fix Bad Habits in Excel
• Forecasting Fundamentals: Excel Quick Wins
• Formula Auditing in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Getting Started With Functions and Formulas in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• How to Use AI to Generate Sample Data for Excel
• INDEX and MATCH For Lookups in Excel
• Keyboard Shortcuts Accelerator Excel Quick Wins
• Logical Functions in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Manipulating Data in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Mastering Excel Lookup Functions
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Excel 2021 - Advanced Course
• Microsoft Excel 2021 - Beginner Course
• Microsoft Excel 2021 - Intermediate Course
• Microsoft Excel 365 Advanced
• Microsoft Excel 365 Intermediate
• Microsoft Excel 365: Ultimate Beginner Guide
• Microsoft VBA (Advanced)
• Microsoft VBA (Basic) 
• Naming Data in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• New Dynamic Array Functions in Excel
• Organising Data in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Pivot Tables in Excel (Advanced) 
• Power Query Essentials: Excel Quick Wins
• Principles of Modelling in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Protecting and Sharing Worksheets in Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Quick-Start PivotTables: Turn Data into Insights
• Setting up Excel: Mini Masterclass
• Summarising Data in Excel: Mini Masterclass 
• Ten Essential Excel Formulas to Master
• Use Excel Data Validation to Keep Your Spreadsheets Clean
• Using the Data Model with Pivot Tables in Excel 
• What-If Analysis in Excel: Mini Masterclass

Office 365 (2 lessons):

• Copilot in Microsoft 365 for Beginners
• Microsoft Office 365
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OneNote (1 lesson):

• Microsoft OneNote

Outlook (2 lessons):

• Microsoft Outlook 2021
• Outlook Email Management

Power (9 lessons):

• Cleaning Data in Power Query to Maximise Your Efficiency and Impact
• Fix Your Data Fast: Power Query Cleaning and Importing in 15 minutes
• Introduction to Power BI: Quick Wins
• Microsoft Power Automate
• Microsoft Power Bi
• Microsoft Power BI Essentials
• Power BI for Beginners: DAX, Data Modeling, and Data Visualization
• Power BI: Data Visualization for Dashboards and Data Analysis
• Power Pivot, Power Query & DAX

PowerPoint (8 lessons):

• Build Interactive Presentations with Zoom in PowerPoint
• Essential PowerPoint Hacks and Tips 
• Keyboard Shortcuts and Key Tips for PowerPoint
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2021
• Microsoft PowerPoint 365 for Beginners
• PowerPoint Tips to Maximise Your Efficiency
• Present Easily and Professionally with Presenter View in PowerPoint
• Slide Transitions In PowerPoint for Professional Presentations
   

Project (3 lessons):

• Microsoft Project (Advanced) 
• Microsoft Project 2016 (Basic) 
• Microsoft Project 2021

Publisher (1 lesson):

• Microsoft Publisher 365 Fundamentals

SharePoint (2 lessons):

• Microsoft SharePoint
• SharePoint Online 2023
   

Teams (1 lesson):

• Microsoft Teams
   

Visio (3 lessons):

• Introduction to Visio 365
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Visio 365 Essentials
   

Windows (2 lessons):

• Microsoft Windows 11
• Windows 11 Advanced
   

Word (7 lessons):

• Formatting Bullets, Numbered Lists, and Paragraphs in Word
• Microsoft Word 2019 (Advanced)
• Microsoft Word 2021
• Microsoft Word 365 Essentials
• Microsoft Word 365 for Beginners
• Microsoft Word Styles for Professional and Consistent Documents
• Time Saving Keyboard Shortcuts for Word
   

Personal Skills (14 lessons)
 

• Arguing Your Case
• Building Emotional Intelligence
• Building Resilience
• Compounding Habits to Maximise Productivity
• Dealing With and Accepting Failure
• Effective Time Management
• How to be an Effective Coach
• How to Be More Confident
• How to Be More Influential
• Intellectual Curiosity - How to be more Curious
• Leading with Empathy
• Manage Stress and Thrive Under Pressure
• Mindfulness At Work
• The Importance of Self Reflection