Alto Essentials training and Alto Skills

Chris Horroll
Chris Horroll
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Our Alto training ensures that you learn everything you need to know about Alto - at a time that suits you. There are a number of ways to learn, depending on how you prefer to train.

Book live training or watch recordings

If you prefer guided sessions or want to watch recordings on demand, you can access our Alto Essentials training hub.

  • Book live Alto Essentials sessions with our experts
  • Watch recorded training whenever it suits you
  • Learn at your own pace across key topics

Access the Alto Essentials training hub

Alternatively, if you prefer short, self-paced learning modules, you can use Alto Skills.

Alto Skills

Alto Skills is your go-to platform for self-paced training. Whether you're a new starter or experienced user, Alto Skills offers free of charge self-paced digital learning.

Everything you need to know has been broken down into skills, each taking no more than 3-5 minutes to learn. Alto Skills covers all aspects of Alto from initial setup and getting your first property uploaded, to running your client account or adapting your letter templates to suit your requirements.

Features of Alto Skills include:

  • Skills-focused, enabling you to learn what you need, when you need it. With the ability to search for anything, anytime, you can quickly find the exact content you need
  • Personalised learning with tailored suggestions, ensuring the content fits you
  • Get your questions answered by an Alto expert
  • Social features that help you stay connected with colleagues and other agencies
  • Managers have access to easy to read metrics and insights into their team's learning journey and performance. No need for complex reports or manual checks
  • Watch past sessions or register for upcoming Alto Bitesize webinars - 30 minute sessions led by Alto experts, sharing practical tips to help you streamline everyday tasks, save time, and become an Alto champion in your team

 Note

To make sure you don't miss any important emails about your Alto Skills account, please add noreply@mail.learn.link and altoskills@altosoftware.co.uk to your safe senders email list.
For more information on how to do this, click here

How do I access Alto Skills?

Alto Skills can be accessed on the web, or via the Thrive mobile app.

  • Web - Enter https://altoskills.learn.link into your internet browser
    Alternatively, if you're logged into Alto already, click the ? (Help tab) on the main navigation bar, then Alto Skills
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  • Mobile - scan the QR code below and enter 'altoskills' into the Thrive URL field when prompted
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All Alto customers can log in using their Alto username and password. 

No need for a separate registration. No separate login details needed. No fuss. Alto Skills is open to everyone!

What skills do I need to complete?

Alto Skills has been built to suit you and so you won't see any long winded modules that you need to complete - instead there are short courses focused on individual skills or processes. 

Your homepage will recommend you content - this means it's entirely up to you what content you choose to learn, that best suits your role.

You can always look for specific content too via the search functionality, or, via the tabs, as explained in the video below.

Viewing the progress of your team (as a manager)

As a manager, you can see the progress of your team members from the Team Dashboard area.

  1. Click Insights
  2. Click Team Dashboard

The Team Dashboard provides actionable insights into your team's learning journey and performance. It allows you to track individual and team progress against assigned learning objectives, analyse customisable metrics, and identify engagement trends. 

The dashboard includes tabs for assigned learning, completions, badges, people, pathways, events, and attempts, giving a comprehensive view of overdue learning, completion rates, event attendance, and more.

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Watch Alto Bitesize webinars in Alto Skills

Through Alto Skills, you can watch past sessions or register for upcoming Alto Bitesize webinars. 

Alto Bitesize is our 30 minute webinar series led by Alto experts, sharing practical tips to help you streamline everyday tasks, save time, and become an Alto champion in your team.

  1. Click Explore
  2. Click the Alto Webinars tile
    1. Click the Book Webinars tile to register for upcoming Alto Bitesize webinars
    2. Click the Watch Webinars tile to watch past Alto Bitesize webinars
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You can also use this link to directly book onto any upcoming webinars and secure your spot.

Alto Skills feedback

We would love to hear your initial thoughts on Alto Skills

If you have a few moments to spare, please click here to complete a short feedback form and help us continue to develop Alto Skills.

Alto Help Centre

The Alto Help Centre is your knowledge base of step-by-step articles and videos, designed to help you complete any task in Alto.

The search function can be used to locate an article or video that will help guide you through any specific process you need help with, that best resembles your search term. We recommend you scroll down the page to browse the category tiles - the Alto knowledge base category lists all our articles within sections, each one laid out in a similar fashion to the Alto main navigation bar.

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