How to Create a Learning Plan
Learning Plans are a collection of Courses that you can assign to users just like Courses and Events. It allows you to group specific Courses to create a learning path for the users to take in a defined order.
To create a Learning plan, you must first, navigate to Admin > Learning > Learning plans. Once there, click the button New in the top-right corner of the screen:
Here, you will find options to add a Title, Cover image, and Description as well as add Certification, Topics, Skills and Content:
When Editing the Learning Plan, you have the option to Lock and Unlock the Content to control the order of which Learners complete it.
When Content is Locked, it will force the Learner to complete the previous Course/Event before they can unlock and take the next one. This will ensure that no one is skipping through the Content.
You are also able to remove Content from the Learning Plan and sort them by dragging and dropping them.
Clicking the + Add Skills button will bring up this menu:
Here, you can add any Skills relevant to the Learning Plan. When adding Skills, you can filter by the types Hard skill, Soft skill, and Certifications.
Once you have added all the necessary information, you can click the Assign button at the top-right corner of the screen to assign the Learning plan either to Users, Groups or via Rules.
What is Blended Learning?
Blended Learning is a learning approach that combines in-person training with digital learning to create a flexible, engaging, and effective learning experience. When creating Learning plans, you have the option to combines Courses and Events.
While building your Learning plan, you must Add content.
Clicking Add content will bring up this menu that allows you to choose the type of Content you want to add.
Here, you can navigate between Courses and Events and add the Content you wish to group in a Blended Learning Plan.
If you add an Event with one or more closed Sessions, you will be alerted with a pop-up stating that the selected Event(s) contain Sessions that are not open for sign-up. Upon clicking Confirm, sign-up will be turned on for all the Sessions to avoid conflicts with the Learning plan assignment and thus, make sure assigned Users in the Learning Plan can access them.
Once Content is selected, you will see that Events will act the same as Courses when editing the settings and order.
Learning Plan Settings
By navigating to Admin > Learning Plans and clicking to Edit the Learning plan in question, you will find the Settings by clicking on the three dots (...) in the top right corner.
The first setting is the ability to allow Users to self-enroll.
When toggling ON the setting Open for self-enrollment, you have the option to have it Open for all users or Limited to Group(s) of your choosing.
For the option Limited to Group(s), you must select one or more Group(s) to allow access to self-enroll. To finalize this setting, click Save settings. This will allow Users to access the Learning Plan via their Learn tab and/or on their Homepage under Available for you.
Once a User clicks on the Learning plan, it will allow them to Start it. Once they click Start, they will automatically self-enroll and this will trigger the assignment to appear in the Learning plan Reporting.
The next settings are Issue certificate after completion and Issue survey after completion. Both these settings work in the exact same way as they do for Courses and Events.
Finally, the Admin has the option to Auto-assign another learning plan after completion. When toggling ON this setting, the Admin must first select the Learning plan Users must be assigned to upon completion.
Once selected, three additional Assignment settings will appear. These three Assignment settings are identical to the option when doing a regular assignment.
Required - the auto-assigned Learning plan is mandatory.
Deadline - the auto-assigned Learning plan has a Deadline. The Deadline can be setup to x Days/Weeks after auto-assigned date.
Notify - an assignment notification is triggered for the Users.
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