We are in the process of updating a few of our Learning Plans. I struggle with creating a bunch of new ones (because filters and sorting isn’t ideal). Anyway we have run into an issue where the majority of our staff all need our New Hire Learning Plan, however, we have one course in there that some will not need. Because the course is in the Learning Plan, we can not enroll the individuals from the plan, and we can’t suspend it, or the Learning Plan will never be “completed”. How do you all get around this? Do you have different Learning Plans for everything? Do you enroll the one single course outside of the Learning Plan for those that need it? Looking for options!
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Excluding individual Courses in Learning Plans
+5Best answer by abartunek
Hey Stephanie,
I don’t think there’s a lot of options here. The way I see it, you can:
- Create separate learning plans.
- Ignore the fact that learning plans are not 100% completed (although it might be annoying to some users and they may think it is required).
- Create a learning plan without that one course and then enroll users who need it to this course separately.
- Create one learning plan BUT change the status of that one course to “completed” to the ones, who don’t need it.
- If you’re 100% sure your users won’t “cheat”, you can include a short test, e.g. “do you need this course?” in the beginning and mark it as “end object marker”. If users answer “no”, then they would get a point and pass the test, therefore, completing the course. If they answer “yes”, they still have to do the rest.
One more note - if you choose the fourth option, the best way to do it, would probably be to enroll all users who don’t need that one specific course, to exactly this course. Then select all users and change their status to completed all at the same time. Afterwards, you could enroll them to the learning plan and this one course would remain completed for them, whereas it would be in progress for others…
Not sure if that helps but I can’t think of anything else…
+3Hey Stephanie,
I don’t think there’s a lot of options here. The way I see it, you can:
- Create separate learning plans.
- Ignore the fact that learning plans are not 100% completed (although it might be annoying to some users and they may think it is required).
- Create a learning plan without that one course and then enroll users who need it to this course separately.
- Create one learning plan BUT change the status of that one course to “completed” to the ones, who don’t need it.
- If you’re 100% sure your users won’t “cheat”, you can include a short test, e.g. “do you need this course?” in the beginning and mark it as “end object marker”. If users answer “no”, then they would get a point and pass the test, therefore, completing the course. If they answer “yes”, they still have to do the rest.
One more note - if you choose the fourth option, the best way to do it, would probably be to enroll all users who don’t need that one specific course, to exactly this course. Then select all users and change their status to completed all at the same time. Afterwards, you could enroll them to the learning plan and this one course would remain completed for them, whereas it would be in progress for others…
Not sure if that helps but I can’t think of anything else…
The other Adam B.
+5I was thinking of marking the course complete as you mentioned in “4” but it happens to be the one course is a compliance issue is the “DO” complete it, so that’s not an option in the one use case I’ve run into this week.
+3
Good luck!
The other Adam B.
+4
Hi,
+4+5Stephanie D.
+2riccardogalimberti wrote:
Hi,
This is really great news. I hope the UI for the Learning Plans is improved like the Course Management UI was as it is really cumbersome to use with many 10s of LPs. Learning Plans are gold and if they allow more flexible combinations of courses, pre-requisites, optional courses, etc.. and UI improved, it will be so much more useful.
Hi
Great to here these changes are coming
We would love to see a really rich LP functionality where we can create an LP from any content across the platform. Learning takes many forms and the LP should reflect this, so we might want a document or video from a channel, a course, a webinar, and an ILT session to make up a programme of training that would sit in a LP.
sorry to hijack old thread but is there any update on when we might get optional courses in learning plans?
I agree this would be really helpful, right now the Learning Plan functionality is way too rigid, a higher flexibility would be great!
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