We ended up putting three instances of the Courses and Learning Plans widget on a page each displaying the different enrollment statuses.  This has been helpful in our compliance trainings because we enroll everyone for training, so the courses will automatically appear on the widget for “Not Started”. So then users can get through the training that is in the first two widgets and then know they are completed. 

Unfortunately, if they are enrolling in training outside of compliance, they will also appear on these widgets, but it still makes the stuff you need to complete easier to find.

Here is an example of what our widgets look like:

We did end up putting these on a separate page from the user’s homescreen because these widgets can take up a lot of space.  But you could save space by only adding two widgets for the Not Started and In Progress courses.

Hi @Neil Patterson 

We adopted a similar approach to @Annarose.Peterson.  In addition, when adding these widgets to a separate page, you can create links to “pre-filtered” instances. 

When you filter or sort the widgets, the filter options are encoded in the URL. You can then use this URL for the buttons/links on your homepage (however, you cannot link to the pre-filtered widget page from the side menu, sadly). 

You could create a Course Additional Field to flag whether a given course is mandatory / compliance related, and use this field to pre-filter the widgets. 

To avoid users removing or changing the filters, you can use CSS to hide the filter bars.  

Hope this helps!

We ended up putting three instances of the Courses and Learning Plans widget on a page each displaying the different enrollment statuses.  This has been helpful in our compliance trainings because we enroll everyone for training, so the courses will automatically appear on the widget for “Not Started”. So then users can get through the training that is in the first two widgets and then know they are completed. 

Unfortunately, if they are enrolling in training outside of compliance, they will also appear on these widgets, but it still makes the stuff you need to complete easier to find.

Here is an example of what our widgets look like:

We did end up putting these on a separate page from the user’s homescreen because these widgets can take up a lot of space.  But you could save space by only adding two widgets for the Not Started and In Progress courses.

Thanks @Annarose.Peterson.  We have the task list currently that basically shows the same thing (just smaller), but as our lawyers are enrolled in multiple ILT courses throughout the year, as you say, it shows up everything :(

Thanks @Alan - I hadn’t thought of using the widgets on a separate page.  I tried filtering the ‘Courses and Learning Plans page’ and used that URL which seemed to work until it continued to be filtered even if the URL wasn't (if that makes sense?)  I’ll try it with the widget in the same way

It’s not a replacement to having a dedicated list of required training on the dashboard, but we use the “Digest: learner has yet to complete the course” notification to send a list of incomplete required/assigned courses to learners each week. I created a version of the notification with a table containing the gcourse_name], asubscribed_at], and ,expire_at] short codes for the Course, Date Assigned, and Date Due columns respectively. The ycourse_name] is a direct link to the course in the LMS, so the learner can use it as a list to access the training.