Hi @GingerG, we don’t use course categories for learners.
The main reason is that learners are presented with a tree containing all created categories, even if there is no learning available for them in some of the categories. And as we have separate learning for different groups (customers, partners, employees) it was creating some confusion.
For learners we prefer a mixture of custom pages and catalogs, that is providing us with a very intuitive navigation.
We still use course categories for two purposes:
- managing what our Power Users can edit - we assign specific categories to course editors from various internal groups (product training, HR, sales enablement, security, etc.) and let them only edit courses within their assigned categories.
- reporting - we have training assets related to our eight products and many audiences (users, administrators, services) - using categories we can easily group data in our reports per category - e.g. number of courses completed for each product/audience.