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Last Updated: 2024-12-13
Create Stand-Alone Learning Lessons

Create Stand-Alone Learning Lessons

  • Access the
    Manage Topics
     task to create learning topics that categorize your learning content.
  • Configure Drive to manage access to, and security for, many file types. See Steps: Set Up Drive .
  • Sign up for Workday Media to enable learners to consume media content.
  • Create any videos or documents that you want to include as media lessons.
  • Configure the
    Manage Lessons
     business process and the security policy in the Learning Core functional area.
  • Security:
    These domains in the Learning Core functional area:
    • Learning Access
    • Manage: Learning Content
You can create items of learning content that users can access as single stand-alone units or as part of a course.
Stand-alone lessons don’t require enrollment and are a good way to support peer-to-peer learning. They typically have a narrow focus on a single subject. Examples include:
  • Course guides.
  • Job aids.
  • Recorded lectures.
  • Software demonstrations.
  • Videos.
  • Any other item that learners can access on their own as a single unit.
  1. Access the
    Create Lesson
     task.
  2. As you complete the task, consider:
    Option Description
    Title
    Enter a unique title for the lesson. Note: While stand-alone lessons can't reuse other stand-alone lessons titles, you can reuse the stand-alone lesson title when building a lesson within a course.
    Media
    Select or drop a unique media file for each stand-alone lesson.
    Workday doesn't support SCORM or AICC packaged media files for stand-alone lessons.
    Exclude From Recommendations
    Workday populates these content container worklets on the Learning dashboard with recommendations for relevant learning content:
    • Based on Your Interests
    • Based on Your Skills to Develop
    • Most Popular
    • Popular in Your Role
    • Recently Added
    • Recommended for You
    • You Might Also Be Interested In
    Workday also includes learning recommendations on these reports:
    • Opportunity Graph
       (in the
      Popular for This Role
       section).
    • View Competency.
    Select this option to exclude the lesson from the results.
    Exclude From Search and Browse
    Select this option to exclude lessons from appearing in the
    Browse Learning Content
    report and global search results.
    Administrators, assessors, and instructors for excluded lessons can still view them using global search.
    If you've customized the
    Browse Learning Content
     report for your company, Workday recommends that you manually update the
    Exclude from Search and Browse
    filter on pre-existing reports.
  3. (Optional) To enable learners to create and edit stand-alone lessons, add the
    Employee as Self
     security group to the
    Create Lesson
     initiating action on the
    Manage Lesson
     business process security policy.
  4. (Optional) Add an approval or review step to the
    Manage Lesson
     business process.