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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2026-03-13
Reference: Learning Content Organization

Reference: Learning Content Organization

Workday enables you to consolidate your learning content items on the dashboards of your learners. For optimal user experience, we limit the number on your Learning dashboard to 6.
You can configure the orientation and detail level for the sliders using the
Maintain Learner Experience
task. Layout variants allow for the inclusion of course descriptions on cards. Description text automatically hides once a learner starts content to prioritize progress indicators.
Option
Description
Based on Your Interests
Displays content based on topics that learners select on the
Learning Preferences
task.
Only displays programs, courses, and stand-alone lessons when available.
Workday sorts content by:
  • Third-party external publication date.
  • Workday creation date.
Based on Your Skills to Develop
Displays recommendations and content relevant to the skills that a worker wants to develop or improve. Workday:
  • Focuses more on recommendations that will have more emphasis on learning content with the relevant skills.
  • Still uses inferred skills for recommendations but displays them further down in the ranking order. If a relevant skill isn’t tagged to a piece of learning content, Workday uses inferred skills for all recommendations.
You can enable machine learning on this worklet to provide more relevant content recommendations.
Continue Learning
Displays
in progress, not started,
and
unsuccessfully complete
learning content.
If you opt into Learner Experience, add Continue Learning to your
My Learning
page to display in progress and not started content.
Highlights
Promotes content based on condition rules that you configure for specific learner groups on the
Configure Learning Content Highlights
task.
Highlights display to learners when:
  • There's active highlighted content in your tenant to display and 1 or more rules apply to learners.
  • You haven't exceeded 6 items on your dashboard.
Workday removes content when learners complete it.
Learning Paths
Displays personalized learning paths that learners can create from the learning catalog.
Most Popular
Workday bases popularity calculations for:
  • Blended courses, on the number of approved enrollments that aren't on a waitlist, but aren't complete.
  • Digital courses and programs, on the number of enrollments.
  • Stand-alone lessons, on the number of views.
Only displays programs, courses, and stand-alone lessons when available.
My Learning
Displays complete, in progress, and not started learning content.
My Team's Learning
Displays learning progress for all direct reports in a single place.
Popular in your Role
Displays content that other workers in the learner's role have enrolled in. Workday runs a weekly job that gathers all completed content per job profile.
We display image thumbnails for the top 20 learning content items and enable learners to view up to 100.
We display this worklet for learners when:
  • There are 5 or more people in the role.
  • There's content in the learning catalog to recommend.
  • The job profile is public.
  • You haven't exceeded the limit on the dashboard.
Extended Enterprise learners can't view this worklet on their dashboards because they don't have job profiles in Workday.
We order content by popularity, taking into account the number of enrollments and their ratings.
If you've disabled the
Opportunity Graph
and
Popular in your Role
and want to enable this functionality, use these domains to configure it:
  • Self-Service: Opportunity Graph
  • Worker Data: Opportunity Graph
You'll experience a lag period until the next Workday maintenance service window before the learning content displays on your interface.
Progress
Displays learning history and enrolled content to learners.
Recently Added
Displays content added to your tenant recently through the user interface or web services.
We display the content in order by creation date.
Courses that require enrollment must be open.
Recommended for You
To display the Recommended for You worklet, you must enable machine learning. The Recommended for You worklet provides learners with relevant recommendations for content based on the:
  • Previous content the learners completed.
  • Learner's Workday profile, including job profile, skills, resume, and education details.
  • Learning patterns in content completed by workers in similar roles.
When there are no recommendations available, Workday doesn't display the worklet.
Required for You
Workday creates these assignments for:
  • Manager enrollment.
  • Mass enrollment.
  • Retraining purposes.
  • Required learning campaigns.
Only displays learning assignments with an open status.
You Might Also Be Interested In
Displays related content that learners might find interesting when they access or complete a course. You can configure machine learning to identify related content based on characteristics such as the title, description, skills, and topics.
The related learning content displays to all learners, including pre-hires.