Explaining the Open Enrollment Mentoring Program

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain the Open Enrollment mentoring program.

Open Enrollment Mentoring Programs

Open Enrollment mentoring programs are the most flexible and do not use dates. All employees or a defined group of the company may participate in the designated program. Users can be mentors, mentees, or both at the same time. Open Enrollment allows customers to keep mentoring programs open at all times and allows self-registration.

With mentor self-registration, there are two options to validate the qualifications of mentors when utilizing open enrollment mentoring programs:

  1. The administrator can review uploaded documentation. The administrator can provide instructions about the documents mentors need to submit to support their application.
  2. The manager can approve mentors.
Two screens are shown. First the mentor approval method section of the creating a new program screen. Also the mentoring program list of mentors awaiting approval available when a program is edited.

Deep Links for Open Enrollment Mentoring Programs

Deep links allow administrators to share open enrollment programs with potential participants conveniently.

You may include a deep link to the specific mentoring program in the communication to be used in email, an intranet page, an LMS item, or any other medium.

Selecting the deep link from an email or web page takes the user directly to the sign-up page for a mentoring program. Links can be generated for mentee and mentor sign-up pages.

However, the links will not be available in the mentoring program until the program has moved to the in-progress state.

The deep links section of a mentoring program is shown.

Summary

  • Open Enrollment programs are always available, allow self-registration, and support employees as mentors, mentees, or both.
  • To validate mentors, Administrators can review submitted documents, or managers can approve mentors to validate qualifications during self-registration.
  • Deep links guide participants directly to sign-up pages via email, intranet, or other communication platforms.