Objective
Curriculum Requirements allow users to choose their preferred courses from a list of available options in order to complete their curriculum. Curriculum Requirements are separate Learning Activities that must be created before they can be associated with existing curricula.
When creating Curriculum Requirements, the Curriculum Requirement Type must be selected. The Curriculum Requirement Type defines how the user can meet the conditions. Examples of conditions include completing a certain number of hours or items.
This type requires users to complete a certain number of hours to fulfill the requirements.
Choose between Total hours, CPE hours, Credit hours or Contact hours from the dropdown.
Curriculum Requirements: Users must complete 5 CPE hours.
Curriculum completion requirement: The user can choose any courses in the curriculum to fulfill the requirement of 5 CPE hours.
This type requires users to complete a number of items from a pool of items to fulfill the requirement.
Curriculum Requirement: Users must complete any two courses from a pool of 5.
Curriculum completion requirement: Although the curriculum might contain many courses, the user must choose any two courses from the pool of 5 to fulfill the requirement.
This requirement is a combination of the two previous requirement types.
Curriculum Requirement: Users must complete 5 CPE hours from a pool of 10 courses.
Curriculum completion requirement: Although the curriculum might contain many courses, the user is only required to complete 5 CPE hours from the pool of courses.
Once the Curriculum Requirements has been created, it can be associated with a curriculum.
Search for and add the requirements.
Watch this video to learn how to create a requirement for # Items from a pool of items and associate it to an existing curriculum.
This video shows how an administrator can create and add curriculum requirements for learners. The example used is the addition of an asbestos safety curriculum requirement. The process of creating a requirement for learners to complete any five courses from a pool of 10, then adding it to the curriculum are explained. This gives learners the option to choose which courses to complete and highlights the flexibility and customization that administrators can have in designing their curriculum requirements.
Grouping of Curriculum Requirements applies only if there is more than one requirement assigned. The Group Curriculum Requirements button only becomes active when two or more requirements are in the content list.
When multiple Curriculum Requirements are assigned simultaneously, they automatically adopt an AND relationship. This implies that all requirements must be met for the completion of the curriculum.
Example: In the figure below, the user must complete any 2 items AND complete 5 CPE hours to fulfill the Curriculum Requirements.
If the curriculum can be completed by fulfilling either one requirement or the other, you must arrange the requirements into groups and establish an OR relationship. This suggests that fulfilling only one (or more) of the grouped requirements is sufficient for completing the curriculum.
Example: In the figure below, there are two requirements that are grouped. The user must complete any 2 items OR complete any 5 CPE hours to fulfill the Curriculum Requirements.
In this exercise, you will require learners to select courses from a pre-defined pool of courses to satisfy a curriculum requirement.
Require learners to select 5 asbestos courses from a pool of 10 courses to satisfy a curriculum requirement.
Log in to SAP SuccessFactors HCM as a Learning Administrator and navigate to Learning Administration → Learning Activities → Curricula Requirements.
Select Add New.
Select # Items from Pool of Items from the Curriculum Requirement Type drop-down menu.
Enter an ID and a Description.
Select the ACME-CORPSecurity Domain ID.
Leave the Active checkbox checked.
Enter any comments, as desired, and choose Next.
Enter 5 in the Enter the Required number of items field.
Select add one or more from list link, in the Create Item Pool section.
Enter asbestos in the keyword search field and choose Search.
Select the checkbox under the Add column next to each of the 10 asbestos courses you want to add to the pool.
Select Add to create the pool.
Verify the selected items are listed in the Item Pool for the Curriculum Requirement section.
Select Add.
In this exercise, you will first create a new curriculum and then associate a curriculum requirement to the new curriculum.
Create a new Asbestos curriculum with the details below, and then associate the Asbestos curriculum requirement to the new curriculum.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Curriculum ID | [Your initials]-ASBTRAIN |
| Title | [Your initials]-Human Resources |
| Description | Enter a description for your curriculum |
| Curriculum Type | Human Resources – General (HR) |
| Security Domain | ACME-CORP |
| Priority | 1 |
Log into SAP SuccessFactors HCM Instance as a Learning Administrator and navigate to Learning Administration → Learning Activities → Curricula.
Select Add New.
Enter [Your initials]-ASBTRAIN in the Curriculum ID field.
Enter [Your initials]-Asbestos Training in the Title field.
Enter a description of the curriculum.
Leave the creation date set to the default of today’s date.
Select the ACME-CORP Security Domain.
Select Safety (SAFE) from the Curriculum Type dropdown menu.
Select Add.
Select the Contents entity tab.
Select Manage Content.
Select Requirements from the Add Contents dropdown.
Select Search.
Select the Add checkbox next to the asbestos curriculum requirement you want to add.
Select Add.
Close the Content window to return to the curriculum Contents tab.