Making Programs Available to Users

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to publish and recommend a Program

Publishing Tile

The Publishing tile enables administrators to manage the linking of programs with libraries and categories. Select to edit the Publishing tile. To add a program to a library, select the Add button beneath the library section in the Publishing tile, then search for and select the desired library. The same process applies for category association select the Add button, search for the relevant category, and make the association.

The Publishing tile is shown.

The administrator has the authority to add or remove programs from libraries or categories as they see fit. If a program is removed from a library, learners will no longer be able to self-assign it in the future. The Publishing tile will provide a summary of the libraries the program belongs to and the number of searchable categories it is linked with.

Publishing Tile Summary is shown.

Recommend Programs

Administrators have the option to recommend a program to learners instead of mandating it. Recommended programs can be included in assignment profiles or directly recommended to learners. Learners can also be permissioned to recommend programs to others. However, recommended programs must be available in the library of the user receiving the recommendation.

Recommend Program button highlighted.

Associating a Program with Social Learning Groups

When you associate a Program with social learning groups, you create a space for users in the Program to share knowledge. For example, if you created a self-paced writing workshop to improve business writing in your company, you can associate the Program with a business writing Work Zone workspace. In the Program, users see the agenda items in their learning assignments and To Do list. In the workspace, you can discuss business writing, post your own samples, ask questions, and utilize the other features of Work Zone.

Alternative to Associating Social Learning Groups Directly

If you do not want to create new workspaces for every program but still want to use Work Zone, you can build a program agenda that has activities that are links to specific pages within a workspace. For example, if you create a new hire program for engineers, you can create a link to a welcome video in the engineering group, a document that describes the core values of engineering at your company, and the discussion forum where new engineers can introduce themselves to the group.

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