Automatic enrollment using Learning Plans
Learning plans are yet another way of enrolling users in courses. What makes them special is that learner enrollment is fully automatic once a Learning Plan has been defined.
You can use Learning Plans to automatically enroll learners in Courses, Learning Paths, and Certifications. This automatic enrollment is triggered by an event that you choose when you create the Learning Plan. This feature is very useful in many situations, including the following:
- You want to automatically enroll new learners in onboarding courses.
- You want to automatically enroll learners in courses when they join or leave a group. For example, when someone becomes a manager (that is, when someone joins the automatically-generated All Managers group), that person is automatically enrolled in a course on Management Best Practices. You can use the same technique to automatically enroll learners when they change positions, move to a new department, and more...