Sometimes we want to give people content and we can’t just use a learning profile (because they share a job type with another person who won’t need the same content) and we can’t use a location attribute (because not everyone in the same location needs this content).
We can do this using a personal attribute:
A personal attribute can be anything. It might be a key holder, a fire warden and if you’re allocating certain courses to people who are over 18 then their personal attribute might be “>18”.
Pick New:
In our example our personal attribute is Warehouse Safety Officer, so enter that as your description and Save:
To assign a personal simply use Link attributes to courses to edit your rule, pick your personal attribute from the dropdown and press Add:
So, how do I assign a personal attribute to a person?
Easy, use Learners … Overview to find your learner and edit them:
Pick Edit assigned attributes:
Choose the relevant attribute(s) from the dropdown:
Personal attributes are automatically assigned when you press Add:
To remove an attribute from a person, simply click on the “remove” cross and press OK when prompted:
“Okay, so this is great, but what if I need to update a load of people with a personal attribute. I have courses that only apply to people who are over 18 years of age, I have set up a personal attribute called ‘>18’ so do I really have to do them one a time? That’ll take me ages!”
That’s a very valid question, and no, we won’t make you do them one at a time!
Just go to Assign courses… Personal Attributes and click on the “set up” icon:
Here you’ll see an option to add people one at a time or import a complete list:
To add people one at a time just enter their username and press Add:
They’ll appear straightaway in the list:
You can remove them individually at a later date by pressing the remove icon. If you want to add lots of people then you just need to prepare a file with a list of usernames and then press the Choose file option.
To prepare a list of people you just need something like Excel, or even a simple text editor where you can put each person’s username on a single row:
and save the file as a “csv” file.
Choose this file and then press Import:
It’ll do its thing for a bit:
… and it’ll tell you when it’s finished.
Press Back to see the results: