Assigning attributes to content

Now that you’ve got to grips with Grouping courses into learner profiles, you know that you can create a learner profile for someone based on the job that they do (i.e. their job type) and you’ll have assigned it using Manage Job Types:

You’ve also understood the power of location attributes because of where they work, and of learner attributes because of something unique about an individual.

All we need to do now is join these things together.

Consider this scenario: Rise and Dine has a number of Distribution Centres and they all have managers, so they all have the same job type and learner profile:

Swindon DC has an asbestos roof and therefore we want to give the Asbestos for Managers course to “all DC managers in the Swindon DC”. We can’t simply add it to the Manager (DC) learning profile because then this course will go to everyone that has that learning profile.

Here’s how we achieve this…

We have already created a location attribute and assigned it to the correct location:

From your Courses menu and Other Tools, pick Link Attributes to Courses:

.. and press New:

Give your new “rule” a sensible name (so that you can easily find it again when you need to update it in the future!):

And pick the relevant location attribute and courses and press Add each time. You’ll know you’ve done it right when they appear below the blue title bars in each case:

If were to just leave this rule like this then it will assign the Asbestos for Managers course to everyone in a location that with the “Has Asbestos” location attribute. This isn’t quite correct because we only want this course to go “DC Managers”.

So we need to refine our rule slightly to only make it relevant to anyone with the “Manager (DC)” job type. Pick the job type drop down and pick “Manager (DC)”:

Here’s top tip! Just before you hit Save, check what you’ve done by reading it out load (people with think you’re nuts but it works!).

Read it from top to bottom like this:

“My Asbestos courses rule will apply to everyone who is a Manager (DC) job type and works in a location that has the Has Asbestos location attribute; and it will give them the Asbestos Awareness for Managers course.“

Note that this rule will apply in addition to whatever courses are already on their learner profile.

Let’s take this one step further. What if adapted our rule slightly to include something about the person as well? (other than their job type). What if we want the course to only go to someone who was also a Warehouse Safety Officer?

Okay, let’s re-state that requirement:

“My Asbestos courses rule will apply to everyone who is a Manager (DC) job type; works in a location that has the Has asbestos location attribute; and is also a Warehouse Safety Officer and it will give them the Asbestos Awareness for Managers course.“

We can do this using a learner attribute, simply pick one from the dropdown where it says Which personal attribute(s)? and press Add:

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