Grouping courses into learning profiles

Now that you’ve got your company structure set up on the Upskill People Learning Platform, it’s time to think about your workforce. You might be thinking, “Wow, there are a lot of courses here, will I have to assign them all to my learners one by one? Who has time for that?!” No one, that’s who. That’s why we’ve made a way to group the courses toget...

Replacing your old courses with new ones

So you’ve learnt how to mark a course as completed for an individual, here’s a  reminder . Imagine you’ve just created a new course and decided that not everyone has to complete it from scratch. And what if there are literally hundreds of people to update? The good news is that you just need to prepare a CSV file that will do the heavy lifting for y...

Courses available on my learning platform

Just before we start, if you’ve been sent to this guide from the Help button and you have just clicked on Refresh Schedule: … then you’ll want to read through this guide  Refreshing courses  - if not then read on! After a while of using our platform and possibly creating your own courses using ECB, you’ll want to see immediately which courses are ac...

Your licensed courses

Courses that actually work: Engaging, speedy, and practical courses that give your people the skills to perform better. From Safety, Health and Wellbeing, EDI, Food Safety, Age Restricted Goods, to Fire Safety and Data Security. Beyond keeping them on the right side of the law, we’ll help you get them flying with great skills that will impact your b...

Managing course types effectively

So, you’ve just started a new job with a company that’s a big fan of e-learning. So much so that they’ve created a huge library of content for the team to upskill themselves! As the Platform Administrator, it’s a good idea to group courses together (we call them course types) so that your teams can work through them quickly and in order of importanc...

Ordering courses on the learning roadmap

When courses have been put on your learning platform, the latest will always be displayed at the top of the list on the learning roadmap. This might be completely fine for some, but for you, this might be something you want to change. Especially if you’re looking to organise your courses in a specific way. This is done from your dashboard, select Co...

Uploading a Scorm 1.2 module

You might have e-learning content that you’d like to use on the learning platform, that comes from another partner or supplier. And if this sounds like the sort of thing you’re looking to achieve, then we’ve got you covered with the SCORM uploader. Our platform is entirely compatible with SCORM modules (which stands for Sharable Content Object Refer...

Creating a course icon

Having an icon for a course could really come in handy if you want to upload a Scorm 1.2 course, build a course in Easy Course Builder (ECB), or update an existing course.  From your dashboard select Courses followed by Overview. From here, select Create a Course Icon as shown below: The whole point of this application is to create a correctly sized...

Assigning attributes to courses

Now that you’ve got to grips with Grouping courses into learning profiles, you know that you can create a  learning 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 now find yourself in a situation where you need some of your people to have access to a particular cours...

Creating personal attributes

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...

Location attributes and why you need them

“Location attributes alone may not actually do anything”, and this is absolutely true from a technical perspective. But they can, however, be an extremely useful tool in your quest to get the right courses to the right team members – with a little bit of help from Upskill People! Let’s start by looking at what location attributes are! These are basi...