Catalog Access

Learning Environments

A learning environment provides organization and security for categories, courses, and programs. By creating learning environments, you can partition the catalog into broad groups of course offerings so that:

• Administrators can update only those items within their area of responsibility.

• Learners can access only those categories that are relevant to them.

You might set up learning environments based on your organizational structure such as sales, operations, and finance, or identify some other high-level groupings that are meaningful to your organization. You can select different business rules for the classes and programs that are created within each learning environment, define unique security rules by environment, and designate different administrators for each environment. At least one learning environment is required.

You associate learning environments with users, categories, courses, and classes. The environment that is assigned to a learning administrator controls which parts of the catalog the administrator can update and which learner groups the administrator can associate with categories, courses, classes, and programs.

Each learner and manager is assigned to only one learning environment.

Categories, courses, classes, and programs can be associated with multiple learning environments, making it possible for learning to be shared across environments.

Learner Groups

A learner group is a set of users who typically share the same attributes, such as the same department or job code. You associate each learner group with a learning environment, and you assign each learner to at least one learner group to access information in the catalog.

You also associate learner groups with categories, courses, and classes. For a user to access a particular class in the catalog, the user must also belong to a learner group that is assigned to the class, the course, and the category that's associated with the course. With learner groups, you can tailor each user's view of the catalog, down to the class level, if necessary.