Learn Together

If enabled on your site, you can invite others to learn with you. This can help you increase your enjoyment and interactivity, get support and new perspectives, create motivation and celebrate milestones together, and boost your knowledge retention and practical application of new job skills.

You can initiate a learn together experience or join one that someone invited you to.

When you learn together, those in the group see your name and your progress and you see theirs. Use it as a way to offer support and encouragement and keep everyone engaged.

How to access the Learn Together page

To access the Learn Together page:

    • From your Profile menu, select Learn Together.

How to start a learn together experience

To start a learn together experience:

  1. Search or browse for content, such as a book or a course, that you are interested in completing.
  2. Open the item.
  3. From the actions menu , select Learn together.

  4. Follow the stepped workflow.
    1. Step 1: Create the experience: In this step, set the tone for those you want to invite by giving the experience a title and description as well as a start and end date. The description shows on the initial invitation email and on the Learn Together page. The end date is used as a way to keep the group moving and celebrate when you are done. You cannot change the information in this step after you save it in step 2.
    2. Step 2: Review and save: In this step, double check your experience title, description, and start and end dates, and if you want, add a link to a Microsoft Teams or Slack channel where you can collaborate and discuss the content with those you are inviting.

      After you save and continue, you can't edit or change the details.

      To add a link to a social platform

      1. Select the type of social platform, either Microsoft Teams or Slack.
      2. Go to your social platform and create a space or channel in which to collaborate while learning together.
      3. From the social platform, copy the link to the channel.
      4. Paste the information into the Channel field.
    3. Step 3: Invite others: Now that you created and saved the experience, you choose how to invite others to learn with you:
      1. Share link: Get a URL that you can paste into a personalized email or web site that others can access. The URL takes the invited learner to the Learn Together page on the Active tab where they can then join.
      2. Invite others by adding their email: If you want others to automatically receive an email invitation with links, enter their company email addresses. Use the Enter key after each email address to add another.
  5. After you save, you see the learn together experience on the Learn Together page on the Active tab. You can choose to invite others to learn with you at any time with the Share Link option.

When you're invited to a learn together experience

If one of your colleagues invites you to join a learn together experience, you might receive an email notification with a URL or you might follow a URL from a web site. Either way, when you follow the link, you land on the Learn Together page on the Active tab.

On the Active tab, you see the learn together experience you were invited to. You can choose to join or decline it. If you previously joined, you can also choose to opt out.

Join

When you join a learn together experience, those in the group see your name, your progress, and your profile picture if you have added one, and you see theirs. Use it as a way to offer support and encouragement and keep everyone engaged.

Progress you make on the item is tracked and updated in the learn together experience until the end date is reached. Once the end date is reached, you can continue to access and complete the item, but you won't see your progress in the learn together experience change. You can see any activity on the item after the end date on your Activity page.

Decline

If you are not sure you will have time to commit to learning with others, or the topic is not of interest, you can decline the invitation. When you decline an invitation, the experience is removed from both your Active and Closed tabs and you cannot rejoin. Your name and progress never display to other learners.

Once you decline, you cannot choose to join again.

Opt out

If you previously joined a learn together experience that you no longer want to participate in, you can choose to opt out. When you opt out, the experience is removed from both your Active and Closed tabs on the Learn together page, and you cannot rejoin. Your name and progress no longer displays to other learners. You do not lose any progress you made with the content item and you can continue to access it and complete it outside of the learn together experience. You see any progress for the content item from the Activity page.

Actions from the Learn Together page

From the Learn Together page, you can manage all aspects of your learn together experiences.

You see two tabs:

  • Active: On this tab, you see all learn together experiences that you started, that you joined, or that you were invited to join.
  • Closed: On this tab, you see all learn together experiences that you participated in that have reached their end date.

The actions you can perform on a learn together experience depend on whether you initiated it or were invited to join and how it was set up. You may see these options:

  • Join: Select to join a learn together experience you were invited to.
  • Decline: Select to decline a learn together experience you were invited to. Once you decline, you cannot rejoin.
  • Opt out: Select if you no longer want to participate in a learn together experience you previously joined. Once you opt out, you cannot rejoin.
  • Link to a Microsoft Teams or Slack channel: If configured for an experience, you can collaborate with members at the channel link provided.
  • Copy share link: Select if you want to invite others to join the experience, then paste the copied URL into an email or website so others can join.
  • View participants and progress: For those experiences you joined, you can view other participants and their progress. Use it as a way to offer support and encouragement and keep everyone engaged.