Assignments

Site admins can create a new assignment for any audiences or learner in Percipio. Learning admins (and Managers with assignment permissions) can create assignments for audiences that they own or for the individual learners within their audiences. To create an assignment, you must:

  • define its context (business objective and days to complete it and whether items should be completed in order)
  • select audiences and/or learners for the assignment
  • choose what content the learner must finish by the completion date
  • decide if learners are required to restart any courses they may have already completed

 

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Get started with assignments

To access assignments:

  1. From the left navigation bar, select Learning > Assignments. The Assignments page displays.

  2. From the Assignment list page, you can get information to help you:

Manage assignments

The Assignments page displays a list of assignments created. From this page, you can:

  • Download the Assignment List: This generates a CSV file about your assignments. Learning admins and managers only see assignments in their list that they created unless someone else has granted them permission to help manage an assignment.
  • Set default reminders: Configure how frequently Percipio sends email reminders to learners who receive assignments reminding them to complete the assignment.
  • Create a new assignment
  • Filter the assignment list by status. Each assignment status offers different actions. Possible actions include:
    • Copy: makes a copy of the assignment excluding any retired content and places it in a draft status for editing.
    • Edit: allows you to make changes to the assignment. If the assignment has a status of In Progress, you cannot change the content.
    • Delete: allows you to remove the assignment from the list. You can only delete draft assignments.
    • Summary: allows you to view details and statistics about the assignment. From this page, you can also cancel the assignment for an individual user or audience.
    • Archive: allows you to close an assignment that has a specified end date.
    • Cancel for all: allows you to cancel the assignment for all users and audiences. You can also cancel for individual users from the Summary page.
    • Manage reminders: Override any default settings for how frequently Percipio sends email reminders to learners who receive assignments reminding them to complete the assignment.
    • Send a reminder: allows you to send a reminder email notification to all targeted learners and audiences.
  • Sort on each column. The columns are:
    • Name: The title of the assignment
    • Category: This is how you chose to categorize your assignment. Options include:
      • Certification: Use when the goal is to help learners earn a certification.
      • Compliance: Use when the goal is focused on compliance.
      • Cultural: Use when the goal is to promote or inform learners about company culture.
      • Leadership: Use when the goal is to advance and encourage growth for managers and leaders.
      • Onboarding: Use when the goal is to facilitate new employe training and orientation.
      • Upskilling: Use when the goal is to help learners acquire or advance a skill set.
      • Other: Use when none of the other available types apply.
    • Created by: The first and last name of the person who created the assignment.
    • Duration: The specified end date or the number of days to complete as defined within the assignment.
    • Assigned users: The total number of active users who received the assignment. This list does not show inactive users. If you select the hyperlinked number, you see a list of each active individual who sees the assignment (whether they were added as an individual or through an audience), the date it is due for them, and their status.
    • Status: The status of the assignment.
    • Assignment UUID: A unique identifier for the assignment. This column only shows when you download the list.

Assignment status

Each assignment has a status.

  • Draft: The assignment is not launched.
    • You can edit, copy, and delete a Draft assignment.
  • Scheduled: The assignment has been scheduled to launch at a later date.
    • You can edit, copy, view a summary, and cancel.
    • To delete a Scheduled assignment, edit it and save the assignment. This puts it into a draft state, which you can then delete.
  • In Progress: The assignment is launched and it is available to learners.
    • You can copy and archive an In Progress assignment.
    • You cannot edit the contents of an In Progress assignment.
    • You can edit the assignment name, business objectives, description, due dates, and audiences.
    • You can check the setting: Learners can complete courses in any available language, if it is unchecked. You cannot uncheck it if it is checked.
    • You cannot delete an In Progress assignment.
    • You can cancel an In Progress assignment.
    • You can manage the schedule and adjust email reminder notifications.
  • Archived: The assignment has been archived in Percipio because it is no longer relevant.
    • You can copy an assignment that has a status of Archived.
    • You cannot edit or delete an Archived assignment.
    • Archived assignments still appear on Assignment reports and dashboards.
    • Learners cannot see archived assignments in their Assignment list.
  • Canceled: The assignment has been canceled because it was created in error.
    • Canceled assignments do not appear in Assignment reports or dashboards.
    • Learners can see canceled assignments on their Assignments page, but they cannot open them.
    • Learners can remove canceled assignments from their Assignment list.
    • You can copy and view canceled assignments.
    • You cannot edit canceled assignments.

Important information about assignments

  • Start and end dates are in GMT.
  • If a learner is assigned content they are not entitled to, they can see the content in their assignment list, but cannot access it. For more information about entitlements, see Licenses.
  • Once an assignment is launched, you cannot add or remove content from the assignment.
  • You cannot add channels or leadership practice guides to an assignment.
  • You can add a maximum of a 100 total content items to an assignment.
  • If you select the option, Require learners to complete all courses from the beginning, learners who previously completed a course, must take it again to complete the assignment. This setting is checked by default if you select Recurring as the Assignment type.
  • Learners who complete a course the same day that an assignment is launched containing that course, will see that course completed within the assignment. If it is the only item within the assignment, the assignment is also completed. This is true whether or not you check the option, Require learners to complete all courses from the beginning. If the learner completes a course a day or more before receiving an assignment containing the course and the require learners to complete all courses from the beginning option is selected, they will have to star the course over to get completion credit for the course and assignment.
  • Assignments with the same due date are listed by when the assignment is launched, in ascending order, on a learner's assignments page and on the home page.
  • If one or more assets within a published assignment is retired, and the assignment has active content in it, the retired content no longer counts towards the assignment completion criteria. If the order is forced, the learner is automatically able to access the next item in the list after the retired content.
  • If all content within an assignment is retired, the admin must cancel or archive the assignment, otherwise learners who started the assignment see it listed as In Progress and can't complete it.

  • If you remove a learner from an audience that has an assignment and the learner has not completed the assignment, the assignment no longer displays for the learner in their assignment list and they no longer show in assignment reports.

    If you remove a learner from an audience that has an assignment and the learner has completed the assignment, the assignment remains in their assignment list and their completion remains in assignment reports.

  • If you remove a learner from an assigned audience, and then put the learner back into the audience, they inherit the assignment again with original due dates.
  • Managers and Learning admins can view progress for assignments they created in Assignment reports for audiences they own.
  • Managers and Learning admins can only see assignments they create on the Assignment list page unless another has given them access to manage an assignment.
  • To replace retired content:
    1. Copy the current assignment.
    2. Edit the copy to include a replacement asset and assign the copy to learners.
    3. Archive the original assignment.

Assignment vs Learning programs

When you are trying to decide whether to use an assignment or learning program for your business objectives, there is much to consider. See a brief description and example of each and then study the diagram and table for details.

Use an assignment when you want a specific group of learners to take a particular learning within a specified time frame. A learner sees an assignment on their Percipio home page. An assignment can contain one or many items and be presented in a prescribed manner. An assignment cannot contain optional items. All items in an assignment must be finished in order for the assignment to be complete. Journeys can be added as a content item to an assignment. Administrators can track progress of an assignment.

Example: After analyzing existing data, the customer service managers at Akara decide they need to improve customer satisfaction scores. Part of the program they devise is to train representatives on how to handle difficult customers. They find two courses, two videos, and a TED Talk that they want to assign to all representatives. They agree all items should be completed within 30 days.

Use a learning program when you want a group of learners called a cohort to move through a learning experience together. Learning programs give you the opportunity to use a fixed set of content for multiple cohorts. Each cohort can have a different due date or no due date at all. You can require learners to take a learning program, invite them to join if they want, or allow them to discover it on their own and self enroll. You can add any type of content to a learning program, except a channel, and provide a link to a collaboration space such as MS Teams or Slack so learners can collaborate and learn together.

You can track the progress of each cohort separately through the learning program and send customized notifications to each cohort.

Example: You want to set up a program so employees who have a strong potential for leadership are cultivated for future roles. Every quarter, you will ask your current management team to nominate one to two individuals from their departments who would be a good fit for the program. Nominations will be reviewed and 10 employees will be chosen to complete the program that quarter. Each quarter will see a new set of employees, called a cohort, be invited to join the program. Each employee within the cohort can choose to enroll in the program or defer it to a future quarter. Each cohort will have its own collaboration space with instructions and discussion questions for completing all the content in the learning program. Each cohort will have 90 days to complete the program and you will report progress back to the employees' managers.

The following table provides a detailed view to help understand the differences:

Condition Assignment Learning programs
Records or tracks completion X X
Allows changes to content after publishing    
Allows reporting on learners who have not completed content X X
Allows targeted audience selection X X
Allows for learner self discovery (search or browse library)   X
Allows optional content X** X**
Prescribes content to learners X X
Allows a due date X X
Allows for no due date   X
Allows a different due date for different groups of users   X
Can require learners to take content in a particular order X X
Can require learners to restart a course they already took it in order to complete X  
Offers email notification reminders X X
Allows learners to earn a badge    
Allows learners to earn a completion certificate   X
Allows learners to rate it    
Allows learners to provide feedback via a survey   X

* You can add a custom journey to an assignment or learning program to force a due date and allow for tracking.

**If you add a custom journey that has optional content to an assignment or learning program, the learner does not have to complete the optional content to achieve a completion.