Create a New Assignment

As an admin, you can create assignments for entire audiences and/or individual users.

Important information about audiences and assignments

Audiences are comprised of users who have a defined set of user attributes. When you assign custom attribute values to a user, she is automatically added to one or more audiences if the values match the audience definition.

To create a new assignment

1. On the admin menu, click Assignments.
2. On the Assignment List page, click New Assignment. The New assignment page displays.
3. 
3. Enter the Assignment name.
4. Using the drop-down list, associate a Business Objective with the assignment.
   This association is used to build alignment metrics for your organization. These metrics are available from the Assignments dashboard.
   
   Available Business Objectives

   • Cost control: Formal and informal efforts made by managers to monitor, evaluate, and reduce expenditures.
   • Customer satisfaction: Efforts focused on increasing the number of customers whose reported experience with a firm, its products, or its services exceeds specified satisfaction goals.
   • Employee engagement: Quality and quantity of discretionary effort employees are willing to apply to the organization and its goals.
   • Revenue Growth: Efforts designed to increase the revenue an organization derives from its products and services to customers.
   • Innovation: The creation and capture of new value in the marketplace, including new products and services
   • Operational effectiveness: Practices that enable the organization to better utilize its operations resources and better implement its processes and procedures
   • Quality: Improvement in the quality of products and services produced and delivered by the organization
   • Workforce productivity: Amount and impact of work delivered by an employee or group of employees in a specific period of time.
5. Enter an Assignment description.
6. Enter a Start date.
Note: You cannot add individual users to an assignment after the start date (when the assignment has a status of (In Progress). If you add a user to an audience that has an In Progress assignment, she will receive the assignment with a relative due date. See the note in the next step.
7. Enter the number of Days to complete.
Note: Days to complete is calculated for each user based on the day the user is added to an assigned audience. For example, if you create an assignment October 1 and set the Days to complete to 15, the due date for the users and audiences is October 15. If a new user is added to the audience on October 5 (when the assignment has a status of In Progress), her due date is October 20.
8. Add users and audiences to the assignment.

   1. Click Add users and audiences.
   2. In the search field, enter the name of an audience or individual user.
   3. Click .
   4. Locate the audience or user you want to assign the content to and click .
   5. Repeat these steps until you've added all users and/or audiences.
   6. Click Add to this Assignment. The Edit Assignment page displays.
9. Add content to the assignment.

   To enforce a specific order of content, select Content items must be completed in the display order specified.

   Note: When this option is selected, learners cannot access content out of the specified order. They must complete each piece of content before the next, in accordance with the set completion criteria. See Instance Settings for more information about setting course completion criteria. See Complete your Content for each asset type's specific completion criteria requirements.

   1. Click .
   2. In the search field, enter keywords or titles of the content you want to include.
   3. Click .
   4. Optionally, you can filter the results using the Filters drop-down.
   4. Click next to each piece of content you want to add to the assignment.
   5. Repeat these steps until you've added all the content.
   6. Click Done. The Edit Assignment page displays.
   7. Drag and drop the content into the order you want it presented to the learner. Alternatively, use the arrow buttons to move content up or down the list.
   8. If you selected the Content items must be completed in the display order specified option, learners must complete each item in the order presented here.
10. Click one of the following options:
• Save assignment: Saves the assignment, places it into a Draft status, and returns you to the Assignments page. You can modify this assignment later.
• Launch assignment: Places the assignment into one of the following statuses:
  • If the start day is today, the assignment is placed in an In Progress status and the assignment and email with the assignment details is immediately sent to all assigned learners. Modifications to the assignment cannot be made.
  • If the start day is in the future, the assignment is placed in a Scheduled status and the email notification and assignment are sent on the scheduled start day. Modifications to the assignment can be made up until the scheduled start date.