Administrators and managers can create custom content.
Administrators can assign curricula to any group or user.
However, managers can assign content only to groups and users below them in the group hierarchy.
Before creating custom content using the Library page, there must be a location already in place for it; this location must be subordinate to the All Curricula folder. Contact your Skillsoft representative to set up this location.
Depending on the needs of your organization, you can assign these areas to a group or individual users.
You log in as an administrator, and you create a new user group called Managers.
You add the users Manager1 and Manager2 to the new Managers group, as shown in the following image:
Manager1 and Manager2 now have multiple group assignments (they are both in the Managers group and the Users group). In order for them to assign content to the Users group (or to the individual members of that group), they must be a part of the My Company group because managers can only assign content to managers and other users who are below them in the organizational hierarchy:
In order to create custom content, Manager1 and Manager2 must also be a part of the Managers group. This allows them to assign (expose) content to the Managers group that you do not expose to the Users group.
Use the Library page to create a custom content area for managers. This is a folder that is referred to in the user interface as a curricula "group." Within the custom area, you also create separate areas for Manager1 and Manager2, as shown in the following image.
On the User and Group Management page, assign the Manager-Created Custom Curricula folder to the Manager group. This has two effects in the Skillport Administrator:
It exposes the folder in the Library to all members of the Manager group (in this case, Manager1 and Manager2).
It exposes the folder on the Catalog Assignment tab of the User and Group Management page, which means all members of the Manager group can assign the content (including the content in its subfolders) to users.
If privacy is a concern, you can use the Library Manager to create a custom content folder under All Curricula for each individual manager and expose each folder to only the appropriate manager by assigning it to only that manager.
For example, building upon the first example, the following image shows an additional custom curricula folder named Manager3 Custom. This folder lives outside of the Manager-Created Custom Curricula folder:
If you assigned the Manager3 Custom folder to just Manager3, the folder would be visible to only Manager3. As a result, while Manager1 and Manager2 could see the contents of each other's custom content folders, they could not see the contents of Manager3's custom content folder, nor could Manager3 see the contents of theirs.
Example: Assign a Custom Content Area to a Group
