Organizations and Sub-Groups
What are Organizations?
Organizations allow you to group learners together and give designated managers responsibility for managing and reporting on those learners.
They are particularly useful when your platform serves multiple customers, companies, departments, or other distinct groups of learners.
An Organization can have:
- Learners
- One or more Owners
- Sub-Groups
- Courses made available to it
- Learning Paths
Typically, a learner belongs to a single Organization.
Organization Owners
Organization Owners are users who have been given management permissions for an Organization.
Depending on your platform configuration, Owners can manage learners, organize them into Sub-Groups, assign learning and view learner progress through the Management Dashboard.
This allows customers or internal teams to manage their own learners without giving them access to the CMS.
Sub-Groups
Sub-Groups sit underneath an Organization and provide an additional way to organize learners.
For example, an Organization representing a company might use Sub-Groups for different:
- Departments
- Teams
- Locations
- Roles
A learner can belong to multiple Sub-Groups within their Organization.
Sub-Groups can also have their own managers. This allows management permissions to follow your organizational structure, so a manager can be responsible for a particular group of learners without having access to everyone in the parent Organization.
Organizations and learning content
Courses can be made available to an Organization, defining the learning content that its learners and Owners can access.
Learning Paths can then combine these Courses into structured learning journeys.
Depending on how your platform is configured, Learning Paths may be managed centrally or Organization Owners may be able to create their own Learning Paths from the Courses available to their Organization.
Different platform configurations
Organizations are flexible and may be configured differently depending on how your learning platform operates.
For example, your platform may automatically assign particular Learning Paths when learners join an Organization, restrict which management options Organization Owners can access, or manage learning assignments centrally.
Your implementation may therefore differ slightly from the functionality described above.