Setting up the learner home page
Engagement is the switchboard for everything a learner sees when they arrive. It decides which sections exist, what the page is called, and whether points and badges are part of your account at all. Almost nothing is created here — each switch links out to the screen that manages it.
Where it is
Section titled “Where it is”Choose Admin, then Engagement in the left-hand menu, then Settings.
Choosing the landing page
Section titled “Choosing the landing page”Use Hub as the landing page decides whether people arrive at a hub you have designed or at Learn, the list of their training.
Hub suits an account with something to say — news, links, content. Learn suits an account where people come to do their training and leave. Switching to Hub without building one gives people a home page with little on it, so set the hub up first and switch afterwards — see Creating audience-specific hubs.
What appears on Learn
Section titled “What appears on Learn”Three sections can be shown or hidden: In progress, Mandatory and Recommended.
Hiding one does not hide the training. It removes the section from the page, and anything in it is still assigned and still due — people reach it through their training list instead. Hiding Mandatory in particular changes what people notice, not what they owe.
Announcements and Content have their own switches here, each linking to where they are managed.
Naming the page
Section titled “Naming the page”Welcome headline is required, and there is a featured section title beside it.
These are worth writing rather than leaving. The default headline is fine and says nothing; a headline in your own words is the cheapest personalisation in the product.
Gamification
Section titled “Gamification”Enable gamification is the master switch for points, badges, streaks, banners and the leaderboard. Beneath it each has its own switch, so the whole thing can be on with the leaderboard off.
Decide the leaderboard separately from the rest, because it is the only one that compares people with each other. Points and badges are private progress; a leaderboard is public ranking, and the second is a different decision in a compliance-heavy account.
Setting each up is covered in Setting up badges, points and the leaderboard.
What happens when you save
Section titled “What happens when you save”Save changes applies to everybody at their next visit. These switches are read as the page is built, so turning a section off removes it from view rather than being a separate teardown.
Nobody is told that their home page has changed. A substantial change is worth an announcement, which is itself one of the switches on this screen.