Sections let you organize the design of your learning collection and allow you to combine programs and coaching under a name or category that best aligns with your learning and development objectives.
Each section can be organized the way you’d like it to be for your participants. Mix Curated Collection with sections composed of hand-picked programs you choose according to program type, competency, start date, and more.
Simply put, they let you group and name a selection of programs any way you’d like, within clearly defined containers in AdminStudio and within your participant’s learning application.
How to use sections
There are a number of ways you can use sections. While the power to customize sections within your collections are vast, there are some simple ways sections can be used to successfully launch your next program and drive enrollment and engagement.
By organizing and categorizing sections around a specific objective, you can highlight and drive attention to the things that matter most to you, and to your learner.
Examples of ways to organize sections:
Curated Collections - Curated Collections align programs around a specific talent objective, population, or topic. You can create a section with a Curated Collection, and modify as you choose. Many of these collections may meet your objective out of the box, but you are free to customize them until you find a perfect fit.
Note: Curated Collections will only include programs that are available within your product license.
Required or Recommended - If there are programs you determine are required to meet your leadership development goals, sections can be used to put those programs in focus. Creating additional distinction by adding a recommended section can help learners supplement required programs with optional programs to enhance a capability .Including and adding any time-bound expectations is one way to help your learners prioritize their learning while fitting their schedule.
Learner-centric - Design sections around groups of leaders who share similar goals. For example, HIPOs may benefit from programs designed to accelerate core leadership competencies and improve their networking and influencing capabilities. Creating an itemized section for each of these underscores the importance of developing interdependent competencies to create a well-rounded, highly capable new leader.
Program type - If you are designing a collection aligned to a specific topic, competency, or learner population, you can use sections to delineate and organize programs by time commitment or program type. Sections divided by program type help your participants quickly view what’s available, and what types of programs - self-paced and on-demand, or immersive, faculty-led and scheduled - fit best with their schedules and interests.
Topic - Section by topic to highlight specific areas of interest for a specific group.
Competency - Filter by competency to find those programs that align with a specific competency you are focused on developing. ExecOnline’s competencies revolve around four key areas - leading the self, leading others, leading the business, and leading for the future.
Partner - You can filter by partner to organize your sections according to the certificate delivered at course completion.
Note: If you have worked with ExecOnline to design custom or dynamic Recommendation Engines, these will display as sections within your collection. The ability to edit and update programs within Recommendation Engine sections is not available at this time.
How to create sections
Sections are now part of the collection-building workflow. When you design your next collection, you will name the section before compiling the programs that are nested within the section.
You can come back and edit the name, as well as the programs the section includes at any time.
[See this article for step-by-step instructions to create a Learning Collection]