Learning and Development Overview

Activities and catalog

You can define activities that can be part of a catalog or outside of the catalog.

• Activities can be of any type (from formal instructor-led classes to mentoring, self-directed study, or competency assessment).
• The system accommodates activities without sessions.
• The system also accommodates activities that are not in the catalog.
• Activities can be grouped under topics.
• Resources, managers, and mentors can locate activities in the catalog by searching by keyword or by activity, or by browsing through topics.
• You can associate activities with resource goals, which in turn can be associated with the organization's strategic development goals.
• You can specify the intended audience.
• You can define skills, competencies, or credentials as the outcome of an activity that will be automatically added to the resources' talent profile when they complete the activity. You can also decide whether the skills, competencies, or credentials should be added as verified, or not verified (requiring a manager verification).
• You can define flat-amount or activity-defined costs that you can assign to activities so that the costs can be displayed in the catalog.
• You can assign prerequisites, corequisites, and equivalencies to activities.
• You can list supported languages for the activity.
• You can maintain a list of instructors (who must be resources in Infor HR Talent, but not necessarily employees).
• Resources can be assigned to activities in these ways:
  • Resources themselves can request an activity. By default, the activity is not required, but the resource's manager or mentor can change it to be required.
  • Managers can assign an activity to their direct reports individually or mass assign an activity to all or some their direct reports. The activity can be required or not required.
  • Learning managers can assign an activity to any resources individually or mass assign an activity to all the resources in an eligibility group.
  • Resources can be automatically assigned to an activity that is a component of a checklist, when the checklist is assigned to them by their manager or mentor (or the learning manager). Checklist activities are always required.

• Resources can withdraw from non-required activities. Managers and mentors can cancel non-required activities and waive required activities.

  This application is configurable. Depending on your organization's configuration settings and your own security privileges, the forms that you have access to may not include all the of fields described in this guide. You may not have access to all of the actions described in this guide.