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Hi Chaps. I've provisioned Microsoft Learning Pathways in my demo tenant but I don't appear to have any content! the tiles are there, but there is nothing on the pages they direct too. I've run throu...
- LindaPh, that sounds like an incomplete install. I'm not sure if you can try running the solution again from the SharePoint PnP page and pointing out at the same site collection?
SashaP Hello, this web app is tricky, so bear with me. You will need to edit your web part (what is showing up on your page now (Get Started/Scenarios)). A gear will appear in the upper right hand corner of the web part, click to open. This takes you to your Category site on the background. You will see the Get Started, Scenarios, First Days categories. You can create your own categories by clicking on the + or making some of those categories invisible by clicking on the eye. The original categories already contain playlists (content) to get you started. Any categories you create, you'll need to add playlists/content. See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/customlearning/custom_hideshowplaylists
Once you get your categories and playlists built out, you will be able to pick and choose what the user sees on each page - right down to individual playlist, sub-category, category. Explore the Edit Web Part and it's filtering capabilities.
And, before I let you go, the icons for each playlist are not easy. You'll need to get those from GitHub. My best find is: https://github.com/pnp/custom-learning-office-365/tree/master/docs/v2/images/playlists
I hope you find this helpful,
Lisa
I will give this a try! I am the middle of creating an intranet for my organization. I just found out about learning pathways and thought it would be a great resource for training employees!
What kind of content do you have for training employees?
Thank you for your help!
Hi SashaP Learning Pathways is great and you can anything to it, but it might be better to keep it focused on Microsoft Content. If you have other non-Microsoft training content you want to share, you could add it, but in the experience of clients we've worked with it usually helps to keep them separate.
The types of things we ADD to learning pathways are around the additional and more organisation focused knowledge such as specific governance related information - for example how the organisation enables or not staff using un-managed devices, what the role of a group owner is, how Microsoft 365 works with previous versions of Office that may be out in the user community etc.. All of this is specific to the organisation.
We also use it to build out playlists for more specific personas and scenarios, that way we can more directly target different groups of users on a need to know basis.
SashaP , Lisa has shared great tips about the learning pathways webpart and how to create new categories and playlists!
Just to add on some bits based on how I used learning pathways for one of my customers -
- You can use "Copy Playlist" action if you want to use what Microsoft has already built but you want to hide some assets or add new assets.
- You can design your own icons for your playlist in case you want to use images that are specific to your organization. You can upload the images inside Site Assets of your learning pathways site and paste that URL here.
- In terms of training content, I usually tend to build and organize content per product and organize them into playlists grouped by categories. I use what is already existing in learning pathways and add pages based on the application/usage of the customers so they can resonate to it.
- For the landing page, I have used "Highlighted content", "Quick links" and "Hero" web parts to link to the tutorials and I have found them to be useful to depict a step by step type of tutorials. I also tapped on the thumbnails/icons of these web parts to make things even better for end users. These web parts can do wonders and help you get a great visual for the landing page!
