FAQ Article: Widgets

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Widgets appear on your dashboard and allow you to perform tasks. Some of these tasks are: 

• Viewing and interacting with course content 
• Seeing your progress through learning path and course enrollments 
• Accessing shared documents 
• Viewing events such as course enrollment due dates, course enrollment expiration dates, and instructor led training sessions users are enrolled in 
• Viewing and printing transcripts for completed course, learning path, and instructor led training enrollments 
• Viewing and printing certificates users have earned for completing course and learning path enrollments 
• Interacting with peers and subject matter experts via course and community discussion feeds 
• Viewing learning achievements compared to other learners in your LMS portal through leaderboards 

Within the LMS (learning management system) there are three distinct types of widgets or tools to use. Each category has unique widgets that are available. The categories are: 

1. Learner – These widgets are what the end user sees on their dashboard as tools they have access to. What they see depends on which ones are turned on by the administrator of the LMS.
   1. Enrollment Widget – This widget contains course enrollments that a user currently has available to them. This widget cannot be turned off or minimized. It is locked at the top of the page to show users which courses are accessible to them. End users can also filter their enrollment widget to show learning assets assigned to them by Course Code, Course Title, Due Date, Expiration Date or Learning Path Order. Users can also filter by Status (Enrolled, Overdue, Expired, Completed, and Pending) and Learning Object (Standalone Course, Part of Learning Path or Part of Certification).  
      
      
      
      
      
   2. Purchases Widget – This widget shows your users which purchases they have made within the LMS.
      
      
      
      
   3. Certificates Widget – This widget shows which certificates the user has earned. They have the option to Save as PDF, Print or View the certificates earned. This widget also provides how many credits each certificate is worth.  This widget will let the user know when the certificate was awarded and when it might expire.
      
      
      
      
   4. Calendar Widget – This widget shows users when they have upcoming ILT’s and online activities that they have signed up for. The stopwatch looking icon will show up on the date that they have signed up for ILT’s and online activities. The laptop icon identifies due dates and enrollment expiration dates.
      
      
      
      
   5. Discussion Widget – This widget will display all discussion board activity from courses and groups that the users are part of. They will be able to see their posts and others here.
      
      
      
      
   6. Transcript Widget – This widget shows the courses, learning paths and ILTs that a user has completed. It shows when they completed it and if they earned any credits when completing one of the courses, learning paths or ILTs.
      
      
      
      
   7. My Communities Widget – This widget tells users which communities they are involved in, and what has been posted in that community recently. This will not be visible if a user is not a member of a group.
      
      
      
      
   8. My Learning Paths Widget – This widget tells users which learning paths they are a part of. It provides information related to status on the Learning path such as enrolled, overdue, completed and expired. The user can also learn the progress towards completion on the Learning Path, the due date, when it expires and view the path.
      
      
      
      
   9. My Leaderboards Widget – Shows top 10 users for various types of category leaders. The user can pick diverse types of filters to see how they are doing in each group. It can be by different time intervals, totals, or groups.
      
      
      
      
   10. Documents Widget – This widget shows the documents they have access to via their various course enrollments and group membership. 
       
       
       
       
   11. Instructor Led Training Sessions Widget – This widget shows which ILTs the user is enrolled in and the status of the ILT. In this case they are enrolled The user will see a status of either “enrolled” or “waitlist” for each ILT listed, depending on which roster they are on for the ILT Sessions.
       
       
       
       
2. Administrator – These widgets are what the administrator sees on their dashboard as tools they have access to. What they see depends on which ones are turned on. 
   
   1. 1. Enrollment Statistics Widget – This widget gives the administrator snapshots of what course, learning path and ILT statistics look like. It gives breakdowns based upon various metrics on the learning assets in use.
         
         
         
         
      2. Team Leaderboards Widget – This widget gives the breakdown for the administrator on who is on top of the leaderboard for various categories based off different time frames.
         
         
         
         
      3. Discussion Moderation Widget – This widget shows the various discussions that are happening on any learning assets that has one turned on. This is where an administrator who has discussion board moderation turned on will look at the post that needs approval.
         
         
         
         
      4. ILT Roster Management Widget – This widget will show all the ILT sessions available in the portal to the users. This allows the administrator to manage the roster as well or launch a session if available.
         
         
         
         
      5. Administrative Tasks Widget – This widget allows the administrator to see all the tasks that need to be completed because a user has uploaded documentation for or completed a course that has a task associated with it, pending registration approvals and other tasks that required Administrator sign off.
3. Reporter – These widgets are what admins and regular users can see if they have report permissions on their account. 
   1. Report Subscription Widget – This widget allows users who are system administrators to see the report subscriptions that they are sending out or receiving.
      
      
      
      
   2. Report Shortcuts Widget – This widget allows admins and users the ability to see reports that they have created on their dashboard.
      
      
      
      

As the LMS admin with system administrator permissions you can turn these widgets on and off in System of Admin Menu under configuration. 

Under configuration the system admin will click on the second Tab “Widgets”. 

Here you will place a blue check on each Widget that will be available to use as tools within the HR Learn LMS. Under each of these sections give access to different tools for the Learner’s and Administrator’s on their perspective dashboards. 

Click on green button “Save Changes” to save your changes. 

Customization of Widgets 

As a LMS (Learning Management System) administrator you can request customization of the enrollment widget from the HR Learn Support team on how the enrollment widget will appear to the end users. The Support Team can set the default enrollment widget, but it will only apply to users who have not accessed their dashboard, as it saves the configuration for each user, and if users change their configuration in the future, then we cannot control that or how they have changed the configuration of the widget. Below are questions to help us customize the widget to your preference. 

How do you want the enrollment widget to be customized? 

Do you have a template of how you want the enrollment widget to look like? 

Examples of Customized enrollment Widget the HR Learn Support team can do: 

1. Learning Path Order 
2. Learning Path Widget Set to Open 
3. Any Widget can be set to default open/closed 

Real World Example 

Below is an example of a customized widget: Learning Path Order. Normally courses in the enrollment widget are set in alphabetical order. 

The order of the Courses when added to the Learning Path learning asset. 

Normally in the Enrollment widget on the learner's dashboard the courses are in alphabetical order. 

You can have those courses set in the customized widget to be in order as they appear in the Learning Path order. 

The user can change the way their enrollment widgets are sorted themselves via the sort features towards top right of the enrollment widget: 

In this example the user can set the enrollment widget to sort courses via the Learning Path Order instead of in alphabetical order as by default.