Assigning e-learning with a deadline

Offering a module and requiring one are different things. Assigning is how you require it: named colleagues, a date, and chasing that happens without anybody remembering to do it.

Making an assignment

Go to Assign e-learning. Choose the module, tick the colleagues, set the date it is wanted by. They are told straight away.

You can only assign modules your school can open. Where one comes with a subscription you do not hold, it is not on the list, and the module's own page says which service includes it.

What they see

An alert, and the module on the school's learning page with its deadline. Nothing else changes: the module is the same module and their progress and certificate work the same way.

What you see

The learning page lists every assignment with where each person has got to: not started, part way through with a percentage, completed, or overdue. That is worked out from the person's actual progress rather than from a status somebody has to update, so it is right even when somebody completed the module from the catalogue instead of from their list.

The chasing

A job runs every day and reminds anybody whose deadline is within a week or already past. It leaves three days between reminders to the same person, so it prompts rather than nags.

Nobody at your school has to run it, remember it or tick anything. That is the difference between a deadline that is real and one that is aspirational.

Withdrawing an assignment

Circumstances change. Withdrawing one stops the chasing and takes it off the person's list. Anything they had already completed stays on their record: a completion is a fact about what they did, and withdrawing a request does not unmake it.

Exporting

The CSV export is who was asked, what for, by when, and where each of them got to. It is the thing to hand an inspector, and the thing to put in front of a governing body. See evidence for an inspector.

Assigning to a role instead of a list

Ticking forty names is true on the day you tick them and quietly wrong by February. Where the requirement is really "everybody" or "every fire marshal", say that instead and let it keep itself met. See standing requirements and staff roles.

Assignments from the council

City Council can assign statutory training across the schools holding a particular subscription. Those reach whoever administers each school rather than everybody in it, because who needs it is the school's decision.