Find and add learning
- Who
- Everyone can find learning. Adding may need your organisation's permission
- Where
- My Growth › Learning Library
- Linked to
- Skills, certificates and validated competences
- Connected platforms
- Udemy Business, Skillsoft Percipio and others, when your organisation connects them
Learning material in MuchSkills is linked to skills and certificates, so it turns up where you need it: in the Learning Library, on skill pages and next to your skill gaps. When you find something good, add it so colleagues can use it too.
How it works
Every course in MuchSkills is tagged with at least one skill, certificate or validated competence. That is what makes it show up in the right places:
- The Learning Library in My Growth, with everything you can access, searchable and filterable.
- A skill's own page. Search for a skill in the top bar and open it to see its related learning.
- Gap Analysis. Each role or competence list has a Courses button with learning for the skills and certificates in that list.
So if a course is tagged with Negotiation, it appears on the Negotiation skill page, in every list that includes Negotiation, and in Gap Analysis for anyone with a Negotiation gap.
The Learning Library has a MuchSkills Courses tab. If your organisation has connected a learning platform, such as Udemy Business or Skillsoft Percipio, that platform has its own tab too.
My Growth › Learning Library.
Steps
Find learning
- Open the Learning Library. Click My Growth in the top menu, then Learning Library.
- Start with what is relevant. Courses relevant to you is at the top.
- Search. Type a skill, a course name or a word that describes what you want to learn.
- Narrow it down. Use Course type to show organisation or community courses, and Filter for course level, free or paid, and skills, certificates or validated competences. Sort by Most Popular, Recently added or Name.
- Switch tabs to see courses from a connected learning platform, if your organisation has one.
- Open a course. Click Show details for the description and the skills it covers, then follow the link to the course.
Find learning for a skill or a gap
- From a skill. Type the skill in the search box at the top of any page (Search for Skills, Certificates, People) and open it. Its related learning is listed on the page.
- From your gaps. Open My Growth › Gap Analysis and click Courses on a list. You see learning for the skills and certificates that list asks for. See Find your skill gaps.
Add learning
- Copy the link to the course, video or article you want to share.
- Click Add course in the Learning Library.
- Paste the link and click Get page details. MuchSkills fills in the headline, description and image from the page.
- Check the details. Change the Headline or Description if needed. Set the Course level and the Access type (free or paid).
- Tag it. Add the skills the course builds, using Search Skills. Add certificates or validated competences if it prepares people for one. At least one tag is needed.
- Click Save.
Check it worked
- Your course shows in the Learning Library with Added by and your name.
- It appears on the page of each skill you tagged.
Tips
- Tag precisely. Two or three skills the course really builds are better than ten loosely related ones. Precise tags put it in front of the right people.
- Pick the level. Setting Course level helps a beginner avoid an expert course, and the other way round.
- Add what helped you. If a course moved you up a level, add it. Colleagues working on the same skill will find it.
- Pair learning with a goal. Learning sticks better with a target and a date. See Set a development goal.
Troubleshooting
| What you see | Why | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| No Add course button | Only admins can add learning in your organisation | Send the link to your MuchSkills admin |
| We were unable to retrieve the details from the provided URL. Please fill out the form manually. | The page does not share its details | Type the headline and description yourself |
| Course should have at least 1 skill, certificate or validated competence | The course has no tags | Add at least one skill, certificate or validated competence |
| Paid courses are disabled for your organisation | Your organisation hides paid learning | Choose free, or ask your admin |
| No courses added | Nobody in your organisation has added learning yet | Add the first course, or ask your admin to |
| No courses found on a connected platform's tab | Your organisation has not added courses to that platform yet | Use the MuchSkills Courses tab, or ask your admin |
Frequently asked questions
I don't see Add course. Why?
Your organisation lets only admins add learning, unless an admin has allowed all members to add it. Send the link to your MuchSkills admin, or ask whether members can be allowed to add courses.
Where do courses from Udemy Business or Skillsoft Percipio show?
When your organisation connects a learning platform, it gets its own tab in the Learning Library next to MuchSkills Courses. Your activity there is matched to you by email address. The Udemy Business, Skillsoft Percipio and Connect any learning platform pages explain the set-up.
Why do I tag a course with skills?
A course shows wherever its skills appear: on the skill's page, in role and competence lists, and next to the gaps in Gap Analysis. Without a skill, certificate or validated competence, nobody would find it, so MuchSkills asks for at least one.
What does Get page details do?
It reads the title, description and image from the page you linked, so you do not have to type them. Check them and change anything that is not right before you save. If it cannot read the page, fill in the form yourself.
Can I add a paid course?
Yes. Set Access type to paid. Your organisation can choose to hide paid courses, in which case you see Paid courses are disabled for your organisation.
What is the difference between organisation and community courses?
Organisation courses were added by people in your organisation. Community courses are suggested by the MuchSkills team. Use Course type to show one or both.
Can I see who else is taking a course?
For courses from a connected learning platform, where your organisation has switched it on, the course shows how many people are taking it or have completed it.