Automatically Import Content Provider Skills

Keep your skills catalog accurate and up to date-without manual effort.  You can now use AI to automatically import skills from learning content providers into your skills catalog. The app standardizes provider skill names and matches them to existing catalog skills, even when wording differs. Matched skills are automatically associated with learning, with skill levels applied. For skills that don’t have a match, you can define how they are handled-automatically create them in the catalog, track them as noncatalog skills, or ignore them.

Learner experience
Learners can search for provider learning using skill and skill level filters available in the learning catalog app.

Learning Catalog Showing Skill, Skill Level, and Publisher Filters

Learning specialist experience
Learning specialists can view and manage automatically profiled skills from the Skills and Qualifications tab when edit self-paced learning.

Skills and Qualifications Tab Showing Profiled Provider Skills for Self-Paced Learning

External provider configuration
The new Skills and Qualifications section lets learning app administrators set global behavior for learning imported from the provider.

Image Call out	Option	What the agent when selected	What the agent does when not selected
1	Automatically associate library skills that match provider-associated skills to imported self-paced learning	Automatically associates matching skills with the imported learning.	Doesn't associate matching skills with the learning.
2	Associate AI-suggested library skills that best match the provider-associated skill, when exact match isn't found	Attempts to find close semantic matching for the input provider skill when exact lexical match isn't found. The matching skill will be automatically associated with the learning. For example, if the provider sends a Java skill which doesn't any skill in the skills library, the agent will find and associate a skill with the same or a similar meaning,  such as Java Programming.	When the ORA_HRT_LI_PROVIDER_NONLIB_SKILLS  profile option allows creation, the agent will create the Java skill in the skills library.
3	Set skill level suggested by AI agent	Suggests a skill level and automatically populate the value when associating the skill.	Doesn't set the skill level.
4	Write to person profile on completion if AI agent suggests	Suggests if the skill should be written to the learner's talent profile on completion and automatically populate the value when associating the skill.	Doesn't add the skill to the learner's profile.

Configure External Provider Page Showing the New Skills and Qualifications Settings

Business benefit: Improves discovery and relevance of external learning by making provider content searchable and linked to measurable skills. Reduces manual curation effort and helps organizations track skill attainment from external courses.

Steps to enable and configure

• Assign the new privileges and duty roles to the user who scheduled the Load and Sync External Course Data process (see Access Requirements section), so that the process can associate matching skills.
• Enable enhanced dynamic skills
• Enable enhanced skills Suggestions in Skills Center using generative AI.Use these parameter values when running the Create Summaries Using Generative AI scheduled process:
  • Run Type: Full if you're running it for the first time
  • Content Source: Business Object
  • Object Type: Organization and Skills.
• Enable the relevant Skills and Qualifications options for relevant active external provider integration configurations and providers you plan to integrate with Oracle Learning. The first time that the Load and Synchronize External Course Data runs after you enable these options, it could take longer than normal to complete. It depends on how much learning it's processing.
   

Tips and considerations

• Learning are processed with skills only once. Any changes to the skills library or changes to skills from provider, aren't reconciled back to already processed learning. Skills are also not re-evaluated when Load and Synchronize External Course Data is run with Force All External Course Data to Reload parameter set to Yes. 
• When no match is found for a provider skill across active skill libraries, a new catalog or noncatalog skill can be created depending on the site-level profile value for the ORA_HRT_LI_PROVIDER_NONLIB_SKILLS profile option. The default value is set to noncatalog, and if unchanged will create unmatched skills in the hidden catalog. Other options are:
  • Create as a catalog skill: New skills are created in the delivered Learning Provider Skills Library catalog .
  • Create as a noncatalog skill: Default setting. 
  • Do not create: No new skill is created for the provider skill that doesn't have a match in the skill library and the skill won't be associated with the learning. 
• Aperian and BizLibrary providers don't send skills and are excluded from this feature.
• getAbstract or Edflex providers can send skills in non-English languages, so we advise you to enable the Associate AI-suggested library skill that best matches the provider-associated skill, when exact match isn't found option for their integration configuration page.
• For best results, you need to make sure that the Load and Synchronize External Course Data process runs with English as the session language.  

Key resources

How do I enable enhanced skill suggestions using generative AI?

Access requirements

User scheduling the Load and Synchronize External Course Data process should already have WLF_MANAGE_EXTERNAL_ELEARNING_CONTENT_PRIV privilege. They also need these new privileges and duty roles:

Name	Code	Description
Learning Content Provider	ORA_WLF_LEARNING_CONTENT_PROVIDER_DUTY	Allows the user to access REST services for importing content and learner progression
Use REST Service - All Learning Catalog Items	ORA_WLF_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_ALL_LEARNING_CATALOG_ITEMS	Allows the user to manage all learning catalog items using the Learning Catalog Items REST Service.
Workforce Profile Administration	ORA_HRT_WORKFORCE_PROFILE_ADMINISTRATION_DUTY	Performs administrative duties for workforce talent profiles.
Access Skills Center	ORA_HRT_ACCESS_SKILLS_CENTER	Allows the user to access skills center.
Edit Person Skills and Qualifications	ORA_HRT_EDIT_PERSON_SKILLS_AND_QUALIFICATIONS	Allows editing the Person Skills and Qualifications.

The scheduler also needs to have these Spectra Authorization Service duty roles to invoke the AI agents:

Name	Code	Description
Learning Content Provider Skills Assignment Duty	ORA_DR_WLF_LEARNING_CONTENT_PROVIDER_SKILLS_ASSISTANT_DUTY	Grants access to the skills assistants for learning content providers
Skills Normalization Analyst Duty	ORA_DR_HRT_SKILLS_NORMALIZATION_DUTY	Grants access to the Skills Normalization Analyst