Add Courses as Activities to an Oracle Learning Specialization

After you create the specialization for a larger learning objective, add the supporting courses as activities. Set up appropriate sections to group related activities, add the relevant courses, and configure advanced rules for completion and sequencing.

Before you start

Create a Specialization for the Oracle Learning Catalog

Add the relevant courses as specialization activities. If you've enough activities, consider organizing them into sections. If you aren’t using sections, activities get added to the default section. By default, learners don’t see any information for this section, but they do see the activities. When appropriate, you can select the Enable as a visible section to learners option and change the default name to better reflect the section content. And the advanced rules that you configure for each activity decide completion, sequencing, and display.

Here's what to do

1. On the specialization details page, click the Activities tab.
   If you aren’t using sections, skip to step 4. Otherwise continue to the next step.
2. On the Activities tab, edit the default section.

   The default section becomes visible after you add a second section. Here’s what you want to do when that happens:

   1. Update the section title and add a high-level description of what people will learn by completing the section activities.

   2. Review the defaulted completion, sequencing, and display rules, and change them as appropriate.

      To make activities required, in the Defined By field, select Activity. If the section defines the completion rule, you can specify how many the section activities learners need to complete. But you can’t make any of the section activities required. For example, the section has three activities—A, B, and C—and you specify that learners need to complete two activities. They can complete A and B, B and C, or A and C. You can’t require that everyone complete A and optionally complete B or C.

      Use these descriptions to help you select the appropriate experience when learners launch the activity.

      • Inherit from Activity: Learners see the same behavior for the course, whether they access the course directly or through the specialization.
      • Inherit from Specialization: Learners see the same behavior that they had for the specialization enrollment, for example, Request mode or Active mode.
      • Active: Learners enrolled in this specialization can sign up for courses in this specialization, regardless of the course configuration.
      • Requested: When they try to join, learners need to request the courses in this section, regardless of the course configuration.
   3. Click Save.
3. Add and configure the remaining sections by completing these steps:
   1. On the Overview section Add menu, select Add Section.
   2. In the new section, complete the required and relevant optional details, including completion, sequencing, and display rules.
   3. Click Save.
4. Add at least one course as an activity. If you’re using sections, you need to add at least one activity to each section.
   Tip: You can reposition activities in a section, but you can't move an activity to another section. You need to delete it from the current section and add it in the correct section.

   1. On the Add Activity page, complete the required and relevant optional details.

   2. In the Advanced Rules section, review the defaulted completion, sequencing, and display rules and change them as appropriate.

      Tip: You can set the activity type to Required or Optional only if the section completion rule is Activity.
   3. Click OK.