Category and Topic Communities in Oracle Learning
You can create an organized structure for the content that learners see when browsing the learning catalog, using category and topic communities. The same hierarchical structure applies to official and self-service learning community catalogs.
For example, to help learners find content about Microsoft Office, you create these topic communities: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Outlook. Then you add relevant learning items to the community catalog. Next you create a Microsoft Office category community and include your Microsoft topic communities.
Categories can contain topic and official communities. They can also include cover art and let only learning administrators have conversations.
- Limit your hierarchy to 5 to 10 categories. Browsing becomes cumbersome when you've more than 15 categories.
- Keep category titles to 20 characters or fewer if possible.
Topics can contain official communities, self-service communities, courses, specializations, videos, and learning journeys. You can configure them for both learning administrator and self-service (member) conversations.
- Ideally have 3 to 10 topics per category. If you've more than 10 topics, consider creating another category.
- Ideally have at least 3 learning items per topic. If you've fewer than 5 items, consider merging topics.
You create and manage category and topic communities using the Communities task on the page. You decide how learners can browse the learning catalog, including categories, using the Configure Self-Service task.
Category Views on the Self-Service Browse Learning Page
When people open their Browse Learning page, they see category views showing the topics and learning in the category, such as Cloud, Software Development, Creative, Business, and Finance. You decide the actual category names that they see when you create category communities.
An image carousel shows people the five most recently featured items in the category. Each featured topic includes the topic cover art, title, and description. Each view row is a topic community that's part of the category, which they can follow and unfollow. And each topic community shows up to 25 learning items that are part of the topic.