Create a Specialization for the Oracle Learning Catalog

To create the learning plan or path for the larger learning objective, you can search for, copy, and edit an existing specialization. Or you can follow these steps to create fresh specializations.

Before you start

  • Create a branding image and save it in a local folder.
  • Create a trailer video and publish it so that it's available under My Published Videos.

Here's what to do

  1. On the My Client Groups > Learning page, click Specializations.
  2. On the Specializations page, click Create.
  3. On the Create Specialization page, complete the required and relevant optional general information. Learners can see all this general information when they view specialization details in the learning catalog and for enrolled specializations.
    When you create specializations, it automatically generates read-only specialization numbers. When you upload specializations using HCM Data Loader, you can specify your own numbers.
  4. Optionally add learning outcomes and prerequisites, such as skills, competencies, honors and awards, languages, licenses and certifications, and memberships. The outcomes and prerequisites you can add, and the corresponding properties and drop-down lists, come from the Prerequisites and Person profile types.

    To see more properties, such as renewal and expiration date options, expand each prerequisite and outcome that you add. For example, to make a certification dependent on learning assignment dates, you expand the certification outcome. Then you can set the same expiration date for the certification as the learning assignment. And you can set a certification issue date that matches the learning assignment's validity start date.

    When learners complete refresher specializations before learning outcomes with expiration dates expire, such as certificates and licenses, their outcomes don't get updated. Keep this in mind when you set expiration and renewal dates.

  5. Optionally link the specialization to one or more learning communities.
  6. Click Save and Close.

What to do next

Add Courses as Activities to an Oracle Learning Specialization