Official and Self-Service Communities in Oracle Learning
You can give learners access to relevant organization-provided content with official communities. You can also automate assignments for required members. Let learners share their knowledge with colleagues using self-service communities.
Here's an example of each type of community:
- To give new hires access to initial training and relevant documents, you create the official Onboarding community.
- An individual in a retail chain store creates the Holiday Decorations self-service community so that members across stores can inspire each other. Members can create and share short videos that describe what they did and why.
Tip: Learners can browse for and enroll in official and self-service communities
with open and closed privacy settings even if they can't browse by categories. They also
see the communities that you add them to as members or required members.
Here's a list of the main characteristics for official and self-service communities:
Characteristic | Description |
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Create and manage | Official: Use the Communities task on the Self-service: From the page. You can also manage them from the page. |
page.
Member contributions | Learning administrators and community managers can enable for all
members or no members. Tip: Videos and learning journeys
self-published by the community manager have the community name as
the contributor, instead of the person's name. |
Related materials | Can add attachments. |
Assignments | Learning administrators and community managers can create assignments
that existing and future required members need to complete by the
specified due date. Assignments are most relevant in official
communities. Learning administrators can also manage assignments using the Learning Assignments task. |
Catalog | Can contain official communities, self-service communities, courses, specializations, videos, and learning journeys. |
Conversations | Can configure both learning administrator conversations and self-service (member) conversations. |
Self-service pages | List these communities. |