We are excited to announce the release of Moodle Workplace 4.4, featuring our new Learning Catalogue that empowers employees to embrace self-directed learning! The catalogue offers diverse learning opportunities, providing convenience and personalised upskilling tailored to each employee’s needs. With easier access to learning materials, employees are encouraged to take charge of their career and professional development, aiding L&D managers in crafting customised development plans.
Moodle Workplace 4.4 also introduces additional features to enhance organisational training efforts. These include advanced customisation of training pathways, simplified certification management, and greater administrative control over training courses. This release ensures that organisations can effectively drive learning initiatives, promote innovation, and seamlessly align learning strategies with their goals.
Let’s explore the new features that make Moodle Workplace 4.4 a powerful tool for organisational growth and employee development:
Learning Catalogue: Discover a range of learning opportunities
The Learning Catalogue, also known as ‘Catalogue’, is a new feature that transforms the course discovery experience for learners, ensuring convenience and individualised upskilling. With easier access to learning materials, employees are encouraged to take charge of their own career and personal development.
L&D managers will find the catalogue effective in improving employee training experiences, promoting upskilling, and cultivating a culture of self-directed learning among employees.
The Catalogue also has built-in search methods, which can be especially useful for learners and trainers when navigating the learning materials. Learners can benefit from the ‘extended search’ option, which supports all course fields, including user-generated custom fields. It incorporates adjustable priority settings for each field to configure relevance and is efficient even with large datasets.
Expand your reach and attract more talent with public course offerings
The Learning Catalogue within Moodle Workplace empowers organisations to expand their reach by offering courses publicly. This facilitates innovative recruiting techniques by showcasing learning content to potential employees and also provides an opportunity for dynamic marketing and branding channels to attract potential customers.
Moreover, the Learning Catalogue streamlines course management, curation, promotion, sale, and delivery within a unified platform. This consolidation translates into significant cost savings, smoother workflows and an enhanced user experience, providing organisations who wish to sell their courses with a distinct competitive advantage.
Efficiently assign managers and add new jobs for streamlined administration
The user upload feature in Moodle Workplace 4.4 has been enhanced to support manual manager assignments. Administrators can import manual assignments from external systems using CSV files, seamlessly integrating data into the platform. This feature makes executing mass updates and managing reporting lines easier, ultimately enhancing workflow and productivity within the system.
Administrators also now have the ability to improve audience targeting for reports to optimise communication channels. By narrowing the audience to specific managerial roles or combinations of roles, they can ensure that important content effectively reaches the right people.
With the manually assigned manager option available on Custom Pages and Custom Reports, content can now be customised specifically for designated managerial roles within an organisation. These improvements not only optimise communication channels and audience targeting for reports but also contribute to an employee’s self-directed learning by facilitating efficient access to role-specific training and resources.
The People tab also has a new functionality where HR managers can add new jobs directly from the “+New job” button. This way, HR managers don’t need to change the context to create jobs and can assign jobs to several employees at the same time. This further contributes to administrative efficiency by allowing HR managers to streamline their workflow. Additionally, effortless reporting line creation directly from the People management page ensures seamless reporting structure management, saving valuable time for administrators.
Bridge language barriers with multi-lingual notifications
Moodle Workplace 4.4 introduces the capability to add multilingual appointment descriptions, enhancing communication for users across diverse language backgrounds. With this feature, learners and trainees receive notifications in their preferred language, facilitating better understanding and engagement. Trainers can effectively manage course notifications for diverse language backgrounds, promoting inclusive and globally connected learning environments.
Streamline HR operations with centralised certification
Moodle Workplace 4.4 expands the existing centralised certification automation functionality to allow L&D managers to automatically assign certifications to users who weren’t initially included. For instance, new employees not assigned to Health & Safety Certification will now be automatically enrolled.
Enabled by Dynamic Rules, this comprehensive automation enhances efficiency and simplifies the management of certification processes, promoting smoother L&D operations.
