New Navigation - what is it? (beta updates)

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😍 Intro

We’re excited to introduce our new Persona-based navigation! This article will tell you everything you need to know about the roll-out and provide you with resources to support your launch.

Learn Amp's new navigation, featuring a large search box in the top navigation, and multiple icons in the side navigation.
Learn Amp’s new navigation

 


🧝 What is it?

Developed in close collaboration with customers, our new Persona-based navigation is designed to offer tailored experiences based on user roles, helping each role to perform their core tasks.

👩🏽‍🎓 For the Learner

The 'home' navigation item

At the top of the side-navigation, you will see a quick link that takes the user to the main dashboard so they can always quickly access the Dashboards created by the organisation. You can also access the Dashboard by clicking the logo.

This section will appear for all users regardless of system role.

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My Learning gives the user quick access to:

  • My Tasks to drive completion of assigned content;

  • Browse Topics to encourage self-led learning;

  • Browse Events to encourage enrolment.

 

Browse Topics: This page will only appear if you have enabled the Topic Search page after creating your Learning Taxonomy.

 

My Learning will appear for all users, as long as one of Content or Events is enabled in your account.

 

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My Development gives the learner quick access to:

  • Skills to encourage an individual’s ownership of their own skills development

  • CPD so a learner can quickly understand if they are hitting their CPD targets (only appears if enabled)

  • 1-to-1sso learners have a quick way to access this important mechanism for working on their development (only appears if enabled)

  • Objectives so learners can keep track and work towards their goals (only appears if enabled)

 

My Development will appear for all users, as long as one of Skills, CPD, 1-to-1s or Objectives is enabled in your account.

 

If you have not yet enabled Skills, please get in touch with our CS team as this is now available as part of our Core offering!

 

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Our new Community section puts collaborative learning front and centre. Giving learners access to:

  • Browse Communities a new page enabling learners to search for and join Communities.

  • My Communities a new page to give learner’s quick access to the communities they have joined.

  • Employee/Member Directoryto encourage collaboration across the organisation

 

Community will appear for all users, if employee/member directory is enabled or if you have enabled the My/Browse Community links from Company Settings → Communities.

NB: the Communities Beta Feature must also be enabled for My/Browse Communities to appear.

 

👩‍💼 For the Manager or Coach

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The My Team area is designed for the Manager persona. We’ve heard through customer feedback that Managers are a key role in ensuring employee engagement in your organisation; so we now have an additional space dedicated to Managers, where they can go to see information on their team.

We’re really excited about where we can take this dedicated space in future, so please let us know your ideas!

 

My Team takes the manager to a new page full of links off to the relevant logs for each feature set.

When they click a link they will be taken to the relevant Team or Managed Users tab.

 

My Team will appear only for users that are marked as Managers.

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The Coaching area is designed for the Coach persona. We’ve heard through customer feedback that Coaches need a more direct route to see information on their coached users; so we now have an additional space dedicated to Coaching.

 

Coaching takes the coach to a sub-navigation where they can access their coached users list and the coached users tab for events.

 

Coaching will appear only for users that are marked as Coaches.

 

👀 For those with higher permission (admin, curator, learning designer, hr, reporter roles)

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The Manage area has been designed in a way to give admins and other roles a quick way to move between maintaining different entities across Learn Amp.

This section will appear for those with higher permissions (Owner, Admin, Learning Designer, Curator, HR) and it will also appear for other roles if they have been given specific Manage permission via optional permissions, or via an entity within the system eg. an item.

The full structure of the Manage menu can be seen below. If a user does not have permission to view a page, then the corresponding menu item will not appear for them. For example, the Curator role does not have permission to update people in Learn Amp, therefore the ManagePeople section will not appear when logged in as a Curator.

 

  • Learning Content

    • Items

    • Learnlists

    • Channels

    • Libraries

    • Quizzes

    • Exercises

    • Score Exercises

    • Events

    • Surveys

  • Compliance

    • Tasks

    • Escalation Policies

  • Development

    • Skills

    • CPD

    • 1-to-1s

    • Objectives

  • People

    • Individuals

    • Teams

    • Teams Chart

    • Groups

    • External Contributors

 

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The Reporting area is visible to Owners, Admins, Reporters, HR and Learning Designers, and directs users to the Central Reporting Page.

 

 

👀 Still to come…

We are currently completing some work on the tab structure to further enhance the navigation experience throughout Learn Amp. If you enable the beta feature, you will see these changes in your account as soon as they are available. You can see an example of the change, using 1-to-1s as an example, below. The 'My' tabs will only appear when a user is thinking about their own learning and development ie. when they access the area via My Learning/My Development.

 

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🤔 FAQ:

 

Our roll-out timeline and supporting resources can be found here.

Please try out your different use cases and let us know if you spot any bugs or have any suggestions for how to make it even better via our feedback form. We’ll be actively monitoring suggestions to inform any changes before closing the beta testing period.

Yes, all users will see a brief walkthrough guide that is generic enough to suit all use cases and branding.

No, in Q2-Q3 next year we will move all accounts over to the new navigation. Maintaining two navigations would significantly reduce our engineering capacity and therefore slow down the pace at which we can build new features and fix any bugs.

We heard in user interviews that the banner images at the top of the page takes up a lot of screen real estate and causes a lot of scrolling. For this reason, we have removed the large banners and replaced them with simpler and smaller gradient banners.

You can customise the colour of these banners in Company SettingsColours.

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