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Is anyone using Workday LMS?
Hey Gang!
I'm curious if anyone out there is using the Workday LMS? Here at GoDaddy, we're exploring the possibility of moving to Workday for our LMS vendor and we'd love to chat with anyone out there currently using it.
Let me know!
THANKS!
Tim
Hi Tony,
I haven't used it since June so there will have been some updates since then. I didn't have many problems with uploading the zip files from storyline 2 (didn't use 360 back then). One issue we came across was the courses not tracking completion, users had to clear their cache and cookies and restart their browser to get it to work, sometimes they had to do that twice.
I never got to the bottom of that issue, it may have been some software we were running in the background interfering.
Other than that it was ok, sometimes a nightmare when I had to mass enrol the entire company on courses because you can only do 1000 at once. With the tracking, I needed to run 2 reports, one for who were enrolled and one for who had completed. This was because Workday didn't enrol people automatically so they wouldn't come up on the completion report. They may have come up with a fix for that since I was fiddling around.
I have a couple of quick reference guides, one for adding an outlook calendar invite to a course and one for creating a course which is in the past. If you'd like me to ping them over to you send me your email address.
Hope this all helps, give me a shout if you want to have a chat or need more info.
Kim
Hi Kim!
I found a post you made from about 2 years ago. If you see this, I would very much like to get some info from your experience with Workday Learning. Seems like you may have been able to craft some good workarounds to Workday Learning shortcomings :).
Also interested in:
"...an outlook calendar invite to a course and one for creating a course which is in the past..."
Thank you!Hi Kim,
I realize this is a VERY old post but if you could send over any quick ref guides for Workday Learning that would be great. Especially adding an outlook calendar invite to a course, I'm trying to get that to work. spencer.poole@newbalance.com
Thanks so much,Spencer
We are piloting right now and built course in Rise (with Storyline interactions). We are highly disappointed in the LMS. It was purchased before our Learning team was assembled by the HR team so we're stuck with it for 18 more months :-(.
It's in an it's infancy so lacks critical aspects that LMS should have.
- We have noticed that when a learner completes a course and then revisits the course, it totally starts them off in a new course. It doesn't ask if you would like to resume, etc? it starts them off back off in the beginning of the course. Thus we now have to open our navigation so that learners once they complete courses, won't have to go through all of there course.
- If you need to update a course, it totally wipes out a learner's progress. There is NO (update a new version) option. So if you made any typos or had a glitch in a simulation, learners progress is LOST. They are back to the beginning of the course every time the course is updates. Your QA game had better be magnificent!
- Reporting is atrocious. It's just excel sheets that you have to export. Nothing pretty about it. Also The dashboard defaults to tables not graphs. And you can't make it default to graphs to make getting a quick glimpse easier.
Those that are using Workday, are you encountering this as well? Are we doing something wrong?
Workday LMS is H. O. R. R. I. B. L. E! I left my job because of Workday
LMS. Sorry for your troubles.Yes it is! horrible Luckily its only 18 more months of this. My manager hates it as much as my teammates.
Hi Tim,
Only just seen this post, so apologies in my late reply.
I used to work for a company which brought it in last year, I was involved in the testing, implementation and the LMS side of things.
Give me a shout if you want to chat about anything.
Kim
Kim - we are about to move to WorkDay and using SL2 and possibly 360. Are there any issues to be concerned with regarding Articulate products and WorkDay? Any Tips or Tricks would be much appreciated. :D
Tony
Hi All.
This thread is very helpful! My organization is looking at Work Day in pursuit of an HSM Suite solution. We are on Cornerstone now and I think the LMS is the next best thing to Saba (my opinion). We have our demo this week with WD and I have created a set of questions based on your comments. I am not a big HCM Suite LMS fan. These tend to be treated as the ugly step child out of the entire HCM stack. Your comments just confirm my years of experience. Not to say that any HCM Suite LMS platform could be outstanding if the proper attention and resources are provided. I just don't want my organization to be the Guinea Pig. Thanks,
Fred, would love to hear how your demo went. We are currently on Cornerstone as well so it would be great to get your perspective on WD Learning. Thanks!
Tanya - If you compare WD Learning to Cornerstone, you'll be HIGHLY disappointed. WD Learning is nowhere near as powerful as Cornerstone. The funny thing, when you become a client of Workday, they use Cornerstone as their LMS to train customers. What does that tell you?!?!
Good thread. Are there any updates on this topic that anyone can share? I'd be interested.
thank you,
Paul
our organization used Workday, and we use Storyline 360 as our elearning authoring tool. I haven't had any issues uploading files. I'm happy to answer any questions!
Hi Lori,
We are using SL360 and are publishing in Scorm 1.2/html5 to Workday. We have run into issues with Workday recognizing bank questions from Quizmaker. The bank is a large group of questions (60+) that pulls a random 25 questions as well as another topic that utilizes all the questions (around 12). While importing quiz to SL360 it shows the 12 questions as independent slides and the bank questions as one slide totaling 17 slides. Workday is completing at 17 slides when in actuality it is 12 + the 25 randomized questions. Following so far?
Hi Lori, I'm pretty new to workday LMS, if possible - can share the steps to upload the SCORM files on LMS and have you done any mass (Content) upload on workday? if yes, then what's the steps? Thanks in advance:)
We are moving to Workday in the next few months with adding in the LMS in the next 12. Is their LMS a home grown system? I notice they use Cornerstone for their knowledge base learning about workday processes, so wondered about that. Any tips folks can provide would be appreciated. Thanks
It is not an LMS I would recommend. If you can avoid it, DO!
Hi Colleen,
We are currently using Saba and thinking of moving to Workday Learning, why do you say it's not an LMS?
hi Beverly,
There are several different reasons I wouldn't recommend using Workday's LMS. A few of the big ones are:
- You can't upload updated versions of courses without whipping everyone's record.
- You can't assign individual due dates to users for a course.
- You can't auto-assign course work to new users.
- We've encountered a lot of problems with custom content playing and recording properly in Workday and was told that the Workday UI does not support flash. (as I side note, when I spoke with them about the error messages our users were getting we were told that the majority of their users do not create their own content but get it from 3rd party providers).
- We can't see how many times someone has launched a course or how long they were in the course.
- We can't customize the UI for different user groups.
- Personally, I feel like the search engine is also clunky and could be improved.
- From a user perspective, we've had issues where people complete a course but are not sure if they have completed it (and in some cases accidentally enroll in it again so it shows as "in progress" or "not started")
- For our compliance training, we are having to retire the courses each year and create new courses for the following year since the system will only maintain one completion record.
Those are just a few of the issues we've encountered with Workday. I've spoken with several people at Workday and offered to speak with their product team, but haven't heard back from them yet.
If you would like to talk further, let me know.
Not a fan. It has plenty of growing up to do. I however like the concept, but it is very limited.
