Use a checklist as part of on the job (OTJ) training
Confirm that a learner completed required tasks for a course. Alternately use checklists as self-assessment tools for learners.
Availability: all customers
Checklists: overview
Checklists are tools to verify that a learner has completed a series of required items for an on the job (OTJ) training course. The items are typically tasks that the learner completes while under supervision, or as part of a self-assessment to review their own learning.
You can set up the checklist to either require assessment by an observer, or allow learners to manage their own learning and manage their own checklists.
Optionally, you can also let learners submit their work before proceding with the next part of the course.
Note: the verifier can mark the learner as Approved, even if the checklist is not complete. This option provides flexibility to address individual circumstances.
Checklists are available by default as a module in courses.
Within LearnUpon, checklists look a lot like exams or surveys. The main difference is that checklists use only one type of text field, where exams and surveys have a variety of formats.
You can add as many items to the checklist as you need to confirm the learner has completed their training.
The following screenshot shows a sample learner's checklist with default settings before requesting assessment.
Checklist sources: create in a course vs create in the library
You can create as many checklists as you need for course requirements.
You can create checklists 1 of 2 ways:
- create the checklist and its items within a course
- create the checklist and its items through the library
Note: if you create the checklist from the Courses page, you can edit the checklist in your draft course until you publish the course.
If you add the checklist from the library, LearnUpon locks the checklist as soon as you add it to a draft course.
See Library: your portal's reusable modules.
When you create a checklist within a course, LearnUpon adds the checklist to the library after you publish it as part of the course. You won’t see it in the library, while the checklist is in Draft status.
You can edit checklists freely - change the item wording, change the item order, and delete items - while they are in Draft status.
After publishing a checklist in a course, you can’t edit it - either through the library, or within the course.
To change a published checklist in a course, you need to create a new checklist, re-version the course to replace the existing checklist with the new version, and publish the course again.
See Publish a new version of a course.
Deleting a checklist
By default, LearnUpon's library stores modules that you create, so they're available for re-use in multiple courses across the portal. You can keep draft content, not yet published, in the library long term.
For checklists: currently, when you delete all the courses where a published checklist appeared, this step also deletes the checklist from the library.
Note: To keep a published checklist in the library for re-use, you need to use it in at least 1 course.
Checklist module settings
These settings decide what the learner sees during the observation and verification process. They’re available when the checklist is part of the course.
You can set:
- Show items to learner: let learners see the items in the checklist that an instructor is assessing. If you decide not to show questions, the learner doesn’t know the length or detail of the checklist or its contents. Default setting is on
- Show status of items to learner: requires Show items to learner turned on. As the observer marks items as complete, the learner can see changes to the checklist in their own course as they happen. Default setting is off
- Let learners complete checklists themselves: lets learners mark their tasks as complete at their own pace
- Let learners save checklists without review: lets learners submit the checklist and proceed to the next part of the course. When selected, the checklist doesn’t require review by the instructor. Only available when Let learners complete checklists themselves is turned on
The following screenshot shows Checklist settings with default options.
When you use multiple checklists in a course, you set each module's settings separately.
See Learner view of completing a checklist.
Course settings for checklist content
In many courses, you put your modules in a specific order, and require learners to complete the modules in that order.
See Courses: sequence your modules.
For checklists, you can optionally bypass that sequencing, so that verifying a checklist doesn’t hold up a learner’s progress on a course. They can continue with other modules, while waiting to meet their instructor for assessment.
These content options become available from the course’s Content page, after you add a checklist to your course.
The following screenshot shows Content options for a course that includes a checklist.
Checklist observation requests and notifications
When a learner selects Request assessment from the checklist module, LearnUpon sends an internal portal notification to the observer(s). The portal does not send an email notification.
Typically, the person who enrolled the learners, or the course instructors, get the requests, based on the following conditions:
- when someone enrolls learners on a course: all observation requests go to the person doing enrollments. Other admins and the course owner can access checklists and verify, but don’t get requests
- if learners have assigned instructors: observation requests go to the assigned instructor only
- if learners have no assigned instructor, observation requests go to all the instructors on the course
- when someone who isn’t an instructor enrolls learners, or when learners enroll themselves: observation requests go to all instructors on the course
Tip: admins and managers with enrollment permissions can enroll learners on courses.
When the verifier approves the checklist, learners receive a confirmation that their checklist is Completed.
Access permissions
Admins, instructors who are course owners, and managers with instructor permissions can:
- create checklists with their items and add them to courses
- observe checklists and verify them for learners
Instructors who are not course owners can observe checklists and verify them for learners.
By default, the course owner - the person who created the course in LearnUpon - is the first course instructor, and the first checklist observer.
The course owner or a portal admin can always observe and verify checklists, as a backup option for instructors, but they don’t typically get observation requests.
Courses can have multiple instructors. Admins can assign 1 or more learners to a specific instructor.
When learners are assigned to an instructor, only the instructor receives the learners' observation requests, and can verify their learners' checklists. Other instructors no longer have access.
You can change the course owner through a course’s Additional Settings. See Courses: Additional Settings to manage learners' access to a course.
To give instructors the optional permissions to create courses, and become course owners, see Users: create an instructor, and assign them to a course.
To give managers the optional permissions to act as instructors, and become course owners, see Managers: set permissions to manage groups.
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