Hi Everyone,
I've been looking at the Categories function in Bridge and what I want to understand is.
- What is it used for?
- What is the advantage for the learners by me using categories?
Any help or advise would be great
Hi Everyone,
I've been looking at the Categories function in Bridge and what I want to understand is.
- What is it used for?
- What is the advantage for the learners by me using categories?
Any help or advise would be great
Hi Heidi,
Thank you for the information.
We don't have a large amount of content yet but this is good to know as we will use it in the future when we have more content.
Thank you again
Hi Blake Sohier,
Here's a visual that might help. The Categories and Tags are used to visually organize courses in the learning library. The Categories are like sub-sections; group the courses based on category to make navigation easier. Tags are filters to help drill down and find specific content; use the tags to filter by level, sub-specialty, etc.
There is an admin step you need to take to use Categories like this in the library. Go to Admin > Users > Manage Groups, and click on the "All Learners" group. On this page, in the Relevant Content tab add the categories you created so they are available to everyone.
We use an "open library" concept, in which a majority of our content is available to all learners in the system. We don't use sub-accounts in any way.
As a follow up, I'd recommend designing your content schema early in the process. Think of it like folders in a document library. If you design it early and well, you won't need to go back and re-categorize content in the future.
Thank you for this great visual instruction! We recently implemented Bridge and don't have that much content yet but we will use categories early on to display content in a tidy manner
We've used categories to group learning activities together and strategically to show our internal offerings at the top.
We have external learning activities including LinkedIn adding thousands of learning offerings to the library. To ensure our internal learning activities take precedence we added a number and then text e.g. category name: '01 - business name and/or topic'.
I recommend creating categories based around broad themes, such as those found in your organization's strategic plan. I work at an Achieving the Dream community college, so our categories in Bridge are the seven capacity areas from the Achieving the Dream Institutional Capacity Framework:
Organizing our content this way helps our employees find training & professional development that is aligned with our organization's goals.
Jacob Roth and Ryan Belding, I think there is value in working on a strategy that continues using groups to launch to specific and targeted populations, but also, provides the structure needed for the Learner Library. We can chat further in staff meeting in the next week or two.
Hi Blake Sohier,
My team isn't currently using Categories, but I will try my best.
The intention is to allow better sorting of content. How do I create and manage categories in an account?
The function of Categories and Tags are quite different. Categories allows grouping of content, while Tags are about ease of searching content. It sounds like there are some functions similar to a Program also in that a Category may be assigned to a group without grouping that content into a Program.
I hope this helps,
Heidi