Starting a new Learning Plan
There are many different ways in which a Learning Plan can be “started”. This page explains those rules and conditions.
Starting a new Learning Plan
First, a note about terminology.
A Learning Plan Definition is the thing that specifies all of the business rules around starting and completing a process, such as a credential application.
A Learning Plan Instance is the actual application itself, which is a specific instance of a Learning Plan Definition for a specific person.
The phrase “start a new Learning Plan” means “create a new Learning Plan Instance”.
Who can start a Learning Plan Instance? | Where is it started from? | Notes |
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Practitioners | From the Simple Learning Plan List page | See below for explanations of “implicit eligibility” and “explicit eligibility” (to start a Learning Plan) |
From the Pathways page | ||
Administrators | From the Admin view of the Practitioner’s Legacy Learning Plan List page | Admins can only start a Learning Plan for a Practitioner if the Practitioner is eligible to start it. However, the “Begin” button can be hidden from Practitioners if you do not want them to start applications on their own. (In other words, the “Hide From Practitioner When” setting on the Learning Plan Definition does not affect eligibility, only the visible status of the button) |
From the Admin view of the Practitioner’s Pathways page | ||
From the Admin view of the Practitioner’s Account Profile page | ||
Providers | The Provider → Attendance Upload area | New Learning Plans are started according to the Practitioner’s eligibility status. |
LearningBuilder | Nightly maintenance process | When a Practitioner is eligible (see above), and the Learning Plan is configured to “auto-start” |
What does it mean to be “eligible” to start a Learning Plan?
In this document, “eligibility” refers to a Practitioner’s ability to start a Learning Plan. It has no relationship to the concept of “exam eligibility”.
Being “eligible” to start a Learning Plan means that a Practitioner satisfies the requirements for beginning a specific application process.
There are two ways in which a Practitioner can be considered eligible to start:
Explicitly Eligible | Implicitly Eligible |
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A Practitioner is explicitly eligible to start a Learning Plan Instance when they have a granted Member Role matching the Required Role and Required Role Status configured on the Learning Plan Definition.
| A Practitioner is implicitly eligible to start a Learning Plan instance when they do not yet have a Member Role matching the Required Role/Status, BUT:
In that scenario, Practitioners are considered eligible to start the Learning Plan because they are eligible to being a Role Grant process that will lead to them being eligible to start the Learning Plan. |
Rules and conditions for starting Learning Plans
This section explains the rules and conditions for starting a Learning Plan from different areas of LearningBuilder.
From the Simple Learning Plan List Page
Eligible to start the Learning Plan? | Result of clicking the “Begin” button |
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Not Eligible | N/A - no Begin button is shown |
Implicitly Eligible | Launches the Grant Role Workflow Popup. When the popup is submitted, and the Workflow Action resulted in the Grant Role Workflow being Completed Successfully, a new |
Explicitly Eligible | Creates a new |
From the Application Pathways Page
Eligible to start the Learning Plan? | Learning Plan has one or more Task Groups? | Result of clicking the “Begin” button |
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Not Eligible | N/A | N/A - no Begin button is shown |
Implicitly Eligible | Any | Launches the Grant Role Workflow Popup. When the popup is submitted, if the Workflow Action resulted in the Grant Role Workflow being Completed Successfully, then the next step is identical to what would happen in the Explicitly Eligible scenario. (e.g. the user is seamless transitioned from the “Grant Role” process into the “Create Learning Plan” process) |
Explicitly Eligible | Yes | Creates a new |
| No | Creates a new
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From the Admin → Account Profile Page
The Admin → Account Profile page allows an Administrator to begin the Grant Role process on behalf of a Practitioner.
Completing a Grant Role Workflow from this page will result in the automatic creation of a Learning Plan Instance
when:
The Practitioner is implicitly eligible to start the Learning Plan (matches required Role + Status), AND
The
Learning Plan Definition
is configured to “Auto-Start when eligible”