When you have an expansive learning environment, it's easy to forget about the individual needs of learners. Their learning patterns may differ from each other, which makes it important to track and curate the content they consume, automating it where possible.
Content Rows
On any page, you can add a special area showing the courses relevant to the user. This app is called Row, a horizontally scrollable area that presents different items depending on its settings. Multiple Rows may be added to a single page, each with different settings and modes.
Row Preferences
The first setting in the Preferences provides several modes for displaying the content:
- Recommendations - this is based on categories used for the content, so make sure to create and assign appropriate categories to your items. Whenever a user joins a categorized course or completes a categorized learning path or lesson, the system will note that as his interest and will start recommending such courses to them. User categories in the User Information - Categorization are also used, especially if there is no viewing history.
- Popular - most popular content overall, based on user activity.
- Trending weekly - most popular content during the week.
- Trending monthly - most popular content during the month.
- Top rated - the content with the highest user rating.
Only one mode can be enabled for one individual row.
The next option defines the content types displayed in these modes. You can select any of these types of content and even select multiple types of content at once:
- Course
- Lesson
- Learning Path
- Training Event
- Integrated content, like LinkedIn Learning, Udemy For Business, Harvard, getAbstract, Go1, etc.
You can select the option to consider user history in cases of Recommendations mode. If turned off, for example, the user will still see the lessons they’ve already passed.
Maximum items to display - you may limit the number of items displayed simultaneously.
The content is additionally filterable by categories. By choosing categories here, you will limit the display only to these categories. The OR and AND logic parameters are also available, allowing you to define whether to mix different categories or show one category at a time (refreshing the page randomly chooses one of the categories in the OR logic).
It's also possible to consider user language. This will show the content in the user language if that localization is available for that content.
Preferences also include settings to display ratings and the number of users rated the content.
When learning paths are displayed in the content type setting, you can select Consider skill level requirements, which will only show the learning paths with the requirements the user meets.