December Maintenance Pack for 23D

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Learning

Learning

Oracle Learning Cloud is a skills driven learning platform that enables employees, teams and organizations to develop the most relevant set of skills. Oracle Learning combines informal and formal learning, from internal catalog and external learning sources into a single platform to provide learners with a single, unified learning experience.

Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve your user experience. The pages or flows look and act like Redwood pages or flows, to help create cohesiveness through the application.

Redwood Enrollment Details Page Enhancements

Configure how far in advance of a virtual instructor-led session learners will see the Join link.

Update 23D

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

____________________

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

____________________

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Learning

Learning

Oracle Learning Cloud is a skills driven learning platform that enables employees, teams and organizations to develop the most relevant set of skills. Oracle Learning combines informal and formal learning, from internal catalog and external learning sources into a single platform to provide learners with a single, unified learning experience.

Extending HCM Redwood Pages Using Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio)

Tailor a seamless experience for your employees using Oracle's Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio). HCM leverages the new Express mode in VB Studio to empower your business users to customize HR processes and ensure data quality.

Use the various delivered constants to customize your Redwood pages to best fit your specific business needs, such as:

• Enabling guided journey tasks to assist users in efficiently performing HR transactions by providing tutorials, company policies, and best practices.
• Implementing nudges to support managers and employees in completing important tasks promptly, such as scheduling check-ins or assigning goals.

Additionally, use Business Rules, which is equivalent to Transaction Design Studio for Redwood pages, to:

• Leverage delivered best practices or create your own rules based on various criteria, such as country and business unit.
• Make fields and regions required or optional, read-only or editable, and show or hide fields and regions depending on specific criteria.

The types of changes you can make to an HCM Redwood page depend on the page you're modifying.

Learner Experience

Hide Recommendations for Completed Learning

Remove learning recommendations from the learner's Browse Learning page after they complete the learning.

Learning Recommendations for Manager-Assigned Skills

Automate learning recommendations to workers to help them attain the manager-assigned skills that they haven't yet achieved.

Learning Recommendations for Topics Popular in My Role

Automate learning recommendations to workers based on topics followed by other workers in the same job role.

Learning Recommendations Popular with Others in My Careers of Interest

Automate learning recommendations to workers for job roles they've identified as careers of interest, based on learning completed by other workers in those roles.

Print Transcript

Download a .pdf file of your learning transcript. Managers can also download their workers' transcripts.

Simplified Filters on the Redwood My Learning Page

Use the new set of filter chips on My Learning page to filter your current and completed enrollments.

Administrator Experience

Bulk Load Manager-Created Learning Assignments

Create and update manager-created learning assignments using HCM Data Loader.

Extending Learning Redwood Pages Using Visual Builder Studio

Use Visual Studio Builder (VBS) Express mode and Business Rules to make fields required or optional, read-only or editable, and show or hide fields depending on specific criteria.

Redwood Classroom Management

Use the new Classrooms page re-created with the Redwood user experience to manage classrooms.

Redwood Instructor Management

Use the new Instructor page re-created with the Redwood user experience to manage instructors.

Redwood Training Suppliers Management

Use the new Training Suppliers page re-created with the Redwood user experience to manage training suppliers.

Remote Capturing of SCORM and HACP logs

Record the SCORM and HACP communication between your content and Oracle Learning to debug issues. Then use Oracle Business Intelligence Publishing (BI) reports to see these communications.

Replace Online, Video, and PDF Content

Facilitate content resource management with the ability to replace the content file when needed to deploy updates to SCORM, Video or PDF content.

Skills Advisor for Learning Enhancements

Define a specific set of courses and specializations to generate skill suggestions to be used as learning outcomes.

External Providers

Learning Connect Content Provider SDK with xAPI

Certified content providers can import digital learning to your catalog and also send learner progression and completion data using xAPI statements.

Microsoft Outlook Calendar Integration

Automate Microsoft Outlook calendar invitations to learner's and instructor's calendars for the instructor-led activities they're enrolled in or teaching through Oracle Learning. And keep them updated with changes made in Oracle Learning.

Learning Replaced or Removed Features

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing features with new features, or removes existing features.

Replaced features may be put on a path of removal, the features below will let you know what update you will have to have moved to the newer feature. As a best practice, you should move to the newer feature as soon as possible for full support and to stay up with the latest updates that the product offers.

Any feature that is removed, will have an Update in which that feature is no longer available. Please make necessary plans to move off the feature by the Update indicated, as it will no longer be available.

Responsive User Experience Removal Notice

By the 24B update, activity sequencing and Redwood learning self-service pages must be enabled. Non-Redwood learning self-service pages will no longer be supported.

Oracle Grow

Oracle Grow, a part of the Oracle ME employee experience platform, combines learning, skill development, and career mobility to drive individual and organizational success. It brings together all the elements that your employees need to excel in their current roles and for career growth including learning, skill development, gigs to develop competence and expertise.

Discover More Learning Resources

Check out Oracle Grow that now gives employees the ability to discover more learning items:

• Learning for their favorite gigs to excel in their current role
• Learning for their favorite gigs and jobs to grow their career 
• Popular learning topics in their role
• Popular learning their peers are undertaking 
• Featured learning items within learning topics they follow

Learning Controlled Availability

Features under this heading are under the Controlled Availability Program. The Controlled Availability Program is a program for early testing and feedback of features, before they are included into the product line. You must request and be accepted into the Controlled Availability Programs to use these features. Please see the What's New for more information on being part of these programs.

NOTE: These features are not generally available to customers, customers must be approved to use these features. When these features are generally available to all customers they will be announced under their product area headings.

Administrator Experience

Introducing Digital Learning

Add online learning to your Oracle Learning catalog using the new Digital Learning business object. Digital learning simplifies publishing self-paced learning with a single activity to your learning catalog.

Introducing Learning Organizations

Control self-service access to digital learning items in your learning catalog using learning organizations.

External Providers

Skillsoft Percipio Content Provider

Add Skillsoft Percipio learning content to Oracle Learning. Also track learner's progress and completion when launched from Oracle Learning or Skillsoft Percipio.