Update 23A

Revision History

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

Date	Module	Feature	Notes
05 DEC 2023	Learning	My Communities Redwood Learner Experience	Updated document. Revised feature information.
05 DEC 2023	Learning	My Shared Learning Redwood Learner Experience	Updated document. Revised feature information.
28 APR 2023	Learning	Activity Sequencing	Updated document. Revised feature information.
31 MAR 2023	Learning	Activity Sequencing	Updated document. Revised feature information.
31 MAR 2023	Learning	My Communities Redwood Learner Experience	Updated document. Revised feature information.
24 FEB 2023	Learning	Accepting a Waitlisted Seat	Updated document. Revised feature information.
24 FEB 2023	Learning	Activity Sequencing	Updated document. Revised feature information.
24 FEB 2023	Learning	My Communities Redwood Learner Experience	Updated document. Revised feature information.
24 FEB 2023	Learning	My Shared Learning Redwood Learner Experience	Updated document. Revised feature information.
02 DEC 2022			Created initial document.

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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• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
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• NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.
• Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.
• Oracle Help Center – Here you will find guides, videos and searchable help.
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Feature Summary

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.

Learning Assignments

Learning Initiative and Access Group Mass Withdraw Protection Improvements

For any learning initiative or access group that derives the target learners from more than one analyses or multiple criteria, an analysis or criteria might not return any learners. The new mass withdraw protection enhancement ensures that when this happens, the learner set derived from the impacted analysis isn’t withdrawn from the initiative or access group, while the learner sets derived from other analyses are. This gives you the opportunity to research if there's a problem with the analysis or criteria and fix it accordingly.

This enhancement provides faster processing of learning initiative and access groups with better protection against unwanted or accidental withdrawals.

Steps to Enable

Enable activity sequencing. If you already completed those steps, you don't need to do them again.

Re-assigning Learning

When you assign courses or offerings, you can now decide the outcome for people in the target audience that have existing, unexpired completions. You can reassign learners to or exempt them from the new assignment. And optionally, you can determine that outcome by the date of their existing completion.

When you re-assign a learner, they see a new assignment in their current learning. They need to complete it according to the configured completion settings. If you exempt them, the learner won’t see a new assignment in their current learning or learning history. But any learning administrator can see the new learning assignment with an Exempted status. The exempted assignment is evidence of the reassignment and exemption.

Assignment Conflict Rule Options for Learners with Existing and Bypassed Completions

When reassigning learners with existing completions, you can specify when the validity of the existing completions expires. You base the validity on either the start or due date of the new assignment.

• If you expire the existing completion using the new assignment’s start date, the learner immediately becomes noncompliant until they complete their new assignment.
• If you expire the existing completion using the new assignment’s due date, the learner has a grace period before they‘re noncompliant.

Assignment Conflict Rule Options for Learners Who Need to Retake and Their Completion Needs to Expire

This enhancement also lets you get learners into synced renewals when they have existing nonrenewing completions. The existing completion date and the new assignment’s renewal rules determine when the learner gets their new assignments for their current learning. After they complete their current assignment, they follow the renewal rules of their new assignment.

Renewal Options and a Renewal Period Based on When the Validity Period Ends

You can configure these renewal and assignment conflict rules when you create learning assignments or learning initiatives. You can also set up default renewal options and assignment conflict rules that apply when managers assign learning to their teams. Use the Configure Catalog Defaults task in the My Client Groups > Learning work area.

Configure Catalog Defaults Page with the New Manager-Created Assignment Renewal and Conflict Rule Defaults

And you can set up default renewal options and assignment conflict rules that apply when managers of official communities create learning assignments. Use the Configure Learner Defaults task in the My Client Groups > Learning work area.

Configure Learner Defaults Page with the New Community-Created Assignment Renewal and Conflict Rule Defaults

This enhancement lets you reassign learning to learners who have active completions for the learning.

Steps to Enable

Enable activity sequencing. If you already completed those steps, you don't need to do them again.

Tips And Considerations

• The ability to reassign learning doesn’t apply to learners who already have a renewal cycle managed by Oracle Learning.
• When you use HCM Data Loader to load active learning assignments for learners with existing completions, the existing completions automatically get updated with an expiration date that’s the due date of the active assignment being loaded.
• You can’t modify these advanced rules after you create a learning initiative. Existing initiatives will adopt the reassign training option after you enable this feature. Thus any new learner appearing in the target audience during reconciliation gets a new assignment, even if they already have a completion not managed by a renewal.
• Exempted records are visible in the Learning Records Real Time subject area in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (BI). If you don’t want them included in your reports, you need to add a filter to exclude them.
• The Related Learning folder in the Learning Records Real Time subject area provides attributes that let you report on the relationship between exempted records and the existing completion. You can also report on the relationship between the new assignment and existing completion. This reporting helps you understand why assignments were exempted or why completions were expired

Key Resources

For more information, see these chapters of the 23A Using Learning guide in Oracle Help Center:

• Defaults and Overrides for Learning Access and Enrollment
• Access and Enrollment Options for Learning Catalog, Courses, Offerings, and Specializations
• Learning Assignments and Recommendations Administration
• Learning Initiative Administration

You can also refer to this Oracle Learning Series on Customer Connect: Activity sequencing, observation checklists and assignment conflict rules

Renewals Management Improvements

When you change the renewal rules of required learning initiatives for courses, they now get applied to both existing initiative learners as well as new learners added later.

Learning Initiatives Page with the Information Message Showing

This enhancement lets you apply renewal rule changes for course initiatives to both the current learners and learners that get added later.

Steps to Enable

Enable activity sequencing. If you already completed those steps, you don't need to do them again.

Learning Catalog

Activity Sequencing

You can now define the order in which a learner progresses through a series of activities in offerings or specializations. You can also define whether completion is required or optional for each activity. And you can define sections to group related activities, improving learner experience when offerings have many activities.

Defining sequencing at section and activity level of a specialization

Enrollment Page with One Section that Has Two Required Activities and a Second Section That’s Locked Until the Learner Completes the First Section.

Additionally, you can now control when learners with active learning assignments see changes made to the offering or specialization. You can make the necessary changes and when you’re ready to update learner assignments, use the new Reconcile Learning Assignments action.

New Reconcile Learning Assignments action

This enhancement lets you control the order that learners complete offering and specialization activities in.

Steps to Enable

Prepare to Enable

1. Grant learning administrators these security privileges:
   • Role: Learning Specialist REST Services
   • Role: Use REST Service – eLearning Content Read Only
   • Functional privilege: Use REST Service - Questionnaire Lists of Values
   • If using a global RunAs user, ensure that the person has the data policy View Catalog Learning Items by Administrator with condition set to All Values
2. Update this profile option site-level value using the Manage Administrator Profile Values task in the Setup and Maintenance work area:
   • ORA_WLF_SEQUENCING_VERSION = Y
3. Cancel all schedules for these background process because you’ll need to replace them with new processes as part of the post-migration configuration. At that point, these processes won’t function.
   • Evaluate Person IDs for Assignment Rule
   • Reconcile Dynamic Assignments
   • Reconcile Access Groups

Enable

1. Migrate the learning catalog and learning enrollments in current learning.
   1. Go to Tools > Scheduled Processes and schedule the Learn Migration process.
   2. On the Process Details dialog box, select the Migrate catalog and active assignments for sequencing data correction option.

Caution: When you click Submit, you’re committed to the migration. You won’t be able to undo the changes. Also, during the migration no one can use Oracle Learning.

1. 3. Click Submit.
2. After step 1 completes successfully, migrate people’s learning history.
   1. Schedule the Learn Migration process again.
   2. On the Process Details dialog box, select the Migrate completed learner assignments to support sequencing data correction option.
   3. Click Submit.
   4. Verify that the process completes successfully.

After Enablement

Configure and schedule the new background processes that reconcile learning initiatives and access groups:

New Process	Comments
Process Learning Records	Replaces Reconcile Dynamic Assignments
Process User Access	Replaces Reconcile Access Groups
Process Learning Recommendations	New

Note: You don’t need to separately schedule the Evaluate Person IDs for Assignment Rule background process anymore because these three new processes will handle its function automatically.

Refer to the Implementing Learning guide for process configuration details.

Tips And Considerations

The enablement steps, which migrate the current learning and active assignments, may take some time to complete. Make note of how long it takes on your nonproduction environment so that you know how long the Learning module will be unavailable in the production environment.

IMPORTANT: This feature isn't compatible with the Learning Planning and Budgeting controlled availability feature at this time and the migration step will fail. Compatibility is planned for 23C.

After enablement, your existing offerings and specializations will behave as they did before, meaning that learners can randomly complete their activities. You can update existing offerings or specializations to define a completion sequence for learners. Or you can create additional offerings and specializations, and define the completion and sequencing rules.

Learners who use HCM Cloud Mobile offline can work on any activities that were unlocked when they last synced.

HCM Data Loader has new business objects that replace existing business objects that don’t support sequencing. After you enable activity sequencing, you need to use the new objects because the existing objects will no longer work.

New Business Object	Business Object It Replaces
CourseV3	Course
SpecializationV3	Specialization
ActivityAttemptV3	ActivityAttempt

To replace SCORM, HACP, video, and .pdf content, learning administrators need to add the new content to the learning resources. Then they need to create a new activity to replace the existing activity.

At this time, learning administrators can't copy create additional offerings and specializations by copying existing ones.

To create courses and offerings, learning administrators need to use the Courses and Offerings tasks on the My Client Groups > Learning page. They can't create them from the edit content page.

Learning adminstrators can reposition activities in an offering or specialization section, but they can't move an activity to another section. They need to delete it from the current section and add it in the correct section.

When learning administrators create a course assignment, they can't select an offering nor can they edit the Learning Item As-Of date.

Key Resources

For more information, see this chapter of the 23A Implementing Learning guide in Oracle Help Center:

• Background Learning Processes That You Schedule Manually

See these chapters of the 23A Using Learning guide:

• Course Offering Administration in the Learning Catalog
• Specialization Administration in the Learning Catalog

You can also refer to this Oracle Learning Series on Customer Connect: Activity sequencing, observation checklists and assignment conflict rules

Observation Checklists

Here’s what you can do with the new observation checklists:

• Let learners rate themselves using the specified questionnaire before they’re observed. The observer can see the learner’s responses while they complete their checklist.
• Let observers fill in a checklist to either rate the learner’s performance or to sign off on each learning area. The observer is the final approver of whether the learner passes or fails that activity.
• Define observers using named individuals, manager hierarchy, or areas of responsibility.
• Determine how many attempts an observer can document. You can report on each attempt, and let the current observer review each prior attempt.

Sample Observation Checklist Activity in a Learner’s Enrollment Details

Observation Checklist Notification

Observation Checklist the Observer Is Completing on Their Smartphone

This enhancement lets learners assess their learning and lets observers assess it as well.

Steps to Enable

1. Enable activity sequencing. If you already completed those steps, you don't need to do them again.
2. Create the Learning Observation Checklist questions, questionnaire templates, and questionnaires.
3. Add the observation checklists to the learning catalog resources.
4. Create self-paced activities with the learning observation checklists for applicable self-paced and blended learning offerings.
5. Optionally enable worklist notifications to learners when an observer completes their checklist by setting the site-level value for the ORA_WLF_OBS_CHCKLST_LRNR_COMPL_NOTIFY profile option to Y.

Key Resources

For more information, see these chapters of the 23A Using Learning guide in Oracle Help Center:

• Enrollment Questionnaires, Assessments, Observation Checklists, and Evaluations
• Add, Replace, and Manually Process Content Resources
• Course Offering Administration in the Learning Catalog

You can also refer to this Oracle Learning Series on Customer Connect: Activity sequencing, observation checklists and assignment conflict rules

Waitlist Management Automation

After the offering end date is past for instructor-led (ILT) and blended learning offerings, the new Change the Status of Offering Assignments with Any Pre-Active Status to Delete process automatically sets the status to Deleted for all offering assignments with these statuses:

• Waitlisted
• Pending seat acceptance
• Requested
• Pending fulfillment
• Pending prerequisites

When the start date arrives for an ILT offering, existing waitlisted learners will no longer automatically be granted a seat when one becomes available. Learning administrators will control the active learners and can accept more learners into the offering or not.

This enhancement lets you more easily reconcile learner attendance. And you no longer need to manually change the status of waitlisted assignments to Deleted.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

You can also define capacity for self-paced offerings. But limiting the enrollment of waitlisted learners isn’t possible because this type of offering doesn’t have start or end Dates.

Learner Experience

Learn Community and Learn Enrollment Task Types in HCM Journeys

You can now use the Learn Community task type in HCM journeys to join a community and the Learn Enrollment task type to let learners enroll in specific learning. For example, add a Learn Community task type that requires the assignee to join the new hire learning community.

Here are the steps to use these task types:

1. Configure the learning community or item in Oracle Learning.
2. Create an HCM journey with the Learn Community or Learn Enrollment task type.

Checklist: Onboarding Journey Page with the Learn Community Task Type and Corresponding Learning Item Title

Onboarding Journey Page with the Link to Launch the Learning Community

Learning Community Details Page Opened from the Onboarding Journey

Configure the Learn Enrollment task type to associate it with learning involving one of these content types. First you select the content type, then the specific learning item.

• Course
• Learning journey
• Offering
• Specialization
• Video

Checklist: Onboarding Journey Page with the Learn Enrollment Task Type and Corresponding Learning Item Title

Onboarding Journey Page with the Link to Launch the Learning Enrollment Page

Learning Enrollment Details Page Opened from the Onboarding Journey

This enhancement lets you create journeys that assignees can use to join a specific learning community or enroll in a specific learning item.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For more information about Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning, see the Implementing Learning and Using Learning guides in Under Cloud Applications > Talent Management in Oracle Help Center.

For more information about HCM journeys, see the Checklists and Journeys chapter in the Implementing Global Human Resources guide.

Access Requirements

You need to grant the people who work on checklist templates the Manage Journey (PER_MANAGE_CHECKLIST_TEMPLATE_PRIV) function privilege. This table shows the duty roles that support checklist templates and the delivered roles that inherit these duty roles.

Role Name and Code	Job or Abstract Role Name and Code
Use REST Service - eLearning Content Read Only (ORA_WLF_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_ELEARNING_CONTENT_RO)	Human Capital Management Integration Specialist (ORA_HRC_HUMAN_CAPITAL_MANAGEMENT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)
Use REST Service - eLearning Content (ORA_WLF_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_ELEARNING_CONTENT)	Human Capital Management Integration Specialist (ORA_HRC_HUMAN_CAPITAL_MANAGEMENT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)
	Learning Specialist REST Services (ORA_WLF_LEARNING_SPECIALIST_REST_SERVICES_DUTY)
Manage eLearning Content (ORA_WLF_MANAGE_ELEARNING_CONTENT)	Learning Specialist (ORA_WLF_LEARNING_SPECIALIST_JOB)

Accepting a Waitlisted Seat

A learner enrolled in a primary course offering, can now join the ILT offering that they were previously waitlisted for, when a seat becomes available. After the learner accepts the ILT offering seat, the ILT offering becomes the active enrollment and the learner gets withdrawn from the current primary offering. If they decline the seat, the offering is removed from their enrollment and the primary offering they're already enrolled in applies.

Course Enrollment Details Page Showing the Selected Primary Offering and an ILT Offering with an Available Seat

This enhancement gives learners flexibility in completing their enrollments, saving learning administrators time.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

Here's an example of a resource alert filter that you could use to notify learners that they have a seat to accept or decline:

Entered Pending Seat Acceptance Date:

TRUNC(${selectedCourseOfferings.enteredPendingSeatAcceptanceDate}) >= ${AlertFilterUtils.addDays(AlertFilterUtils.getCurrentDate(),-1)} AND TRUNC(${selectedCourseOfferings.enteredPendingSeatAcceptanceDate}) <= ${AlertFilterUtils.getCurrentDate()}

Status:

${selectedCourseOfferings.assignmentStatus} = 'ORA_ASSN_REC_PENDING_SEAT'

Learning Type:

${learningItemType} = 'ORA_COURSE'

Communities I Manage Page Enhancements

You can now access all of the communities that you manage on your My Communities > Communities I Manage page. It doesn’t matter whether they’re self-service, official, topic, or category.

My Learning Communities Page Showing the Communities You Manage

This enhancement makes it easier for you to manage your communities.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

My Communities Redwood Learner Experience

The Redwood learner experience has expanded to include the My Learning Communities pages. You can reach these pages using the Actions menu of Explore tab on the Me > Learning page > Actions > View My Learning Communities.

Explore the Learning Catalog Page Showing the Actions Menu with the View My Learning Communities Option

The My Learning Communities page has two filter chips that let you easily toggle between communities that you’re a member of and communities that you manage.

My Learning Communities Page with the I’m a Member Of Filter Chip Active

My Learning Communities Page with the I Manage Filter Chip Active

This enhancement lets you easily access your learning communities, as a member and as a manager.

Steps to Enable

For the Steps to Enable see the following topic in the Implementing Learning guide: Enable the Redwood learner experience.

Tips And Considerations

If you enabled the Redwood learning experience before release 23A, you need to re-ingest the learning catalog to Oracle Search Cloud Service. Otherwise the My Learning Communities pages won't show any information. To ingest the learning catalog, submit the ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS process once with the fa-hcm-learningitem input parameter.

Key Resources

• For more information, see the Redwood User Experience Setup chapter in the Implementing Learning guide.
• For information about Redwood profile options, see HCM Redwood Pages with Profile Options (document ID 2922407.1) on My Oracle Support.

Access Requirements

For access to:

• My Communities Redwood pages, grant employees the View Learning Communities privilege. You also need to grant them the Use REST Service - Learning Communities and configure the data security policy so that the page populates with data. The available pages are further determined by the results on their My Learning Communities pages.
• Recommend action on learning community cards, grant them the Manage Recommended Learning privilege.
• Create Community action, grant them the Manage Learning Communities privilege.

My Shared Learning Redwood Learner Experience

The Redwood learner experience has expanded to the My Videos, My Learning Journeys, and Recommended Learning pages. You can reach the video and journey pages using the Actions menu of Explore tab on the Me > Learning page.

Explore the Learning Catalog Page Showing the Actions Menu with the View My Videos and View My Learning Journeys Options

You can see the videos that you published and that are pending approval or transcoding on the new My Videos page. You can also publish other videos from this page.

My Videos Page Showing 1 Published Video and the Publish Video Page Action

You can see the learning journeys that you published on the new My Learning Journeys page. You can also author other learning journeys from this page.

My Learning Journeys Page Showing 3 Published Journeys and the Author Learning Journey Page Action

Access learning recommended to you and learning that you recommend to others using the Recommended Learning tab on the Me > Learning page.

Recommended Learning Page Showing Learning Recommended to You and the View Recommendations I Made Page Action

Recommendations I Made Page Showing Recommendations

This enhancement gives you the Redwood experience across all of your shared learning pages.

Steps to Enable

For more information refer to Enable the Redwood learner experience.

Tips And Considerations

If you enabled the Redwood learning experience before release 23A, you need to re-ingest the learning catalog to Oracle Search Cloud Service. Otherwise the Explore Learning, My Videos, My Learning Journeys, and Recommended Learning pages won't show any information. To ingest the learning catalog, submit the ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS process once with the fa-hcm-learningitem input parameter.

Key Resources

• For more information, see the Redwood User Experience Setup chapter in the Implementing Learning guide.
• For information about Redwood profile options, see HCM Redwood Pages with Profile Options (document ID 2922407.1) on My Oracle Support.

Access Requirements

To let people access the View My Videos action, grant them the Manage Learning Self-Service Videos privilege.

To let people access the View My Learning Journeys action, grant them the Manage Learning Self-Service Tutorials privilege.

To let people access the View Recommendations I Made action, grant them the Manage Recommended Learning privilege.

Skills Advisor for Learning

You can use Oracle AI to suggest appropriate skills to set as learning outcomes while configuring a course or specialization. Suggestions are based on the course or specialization title, description, and short description. The more you curate the suggestions, the better they'll become.

You can curate the skills suggestions in a Microsoft Excel workbook.

AI-Suggested Skills for Course and Specialization Learning Outcomes ADFdi Workbook

You can also review the suggestions for a specific course or specialization on its Learning Outcomes tab. Any suggestions where you set the skills curation status to Yes show on the course or specialization details page, definitions tab. They're also the only skills that transfer to learners’ talent profiles after they successfully complete the learning. The skills that you don't curate don't become learning outcomes.

NOTE: Curated skills won’t show in workbooks generated by future processing. But they will show on applicable Learning Outcomes tabs as well as course and specialization definitions. And every skill that you curate teaches Oracle AI services to produce better suggestions.

Learning Machine Learning Course, Learning Outcomes Tab Showing the Skill Center Section and Suggested Skills

Any skills with a curation status of No continue to appear on the Learning Outcomes tab, but not in the details definition. They also don’t transfer to talent profiles after successful completion of the course or specialization. If you delete a skill suggestion—from the Learning Outcomes tab or the spreadsheet, it’s removed everywhere and won’t appear again in future skill suggestions for that course or specialization.

Learning Machine Learning Course Details Page Showing Only Curated Skills in the Learning Outcomes Section

This enhancement lets you make use of ever-improving AI to apply relevant learning outcomes to courses and specializations.

Steps to Enable

1. Implement Oracle AI Apps for HCM and Dynamic Skills and set up products to use them. For details, see the Implementing Oracle AI Apps for HCM and Dynamic Skills technical brief available on My Oracle Support (document ID 2826501.1).
2. Enable Redwood learner experience setup.
3. Run the AI Suggested Skills for Learning Items background process as appropriate using the Tools > Scheduled Processes task. For example, run a full process initially to get skills suggestions for all of your existing courses and specializations. Then run incremental processes to get suggestions for new courses and specializations.

Tips And Considerations

You need to complete and save the general information for all courses and specializations that you want to get skills suggestions for. Then next time you run the process, the results will include suggestions for those courses and specializations.

Approvals & Notifications

Learning Incident Transaction Enhancements

Learning incident transactions now appear in the Transaction Console. Workflow administrators can perform all standard actions on these transactions, such as Terminate, Withdraw, or Reassign.

Transaction Manager: Transactions Page Showing Learning Incident Processes

You can’t enable or disable the Learning Incident flow using the Bypass Approvals option on the Transaction Manager: Rules page. The flow is always on.

Transaction Manager: Rules Page Showing That You Can’t Edit the Bypass Approvals Option

This enhancement consolidates access to all incident management transactions in Transaction Console.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Learning Item Contribution Approver Improvements

You can now preview the applicable learning in the approval notification itself, so that you can make an informed decision about whether to approve it.

Preview Page for a Learning Video

This enhancement lets learning approvers make informed approvals.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Learning

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.  Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.

Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.

Reporting on Learning Activity Progression

You can now report on offering and specialization completion criteria. This reporting lets you see which activities or sections are required and voluntary, any specified sequencing order, and so on. Previously you could report on this information only after the learning was completed. Now these details are available even for in-progress learning.

Report Rows Showing Activity Attempt Status Descriptions for In Progress Activities

This enhancement lets you report on learners and learning while the learning is in progress and understand which activities they have yet to complete.

Steps to Enable

Enable activity sequencing. If you already completed those steps, you don't need to do them again.

New Offering Information Columns in Learning Records

You can now report on additional offering information, such as Offering Coordinator, Capacity, and Publish Dates, using new columns added to the Offering Assigned Learning Item Information folder.

Folder	Attribute Name	Description
Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigned Learning Item Information	Offering Publish Start Date	Date that the offering becomes visible in the learning catalog.
	Offering Publish End Date	Date that the offering stops being visible in the learning catalog.
	Maximum Capacity	Maximum number of enrollments allowed for the offering
	Offering Coordinator Display Name	Display name of the offering coordinator person
	Offering Coordinator Person Number	Person number of the offering coordinator person
	Offering Coordinator Email Address	Email address of the offering coordinator person

This enhancement makes it easier for you to report on additional offering attributes.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

New Attributes and Measures in Learning Records Real Time OTBI Subject Area

We standardized the names and structures between REST and the Learning Records subject area. As part of this project, we added new folders and renamed existing folders and attributes.

Here are the new set of attributes in the new Learning Content Information folder:

Folder	Attribute Name	Description
/Completion Information/ Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information/Activity Content Attempts/Learning Content Information	Content Number	Unique numeric identifier of the content
	Content ID	Unique identifier of the content
	Content Title	Title of the content
	Content Short Description	Short description of the content
	Content Type	Code for the type of content, such as ORA_VIDEO and ORA_ASSESSMENT
	Content Type Description	Meaning of the content type, such as Video and Assessment
	Content URL	URL of the content
	Chapter Level	In the tutorial section, this level is always 1
	Expected Effort	Numeric value for the expected effort to complete the content
	Effort Units	Units of measure for the expected effort, such as Seconds and Minutes
	Passing Score	Score needed to pass the content
	Disable Viewing Completed Assessments	Indicates whether learners can see completed content assessments
	Hide Actual Score	Indicates whether to hide the actual score from learner

Here are the new set of attributes in the new Offering Activity Content Attempts folder:

Folder	Attribute Name	Description
Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/Offering Activity Content Attempts/Learning Content Information	Content Number	Unique numeric identifier of the content
	Content ID	Unique identifier of the content
	Content Title	Title of the content
	Content Short Description	Short description of the content
	Content Type	Code for the type of content, such as ORA_VIDEO and ORA_ASSESSMENT
	Content Type Description	Meaning of the content type, such as Video and Assessment
	Content URL	URL of the content
	Chapter Level	In the tutorial section, this level is always 1
	Expected Effort	Numeric value for the expected effort to complete the content
	Effort Units	Units of measure for the expected effort, such as Seconds and Minutes
	Passing Score	Score needed to pass the content
	Disable Viewing Completed Assessments	Indicates whether learners can see completed content assessments
	Hide Actual Score	Indicates whether to hide the actual score from learner

 Here are the new set of attributes added to the existing folders:

Folder	Column	Description
/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigned Learning Item Information/Offering Primary Instructor	Instructor Number	Unique identifier for the primary instructor of the offering
/Root/Post-Active Details	Exempted Date	Date when the learning was exempted
/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Post - Active Details	Exempted Date	Date when the offering was exempted
/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering  Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information	Activity Attempt Assignee Type Description	The type of assignee for an observation checklist activity. The valid values are Observer and Learner.
Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information	Activity Attempt Assignee Type Description	The type of assignee for an observation checklist activity. The valid values are Observer and Learner.
/Root/Validity - Expiration and Renewal Information	Past Renewal Exists	Indicates whether there are any past learning renewals
/Root/Validity - Expiration and Renewal Information	Renewal Period	Number of days left before the learning assignment renews

 Here are the updated attribute labels:

Old Attribute Name	New Attribute Name	Folder Path
elearn Disable Content Review	eLearning Disable Content Review	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Self Paced Activity Details
elearn Disable Review For Passed Attempts	eLearning Disable Review For Passed Attempts	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Self Paced Activity Details
elearn Time per Attempt Units	eLearning Time per Attempt Units Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Self Paced Activity Details
eLearn Type Description	eLearning Type Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Self Paced Activity Details

New metrics in the Learning Record Measures folder give you more flexibility to report on counts of various learning records statuses. You can also report on required and voluntary learning record counts.

Sequence	Metric Name	Folder Path
1	Active Count	/Root/Learning Record Measures
2	Not Started Count
3	In Progress Count
4	Not Passed Count
5	Completion Count
6	Pending Required Evaluation Count
7	Pending Prerequisite Count
8	Requested Count
9	Request Approved Count
10	Request Rejected Count
11	Pending Active Count
12	Withdrawn Count
13	Withdraw Pending Approval Counts
14	Bypass Completed Count
15	Completed Pending Approval Count
16	Completion Request Rejected Count
17	No Offering Selected Count
18	Voluntary Count
19	Required Count
20	Overdue Count
21	Learner Count
22	Learning Record Count
23	Exempted Count

This enhancement makes it easier for you to work across products without needing to understand the taxonomy of each product.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

We recommend that you use the new attribute names and new folder locations. But all of your existing reports that use any of these folders and attributes will continue to work without any changes.

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for Learning

REPLACED OR REMOVED FEATURES

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing Cloud service features with new features or removes existing features. When a feature is replaced the older version may be removed immediately or at a future time. As a best practice, you should use the newer version of a replaced feature as soon as the newer version is available.

Product	Removed Feature	Target Removal	Replacement Feature	Replaced In	Additional Information
Learning / OTBI	Learning Management Subject Area	TBD	Learning Record Subject Area is now Generally Available	21A March/ 21B	Customers should replace any reporting using the Learning Management subjects with the Learning Record subject area.
Learning	Delivered Dashboards and Reports Removal	22D	Assessments Questions and Responses eLearning Content Attempts Completion Details Observation Checklist Completion Details	22A	The new Learning Record subject area has enhanced functionality.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MAINTENANCE PACK SPREADSHEETS

Oracle publishes a Known Issues document for every Update to make customers are aware of potential problems they could run into and the document provides workarounds if they are available.

Oracle also publishes Maintenance Pack and Statutory Maintenance Pack documentation of bugs that are fixed in the monthly or statutory patching.

To review these documents you must have access to My Oracle Support:

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1)

Controlled Availability for Learning

The following is a list of Controlled Availability features that are being offered by our Controlled Availability Program.

NOTE: These features are not generally available for all customers at this time. These are only available through the Controlled Availability Program and will require approval to become a part of the features program. To be a part of these programs you will be required to participate in testing and providing feedback. Some programs may require other participation as well.

Not to worry if you don't have to time to be a part of these early stage programs. You can uptake this feature when it is generally available for all customers. When these features are available for all customers you will see the features under their product headings as usual.

We invite you all to browse through the list of features to see if there are any features you are interested in implementing in advance of the features scheduled release. The table below will provide information on signing up for features. Please sign up soon, as these programs have limited availability and some are designed for specific types of customers.

The table below gives you a brief description of the features available and how to sign up. Some features are bigger than others, so for more information there may be a What's New describing the feature in more detail below this table.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas as you participate the Controlled Availability programs!

Product	Feature Name	Feature Description	Type of Customer Needed to Test	How to Sign Up	Controlled Availability Release	Is the Program Still Open?
Learning	Learning Planning	Learning Planning allows learning departments to identify and disposition learner training needs, culminating in a set of learning assignments. Learning Plans may or may not be executed at some future date; a non-executed plan is sometimes referred to as a simulation.	Customers must be: Live with HCM	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	19D	Yes
Learning	Zoom Virtual Classroom Provider	Use the Zoom Integration with Oracle Learning Cloud. When you enable this integration, you can create and update Zoom web conferencing events directly in Oracle Learning Cloud. Instructors (hosts) and learners (attendees) can access training using web conferencing links located within offerings.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	New Manager Experience	The Team Learning page will give you insight into how your whole team is progressing on learning enrollments, it's a snapshot of all learning including overdue and what is due soon. The default criteria for this view is Reports>Direct Reports and Enrollment Status, which generally are 'Not Started' and 'In Progress’. You can use Switch Team action from the page level header to see enrollments of any reports of your direct reports. Page level actions like Assign Learning, Search Learning Catalog, Record Learning Experience, Request Noncatalog Learning, Publish Video, Author Learning Journey and Create Learning Community are available to the manager under Actions. The toggle in the main content area allows you to toggle between Learners and Learning Items Views. Learner rows can be drilled into for viewing the learning items that the learner is enrolled in.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	22D	Yes