Learning Paths - Admins

This article introduces the AI Starter Paths and explains how admins and group admins can use  AI Starter Paths feature to develop all employees' AI skills. 

What are the AI Starter Paths?

The AI Starter Paths provide on-demand, self-paced learning paths curated to develop essential AI skills for leaders, technical professionals, and business professionals. Our learning architects and subject matter experts have selected high-quality content to ensure the most efficient path to AI skills development. They continually review and evolve the learning paths to meet the changing skilling needs, ensuring that the content remains relevant and up-to-date.

What languages are available for the AI Starter Paths?

Currently,  AI Starter Paths are available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese.

How can I select the language for an AI Starter Path?

Admins can filter the AI Starter Path listings by language. The filter options will show all languages that have a translated AI starter path available.

The system will set the filter to your account language by default; however, if no AI Starter Paths are available in your preferred language the filter will default to English. The system will save any changes you make to the filter for future sessions.

What are AI Starter Paths and how are they different from Pro Paths and those created by my organization?

The AI Starter Paths offer a unique selection of upskilling resources tailored to employees in diverse roles. Termed “starter” paths, they provide organizations with a launchpad for AI upskilling. Unlike organization-created paths or Udemy Pro Paths, these AI Starter Paths cannot be directly enrolled into or assigned to learners. However, admins can quickly copy these paths into their organization and then use them like any other path with full capabilities. Additionally, unlike Udemy Pro paths, which are accessible only to customers who are on the Pro plan, the AI Starter Paths are accessible to all Enterprise Plan customers.

Where can I find the AI Starter Paths in the product?

The AI Starter Paths have a dedicated page under Learning paths ➞ AI Starter Paths. Here, you can easily browse the curated role-based learning paths tailored for AI upskilling.

Figure 1: AI Starter Paths menu and page

Who can access the AI Starter Paths page?

Udemy Business admins, group admins, and account owners can view the AI Starter Paths. Admins can use these paths as-is or edit them to align with their organization's unique needs. Once these paths are copied within the organization, they are public and become discoverable and enrollable by all learners.

Who manages these paths?

The AI Starter Paths are curated and maintained by the Udemy team. As AI content evolves, so will these AI Starter Paths.

How to use the AI Starter Paths within my organization?

1. Admins can browse a list of role-based AI paths from the Learning paths ➞ AI Starter Paths page.
2. Choose any AI Starter Path to view detailed information about the path, including the courses included and the skills targeted.
   

Figure 2: Detail page of an AI starter path

3. To make these paths available to learners within your organization, admins need to copy the desired AI Starter Path to the organization's learning paths. This can be done by selecting “Use AI Starter Path” from the AI Starter Path detail page.
   • Please note:
     • To ensure that your learners can find and enroll in the AI Starter Paths when they are copied into your organization, they are set to public by default.
     • If you plan to duplicate a starter path for multiple users, you’ll need to ensure each title is unique. The system does not permit multiple learning paths with the same title. So, it’s essential to create distinct titles for each additional path.
4. Once copied, these paths can be edited, made private if required, renamed, and customized to better suit your organizational needs. They can then be enrolled in, assigned, and shared with learners. 
5. After copying an AI Starter Path to your organization, any subsequent changes made by the Udemy team onto the starter path will not affect your copied paths. This ensures that your customized paths remain intact. Organizations can view the “last updated” field within the AI start paths to determine if they are utilizing the most recent version.

We trust that this feature will significantly enhance your ability to manage and administer learning paths focused on AI skills. Happy learning!

To more accurately reflect the duration of a learning path, path editors can now add a duration to links included in a learning path. To add or edit a time duration for a link, click on the box under the title of your link. This provides learners an estimate of how much time they may need to review or complete the materials that are linked.

Please note: Link durations will not contribute to minutes consumed in usage reports, which currently reflect video consumption only.

Learn how to create a learning path.

Admins can create folders to organize public learning paths. To create folders, navigate to Learning paths and click +New Folder in the left-hand navigation.

Please note: currently group admins are unable to create folders for learning paths. 

Give your folder a name and description.

To add learning paths into a folder, navigate to a public learning path and click +Add to folder.

Select the folders you would like to add the learning path to and click Save.

Note: Only public learning paths can be added into a folder. You can learn more about how to create a learning path by clicking here. 

Admins and group admins can easily turn any custom category into a learning path in one, simple step.

1. Select Manage at the right-hand top of the page and then Manage courses.

2. Select the applicable custom category.

3. Next, click the ellipses on the right-hand side and then Copy to learning paths.

4. This will create a learning path with the courses in the custom category.

Feel free to share as is, or customize by removing, editing, or adding content to meet your learning goals. 

Learn how to create a learning path.

Path editors can easily duplicate an existing private or public learning path by selecting ‘Duplicate’ in the dropdown menu. 

Important: Path names must be unique for public paths available in your organization. If your path is public and is given the same name as an existing public path, you will be prompted to provide a unique name.

Duplicating a learning path will not carry over any enrolled users from the original path.

Once a path is duplicated, the new, duplicated path will have “Duplicate of” as a preface in the title, but it can be edited. 

Learn more about creating a learning path here.

We know it can be difficult and time consuming to create a learning path from scratch. That’s why we offer powerful course recommendations when you create a learning path.

You can access our recommended courses by creating a path, clicking Add content, and clicking Recommended courses.

You will be prompted to select the skills you’d like to provide in your learning path.

After selecting the skills you’re interested in, select the specific courses that best align to your learning goals. Click Add skills as section headings if you’d like to include those in your learning path.

Click Add to learning path after you’ve selected your courses. From here, you’ll be able to edit your learning paths, reorder courses, and customize the Section headings and notes.

You can learn more about how to create a learning path by clicking here.

Admins and group admins can view details on users enrolled in a learning path, their progress and if they were assigned or self-enrolled on the Path Insights page.

Accessing Insights for public paths
The Path Insights page for public paths can be accessed by going to Manage > Insights and Reporting > Path Insights, or by selecting ‘View path activity’ from within a Learning Path.

If there is no entry in the ‘Assigned’ column, this indicates that the learner self-enrolled in the path, or they were unassigned the path but have not unenrolled from the path.

Accessing Insights for private paths

If the learning path is private, its Insights can be accessed by going to the learning path directly. Insights for private learning paths are not shown in the Path Insights Dashboard. Additionally, enrollments for private learning paths are not shown under the user enrollments in the Manage Users page.

• Learn how to make a learning path private or public

When is a learner’s data reported?

When a learner is assigned or self-enrolls in a learning path, they will appear on the Path Insights dashboard and in path reporting after the next data refresh. Once they begin watching a course that is part of the path, they will be enrolled in that course and appear on the Course Insights dashboard.

Please note that unassigning a learner from a path does not unenroll the learner from that path, and therefore they will still appear on the Path Insights dashboard and in path reporting. Their data will only be removed if they unenroll from the path from within their account.

• Learn how to assign a learning path.
• Learn how to generate and download detailed learning paths reports.
• Learn how to create a learning path.

How is the learning path progress of a learner calculated?

A learner’s progress is determined by calculating the number of items in the learning path that the learner has completed, versus the total number of items that are included in the path.

For example, if a learning path includes 5 lecture videos and 2 quizzes, then the learner will need to complete 7 items in total to finish the path. If they have completed 3 items, then their progress would be posted as 3 / 7 items completed.

What is the definition of “users enrolled” on the Path insights page?

“Users enrolled” on the Path insights page refers to the number of learners who are currently enrolled in the assigned path. This figure includes users who have unenrolled or are anonymized. 

These numbers can be different as “assigned to” refers to an action the admin took - assigning the path. The “users enrolled” is the number of learners currently enrolled.