Learning paths - admins

This article outlines how you can edit the thumbnail image for custom learning paths, as well as the thumbnail images for any content links you have added to them. 

• Learn how to create a learning path.
• How to add duration to links in a learning path.

How to edit the thumbnail image for custom learning paths

To edit the thumbnail image for a learning path you’ve created, or one you have editing privileges for, follow the steps below.

1. Click Learning paths at the top left of your account’s page, and then select My edited paths.

2.  On the My edited paths page, click the ellipses located to the right of the applicable learning path. Select Edit, and you will be navigated to the learning path’s page. 

3. Click the ellipses that appear to the right of the learning path title.

4. Click Edit thumbnail image.

5.  Next, click Select image to upload the image and click Save. 

Adding links to custom learning paths

When adding content to a custom learning path, you can include links to additional learning resources and materials, such as podcasts, industry articles, internal Wikis, or shared documents. Learn more. 

Editing the thumbnail image for a link

To edit the thumbnail for a link you’ve added to a learning path, follow the steps below:

1. Click the ellipses that are located beside the link, and select Edit thumbnail image.

2. Next, click Choose image to upload the image to the learning path and click Save. 

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.

This article provides instructions for admins to create folders to organize public learning paths. 

• Note: Group admins are currently unable to create folders for learning paths. 

For more information, review:

• How to create learning paths.
• How to make a learning path public or private.

Create a learning path folder

1. From your Udemy Business account, navigate to Learning paths.
2. Under Organized paths in the left-hand navigation, click +New folder.
3. Enter a name and description for your folder, then click Done.

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

5. 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. See how to create a learning path.

View path insights by folder

On the Path insights page, you can filter paths by folder for easier navigation. 

• See how to view learning paths insights.. 

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.

This article provides instructions for admins and group admins to access learning path insights for public and private paths.

The Path insights page displays details on:

• Users currently enrolled in a learning path.
• Individual user progress for a path and if they were assigned or self-enrolled.
• The overall assignment completion rate for a path.

From the Path insights page, you can click through to a specific learning path to:  

• View the average time spent on learning path content per user.
• See details of the users enrolled or assigned to the path.
• View completion rates for enrolled users.
• Filter users by Self-enrolled, Assigned, Assigned by me, or Assigned by a specific user. 
• Send reminders to all assigned users.

Table of contents

• How to access insights for public paths from admin tools
• How to access insights for public paths from a learning path page
• How to access insights for private paths
• Frequently asked questions
  • When is a learner’s data reported?
  • How is the learning path progress of a learner calculated?
  • What is the definition of Users enrolled on the Path insights page?

How to access insights for public paths from admin tools

To access the Path Insights page, navigate to Manage > Insights and Reporting > Path insights.

On the Path insights page, you can:

• Search for specific paths.
• Filter paths by users, groups, and path folders.
• Sort paths by path name, users enrolled, or users assigned. 
• Export path activity reports.

How to access insights for public paths from a learning path page

To access the Path insights page from a specific path, click the 3 dots on the path page and select View path activity from the dropdown.

On the path activity page, you can view these insights:

• Number of users enrolled
• Number of assigned users
• Average time consumed per enrolled user
• Enrolled users completion rate

Note: If there's no entry for a user in the Assigned column, this indicates that the learner self-enrolled in the path, or they were unassigned the path but haven’t unenrolled from the path.

To send reminders to all assigned users, click the 3 dots under the path name, then click Send reminders to all.

How to access insights for private paths

If the learning path is private, you can access its insights directly from the learning path. Insights for private learning paths are not shown in the Path insights page. 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

Frequently asked questions

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. 

• See how to generate and download learning paths reports.
• Learn about when data is updated for insights and reporting.

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.

• Learn about the Course insights dashboard.

Note: Unassigning a learner from a path doesn't 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 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, 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), while Users enrolled is the number of learners currently enrolled. 

This article explains how admins or group admins can assign learning paths in your Udemy Business account.

• Learn how to unassign learning paths.
• See how to view learning path insights.
• Learn about assigning courses in Udemy Business.

Table of contents

• How to assign a learning path
• How will learners be notified of learning path assignments?
• How to view enrollments for private learning paths
• Sending reminder emails 
• Unassigning a learning path

How to assign a learning path

Admins and group admins can assign learning paths to specific users or groups, or to all users. 

• Learn more about actions group admins can take. 

To assign a learning path on the learning paths overview page, or directly within a learning path:

1. Click the 3 dots beside the learning path.
2. Click Assign. 

How will learners be notified of learning path assignments?

All learners who are assigned a path will receive an email notifying them about the assignment. The email will be sent from the assigner and will indicate which course has been assigned to them as well as the due date if applicable. 

If a learner is already self-enrolled in a path (but not yet assigned), they'll receive an email when they are assigned to the path.

Assigning a learning path will automatically enroll a user in that path if they're not already self-enrolled. Once assigned, the path will appear for the learner both on the Home page in the Let’s Start Learning section for Learning paths, as well as under My Learning > Learning paths in their account.

The learners will be displayed on the Path insights page and in learning path reports after the next data refresh.

• Learn how to how to generate and download learning paths reports.
• See when data is updated for insights and reporting.

How to view enrollments for private learning paths

You can view enrollments for private learning paths on the Path insights dashboard.

• Learn about making a learning path public or private.

Enrollments for private learning paths are not shown on:

• The User details page, which is accessed by clicking on the learner’s name in the Path insights dashboard.
• The user enrollments section of the Manage Users page.

Due dates

When you assign a learning path, there's an option to set a due date for the path at the bottom of the assignment modal.

Important: Once you have set a due date and assign a path, you can't edit that date. To change a due date for a learning path assignment, unassign the learning path, then assign it once again to your users or groups with the new due date.

Sending reminder emails 

To help users keep their learning on track, admins can send reminder emails for assigned learning paths. Learn more about how to send individual or bulk learning reminders.

Unassigning a learning path

Note: If a learner was assigned a path by an admin, they won’t be able to self-unenroll from the path.

• See how to unassign learning paths.