Customize learner homepage
Overview overview
An Administrator can customize the learner’s home page and make it more modern, content driven, and personalized to a learner.
The personalized approach offers a widget-based way of building a Learner Home page, which the admin of the organization can configure in the admin user interface in a WYSIWYG manner.
The experience is driven by a personalized training recommendations from an AI-driven algorithm that analyses third-party content for industry skills, incorporates peer activity, and learners’ areas of interest using explicit and implicit data.
Customize learner homepage
In this training, you will explore ways to customize the Learner Homepage.
If you’re unable to launch the training, write to almacademy@adobe.com.
Configure the learner homepage configurethelearnerhomepage
On the Branding > Learner Homepage page, an Administrator can customize the homepage experience of a learner, so that when the learner signs into the learner app, he/she sees a completely revamped look and feel.
Admins can set the UI (look and feel) from the Admin app (Branding > Learner Home Page tab).
Admins can switch to Immersive UI Widget view, customize widgets/features accordingly, and then enable the immersive UI.
The Learner Homepage screen contains these sections:
Immersive layout option immersivelayoutoption
To view the layout of an immersive-driven page, enable the option Immersive. You can toggle this option in Branding > General.
In previous versions, the Learner Homepage options was in Settings.
Here are the options that you can set:
Homepage Experience: Enable either Classic or Immersive. If you choose Immersive, the following options appear:
- Training Type: Choose either Industry or Custom Aligned. Custom trainings are created in-house. Industry-aligned trainings include off-the-shelf content from third-party providers.
Set the home page experience by selecting Industry or Custom Aligned
The option Enable learner to explore Areas of Interest is available to both Classic and Immersive experience.
If there are less than 1000 learners, the entire account is considered as a single scope. This is specifically for the Custom Training type. If the account has less than 1000 users, it considers the complete account as its scope.
This will be enabled and grayed out if Immersive experience is chosen. This check-box will be enabled only for Classic experience.
Learner homepage settings
The immersive layout is the default for all new accounts. The layout is controlled by widgets that an Admin can enable or disable. Based on how the widgets are positioned, the same is reflected on the learner homepage.
Here are the widgets that you can enable/disable.
Using this, you can preview the Learner UI before the learner UI goes live.
For existing accounts, the option Immersive will be OFF. It is enabled for new account with Social and Gamification ON.
Preview the learner UI
After you save the changes, the learner homepage reflects all the changes.
When the learner signs in to the learner app via a browser, they can see the following immersive layout:
View Immersive layout for various sections on the home page
Classic layout option classiclayoutoption
The User Interface layout that has always existed till now, is now referred to as Classic Layout. When you choose this option, the learner homepage view reverts to the classic layout.
Preview the classic layout
Configure recommendation settings configurerecommendationsettings
On Branding > General, you can configure recommendation scopes for internal and external learners, and enable learners choose skills on the learner homepage.
On the General page, you have the following options: