2025R2 Learning Updates
Summary Pages
Creating Learning Assignments
Assignments vs. Enrollments has been a longstanding pain-point within Workday Learning. This update does not rid us of all the complexity, but it helps! The ability to create assignments ad-hoc will allow us to be less reliant on campaigns and more easily push blended content that allows learners to select their specific offerings. Assignments having their own BP events will make them easier to track and notify learners of assignments.
Completing Learning Assignments
In addition to business processes for creation, Workday has added a business process for learning assignment completion. End-users are unlikely to notice BUT this drastically increases admin configuration options (think BP notifications instead of configured alerts!). This also brings the overall handling of Learning Assignment Events more in line with Learning Enrollments and other Action Events throughout your tenant.
Enforce Content Order in Programs
We have always been able to indicate a program content order, but not require learners to follow that cadence. Now we have the option to enforce program content order and block learners from navigating to subsequent content until prior content is completed. This is especially impactful if program content is building upon prior content, or final surveys/assessments are meant to occur in a specific sequence.
Acknowledgement Lesson Type
Acknowledgements within learning have been a highly requested feature that Workday didn’t have a clean solution for, until now! With this new lesson type, we can easily include acknowledgements to our catalog on a course-by-course basis with customizable text prior to course completion.
Audience Builder Filtering and Preview
Creating audiences continues to get easier with new Audience Builder features. Audience creation now allows you to select a Data Source Filter alongside a Data Source to further streamline your audience and mimic a report building experience. Previewing your audience has also gotten more robust with the ability to add informational columns to confirm you are capturing the correct cohort.
Task Naviation for Learners
Making it easier for learners to click around and explore is always a good thing. Prior to this update, navigation thru the Learning dashboard was a bit disjointed with certain tasks taking you out of the dashboard entirely. Workday has injected the pop-up modal that we are seeing sprinkled everywhere, so learners can explore without losing their place.
GenAI Learning Content Descriptions
Creating course descriptions can be labor-intensive with significant variance in quality & style. Enabling GenAI for learning descriptions saves time and can improve uniformity across your learning content catalog. Depending on the current status of your learning content descriptions, these AI generated summaries may prove to be clearer & more accurate, improving overall machine learning search & recommendation results.
Observational Checklist
Any grading guidance for Learning Assessors and Instructors likely exists outside of Workday. With this update, we have the option to bring this guidance into Workday via Observational Checklists. This new learning object is a compiled list of sections, tasks, and criteria to be used as a grading reference. For the time being, these cannot be added directly into learning content.
Skills Support on CCL
This update allows us to feed all possible data into Workday’s machine learning and incorporate external content more accurately into learning recommendations for career development.
Engagement Builder UI
If you leverage campaign reminders heavily, I would not recommend this feature just yet. However, this Engagement Builder framework in general is a drastic improvement on campaign creation & management. With updated UI and all tasks bundled together for one-stop-shopping, Engagement Builder is far and away easier to leverage that present campaign-building functionality. This functionality was released in 2025R1 but did not include the ability to configure content reminders. It still does not but this potential deal-breaker has been identified as a “What’s Coming Next” item. In the meantime, we’ve now got the ability to duplicate and enable translations.
Udacity Available in CCL Platform
Workday learning continues to diversify the learning content accessible to you via existing integration with CCL. This inclusion of Udacity makes it easier to accommodate and support the variety of corporate learning content decisions while maintaining Workday as your one-stop-shopping single source of truth. Great news for clients currently using or considering Udacity!
