Learning Evaluations in Oracle HCM – Setup and Management Guide

Purpose of Learning Evaluations

  • Used to collect feedback from learners after they complete a learning offering.
  • Applicable to self-paced, instructor-led, and blended offerings.
  • Delivered as questionnaires and shown automatically upon course completion.

Steps to Implement Learning Evaluations:

  1. Create Evaluation Questionnaires

    • Develop individual questions (text, single-choice, multiple-choice).
    • Create a questionnaire template to structure how evaluations appear.
    • Build a questionnaire using selected questions and the template.
    • Assign a default evaluation questionnaire for each offering type.
  2. Evaluation Options in Offerings

    • Use default evaluation: Applies a standard questionnaire across offerings.
    • Use another evaluation: Override the default with a specific questionnaire.
    • Mark evaluations as Required or Optional:
      • Required: Learners must complete it before being marked as complete.
      • Optional: Completion status is not affected by evaluation submission.
  3. View and Monitor Evaluations

    • Filter offerings with evaluations from the Learning Catalog.
    • Check evaluation completion via Learners info tile → Manage Activities.

Create Questions for Learning Evaluations

  • Navigate to:
    Setup and Maintenance → Workforce Development → Questionnaires → Manage Question Library
  • Choose Learning Evaluation as the subscriber.
  • Question Types:
    • Text (plain/rich text)
    • Single Choice
    • Multiple Choice
    • No Response (for instructions only)
  • Configure response format, scoring, feedback, and attachments.

Create Questionnaire Templates

  • Navigate to:
    Setup and Maintenance → Workforce Development → Questionnaires → Manage Questionnaire Templates
  • Choose Learning Evaluations as the subscriber.
  • Set properties:
    • Instructions and help text
    • Question and response order (Sequential/Random)
    • Layout (one/two columns)
    • Section presentation
    • Response types allowed
  • Enable or restrict additional question inclusion and editing options.
  • Save as Active for usage.

Set Default Evaluation Questionnaire for Offerings

  • Navigate to:
    My Client Groups → Learning → Setup → Evaluations tab → Edit
  • Enable evaluation, select a questionnaire, set it as required if needed.

Use/Add Evaluation Questionnaire in Offerings

  • Navigate to:
    My Client Groups → Learning → Learning Catalog → Offerings tab → Select Offering → Definition tile → Edit → Activities tab
  • Enable evaluation and either:
    • Use default evaluation
    • Use another evaluation → Add Evaluation → Select Questionnaire → Apply → Save

Evaluation vs. Assessment

  • Evaluation: Collects feedback from learners about the offering.
  • Assessment: Tests learners’ knowledge of the course material.

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