How to enable/disable social learning?

How to enable/disable social learning?

Roles: Primary Admin

Description: In this article, you will learn how to turn the Social Learning module on or off for your organization. Social Learning adds discussion forums to Auzmor Learn, both inside trainings and as general forums that admins create.

Benefits:

  • Peer learning: Learners ask questions and share what they know with each other, not only with trainers.
  • Discussions next to the content: Courses, learning paths, and events can each have their own forum, so questions stay with the training they are about.
  • One switch: Turn forums, social notifications, and learner activity on or off for the whole organization from Settings.

Step by step: turn Social Learning on or off

  1. Click your profile picture in the top-right corner and select Settings.
  2. Under Organization Settings, click Modules.
  3. Find Social Learning in the Engagement section.
  4. Click Enable to turn Social Learning on, or Disable to turn it off.
  5. Confirm your choice when prompted.

Profile menu with Settings and Switch to Learner's View

Modules page in Settings with Social Learning and its Disable button in the Engagement section

Note: Only the Primary Admin can change the modules turned on for your organization. A module that is on shows Disable, and a module that is off shows Enable.

What changes when Social Learning is on

  • Forums appears in the Engagement menu for admins and learners. Admins create and manage general forums there.
  • Two starter forums, General and FAQs, are set up for you. You can edit, archive, or delete them like any other forum.
  • Courses and learning paths have a Forum tab, and events can have a forum too. Admins can turn the forum off for a single training.
  • Learners can create posts and polls, comment, reply, like, save posts, and flag content.
  • Learners get social notifications, such as likes, comments, replies, and mentions. They can review their own posts, responses, likes, votes, and saved posts under My Profile > Activity.

Engagement menu in the top navigation with Forums

Forum tab of a course with the Add a post button

Activity tab in My Profile with Post, Responses, Likes, Votes, and Saved

What changes when Social Learning is off

  • Forums are hidden in all trainings, and the general forums are hidden too.
  • Learners stop getting social notifications and no longer see the Activity tab in My Profile.
  • Posts, comments, and replies are not deleted. If you turn Social Learning back on, they appear again.

Common questions

Can I turn off forums for only some trainings?

Yes. Leave Social Learning on and turn off the forum in that training's settings. See Managing in-course forums.

Can I hide one general forum without turning off Social Learning?

Yes. Archive the forum to hide it from learners, or make it private so only the people and teams you choose can see it.

Does turning off Social Learning delete forum posts?

No. Posts, comments, and replies are kept and come back when you turn Social Learning on again.

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