What is a Team?

What is a Team?

Roles: Primary Admin, Admin, Manager

Description: In this article, you will learn what a team is in Auzmor Learn, what you can do with one, and how teams differ from team managers and reporting managers.

Benefits:

  • Work in groups: Assign, track, and report on many people at once.
  • Fits your structure: Build teams around departments, locations, or any other grouping you use.
  • Less manual work: People who join a team get its trainings without extra steps.

What a team is

A team is a group of people in your organization. Most organizations build teams around a department, a location, a job function, or a training cohort.

A team has members and, if you want, managers. A person can belong to several teams at once.

Teams page with team cards showing each team name and member count

What you can do with a team

  • Assign trainings: Give courses, paths, and events to everyone on the team in one step. People who join later receive them automatically.
  • Track progress: See training and assessment progress for the whole team and export a team report.
  • Share files: Upload documents and images to the team's profile.
  • Delegate follow-up: Add team managers who check in with their own people.

Insights tab of a team profile with the Export button and the Learners List

Who does what with teams

Role What they can do
Primary Admin and Admin Create and delete teams, add members and managers, assign trainings, and view every team.
Manager Open the teams they manage, add members to them, assign trainings to them, and see their progress.
Learner Receive the trainings assigned to their teams.

Teams, team managers, and reporting managers

Term What it is
Team A group of people you assign trainings to and report on together.
Team manager A person who follows up with everyone on a team. A team can have several managers, and a manager can manage several teams.
Reporting manager A person who follows one individual's progress, set on that person's profile. Each person has one reporting manager.

A person can have both a team manager and a reporting manager. The two do not replace each other.

Common questions

Do I need teams to assign trainings?

No. You can assign trainings to individual people. Teams save time when the same group needs the same trainings.

What happens when someone joins a team that already has trainings?

They receive those trainings. See Managing Trainings for a Team.

How do I create a team?

See Teams in Auzmor Learn for the steps.

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