Learners

Overview

Learners are the core of Nifty, the app being developed to facilitate their access to learning opportunities, tracking their activity and offering improved learning experience.

They are used in all activity resources, you can assign learning to them and communicate directly over email.

Attributes

A learner has just 3 required fields at the most basic level, first name, last name and email. This is all that you need to allow a person to receive learning from Nifty.

With that in mind, most of the times, you will probably need more to be able to have the correct structure of an employee in your organisation. This is where the manager, customer internal id and details fields come into use.

With the manager field you can specify the direct manager of a learner from your company hierarchy.

The customer internal id field allows you to easily reference the learner from your other HR Services and is also used by us during the automatic sync process.

Learner Details

With learner details you can adapt the structure of a learner to what works for you.

This feature allows you to map fields used in your internal systems so that they reflect the same in Nifty.

The initial mapping will be setup during the onboarding process but you can always adapt the along the way. After everything is done you will be able to query all your learning data based on those fields.

Learner History

Nifty comes with a feature that allows you to track the changes that are made to the properties of a learner. This enables insights like being able to say what was the job title of an employee when they attended a specific training session.

Each time a learner is modified we record that change in a separate entity called Learner History.

Add Learners

There are multiple ways in which you can create learners in Nifty. Each method will also trigger updates to the learner history record.

Manual Creation

To create a learner directly from the app you need to go to the Learners List Page and click on the Create button. Select the Learners option and then the Create Learner side modal will appear. The form fields reflect the structured presented in the Attributes section.

After the form is submitted your newly created learner will be available throughout the app.

Import from files

To import learners from .csv file you need go to the Learners List Page. Click on the Import button and then select the Learners option. A modal will appear in which you will have to upload a file with your learners data. First download the template that we provide to understand how to organize your columns. When everything is ready click Import and your learners should be created.

Automatic Sync and Integrations

The most reliable and simple way to manage learners in Nifty is to let the system do all the work for you. With our integrations we can query your internal HR systems for changes in the employees data. Or we could also allow your IT infrastructure to notify our app of new updates.

The sync process can be configured to run at any specific point in time so that Nifty will always mirror your active employee data.