Good to know💭 In this article, we will go by the name Journey. However, it is the same thing as Sharing if you are more familiar with this term.
The Starting Point is where you define when a journey should trigger for your users, and what content they should start with. It’s a simple setup where you connect Learning Paths, Modules, or Events to a specific start time.
With delays, you have the option to spread out content for users and make sure that they take breaks between learning.
Both options are shown in the video below🍿
The Starting point explained
These bullets explains everything you need to know before setting up a starting point.
When you set up a Starting point, you decide when a Journey should automatically be assigned to users. By default the learning is set to be shared right after publishing, however, you can set it up to be on a specific date, or depending on a users first or last day. The last two options are great for pre-and onboarding, and for off-boarding.
You decide what content is linked to the Starting Point. If linked directly to the starting point, it will unlock based on what you decided in the starting point. If learning is connected to other learning, then learning 1, must be completed before learning 2 is unlocked. Read more on Journey structures here.
Once the Starting Point is triggered (based on your setup), the connected content is shared automatically with the user.
How to for Starting points
Here's a steps by step guide on where to click one you have desided on your desired set up.
In the admin dashboard, go to Journey.
Create a new Journey or edit an existing one.
Here you'll find the Starting Point - click on it to define when it should trigger:
Connect the Learning Paths, Events, Plans, Checklists and/or Modules you want users to receive.
Save and publish.
Quick tip💡 If needed, you can add multiple Starting Points inside the same journey — each with its own trigger and content.
Delays explained
If you a lot of learning content in your Journey, it might be nice to have set breaks for users, to avoid that they get overwheled. To do this you can follow these steps:
Connect content with the arrows
Click the arrow to get a side menu
In the side menu, you can add a number of days to delay the content the arrow points towards
It is also possible to have delay between modules in a learning path. See how here!
Good to know
A Journey cannot be published unless all learning inside is connected to other learning or a Starting Point.
The Journey will always tell you if connection/s are missing when you want to publish.