As an admin, you have access to some amazing tools to help keep your team engaged and tracking toward certain goals.
Study Groups is one of those tools, and will allow you to group users in your organization together to work toward a course completion goal.
You can also add them to the Accelerator Program (if available**), which automatically sends out weekly study plans to help employees stay on track.
**Note: Currently, the accelerator program is available for our four most popular courses.
- AWS: Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS: Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Google: Associate Cloud Engineer
- AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator
- AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
1. Locate the Study Groups tab at the top of your admin portal.
This will take you to the main Study Groups dashboard that will show all of your created study groups.
2. Click “Create Study Group” at the top right of the Study Groups main dashboard.
3. Enter a group name and description, then choose the color scheme and course this group will be studying. Click “Create Study Group”.
Remember, some courses will have the option to turn on/off the Accelerator Program!
Study Groups with optional Accelerator Program:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2019
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Google Associate Cloud Engineer
- AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator
Study Groups without an Accelerator Program:
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
- Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
- AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
- Certified Security - Specialty
4. Add members to the Study Group by clicking “+ Add Students” and choosing which student to add. Click the green plus symbol to add them.
You can add multiple members here before choosing to exit the add students window.
You can also add more students later by choosing the setup option next to the group in your main Study Groups dashboard.
5. Once your student list is all set, activate the group’s goal! Choose what date it will start, and a completion goal date if not an accelerator program, then click “Activate Study Plan”.
You can easily remove students that may have been accidentally added by choosing the remove option to the right of their name.
A wonderful welcome email will be sent to the members of the new Study Group!
You now have a plan and individuals working together toward a goal! We’ll go over managing your created Study Groups in upcoming articles.