Enhanced Content Manager: Owners, Structure, Pricing & Advanced Settings

Description

The Content Manager in Cornerstone OnDemand serves as a centralized hub for administrators to manage and govern all learning content. This release introduces a comprehensive set of enhancements that significantly expand its capabilities, making it a more robust tool for content lifecycle management. Administrators can now leverage advanced features for ownership management, flexible curriculum structuring, detailed content configuration, and integrated e-commerce functionalities.

These enhancements bring crucial functionalities like pricing, transaction tracking, advanced ownership models, and extended enterprise attributes directly into the Content Manager experience. This means less navigating between different modules and more streamlined control over how learning objects (LOs) are created, maintained, and delivered.

Business Need

Organizations frequently face challenges in efficiently managing their learning content, particularly regarding ownership, complex curriculum structures, and the financial aspects of extended enterprise training. The previous Content Manager, while effective, lacked the flexibility to define multiple content owners, manage nested curricula natively, or provide integrated tools for pricing and advanced compliance features like electronic signatures. This often led to operational inefficiencies, increased administrative overhead, and fragmented visibility across the content lifecycle.

These enhancements directly address these pain points by centralizing content governance and e-commerce related activities. By providing comprehensive ownership management, flexible structure definition, and direct configuration of pricing and compliance settings within a single interface, Cornerstone aims to reduce administrative costs, improve operational efficiency, and offer better visibility and control over an organization's valuable learning assets.

Key Features

• Manage multiple primary and secondary curriculum owners: Assign more than one primary owner and configure secondary owners for curricula, with options to make secondary owners required and set minimum counts.
• Support nested curriculum structures: Create and manage curricula that contain other curricula, treating sub-curricula titles as sections within the main structure.
• Define required trainings per section: Specify the exact number of required training items within any section of a curriculum, or set an entire section as required, with dynamic updates as items are added.
• Track curriculum structure modification history: Audit and view all changes made to a curriculum's structure, including adding/removing sections, trainings, and reordering items.
• Configure pricing and transactions for extended enterprise content: Set up pricing rules, billing entities, expirations, and product tools directly within advanced settings for materials, videos, and online courses.
• Enable advanced settings like acknowledgements, e-signatures, and additional LO properties: Configure recurrence, mobile enablement, exclusion from recommendations, modality, training purpose, and recommended training status for various LO types, and support acknowledgements and electronic signatures with completion pages.

Deployment & Considerations

These Content Manager enhancements are generally available with this release. They are applicable to customers on the Cornerstone-only, Cornerstone Plus LX, and single architecture platforms. Most features, such as nested curriculum support and modification history, are default-on improvements to the Content Manager experience.

Administrators should note that certain functionalities, such as enabling secondary owners, are configurable via preferences, allowing organizations to tailor their ownership management. Defining pricing and advanced settings for extended enterprise content will also require specific administrative actions within the Content Manager's advanced settings. Prerequisites for managing content ownership include having appropriate permissions like "Content Manager View" and "Content Owner View," and primary/secondary owners must typically be active employees. No specific limitations beyond these permissions and user type requirements were highlighted in the demo.