Introducing custom courses in Rippling

The top priority for C-suite HR leaders this year is retaining their top talent. 

Unsurprisingly, learning and development has been central to why people choose to stay with their company. According to a LinkedIn study, 93% of organizations are concerned about employee retention, and offering more opportunities to learn and upskill is the #1 way many companies are working on it.

This backdrop sets the stage for a major shift in our Learning Management System: now, anyone can build their own custom courses. Now, you can tailor professional development to your business’s specific needs. Whether creating a course on professional development, company policies, or how to use company tools and systems, Rippling's LMS now enables anyone at your organization to build the courses teams need to reach their full potential.

Creating courses the easy way

Traditionally, creating high-quality, custom training courses that are relevant to your employees has been difficult and expensive. Course creation is usually incredibly time-consuming, and even when HR teams want to take on the initiative, most have to deprioritize it in favor of other initiatives. Now with custom courses in Rippling, you can create a course from scratch without compromising on quality or learner outcomes. Our LMS makes it easy to build rich courses with videos, images, quizzes, and more.

With this addition to our LMS, you can tailor your courses to your exact needs no matter what industry you’re in. Running a retail store? You can create courses that teach relevant skills, like “Inventory management fundamentals,” or trainings that introduce team members to your tools and processes, like “Introduction to our POS system.”

Working in professional services? Create a course on presentation skills or client engagement to make sure your team strikes a great impression at every client meeting.

Or maybe you’re focused on growing your startup from zero to one. Create courses on agile methodologies or set up test environments for your engineering team so they can work more efficiently. With the tools to build any course and the ability to automate the assignment of courses based on Supergroups, you can take the manual work out of training and build the L&D program of your dreams.

Four ways to create courses

There are four  ways you can build your course catalog depending on the needs of your organization:

• Add courses from the pre-built course catalog
• Upload SCORM e-learning packages 
• Purchase courses from our partner Go1
• Build your own courses 

First, you can select courses from either our pre-built U.S. course catalog or our global catalog, or purchase both for an additional fee.

You can also upload SCORM e-learning packages that you may already have access to. 

If you need additional course options, you can purchase courses from our partner at Go1 on virtually any topic and it will seamlessly be integrated into Rippling for you. Go1 has over 80,000 courses on everything from business skills, personal development, trainings, and even tech and software skills.

And now, you can build your own courses from scratch. These can be as simple as a Loom video from your leadership team or as complex as a fully-fledged course complete with quizzes and final exams.

Integrate learning throughout your HRIS

While there are hundreds of LMS platforms out there, what sets Rippling’s LMS apart is that it’s a fully automated LMS. When creating a course, you can:

• Automate the assignment of courses based on any employee attribute 
• Configure automated reminders via email or push notifications to ensure courses are completed on time
• Easily access pre-built enrollment reports to track progress, course completions, overdue enrollments, and even combine that data with any other data in the system
• Set up policies to prevent workers from clocking in until they complete necessary training

Rippling’s LMS makes it easy to implement your L&D program. Let’s take enrollment rules, for example. Because Rippling already has all your employee data within our HRIS, assigning the right courses to the right teams can easily be automated. With just a click, you’ll be able to enroll employees and managers in courses—and re-enroll them every year if needed.

And because all of your data is centralized within Rippling, you can easily track progress to make sure that teams have completed their training. You can even view quiz results directly in your courses to make sure that employees not only completed the courses but understood the material. Eliminating the busywork that comes with enrolling, tracking, and reporting on your learning objectives means you can have more time to focus on attracting top talent or other key business initiatives.

Upskill and drive retention

Rippling’s LMS not only helps you stay compliant, but it also helps you upskill your employees and drive retention. And now, with custom courses in Rippling’s LMS, you can make your L&D experience fit your exact needs, regardless of your industry, niche, or size of your company.