October Maintenance Pack for 22C

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Module	Feature	Notes
05 DEC 2023	Learning	Redwood Learner Landing Page	Updated document. Revised feature information.
24 FEB 2023	Learning	Redwood Learner Landing Page	Updated document. Revised feature information.
22 NOV 2022	Learning	Redwood Learner Landing Page	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C October Update.
30 SEP 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this What’s New:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

• Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

• Oracle Help Center – Here you will find guides, videos and searchable help.
• Release Readiness – New Feature Summary, What’s New, Feature Listing Spreadsheet, Spotlights and Release Training

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New in the body or title of the email.

Feature Summary

Learning

Learning

Oracle Learning Cloud is a skills driven learning platform that enables employees, teams and organizations to develop the most relevant set of skills. Oracle Learning combines informal and formal learning, from internal catalog and external learning sources into a single platform to provide learners with a single, unified learning experience.

Redwood Learner Landing Page

Enable the new, modern learner home experience. It integrates with Oracle Dynamic Skills and simplifies searching and browsing the learning catalog, as well as accessing current learning and learning recommendations.

These new pages are available from the learner's landing page (Me > Learning):

• On the Explore page, learners can browse and search the entire learning catalog visible to them, and easily filter to refine their results
• On the Recommended Learning page, learners can view their learning recommendations and filter by recommendation categories
• On the My Learning page, learners can view their current learning or entire learning transcript

On the Explore page, learners can browse and search the learning catalog. Browsing the entire learning catalog is more natural, and filtering doesn’t require them to first enter a search term.  When the page opens, the learner can immediately start to browse, filter, or sort the results. The callouts on the page shown here mark these features:

1. Noticeably faster and more relevant search results using Oracle Search.
2. Filters that let the learner find content in the learning catalog without entering a search term.
3. An expanded view with a Get Started button that lets the learner enroll in, and in most cases, directly launch the content. Or the learner can click Learn More to view additional information on the item's details page.
4. An expanded view that automatically plays the course or specialization trailer video to engage the learner without them first having to open a details page.
5. Displays skills attainable by completing the course or specialization, and whether or not the learner already achieved them. Requires the use of Oracle Dynamic Skills.

New Learning Experience: Explore Page

The learner can easily filter the catalog using categories, topics, learning item types, skills, outcomes, and languages, as well as other filters.

New Learning Experience: Search Filters

They can sort the catalog by most recently featured, most recently added, title, starting soonest, rating, or most relevant, to have the more relevant results at the top.

New Learning Experience: Sort Search Results

On the Recommended Learning page, the learner can view their learning recommendations and filter by recommendation categories. The callouts on the page shown here mark these features:

1. Filters let the learner quickly engage with or dismiss recommendations by recommendation category.
2. Just like on the Explore page, an expanded view that automatically plays the course or specialization trailer video, if it exists, to engage the learner without having to navigating away to a details page.
3. Just like on the Explore page, skills the learner will attain by completing the recommended item are displayed on the expanded view.

New Learning Experience: Recommended Learning Page

On the My Learning page, the learner can view their current learning and transcript. My Learning is the default landing tab when the learner clicks Me > Learning. The callouts on the page shown here mark these features:

1. Quickly access current or completed assignments using filters.
2. Sort the learning items by due date, most recently assigned, most recently completed, title or most relevant.
3. Easily identify required assignments because of prominent visual differentiation.

New Learning Experience: My Learning Page

These new pages give learners a modern experience that simplifies browsing and searching the learning catalog.

Steps to Enable

1. Add the Learner REST Services duty role to learners. The duty role includes the following necessary roles and privileges needed for this feature.  If your learners already have the duty role, you need to regenerate the role or manually add these new privileges
   • Functional Privilege: Use REST Service - My Learning Assignments Read Only
   • Role: Use REST Service - Learning Catalog List of Values
2. Configure the environment to use Oracle Search Cloud Service, if not already enabled.
   • Set the site-level value for the HRC_ELASTIC_SEARCH_ENABLED profile option to Y
3. Configure Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning to use Oracle Search Cloud Service and required supporting services. Set the site-level value to Y for these profile options:
   • ORA_WLF_ORACLE_SEARCH_MYLEARNINGASSIGNS_ENABLED
   • ORA_WLF_ORACLE_SEARCH_LEARNINGITEM_ENABLED
   • ORA_WLF_ENABLE_PROCESS_USER_ACCESS_KEY
   • ORA_WLF_ENABLE_PROCESS_LEARNING_RECOMMENDATIONS_KEY
4. Ingest the learning catalog to Oracle Search. 
   • Run the process called ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS once. Specify fa-hcm-learningitem for the Index Name to Reingest input parameter.
5. Ingest learning recommendations and learning assignments to Oracle Search.
   • Run the process called ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS once. Specify fa-hcm-mylearningassignments for the Index Name to Reingest input parameter.
6. Ingest the learning catalog access control.
   • Run the process called Process Access Control Lists for Learning Items for OSCS once using these parameters:
     • Select activities: Refresh both Table and Index
     • Person Number: leave blank
     • Number of concurrent processes: 5 (increase the this value based on the size of your employee population to reduce overall ingestion time)
     • Number of learners: 1000 (increase the this value based on the size of your employee population to reduce overall ingestion time)
   • You need the Access Learning Administration role to run this process.
7. Configure the environment to use this feature by setting the site-level value to Y for this profile option:
   • ORA_WLF_LEARN_SELFSERVICE_VBCS_ENABLED

Tips And Considerations

• This enhancement isn't supported for Oracle Fusion Cloud Government customers in the US.
• The Explore page doesn't yet support filtering the learning catalog using flexfields. 
• Oracle Guided Learning isn't supported in the new learner home. 
• After an environment refresh, you need to manually re-initialize Oracle Search Indexes.
• After a quarterly release update, Oracle Search indexes may need to be manually re-initialized to uptake new capabilities.
• Filters on Explore and Recommended Learning pages only appear if there's data for the page that match the filter option, otherwise they're hidden.
• In single-select and multiselect filters, for example the Topic or Learning Type filters on Explore, laerners need to click the filter to select an option, and click elsewhere on the page after their selection to filter the results.
• The options in My Client Groups > Learning > Configure Self Service page > Configure Browse Learning Catalog section don't apply to this enhancement.
• You can customize the pages using Visual Studio Builder and the supported customization variables. Refer to the Oracle Learning Implementer guide for details.
• The new learner home is only compatible with the Process User Access and Process Learning Recommendation background processes which you enabled in step 3.
  • Reconcile Access Groups background process will no longer function, and you need to replace it's schedule with the Process User Access background process.
  • You need to schedule the Process Access Control Lists for Learning Items for OSCS process to synchronize access control changes with Oracle Search. Be sure to schedule it after the Process User Access process completes and with these parameters:
    • Select Activities: Incremental Refresh for OSCS Learning Item ACL index
    • Number of concurrent process: 5
    • Number of Learners: 1000
  • The Reconcile Dynamic Assignments background process will no longer reconcile recommendation initiatives. Instead, you need to schedule the Process Learning Recommendations background process in Reconcile mode.
    • Keep the Reconcile Dynamic Assignments process scheduled to reconcile required and voluntary initiatives, community membership groups, and community assignments.

Key Resources

• For information about enabling Process User Access, see the Process User Access Process topic in Implementing Learning.
• For information about enabling Process Learning Recommendations, see the Process Learning Recommendations Process topic in Implementing Learning.
• For steps to enable the Redwood Learner Landing page including customization capabilities, see the Redwood Learner chapter in Implementing Learning.
• For more information on using Visual Studio Builder, refer to the Overview of Using Visual Studio Builder for Oracle HCM.
• For information about Redwood profile options, see HCM Redwood Pages with Profile Options (document ID 2922407.1) on My Oracle Support.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Learning

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.  Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.

Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.

Additional Worker, Job and Location Attributes in Learning Records

You can now build analysis reports by combining the Learning Records and Worker Assignment subject areas. Use all of the Worker, Job, and Location attributes in Worker Assignment Real Time subject area, along with attributes available in Learning Records subject area. For example, you can now include the employee hire date with learning record data, or manager hierarchy levels.

Additional Attributes

This enhancement improves productivity by making it easier for learning administrators to create reports across subject areas.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

August Maintenance Pack for 22C

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Module	Feature	Notes
29 JUL 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this What’s New:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

____________________

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

• Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

• Oracle Help Center – Here you will find guides, videos and searchable help.
• Release Readiness – New Feature Summary, What’s New, Feature Listing Spreadsheet, Spotlights and Release Training

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New in the body or title of the email.

Feature Summary

Learning

Learning

Oracle Learning Cloud is a skills driven learning platform that enables employees, teams and organizations to develop the most relevant set of skills. Oracle Learning combines informal and formal learning, from internal catalog and external learning sources into a single platform to provide learners with a single, unified learning experience.

Microsoft Teams Virtual Classroom Provider

You can create and update Microsoft Teams web conferencing events directly in Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning after integrating the applications. In Learning, the events are part of virtual instructor-led training. Here's what learning administrators can do:

• Select a Microsoft Teams Account when creating virtual instructor led training activities.
• Create and modify virtual ILT activities in Oracle that link to the selected Microsoft Teams account and keep them in sync with corresponding meetings in Microsoft Teams for the instructors and the learners assigned to the activity.
• Assign or withdraw learners from virtual ILT activities and keep the associated Microsoft Teams meeting attendance in sync. 

Here's what learners can do:

• Join the virtual classroom directly from the activity details page 15 minutes before the event.

Here's what instructors can do:

• Join the virtual classroom directly from the offering details page on the day of the event.

This feature lets you leverage Microsoft Teams as a virtual classroom provider directly in Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning.

Steps to Enable

• Configure Microsoft Teams as an external provider using the Configure External Providers task on the My Client Groups > Learning page.

2. On the Edit Instructor page, in the Virtual Accounts section, on the Create menu, select Microsoft Teams.

3. In the Search and Select Virtual Classroom dialog box, add the Microsoft Teams instructors.

Tips And Considerations

Capturing attendance and updating learners' activity statuses in Learning isn't yet automated, as it is with other supported classroom providers. Learning administrators must update the learners in the Learning application. Or they can use the integrated workbook, mass actions, or HCM Data Loader.

Storing the recording of the virtual session in Learning is also not yet automated, as it is with other supported classroom providers. Learning administrators can manually attach the recording as related material, when appropriate.

Key Resources

For more information, see topics in these guide chapters, in Oracle Help Center:

• The Virtual Classroom Providers chapter in the Implementing Learning guide
• The Instructor-Led Training Resources chapter in the Using Learning guide

If you are planning to use more than one of our learning connectors, then our new Learning Connect SKU might be applicable. Please check this link for more details.

Intuition Learning Content Provider Integration

You can now integrate with Intuition learning content the same way you already can with LinkedIn and Skillsoft content.

1. Import Intuition courses into Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning and track completions there.
2. Import thumbnail images for each Intuition course as the branding image on the corresponding courses created in Learning.

The Intuition integration supports automated course sync, so learners always have the most recent updates published by Intuition.

This enhancement extends the external content that you can leverage in Learning.

Steps to Enable

1. Configure Intuition as an external provider using the Configure External Providers task on the My Client Groups > Learning page. Contact customer support at Intuition to get their provider URL, client ID, and client secret key for their connector configuration.

The Configure External Providers Page Highlighting the Configure button in the Intuition Row

The Configure External Provider: Intuition Page Showing the Configuration Parameters and Automatic Import Options

2. Import Intuition content using the Content task on the My Client Groups > Learning page.
   1. On the Content page, Add Content menu, select Import External Content.
   2. On the Import External Content page, import the provider's entire catalog, or select the provider and search for and select the relevant subset of content to import.
   3. After you finish, click Done.

Tips And Considerations

Key Resources

For more information, see topics in these guide chapters, in Oracle Help Center:

• The External Content Providers chapter in the Implementing Learning guide
• The Content Resources and Add, Replace, and Manually Process Content Resources chapters in the Using Learning guide

If you are planning to use more than one of our learning connectors, then our new Learning Connect SKU might be applicable. Please check this link for more details.

OpenSesame Learning Content Provider Integration

You can now integrate with OpenSesame learning content the same way you already can with LinkedIn and Skillsoft content.

1. Import OpenSesame courses into Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning and track completions there.
2. Import thumbnail images for each OpenSesame course as the branding image on the corresponding courses when created in Learning.

The OpenSesame integration supports automated course sync, so learners always have the recent updates published by OpenSesame.

This enhancement extends the external content that you can leverage in Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning.

Steps to Enable

1. Configure OpenSesame as an external provider using the Configure External Providers task on the My Client Groups > Learning page. Contact customer support at OpenSesame to get their Customer Integration ID, client ID, and client secret key for their connector configuration.

The Configure External Providers Page Highlighting the Configure button in the OpenSesame Row

The Configure External Provide: OpenSesame Page Showing the Configuration Parameters and Automatic Import Options

2. Import OpenSesame content using the Content task on the My Client Groups > Learning.
   1. On the Content page, Add Content menu, select Import External Content.
   2. On the Import External Content page, import the provider's entire catalog, or select the provider and search for and select the relevant subset of content to import.
   3. After you finish, click Done.

Key Resources

For more information, see topics in these guide chapters, in Oracle Help Center:

• The External Content Providers chapter in the Implementing Learning guide
• The Content Resources and Add, Replace, and Manually Process Content Resources chapters in the Using Learning guide

If you are planning to use more than one of our learning connectors, then our new Learning Connect SKU might be applicable. Please check this link for more details.

BizLibrary Learning Content Provider Integration

You can now integrate with BizLibrary learning content the same way you already can with LinkedIn and Skillsoft content.

1. Import BizLibrary courses into Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning and track completions there.
2. Import thumbnail images for each BizLibrary course as the branding image on the corresponding courses when created in Learning.

The BizLibrary integration supports automated course sync, so learners always have the most recent updates published by BizLibrary.

This enhancement extends the external content that you can leverage in Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning\.

Steps to Enable

1. Configure BizLibrary as an external provider using the Configure External Providers task on the My Client Groups > Learning page. Contact customer support at BizLibrary to get their billing ID and API key for their connector configuration.

The Configure External Provide: BizLibrary Page Showing the Configuration Parameters and Automatic Import Options

The Configure External Providers Page Highlighting the Configure button in the BizLibrary Row

2. Import BizLibrary content using the Content task on the My Client Groups > Learning page.
   1. On the Content page, Add Content menu, select Import External Content.
   2. On the Import External Content page, import the provider's entire catalog, or select the provider and search for and select the relevant subset of content to import.
   3. After you finish, click Done.

Key Resources

For more information, see topics in these guide chapters, in Oracle Help Center:

• The External Content Providers chapter in the Implementing Learning guide
• The Content Resources and Add, Replace, and Manually Process Content Resources chapters in the Using Learning guide

If you are planning to use more than one of our learning connectors, then our new Learning Connect SKU might be applicable. Please check this link for more details.

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for Learning

REPLACED OR REMOVED FEATURES

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing Cloud service features with new features or removes existing features. When a feature is replaced the older version may be removed immediately or at a future time. As a best practice, you should use the newer version of a replaced feature as soon as the newer version is available.

Product	Removed Feature	Target Removal	Replacement Feature	Replaced In	Additional Information
Learning / OTBI	Learning Management Subject Area	TBD	Learning Record Subject Area is now Generally Available	21A March/ 21B	Customers should replace any reporting using the Learning Management subjects with the Learning Record subject area.
Learning	eLearning Player Version Removal Notice	22C	New eLearning Player is Now Available via Profile Option	21A
Learning	Recommendation Event Alert Removal	22B	None		Notifying learners of recommendations requires the use of resource alerts similar to notifying learners of new learning assignments.
Learning	Delivered Dashboards and Reports Removal Notice	22D	Assessments Questions and Responses eLearning Content Attempts Completion Details Observation Checklist Completion Details	22A	The new Learning Record subject area has enhanced functionality.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MAINTENANCE PACK SPREADSHEETS

Oracle publishes a Known Issues document for every Update to make customers are aware of potential problems they could run into and the document provides workarounds if they are available.

Oracle also publishes Maintenance Pack and Statutory Maintenance Pack documentation of bugs that are fixed in the monthly or statutory patching.

To review these documents you must have access to My Oracle Support:

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1)

Controlled Availability for Learning

The following is a list of Controlled Availability features that are being offered by our Controlled Availability Program.

NOTE: These features are not generally available for all customers at this time. These are only available through the Controlled Availability Program and will require approval to become a part of the features program. To be a part of these programs you will be required to participate in testing and providing feedback. Some programs may require other participation as well.

Not to worry if you don't have to time to be a part of these early stage programs. You can uptake this feature when it is generally available for all customers. When these features are available for all customers you will see the features under their product headings as usual.

We invite you all to browse through the list of features to see if there are any features you are interested in implementing in advance of the features scheduled release. The table below will provide information on signing up for features. Please sign up soon, as these programs have limited availability and some are designed for specific types of customers.

The table below gives you a brief description of the features available and how to sign up. Some features are bigger than others, so for more information there may be a What's New describing the feature in more detail below this table.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas as you participate the Controlled Availability programs!

Product	Feature Name	Feature Description	Type of Customer Needed to Test	How to Sign Up	Controlled Availability Release	Is the Program Still Open?
Learning	Learning Planning	Learning Planning allows learning departments to identify and disposition learner training needs, culminating in a set of learning assignments. Learning Plans may or may not be executed at some future date; a non-executed plan is sometimes referred to as a simulation.	Customers must be: Live with HCM	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	19D	Yes
Learning	Administrator Faceted Person Search	The 'Search Person' tab under Add Person action used in Assign, Initiative, and Access Groups has been enhanced.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21B	Yes
Learning	Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing (formally Sequencing and Completion Criteria for Activities Within a Specialization with increased scope)	Enforce the order in which learners must complete offering or specialization activities, and which activities are required to be completed or can optionally be completed by learners. -Ability to define which activities are optional or required in offerings or specializations -Ability to set the order in which a learner completes offerings or specializations -Added support for sections in offerings -Enhanced support for system-wide default evaluation -Updated user experience for admins when managing activity definitions for offerings and specializations	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning	Zoom Virtual Classroom Provider	Use the Zoom Integration with Oracle Learning Cloud. When you enable this integration, you can create and update Zoom web conferencing events directly in Oracle Learning Cloud. Instructors (hosts) and learners (attendees) can access training using web conferencing links located within offerings.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	Re-assigning Learning to Completed Learners (This feature is replacing the Option to Not Auto-complete Learning controlled availability feature)	Administrators can choose to exempt learners in the target audience who have already completed the learning item, or to require them to re-take the learning, instead of the system automatically completing those assignments. A system-wide default behavior can be set, which controls the outcome when managers assign learning in self-service, and when learning assignments are created by learning communities.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details. This feature is dependent on Offering and sequencing activity completion sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	Observation Checklists	An Observation Checklist activity provides the ability for someone to confirm the learner has obtained the necessary knowledge from the training before their assignment is completed. An observation checklist is a new content item that supports self-assessment in addition to an observer assessment. It is based on a questionnaire similar to assessments. Scoring of the checklist is optional. Once the Learner has finished the training, a worklist notification is sent to the observer who must complete the questionnaire and submit.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details. This feature is dependent on Offering and sequencing activity completion sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	New Learner Experience	The new learner experience provides a faster learning catalog search engine for learners that includes higher relevancy search results in addition to a more natural browsing and simpler filtering that doesn’t first require the learner to enter a search term. The learner’s current learning and transcript pages are also redesigned into a single page pre-filtered on current learning. Filter chips and search also allow the learner to quickly access specific assignments or their entire learning history. Required assignments show prominently and visually differentiated for easy identification. Learning Recommendations are accessible from the Recommended Learning page with a richer, more visual experience that facilitates the learner’s engagement with learning items they have been recommended	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	22B May Update	Yes

Update 22C

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Module	Feature	Notes
03 JUN 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this What’s New:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)   
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products

Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon.

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

• Oracle Help Center – Here you will find guides, videos and searchable help.   
• Release Readiness – New Feature Summary, What’s New, Feature Listing Spreadsheet, Spotlights and Release Training

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New in the body or title of the email.

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Feature Summary

Learning

Learning

Oracle Learning Cloud is a skills driven learning platform that enables employees, teams and organizations to develop the most relevant set of skills. Oracle Learning combines informal and formal learning, from internal catalog and external learning sources into a single platform to provide learners with a single, unified learning experience.

eLearning Player Version Update

The new eLearning Player that was introduced as an optional feature in the 21A update, is now enabled by default and is the only supported eLearning player. We first announced the removal of the earlier eLearning Player in our 21D What's New.

This enhancement improves learner experience and by giving them more control over completing their eLearning.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

Because this feature is now enabled by default, you don't need to make it functional with the ORACLE.ADF.VIEW.ALLOWED_ORIGINS profile option the way that you did previously.

Learning Item Contribution Approvals Support in Transaction Console

You can now view the status and history of approval transactions for learning item contributions from Transaction Console. You can also configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the approvals here as well as do a standard set of HCM approval actions, such as Terminate, Withdraw, or Reassign.

Transaction Manager Page, Transaction Summary Tab

This enhancement improves productivity because learning administrators can do standard actions on approval transactions for learning item contributions using Transaction Console.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For a list of standard actions, see Actions and Statuses for Workflow Tasks in the Using Common Features guide.

Bulk Ingestion to Oracle Search

If you're regularly loading new learning items or link them to global access groups using HCM Data Loader, you no longer need to re-ingest the learning catalog to Oracle Search when using the new learner experience. HCM Data Loader now automatically handles the re-ingestion.

This enhancement improves productivity because learning administrators don't need to re-ingest the learning catalog to Oracle Search.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Deep link to Enrollment Activity Details Page

The activity task deep link was enhanced to take the learner to the activity details page. For example, you want to notify learners who have completed their training, but not the evaluation. With this enhancement, you can now construct a resource alert that includes links directly to the activities in a learning enrollment that they still need to complete.

This enhancement improves productivity by taking learners directly to the correct page.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Learning Replaced or Removed Features

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing features with new features, or removes existing features.

Replaced features may be put on a path of removal, the features below will let you know what update you will have to have moved to the newer feature. As a best practice, you should move to the newer feature as soon as possible for full support and to stay up with the latest updates that the product offers.

Any feature that is removed, will have an Update in which that feature is no longer available. Please make necessary plans to move off the feature by the Update indicated, as it will no longer be available.

Delivered Dashboards and Reports Removal Notice

As we first announced in our 21A What's New, these delivered dashboards and reports will be removed in the 22D update.

Dashboards:

• Abandoned Trainings – Top 5
• Managers With Overdue Workers – Top 5
• Trainings Created in Last 12 Months

Reports:

• Abandoned Trainings - Top5
• Abandoned Trainings - Top 5 Details
• Managers with Overdue Workers - Top 5
• Managers with Overdue Workers Details - Top 5
• No Shows Trainings - Top 5
• Overdue Trainings - Top 5
• Trainings created in Last 12 Months
• Trainings created in Last 12 Months Details

The new Learning Record subject area has enhanced functionality.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

If you are using any of these reports, re-create them using Learning Records Subject Area. 

Transactional Business Intelligence for Learning

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.  Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.

Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.

Renamed Attributes in Learning Records Real Time OTBI Subject Area

The names and structures between REST and the Learning Records subject area were standardized. Folders and attributes were renamed and existing attributes were repositioned.

Renamed folders

Old Folder Name	New Folder Name	Folder Path
Offering ILT Activity Information	Offering ILT Activity Details	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details
Offering Self Paced Activity Information	Offering Self Paced Activity Details	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details

 Updated attribute labels

Old Attribute Name	New Attribute Name	Folder Path
Person ID	Assignee Person ID	/Root/Assigned To Information
Primary Email	Assignee Primary Email Address
ELearn Mark Completion on Open	eLearning Mark Completion on Open	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Self Paced Activity Details
Activity Completion	Activity Completion Requirement	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learning Activity Information
Activity Completion Description	Activity Completion Requirement Description
Enrolled On Date	Requested Start By	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Pre-Active Details

Repositioned attributes

Attribute Name	Older Folder	New Folder
Questionnaire ID	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Information	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Self Paced Activity Details
Questionnaire Number	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Information	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Self Paced Activity Details
Questionnaire ID	Completion Information / Completion Details / Learning Activity Information	Completion Information / Completion Details / Self Paced Activity Details
Questionnaire Number	Completion Information / Completion Details / Learning Activity Information	Completion Information / Completion Details / Self Paced Activity Details
Comments	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Post Active Details

This enhancement improves productivity by making it easier for learning administrators to work across products. They won't need to understand the taxonomy of each product.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

We recommend that you use the new attribute names new folder locations. But all of your existing reports that use any of these folders and attributes will continue to work without any changes.

Completion Summary Dimension in Learning Records Subject Area

Completion Summary provides a high-level summary of a learner's progress at the learning record level. The new dimension includes attributes, such as Completion Requirement and Expected Effort, that determine what's needed to complete the associated learning item. It also includes attributes, such as Completion Progress and Actual Effort, that determine how the learner is progressing on the learning record.

Here are the new set of attributes in the Completion Summary dimension.

Folder	Attribute Name	Description
Root/Completion Information/Completion Summary/Learning Requirements	Passing Score	Passing score for the assigned learning item.
	Expected Effort	Expected effort to complete the assigned learning item.
	Effort Units	Unit of measurement for the expected and actual effort to complete the learning item, such as day, hour, and minute. The EffortUnitsLOV list contains the valid values.
	Effort Units Description	Description of the attribute value, effortUnits.
	Completion Requirement	Number of activities to complete, to complete the assigned learning item.
	Completion Requirement Units	Units of measurement for the completion requirement of the assigned learning item, such as chapters, hours, and required activities. The CompletionRequirementUnitsLOV list contains the valid values.
	Completion Requirement Units Description	Description of the attribute value, completionRequirementUnits.
	Total Activities	Total number of activities in the activities section of a course or specialization learning item.
	Total Activity Sections	Total number of activity sections in a course or specialization learning item.
Root/Completion Information/Completion Summary/Learner Status	Actual Score	Leaner's score for this learning record.
	Completion Progress	Progress of the learner to complete the assigned learning item. For a course, it's the number of activities completed. For a specialization, it's the sum of all the completed courses. For tutorials, it's the sum of all the completed sections.
Root/Completion Information / Completion Details / Learning Activity Section Information	Activity Section Total Activities	Shows the number of activities in a section.
Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/ Offering Completion Information / Offering Completion Details / Offering Activity Section Information	Activity Section Total Activities	Shows the number of activities in a section.
Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Active Details	Enrolled On Date	Date of the enrollment

This enhancement improves productivity by making it easier for you to analyze a learner's overall progress on a learning item. You can use the columns in this folder to compare completion progress against the completion requirement.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• Completion Summary is supported only for sequencing-enabled learning items.
• You can use attributes in this folder to report on learning item types, such as course and specialization; eLearning items, such as videos and learning journeys; and noncatalog items.
• For a course learning record, the completion summary details pertain to the primary selected offering.

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for Learning

REPLACED OR REMOVED FEATURES

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing Cloud service features with new features or removes existing features. When a feature is replaced the older version may be removed immediately or at a future time. As a best practice, you should use the newer version of a replaced feature as soon as the newer version is available.

Product	Removed Feature	Target Removal	Replacement Feature	Replaced In	Additional Information
Learning / OTBI	Learning Management Subject Area	TBD	Learning Record Subject Area is now Generally Available	21A March/ 21B	Customers should replace any reporting using the Learning Management subjects with the Learning Record subject area.
Learning	eLearning Player Version Removal Notice	22C	New eLearning Player is Now Available via Profile Option	21A
Learning	Recommendation Event Alert Removal	22B	None		Notifying learners of recommendations requires the use of resource alerts similar to notifying learners of new learning assignments.
Learning	Delivered Dashboards and Reports Removal Notice	22D	Assessments Questions and Responses eLearning Content Attempts Completion Details Observation Checklist Completion Details	22A	The new Learning Record subject area has enhanced functionality.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MAINTENANCE PACK SPREADSHEETS

Oracle publishes a Known Issues document for every Update to make customers are aware of potential problems they could run into and the document provides workarounds if they are available.

Oracle also publishes Maintenance Pack and Statutory Maintenance Pack documentation of bugs that are fixed in the monthly or statutory patching.

To review these documents you must have access to My Oracle Support:

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1)

Controlled Availability for Learning

The following is a list of Controlled Availability features that are being offered by our Controlled Availability Program.

NOTE: These features are not generally available for all customers at this time. These are only available through the Controlled Availability Program and will require approval to become a part of the features program. To be a part of these programs you will be required to participate in testing and providing feedback. Some programs may require other participation as well.

Not to worry if you don't have to time to be a part of these early stage programs. You can uptake this feature when it is generally available for all customers. When these features are available for all customers you will see the features under their product headings as usual.

We invite you all to browse through the list of features to see if there are any features you are interested in implementing in advance of the features scheduled release. The table below will provide information on signing up for features. Please sign up soon, as these programs have limited availability and some are designed for specific types of customers.

The table below gives you a brief description of the features available and how to sign up. Some features are bigger than others, so for more information there may be a What's New describing the feature in more detail below this table.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas as you participate the Controlled Availability programs!

Product	Feature Name	Feature Description	Type of Customer Needed to Test	How to Sign Up	Controlled Availability Release	Is the Program Still Open?
Learning	Learning Planning	Learning Planning allows learning departments to identify and disposition learner training needs, culminating in a set of learning assignments. Learning Plans may or may not be executed at some future date; a non-executed plan is sometimes referred to as a simulation.	Customers must be: Live with HCM	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	19D	Yes
Learning	Administrator Faceted Person Search	The 'Search Person' tab under Add Person action used in Assign, Initiative, and Access Groups has been enhanced.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21B	Yes
Learning	Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing (formally Sequencing and Completion Criteria for Activities Within a Specialization with increased scope)	Enforce the order in which learners must complete offering or specialization activities, and which activities are required to be completed or can optionally be completed by learners. -Ability to define which activities are optional or required in offerings or specializations -Ability to set the order in which a learner completes offerings or specializations -Added support for sections in offerings -Enhanced support for system-wide default evaluation -Updated user experience for admins when managing activity definitions for offerings and specializations	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning	Zoom Virtual Classroom Provider	Use the Zoom Integration with Oracle Learning Cloud. When you enable this integration, you can create and update Zoom web conferencing events directly in Oracle Learning Cloud. Instructors (hosts) and learners (attendees) can access training using web conferencing links located within offerings.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	Re-assigning Learning to Completed Learners (This feature is replacing the Option to Not Auto-complete Learning controlled availability feature)	Administrators can choose to exempt learners in the target audience who have already completed the learning item, or to require them to re-take the learning, instead of the system automatically completing those assignments. A system-wide default behavior can be set, which controls the outcome when managers assign learning in self-service, and when learning assignments are created by learning communities.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details. This feature is dependent on Offering and sequencing activity completion sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	Observation Checklists	An Observation Checklist activity provides the ability for someone to confirm the learner has obtained the necessary knowledge from the training before their assignment is completed. An observation checklist is a new content item that supports self-assessment in addition to an observer assessment. It is based on a questionnaire similar to assessments. Scoring of the checklist is optional. Once the Learner has finished the training, a worklist notification is sent to the observer who must complete the questionnaire and submit.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details. This feature is dependent on Offering and sequencing activity completion sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	Microsoft Teams Virtual Classroom Provider	Create and update Microsoft Teams web conferencing events directly in Oracle Learning Cloud. Instructors (hosts) and learners (attendees) can access training using web conferencing links in offerings.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	22B	Yes
Learning	Intuition Learning Content Provider Integration	Add Intuition learning content to Oracle Learning Cloud. When you enable this integration, you can import a single course at a time, or load multiple courses. After an import, an automatic process runs in the background to create the content, courses, offerings, and activities linked to the Learning content.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	22B	Yes
Learning	BizLibrary Learning Content Provider Integration	Add BizLibrary learning content to Oracle Learning Cloud. When you enable this integration, you can import a single course at a time, or load multiple courses. After an import, an automatic process runs in the background to create content, courses, offerings, and activities linked to the Learning content.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	22B	Yes
Learning	OpenSesame Learning Content Provider Integration	Add OpenSesame learning content to Oracle Learning Cloud. When you enable this integration, you can import a single course at a time, or load multiple courses. After an import, an automatic process runs in the background to create content, courses, offerings, and activities linked to the Learning content.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	22B	Yes
Learning	New Learner Experience	The new learner experience provides a faster learning catalog search engine for learners that includes higher relevancy search results in addition to a more natural browsing and simpler filtering that doesn’t first require the learner to enter a search term. The learner’s current learning and transcript pages are also redesigned into a single page pre-filtered on current learning. Filter chips and search also allow the learner to quickly access specific assignments or their entire learning history. Required assignments show prominently and visually differentiated for easy identification. Learning Recommendations are accessible from the Recommended Learning page with a richer, more visual experience that facilitates the learner’s engagement with learning items they have been recommended	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	22B May Update	Yes