BuckeyeLearn is a university-wide online training tool, allowing learning and training opportunities to be easily accessed by the university community of faculty, staff and student employees. Learn more about BuckeyeLearn by visiting https://buckeyelearn.osu.edu. You may also contact the BuckeyeLearn team: buckeyelearnsupport@osu.edu
BuckeyeLearn is one additional way staff and faculty can engage in professional learning and development. Staff and faculty can use the training resources that are available within BuckeyeLearn to continually pursue professional and career development opportunities.
BuckeyeLearn has many features in which individuals can initiate and track training to complete non- academic and required training. The benefits of BuckeyeLearn will include access to numerous university-wide professional development courses and classes, and the capability to administer and track required compliance-related trainings. It also offers a transcript and catalog of training and learning opportunities.
Some of the features include:
- Online training opportunities
- Registration for in-person professional development
- A transcript to document all professional development activities, both completed in the BuckeyeLearn system and from outside
- Managers can view employees’ transcripts, enabling greater discussion and visibility of professional
- Access to trainings 24/7 via desktop
- Learners can browse a training catalog for opportunities offered by other colleges or units
BuckeyeLearn will allow broad access to, participation in, and tracking of learning opportunities for Ohio State faculty, staff and student employees.
The ongoing benefits of BuckeyeLearn include increased awareness of training opportunities, encouragement of professional development conversations between an employee and his or her manager, and shared learning opportunities throughout the university – saving time and money.
A curriculum titled Introduction to BuckeyeLearn covers how to use the system. For managers, a curriculum titled Manager’s Introduction to BuckeyeLearncovers the additional functionality that managers can access. Additional resources are available within the Administrative Resource Center.
BuckeyeLearn is for faculty, staff and student employees, as well as students, contractors, and affiliated groups, such as OSUP and COTC. The data in BuckeyeLearn is pulled directly from Workday.
Yes, it can be configured to be public facing. To learn more about the public facing aspects, view the FAQ for BuckeyeLearn as a Public Face Learning Management System (LMS) page.
That actually depends on a number of factors; In all likelihood, no, you cannot see all the offerings on BuckeyeLearn. The content owner may choose to make courses available only to those who meet certain criteria or open them up to everyone. For example, if you do not work at the James Cancer Hospital, you probably will not be able to see courses on caring for patients with cancer. Alternatively, the Office of Human Resources may provide a course on time management whichis available to everyone.
- Administration and Planning
- Environmental Health and Safety
- Facilities Operations and Development
- Athletics
- Student Athlete Support Services Office
- Center for Clinical and Translational Science
- College of Arts and Sciences
- College of Dentistry
- College of Education and Human Ecology
- Research Methodology Center
- College of Engineering
- College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Science
- Grant Development
- College of Medicine
- Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring and Engagement
- College of Nursing
- College of Pharmacy
- College of Public Health
- Enterprise for Research, Innovation, and Knowledge
- Enterprise Security
- Environmental Health and Safety
- Office of Academic Affairs
- Office of Business and Finance
- Office of Distance Education and eLearning
- Program Management Office
- Office of Human Resources
- Office of International Affairs
- Office of Institutional Equity
- Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
- Office of Compliance
- Office of Research
- Office of University Compliance and Integrity
- Optometry
- Research Administration for Departmental Staff
- Student Academic Excellence
- Student Life
- Student Life Facilities
- The Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning
- University Advancement
- University Libraries
- Wexner Medical Center
- Integrated Health Information System (IHIS)
- Nursing Continuing Education
BuckeyeLearn offers a transcript feature where you can track professional development both completed inside and outside of BuckeyeLearn. Managers will have the ability to view their employees’ transcripts and can use this tool to have professional development discussions with them.
For required training, managers, administrators, compliance officers, senior human resources professionals, other responsible parties, and those who created a course will be able to view who has or has not completed it.
BuckeyeLearn will seek to reduce duplicative training, eliminate the need for multiple units to maintain their own unique systems and offer each individual a way to track completed training over time. This supports the university’s goal of streamlining and creating efficiency.
An additional benefit is the reporting capability for applicable federal, state, or other regulatory requirements.
Leadership and managers should encourage use of BuckeyeLearn and work with their employees to identify professional development opportunities. Growth and development efforts are most effective when there is ongoing conversation and a trusted relationship between an employee and his or her manager.
Managers will be required to approve external training requests or asked to review employee transcripts. Information on how to utilize the manager functions of BuckeyeLearn is available in BuckeyeLearn.
BuckeyeLearn offers training opportunities and content from across the university and medical center. Course offerings may be created by a number of departments, units, or external vendors. To find out who created a specific training please see the Vendor/Provider field in the course description.
The Office of Human Resources in coordination Office Technology and Digital Information co-sponsors the BuckeyeLearn.
An oversight committee with operating requirements has beenestablished to maintain the system’s quality, assure course offerings support best practices and are not duplicative, and give all users a similar experience.
If you are a medical center employee, contact theOSUWMC Help Deskat614-293-4357.
For staff, faculty, and student employees. please direct questions to the IT Service Desk at 614-688-4357 or through Self Service.
