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Brainstorm: Introducing Learning Pathways to users during onboarding
For a number of years, community members have have had the idea of sharing learning resources with users in the wp-admin dashboard (example 1, example 2, example 3.) The idea came up again in recent brainstorming sessions by the team – Drawing new learners to the new Learn.WordPress.org. These ideas have so far revolved around adding a widgetWidgetA WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. to the admin dashboard. While a great idea, this requires a bit of developer/design time and so far hasn’t been achieved.
In this post, let’s brainstorm other ways that learning resources can be shared with users in their dashboard without needing to create a widget. Let’s discuss by Friday, November 8th. Any ideas we like we can then take to designers and developers to workout a solution with them.
Why introduce Learn during onboarding to the CMS?
Learning Pathways are proving to be Learn’s most successful content to-date. In Learn WordPress site remake: First two months, @zoonini shared how Learning Pathways are seeing completion rates higher than industry standards, video retention rates that continue to grow, and high leaner satisfaction reporting.
The Beginner Learning Pathways are ideal for someone starting out in their journey with WordPress. By adding reference to these in one’s onboarding experience, we anticipate better engagement with the CMS and better retention through onboarding.
Current reference
Currently, I could only find one instance of Learn referenced in the WordPress dashboard. This was under the About menu in the top-left. While a start, this link is difficult for users to find and lacks content of what information is presented when clicking on the link. I believe we can introduce Learn resources better.
Ideas
Add a reference to Learn in the Help box
Every wp-admin page has a Help box one can open from the top-right. We could add “Learning resources on Learn WordPress” under “For more information:”
Add a link to the Beginner User Learning Pathway in the blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor Welcome Guide
The Welcome Guide is clearly aimed at new users. This would make it an ideal location to link to the Beginner User Learning Pathway specifically. We could achieve this by adding a slide to the guide.
Add references in the default comment on a new install
A new install of WordPress comes with a default comment. Most experienced users probably do not read this comment any more. But it would be another location we could highlight the Beginner User Learning Pathway to new users. A reference could be added under the GravatarGravatarIs an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software. https://gravatar.com/. introduction.
Share you thoughts
How do these ideas sound? In what other ways could we introduce Learn resources to new WordPressers during their onboarding to the CMS? Please leave your thoughts below by Friday, November 8th.
