WELL learning management system to retire

By Amy Bale, Training Services

Have you heard? The WELL is about to retire! And the crowd goes wild…

Admittedly, the WELL has had issues and been a source of frustration for some, but it’s been a good learning experience –and isn’t that what we’re all about?

Employees learned how to self-register for training and take eLearning; and supervisors learned how to track their employees’ learning and assign training. Training Services learned a lot about the ins-and-outs of a Learning Management System.

We’ve learned:

• How to develop and deliver required training;

• How to offer curated learning opportunities for professional development; and

• What features WYDOT needs and wants in an LMS.

Never fear – we’ll still have an LMS! WYDOT and other state agencies have been collaborating with Wyoming’s Department of Administration and Information to review Human Resource Information Systems that included learning, performance, onboarding and additional modules in one system. The enterprise system that A&I chose was NEOGOV Learn.

Employees and supervisors will be able to do everything in NEOGOV Learn that they were able to do in the WELL, including register for and assign learning, add external training records, run reports and view team progress, plus approve or deny training requests.

NEOGOV Learn offers some additional perks we think employees will like:

• Single sign-on (no separate WELL password);

• Password self-reset (No more waiting for us to reset it for you!);

• All HR systems (performance, learning, onboarding, recruiting, etc) in one place;

• Ability to register for learning opportunities from other state agencies; and

• Managers can assign both online and classroom training

So, when does all this happen? NEOGOV Learn will launch in mid-May, and the WELL will be retired at the end of May. (The WELL will remain accessible to administrators until March 2024.) Historical training records and vocational learning plans will not be available in NEOGOV Learn at launch, but will be added later. Any classes currently scheduled in the WELL will be available for registration at launch, and existing registrations will be migrated from the WELL.

Training Services will still provide administrative support in NEOGOV Learn, and will work with existing program and district trainers and coordinators to help them learn and use the new system. We will also be working with other WYDOT groups or programs that manage training events to help them begin using NEOGOV Learn.

If you have any questions or concerns about the WELL or NEOGOV Learn, please contact dot-training@wyo.gov, or reach out to one of our team members. We’ll be happy to answer any questions, and we’re looking forward to guiding WYDOT through this transition.

Training@aGlance

Training@aGlance

Coming in May:

Check out these upcoming training opportunities from WYDOT-U, the Transportation Learning Network (TLN) and the WELL.

Check out these upcoming training opportunities from WYDOT-U, the Transportation Learning Network (TLN) and the WELL.

*All new supervisors are assigned the WY Supervise Learning Plan and should register for one of the Cohort groups in the WELL

In (VILT) date determined by cohort participants