Is your e-learning time monitored?

[Greedyangrywasps]

I've been called into a meeting with my manager as I'm apparently spending less time on the e learning than each module recommends, note, recommends.
I'm not given set working hours in which to do the learning, it's just whenever I can fit it in.
I hate the job anyway so looking to leave, but this just feels like a load of bollocks. If I'm not doing the e learning, I'm doing other work. Makes you feel like you're at school again, what should it matter as long as you're doing it?
So there's a page with 3 sentences on which should take 5 minutes according to their time. I'm now making sure I have that page open for exactly 5 minutes and then moving on.
I find all this heavy monitoring and micro managing tedious (this and other examples) albu?

Its tedious, but I used to work for a place where there was a claim we were encouraging people to skip important parts of H&S training and that's why there was an accident, that's the point we started monitoring it. I think the problem is really with those who skip as much of it as they can without reading it 'because it's boring', it's ridiculous anyone would need to monitor it.

I've been told by my manager it's part of her role to regularly monitor it.. if I spent too long on it they'd probably criticise me for that too.

YANBU. I take it you’re a fast reader so just move to the next page once you’ve finished.

Ours (NHS) often give an estimated time of completion and it rarely takes me the full time but I’ve never been pulled up on it. As long as I pass the end of unit tests nobody seems bothered.

Surely instead of monitoring time you would introduce a quiz at the end?

Anyone can state at a screen for hours, doesn't mean they are absorbing the information

YANBU. Some people learn at different paces to others. Time spent on something does NOT equal learning and it's indicative of the lack of understanding of how people learn that your manager even came up with this.

Agree it's daft to assume every single person will need to spend 60 minutes exactly or whatever.

I work for an e-learning company. We might say a module takes 40 minutes but some people do it in 5 minutes. When it comes to creating CPD certificates every 60 minutes is one point so someone might do the course and get 20 CPD points and someone else might get 2. It depends if your goal is to learn and understand or gather points which way you tackle it. And you might be quick and retain the knowledge people learn in many different ways. That's what I would be saying to your boss.

In my industry, we’re expected to take e-learning seriously because it’s around money laundering, regulatory compliance, consumer duty law etc - so if people are just whizzing through to get it done and potentially not taking the information in, it does get flagged. The response is usually seniority-dependent, though: there’s less concern around e.g. people who’ve been in the industry for 15 years and have a good grasp of requirements than younger people and those new to the industry.

You can explain to your manager that you’re fully apprised of the e-learning content - which should come across in your work and responses to any questions etc.

Definitely not! Our eLearning also has arecommended time, but it can oftern be completed it in about half that. We do get a quiz at the end that you have to pass though.

We only monitor whether the mandatory training has been completed and passed, we don't check how long it took.

Yes but in our learning software the monitoring restricts you as you move through the course. If you try to move to the next screen and haven't spent enough time on it, you get a message to say so, and it won't let you move on. It's annoying but I always just leave it open for longer than I need.

Are you tested in the elearning modules? If you're passing them, then tell them that. If it's all building to a final exam though, they may have a point, you might not actually be learning. Particularly if you don't like the job.

In my previous role our e-learning had a quiz at the end (aged care). I’m a fast reader and good at comprehension and I always spent less than half the estimated time on each task but I would get 100% in the quiz so nobody cared.

We have to do e-learning at the start of every month at my job. It's the opposite to yours because they want it done ASAP. They nag us all about it constantly.

There is always a quiz at the end of each module if you get the quiz wrong three times you have to do the whole learning again.

They don't care how it's done as long as its done quickly. Sometimes managers even do the quiz for other members of staff! Everybody does it on their phones at work and everyone who's finished just tells anyone who's stuck the answers to the quiz!

She'd hate me. I've been with my company for 16 years, I whizz through the training because I've done it 15 times before!

Yep. The online training course might take the designated time if it’s all new but when we have to do about 30 annual mandatory modules for a box tick, I whizz through as I know them off by heart and pass the assessment without even reading the slides