Auto Curation

Auto Curation in Thrive automates the sourcing and organisation of content. It allows administrators to configure tasks that pull in relevant materials from selected providers and channels. Once imported, content can be tagged, filtered, and shared with specific users or groups, ensuring content management remains efficient and up to date.

Important:

Auto Curation can import a massive volume of content quickly. Since Thrive does not have a bulk delete function for content, carefully review the number of items being imported (confirmed twice by the system) to avoid labour-intensive, one-by-one deletion of unwanted items.

Auto Curating Content

1. From the Thrive menu, go to Configure > Auto Curation.

   The Auto Curation screen appears, displaying any active auto curation tasks.
   

2. Click Create New Task.
   The Create a new Auto Curation task screen appears, displaying available providers.

3. Select the provider.

4. From the dropdown menu, select a channel to import from, then click CONTINUE.
   The screen displays all content relevant to the selected channel.

5. Select a date from the filter to import only recent content. We recommend setting the filter to the past two weeks.
    

6. Click CONTINUE.

7. Add tags as needed and, if applicable, search for individual users or groups to share the content with.
   

8. Click CONTINUE.
   The Confirm & Create screen appears.
    

9. Review the details shown, then click CREATE AUTO CURATION TASK.

The auto curation task is now created.

Click VIEW JOBS to return to the Auto Curation screen, where the new task will be displayed.

Viewing Auto-Curated Content

1. On the Auto Curation screen, click VIEW LOG for the task you want to review.
   A list of content pulled through as part of the task is displayed.

2. To view a specific piece of content, click VIEW CONTENT.

You will be taken to the content page, where you can click the tick to endorse it. A summary is auto-generated, and any attached tags are applied.

Deactivating a Task

1. Click DEACTIVATE next to the task you want to deactivate.
   A confirmation dialog appears stating that any content already pulled through will remain on your Thrive instance, but no new content will be added.

2. Click CONFIRM.

The task is deactivated. You can toggle between active and inactive tasks using the ACTIVE and INACTIVE buttons on the Auto Curation screen.

FAQs

Q: How can an admin find specific courses to curate as part of a development strategy?

A: You cannot directly search and add specific courses. Instead, you must browse through the available channels and apply filters to narrow down the relevant content before importing it.

Q: Is there a way to determine which topic a piece of content falls under before setting up a new auto-curate rule?

A: Yes. The category structures are provided by Udemy via their API and should follow a similar structure to those on Udemy’s site.

Q: Do skills and topics get automatically added to auto-curated content?

A: Yes. If Udemy content includes associated skill and topic tags, these will automatically be created in Thrive and applied to the imported content.

Q: How does completion tracking work?

A: The integration supports xAPI statements, enabling completion tracking for imported content.

Q: What happens if I accidentally auto-curate hundreds of content items into my Thrive site?

A: ⚠ There is no way to undo an auto-curation task. Once content is imported, the only way to remove it is by deleting each item individually.