Learning opportunities let you offer the community a chance to grow knowledge, skills or confidence - for example a workshop, training session or talk. Unlike a volunteering opportunity (which is a Request for help), a Learning opportunity is an Offer: you're sharing something with the community rather than asking for support.
đ Note: The opportunity types available to you depend on your app's configuration. If you don't see Learning as an option, it may have been switched off for your app - this is your programme manager's decision. Reach out to them if you think it should be available.
1. Open the Post Opportunity form
Click your profile in the top right corner, then select Post Opportunity from the dropdown.
2. Select Learning as the type
Choosing Learning tells members this is an Offer - an experience they can sign up to take part in.
3. Link the opportunity to an Activity
Every opportunity must be linked to an Activity, which groups your delivery work, opportunities and hours together. Select an existing Activity from the dropdown, or create a new one if none fits.
đ See also: Posting an opportunity and linking it to an Activity for a full walkthrough of selecting an existing Activity or creating a new one.
4. Review the inherited fields
Once an Activity is linked, several fields will be automatically populated:
Host: inherited from the Activity. You can edit this if needed - remove the inherited host and select a different one for this opportunity.
Beneficiary groups: inherited from the Activity. You can remove groups here if needed, but to add new ones you'll need to update the Activity first - they'll then appear on this post opportunity form.
Cause: no longer a field on the opportunity form. It's inherited from the Activity and shown as a badge on the Activity card.
5. Complete the opportunity details
Many fields are the same as a volunteering opportunity, so the form will feel familiar:
Title: make it clear what people will learn or gain - for example, "Intro to impact storytelling: a lunchtime workshop."
Description / what's on offer: explain what the session covers and who it's for.
Skills: the skills participants will build or that are relevant to the session.
6. Set timing, capacity and location
Timing: set a fixed date for the session, or mark it Flexible.
Capacity: how many people can take part.
Location: answer "Where will this opportunity take place?" - choose On site, Remote or Flexible. If you choose On site, search for the location and the postcode is filled in automatically, or drop a pin on the map.
Deadline: optionally set a sign-up deadline.
7. Add an image
Add an engaging image. Members can then discover and sign up to your Learning opportunity.
8. Set who can see it
The Privacy section sits near the bottom of the form, and it decides who your opportunity reaches. It's worth a moment's thought: set it too narrowly and the people you're hoping to hear from may never see it.
All individual stakeholders: Everyone who is a member of your app, whatever individual stakeholder type they hold. It stays inside your app, so connected organisations don't see it.
Custom audience - you choose who it goes to. Choose Select by type first, then narrow it down from there.
The types you can pick from are your app's stakeholder types. As standard these are Client, Supplier, Supported Organisation, Corporate Partner and Subcontractor, but each app can rename them - an admin sets the labels in Admin panel â Settings â Stakeholders, so the wording you see may be different.
Once you've chosen a type, you'll be asked whether to share with everyone of that type or with specific organisations. For example, you might share with all corporate partners, or with one named partner only.
When you share with an organisation this way, the opportunity reaches that organisation's admins, who then decide who inside their organisation sees it. It stays inside that circle - it isn't published publicly.
You can change the privacy setting later by editing the opportunity.
9. Post it
Click Post opportunity. If you click and nothing seems to happen, scroll back up the form. Any field that still needs an answer is outlined in red with a message underneath it.
If there's no approval step, your opportunity goes live as soon as you post. If approvals are turned on, then a platform admin has to approve the opportunity.
What's next
đ New to opportunity types? See How to post different types of opportunities on Goodsted for an overview of Volunteering, Learning and Funding and In-kind donation.
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