Viewing and Working with Assignments

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About Assignments

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Assignments are one way WSU helps ensure everyone has access to the same foundational information and resources, no matter where or how you work.

Certain university-wide trainings are assigned annually by HRS’ Learning and Organizational Development (LOD) unit to employees holding a paid appointment, regardless of job role, location, or work arrangement. These assignments are distributed each year on January 2 and are due December 31 of the same year, so you can complete them at a pace that works best for you. Other assignments as required by your job role, area, or department will be assigned by your area Learning Administrator.

Completing these trainings helps WSU meet its responsibilities as a state agency and supports shared best practices across our campuses, colleges, and units. More importantly, they’re designed to give you information and resources that matter to your day-to-day work and interactions.

What Trainings are Assigned?

Assigned trainings will appear automatically in your Assignments section of your Percipio My Learning dashboard when they’re issued.

University-wide Assignments

  • Employee Rights and Responsibilities Under UPPM 10.60
    • Split into two modules for ease of use
  • University Ethics Policy 10.65
  • Hazing Prevention at WSU
  • Digital Accessibility Assessment
  • IT Cybersecurity Awareness
    • Phishing Awareness: Understanding and Preventing Phishing Attacks
    • Phishing Awareness: Understanding and Preventing Phishing Attacks Quiz
    • Social Engineering: Staying Safe and Avoiding Scams
    • Cybersecurity Incident Response at WSU
    • Insider Threat Awareness at WSU

Other trainings as required by your job role such as FERPA training are assigned by your area Learning Administrator.

New Employee Assignments

As a part of getting started at WSU, new employees are automatically assigned a set of foundational trainings to support a smooth and confident transition into the university.

These assignments will appear automatically in your Assignments area in Percipio and will be available the day after your first day of employment. Each assignment is required just once upon hire, and you’ll have six months from your start date to complete them, giving you time to learn at a steady pace while settling into your role.

New employees training includes:

  • WSU System Orientation
  • Benefits & Retirement Information
  • Your First Week
  • Your First Six Months
  • Workday Fundamentals
  • Safety at WSU

Together these trainings provide context about how WSU works, where to find key tools and resources, and what to expect as part of the university community.

How to Locate Your Assignments

Your assignments are easy to find and accessible anytime, whether your logging in from a computer or a mobile device.

Using the Web Platform

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From your Dashboard

When you sign in to Percipio, you land on your learner dashboard. This is your home base, making it easy to see required and recommended learning at a glance.

Select the Assignments tab, it will be in the grouping just below your Welcome message.

In this space, you will see the first three assignments you’ve been given. Select an assignment to open the details or View Assignments to see the full list, including active, completed, and canceled.

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From the My Learning Menu

Log in to Percipio.

From the left navigation menu, select Assignments under My Learning.

From the list of assignments, you can toggle between active, completed, and canceled.

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From Your Profile

Log in to Percipio.

Select My Learning from your profile icon (your initials) in the upper right of the screen.

Locate the Assignments section to see the top three assignments due. Select View All Assignments to access the full list, including active, completed, and canceled.

Using Percipio Mobile

Using the Percipio mobile app, assigned learning appears on your home screen after you sign in.

  • Access the My Assignments section on the home page
  • Tap Assignments from the navigation menu.
  • From the Assignments list, Tap the title of an assignment to continue learning from your phone or tablet.
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Working with Assignments

This section helps you understand the assignment information you’re seeing and what to do next. You’ll learn how to check an assignment status, view details, launch the content, and manually mark the learning completed if required.

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How to View the Status of an Assignment

After locating your assignments, you can quickly check your assignment list to see where you stand by reviewing each assignment’s status. The status appears alongside the due date and updates automatically as you begin and complete learning.

Statuses you may see are:

  • Not Started: You haven’t opened any of the learning included in this assignment yet.
  • In Progress: You’ve opened or started at least one item in the assignment, but not all required content is complete.
  • Completed: All required content in the assignment has been finished.
  • Overdue: The assignment has passed its due date and is still incomplete.

How to See Assignment Details

Selecting an assignment opens its details, giving you a clear picture of what’s included and what’s expected. This information helps you plan your time and understand how the assignment is structured before you begin.

From the assignment details, you can view:

  • Due date: The deadline for completing the assignment.
  • Description: A short overview explaining the purpose of the assignment or what it covers.
  • Status: Shows whether the assignment is not started, in progress, completed, or overdue.
  • Included content: A list of all learning items within the assignment, such as courses, videos, books, labs, or other learning activities.

Some assignments are set up in a specific order. When an assignment is ordered, you’ll need to finish each item in sequence, which will unlock the next item in the assignment, allowing you to move forward.

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Launching assignment content

To ensure your progress is tracked correctly, always launch the assigned learning directly from the assignment itself.

Why this matters: If assigned content is opened outside of the assignment, such as from a notification email, a shared link from a colleague, leadership, area support, or searching for the course title in Percipio, your progress may not register as part of the assignment, even if you complete the assignment requirements.

Best practice tip: Locate the assignment, open it to view the details, and select the learning from the assignment’s content list to launch it. This ensures your activity and completion are properly recorded toward the assignment requirements.

Finished a course, but your assignment still isn’t marked complete? Visit the troubleshooting tips for guidance on what to check next and how to resolve common completion issues.

Troubleshooting tips for common completion issues

Marking Content as Completed

Some items allow you to manually mark them as completed. This option is used for certain content types, such as PDFs or links to external websites, that don’t automatically track completion like on-demand courses or other resources in the Percipio library.

Before you can mark an item complete, you’ll need to open and view the content. Once the Mark as Completed option is available and selected, the item is recorded as finished. You’ll see the content listed on your Learning Activity page, and its status will update to Completed within the assignment.

It’s important to note that manually marking an item as completed cannot be undone. Be sure you’ve fully reviewed the material before selecting this option.

Percipio Help

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Self-guided Help and Resources

Learners can get self-guided help from two sources:

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Who to Contact if You Need More Help

Learning Administrators support employees across the university by helping connect learners to required and optional training in Percipio. Assigned by area, college, or campus, they provide guidance on training access, completion, and compliance to support employee learning and development.

Contact your assigned Learning Administrator when you have questions about required training, assignments, or access to learning content in Percipio. They can also help if you encounter issues with enrollment, completion records, or need guidance on training requirements specific to your area, college, or campus.

If you know who your area’s Learning Administrator is, they’re your best first point of contact for questions about training, assignments, and learning support within your area. Learning Administrators work closely with Learning & Organizational Development (LOD) and can often help quickly resolve questions or guide you to the right next step.

You can contact LOD directly if you’re unsure who your Learning Administrator is, your question spans multiple areas or campuses, or you need additional support beyond what your Learning Administrator can provide.

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