Training By Area
Listing of available trainings broken down by area. The training inventory provides the following information:
- Course or curriculum name with link (accessible version, as applicable)
- A description of the course
- Security roles the trainings are recommended for
- Method of delivery
- If the training is required or recommended
The training inventory is subject to change when courses are added or edits are made. Please refer to the last modified date.
Last Modified: September 20, 2022
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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This 8-minute eLearning helps employees, who are not employed in fiscal roles, understand, and demonstrate that it is every employee’s responsibility to conduct themselves in an ethical manner that shows good stewardship of public funds. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to understand how to be a fiscal steward of the university’s funds. | All faculty and staff not employed in fiscal roles Note: Those employed in fiscal roles should complete Stewardship for the Fiscal Processional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
Stewardship for the Fiscal Professional | This 20-minute eLearning helps employees, employed in fiscal roles, understand, and demonstrate that it is every employee’s responsibility to conduct themselves in an ethical manner that shows good stewardship of public funds. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
| All faculty and staff employed in fiscal roles Note: Those not employed in fiscal roles should complete Fiscal Stewardship for All | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Answers questions regarding the definition of fraud, why do people commit fraud, how does fraud occur without detection, where does fraud occur, and who is responsible for fraud detection and prevention. | All faculty and staff | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
This curriculum is for any faculty or staff member who have access to student, patient, or other customer account information. These individuals have a special obligation to protect sensitive personal information from identity theft. | Any faculty or staff member who have access to student, patient, or other customer account information | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
This curriculum includes a 25-minute course along with a corresponding assessment. It is required for any faculty or staff member who has access to student financial and/or financial aid data because they have a special obligation to protect sensitive personal information, such as student financial account detail. Complete the online training and then the test with 100%. Both are required for completion. After you complete this course you will be able to:
To complete this curriculum, you must:
| Any faculty or staff that has access to student financial data | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required Annually | |
This 30 minute online curriculum includes the training on Payment Card Compliance and an assessment on the training. The course is primarily for any individuals that handle or process payment cards on behalf of the university or the medical center or who have a role that would impact the security of cardholder data.
To complete this curriculum, you must:
| Any faculty or staff that has access to take credit card transactions | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required Annually |
Asset Management:
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Asset Management Overview | A curriculum of all seven Asset Management Overview modules
| Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Asset Management Overview - Module 1: Responsibilities and Asset Types | This 14-minute course provides an overview of the asset management policy. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
| Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Asset Management Overview - Module 2: Asset Management Lifecycle | Upon completion of this 18-minute course, participants will be able to:
| Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Asset Management Overview - Module 3: Compliance and Regulations | Upon completion of this 12-minute course, participants will be able to:
| Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Asset Management Overview - Module 4: Find Asset | Upon completion of this 4-minute course, participants will be able to navigate through the asset management screens in Workday. This module concentrates on how to find an asset. | Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Asset Management Overview - Module 5: Update and Transfer an Asset | Upon completion of this 5-minute course, participants will be able to navigate through the asset management screens in Workday. This module concentrates on how to update and transfer an asset. | Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Asset Management Overview - Module 6: Asset Disposal | Upon completion of this 4-minute course, participants will be able to navigate through the asset management screens in Workday. This module concentrates on how to dispose of an asset. | Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Asset Management Overview - Module 7: Register Asset | Upon completion of this 5-minute course, participants will be able to navigate through the asset management screens in Workday. This module concentrates on how to register an asset. | Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist (CCATS) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Controller's Office Space Survey | This curriculum houses three parts of the federally required Space Survey and its corresponding training. Part 1 is an overview of the process and procedures, Part 2 guides learners through the system (i.e., webspace) they will be using to enter space data, and the third part is an affirmation of completion. Under the Resources section of this page, there are three documents. Please download and print the numbered items 1_SpacesSurveyInstructions_OSU.2019 and 2_WebSpace_Training Guide_FY19. The third attachment may be downloaded and used as a point of reference when completing the department's survey. Once opening the file, filter on the department to see the results of the 2015 Space Survey for your particular department. | Staff responsible for the space survey (every 3 years) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Projects:
COURSE | DESCRIPTION | RECOMMENDED FOR | METHOD OF DELIVERY | REQUIRED OR RECOMMENDED |
Using Workday Projects | This series of six short videos provides a tour through the use of Workday Projects to manage any project with a defined start and end date and a budget. (Financial data on construction projects managed by Facilities Design and Construction will be available to college/unit staff in Workday.) This course is intended primarily for college or unit financial professionals or business managers who approve project funding or costs. It is recommended that viewers complete the Finance Foundation Data Model course and Workday: Journal Entries before watching this video. | College or unit financial professionals or business managers who approve project funding or costs | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Adding Workday to your Earnings Operation (recorded session) | This video training class is intended for those in earnings units with external sales or payment systems. Students should be involved in operations that earn income through either cash operations or accounts receivable. After an overview of the policies and Workday Earnings Operations functionality, participants will learn how Workday will support information from external systems, as well as how to create appropriate Workday records in addition to those from the external system and send accounts receivable to collections. Activities involved in sessions for this training include:
| Staff in earnings units with external sales or payment systems | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
This 30 minute online curriculum includes the training on Payment Card Compliance and an assessment on the training. The course is primarily for any individuals that handle or process payment cards on behalf of the university or the medical center or who have a role that would impact the security of cardholder data.
To complete this curriculum, you must:
| Any faculty or staff that has access to take credit card transactions. | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
Using Workday in Your Earnings Unit (recorded session) | This video training course is intended for those in earnings units who earn income from customers through either cash operations or accounts receivable. After an overview of the policies and Workday Earnings Operations functionality, participants will learn how to find customers, manage invoices, create an internal service delivery record, and identify any accounts receivable sent to collections. Activities involved in sessions for this course include:
| Staff in earnings units who earn income from customers through either cash operations or accounts receivable | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Workday for Internal Service Delivery (recorded session) | This 75-minute video training class is intended for those in earnings units who sell goods or services exclusively to internal (Ohio State) customers. After an overview of the policies and Workday Earnings Operations functionality, participants will learn how to find existing customers and create internal service delivery records in Workday. Activities involved in training sessions for this course include:
| Staff in earnings units who sell goods or services exclusively to internal (Ohio State) customers | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Collections - Past Due Accounts Receivable | This video demo will discuss why collections is an essential part of the earnings process; how the collections life-cycle works and how to transfer accounts to the Office of the University Bursar for collections; what happens when a debt is successfully collected; and several other special considerations, including when it’s appropriate to withhold an account from Collections, how to track and report on returned checks, and managing customers in bankruptcy. Viewers will also develop strategies for collecting on past due receivables to increase the likelihood of repayment and practice tracking accounts in collection in Workday. | Staff that need to refer accounts to the Office of the Bursar for collections | Online Administrative Resource Center (ARC) | Recommended |
EIB Upload for Internal Service Delivery - demo | This video accompanies each of the three Earnings Operations courses:
It covers the EIB upload for Internal Service Delivery task | Staff in earnings units who sell goods or services exclusively to internal (Ohio State) customers | Online Administrative Resource Center (ARC) | Recommended |
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Introduction to Business Travel at OSU | This 10-minute session is recommended for OSU employees that travel or employees that arrange travel for others. New employees or those with busy schedules will benefit from a brief, high level introduction to OSU Business Travel, with policy highlights, useful resources and directions on where to get help.This session should not replace comprehensive training that is recommended for employees that travel more than once per year or employees that routinely arrange travel for others. | Business traveler or the Expense Data Entry Specialist (EDES) role | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Business Travel Lifecycle Curriculum (4 modules) | This curriculum is primarily for travel arrangers and travelers who want more information regarding the business travel process. The modules are broken into steps of the travel life cycle. Travel 2: Requesting Business Travel Authorization (30 minutes): Travel 3: Booking and Arranging Business Travel (20 minutes): Travel 4: Expensing Business Travel (25 minutes): | Business traveler or the Expense Data Entry Specialist (EDES) role | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
This 20 minute course is primarily for travel arrangers and travelers who want more information regarding the business travel process. The travel modules are broken into steps of the travel life cycle. Learners are able to add all the modules to their transcript in one curriculum or search for and complete the individual pieces as needed.
| Business traveler or the Expense Data Entry Specialist (EDES) role | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended | |
This course is primarily for travel arrangers and travelers who want more information regarding the business travel process. The travel modules are broken into steps of the travel life cycle. Learners are able to add all the modules to their transcript in one curriculum or search for and complete the individual pieces as needed. | Business traveler or the Expense Data Entry Specialist (EDES) role | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended | |
This 20 minute course is primarily for travel arrangers and travelers who want more information regarding the business travel process. The travel modules are broken into steps of the travel life cycle. Learners are able to add all the modules to their transcript in one curriculum or search for and complete the individual pieces as needed.
| Business traveler or the Expense Data Entry Specialist (EDES) role | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended | |
This course is primarily for travel arrangers and travelers who want more information regarding the business travel process.
| Business traveler or the Expense Data Entry Specialist (EDES) role | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
PCard Overview | This brief 10-minute session will provide a general outline of the basic information needed to maintain an active PCard account at OSU. This overview session offers informative resources and policy highlights, including where to get help.This session should not replace comprehensive training that is recommended for all PCardholders and PCard Managers, along with employees that support PCard transaction processing. | PCardholders, PCard Managers, and employees that support PCard transaction processing | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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In this 45 minute eLearning, you will understand key Workday concepts that drive how users operate and perform tasks in Workday. | All faculty and staff | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
This course provides an overview of enterprise reporting and the tools used to create reports. After successful completion of this course, you should understand key enterprise reporting concepts, the available reporting tools, where to find reporting support. | All faculty and staff that need to run reports out of Workday | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
Workday Finance Foundation Model | This curriculum provides an in-depth look at Financial Worktags, how they work together to construct financial transactions, and how they are viewed and used in reporting. | All faculty and staff that will be initiating or approving transactions | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Workday: Grant Management Reporting and Analysis (recorded session) | This virtual learning experience is designed for those in any role who provide support to a Principal Investigator. Participants will learn when to use the PI Portal versus Workday and how to use Workday to their best advantage to support spending on a Grant. Examples of day-to-day situations will provide participants with practical skills. | Those in any role who provide support to a Principal Investigator | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Workday: Reporting for Financial Management | This video highlights the five core report types used in Workday Finance reporting and provides demonstrations of some of the most useful of each type. Viewers will gain tips on how to navigate reports, set parameters and adjust the results. Finally, a demonstration of creating, saving and using a filter will help users keep track of reports they find helpful. | Financial Managers | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Financial Accounting:
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Commitments and Obligations | This 20-minute eLearning provides and overview of Commitments and Obligations (Pre-encumbrances and Encumbrances). Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Endowments | The objective of this twenty-eight minute eLearning is for the learner to understand who the people and departments are that assist with Endowments, what makes up and endowment; how an endowment is structured, financially and the accounting mechanisms that go along with endowments. Finally, the user can view a few basic reports, and understand some "red flags" when working with endowments. | College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
In this online curriculum, learners are introduced to the concepts behind various payroll processes and common accounting principles in Workday including:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
In this eLearning, you will learn how gifts are accounted for and reported in Workday. After successful completion of this training, you will:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
This eLearning course teaches how “Claim on Cash” relates to true cash and how intercompany cash will be settled in Workday. This module is required of Finance Managers and Staff. After successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
Workday: Financial Accounting Journal Entries (recorded session) | This recorded course teaches users how to use Workday to create, approve, post, and find journal entries.
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
In this online course, you will learn the steps and timing for posting General Funds Allocations (GFA), the procedures for transferring funds after the initial posting, and how to interpret GFA in reports. | College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended | |
This eLearning teaches the sequential timeline of accounting work that must be completed each day, explain the importance of a timely close schedule, and the responsibility to adhere to it. | College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended | |
This eLearning teaches new terminology and expectations related to planning expenses and revenues (previously called budgeting), procedures for reviewing reports and investigating variances, and the new practice of forecasting based on plan variance analysis. | College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Planning:
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Workday Adaptive Planning: Operational Planning | The Adaptive Planning module within Workday allows colleges and vice-presidential units to forecast their annual budget requests to the Office of Financial Planning & Analysis. This three-part curriculum houses an eLearning about basic navigation and two instructor-led sessions. One instructor-led session will focus on Personnel forecasting while the other focuses on non-personnel and reporting. | College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Workday: Introduction to Adaptive Insights (Recorded Session) | After viewing this one hour video training, you will be able to:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
This 30 minute eLearning teaches new terminology and expectations related to planning expenses and revenues (previously called budgeting), procedures for reviewing reports and investigating variances, and the new practice of forecasting based on plan variance analysis. | College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Taxation:
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Unrelated Business Income Tax | This eLearning helps employees, introduces the basic concepts of unrelated business income (UBI) and when the university must pay taxes on said income. Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to define unrelated business income, identify exceptions and conclusions to unrelated business income tax (UBIT), and identify UBI for reporting purposes. | College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Cash:
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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In this 90 minute recorded session of deposit training, the Treasurer's Office will present Workday deposit terminology, process concepts and in-depth demonstrations to help end users across campus be more proficient in completing and recording deposits in Workday. The training will focus on the recording of Cash Sales and Customer Deposits in Workday. This session is relevant to all fiscal staff, and specifically to staff with the following roles in Workday: Customer Payment Specialist and Customer Deposit Specialist. | Fiscal staff with Customer Payment Specialist or Customer Deposit Specialist Workday roles | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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This fifteen minute eLearning provides an understanding of key workday concepts that drive how mangers operate and do tasks in Workday. | Managers | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended | |
This curriculum contains 10 eLearning modules and is intended for campus managers at The Ohio State University. After completing this 3 hour and 10 minute online training curriculum, managers will understand and apply Workday concepts that drive how managers operate and do tasks in Workday. | Managers | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
HR and Payroll for Fiscal Staff | In this curriculum, we will cover the role you play as a Campus Cost Center Manager and/or a Cost Center Director or a member of the RRC in key HR and payroll transactions. For each module, we will be defining associated terminology, reviewing the process flow, focusing on the role of the Cost Center Manager and/or Cost Center Director and then we will conclude each module with a demonstration of the review and approval step. This course is broken up into several modules and you are welcome to take them in any order you choose. This course will cover: Job Requisitions, the Hire and Offer process, Change Job and Add Job, Edit Position and Edit Position Restrictions, Compensation changes, Period Activity Pay and One Time Payments. | Campus Cost Center Manager or Cost Center Director or a member of the RRC | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Shipping Final Assessment | Shipping Final Assessment; is a 10 minute assessment to ensure that employees needing to ship items via UPS understand all of the policy, rules, and guidelines. A score of 100% is required along with a manager signed release to gain system access. | Any staff that needs to ship via UPS | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Surplus Property Software - Disposal Requests | This 30 minute course describes the process to initiate and submit a Disposal Request (DR) in the Surplus Property Software. After completing this course, participants will be able to enter a Disposal Request (DR) for an item in the Surplus Property Software, enter a DR for multiple items using a spreadsheet in the Surplus Property Software, access and explain reports available in the Surplus Property Software, and explain how to gain access to the Surplus Management Software. | Staff that need to submit Disposal Requests (DRs) | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Surplus Manager Role | This 15 minute course describes the Manager role in the Surplus Property Software and how to manage the access for your department and the addresses for your department. After completing this course, participants will be able to add a new Surplus Property Software User or Manager for your Cost Center, edit an existing User or Manager for your Cost Center, add, edit, or delete addresses for your Cost Center, add a department if a Cost Center is not in the system, and close a Disposal Request. | Disposal Requests (DRs) Approvers | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Workday: How to Process an ASN Receipt using Edit Receipt | In this 5 minute video, you will learn how to edit an ASN receipt to receive goods. | Supply Chain Inventory Professionals | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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This eLearning course explores the various ways costing allocations are applied and their hierarchical stages. After successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
This eLearning introduces Payroll Accounting Adjustments, or PAAs, and provides information on how they impact the General Ledger (GL). After successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required | |
In this 2 hour online curriculum, learners are introduced to the concepts behind various payroll processes and common accounting principles in Workday including:
| College or Unit Finance Professional | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Course | Description | Recommended For | Method of Delivery | REQUIRED or Recommended |
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Requesting Goods and Services: The Workday Buying Experience | This 40 minute eLearning summarizes the basic Requisition Business Process Workflow and demonstrates the basic steps to create a Buckeye Buy requisition as well as a Non-Catalog Requisition. | All faculty and staff that puchase items | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Workday for Internal Service Delivery (recorded session) | This 75-minute video training class is intended for those in earnings units who sell goods or services exclusively to internal (Ohio State) customers. After an overview of the policies and Workday Earnings Operations functionality, participants will learn how to find existing customers and create internal service delivery records in Workday. Activities involved in training sessions for this course include:
| Staff in earnings units who sell goods or services exclusively to internal (Ohio State) customers | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
Workday: Enterprise Interface Builder for Internal Service Delivery | This video training class walks through the steps for creating and uploading an EIB for Internal Service Delivery. This video should be reviewed by all students who are assigned any of the three Earnings Operations courses (Adding Workday to Your Earnings Operation, Workday for Internal Service Delivery, and Using Workday in Your Earnings Unit). The job aid and EIB template are also available in the ARC. | Staff in earnings units who sell goods or services exclusively to internal (Ohio State) customers | Online BuckeyeLearn | Recommended |
Procurement Agreements in OnBase | This recorded webinar is targeted towards service center employees who will process Procurement Agreements using OnBase. | Service Center staff | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
OnBase Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting - Recorded Demonstration | This 25-minute recorded demonstration is intended for service center staff or others with the OnBase Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting access.
| Service center staff or others with the OnBase Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting access. | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |
OnBase Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting - Recorded Demonstration | This 25-minute recorded demonstration is intended for service center staff or others with the OnBase Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting access.
| Service center staff or others with the OnBase Accounts Payable (AP) Reporting access | Online BuckeyeLearn | Required |