A Glance at the Workday Training Catalog

Learning Workday Together

Throughout preparations for the shift to Workday, stakeholders have stressed the importance of providing ample training to the WSU community. As launch approaches, the Modernization Team works to ensure every WSU employee has the opportunity to access and engage with Workday’s training resources.

Sample from the Training Catalog

Below is a sample from the Workday training catalog. Understanding the need for diverse and accessible methods for accessing training, delivery methods may differ from module to module, and may include the following:

• Virtual Instructor-Led Training: Remote “virtual” classroom training led by an instructor covering in-depth functional information and complex processes. 
• Practice Lab: Online training allowing learners to get hands-on experience performing transactions in a practice version of Workday.
• Micro-Learning: Self-led in-depth courses completed on Skillsoft. Micro-Learnings will cover a wide array of Workday topics and processes and may be repeated as needed. 
• Reference Guides: Step-by-step guides to completing processes in Workday that will be available at the forthcoming Workday Support Desk. Available to all employees round the clock. 
• Videos: Instructional videos covering a variety of Workday topics and processes. 
• Workday Expert Panel: Question and answer session dedicated to a specific functional business area and topics.   

Instructor-led courses and practice labs are designed for those who hold specific security roles. 

Please be aware that this sample does not reflect the entire curriculum, which is currently in development, and that any information presented below is subject to change. 

Workday Training Catalog

Work Area	Course Name	Channel	Course Description	Target Audience (coming soon!)
Payroll	Manage Your Payroll Options: Complete Payment Elections	Reference Guide	How to set up Payment Elections and Direct Deposit
HR	Workday Time and Absence Guide: Employee Request and Correct Time Off	Reference Guide	Employee: How to request time off and correct time off in Workday Manager: How to review/approve time off request and correction in Workday
HR	Workday Time and Absence Guide: Request a Leave of Absence	Reference Guide	Employee: Learn how to request a leave of absence Manager: Learn how to review/approve a leave of absence
HR	Workday Time and Absence Guide: Request Return from Leave of Absence	Reference Guide	Employee: Learn how to request a return from leave of absence Manager: Learn how to review/approve a return from leave of absence
HR	Workday Recruiting: Academic Appointment	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide an overview of academic appointments in Workday.
HR	Workday Benefits Guide: View and Change Your Benefits	Reference Guide	How to view and change your benefits in Workday
HR	Workday Compensation: Period Activity Pay	Video	This video provides the steps to perform period activity pay in Workday.
HR	Workday Compensation: Overview	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on the how to manage compensation including activities such as review worker compensation plans, packages, salary changes and salary ranges. Review compensation and staffing business processes in Workday.
HR	Workday Compensation Guide: Request One-Time Payment	Reference Guide	How to request and approve one-time payment in Workday
HR	Workday Compensation Guide: Request Compensation Change	Reference Guide	How to request compensation change for employees in Workday
HR	Workday Compensation Guide: Period Activity Pay	Reference Guide	How to assign an employee's period activity pay in Workday
HR	Workday Compensation Guide: Change Default Compensation	Reference Guide	How to change the default compensation for an employee's position.
HR	Workday Compensation: Change Default Compensation	Video	This video provides the steps to change a default compensation in Workday.
HR	Workday Compensation: Request Compensation Change	Video	This video provides the steps to request compensation change in Workday.
HR	Getting Started With Workday Guide: Workday for Mobile Devices	Reference Guide	How to access Workday via Mobile Device
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: New Hire Onboarding (Employee and Contingent Worker)	Reference Guide	How to setup onboarding activities for new hire and Contingent worker.
HR	Workday Resignation Guide: Submit Resignation - Employee	Reference Guide	How to submit a resignation in Workday
HR	Workday Recruiting: Employee Movement	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on how to manage job assignments, and change job in Workday.
HR	Workday Compensation Guide: Request Post Termination Compensation	Reference Guide	How to change compensation for a terminated employee under specific circumstances.
HR	Workday Recruiting: Create Position	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on how to create positions in Workday.
General	Getting Started With Workday Guide: Modify Your Personal Information	Reference Guide	How to view and update personal information in Workday
General	Getting Started With Workday Guide: Tools and Navigation	Reference Guide	How to get started with Workday and and learn about the features that will help navigate the Workday system
General	Getting Started With Workday Guide: Use Your Inbox and Notifications	Reference Guide	How to access the Workday Inbox and view action items and notifications in Workday
General	Getting Started With Workday: Employee Self-Service	Online Micro-Learning	This course will provide an overview of Workday Navigation for Employees.
HR	Workday HR: Overview and Key Concepts	Auditorium Session	This course will provide an overview of the HR functionality in Workday.
General	Workday for Managers Guide: Manage Change Job	Reference Guide	Instructions to manage jobs and positions. Intended for Managers
General	Workday for Managers Guide: Enter Time on Behalf of Employee	Reference Guide	Initiate employee leave or request to return from leave. Intended for Managers
General	Workday for Managers Guide: Manage Separation	Reference Guide	Initiate employee separation. Intended for Managers
General	Workday Guide: How to Delegate Tasks	Reference Guide	How to delegate your inbox, assign other workers to start tasks on your behalf, delegate a task, stop delegation, and act on someone's behalf (instructions for delegates)
General	Getting Started With Workday: Manager Self-Service	Online Micro-Learning	This course will provide an overview of Workday Navigation for Managers.
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Hire (New Employee or Contingent Worker)	Reference Guide	TBD
HR	Enter and Correct Time	Video	This video provides the steps to enter and correct time in Workday.
HR	Workday Recruiting: Overview	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on the recruitment process and how to create job requisitions (recruitments), review applicants for jobs and positions in Workday.
HR	Job Application	Video	This video provides the steps to move a candidate through the job application process in Workday. Review Candidate, Screen, Assess, Interview, Reference Check and Background Check.
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Create, Edit and Close Job Requisition	Reference Guide	How to create, edit and close job requisition in Workday.
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Create and Close Job Position	Reference Guide	How to create and close positions in Workday
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Freeze Job Requisition	Reference Guide	How to freeze and unfreeze a job requisition in Workday
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Post Job Requisition	Reference Guide	How to post job requisitions in Workday
HR	Workday for Managers Guide: Onboarding - Change Job and Add Job	Reference Guide	How to change and add job in Workday.
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Add and Update Academic Appointments	Reference Guide	How to add academic appointments in Workday
HR	Workday Recruiting: Onboarding Setup	Video	This video will provides the steps to perform onboarding setup.
HR	Workday Recruiting: Complete Form I-9 Section 3	Video	Learn how to complete the I-9 form. Form I-9 is used for verifying the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired for employment in the United States.
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Apply for Internal Posting	Reference Guide	How to apply for an Internal Posting in Workday
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Manage Job Application	Reference Guide	HR: How to move a candidate through the job application process in Workday. Review Candidate, Screen, Assess, Interview, Reference Check and Background Check.
HR	Workday Recruiting Guide: Refer a Candidate	Reference Guide	How to refer a candidate for a job, posted both intenally and/or externally.
HR	Workday Compensation: Request One-Time Payment	Video	This video provides the steps to request one-time payment in Workday.
HR	Workday Time and Absence Guide: Request and Assign Work Schedule	Reference Guide	How to request and approve a change in work schedule and how to assign a work schedule to an employee in Workday
HR	Workday Time and Absence Guide: Enter Time	Reference Guide	How to enter time and approve time in Workday
HR	Workday Time and Absence	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on how to manage time and absence in Workday.	Manager; HR Partner; Absence Partner
HR	Workday Time and Absence Guide: Request Overtime	Reference Guide	How to request and approve overtime in Workday
	Workday Foundation Data Model Overview	Online Micro-Learning	This course will provide information on the new Workday FDM dimensions and how to run financial reports in Workday.
Finance	Workday Accounting: Accounting Journals	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on the accounting journals process and how to create journals, accounting adjustments and reporting related to financial accounting in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Cost Center Manager; Gift Manager; Grant Manager; Program Manager; Project Manager
Finance	Workday Accounting Guide: Accounting Adjustment - Cost Transfer	Reference Guide	How to create an accounting adjustment to reclassify the cost center in an expense report in Workday.
Finance	Workday Accounting Guide: Create Accounting Journals	Reference Guide	How to create a manual journal entry in Workday.
Finance	Workday Accounting Guide: Accounting Journal - Reversal	Reference Guide	How to reverse an accounting journal entry in Workday
Finance	Workday Accounting: Accounting Journal Reversal	Video	This video provides the steps to perform accounting journal reversal.
Finance	Workday Expert Q&A: Accounting	Workday Expert Talk	No materials; expert-led Q&A
Finance	Workday Assets: Asset Accounting	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on how to perform asset registration, issue, transfer, and disposal of asset. It will also cover reporting related to business assets in Workday.
Finance	Workday Assets Guide: Register Asset	Reference Guide	How to register and capitalize an asset in Workday
Finance	Workday Assets Guide: Issue Asset	Reference Guide	How to issue an asset in Workday
Finance	Workday Assets Guide: Transfer Asset	Reference Guide	How to transfer assets within department in Workday
Finance	Workday Assets Guide: Dispose Asset	Reference Guide	How to partially or completely dispose an asset in Workday
Finance	Workday Budgets: Manage Budget	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This practice lab will provide information on how to manage budget activities in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Cost Center Manager
Finance	Workday Contracts and Receivables: Accounts Receivables	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on the customer accounts receivable process in Workday.
Finance	Workday Revenue Guide: Create Customer Invoice	Reference Guide	How to create and find a customer in Workday
Finance	Workday Contracts and Receivables: Non-Grant Customer Contracts	Practice Lab	This practice lab will provide information on how to create and maintain customer contracts for all departments in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Cost Center Manager; Gift Manager; Grant Manager
Finance	Workday Revenue Guide: Create Customer Refund	Reference Guide	How to create a customer refund in Workday
Finance	Workday Revenue Guide: Create Customer Contract	Reference Guide	How to create a customer contract in Workday
Finance	Workday Endowments: Gifts and Endowments	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This virtual Instructor led training will provide information on the Gifts process in Workday. It will introduce new terminology and roles, overview of Gifts administration at the University, and highlight key changes for departments.
General	Getting Started with Workday Guide: View and Print W-2 Year End form in Workday	Reference Guide	How to complete the following: - Complete Federal Witholding Elections - Complete State and Local Witholding Elections - View and print W-2 Year End Form
Finance	Workday Travel and Expenses: Manage Travel and Reimbursements for Self	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This virtual Instructor led training will provide information on the expense process and how to create spend authorization and expense report in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Cost Center Manager; Gift Manager; Grant Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager
Finance	Workday Travel and Expenses Guide: Create Spend Authorization	Reference Guide	How to create a spend authorization in Workday. Use this reference guide to receive permission for future expenses.
Finance	Workday Travel and Expenses Guide: Create and View Expense Report	Reference Guide	How to create, edit and approve an expense report in Workday
Finance	WD Travel and Expenses Guide: Reconciling Expense Card Transactions (CTA & Fuel)	Reference Guide	How to reconciling Expense Card Transactions.
Finance	Workday Travel and Expenses: Create Spend Authorizations	Video	This video will provide information on how to create a spend authorization.
Finance	Procurement Card Transaction Verification	Video	This video provides the steps to verify a P-Card transaction.
Finance	Workday Travel and Expenses: Create Expense Report	Video	How to create expense reports in Workday
Finance	Workday Finance: Approving Transactions	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This virtual Instructor led training will provide information on the activities performed by the Cost Center Manager in the finance business process and the reports available for financial accounting (for the cost center managed).	WORKDAY ROLES: Cost Center Manager
Grants	Workday Grants: Overview	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This virtual instructor led course will provide basic understanding of the Grants Management process from award creation and management to award billing and reporting in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Grant Manager
Grants	Workday Grants Guide: Effort Certification	Reference Guide	How to certify effort requested in the Workday system.
Grants	Effort Certification	Video	This video provides the steps to certify effort requested in the Workday system.
Grants	Workday Grants: Principal Investigators	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This virtual Instructor led course will provide information on the awards and grants process in Workday for Principal Investigators and Faculty in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Effort Certification Reviewer; Grant Principal Investigator; Grant Manager
Grants	Workday Grants: Post-Award Research Administration	Instructor-Led Training	This instructor led course will provide information on the award and grants process in Workday and how to review/approve Grants related financial transactions. This course is for Grant Managers only.	WORKDAY ROLES: Grant Manager
Grants	Workday Grants Guide: Award Budget to Actuals Dashboard Reports	Reference Guide	Run the Grants Cost Share Report.
Grants	Workday Expert Q&A: Grants	Workday Expert Talk	No materials; expert-led Q&A	WORKDAY ROLES: Grant Manager
Finance	Workday Travel and Expenses: Verify Procurement Card (P-Card) Transaction	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This virtual instructor led training will provide information on how to review and approve P-Card reconciliations for cardholders in Workday. This course is meant for P-Card Holders, Procurement Data Entry Specialist	WORKDAY ROLES: Cost Center Manager; Gift Manager; Grant Manager; Program Manager; Project Manager
Payroll	Workday Payroll: Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments	Video	How to create Payroll Accounting Adjustment, complete the process using distribution percentage and more. Payroll accounting adjustment(salary journals)used to correct errors made when salary was posted to an incorrect Driver Worktag for pay periods
Payroll	Workday Payroll Guide: Assign Costing Allocation	Reference Guide	How to assign costing allocation in Workday. Costing allocations (salary distribution) allocates a worker's salary across one or more Driver Worktags.
Payroll	Getting Started with Workday Guide: Complete State & Local Withholding Elections	Reference Guide	How to complete state and local witholdings
Payroll	Getting Started with Workday Guide: Complete Federal Withholding Elections	Reference Guide	How to complete federal witholding elections
Payroll	Workday Payroll Guide: Create Payroll Accounting Adjustments	Reference Guide	How to create Payroll Accounting Adjustment, complete the process using distribution percentage, and more. Payroll accounting adjustment (salary journals) is used to correct errors made when salary was posted to an incorrect Driver Worktag for pay periods
Payroll	Workday Payroll Guide: Assign Pay Group for Position Restrictions Event	Reference Guide	How to assign pay group for position restrictions in Workday
Payroll	Workday Payroll: Assign Costing Allocation	Video	This video provides the steps to add costing allocations (salary distribution) in Workday.
Payroll	Workday Payroll: Payroll Accounting	Virtual Instructor-Led Training	This virtual Instructor led training will provide information on how to assign costing allocation and create payroll accounting adjustments in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Gift Manager, Grant Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager
Payroll	Workday Expert Q&A: Payroll	Workday Expert Talk	No materials; expert-led Q&A	WORKDAY ROLES: Gift Manager, Grant Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Internal Service Delivery	Reference Guide	How to create an internal service delivery in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement: Overview	Online Micro-Learning	This course will provide information on the procurement process to creating requisitions, create receipts and initate a return in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create Supplier Request	Reference Guide	How to initate a request to add a new supplier in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create Supplier Contract	Reference Guide	How to create a supplier contract in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create Supplier Contract Amendment	Reference Guide	How to create an amendment to an existing supplier contract.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create Requisition (Non-Catalog Goods/Service)	Reference Guide	How to create a requisition for catalog and non-catalog items in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create Return	Reference Guide	How to create a return for good received in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Remit-To Supplier Connection	Reference Guide	How to create and maintain the supplier's remit-to connections (where payments should be sent and methods of payment) in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Contract Request	Reference Guide	How to submit a contract request in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create and Change Purchase Order	Reference Guide	How to create a Purchase Order without an existing requisition and how to change a Purchase Order that has already been issued for goods and/or services.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create Supplier Invoice Request	Reference Guide	How to initiate a supplier invoice request in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement: Create and Maintain Supplier Contracts	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on the procurement process and how to create and maintain supplier contracts in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Supplier Accounts Match and Exception Handling	Reference Guide	How to review supplier accouts match exception, make corrections and submit an exception override in Workday.
Finance	Workday Procurement Guide: Create Receipt	Reference Guide	How to create a receipt for good received in Workday.
Finance	Workday Travel & Expenses: Expense Credit Card Reconciliation	Video	This video provides the steps to create expense credit card reconciliation.
Finance	Workday Procurement: Maintain Requisitions and Purchase Orders	Instructor-Led Training	This course will provide information on the how to perform sourcing activities like purchase items, requisitions, purchase orders, and receipts using Workday. This course is for Buyers (Central role) only.
Finance	Workday Projects Guide: Create and Edit a Capital Project	Reference Guide	How to create and edit a project in Workday
Finance	Workday Projects: Create and Maintain Projects	Practice Lab	This practice lab will provide information on how to create a capital project in Workday.	WORKDAY ROLES: Project Manager
General	Workday Reporting Guide: Reports by Category	Reference Guide	Identify the list of Workday Reports Finance, HCM, Grants, Procurement and Payroll
	Workday Guide: Requesting Updates to Security Assignments	Reference Guide	Guidance on process for Security Partners to request updates to security assignments.
	Workday Reporting Guide: Using Workday Reports	Reference Guide	Learn how to run reports in Workday and about Grant reports available by security role.
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