One Idea. Twenty Minutes.
Learn One New Thing is a bite-sized webinar series designed for higher education professionals navigating modern enterprise systems. Each session focuses on one practical insight you can bring back to campus and put into action.
Free!
20-minutes
Practical
Live Q&A
Presented by higher ed professionals and enterprise system experts, our goal is to create a space where campus professionals can learn from each other and walk away with ideas they can apply right away.
Disclaimer: These sessions are designed for higher education institutional professionals.
To support a candid, peer-to-peer learning environment, we kindly ask that consultants, vendors, and advisory firms refrain from registering.
Thank you for helping us maintain a space where institutional colleagues can openly share experiences and questions.
What people say
Please go! You'll learn something that will help make your job so much easier.
Anonymous
Bite-sized lessons over a lunch period are perfect!
Workday Business Analyst
Columbus State Community College
They are jam packed with information, yet short enough to fit into your schedule.
Workday Training Coordinator
Mt Holyoke College
Events - Fall 2026
Our LONT events are held on Zoom @ 9:00AM PDT / 12:00PM EDT
🗓️ October 6, 2026
Why Institutional Research Shouldn't Be an Afterthought in Workday Implementations
Institutional Research has the greatest impact on reporting when it's involved throughout a Workday implementation, not just at the end. Join this webinar to explore how early engagement can strengthen reporting, improve data governance, and build confidence in Workday data long before go-live.
🗓️ October 27, 2026
Designing Workday Around the Academic Calendar
When campus offices plan in isolation, the student experience can feel disconnected. Presenter Kate Pantinas will explain how shared planning, documentation, and operational calendars can help your institution work together more effectively throughout the academic year.
🗓️ November 17, 2026
The Cost of Five Clicks: How Better Dashboards Can Save Thousands of Hours
Every extra click in Workday may seem small, but multiplied across thousands of daily tasks, it adds up to lost time and unnecessary frustration. Join us to explore practical ways colleges and universities are using Workday dashboards and home pages to create a more intuitive user experience, improve adoption, and help users find the information they need faster using delivered functionality.
🗓️ October 13, 2026
Introduction to User Experience Concepts for Workday
Long-term Workday adoption starts with an experience that makes sense for the people using it every day. Join us to explore user experience strategies that reduce frustration, simplify navigation, and help your institution get more value from Workday using delivered functionality.
🗓️ October 29, 2026
Testing for Higher Education Operations: Moving Beyond Minimum Viable Product in Workday
Passing test scripts doesn't necessarily mean your institution is ready to operate. In this webinar, we'll explore how to design testing around the critical business activities your campus must perform, using realistic end-to-end scenarios that prepare your people, processes, and operations for day one—not just proving the system works.
🗓️ December 8, 2026
Getting More Value from Workday Student Without Adding More Technology
Getting more value from Workday Student doesn't always require another technology investment. Join Paula Lee of Western Colorado University to explore practical examples of how stronger operations, governance, reporting, and user experience can help institutions get more from Workday while making smarter decisions about when operational change, Workday, or another solution is the right answer.
🗓️ October 20, 2026
Designing a Better Faculty Experience in Workday Student
Workday should support faculty, not slow them down. Learn how thoughtful process and user experience design can reduce friction, simplify everyday work, and create a more sustainable experience for faculty. Presented by Kate Pantinas of Berklee College of Music.
🗓️ November 10, 2026
Better Degree Audits, Better Student Outcomes
See how Workday delivered functionality can help institutions improve the degree audit experience, communicate graduation requirements earlier, and give students a clearer path to completion. Presenter Paula Lee will share how Western Colorado University used existing Workday capabilities to strengthen communication timelines and help students stay on track toward graduation.
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Designing Workday Dashboards People Actually Use
Bulletin worklets turn a cluttered homepage into a guided experience. In this 20-minute session, see how Pensacola State College is using them to create clarity, reduce clicks, and help users know what to do next.
Who Set the Rules? Discovering the Policies Running Your System
One tool, all policies. Learn how the Academic Policy Viewer makes it easy to map systemwide connections, understand academic rules in context, and support compliance and decision-making across departments and programs.
Project Management in the Gray: Turning Ambiguity into Action
Ambiguity is inevitable in complex projects. This micro-workshop shows you how to document decisions (even when they’re not final) use draft-state as a tool for buy-in, and build trust through transparency.
AI-Powered Documentation That Works
Turn messy, cross-functional processes into clean, usable internal documentation in minutes. This session shows you a practical AI workflow you can apply immediately.
Academic Standing Policy
Many academic standing policies aren’t set up correctly and can be more efficient. Learn what fields you need configured and why.
Managing Multiple Academic Records
Multiple academic records are managed by duplicate management and the append policy. Learn how these two pieces of functionality interact and how to get them set up right.
Taking Smart Screenshots
Improve your Workday/ERP/SIS documentation with smart, time-saving screenshot techniques for better training, troubleshooting and communication. While this presentation focuses on Workday, tips apply to all solutions.
Software Changes Systems. People Decide If They Work.
Systems go live. Institutions don’t automatically follow. This session reframes change management as a strategic operating layer, not a communications checklist, and explains why readiness, not configuration, determines success.
The Power of ‘Is Primary’: What That Checkbox Really Means
"Is Primary." Two words. Big impact. In just 15 minutes, learn how this tiny checkbox in Workday Student drives major downstream and upstream effects—from reporting to degree progress.
Power Tools: Tailored Dashboards for Administrators
Discover how to create colorful, intuitive, and easy-to-maintain dashboards in Workday Student. See what’s possible and learn the first steps to designing admin views that truly shine.
Touchpoints between Academic Appointments in HCM with Curriculum in Student
Academic appointments don’t stop in HCM. They shape curriculum, scheduling, and the student experience. This session breaks down the critical touchpoints institutions can’t afford to overlook.
Enhancing the Workday Student User Experience
Custom dashboards can transform Workday into a system that doesn't need training guides. See how to set this up. No extra Workday product purchases required.
Workday Community Coaching Clinic
Ever had trouble finding something in Community? We’ll show you how to track down exactly what you need.
How Academic Units and Levels Interact Across Workday Student
Academic Units and Academic Levels are foundational elements in Workday Student, but their role isn’t always straightforward. In this session, we’ll break down how these two structures work individually and together to influence system functionality.
The Hidden User Experience Shift in Workday 2026R1
Workday 2026R1 may look like a visual refresh, but less visible changes to search, reporting, security, and content visibility can reshape how users find and interact with your system. This session focuses on what’s easy to miss and how to respond.
Stop Wasting Time: Why Workday Delivered Reports Don’t Work for Your Institution
Workday delivered reports are helpful, but often “good enough” isn’t good enough. In this free Learn One New Thing session, discover how to tailor delivered reports so they actually answer your institution’s questions.
AI-Powered Job Aids: Document and Empower in Half the Time
Learn how to turn complex higher ed processes into clear, usable job aids with the help of AI. In just 20 minutes, we’ll show you a step-by-step workflow, share real examples, and give you practical tips you can use right away.
Organizing Workday Integrations: Turning Complexity into Clarity
Workday is a techno-functional system so integrations are no longer just IT’s responsibility, they connect processes across departments. We’ll share practical strategies to create shared ownership, stronger communication, and a more connected institutional platform.
Intro to Workday Student Data Sources for Reporting
Learn which data sources work best for your next report, including one that unlocks powerful future-dated reporting.
Using Visualizations to Problem-Solve and Brainstorm
Tangled in complexity? Discover how key visual tools can help you make sense of complex systems, identify root problems, and brainstorm your way to better solutions.
How to Move Your Campus to a Cloud ERP/SIS
Many institutions are surprised by the volume of work that falls outside the scope of their implementation partners and lands squarely on their internal teams. In this extended session, we’ll show how institutions can take control of their transition.
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