What is the difference between a Program and a Training Plan? – QA Help Center

While you can use both programs and training plans to assign training content to your team, they have several important differences. The following table summarizes some of these points.

Capability	Program	Training Plan
Can a manager use it to assign training library content to their team?	Yes	Yes	Both training plans and programs can assign content from the training library to your team.
Can a manager use it to assign skills-based training?	Yes	No	The curated content for skills-based training is available only through programs.
Can a team member start with a test and skip the content they already know?	Yes	No	Skills-based programs start with a Smart Assessment to start the member at just the right place in the training. To accomplish this with training plans, you would need to assign the team an assessment then manually choose the training for each person based on their performance.
Can the system automatically assign training to members as soon as they meet certain criteria, such as changing their job role or joining a new team?	Yes	No	Programs can assign training based on job role, team membership, organization membership, and more.
Can multiple members start the same training at different times?	Yes	No	Training plans require a whole group to start training together and finish on the same due date. Programs start and finish based on when the program is assigned and its duration.
Can team member assign themselves training?	No	Yes	Team members can add a due date to any course to assign themselves a training plan. Programs, however, must be assigned by a team manager or administrator.

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