What are default learning plans?
Default learning plans are pre-defined training programs based on 20+ years of experience.
What is a default learning plan?
- A default learning plan is a curated selection of courses based on IS-FOX's 20+ years of expertise, included with your subscription out-of-the-box. These trainings are built on the following principles:
- Expert advisory: By years of experience in awareness, compliance, audits, espionage prevention, incident response, penetration testing and more, we have identified the core journeys that most organizations need to keep their employees up-to-date and aware of.
- Adjusted to your employees journey: The content of each year evolves to match the learning progress of your employees. This means that each year, the trainings are different and more specialized. Experts call it 'modular learning'.
- Set and Forget: You only need to enroll your employees once, we got the rest covered!
How do they work?
- Provisioning: The default learning plans are automatically created and provisioned the moment you start your subscription (either free trial or direct purchase).
- Starting date: The default learning plans begin on the first day of the month when your subscription starts, whether it's a free trial or a direct purchase. For example, if your subscription started on 23.06.2025, then your default learnings plans will have 01.06.2025 as their start date.
- Phases and Courses: The default learning plans follow a three-year cycle:
- Foundational knowledge in the first year
- A refresher in the second year
- A test-out course in the third year; whoever passes the test is done, everyone else needs to re-do the chapters the test was failed for.
- After the third year, the cycle restarts (see the arrow).
What happens when I enroll an employee?
When you enroll an employee, they will start with the first phase of the learning plan. Different employees can be at different steps of their journey (e.g. some at year 1 and some at year 3), this is not a problem, as we track the course completion across all the different years. For example, anyone who passes the first phase automatically switches to the second phase in the second year.