Writing completions back to Workday Learning puts each learner's Arist course onto their worker record, so their learning history stays complete in one place. The writeback runs outbound, after learners finish training in Arist, over the same connection used for the inbound worker sync. This guide is written for the IT and Workday administrators who set it up.

Learning created in Arist is written back into Workday in two stages, first the course record and then each learner's completion against it, so the activity is captured on the worker's learning record. The course is published to your Workday Learning catalog first, and completions post against it afterward.

When a course is first built in Arist, it is sent to Workday Learning as learning content for an administrator to make available in the catalog. This is what gives completions something to tie back to.

The exact operation and content type are set in your connector at onboarding.

As learners complete courses in Arist, Arist collects the newly completed enrollments, in pages of up to 500, and the integration layer sends them back to Workday Learning. For each completed enrollment, it builds a Workday payload that maps the enrollment to Learning_Enrollment_Data.ID and the learner's external identifier to Learner_Reference, retrying a transient failure twice before it stops.

The batch is posted to Workday Learning as an asynchronous bulk import through Import_Learning_Enrollment, which returns an Import_Process_Reference_WID. Workday validates and records the enrollments on each worker's learning record. The integration then polls the import status with Get_Import_Processes and Get_Import_Process_Messages, a step planned as part of this flow.

The writeback uses one course-publishing call and one completion call, both on the Workday Learning web service. Share this list with your security team, and apply any IP allow-listing your policy requires.

The Integration System User Arist runs as must hold the domain permissions to create learning content and record completions. In practice this is the Manage: Learning Content permission for publishing the course and the Process: Learning Enrollment permission for recording completions.