Training
Self-Study & Independent Learning
Learn Workday functionality at your own pace with these different programs. Check in with your leadership team and department trainers to learn more about focused training opportunities in your area. Please reach out to your manager with any questions.
Just starting your training journey? All faculty, staff, and student employees are encouraged to complete the Workday ESS Essentials, Onboarding & Personal Info, Compensation & Payroll, and Benefits & Time Off/Absence modules before practicing in the sandbox and learning advanced tasks.
Employee
Self-Service
(ESS)
- Stay tuned for Employee Training in Workday Learning!
Training modules for self-service Workday functionality will be available in Workday Learning on January 2, 2026. You can review this content at your own pace to better understand Workday functionality. Your local area trainers are hard at work specializing and adapting this content into what you need to successfully navigate Workday. This training content includes:
- Essentials: Navigation and getting started in Workday.
- Onboarding & Personal Info: New employee onboarding processes and managing your information.
- Compensation & Payroll: How to find your pay in the system.
- Benefits & Absence: How to view your benefits and use your absence time.
- Career & Learning: Expand your knowledge with Workday Learning or advance your career with the job search.
- Time Tracking: Track your time as an hourly employee.
- Expenses, Procurement Cards, and Procurement: Learn how to purchase items at RIT using Workday.
Manager
Self-Service
(MSS)
- Stay tuned for Employee Training in Workday Learning!
Training modules intended for Managers (or those who manage direct reports in Workday). This content includes:
- Essentials: Common manager tasks.
- Time Off and Absence: Manage your and your team's absences.
- Time Tracking: Manage your hourly employees' time.
- Recruiting, Hiring, and Onboarding
- Staffing, Compensation, and Expenses
- Career, Learning and Performance
Instructor-Led Training (ILT)
The Operation Tiger Cloud (OTC) training team are conducting instructor-led training sessions (via Zoom) for the RIT Community between November and January. If your department or area has Workday Trainers providing training sessions to staff, these sessions will likely be redundant and less targeted (i.e. the sessions below are not specific to one department, but focus on general Workday functionality instead).
Click on the links below to register for the Live Sessions.
Open Labs
Join us for Employee Self-Service Open Lab / Question & Answer sessions after launch. Stay tuned for new sessions coming soon!
These sessions are great opportunities to practice workflows in Workday and ask the experts any questions, from editing personal information to submitting an expense report (and everything in between!)
*Registration is required. Interpreting services have been requested.
- Sessions coming soon!
Period Activity Pay Support Sessions
Period Activity Pay is a method in Workday for paying a lump sum for completing a specific activity over a set period, such as a faculty member teaching a course or paying a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA). Other examples include payment of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) and Leadership Stipends.
Attend one of these sessions in early January for support in getting your Period Activity Pay request submitted in time for payment on January 16th. Note that Zoom links will be added as these dates approach.
- January 5: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
- January 6: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
- January 7: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
- January 8: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM