Create a course

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Create a course

By default, anyone in the organization can create the course. However, the admins can manage it. Learn more in the LXP user guide for admins.

Note: Any employee in the organization can create courses if admins give them permission. However, only admins and learning managers can create learning paths or import learnings.

After creating a course, you must publish it and push it to the library, making it accessible to all employees.

Authors can create learning in three ways.

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You can also import the courses from Engagedly Academy or other learning applications, such as Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, BizLibrary, and Go1 if your organization has integrated with them. Learn more in Import courses.

Note: Only admins and learning managers can import courses from integrated learning applications to Engagedly.

Create a course from scratch

You can create a course from scratch and customize it as required.

Navigate to Learning.

  1. At the top right, click Manage Resources and click Add.
  2. Select Create course from scratch.

You must follow the following steps to create a course:

In the Basic Information step,

  3.   Type the course title.

Note: The Marissa Marissa 5@2x (2) icon appears only after you type the course title.

If required, you can

  • Upload the cover photo for the course.
  • Click the Marissa Marissa 5@2x (2) Icon to generate a description, or type it manually below.
  • Type the course outcome.
  • Add Category, language, level, tags, competencies, and skills.

Note: You can view the competencies and skills that are added to your organization.

Note: You can add co-authors for those who have admin and learning manager permissions. Learn more in the LXP user guide for admins.

  4.   Click Continue.

In the Completion Behavior step,

  5.   Select the units to complete Randomly or Sequentially.

  6.   Decide when the learners can mark the course as completed.

Note: If you enable the After manual evaluation option, learners cannot mark the course as completed until you evaluate it. You can evaluate the learners in the Evaluation Status and Scores fields located in the Learners tab.

  7.   Enable award points, certificate, and course review if required, and click Continue.

Note: You can select comments, ratings, or both, allowing learners to provide feedback on the course.

  • If you enable only ratings, learners must rate the course.
  • If you enable only comments, learners must comment on the course.
  • If both ratings and comments are enabled, learners must rate the course but can skip commenting.

  8.   In the Recurrence & Compliance step, set validity, recurrence, and compliance for a course as required. Learn more in Enable course validity, recurrence, and compliance.

Note: The compliance course has a validity date.

  9.   Click Save.

After creating a course, you can add sections and units to it and manage them. You can add multiple sections to a course and multiple units to a section to effectively organize the course content and provide a structured learning experience for the learners.

Utilise the existing courses

You can utilise the existing courses, updating them efficiently to align with organizational objectives, saving time and effort in the content development process.

Navigate to Learning.

  1. At the top right, click Manage Resources and then click Add.
  2. Select Utilise the existing courses.
  3. Hover over the course, click Use this template on the right, and then click Use.

After creating a copy of the course, you can open it to view its sections and units. You can also edit the course, add or manage sections and units to it as required.

Publish course

After creating a course, you must publish it, making it accessible to other authors and co-authors in the organization. While publishing, you can also push it to the library, making it accessible to all employees.

Note: You can publish the course only if you are an author or a co-author of it.

Navigate to Learning.

Click Manage Resources at the top right, select a course, and click Publish at the top.

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Note: You must publish the course to assign it to the learners.

After publishing a course, the Course Insights tab will appear beside the Content and Learners tabs.