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 User guide for Admins.

After creating a course, you have to publish it. 

Authors can create learning in three ways.

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You can also import the courses from other applications if your organization has integrated with them. Learn more in Import courses.

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 and click + Add.
  2. Select Create course from scratch.

In the Basic Information step,

  3.   Type the course title.

Note: Ask Marissa AI appears only after you type the course title.

If required, you can

  • Upload the cover photo for the course.
  • Type the course description and details.
  • Click Ask Marissa to Generate Description.
  • 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 the learning manager's permission. Learn more in the User guide for Admins.

  4.   Click Continue.

In the Completion Behavior step,

  5.   Select the units to complete Randomly or Sequentially as required.

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

Note: If you enable the option After manual evaluation, the Evaluation Status and Scores fields appear in the Learners tab, where you can evaluate the learners.

  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 their feedback on the course.

In the Compliance Settings step,

  8.   Enable Compliance for this course if required. Learn more in Enable course compliance.

Note: If you select

  • Forever: The course remains compliance forever, ensuring ongoing adherence to guidelines and regulations.
  • Based on completion date: By default, the compliance validity is 1827 days. However, you must set the number of days for which the learner is compliant before the next occurrence. After the learner completes a course, the course recurs at regular intervals.
  • Based on custom date: It is a yearly compliance. You must set a date and month after which the course re-assigns to the learner.

You can enable the option Automatically re-assign course to re-assign the course to the learners automatically. Before the validity completion and the set number of days, the course automatically re-assigns to the learner.

Note: The compliant 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 to personalise

You can utilise the existing courses to personalise them as required. This helps to efficiently update the existing courses to align with organizational objectives, saving time and effort in the content development process.

Navigate to Learning.

  1. At the top right, click Manage and click + Add.
  2. Select Utilise the existing courses to personalise and select Authored by you.
  3. Hover over the course, click Use this template on the right, and click Use.

You can open a course to view its sections and units and manage them as required.

Publish course

After creating a course, you have to publish it to make it available to other authors and co-authors if any. While publishing, you can push it to the library to make it available to all employees of the organization.

Navigate to Learning.

  1. Click Manage at the top right and select a learning.
  2. Click Publish at the top right.

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