Add courses and learning paths to the catalog

Summary

The internal course catalog, or catalogue, lets users view courses and enroll themselves, for self-directed learning. Set up the catalog for the portal, then choose which courses and learning paths to offer through the catalog.

This feature is available to all customers.

You can add categories for browsing: this option supports learners finding their own courses and learning paths. 

You can also limit access for courses and learning paths to specific groups: for example, if courses are applicable only to a department, or to a region.

This procedure has 2 parts:

• from Settings, enable the catalog for the portal
• from Courses, choose the courses or learning paths to offer through the catalog

Enable course catalog for the portal

The portal-level Settings turns on the course catalog for the whole portal, and controls what your users see and can access in the catalog. For details about the options see Some general options: detailed view.

1. From main navigation go to Settings > Internal Course Catalog > General Settings.
2. From the General options, select Catalog Enabled.
3. Optional: 
   • from Order catalog items, select Alphabetically or Newest first
   • select Enable ILT Calendar browsing on your catalog? if required 
   • select Allow users to re-enroll on completed courses and learning paths? to let users re-enroll as described
   • select Hide course release dates on your catalog if required 
   • select Copy your catalog settings to sub-portals when licensing, if required
4. Save to finish these options.

The following screenshot shows the catalog General options card. 

Options for the catalog, in detail

Enable ILT Calendar browsing on your catalog?

If you set up the Live Sessions Calendar widget, this option lets users access the catalog and choose ILT courses using the widget.

Allow users to re-enroll on completed courses and learning paths

By default, the catalog blocks users from enrolling on completed courses and learning paths again. This option lets you override the default to allow re-enrollments: for example, if your users must complete courses yearly for compliance reasons.

Hide course release dates on your catalog

If your courses do not require frequent updates, you can hide the course release dates. Hiding the release dates could prevent potential customers thinking that course listings are dated or no longer relevant. 

Copy your catalog settings to sub-portals when licensing

If you license a course to a sub-portal, LearnUpon copies the settings from Courses > my course > Catalog to the sub-portal's course. See Add a course or a learning path to the catalog in the following sections.

Enrollment Options

Enrollment Options control the user's journey from the catalog to their course. 

1. From Courses - enrollment experience select an option, or leave the default selection:
   • Enroll and redirect user to Dashboard: default
   • Enroll and redirect user to Courses details page in dashboard: lets viewer review the course detail 
   • Enroll and stay in catalog: lets user continue to browse for courses
   • Start course immediately: opens module from the Dashboard - a good choice for short self-directed courses
2. From Learning Paths - enrollment experience, select an option, or leave the default selection:
   • Enroll and redirect user to Dashboard: default
   • Enroll and redirect user to Courses details page in dashboard: user reviews the course detail
   • Enroll and stay in catalog: lets user continue to browse for courses
3. Save to finish.

The following screenshot shows Enrollment Options.

Add a course or a learning path to the catalog

From Courses settings, add a course or a learning path to the catalog, where learners can find it by browsing, or by searching. Set whether learners can enroll themselves, or need to request enrollment. 

If you license a course to a sub-portal, LearnUpon can copy these settings to the sub-portal's course, through the portal-level settings for Internal Course Catalog. See Enable course catalog for the portal.

1. From main navigation:
   • for courses: go to Courses > your course name 
   • for learning paths: go to Courses. From secondary navigation select Learning Paths > your learning path name
2. From Info select Catalog.
3. Select Display course in catalog?
4. Optionally:
   • set Enrollment must be requested if you want an admin or group manager to approve enrollments
   • set Enable notifications for user requests if you want group managers to receive notifications about these requests
5.  Save to finish.

Notifications of user requests aren't available for learning paths: for courses only.

The following screenshot shows Add course to catalog, with all enrollment requests enabled.

Note: An admin or group manager can approve requests.  See Enrollments: manage enrollment requests from learners.

Add categories to help users find courses and learning paths

You need to create categories for your portal first. Categories apply across the portal. See Categories: create and assign searchable categories for your portal. When the categories are available you can add them to a course or learning path.

1. From main navigation:
   • for courses: go to Courses > your course name 
   • for learning paths: go to Courses. From secondary navigation select Learning Paths > your learning path name
2. From the Info page select Catalog.
3. In the Course Categories card, enter the first few letters of a category to prompt the dropdown. Select Enter to add a category to a course.
4. Save to finish.

Note: When learners use the catalog, they can only filter courses by 1 category at a time.

The following screenshot shows Course Categories applied to a course.

Restrict access to groups in the catalog

This step allows only specific groups to view and enroll on a course or a learning path in the catalog.

If you leave this field blank, the course or learning path is available to all users from the catalog.

1. From main navigation:
   • for courses: go to Courses > your course name 
   • for learning paths: go to Courses. From secondary navigation select Learning Paths > your learning path name
2. From the Info page, select Catalog.
3. In Further restrict access by Group? start typing the group name to prompt the dropdown.
4. Select the group name and Save.

The following screenshot shows an example learning path's Further restrict access by Group?

See:

• Course settings overview: details, learner access and messaging options 
• Courses: Additional Settings to manage learners' access to a course
• Enroll groups on a learning path
• Learning path settings: details, enrollment access, and credits
• Categories: create and assign searchable categories for your portal