Administrators, managers and instructors see a different layout from learners. See Learner view: navigating LearnUpon about the learner interface.
Availability: all customers
Courses page
The Courses page shows courses available based on the users' permissions:
- all admins: can view all courses in the portal by default
- managers and instructors who own courses, or are assigned to courses: can view the courses they own, or the courses they instruct
The following screenshot shows an admin view of Courses with all secondary navigation options and filters shown.
Courses page navigation
Courses includes secondary navigation from its header for additional course-related features. You need to turn on these features for the portal to access them from the Courses page.
The navigation options are:
- Courses - the default view
- Learning paths
- Bundles - an eCommerce feature
See:
- Learning paths: create a path, add courses, set progression and publish
- Legacy eCommerce: create and sell course bundles
- eCommerce platform: set up courses for sale
Courses page columns
Courses uses columns to display information about the courses. The numeric values in the columns are selectable to expand the course’s related information. The columns include:
- Course name - with version number shown
- Modules - number of modules in the course
- Enrollments - number of learners enrolled
- Groups - for courses assigned to groups
- Skills - for portals using skills
- Last updated - calendar date
- Status - can display more than 1 status. For example: Published and Sellable
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More, aka 3-dot menu - shows any actions you can perform. Access to these actions depend on the viewer's permissions. These actions can include:
- Edit
- Preview course
- Create enrollment
- Copy to
Courses multi-select checkboxes
When you select 2 or more courses, the application offers the following options:
- Copy to - opens the Copy selected courses dialog
- Archive - opens a dialog to archive the selected courses
- Create enrollment - opens Enrollments with the selected courses listed
- Copy to and Archive - these actions use the bulk actions engine in the application, so you can track the progress of these actions in the portal actions tracker
See:
- Courses: copy a course
- Archive a course
- Enroll individual learners on a course
- Portal: follow bulk actions through the portal action tracker
Tip: you can select Draft and Archived courses but you can’t create new enrollments for them. You can’t archive a course a second time. You can copy an archived course.
Courses per page
Courses shows 10 items per page by default. You can change the display to show up to 100 items per page.
The following screenshot shows the selection options for items per page.
Sort order
You can list courses according to different critieria. The default sort order is Created (Newest first). Other options are:
- Created (Oldest first)
- Last updated (newest first)
- Last updated (oldest first)
- Name (A-Z)
- Name (Z-A)
- Number of modules (Low-high)
- Number of modules (High-low)
Course filters
To manage large numbers of courses, you can use filters to narrow your selections. Sort your courses by 1 or more filters, plus the search tool:
- Status - dropdown of course statuses
- Group - for courses limited to specific groups, you can filter by groups
- Created after - calendar picker
- Published after - calendar picker
- Updated after - calendar picker
- Skills - for customers who assign skills to courses
- Contains module - lists module types, including modules imported from content integrations like Go1, Easygenerator, LinkedIn, Skillsoft, Create+
You can combine filters to narrow the list of courses.
The following screenshot shows a sample Courses page with highlights on the filters , with Sort > Last updated (newest first). The courses shown are filtered using Published status and Updated after date.
Course search
Courses offers 2 types of search:
- default search, that matches the first word in the course name
- advanced search, that searches for matches in course titles, descriptions, keywords and alt-text
See: