Create great courses and manage them effectively
Find the tips and best practice advice all in one place.
Most content features are available to all customers.
Integrations are available depending on your LearnUpon plan.
Course content design: specifications for working in LearnUpon
A summary of the requirements to use LearnUpon and design effective content.
Collection: course content design
LearnUpon navigation and internal tools
Learn how to get around the LearnUpon interface.
Find out what files types you can use, and their size limits.
Use internal tools to add HTML text, and manage images.
File types supported in course modules: overview
Image sizes overview: logos, course images and certificates
Images: crop images and provide alt-text
Understand course structure
Modules and segments are the building blocks of courses. Learn the different kinds of modules you can build and upload to LearnUpon.
Collection: creating and managing content in LearnUpon
Basic how-to instructions
Step-by-step guides to setting up course content.
Create a text and image module
Add documents, video or audio segments to modules
Embed videos and other external media
Integrate Guru into your content modules
Integrate Gong Embedded Player into your content modules
Add images for a course or learning path
Course settings: overview
This article gets its own heading because it provides so much detail about the settings that affect courses.
Course settings overview: details, learner access and messaging options
Course settings: one by one
These settings give you precise control over how learners experience your courses.
Courses: using the course reference code
Courses: add course description and objectives for the dashboard and catalog
Courses: Additional Settings to manage learners' access to a course
Add courses and learning paths to the catalog
Courses: set release dates for modules
Manage course due dates and valid periods
Courses: sequence your modules
Courses: set a course pass mark
Custom course data: set up custom fields about courses
Course settings: support required content with mandatory modules
Use course and module settings to ensure learners complete courses.
Courses: make course modules mandatory for completing a course
Use the library for resources and shared content
One of LearnUpon's strengths is the way you can reuse modules, groups of exam questions (question pools) and uploaded resources in multiple courses.
Library: your portal's reusable modules
Courses: copy modules and courses, and know when to start a new course version
Categories: create and assign searchable categories for your portal
Exams: question types overview
Surveys: question types overview
Add interactive course content with SCORM and Tin Can/xAPI
Use a variety of software tools to create SCORM or xAPI modules, which give learners an interactive experience in the course.
SCORM and xAPI (Tin Can): overview
Add Tin Can (xAPI) content to modules
Replace a SCORM or Tin Can (xAPI) module in a course
SCORM content: troubleshooting errors
SCORM content: use the module debugging tool for troubleshooting
Live Learning and legacy Instructor-led training (ILTs)
Live Learning refers to in-person training in classes and workplaces, and also online training using 3rd party webinar software.
Live Learning and Instructor Led Training (ILT): overview and initial setup
Live Learning and legacy ILTs: set locations for instructor-led training sessions
Live Learning: overview and features
Use checklists to verify on the job (OTJ) training
Checklists let you create your own list of tasks or skills for a learner to demonstrate.
An observer can watch and verify the tasks were completed correctly.
Checklists: overview and features
Checklists: create a checklist and add it to a course
Checklists: assess a learner with a checklist
Set assignments, review results and offer feedback
Use assignments to judge how your learners are progressing. Grade assignments and feed back advice to help learners improve.
Assignments: create an assignment for a course
Assignments: review and provide feedback, or reject an assignment
Exams and surveys
Test your learners with exams. Use surveys for course evaluations, to ask for feedback about making courses better.
Exams: create and edit a question pool
Exams: reset a learner's exam attempts
Publish courses
Publish a new version of a course
Delete a course: effects on learners, reporting and learning paths
Build forums to share course discussions and insights
Help learners engage with their courses by providing a forum as a discussion space, to share ideas and impressions.
Forums overview: topics, permissions and moderators
Enable forums for your portal, and add topics
Forums: add moderators for a topic, course or learning path
Issue certificates
Give learners recognition for their completed courses, and something to share with colleagues and peers.
Social sharing: let learners share results on Twitter and LinkedIn
Create associations to offer variable pricing, and to track learning credits
The Associations feature offers 2 tools for professional associations and trades organizations:
- sets membership types, and enables membership-based course prices
- records external training by learners, towards credits for continuing education or professional development
Learners can upload documentation for the external training events they attend, and can self-award their own learning credits.
Associations and membership types: overview and setup
Associations: set up learning credits for members
Associations: set membership pricing
Associations: record and self-award credits for external training
Webinar integrations
To create webinar sessions in Live Learning and legacy ILTs, you need to add the webinar integrations to the portal.
Microsoft Teams works differently from other webinar integrations.
See the articles in Microsoft Teams for complete details.