Summary
When you create a course, you are the course owner by default. You can change the course owner as required.
This course feature is available to all customers.
Course owners explained
By default, the person who created the course is the course owner. The course owner's name appears in the store, and they are the default instructor to receive learner messages.
A course owner is not a user type: anyone who can create courses can own courses. Each course has only 1 owner at a time.
This role is mainly associated with instructors who create course content. See User types and permissions: instructors.
The course owner has specific course-related tasks. By default, owners:
- receive notifications about course events like learners completing exams and surveys
- receive assignments, if no other instructor is assigned to the learner
The person who created the course is the first course owner. An admin or a course owner can change the course owner as required. The new course owner must have permissions to create and edit courses.
Access permissions
Instructors with create and edit permissions, managers with instructor permissions, and admins can own courses.
To give instructors the optional permissions to create courses, and become course owners, see Users: create an instructor, and assign them to a course
To give managers the optional permissions to act as instructors, and become course owners, see Managers: set permissions to manage groups.
Admins hold all permissions related to content by default. See Portal setup: create admin accounts.
Find a course’s owner
The course’s current owner, and the option to change the owner, is available for each course from the course’s Additional Settings. See Courses: Additional Settings to manage learners' access to a course.
To find the course owner for multiple courses, download your portal’s course settings. See Courses: export course settings from a portal.
For organizations that use the LearnUpon API, see Courses in LearnUpon API guide.
Change a course owner
You change the course owner through a course’s Additional Settings. See Courses: Additional Settings to manage learners' access to a course.
Course owners and notifications
By default, course owners get notifications about course events if no instructors are assigned to the course or the learner.
If instructors are assigned to the course or learner, the notifications go to the instructors instead.
For a list of automated emails that inform course owners about course events, see Standard LearnUpon-generated emails: overview.
To send messages directly to course owners, see Send a message or an announcement.
Other content owners in LearnUpon
Aside from courses, 2 module types have owners:
- checklist modules: see Checklists - create a checklist and add it to a course
- training modules from ILT Center: see ILT Center: create and edit an ILT module
These module owners created the checklists or the training content. You can’t change owners for these modules.
To create either module type, you need permissions to create and edit courses. See Access permissions in this article.
As a course owner, you can add a checklist or ILT Center module with a different owner to your course. You do not need to own the checklist or ILT, in order to use these modules in your course.
This modular structure means you can add any checklists and ILT Center modules available in your portal to your courses.
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