We are currently in the beginning stages of developing a Courses and Lessons application within Invision Community. This will only be available on our cloud services as a value addition.

We receive regular requests for Learning Management System (LMS) capabilities in Invision Community and the Courses app will start us down that path. 

The Courses app is not going to try to be a full LMS. Not trying to run a university here 🙂

But we do think there is value in offering basic LMS capabilities within a community context. Some features we are already doing:

• Ability to create Courses with multiple Modules
• Modules can have multiple content items that a member can read/engage (articles, videos, discussions)
• Courses can be made optional or required.
• Required courses can be defined as "do this first" or literally required as in you must take course within X days of joining community.
• Badges/points awarded on various completion events.
• Reports for those who enroll and/or complete a Course. Reports can be exported to CSV.

As this is early development we are open to ideas and suggestions.

How might you use Courses?

What capabilities would you want to see?

Great news! Here's what I suggest:

• It'd be nice to have tests. We should be able to create questions using a WYSIWYG editor and set the correct answer(s) in advance. Students could retake the tests up to X times if they fail (score < Y).
• +1 for certificates.
• Ability to limit how long the student has access to the course (6 months, 1 year, lifetime, etc).
• Bulk mail to all course participants.
• Set one or more users as instructors.
• Set one or more users as teaching assistants / moderators (like in Clubs).
• Students should be able to "follow" the course to receive notifications when things get updated (content, new classes, etc).
• Sysadmins should be able to convert a database entry to a Course (to keep pageviews, ranking, comments, etc).

Thank you!