Marshall Slemp Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Courses is a new, lightweight learning platform designed to help you provide a new learning experience for your members. Courses are perfect for requiring your community to read and understand documentation and to deliver training and lessons to your community. Let's take a look at how it works! Instructor led courses are comprised of separate modules, each containing lessons. New courses are created and managed through the AdminCP under Community. Each course has the option to be assigned one or more instructors. Instructors play a crucial role in developing the course content via the frontend, and they are available to assist members throughout their learning journey in the course. Courses can be set to be optional, or required meaning members must complete this course before progressing to others. Furthermore, courses tie into Achievement Rules, so you have the ability to grant points and/or badges to a member once they finish a course. Courses can be free or paid, and comprise of one or more modules, each of which contain multiple sessions and an optional quiz. Modules and Lessons Courses wouldn't be much without some lessons! Lessons are grouped into modules, that can have an optional quiz. Quizzes are a great way to verify members' learning progression and understanding. You have the option to configure modules to be completed sequentially. This pairs nicely with quizzes as you would need to complete the current module before moving on to the next one, ensuring a structured and progressive learning experience! The lessons themselves are the main content of Courses. Lessons are comprised of the material that students will engage with during their learning journey. Lessons can be designated as optional, so they can be skipped. This is handy when you want to provide organised supplemental information that is not essential. Managing Enrollments As an administrator or instructor, you may need to manage course enrolments from time to time. This can involve enrolling a member on their behalf, withdrawing a member from a course, or deleting an enrollment altogether. There are two ways for managing those enrolled in courses, either through the administrative control panel or the course roster on the frontend. To access the course roster via the frontend - just click on 'View All Members' when on the course homepage. Course Manager Managing a course is handled via the frontend. Individuals such as instructors, admins, and other authorized members can create and edit modules, lessons and quizzes for a course. You manage quizzes and lessons from within the module view. I hope that you have enjoyed this overview of Courses. This is just the beginning, we're already considering various possibilities such as integrating with Live Topics, incorporating discussion sections within a lesson, and enhancing the required courses feature so stay tuned! The features discussed in this announcement are not available for Invision Community Classic. Click here to learn more about switching to our platform to get this and other benefits. View full blog entry LiquidFractal, tzrtim, SeNioR- and 11 others 10 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Miller Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 3 hours ago, Marshall Slemp said: courses tie into Achievement Rules, so you have the ability to grant points and/or badges to a member once they finish a course. 😍 3 hours ago, Marshall Slemp said: Courses can be set to be optional, or required meaning members must complete this course before progressing to others. 😍 3 hours ago, Marshall Slemp said: Courses can be free or paid 😍 This whole app is super cool and a really big deal! Congrats! Excited to see it in action. Matt, David N., Jim M and 3 others 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David N. Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Looking great! I can't wait to get started building my first course. 🙂 everzel and Matt 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Garcia Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Looking forward to testing this out! Olivia Clark, everzel and Matt 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David N. Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) When I see the buttons at the end of a course, I feel like I'm missing some options that would make the visitor move forward. Most people don't want to return to the course they just took or retake the same quizz again either? Most people want to either go to the next course, next module, or back to that course's list of modules, or to the library of courses. Edited May 4 by David N. rayzir, Olivia Clark, ibaker and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeofeconomy Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Would you consider making this a module that Classic customers can pay for? This module would be fantastically useful, but we use Invision for an Intranet site with hosting on the Cloud not an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 11 hours ago, homeofeconomy said: Would you consider making this a module that Classic customers can pay for? This module would be fantastically useful, but we use Invision for an Intranet site with hosting on the Cloud not an option. At present, this is a value add item for our cloud customers on Creator Pro and above. It has been stated that we may, at some point in the future, consider this on the classic platform. However there is nothing set it stone as of yet everzel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Askancy Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 41 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said: At present, this is a value add item for our cloud customers on Creator Pro and above. It has been stated that we may, at some point in the future, consider this on the classic platform. However there is nothing set it stone as of yet What languages do you use for this application that led to the decision not to publish as well for self-hosts? I don't think it uses NodeJS or AWS stuff with your modules.... everzel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 1 hour ago, Askancy said: What languages do you use for this application that led to the decision not to publish as well for self-hosts? I don't think it uses NodeJS or AWS stuff with your modules.... As mentioned, this is a value add item for creator pro and above (who, as regularly pointed out, pay more for their service). Nobody mentioned languages being a decision on whether or not to make it cloud only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted May 18 Management Share Posted May 18 Courses is available on the following packages: Creator Pro Team Business Enterprise Courses is not available on: Beginner Creator Classic (self-hosted) Feel free to reach out about upgrading your services. You can PM me or contact sales 😀 lanc3lot, everzel and Marc Stridgen 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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