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Edit a course

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The main author and co-authors of the course, the editors and admins from the course’s owner group, and platform administrators can edit courses, even after they have been shared or added to a path.

Editing the same course in multiple browsers or tabs can lead to lost changes.

Edit the general settings of a course

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of the course row, click pen.svg Edit.

In Course Setup, you can change the following elements:

  • Cover picture
  • Title
  • Summary of presentation
  • Presentation type:
    • Slideshow: Activities are presented sequentially. Learners can play every activity in the course individually, before moving to the next activity.
    • Single Page: Activities are presented as a group in a single scrolling view.
  • Skills
  • Translators (if applicable)
  • Reviewers (if applicable)
  • Tags

At the top right, click settings.svg Course Settings to change the following elements:

Edit the owner group

Admins, editors, and contributors can change the course owner group to any other group in which they have the admin, editor, or contributor role.

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of the course row, click pen.svg Edit.
  3. In the top right, click settings.svg Course Settings.
  4. Click the current Owner group.
  5. Select the new Owner group.
  6. Click CONFIRM.

By default, the owner group of a course is the group of the user who initially created the course. If the user belonged to several groups, the owner group is (by order of priority) the private group closest to the platform group, with the most users.

Add an activity

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of the course row, click pen.svg Edit.
  3. In the left sidebar, below the list of activities, click Add activity and choose the activity.

Visibility for users

When you add, reorder, or delete an activity, the changes will not appear instantly for learners with existing progress.

  • If a learner is playing the course from the catalog, they can see the new list of activities when they click refresh.svg Restart on the course homepage.
  • If a learner has already finished the course from the catalog, they can see the new list of activities when they play the course again.
  • If a learner is playing the course within a path or has already finished it within the path, they can see the new list of activities when they click Retry course at the top right of the course.

Edit an activity

Changes made to an activity are instantly visible to all users who have access to the course.

Edit a document

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of a course, click pen.svg Edit.
  3. In the left sidebar, click on a document.
  4. At the top right of the document preview, click settings.svg Settings.
  5. Click Update the file (if the document was uploaded), or edit the Source.

You can also change its name, description, thumbnail, and excerpt (if it is a video).

Edit a cheat sheet or a question

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of the course row, click pen.svg Edit.
  3. In the left sidebar, click on a cheat sheet or a question.
  4. Make the changes.
  5. Click outside the field to save changes.

If the course has translations, removing or reordering answers for a multiple choice, single choice, ordered, or linker question does not update the translation entries. After making these changes, open the translation interface and correct the answer translations.

Edit a video recording

To change a video recording, you will need to delete the old one and rerecord:

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of the course row, click pen.svg Edit.
  3. In the left sidebar, click on a recording.
  4. At the top right of the video, click bin.svg Delete.
  5. Click Delete.
  6. Click Start recording.
  7. Record the new video.
  8. On the bottom, click Stop recording.
  9. On the top right of the video, click Save.

Reorder activities

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of the course row, click pen.svg Edit.
  3. In the left sidebar, drag and drop activities to reorder them.

The new order is automatically saved.

Visibility for users

When you add, reorder, or delete an activity, the changes will not appear instantly for learners with existing progress.

  • If a learner is playing the course from the catalog, they can see the new list of activities when they click refresh.svg Restart on the course homepage.
  • If a learner has already finished the course from the catalog, they can see the new list of activities when they play the course again.
  • If a learner is playing the course within a path or has already finished it within the path, they can see the new list of activities when they click Retry course at the top right of the course.

Delete an activity

  1. At the top of the homepage, click Courses.
  2. On the right of the course row, click pen.svg Edit.
  3. In the left sidebar, on the right of the activity name, click … → Remove.

Visibility for users

When you add, reorder, or delete an activity, the changes will not appear instantly for learners with existing progress.

  • If a learner is playing the course from the catalog, they can see the new list of activities when they click refresh.svg Restart on the course homepage.
  • If a learner has already finished the course from the catalog, they can see the new list of activities when they play the course again.
  • If a learner is playing the course within a path or has already finished it within the path, they can see the new list of activities when they click Retry course at the top right of the course.

Edit a course created from a SCORM file or an eLearning file

See Edit a course created from an eLearning file →

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