If you plan to offer multiple sessions of a course or webinar, you can create separate sessions with unique start and end dates.
Creating a New Course Session
- From your homepage, select Content, then Manage Content.
- Click the Content Title.
- Select the Release Step.
- Click New Session in the top right of the page.
- Enter the new Session Start Date and Session Name.
Note
The text added to the Session Name field will be appended to the original course name which you can preview in the pop up as you're creating the new session.
Tip
Naming Conventions for Sessions: Try to make sure original Session Title (the session you are cloning from) is something without a date or unique identifier. Because the New Session Title will add onto the end of the original and affect the new session's URL, it's best to keep dates out of the original's title.
Example:
Orignal Session Title: Best Quick Meals
New Session Name: 06-30-2022
Full New Session Title: Best Quick Meals 06-30-2022
- Click Save & Create.
- You will be taken to your new session's first authoring step, the course outline in this case.
Creating a New Webinar Session
- From your homepage, select Content, then Manage Content.
- Click the Content Title.
- Select the Release Step.
- Click New Session in the top right of the page.
- Choose your webinar connection and enter a Session Name.
Note
The text added to the Session Name field will be appended to the original webinar name which you can preview in the pop up as you're creating the new session.
Tip
Naming Conventions for Sessions: Try to make sure original Session Title (the session you are cloning from) is something without a date or unique identifier. Because the New Session Title will add onto the end of the original and affect the new session's URL, it's best to keep dates out of the original's title.
Example:
Orignal Session Title: Best Quick Meals
New Session Name: 06-30-2022
Full New Session Title: Best Quick Meals 06-30-2022
Warning
The new session's full title will be a part of the content item's URL structure. URLs for VILT or Webinar content items cannot be altered after creation due to a limitation with the webinar providers. If you are adding dates or unique IDs to the titles, please make sure the New Session Title is reflecting what you want before creating. You can preview the new title in the pop up modal while creating, but before saving the new session.
- Click Save & Create.
- You will be taken to your new session's first authoring step, the course outline for a webinar with pre/post learning enabled or the event page in this case.
After Creation
At this point, you've essentially created a copy of the course or webinar and its related settings. You can then edit the course outline, event details, and settings, as needed, for your new session.
To finalize the new session, look into updating the following:
- For courses or webinars with pre/post learning, make sure you publish your course outline.
- Depending on how you provision content to your learners, you'll want to check the following:
- By default, these new sessions will be unreleased. If you use the Release/Unrelease process to release content to your catalog, you'll want to Release the content to make it live.
- Tags are shared by sessions at the course group level. Because of this, for panoramas, if you provision content via tags, we recommend you create all sessions before adding the tag to the course group or the panorama. This will help you avoid early release of content before it is ready.
Tip
You have the ability to Release All or Unrelease All sessions from the Main Content List. Navigate to Content > Manage Content > click the Content Title. Click the Gear Icon in the top right to see actions for all sessions, then click Release All or Unrelease All.
Learner View
Learners will see the sessions as an option when enrolling in content. Here is an example detail page for a webinar content item with two sessions.
