Creating Learning Paths

Use the steps below to create a Learning Path.

1. Click the plus icon in the top right corner to Add New Content.
2. From the content creation flow, click the Select button on the Learning Path tile. 
3. Next, decide if you'd like to build your Learning Path from Blank (scratch) or off of a previously built Learning Path (template). 
   • If starting from Blank, select the content type you would like to build off of and then title your Learning Path.
   • If not starting from Blank, select the existing template to work off of from the dropdown menu and title your new Learning Path.
     Tip

     If you are taking advantage of templates, the content type and many other settings will be carried over to the new learning path. To learn more about templates, check out this help article.

4. Click Create.
5. You will start on the Milestone tab, start building your learning path by adding milestones (i.e. “Stage 1”, “Stage 2”).
6. Click Add Milestone to get started.
   Tip

   You can copy milestones from existing Learning Paths by going to the Existing Milestone tab on this step and searching for the milestone you want to copy! Only available to main site manager roles with creating content permissions.

7. Enter a Milestone Name and choose if this milestone should be released immediately upon learners gaining access to the learning path. You also have the option to add a milestone description.
   Tip

   If your descriptions are repetitive or maybe you use the same milestones in more than one place, you can add milestone descriptions from the Asset Library. Click the book icon in the WYSIWYG to see your options!

8. Click Add Content button.
9. Add content to your milestones by selecting content from the Search for content box or from the drop down that appears.
   Tip

   If searching, please use a full word or words. The system will load results and you can use the filter options that appear to narrow down your selection.

10. If the content has more than one available session, you can choose whether or not learners are able to select and complete any session or just the session added. To allow sessions toggle on Allow Learner to select and complete any session in the content.
    Note

    Only released sesssions are available as choices for the learner in this configuration. This includes panorama use cases. Make sure your sessions are released by editing the content item, then selecting the Release step.

11. From the Elective or Required? drop down, choose either required or elective.
    Tip

    Marking content as required will automatically add it to the completion criteria.

12. Click Save.
13. Specify completion criteria for each milestone.
    Note

    This can include time-based criteria, CEU- or credits-based criteria, completion of a certain number of digital courses, etc. If your site has any award types set up, they will also be an option for completion criteria.

14. Click Save.
    
    
    Tip

    If more than one elective is added, you will have the option to make one or more electives required as part of completion criteria.
    

15. Complete all authoring steps to configure the Learning Path fully.
    • Milestones: Add milestones, Milestone settings and content in each milestones.
    • Design: Necessary information for the detail page.
    • Completion: Add Certificates and/or Credly badges.
    • Enrollment: Add access dates and configure ecommerce options.
    Tip

    If a certificate is desired, go to the Completion step > Certification to attach a certificate that is awarded upon completion of the learning path. When this is set up, a certificate is granted to the learner once they meet all completion criteria set at the milestone level.

    Tip

    If both the learning path itself and the content contained in the learning path have limits to restrict the number of days a learner can access them, the access limits that you have imposed on the learning path will be respected (not the access limits of the content items). The learning path's access limits override the individual content items' access limits.

You can choose to have required content across multiple milestones and have the learner take the content in any order. Configuring this revolves around the setting Force Linear Progress. Default behavior is to have this setting for Force Linear Progress enabled and learners will have to take the content milestone by milestone and cannot hop ahead to milestone 2 if they have not completed milestone 1. When disabled, learners can move around the learning path milestones as they please while still knowing that content items are required for overall learning path completion.

1. Go to Courses > All Courses.
2. Choose your learning path and click on the title to edit.
3. On the Milestones step, expand Learning Path Options.
4. Disable Force Linear Progress.
5. Click Save.
6. Make sure to continue configuring the learning path by adding milestone content and going through the remaining authoring steps if you haven't already!

You can update the display name of your Learning Path if you want your learners to see different terminology. You can also report based on the Learning Path content type. Below are the steps to change the content type language for your Learning Path.

1. From your homepage, select Courses > All Courses.
2. Select the Learning Path Content Title for to the Learning Path you wish to alter.
3. Navigate to the Design step > Edit Catalog Settings.
4. In the Catalog tab, click inside the Learning Path Type field and enter the Content Type language that best represents your brand's language.
5. Click Save. 
   

Within the Enrollment step of creating your Learning Path, you have the option to allow learners to purchase the Learning Path easily and intuitively. 

Admin View:

Did you know you can also set up your Learning Path to have "Pay As You Go" as an alternative purchase option? Here is how it works. 

When enabled, the learner gets immediate access to the first piece of content in the learning path. For each additional piece of content thereafter, the learner goes through a checkout process to pay for the next piece of content in the learning path.

1. Create or edit a Learning Path.
2. Navigate to the Enrollment step.
3. Enable Apply purchase to first content item only.
   • If enabled, learners will be charged the set price, but only be given access to the first piece of content in the Learning Path. Learners will then be prompted to purchase all other items individually.
4. Click Save.
   
5. For the learner, the first item will display a Start button after initial purchase. All items after that will take the learner to a detail page to proceed through the checkout process.

   Any content items within the second milestone will open up for purchase after the first milestone has been completed, based on whatever completion criteria is set on that milestone.
   
   Learner View:
   

You can design the learning path content page and the learning path detail page sidebar, both globally or individually.

• A learner can enroll in a learning path the same way as any other piece of content. Once enrolled in a learning path, learners will be able to view it from their dashboard via the Learning Path tab on the Dashboard Access Widget (see image below). From here, learners can click into the learner view of the learning path to see all milestones, content, and completion criteria.
  
• When a learner clicks Start on a piece of content, it will automatically enroll them in the content. This means that the specific piece of content will now be viewable in the In Progress tab on the learner's dashboard. Additionally, any Learner Notifications related to that content item will trigger. Once content is completed, it will move from the "In Progress" tab to the "Completed" tab.
• If a learner has already completed a piece of content within a learning path prior to enrolling in said learning path, they will not be required to complete it again.
• Learning Paths can be provisioned to Panoramas. Once a learner has access to a milestone, they will see the individual pieces of content for the respective milestone in the catalog widget on the learner dashboard.
• To set up Learner Notifications in relation to the content within learning paths, navigate to Users > Notifications > Learner Notifications.
  Learner Notifications is behind a feature flag.

  Navigate to Apps in your instance to request to have this feature enabled on your site. To read more about this feature, please refer to this article.