What is an Offering?
Through offerings, we determine how a course is delivered (offered) to learners in various formats. For example, a course on Digital Marketing can be delivered to learners through online content, such as videos, which they can watch at any time to gain knowledge on Digital Marketing. Similarly, they can also enroll in the same course if it is delivered by an instructor. The instructor can deliver the course in a physical classroom or virtually through online tools such as Zoom, Teams, WebEx, etc
In Oracle Learning Cloud we can configure following three types of offerings for any course:
- Self-Paced Offering : Using this method, learners can access available learning content at their own pace, without the need for an instructor or a physical classroom.
- Instructor-Led Offering : In this offering method, an instructor is typically physically present in a classroom to teach a group of learners.
- Blended Offering : An offering that combines elements of both self-paced and instructor-led approaches is known as a blended offering. In such cases, learners initially attend the course with an instructor and subsequently engage with additional online content.
In this article we will learn to configure all these three different types of offerings for a Digital Marketing Course we configured earlier. If you haven’t done already, please follow this article first » Learn to Configure Course
Learn to Configure Offerings for a Course
There are different ways you can configure offerings for a course, we will see the two most widely used approaches. For the first approach follow below navigation.
Navigation : My Client Groups » Learning » Learning Catalog » Offerings
On the Offerings page, click on Create button and you will see following three different types of offering that we discussed earlier
- Instructor-Led Offering
- Self-Paced Offering
- Blended Offering
Learn to Configure Self-Paced Offering
Click on the second option that is Self-Paced Offering. This will open a Create Offering: Select Course pop-up window. Perform following tasks
- In the Search section enter value Digital Marketing Fundamentals in the Course Title field.
- Click on the Search button.
- Course title will be displayed in the search result section, click on that.
- Click on Select button.
You will be on Create Offering for Digital Marketing Fundamentals page. Enter following information in the Basic Information section.
- Title : Digital Marketing Fundamentals – Learn Online
- Description : Discover the Digital Marketing Fundamentals Course, now available online. Don’t miss out on this opportunity; enroll today to kickstart your digital marketing journey.
- Offering Number : Accept system generated value
- Offering Type : Self-Paced
- Publish Start Date : <1st day of the month, remember offering date can’t be earlier than course start date>
- Publish End Date : <Leave it blank>
Enter following details in the Offering Details section.
- Language : <American English, or language of your choice>
- Offering Coordinator : <Keep it your name only>
Optionally, enable following checkboxes in the Comments section
- Override conversation system setup configuration
- Enable conversations for active and completed enrollees on the enrollment page
Optionally, in the Related Materials section, you can attach related materials for
- Administrators
- Administrators and Self-Service
- Administrators and Enrollees
Since this is an online offering (Self-Paced), we dont need to worry about Capacity Rule. We will discuss this when we will configure Instructor-Led Offering. Similarly Pricing also we will discuss in Instructor-Led Offering.
Scroll up and click on Save and Close button. This will take you to Digital Marketing Fundamentals – Learn Online : Self-Paced Offering page and you will see following sections
- Overview
- General Information
- Descriptions
- Capacity Rules
- Additional Attributes
- Comments
- Related Materials
On your left-hand side, you see following task related to offerings
- Definitions
- Activities
- Learners
- Administrator conversation
- Enrollee conversation
We will learn about these task one by one, but lets to configure a different type of offering that is Instructor-Led Offering.
Learn to Configure Instructor-Led Offering
Earlier we said there are different ways you can configure offerings for a course. When we configured Self-Paced Offering in the previous step we followed below navigation
Navigation : My Client Groups » Learning » Learning Catalog » Offerings
Basically in the previous approach, we first selected offering task and then searched the course for which we wanted to create an offering. In the new approach that we are going to demonstrate you first search the course and then create offering from course page it self. To explore this follow below navigation.
Navigation : My Client Groups » Learning » Learning Catalog » Courses
On the Courses page, search for the Digital Marketing course we created earlier as follows.
- In the Search section, enter value Digital Marketing Fundamentals in the Course Title field
- Click on Search button, you will see course in the Search Results section.
From this page, you can create offering for the Digital Marketing course in following three ways
- Click on the Offerings button, which will take you to Digital Marketing Fundamentals : Couse page, where Offerings task will be already selected from left-hand panel.
- Click on hyperlink 1 Offering from the search result section. This will also take you to the same page mentioned above. Here it is showing 1 Offering because we have already created one offering for this course in the previous step.
- Third option is, click on the course title name itself. This will take you to Digital Marketing Fundamentals page. From the left panel, click on Offerings task.
Whatever method you have followed, just ensure Offerings task is selected from the left panel.
Click on the Create button and select first option Instructor-Led Offering. You will be on Create Offering for Digital Marketing Fundamentals page. Enter following information in the Basic Information section.
- Title : Digital Marketing Fundamentals – ILT
- Description : Join our immersive Digital Marketing Fundamentals course led by industry experts. Gain hands-on experience and insights into the core principles of digital marketing. Elevate your skills and understanding in a dynamic in-person learning environment.
- Offering Number : Accept system generated value
- Offering Type : Instructor-Led
- Publish Start Date : <Choose first day of current month>
- Publish End Date : <Leave it blank>
Enter following details in the Offering Details section.
- Offering Start Date : <This is the actual date when physical session will be conducted. Assuming its a one day course, you can select next Monday>
- Offering End Date : <Select same date as offering start date as it’s going to be one day class>
- Primary Classroom : Optionally select classroom that you have configured previously.
- Language : <American English, or language of your choice>
- Facilitator Type : < You can either select facilitator type Instructor or Training Supplier. For this exercise, you can select option Training Supplier.
- Training Supplier Name : <Select Training Supplier you configured earlier>
- Offering Coordinator : <Keep it your name only>
Optionally, enable following checkboxes in the Comments section
- Override conversation system setup configuration
- Enable conversations for active and completed enrollees on the enrollment page
Optionally, in the Related Materials section, you can attach related materials for
- Administrators
- Administrators and Self-Service
- Administrators and Enrollees
Configure Capacity Rule (Optional)
Scroll below to Capacity Rule section. Since this is an instructor-led training, it must happen inside a physical classroom and classrooms usually have a seating capacity. We can optionally set rule for this in his section.
- Enable Capacity Rules checkbox.
- Minimum Capacity : 10
- Maximum Capacity : 25
- Waitlist Mode : First In First Out
- Waitlist Rules : Enable checkbox : Allow joining the waitlist from self-service
Since this is an instructor-led offering you can ignore section Virtual Instructor Led Training Activity Completion Rules and move on to next section.
You can also optionally configure following two sections
- Pricing
- Payments
Once done, scroll up and click on
Once done, click on Save and Close button. You will be back to Digital Marketing Fundamentals – ILT : Instructor-Led Offering page. Click on the back arrow button and you will back to Digital Marketing Fundamentals : Course page with offerings linked to the course.
Learn to Configure Virtual Instructor-Led Offering
Just remember that when you are attending any course an instructor can be present physically in your classroom along with you and other learners or sometime instructor can deliver the course from a remote location using online tools such as zoom, teams, WebEx etc. This mode of teaching is called Virtual Instructor-Led. We don’t have any separate offerings for this. To create a Virtual Instructor-Led class, we select Instructor-Led Offering only as shown in the previous step and usually dont associate any classroom with this.
You can follow the steps mentioned in the previous step to create a Virtual Instructor-Led Offering, with title name Digital Marketing Fundamentals – VILT. Or just hold on until you read the next section, but whatever is the case, do create a Virtual Instructor-Led Offering.
Learn to Configure Blended Offering
What we are going to learn next is called Blended Offering. Steps to create Blended Offering is same as Instructor-Led Offering. Earlier we explained the concept of Virtual Instructor-Led but that concept is applicable for Blended offering as well, as we need instructor for Blended offering also, after all it is a mix of both self-paced and instructor-led. In this section we will create a blended offering assuming our instructor will take class remotely (virtual).
To create one, click on Create button and select option Blended Offering and enter details as follows
- Title : Digital Marketing Fundamentals – Blended
- Description : Join our immersive Digital Marketing Fundamentals course led by industry experts. Gain hands-on experience and insights into the core principles of digital marketing.
- Offering Number : Accept system generated value
- Offering Type : Blended
- Publish Start Date : <Choose first day of current month>
- Publish End Date : <Leave it blank>
Enter following details in the Offering Details section.
- Offering Start Date : <Select next Tuesday>
- Offering End Date : <Select next Tuesday>
- Primary Classroom : <Since this is going to be a victual class, no need to select any classroom>
- Language : <American English, or language of your choice>
- Facilitator Type : < Select facilitator type Instructor >
- Primary Instructor : <Select Instructor you configured earlier>
- Offering Coordinator : <Keep it your name only>
Optionally, enable Virtual Instructor Led Training Activity Completion Rules
- Enable check box : Enable virtual instructor led activity completion rules.
- Percent of virtual activity duration the learner must participate in to be marked complete : 70
Once done click on Save and Close button. You will be back to Digital Marketing Fundamentals : Course page, which will show all offerings you have configured for this course. With this you have completed all three types of offerings available in Oracle Learning Cloud.
Enroll to a Course Using Offerings
Earlier when we previewed Digital Marketing Course we were unable to enroll as it did not have any offerings. We have now associated offering with our course. Lets see if we can enroll or not.
- While you are still on Digital Marketing Fundamentals : Course page. Click on Actions button.
- Select Preview option.
- Click on Enroll button, this will take you to Available Offerings section.
- All offerings you configured earlier will be visible.
- DO NOT CLICK on the enroll button you see against these offerings.
- Click on View Details link available under each offerings
- You will see following three sections
- Overview
- Offering Details
- Activities
After associating offerings with a course you have started seeing enroll button but we should still not click on Enroll button as there is no activity assigned with any of these offerings. We will learn about activities in the next article.
Have Questions?
In this article we configured following three different types of offerings and associated the same with a Oracle Learning Course we had configured earlier.
- Self-Paced Offering
- Instructor-Led Offering
- Blended Offering
However, we didn’t enroll to this course yet, as we still have to associate activities with these offerings. Before proceeding to learn to configure Activities, if you have any question, related to offerings configuration, don’t hesitate to post your question in our partner platform hacmfolks.com.
