What is a Course?
A course in Oracle Learning Cloud is similar to courses you encounter in the real world. In this article, we’ll illustrate the course creation process using Digital Marketing as an example. We already know that to create any learning catalog, we must first create a catalog resource, which we have already explained in this article » Learn to Configure Catalog Resources. If you’re new to the concept of catalog resource, we recommend reviewing this article before proceeding with course configuration.
Learn to Configure a Course
Navigation : My Client Groups » Learning » Learning Catalog » Courses
To configure a course, follow above navigation and then click on the +Create button in the Search Results section. You will be navigated to Create Course page.
Ensure General Information tab is selected and you enter following information in the Basic Information section
- Title : Digital Marketing Fundamentals
- Syllabus : Explore the foundations of digital marketing in this comprehensive course. Covering website strategy, SEO, paid advertising, social media, email marketing, analytics, and more, you’ll gain the skills to thrive in the digital landscape. Perfect for beginners and those looking to solidify their digital marketing knowledge.
- Short Description : Discover the core principles of digital marketing
- Publish Start Date : 1st day of the current month
- Publish End Date : <Leave it blank>
- Course Number : <System will generate this automatically>
Now optionally enter following information in the Other Details section.
- Minimum Expected Efforts : 2 Hours
- Maximum Expected Efforts : 3 Hours
- Currency : USD
- Minimum Price : 25
- Maximum Price : 50
- Branding Image : You can download this image to make it branding image
- Trailer : <You can use some mp4 format type video to make a trailer>
In the Comments section enable following checkboxes
- Override conversation system setup configuration
- Enable conversations for self service users on the catalog page
In the Related Materials section, you can optionally attach documents and set visibility for
- Administrators
- Administrators and Self-Service
- Administrators and Enrollees
Once you are done, click on Save and Close button and you will be taken to Digital Marketing Fundamentals : Course page. You will see the following options on your left-hand side. We have already curated different articles to cover these options in detail, but for now, let’s not get diverted and keep our focus only on configuring a course in this article.
- Definition
- Offerings
- Instructors
- Learners
- Administrator conversation
- Self-Service Conversation
- Communities
Ensure that Definition link is selected on your left hand side. You will notice following sections
- Overview : This sections shows following details
- Total number of active learners (employees) this course is assigned to, since we have just created the course and not assigned it to anyone, you will see value zero.
- Most recent changes done, last date you updated the course.
- Number of learners missing the course after the last changes you did on the course.
- General Information : You see the same information you captured earlier. System generated Course Number becomes hyperlink in this section though. If you click on it, it will op-up a window from where you can copy hyperlinks to use in Deeplinks or Journeys.
- Syllabus : You see information you captured earlier.
- Additional Attributes
- Comments
- Related Materials
You can expand each section to understand what they capture. You can also click on Edit button to update information of ay of these sections.
How to Preview and Enroll to Curse?
Scroll up and click on Actions button and select option Preview. This will open the course in a new tab where you can preview it. You can explore following sections
- Overview
- Details
- Related Learning
- Available Offerings
Are you ready to enroll and take this course? While you are still previewing the course, scroll up and click on the Enroll button to enroll in the course.
What just happened? As soon as you clicked on the Enroll button it took you to Available Offerings section and displaying a big message : There are no offerings available right now. Try again later.
This message is not because we are currently previewing the course but because we have not associated any offerings with this course. When we configure a course we also need to tell system how do we want to offer this course to learners (employees) whether it would be an online course (Self-paced) or some instructor will physically teach this (Instructor Lead Training). Offerings configuration for this course is explained in this article » Learn to Configure Offerings.
Configure Learning Outcomes (Optional)
We can optionally configure learning outcomes for any course. Learning outcomes are certificate or competency which learners get after completing the course. You can read this article to learn more about learning outcome » Learn to Link Learning Outcomes with Courses
Learn to Feature a Course (Optional)
You can feature selected courses so that they get immediate attention of learners. To feature any course follow below navigation
Navigation : My Client Groups » Learning » Learning Catalog » Courses
- Search the course you want to feature
- Select the course from search result section and click on Add to Featured button as shown in the image below
- Once done, button text changes to Stop Featuring. This is helpful if you want to stop featuring this course later.
If you are wording how this setup helps in featuring the course differently, then do read this article » Oracle Fusion Cloud Learning Experience
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Next, you can configure offerings for the course as mentioned in the oracle learning cloud guide that might be following.
