For Premier and Enterprise account holders, LMS Managers can manage Course Difficulties. Pro account holders can attach a beginner, intermediate, or advanced course difficulty but do not have the privileges to create or manage them.

Course difficulties are used to make it easier for you to filter your courses as well as let your student know the level of difficulty for the course. It is up to you whether you have a course difficulty or not.

A student will see the course difficulty on their MY COURSES page:

CREATE A COURSE DIFFICULTY

To create a Course Difficulty, navigate to the main menu, select COURSES > CREATE & MANAGE > navigate to COURSE DIFFICULTIES:

On the Course Difficulties page:

• On the left side of the page, you can add a new course difficulty. Type in the name, add a slug, and add a description. Select the Add New Course Difficulty button at the bottom.
• To the right is a search box where you can enter a word, or series of words, and click the “Search Course Difficulties” button to search and display all the Difficulties meeting your search words.
• To delete multiple Course Difficulties at one time, use the check box to select multiple Difficulties, then select the Bulk Actions dropdown, choose Delete, then select the Apply button.
• If you already have Course Difficulties, you will see a table of Course Difficulties and when you scroll your mouse over the title you can choose to Edit, Quick Edit, Delete, or View the difficulty:

There are three pieces of information associated with each new Difficulty: the name, slug, and description.

Difficulty Name

To reiterate, the Difficulty Name must be unique.

Difficulty Slug

The Difficulty slug must be unique. The Difficulty Slug is used in the URL. For example, setting a Difficulty Name of “Recipes” and a Difficulty Slug of “food” would show all “Recipes” posts with a URL like example.com/course/food/.

Description

Difficulty descriptions are optional. You may still find them useful from an administration point of view.

Add Difficulty

The most important part is the Add New Course Difficulty button. Once you have entered in all the information about your new Course Difficulty, use this button to save it.

This table (on the right) lists all your difficulties by row.

The table of difficulties contains the following columns:

A checkbox that when clicked (checked), ‘selects’ that difficulty to be deleted when the Delete button is clicked.

EDIT DIFFICULTY

This part of the sub-panel only displays when you click on a Difficulties Name. It is possible to edit three pieces of information associated with each Difficulty: the name, the slug, and the description.

Difficulty Name

To reiterate, the Difficulty Name must be unique.

Difficulty Slug

Again, the Difficulty slug  must  be unique.

Description

Difficulty descriptions are optional. Some themes take advantage of Difficulty descriptions, others do not, so having Descriptions may or may not modify the way difficulties are displayed for your site.

Update

Once you’ve changed the Difficulty information, use this button to save the changes.

Delete

Select this button to delete your difficulty.

QUICK EDIT

Quick Edit allows you to quickly change the difficulty name and/or slug if desired:

VIEW

After creating a Course Difficulty and adding it to a course, you can view and share a filtered Course Catalog of only courses in a specific difficulty by using the COURSE DIFFICULTY Page.

This page is generated dynamically and will look like your base Course Catalog except it will only display courses from the specified difficulty.

• Locate the difficulty you want to view from the difficulty list:

  

• Hover over the difficulty and select the “View” link:

  

  

• Select Edit Course Difficulty to return to the EDIT COURSE DIFFICULTY page and make any needed adjustments:

  

In the CREATE COURSE/EDIT COURSE SETTINGS page, (if you are an LMS Manager), you can quickly add a difficulty in the Course Options panel.

For an existing course, go to COURSES > ALL COURSES > find the course and select EDIT COURSE SETTINGS. Or if you are creating a brand-new course, go to COURSES > CREATE COURSE.

In the Course Options panel, under the General tab, select the Course Difficulty Category dropdown and select your difficulty:

When done, in the Publish panel, select Publish or Update:

On the ALL COURSES page, you can view and filter by your Course Difficulty. Every Course Difficulty is a hotlink, making it easy to filter: