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By default, the EDIT COURSE SETTINGS screen features the following panels: Publish, Course Builder, Course Categories, Course Tags, Course Tracks, and Featured Image.

These panels can be easily collapsed or expanded, depending on your preferences:

• To collapse an expanded panel, select the upward facing arrow:

  

• To expand a minimized panel, select the downward facing arrow:

  

Panels can also be easily reordered per your preference! To move a panel, hover over the top of the panel until you see the cursor MOVE icon (4-headed arrow) appear, then click and drag the panel to its new location:

From the Publish panel, you can quickly Save Draft, Preview or Publish your course. The Publish panel also offers the following options:

• Status : Adjust the Status of your course by clicking EDIT and selecting a new status. By default, your course is set to Draft status but can be modified at any time. If your course requires additional review before publishing, select PENDING REVIEW from the STATUS dropdown, and click OK (or click CANCEL to close without saving your change):

  

• Visibility : Edit your course visibility to Public, Password protected, or Private by clicking EDIT and selecting a new visibility status. By default, your course visibility is set to Public but can be modified to Private or Password protected. To enable a password, select PASSWORD PROTECTED, enter a password, and click OK (or click CANCEL to close without saving your change):

  

• Revisions : Access any previous revisions by clicking BROWSE. You will be redirected to the REVISIONS, screen, where you can: access a previous version of your course using the slider tool and PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons, compare version details, and restore previous versions:

  

• Publish immediately : Set by default, this will ensure your course will be published immediately once you have selected the PUBLISH button. To delay publishing your course immediately, you may click EDIT, choose a new date/time, and click OK (or CLICK Cancel to close without saving your change):

  

• Catalog visibility : Allows you to adjust the visibility of your course in your catalog. By default, CATALOG & SEARCH is selected. To adjust, click EDIT, select your desired option, and click OK (or CANCEL to close without saving your change):

  

Course categories are helpful for organizing courses by specific variables they have in common. This is especially helpful for organizations that have large and diverse catalogs of courses, like Universities.

The option to add and manage course categories is only an LMS Manager role (PREMIER account holder), which has more permissions than the PRO account holder, therefore, PRO account holders will not add or manage categories. If you have a PRO account and want a different category added, please contact C4EBridge support to get approval.

All of your saved course categories will appear in the Course Categories panel, which also lets you review your most used categories and create new ones:

Premier account holders only: To add a new course category, select +ADD NEW COURSE CATEGORY from the Course Categories panel. Enter the name of your new category in the text field, whether you want to add this to the parent course category, or as a sub of another saved category, then select the ADD NEW COURSE CATEGORY button:

Once your new category has been saved, you can then select it from the ALL COURSE CATEGORIES tab to add it to your course:

Course tags provides the ability to sort by courses that share the same tag, allowing you to more quickly and efficiently manage your courses. From the MANAGE COURSES screen, you can sort using tags by simply clicking the tag name. Your courses table will automatically sort and display all courses that have the same tag:

The Course Tags panel on the EDIT COURSE SETTINGS screen allows you to manage your course tags for individual courses. .Any tags saved to your course will appear on this panel. To remove any tags, simply click the X icon to the left of the tag you’d like to remove:

The Course Tags panel also allows you to easily add new tags to your course using the text field, or by selecting from the most used tags:

Course Tracks are an LMS Manager role (Premium or Enterprise accounts), which features more editing rights than the Instructor role (Pro account). The Instructor role has fewer permissions, Instructors will not add or manage Course Tracks.

At its core, a course track is a course category. As such, you may choose to use course tracks as an organizational mechanism, allowing you to classify and group-specific courses together. However, course tracks have two notable features associated with them:

• Course Tracks have both notification and engagement triggers attached to them. This means that you can, for example, award a certificate upon completion of all courses within a track.

  Notification and engagement triggers are covered in the Engagement section

• A course track may also be configured as a prerequisite for another course, allowing you to ensure that your students complete several courses defined by the track before beginning a new course.

To add a new course track, select +ADD NEW COURSE TRACK from the Course Tracks panel. Enter the title of your new course track in the text field, select whether you want to use this as a parent course track or as a sub of another saved track, then select the ADD NEW COURSE TRACK button:

Once your new track has been saved, you can then select it from the ALL COURSE TRACK tab to add it to your course:

The featured image in the EDIT COURSE SETTINGS page is the thumbnail image that will be displayed for this course on student’s’ dashboards.

When choosing a featured image, we recommend remaining consistent with your image size, being sure to select dimensions similar to your featured images added to other courses (or to courses in the future). This will help ensure a clean, unified design among all of your courses. We recommend using an image that has a width of 300 pixels x height of 190 pixels. To add a new featured image, select SET LISTING IMAGE from the Featured Image panel:

From the MEDIA pop-up window, which displays all images from your Images library, the image you want to set as your featured image, then click SELECT:

The Course Builder panel provides easy access to the Course Builder, which allows you to manage your course structure and Table of Contents (TOC).

Selecting the LAUNCH COURSE TOC button from the Course Builder panel , opens the COURSE BUILDER page:

From this page, you can create and reorder sections and lessons, edit their titles, and delete any unwanted sections and lessons.

Learn more about how to create a table of contents (TOC) in the Course Builder section.