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Guide to managing courses and curriculums

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Courses hold the training you deliver in Brainshark. A curriculum groups related courses into a single learning path, so learners work through them in order. This guide helps you choose a course type, points you to the right article to build it, and covers the settings that apply to every course.

Choose the course type that matches how you want to train. Each type has its own setup, covered in a dedicated article:

To group related courses into a single learning path, see Create a new curriculum.

See how it looks

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Key features

  • Choose the course type that fits how you train
  • Group related courses into a curriculum
  • Set completion criteria and issue certificates
  • Add time limits or exam behavior
  • Bring in existing SCORM content

You need this to succeed

  • Plan: Bigtincan Basic Content, Bigtincan Content, Bigtincan Elite, Bigtincan Essential, Bigtincan Standard, Bigtincan Standard Plus
  • Roles and privileges: Company Administrator, Learning Administrator, or Learning Author

The quick way

  1. Decide whether you're building a single course or a curriculum.
  2. Open Learning and click Create Course or Create Curriculum.
  3. For a course, pick a type and enter the basic details.
  4. Follow the article for your course type to build it.
  5. Set the overview, completion, and certificate rules that apply to every course.
  6. For a curriculum, give it a title, pick a folder, and add courses.

Do this step by step

1. Decide on a course or a curriculum

If the training is one self-contained topic, create a course. If learners need to work through several courses as a path, create a curriculum and add the courses to it. See Create a new curriculum.

A curriculum needs at least one course before you can save it, so build your courses first.

2. Start from the Learning menu

There are two ways in:

  • Click Learning in the top navigation and select Create Course or Create Curriculum.
  • Go to My Learning, click Create in the upper right, and select Course or Curriculum.

3. Choose your course type

The Course type list holds the default types below, plus any custom content types your company has set up in Administration. Each type suits a different kind of training:

  • Brainshark course: standard course built from presentations and other content.
  • Coaching course: learners submit a video or audio response for review and scoring.
  • Roleplay course: learners practice a scenario against a set prompt.
  • Checklist course: learners or managers confirm a list of tasks. 
  • Course event: training tied to a scheduled session, such as a live class. 

You’ll also choose the folder where the course is stored. The details you enter next depend on the type you chose, so continue in that type's article.

4. Build your course

Each course type has its own steps. Follow the article for the type you chose to build and configure it:

5. Set the course overview (all course types)

The overview is what learners see first. It sets expectations for what the course covers and how long it takes. See Set the overview of a course.

6. Configure completion and certificates (all course types)

Decide what counts as completion and whether learners receive a certificate. See Configure course completion and certificate settings.

7. Brainshark course options

These options apply when you're building a Brainshark course:

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