Create a course event

Course events allow you to combine on-demand learning with live, time-sensitive training activities. You can schedule and manage virtual meetings, webinars, or in-person classroom sessions directly within your learning curriculum so learners can register and attend.

See how it looks

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Key features

  • Schedule virtual or in-person training sessions
  • Manage session capacities and waitlists
  • Allow students to self-enroll or manually assign them

You need this to succeed

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

Do this step by step

  1. Click the Learning tab and select Create Course from the drop-down menu.
  2. From the Course type drop-down menu, select Course Event.
  3. Type a name for your course in the Title field.
  4. Select a location from the Folder drop-down menu.
  5. Click Continue.
  6. Click Edit session in the content section to open the session management page.
  7. Click Create Sessions.
  8. Enter your session details, including Session Name, Session Date(s), Location, Instructor, and URL. To add more dates, click the plus icon.

    Tip: You can provide a meeting link in the URL field for virtual sessions.

  9. Enter a number in the Session Maximum Enrollments field to limit attendance
  10. Check the waitlist option if desired. Students on the waitlist will be automatically enrolled in the session as room becomes available, until auto-enrollment stops. Select the number of days before the session starts that you wish to stop auto-enrolling waitlisted learners.
  11. Choose whether to allow students to self-enroll.

    Note: If you choose not to allow self-enrollment, you must manually add students using the Enroll or Batch Enroll buttons.

  12. Click Save.

For detailed steps on building and managing your course, see:

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