Set up your learning site

Your learning site is where learners sign in, browse what you showcase, resume what they started and find their credit and certificates. A new course or certification goes on it by itself when you publish it.

Create the site

The first time you open Site, select Make my site: it makes the site with your organization’s name and opens it for editing. To choose everything first, select Set it up myself:

Start it

Go to Site and select Set it up myself (or New site once you have one).

Choose what it shows

Give it a name, then add the certifications, courses and lessons to showcase, a home page heading and an intro.

Choose who can learn

Under Who can learn here, pick Anyone who signs in, Members only or Single sign-on only. Turn on Learners can start anything showcased to let people enrol themselves; otherwise they learn what you assign.

Create it

Select Create Site.

Each site card shows its address, its members, who can learn there, how many items it showcases and whether people can enrol themselves. Select Open as a learner to see it as a learner does.

Edit the home page

Select Edit site. The home page opens in the editor:

• Click any text on the page to change it. Press / or + to add a block, and drag ⋮⋮ to move one. The home page has a Learning hero and a Course showcase.
• Use As to see the page as a Visitor (the sign-in page) or a Learner (the catalog).
• Your changes are a draft until you select Publish.

Add pages

Select + next to Pages in the editor to add a page, such as program rules, an FAQ or a contact page. Click its text to change it, add blocks as on the home page, and select Publish. Learners see your pages in the site’s header, after Home, My progress and Certificates, in the order of the Pages list.

Use your own domain

Your own domain, such as learn.yourorganization.org, comes with the Scale plan. On Starter and Growth, your site stays on its Sessionboard address.

Add the domain

On Site, select Your own domain on the site’s card. Enter the domain and select Connect.

Set the DNS record

At your DNS provider, add the CNAME record shown, and the TXT record if one is shown.

Check it

Select I’ve set it — check now. When the domain shows Live, Open as a learner opens the site at your domain.

A domain can be connected to one site at a time.

New courses and certifications go on your site

When you publish a course or a certification for the first time, it’s added to the end of your site’s Course showcase: the live site and any draft you’re editing. You don’t need a second step.

• One site: a message says which site it went on.
• Several sites: Show on which Site? opens. The first site is ticked; tick the ones that should list it and select Show it, or Not now.

Publishing it again after an edit doesn’t add it a second time, and something you took off the showcase stays off. If you removed the Course showcase block from your home page, nothing is added.

What learners see

Learners sign in with a link by email, or with your single sign-on if you offer it. They land on Welcome back, with Continue where you left off, My learning and Explore. A course is made of pages to watch, read, answer, do or acknowledge. My progress holds their credits and transcript, and My certificates their certificates.