Learning Settings allow Administrators to customize options when students view learning material in the user portal. These customizations help engage students, draw attention to specific functions, and otherwise align a user’s learning experience to the goals of the organization.
This article outlines the following concepts:
Access Learning Settings
Go to Learning > Click Settings
Courses tab
In the Courses tab, manage the settings that direct how users view and interact with courses.
Set if Lesson Gating is enabled. When enabled, lessons are only unlocked after completing the previous lesson.
Enable the following to be shown on the Course page by default:
- Instructor Count
- Learner Count
- Pricing
- Discussions (used to enable course comments)
- Ratings
Configure the Max number of Courses displayed on the course page.
Select if the Course card design follows the Default, Modern, or Minimalistic example.
The image shown on the Course Card is configured in the Design tab of the Course editor.
When Course Carosel is enabled, course cards are displayed horizontally rather than scrolling through the list vertically.
Learner Portal:
Transcripts tab
In the Transcripts tab, customize the Learner Transcript page.
Select if the following data are included in the Transcript:
- Full Course Data
- Lessons & Activities
- SCORM Interactions & Objectives
- Badges
- Certificates
- Courses
- Events/Live Classes
- Cover Image
- Profile Image
Enabling any of these options expands to reveal additional customization options.
Transcript in the Learner Portal:
The My Transcript button is enabled in the User Menu tab of User Portals.
Video Player tab
In the Video Player tab, configure settings for the video player utilized when a video is included as a Lesson Activity.
Provide a default video poster and select if videos can be downloaded.
Configure if the following buttons and options are enabled on the video player:
- Reset
- Rewind
- Fast forward
- Progress scrubber
- Current time
- Duration
- Mute
- Volume
- Captions
- Settings
- Picture in picture
- Allow fullscreen
- Large play button
- Small play button
Virtual Classroom tab
In the Virtual Classroom tab, configure the layout for the virtual classroom window.
Set if Recording is allowed and if the window is in Video Chat format or Presentation format.
Select if the following options are enabled:
- Mute on join
- Allow hosts to unmute users
- Webcams only appear to hosts
- Disable user webcams - only hosts can share webcams
- Disable user microphones - only hosts can use their microphones
- Disable private chat
- Disable public chat
- Disable shared notes
- Custom welcome message
- Custom host-only message
- Use custom logo
Additional Settings tab
In the Additional Settings tab, enable other various options for when users view lessons.
- Show user points - allow users to see their user point totals
- Show Course Complete Alerts - users are shown a popup alert when they finish any course
- Show PDF download options - enable the PDF viewer toolbar to be visible
- Show open PDF link - show “click to open PDF link” button. (Helpful for Apple mobile devices)
- Connect an LRS - allow connection to a Learner Record Store for tracking xAPI activity