Course Designer

With the Course Designer app, you can create courses for your learners so they can develop their skills. You can create a course for:

  • Onboarding new hires.
  • Upskilling someone for a promotion or new role.
  • Preparing an employee for a certification.
  • Making a company policy more engaging.
  • Seamlessly covering multiple objectives in one place.

Within a course, learners watch videos to learn new material and complete knowledge checks to test their knowledge as they go. At the end of the course, learners complete the course assessment as a way to gauge what they remember. Courses are a great tool for presenting information on one topic in small, manageable chunks that connect in a cohesive, structured learning solution.

Find a course

  1. From the Home page or the Apps page, select Course Designer. You now see the Course Designer list page.
  2. You can do one of the following to find a course:
    • Search for a specific course. If you know the name of the course you are looking for, you can use the search bar to locate it.
    • Change the order of how courses display in the list:
      • Use the drop-downs to display only items in a selected language
      • Sort the column headings by Status, Date modified, or Modified by.
    • Toggle between viewing all courses, or just the ones created by you.

Course Designer list page overview

For each course in the list you see the following information:

  • Title: This is the name given to the course.
  • Status: The statuses you may see are:
    • Draft: The course has been created, but has not yet been published.
    • Published: The course has been published to the platform and is available for learners to see.
    • Unpublished changes: The course has been published to the Skillsoft Platform but new changes have been made that have not yet been published.
  • Stage: The step of the design process you are on.
  • Date modified: The date of the most recent time the course has been modified.
  • History: Select the History icon to see who created the course and who last modified it.
  • Edit: Select the Edit icon to open the course and make changes to it.

Depending on your permissions and the status of the content, you may see the following actions to the right or under the Show options menu add to playlist button, blue outlined star for each:

  • Edit: Opens the content so you can make any changes to the details. For more detailed information on editing content, see:
  • View details: Allows you to view the Content details and Design brief. When you are viewing the details of the content, you have the ability to share and comment on the item.
  • Preview: Opens a preview of the content item as a learner would see it.
  • Duplicate: Creates a copy of the content in the same project so you can update it without impacting the original.
  • Archive: If the content has already been published, you can archive it so that you no longer see it in your Projects, Apps, or Content Items pages. It is moved to a separate Archived Items page. You can access all archived content from your profile drop down. The archived content is still available to learners in the platform unless you retire it from your Skillsoft Platform site.
  • Move: Moves the content to a different project or workspace.
  • Delete: If a content item is still in a draft status, you can delete it from LX Design Studio. When you delete content it is moved to a Deleted Items page. You can access all deleted items for up to 30 days from your profile drop down.

Share the course

After you create the content, you can share it with others on your team to get their feedback. Ensure those who you want to share it with are also members of the workspace where the content is stored. When you share, the members get an email notification with a link to the content item.

To share your content with others on your team:

  1. From the main content page, locate the item you want in the list.

  2. From the Show options menu, select View details.

  3. On the Details page, select the Share button. The Share content dialog box displays.

  4. Select either Add members or Add audiences. Select Add members when you want to add one or more individual users to receive the email share request. Select Add audiences when you want to add one or more audiences whose members should receive the email share request. If you do not have access to more than one audience, you do not see the Add audiences option.

  5. Start typing the name of the users or audiences who should receive the email in the box. Select the name from the list. Only users and audiences defined in the Skillsoft Percipio platform show in the list. If the user you select does not have the LX Design Studio privilege or is a member of the workspace, they will not be able to access the link from the email and comment.

  6. Specify a personal note in the Custom message box.

  7. Select whether the users or audiences should have access to just the content or to the project in which the content resides.

  8. Select Send invite. The users get an email with a link to the content so they can review and comment.

Make and manage comments

As the content owner or reviewer of a content item, you have the ability to make comments, review comments, resolve comments, and delete comments.

You get notified by email when:

  • You are @mentioned in a comment
  • You receive a reply to your comment (child comment), even if you are not tagged
  • A non‑owner adds a comment, and you are the owner
  • Content is shared with you for review
  • A content access request is submitted
  • An access request is approved or declined

When there is a notification, you also see a red dot indicator in the top navigation in the comment or bell icon depending on where you are in LX Design Studio.

To access comments:

  1. You have multiple ways to access comments:
    • From the content item: From the main content page, locate the item you want in the list. From the Show options menu, select View details. On the Details page, select the Comment button to open the comment pane.
    • From an email: Select the link from the shared email. The content item opens with the comment pane expanded.
    • From the top navigation bell icon: You can also access comments from the bell icon in the top navigation. Select the bell icon to see all the comments and select one to open the comment pane.
  2. With the Comment panel open, you see all comments made. You can:
    • Start a new comment thread by typing your comment in the bottom box.
    • Respond to an existing comment by selecting the reply to comment button or selecting from the emoji options.
    • Resolve the comment to let others know you addressed it.
    • Delete the comment to remove it all together because it's not relevant.
  3. Close the Comment panel when you are done commenting and reviewing other comments.