Upload a New Course

To publish custom content using the ACCP, you must first submit a new course to the Preview location.

For the best performance, we recommend keeping your course files under 1GB.

  1. Click Upload New Course.
  2. The New Course Information page displays.

  3. Complete the following fields:

    Fields marked with an asterisk are required. All other fields are optional.

    • Course Title: Enter a title for the new course. Maximum character limit is 255. The following characters are not allowed: / \ ? % * | < > . ! ~ ` ^ + = [ ] { } ; : á é í ó ú ñ à è ù â ê î ô û ç ë ï ü
    • Course Description: Enter a course description. Maximum character limit is 1000.
    • Course Duration: Use the drop downs to select the number of hours and minutes for the course duration.
    • Course Objectives: Enter the course objectives. Maximum character limit is 1000.
    • Intended Audience: Describe the intended target audience for the course. Maximum character limit is 126.
    • Customer Course Version: Enter a version for the course. Maximum character limit is 25.
    • Conditions of Self-monitiored Training: Leave unchecked if you want the Conditions of Self monitoring page to display when a learner launches the course. Check the box if you do not want the Conditions of Self monitoring page to display.
    • Tablet Compatible: Check if the course is compatible with tablet devices.
    • Phone Compatible: Check if the course is compatible with Phone devices.
    • Academies to Publish to: Select your organization's production site from the list.
    • Course Type: Select the course type from the drop down:
      • Dialogue Design: Deprecated.
      • SCORM v.1.2: Select to upload SCORM content to be hosted by Skillsoft.
      • Note: All SCORM content must be hosted by Skillsoft. We do not support SCORM v.2004 at this time.
      • SkillStudio: Select to upload custom content created with SkillStudio.
      • Customer-hosted AICC v.2.2: Select to upload AICC content hosted by the client but launched and tracked through Compliance.
  4. If this is a Scorm 1.2 or SkillStudio course, click Select Course and choose the zipped course from your local storage.

    Note: Courses contain several file types, but not all file types are supported. Unsupported files will not upload and your course may not function properly. For a list of file types that your course can include, see Supported File Types.

    If this is a Customer-hosted AICC file, enter a URL for the course launch file.

    Note: Use a complete URL. For example:

    https(or http)://mydomain.com/mycourses/mycourse/launch.html

    The URL cannot include spaces.

    The course uploads.

  5. Click Save Course Information.

    After the course is submitted to the Preview site, the Course Upload Log Viewer page displays.

    Note: Copy and paste the Log Contents into an email in case you need to contact SkillSoft Support for troubleshooting ACCP errors.
  6. On the Course Upload Log Viewer page, click Return to Custom Course Upload Page.

    The In-Process Course Uploads (Staging Server) page displays.

  7. Note: You must preview and test your course on the Preview site before you can upload it to the Production server. Additionally, you must receive a score of 100% on all tests included in the course.