FAQs

INSTRUCTORS (Frontend Course Builder)       

First up is the “Course Info” section. Here, you will find the following fields to add:

• Course Title: When creating your course, choosing an appropriate title is important. The title should accurately reflect the content of the course, so be concise and catchy. To help increase visibility, it’s also a good idea to include relevant keywords in the title.
• Course Slug: From this section, you can edit the Course Slug. This will appear in the URL after the final backslash. To increase the visibility of your course in search engine results pages, it’s important to make sure that the Course Slug is relevant, contains relevant keywords, and that each word is separated by hyphens.
• About Course: Use this field to give potential students a general idea of what they can expect from this course, such as what the course will entail, its learning objectives, a brief overview of the syllabi, and so on.

COURSE SETTINGS

You can update basic course settings and content drip options from this section. Let’s explain both of these.

In this section, you have the ability to customize certain attributes of your course.

• Maximum Student: This field allows the user to specify the maximum number of students that can be enrolled in a course. Setting the “Maximum Students” to 0 means there will be no limit on the number of students who can enroll in the course.
• Difficulty Level: Difficulty level settings for course enrollment allow the instructor to categorize the course into different levels of complexity, making it easier for students to choose the right course for their skill level. The four main levels are:

1. All Levels: This option indicates that the course is suitable for students of all skill levels, from beginners to experts.
2. Beginner: This option is for courses designed for students with little to no prior knowledge of the subject. These courses are intended to provide a solid foundation for further study.
3. Intermediate: This option is for courses intended for students who have some knowledge of the subject but want to deepen their understanding. These courses assume that students have a basic understanding of the subject and build on that knowledge.
4. Expert: This option is for courses designed for students with a high level of skill and knowledge in the subject. These courses assume a high level of understanding and are designed to challenge students and help them develop their skills further.

5. Public Course: The Public Course option is a setting that makes an online course available for anyone to enroll. This means that the course can be accessed by anyone who has the link to the course page, and they do not need to log in or have an account to view the course content. 
6. Q&A: This option allows Instructors to enable a Question and Answersection for the selected course.

Content Drip

Moreover, if you have the Content Drip add-on enabled, you will find its settings in a new tab right below the General tab. 

The “Content Drip” add-on allows instructors to release course content to students gradually over a specified period of time.  

Here, you’ll have to tick the Enable checkbox to activate Content Drip for this course. Then, select your preferred Content Drip type. Let us go over what these are:

Schedule Course Contents by Date

This option requires you to set a date for every single lesson, quiz, and assignment. If you do not set a date for a lesson then it will appear instantly after the student enrolls.

Content Available After X Days From Enrollment

Enabling this option will add a number field to all content forms where you can set how many days it will take to unlock it. The starting date is the student’s enrollment date and will be counted from then onwards.

3. Course Content Available Sequentially

This is the simplest setting. After enabling this option, you will not see any option inside lessons, quizzes, or assignments. Because when one lesson is completed, the next one appears. That means this option checks for the completed status for the lesson, attempt status for the quiz, and submit status for assignments.

Course Content Unlocked After Finishing Prerequisites

If a student attempts a quiz, he/she will be allowed to move on to the new lesson or the following quiz or assignment. Passing the quiz is not required.

If a student submits an assignment, he/she would be allowed to move to the next step. Getting the assignment reviewed or graded is not required.

Choose Course Category

The “Choose Course Category” option allows you to categorize your online course into specific topics or areas of study. This helps in organizing and grouping similar courses together, making it easier for students to search and find courses that are relevant to their needs.

If your category is not found, please contact the Admin to add your category immediately.

Set Course Price

The “Set Course Price” section allows you to choose whether the course will be free or paid. 

If the course is paid, you have the option to set both a regular price and a discounted price. This section allows you to determine the cost for enrolment in the course.

Set Course Thumbnail

The “Set Course Thumbnail” section allows the course creator to add a main image or visual representation for the course. This image will appear on the course listings, promotional materials, and other relevant pages. The purpose of the thumbnail is to make the course more visually appealing and to give potential students an idea of what the course is about.

Supported files are jpg, jpeg, png or gif.

Course Intro Video

The “Course Intro Video” section allows you to add a video introduction to your online course that will appear on the Course Overview Page. You can choose from multiple video sources, such as External URL, YouTube, Vimeo, Embedded, or Shortcode, to include the video in your course.

COURSE BUILDER

The “Course Builder” is the bread and butter of online learning system. This allows the creation and organization of course content. 

It provides a visual interface for managing your course content, including adding, editing, and organizing topics, lessons, and quizzes. You can also use this section to customize important course details such as information, settings, and attachments.

This section enables the instructor or administrator to easily build the structure and content of an online course and make it available for students to enroll and take.

The structure of a course is comprised of topics, and within each topic, there are lessons, quizzes, and assignments. Although multiple lessons and quizzes can be incorporated within a single topic.

Add New Topic

The “Add New Topic” function allows you to easily create and organize your course content. Simply provide a name and brief summary for each topic, and use the buttons provided to add lessons and quizzes. The process is intuitive and guided by helpful tooltips, ensuring a smooth and streamlined experience.

Add Lesson

To add a new lesson, click on the “+Lesson” button.

In the “Lesson” window, enter a title and description for the lesson and upload a featured image. Then, scroll down to find additional options such as Video Source, Upload Attachment, and more. These options are explained below:

Upload Attachments: Upload any necessary materials for this lesson here.

Enable Course Preview:

COURSE PREVIEW

Using the Course Preview add-on you will be able to make certain lessons in your courses accessible for unenrolled or unregistered users so that they can get a sneak peek of your course.

This feature helps attract prospective students because it lets them see some of the actual course content and is a great way for students to judge if the course is right for them or not.

Unenrolled students and unregistered users will be able to see the Course Preview when they visit this course’s overview page. Under the Course Content section, preview-able content is represented by an eye icon placed on the right while other content is represented by lock icons.

Clicking on the preview-able content will take them to the course journey page where they can experience the lessons in full just like if they were an enrolled student with the only exception being that they won’t be able to view any of the locked content.

Add Quiz

To get started, from the course builder (either the frontend or the backend), navigate into a topic and then click on the +Quiz button.

This will open the Quiz Builder window with its very first section called Quiz Info. Here, give the quiz a Title and add a short summary to let students know what this quiz is about.

To go to the next stage, i.e. Question, simply click on the Save & Next button.

Quiz Description

This allows quiz creators to add rich text formatting, images, videos, and more to their quiz question descriptions. 

Quiz creators can now add:

• Text styling like bold, italics, underlines, text color, etc
• Bullet points and numbered lists
• Hyperlinks
• Images and videos via embed codes or URL links
• Audio files like podcasts via embed codes

Later, you’ll get the Answer Explanation section. Here you can provide a concise yet informative explanation to help learners understand the correct answers and the reasoning behind them.

Students can access the explanation from the Quiz Details page only after they’ve attended the quiz.

QUESTION TYPES

At the Question stage, you can start adding questions to the quiz by clicking on the Add Question button. This will take you to the Question form where you must first select the Question Type.

As mentioned earlier, there are a total of 10 question. Below is a list of what these types are as well as an explanation of how they work.

True/False

To set up a true/false question, first select your question type as True/False. Then you’ll get the option to choose the answer. Then write your question and choose the answer. Click on the radio button to choose the right answer. 

Single Choice

Use the single-choice quiz format if you want to use a multiple-choice question with only one correct answer. To add the options, click on Add an Option and define the answer in the Answer Title, upload an image if needed, and select the display format of your choice.

Finally, click on Update Answer and repeat these steps for the other options. Don’t forget to specify the correct answer at the end.

Multiple Choice

The multiple-choice question is almost similar to the single-choice answer. If you want to list multiple correct answers for a simple question, choose the multiple-choice option. Thus students will get full marks only if they select all of the right answers while answering the question.

Open-Ended

A long answer question type where students can give descriptive answers as this field can have a larger character limit. To define this character limit, go to Quiz Builder > Settings > Advanced Settings and find the Open-Ended/Essay questions answer character limit field.

Short Answer

A Descriptive-type question with a more precise and shorter answer. Instructors can define Character Limit> Settings > Advanced Settings under the Short answer characters limit in Quiz Builder.

Fill In the Blanks

Set a sentence prompting students to fill up the missing blanks with the correct answers.

Here first, enter the question and then click on Add an Option.

Then, type your entire question again under Question Title and replace the blanks with the variable {dash}. Below that field, define your Correct Answers each separated by a vertical bar |. Let’s check an example.

Matching

Use this answering category only if you want to set a question pattern where students have to match the answers. To do this, enter your question and click on Add an Option. Enter your answer prompt and its matched answer.

You can also upload an image along with the answer prompt. Finally, select the display format you prefer and repeat these steps to add more options.

Ordering

Set an ordering question where students have to reorder the given text, images, or both in the correct sequence to obtain marks.

Here, click on Add an Option and enter your first answer item under the Answer Title field. Like the previous question types, you can also upload an image to go along with this.

Repeat these steps to add more items and make sure to add them in the right order.

Image Matching

Set a matching type question where students can match an image to the correct text to obtain marks.

To implement this, enter your question, click on Add an Option and upload your image prompt, enter its matched answer and click on Update Answer. Repeat these steps to add more options.

Image Answering

Set an identification type question where students need to answer questions based on images.

Similar to Image Matching, click on Add an Option and upload your image and then enter its corresponding answer. Lastly, click on Update Answer and repeat these steps to add more options.

Question

On the Question Form, add the question text, select the type from the dropdown, and add a description if you want. Following that, are a few settings for each question that you need to understand to best use them:

• Answer Required:Toggle this if you want this question to be mandatory to answer.
• Randomize:Toggle this if you want this question’s order to be randomly shuffled among the list of questions.
• Points for this answer:Use this field to set the points to be awarded for getting this question right.
• Display points:Enable this if you want to display the points on the quiz field.

Add the relevant answer(s) and select the correct answer if required.

Answer Explanation: Next, you’ll see a field called ‘Answer Explanation’ where you can add the explanation for the correct answer.

Keep in mind that this is an optional field so you can leave it blank if you don’t want to add any explanation.

This field is available for any question type and students will be able to see it from the Quiz Details page.

Once the quiz has been submitted, click on the Details button that’s beside each Quiz Attempt. Then expand any question item to see its Answer Explanation.

Once you’re done, click on Add to Questions to save it. Doing this will take you back to the previous window where you’ll see the new question already added. 

SETTINGS

In this section, you can use the following settings to adjust the quiz behavior according to your preferences. Let’s explain all of these settings in short:

Time Limit

You can set time limit from here in seconds, minutes, hours, days, and week’s format. Use 0, if you don’t want to set any time limit. Besides, you can also hide the quiz time by toggling the Hide quiz time button.

Quiz Feedback Mode

Decide how you want to provide your students with feedback after they are done taking the quiz. The tooltips give you an idea of what each mode means. 

Here, you’ll get three different feedback modes. These are:

• Default: Answers are displayed after the quiz is finished.
• Reveal Mode: Answers are shown after the attempt.
• Retry Mode: Reattempt the quiz any number of times. You can define the number of times students can repeat a quiz using the Attempts Allowed setting.

Passing grade

It specifies the passing grade for this quiz. You can set the passing grade only in the percentage unit.

Max Question Allowed to Answer

This feature is introduced to randomize questions in a quiz. The purpose of this function would be clearer with an example. 

This option is a little bit tricky. Let’s have an example. Suppose, you have 50 questions in a quiz, if you put 50 here, a student will have to answer all 50 questions in order to complete the quiz. But if you put 10 here, the student will have to answer only 10 questions out of the 50 and these 10 questions will appear randomly. No student will get the same set of questions.

Advanced Settings

The following are some more Advanced Settings options that you can access by clicking on the Advanced Settings header.

• Quiz Auto Start:Enable this to make the quiz start immediately after the page is loaded.
• Question Layout:Set the layout for the quiz page. Options include Single Question, Pagination, and Question below the other. 
• Question Order:Select the order for the questions provided to you. Options include Random, Sorting, Ascending, and Descending.
• Hide Question Number:Select to hide the question number during the quiz.
• Short Answer Character Limit:Select the character limit for short answers.
• Open-ended/Essay Question Answer Character Limit:Select the character limit for open-ended/essay question answers.

Finally, once you’re satisfied with the settings click on Save & Next again to save your quiz. It should appear under your chosen topic on the Course Builder. 

To edit the quiz, simply click on the edit icon that’s on the right side of the quiz listing, and to delete it, click on the trash icon that’s right beside it.

Bonus: You can also Import Quizzes. See below:

Quiz Export/Import

The Quiz Export/Import add-on allows you to export or import an existing Quiz, to be used later. This means you can reuse existing quiz material for a new quiz and also use it as a starting block which saves you both time and effort.

To make it simpler to understand, let’s go with a scenario. Suppose you need to create a new quiz whose questions are quite similar to the ones in an existing quiz in the same course or a different one. Using the Import/Export feature, you can export the existing quiz in the form of a CSV file.

Then, you can simply visit the course where the new quiz will be and import the CSV file that you exported. You can then save the imported quiz as it is or even modify it to suit your needs.

MAKE PASSING A QUIZ MANDATORY TO ACCESS NEXT COURSE CONTENT

Quizzes are an amazing study tool but when it comes to eLearning, there is one particular flaw in the system that can baffle Instructors. Yes, we’re talking about online classes where the students have the ability to move on to the next course content even after failing a quiz that precedes it.

Follow the steps below:

1. On the Course Builder page, under Course Settings, enable Content Drip and set its type to Course content available sequentially.
2. At this point, update the course to ensure this change is applied.
3. Next, from Quiz Builder > Settingsset the Quiz Feedback Mode as Retry Mode.
4. Finally, you should see the Passing is Requiredtoggle appear below the Attempts Allowed slider. All you have to do now is enable this option, click on Save & Next, and Update your course to save the changes.
5. And it’s now mandatory for your students to pass this quiz in order to access the course material that follows!
6. If they fail a quiz that requires passing and attempt to access the next lesson, they’ll now get a message like this:

Note: Do keep in mind that if a quiz contains any open-ended questions which require the instructor’s review, the next course content will only be available after the instructor does so.

Add Assignments

Assignments, so you can add Assignments to your courses by clicking on the “+Assignments” button.

The Assignments add-on allows instructors to assign tasks to students based on each topic inside the courses. You can create as many Assignments as you want and either drag-drop Assignments so they’re placed between lessons and quizzes or have them placed at the end of each topic.

Creating a New Assignment

Open any Course in edit mode (or create a new one) and under the Course Builder section open any Topic and you’ll see a button named Assignments.

Click on that to create a new Assignment and this will open a new popup window. Here, you can fill in the following necessary information:

Assignment Name: Enter a name for the Assignment.

Summary: Explain the task under the summary field. As this is a text editor, you can use the tools to format the text, add links, and also add media.

Attachments: If you want to provide sample questions, research papers, or any kind of additional instructional resource, you can attach those files by clicking on the Upload Attachments button.

Time Limit: Set the Time Limit of the Assignment. This will be applied as soon as the student views the Assignment on the Course Journey Page. You can set any number starting from zero. Here, zero means no time limit. You can then select a unit from the dropdown beside this field. Options include Weeks, Days, and Hours.

After the time limit is over, the student will not be able to upload any files on the Assignment section nor submit the Assignment.

Total Points: Define the total marks a student can obtain by completing this Assignment here. You can set any number larger than zero.

Minimum Pass Points: Define the minimum mark to be obtained to pass this Assignment. You can set any number larger than zero and smaller than or equal to the Total Points defined earlier. 

Allow to Upload Files: Set any number larger than zero if you want to allow the students to upload files. If you don’t want the students to upload any files and just type the text on the submission page then set this to zero.

Upload File Size Limit: Define a File Size Limit (in Megabytes) here for the files students will upload for this Assignment. You can specify any number larger than zero. This field helps restrict the upload of any file that exceeds this limit.

Finally, add this new Assignment to your course by clicking on the Update Assignment button.

Students will find the Assignment on the Course Journey Page i.e. Lesson View. Here, you’ll be able to see the Assignment Name, Duration, Deadline, Total Marks, Passing Marks, and Description. 

To submit an answer, all you have to do is click on the Start Assignment Submit button.

Doing this will take you to an Assignment Submission form. Here, you can enter your answer text in the Assignment Submission field and click on Choose File button to open the File Manager and select the file you want to upload.

Finally, you can finish off your submission by clicking on the Submit Assignment button. Your page will reload and a new table will appear listing the Date of submission, Total Marks, Pass Marks, Earned Marks, and the Result.

If the submission is not yet evaluated, then the earned marks column will be blank and the result will be pending.

Viewing and Evaluating Assignments

Admins and Instructors can view assignments from both the backend and the frontend dashboard of your website.

Here, you’ll find all the submitted assignments listed with details like Assignment Name, Student, Total Points, Minimum Pass Points, Duration, and Star & End Dates.

You can click on the Evaluate button to see and evaluate the submitted answers or use the Delete button to remove a submission.

To view all Assignments from the frontend you can go to Frontend Dashboard > Assignments.

hen, simply click on the Details to see the submissions if any. There, you can click on Evaluate again to evaluate a submitted assignment.

Evaluating Assignments

As mentioned earlier, you can evaluate assignments from both the backend and the frontend.

You can go to your site’s Frontend Dashboard > Assignments and click on Evaluate.

Once you’ve entered the Assignments Evaluation Panel, you’ll first be greeted with basic details about the Assignment like Course Name, Student Name, and Submitted Date.

Then, you’ll find the student’s typed answer in the Assignment Description section followed by the files they uploaded which you can download and view by clicking on the download icon.

Lastly, you can submit your Evaluation of the Assignment by filling in the Evaluation Form.

Your Points: Enter the total points you want to award for this assignment. The tooltip beside this field will let you know what the Total Points are for this assignment and you can award anything between 0 and this number.

Feedback: You can use this field to share your thoughts on this Assignment.

To finish off, submit your evaluation by clicking on the Evaluate This Submission button.

Assignment Resubmission

Some students perform well in assignments while some perform miserably. In the case of the latter, some would want to resubmit their assignment work if their initial evaluation results are not satisfying. 

To allow this, you can delete their submitted assignment with the help of the admin.

Once an assignment is deleted, a new version of the task can be resubmitted as long as it’s within the specified time limit.

Add Live Lessons

This feature is coming soon.

Course Attachments

Course attachments are additional resources you may use in your courses. Such resources can include practice files, example files, and other important documents. You can upload these attachments here, and they will be available for students to download under the “Resources” tab on the Course Details Page.

Adding Instructors

You also have the privilege to assign more than one instructor to your course. To assign an instructor to your course simply click on Add Instructors option and search for them by name.

ADDITIONAL DATA

The following data acts as informative data for potential students while also acting as marketing material for your course.

What Will I Learn

List the knowledge and skills that students will learn after completing this course. (One per line)

Target Audience

Specify the target audience that will benefit the most from the course. (One line per target audience)

Course Duration

Specify the overall duration of the course, i.e. how long it will generally take for a student to complete this course.

Materials Included

A list of assets you or the instructors will be providing for the students enrolled in this course. (One per line)

E.g Certificate of completion

Downloadable material

Requirements

Add any additional requirements or special instructions for the students. (One per line).

Course Tag

Select related tags for this course if your favorite tag is not found, talk to the admin.

Course Prerequisites

Prerequisites are designated courses that must be completed before accessing a specific course. These prerequisites are designed to ensure that students have the necessary foundation and understanding to successfully complete the course and receive maximum benefit from it. 

For example, if you have two courses, “Basics of Programming Languages” and “Advanced Programming Languages,” you can set the “Basics of Programming Languages” as a prerequisite for the “Advanced Programming Languages” course, ensuring that students have a thorough understanding of the basics before moving on to more complex topics.

Certificate Template

The Certificate Template section provides the ability to select a certificate template for students to receive after they have completed the course.

Click on login at the top right corner.

Depending on the instructor course complete setup, certificate link will be available for student to download upon course complete. E.g. if the  instructor setup assignment and quiz as compulsory, the student must complete all assignment and quiz before the course could be mark complete and the certificate download link will be available.

Click on login at the top right corner.

1, Click on any course you wish to enroll for, follow the payment, once your payment is made you will be redirect to your dashboard immediately to start learning

2, You can scroll to the bottom of our page and click on  BECOME A STUDENT  to register.