We’ve just released an exciting update that will allow you to ‘set-and-forget’ all of the settings related to learners finishing a course.  From today, you can configure the following globally:

• The issuing of Certificates
• Your Certificate design
• Course Finish screen states

Issuing of Certificates

If you are currently issuing certificates for every course in your workspace, you’ll be happy to know that you can now set the issuing of certificates to ON by default. By doing this, every new course you create will automatically be set to issue certificates.

The global configuration can be overridden for each individual course, so if there are some courses that you don’t want to use them, you can set them to OFF by clicking the Override button from the Finish screen inside your course, and then unchecking the ‘Issue certificate’ button.

Note that the issuing of certificates is set to ON by default. 

Certificate design

You can configure a global Certificate design that can be applied to all courses of your courses. To set this up, head over to the Customize > Certificate design tab. From here, you can set up your certificate, and it will be used as the default course certificate for every new course you create. If you make any changes, these changes will be reflected in any course that is using the global design.

Once again, if you want to create a unique certificate design for a particular course, you can do this for each individual course by clicking the override button from the certificate designer inside a course.

Course Finish screen states

As a trainer, you can tailor the course finish experience for your learners using the 'Finish Screen' tab inside a course. Although you may have used the same message for every course, you were required to set it up every time. With this release, you can set it up once, and it will be applied to all new courses going forward.

You can tailor the finish experience to suit each possible finish state on your course. Depending on what modules you have in your course, there are 3 possible finish states:

1. The learners completes the course and passes
2. The learner finishes the course and fails (only available if you have a quiz or assignment module)
3. The learner finishes the course but is waiting for a trainer to grade an assignment (only available if you have an assignment module)

You can override the global configuration on a course-by-course basis if you want by clicking the ‘Override’ button from the Finish screen inside a course.

Inline editing

In addition to all of these great changes, we've updated the finish screen editor inside the course builder to include inline editing. 

Learners can now star courses they reference frequently, or are currently working through. 

To star a course, learners can click the star icon in the top-right-hand corner of the course card. Starring the course pins it to the top of the dashboard. Learners can star as many courses as they like.

We've just changed the name of the Text with Image screen to better represent how it is used in the platform by the majority of our users. More often than not, our users treat the Text with Image screen as a blank page where they add videos, images, and tables using the Text editor, instead of relying on the image uploader placeholder. 

In light of this, we've changed the name of the screen to Blank screen and have removed the image placeholder so that you don't feel inclined to use just an image. You can still add images with the text editor, and align and resize them any way you like. 

Image captions

So that there was no reduction in functionality for this screen, we've added support for captions inside our text editor. Now you can add captions to images any where you add an image using our text editor. 

Will this effect my existing screens? 

This change will not effect any of your existing Text with Image screens. Any images you added previously will remain in place.

We've just launched a major change to the learner Finish screen that makes it easier for learners to view their course progress, results and course Certificates all on one page. 

What's changed?

The learner Finish screen and Results screen have been combined to form a single, easy to read summary of the course progress and results, plus detailed analytics of their performance. From the same screen, learners can also view and share their certificates to Linkedin. 

Prior to this release, the Finish screen and Results screens had to be accessed from two seperate pages. Now this single screen can be accessed at the end of a finished course, and from the learner dashboard.  

Why we made this change?

We decided to provide learners with a summary of their results and progress on the finish screen so that they can:

• Easily see the steps they’ve missed and need to address to complete the course
• Provide quick links to assessment items that require additional attempts (quizzes and assignments)
• Easily see why they may have not passed/completed a course i.e. requirements not met.

Providing access to the this screen from the learner dashboard, gives learners the ability to:

• Get a snapshot of their current progress without having to go to a new screen
• Get access their results/progress, even if the course has expired

On completion of a course, learners can unveil their digital certificate by clicking the ‘Open’ button on the Finish screen. 

When clicked, the certificate is revealed with a number of options that allow learners to download a printable version of the certificate, make a copy of their public URL, or add it to their profile on Linkedin under ‘Licenses & Certifications’.

When adding to Linkedin, learners share a link to a public URL where the certificate can be accessed by anyone. This public link displays a unique Credential ID that is generated for every certificate issued in Coassemble. 

Course cards on the learner dashboard have been improved to provide learners the most relevant information at a glance. This includes course status, course title, folder name (if configured) and time estimate. When a learner interacts with the card, more detailed information is revealed such as the course description and navigation buttons. 

The size of the cards has been reduced significantly so that learners can see more courses without having to scroll.

To summarise, the new learner cards have the following additions:

• Folder name (if folders are set to display on the dashboard)
• Time estimate (if an estimate is set)
• New progress state indicators displaying the courses current progress state
  • Locked (If course is not available or the course has prerequisites)
  • To do
  • In progress
  • Complete
  • Grade pending
  • Incomplete

We've just added image reposition options to more of our screen types. 

For most places you upload an image in Coassemble, there are no specific rules about what size or ratio your image needs to be. Because of this, you don't need to crop your images, simply add an image, and it will fill or fit the image container. 

To provide more control, we've included the ability to position images within the image container. This allows you to focus on a particular part of the image, without having to crop the it which can degrade the image.

This functionality has been added to the following screens: 

• Cover
• Flashcards
• Process
• Tap to reveal
• Select correct image
• Timeline
• Springy list

Don't know where to start? Get started with a course template!

We've gradually been adding to our Course template library with a whole range of templates you can use as building blocks to create beautiful courses for your organisation. 

Select from a range of categories including: 

• Customer training
• Onboarding
• Policies and procedures
• Product training
• Team training

Watch this space as we continue to deliver high quality templates you can use as a framework for your next masterpiece! 

We’ve just introduced new filter options to the learner dashboard to make it easier for learners to find what they are looking for. To achieve this, we’ve made some minor changes to the learner dashboard, and introduced an exciting new filter option we know many of you have been looking forward to!

What’s New?

Finally you can display Folders on the learner dashboard! This new opt-in feature, when switched ON, will allow learners to filter their courses by folder.

To use this feature, simply head over to the Workspace settings page and select the Learner dashboard tab. Switching the 'Allow learners to filter by folder' option ON will make all folders visible to learners. If there are some folders you want hidden, you can choose to display only specific folders. 

Note: hiding folders won’t hide courses associated with those folders.

What’s changed?

We’ve replaced the four page tabs; All courses, To do, In progress, and Completed with three new filters — To do, In progress, and Complete. 

These 3 filters do the same job as the four tabs, but provide a better experience for your learners learners as they won’t have to switch between the four tabs, and won’t be forced to view all courses, regardless of their status when they come to the dashboard. By default To do and In progress filters are selected.

If you've ever wanted to move a screen from one lesson to another lesson, you'll be pleased to know that we've just made it possible. 

If you have multiple lessons inside your course, you'll notice a new 'Move screen' option in the context menu for each screen. Simply select this option and choose the lesson you want to the screen moved to. 

Note, that you'll only be able to move screens to lessons that exist inside the same course.