About Content and Learning Activities

Once content (even an individual file) has been loaded into the LMS , it becomes a learning activity.

Content comes in many forms, and always consists of at least one item. Items within the content can be grouped into folders that help organize the content for users (folders are identified with a ). Items that a user can launch are called leaf items.

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When modifying content, you first need to view the learning activity's details and navigate to the correct level of the content's hierarchy.

About Managing Content

As an administrator, you can modify many of the activity's parameters that determine how the learning activity appears to users and what requirements it places on users. However, you cannot directly edit the content (resources) of the learning activity. Changing the resources of a learning activity requires loading replacement resource files.

Every component of a learning activity (the activity or event itself as well as each folder and item within it) has properties (a title, type, description, and external ID): you can modify each of these.

In addition, you can do the following:

• add a file (PDF, PowerPoint, or other static file) to the learning activity

• rearrange the order of folders or items within folders (but not move items between folders)

• edit the type, title, or description that the users see

• edit information about an event

• if using the optional completion certificate feature, enable completion certificates for a learning activity

• if using continuing education credits, allocate credits to a learning activity

• set the passing score for a learning activity

• limit the attempts a user can make for a learning activity

• set the presentation options for a learning activity or test/assessment

• control what status information a user can see

• assign tags to a learning activity

• specify prerequisites for a learning activity

• assign instructors to a learning activity

• assign an LMS-based price to a learning activity

• add registration options to be presented to self-registering users

• choose to make the learning activity available for self-registration

• make a copy of a whole learning activity

• delete a learning activity or its individual folders and/or items

About Rollup

Rollup determines how leaf items affect the parent's status and is normally set in the content that is loaded. When you add a file to a learning activity you choose whether or not to track it for rollup. If you choose to track it for rollup, the item is considered when calculating the completion status of the parent. It does not affect the success status of the parent, however.

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If you choose not to track the file for rollup, the item is not considered when calculating the status of the parent.

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A leaf item may or may not report its usage. If it does report its usage, you see that information at the item level on a user's Training Plan. If it does not report its usage, usage is calculated as the difference between the launch and exit times or, if the session timed out while the leaf item was open, between the launch and timeout time.

The usage for a leaf item includes the time spent in all attempts at that item.

The usage for an entire learning activity is the sum of the usage for leaf items that were included in the rollup. Leaf items that weren't included in the rollup have their own usage time but do not contribute to the overall usage time of the activity.

The rollup of time for an item includes the time for all child items that are tracked.