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Course Authors

Collaborating with your in-house experts to simplify content creation

Updated over 6 months ago

The author role in Workleap LMS allows you to solicit the help of additional people to create the course plans and integrate content.

Although the training creation must be initiated by a user with an appropriate role level, an author can independently create/modify the content of the training.

You can add an unlimited number of authors to a course.

Course authors are a great way to accelerate content creation for various use cases:

  • Succession planning: Calling in your key employees to quickly document what they feel is critical information or processes that are currently not documented within the business

  • Upskilling/reskilling: Facilitate lunch and learn or mentoring opportunities between colleagues

  • Operational procedures: Build ownership of processes by adding subject matter experts to operational trainings and how-to's

  • Content update management: Share and decentralize course content maintenance responsibilities with key members of your organization

An author can:

  • Modify the course outline

  • Create and edit lessons

However, an author cannot:

  • Edit general course details and settings

  • Publish or unpublish a course

  • View user progress information associated with training

Add an author to a course

Under the "Authors" tab of the course builder, you can assign one or more users as additional course authors

When a user is added as an author, they will now be able to access the "Content > Manage Course > Syllabus" tab in order to access the "plan" tab of your training editor.

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