What does a learner see in a new builder course?
The rebuilt learner experience for courses made in the new builder: how people move through a course, what the progress bar and outline sidebar show, and how returning learners pick up where they left off.
Courses built in the new builder have a rebuilt learner view. Related content groups into sections that learners see as chapters, a progress bar across the top shows where they are, an outline sidebar shows the whole course and what they have finished, and one button drives them forward so there is never a question about what to do next.
Courses you built in the Classic builder keep the learner experience they have today. Nothing changes for anyone partway through one.
How do learners move through a course?
One button. A learner reads or works through what is on the screen, then presses Continue to move on. There is nothing to hunt for and no decision about which of several controls to use.
The button is disabled until the screen is genuinely done, so someone cannot skip past a checklist they have not worked through or a question they have not answered. Learners can also move with the arrow keys rather than the mouse.
What does the progress bar show?
Two things at once, which is the point of it:
- Where they are in the course, so a learner can see how much is left overall.
- How far through the current screen they are, which matters on a screen with several items to work through or narration playing.
What is in the outline sidebar?
The full shape of the course: every section, the screens inside it, and what has been completed. Each section shows a count of its items, so a learner can see how substantial it is before they start.
They can also jump straight to the section they need rather than clicking through everything in front of it, which matters when someone comes back to a course to look one thing up.
How do sections change things for learners?
Instead of a course running as one long list of screens, related content sits together as a chapter with its own progress. A ten section compliance course reads as ten manageable pieces rather than eighty screens in a row, and a learner can finish a section, see it marked complete and stop there.
What happens when someone comes back later?
A returning learner is offered a resume prompt, so they can pick up where they left off rather than starting again or scrolling to find their place.
How does narration behave?
When a screen has narration, it can drive the screen as it plays. Items reveal in turn and checklist items tick off as the narration reaches them, so a learner can listen through a screen rather than reading and clicking at the same time.
What do learners see in a quiz?
One question at a time. While you are building you see all the questions stacked down the page so you can reorder them, but a learner works through them one by one and gets a results screen at the end.
What does it look like on a phone?
Courses adapt to smaller screens, and you control how. In the builder's mobile view you can reorder blocks so they stack in a sensible order on a narrow screen, and hide blocks that do not work on a phone, such as a wide table. What you cannot do is change the words for mobile, so learners get the same content wherever they are.
Frequently asked questions
Do learners need an account?
No. Share a course by link and anyone can open it without logging in, the same as before. You can still ask people to identify themselves first if you want to know who completed what.
Can learners skip ahead?
They can jump to any section from the outline sidebar, which is deliberate, because people often return to a course to find one specific thing. Within a screen, the Continue button stays disabled until they have actually completed what is on it.
Will learners notice the difference between a Classic course and a new one?
Yes, if they take both. A new builder course has the sections, progress bar and outline sidebar described here. A Classic course looks and behaves exactly as it always has.