How to Create a Course

To create your own, custom online training course in your AMP, follow these steps.

1. Login to your AMP and toggle to either Administrator view or Instructor view
2. Click on Courses in the left navigation menu
3. Click on the Add course button in the upper right corner
4. Now you are ready to start adding information about your course. Add a title for your course by clicking on the text that says “New course” at the top.
   1. Click on the gear icon at the top right of the column on the left – these are your Course options. A pop up on the right of your screen will allow you to add more details about your new course. There are 4 tabs for you to edit: Course details, Availability, Rules and paths, and Certificate.
      • Course details: set the course code, category, price, hide from course catalog, and intro video.
        • Course code – this can be helpful in sorting your courses and creating a hierarchy for your Learners. More on this later in our training.
        • Category – choose from our preset categories to sort your courses when Learners are enrolled in them. More on this later in our training.
        • Price – Please reach out to your AMP rep if you have interest in selling your courses, as this is an advanced feature and requires an advanced setup.
        • Hide course from catalog – if you toggle this, unless you provide access to this course to a Learner through a Group, Learners will not be able to see the course or request to enroll in it when they login to your training platform. More on this later in our training.
        • Intro video – provides an introduction to this course and what Learners can expect to learn.
      • Availability: access options and time options
        • Access options: capacity, level, make course active
          1. Capacity – When the maximum capacity of enrolled users to this course is reached, then the course will be automatically hidden from the course catalog. No other limitations are placed on user enrolment to the course.
          2. Level – The end-user needs to reach that level in order to be able to get this course.
          3. Make course active – toggle this to make your course active.
        • Time options: duration or time limit
          1. Duration – set a start date, start time, and end date, end time
          2. Time limit – set a number of days that a Learner would have access to complete this course
          3. You can also toggle an option to retain access for users who have completed the course
      • Rules and paths: units ordering, course completion rules, score calculator, and learning path
        • Units ordering – choose to allow your units to be taken in sequential order or in any order
        • Course completion rules – choose whether every unit in your course must be completed for the Learner to move on, or whether they only need to complete a percentage of the course
        • Score calculator – choose to calculate a Learner’s score based on all tests and assignments or tests only
        • Learning path – this is where you can set up course prerequisites. More on this later in our training.
      • Certificate – choose what style of certificate you would like to use for any Learners who complete this course. More on this later in our training.

Course thumbnail – Create a branded thumbnail in Canva (630px x 420px) and save to your computer as a PNG. When you create a course, you’ll see an orange box in the top right corner. When you hover over it, you’ll see a blue circle with a cloud and an up arrow. Click on the circle. Upload the image from your computer. Click on the “Save Changes.” 

Adding Different Types of Content to Your Courses

The course builder in the AMP has an easy user interface, and allows you to constantly preview the content as it will appear to your Learners.

There are two ways to add content to your course. 

• Drag and Drop – on the left of your screen, you can drag and drop content files

• Accepted files: GIF, JPEG, PNG (10 MB)

DOC, PDF, XLS, XLSX, DOCX, AAC, AIF / AIFF, MP3, OGG, WAV, WEBM, WMA, ZIP, GZIP (600 MB)

PPT, PPTX, 3GPP, AVI, MP4, MPEG, OGG, MOV, WEBM, FLV, WMV (2044 MB)

• Add menu – at the bottom of the section on the left of your screen

• TalentCraft – create rich content with the power of AI

• Standard Content

• Content – Type your text, upload images, and use our editor to further customize the content.

Note: You can select any part of the text to open the toolbar and edit it. 

• Web content – Embed content from external web sources. More help on this type of content later in your training.

• Video – Upload your file, capture a video, or search YouTube with the use of keywords or by directly pasting the video’s URL.

• Audio – Upload your file or capture audio.

• Presentation | Document – Upload a PDF, PPT file, Word document, etc.

Note: Uploaded documents (e.g., PDF, PPT) are converted by default into web-compatible formats and displayed through a third-party service.

• iFrame – Insert other website pages as an iFrame unit. They can be viewed as embedded or in a new window.

• Learning Activities

• Test – Test your Learner’s knowledge.

• Survey – Collect feedback from your Learners.

• Assignment – Review and grade answer submissions from Learners.

• Instructor-Led Training (ILT) – Create live webinars.

• SCORM | xAPI | cmi5 – Your AMP allows you to use learning materials such as SCORM 1.2, xAPI, and cmi5 content to enhance your courses and make your training more engaging and efficient.

• More

• Section – Organize the course material into logical entities

• Clone from another course – Choose a unit from another of your courses and make a cloned copy in your new course. A cloned unit is an identical copy of another unit, but it’s by no means dependent on the original. After it’s copied, a cloned unit can be fully edited. Changes made to the original unit do not affect the cloned unit at all.
• Link from another course – Choose a unit from another of your courses and link to it. A linked unit is pulled from its source every time you access the course, and it’s entirely dependent on the original unit. A linked unit cannot be fully edited (i.e., only renamed, delayed, deactivated, and deleted). When the source unit is edited, the changes apply automatically to all linked units.

Note: If you select to upload several files at the same time, you are automatically creating different types of units, depending on the file types. You can then edit their names and unit completion methods.

Note: The total number of units and sections in a course cannot exceed 1000 items.

How to Import Content From External Web Sources

Your AMP lets you import content from a wide range of external web sources to make your learning material more diverse and engaging.

Note: Your AMP officially supports the following embedded content types: Wistia, Wikipedia, Scribd, Prezi, Flickr.

Here’s how to use web content in your courses in a few steps:

1. Sign in to your AMP account as an Instructor, go to the page of the course you want to update, and click Edit course. You will be redirected to the course editor page.

2. Click Add, select Standard Content from the list, and then choose Web content.

3. In the Web address (URL) field, paste the URL of the content you want to import.

Note: To add Prezi content, you will first need to login to your account, share your presentation, and add its URL in the respective AMP field (Web Address URL).

4. Wait for your AMP to load and optimize your content, then click Publish unit to update your course.

How to Capture Video and Capture Audio

To save you valuable time, AMP lets you create new content by capturing video or audio without the use of a third-party application, using only your browser and a webcam.

To create captured video or audio content, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your AMP account as an Instructor and go to the page of the course you want to update.

2. Click Add, then from the list, select Standard Content and then choose Video or Audio.

3. For video units: click Record a video.

Note: Video recording isn’t available for content creation on macOS & iOS devices (MacBook, iMac, iPad, iPhone).

4. For audio units: click Record audio.

5. Click Start recording to initiate the recording process.

6. Once you have the content you need, click stop to end the recording.

Note: The minimum allowed duration of your recording is 5 seconds, and the maximum duration is 1 hour. If your recording lasts less than 5 seconds or more than 1 hour, you won’t be able to submit it.

7. Click Play to preview your recording before submitting it. Then, click Submit to save the recording in the course files.

8. Type a name for your unit and click Publish unit to add it to the course content.

Note: After submitting the file, it will remain available in the course files for later use, even if you don’t save the video/audio unit that contains your recording.

How to Use Sections in a Course

Your AMP allows you to manage the structure of a course, using Sections as dividers between units. Sections allow you to better organize the content you have added and give you granular control over how you share it with your Learners.

Here’s how to add a Section:

1. Sign in to your AMP account as an Instructor, go to Courses, hover over a course, and click Edit.
2. Click Add, hover over More, and select Section. The section will be added at the end of the course.
3. To rename, use delay availability or delete, hover over the Section and click More.
4. You can create as many Sections as you need in a course.
   1. Tip: It’s good practice to use them to group similar units. For example, you can group self-paced units under one section titled Introduction. Then, add another section to highlight the Live training. Finally, group all tests and assignment units under a section titled Evaluation. This type of grouping helps the user clearly identify the different teaching methods you provide and easily transition from one part of the course to the next.
5. To put Sections in the order you’d like, hover and click over Reorder, then drag and drop where needed.

Learning Paths

Learning paths are a way for you to set up prerequisites for your new course. You can set this up by accessing your Course settings.

To create a learning path for one of your courses, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your AMP account as an Instructor and click on Courses.
2. Click on the course you want to edit by adding a learning path.
3. Click on the button, Edit course, on the upper right of your screen.
4. Click on the gear icon to access Course options.
5. Click on the tab Rules and paths and scroll down to Learning path at the bottom of this pop up section.
6. Choose any prerequisite courses by using the dropdown menu. You can add more than one prerequisite.

How to Use Preset Categories

Categories provide you with a way to visually sort your courses for your Learners.

To select one of our preset categories for one of your courses, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your AMP account as an Instructor and click on Courses.
2. Click on the course you want to edit by adding a category.
3. Click on the button, Edit course, on the upper right of your screen.
4. Click on the gear icon to access Course options.
5. Click on the tab Course details and go to the Catalog section.
6. Click on the Category dropdown menu and choose between our preset categories. This will sort your new courses into sections when displayed for your Learners.