One Course, Hybrid Offerings
One Course, Hybrid Offerings
In today’s Workday Learning blog post, we discuss an option for streamlining your course catalog. Do you have courses that you offer both in-person and virtual instructor led sessions for? Or courses that you offer in multiple languages? For a variety of reasons, I frequently see multiple individual courses built to satisfy these situations. And that is an absolutely fine option. However, it is possible to combine the above scenarios onto one blended course with multiple unique offerings (In-Person and Virtual, English and Spanish). Below we will explore what that combined option looks like!
Create a Blended Course
Step 1 is create a course of the Blended variety and fill out the top portion as you would normally. Title, description, topic, cover image; business as usual. The exciting part comes when we get to the lessons portion.
Now it’s time to include our lessons, and we are going to want to include all the offering options of interest as unique lessons. In-person Classroom (Instructor Led) AND Virtual Classroom (Instructor Led). English AND Spanish. This might feel strange at the moment but bear with me, we will not be including both lessons in each our offerings.
Schedule Offerings
Now that our blended course with two lessons is created (Virtual and In-Person or Spanish and English, if we’re using the two examples provided above), it’s time to schedule offerings. When we go ahead and schedule offerings on this blended course, both lessons (either In-Person AND Virtual instructor-led OR English and Spanish) will be included by default. We don’t need nor want both, only one. So we will be deleting one of those lessons from the offering so only ONE lesson remains in each offering.
In this Orientation example, we create 1 offering where we’ve deleted the In-Person Orientation lesson, leaving only the Virtual Onboarding lesson. And another offering where we’ve done the reverse and deleted the Virtual Onboarding lesson, leaving only the In-Person Orientation lesson. The result? One orientation course with 2 offering options – one virtual and one in-person.
OR one Safety Procedures course with two offering options – English and Spanish.
For those that find themselves in the situation where they want their course offerings to differ by MORE than just date & time, this approach could be an excellent fit to offer as such while keeping your course catalog succinct.
Before I let you go, let me quickly call out a few things to discuss when deciding to pursue or not pursue:
- When a learner is viewing the course they will see all the lessons configured from the initial blended course creation.
- Any reporting done off courses (rather than course offerings) will combine these different offerings into aggregates for things like attendance and completion status.
- Because these offerings stem from the same course, they will share a topic and any associated security.
