Course Sessions using Offerings

Summary

In 10.3.0, the Activity Offerings feature was extended to more fully support the concept of Course Sessions. This feature deprecates the previous technique for implementing Course Sessions using Activity Types.

Overview

The Activity Offerings was specifically designed to support the Course Sessions configuration scenario.

The primary actors in this scenario are:

The Program that offers a credential
The Provider that creates approved educational content for that credential
The Provider that offers the educational content to Practitioners
The Instructor(s) that delivers a specific session of the educational content
The Practitioner that consumes the content to satisfy an application or learning requirement

Use Case	Notes	Fee Structure
Provider delivers their own content	Providers create educational content which is reviewed and approved by the Program. Approved content is listed in the LearningBuilder course catalog for Practitioners to find and is delivered by the owning Provider.	Providers pay the Program to review and list the content in the catalog Practitioners pay the Provider to attend the course session
Program creates content; Providers deliver it	The Program can create its own educational content, while allowing 3rd party Providers to deliver it.	Providers pay the Program a fee to offer the content Practitioners pay the Provider to attend the course session (usually marked up)

In the model where the Program creates the content and Providers deliver it, the Provider may owe the Program a per-attendee fee.

The bulk fee payment feature allows the Provider to remit a single fee that covers multiple attendees, simplifying the accounting and administration.