Course Sessions

Summary

A common configuration is to represent educational courses as Activity Definitions. If these courses are offered at specific dates/times only, then online scheduling for those courses can be achieved directly through LearningBuilder using the Activity Offerings feature. 

See also: Exam Scheduling

Overview

There are two different ways to configure Course Sessions in LearningBuilder:


Course Sessions using OfferingsCourse Sessions using Activity Types
How is the "Course" modeled?ActivityActivity
How is the "Session" modeled?Activity OfferingActivity
How are Sessions created?Via the Provider → Activities → Manage Offerings page, which provides a UI designed specifically for managing subordinate contentVia Provider → Activities, using a Quick Action to create a copy of the original Activity, which is then modified.
Supports capacity tracking as an intrinsic feature?YesNo
Providers can manage participants within the system?YesNo (custom reports can be used to show attendees, but do not provide any intrinsic management capability)