E-learning

E-learning

E-learning

All courses of the type “E-learning” with the status of their learning content. Customers book them like other courses – after activation they learn online, step by step, and finish with an exam and a certificate.

The module is switched on per provider (Administration → Variables, ELEARNING). When it is off, the course type, menu item and pages disappear – courses and results that have been created are kept.

Administration sees all e-learning courses, speakers only those they are assigned to. With “Edit learning content” you open the sections, steps, questions and media of the course.

Answer templates and question pools

Answer templates are frequently used sets of answers (e.g. “Yes / No / Don’t know”), question pools collect questions for reuse and for exams with random selection.

Both apply to all e-learning courses of your provider. In the learning content you copy a template into a question or put a question into a pool – each time as a copy.

Evaluating exams

“Grade free-text answers” shows exam answers that you grade by hand; the number tells you how many are waiting. “Results” summarizes all courses, and under “Resits” you release further attempts for participants who did not pass.

As long as a free-text answer is ungraded, learners see “being graded”. With the last grade of an attempt it is settled whether the exam is passed.

Creating an e-learning course

Create a new course under “Courses” and choose “E-learning” as the type of the course dates. You maintain price, description and images as for any course.

Booking works through an access date in the “Dates” tab: start and end are the period in which the course can be booked, it needs no individual dates, and 0 places means unlimited. Date and time do not appear for the customer.

You create the learning content in the “Learning content” tab. In the booking portal and on your website the course only appears once a version has been published. At checkout, customers agree to immediate access (text: variable ELEARNING_WIDERRUF_TEXT); each participant gets an enrollment, and access is activated after payment, as with downloads.

Learning content

Learning content

This is where what learners work through online is created: sections with steps, and in each step texts, notes, images, audio, videos, slides and questions.

The outline is on the left, on the right you edit what you select there. Without a selection you see the settings for learners (learning objectives, duration, access, certificate, design, instructors).

If you copy the course in the course list, the learning content comes along as a new draft.

Version and publication

You always edit the current version. To publish it, you submit it for review; administration publishes it – after that it is frozen and bookable.

Only someone who did not submit the version themselves may publish it (four-eyes principle). For providers with only one person, you switch this off with the variable ELEARNING_VIER_AUGEN.

You make changes after publication in a new version. Those who have already booked continue learning on their version; new participants get the new one as soon as it is published.

Submitting and publishing only work once the list “To do before release” is empty.

Outline

Sections (chapters) with their steps (screens). Drag them by the handle into the order you want or use the arrows; steps can also be dragged into another section.

A section can be marked as an exam – then you set the pass mark, attempts and time limit there.

“Flow” shows all paths through the course as a diagram and checks whether every step is reachable and every path leads to the end of the course.

Settings for learners

Text for the course page, learning objectives, duration, access period, validity of the certificate, accent color, arrangement of media, font size, header image and the assigned speakers.

Title, price and description for the booking portal are in the course data. Assigned speakers see and edit the learning content; only administration can assign them.

Contents of a step

Add text, a note, an image, audio, a video, slides or a question. Each content has its own form – save it after changing it.

Large files (videos, presentations) are uploaded in chunks right after you select them; save afterwards. Presentations and PDFs are converted into slide images in the background.

Questions can branch: to a different step per answer or by right and wrong. With “Preview” you see the step like learners do and can try out questions.

Flow

Flow

All paths through the course: steps as boxes, transitions as arrows – gray the next step, blue an answer, green correct, red wrong.

The structure check reports steps that no path leads to and dead ends without a path to the end of the course. As long as there are messages, the version cannot be submitted.

The table below lists the same transitions in text form; with “Preview from …” you jump into any path.

Preview

Preview

This is how learners see this step – with accent color, header image and chapter overview. You can answer and check questions; nothing is saved.

“Next” follows the flow: after checking your answers it leads wherever the branching points.

Answer templates

Answer templates

Frequently used sets of answers with feedback and images, for all e-learning courses of your provider. Three templates are already included.

In the learning content, a multiple-choice or decision question takes over a template as a copy – later changes to the template do not change the question.

A template may be changed by whoever created it and by administration; the supplied ones only by administration.

Edit answer template

Edit answer template

Name and answers of the template – for each answer the text, whether it is correct, feedback and an image.

Questions that have already taken over the template keep their answers, even if you change or delete the template.

Question pools

Question pools

Store questions across courses and reuse them. For each attempt, exams can draw questions at random from a pool.

In the learning content, “Put into question pool” places a copy into the pool, “Insert from pool” brings a copy into a step.

Edit question pool

Edit question pool

Name, description and the questions of the pool. You remove questions here; they are added through the learning content of a course.

If you delete the pool, the questions in the courses are kept.

Enrollments

Enrollments

Who has booked or been invited to this e-learning course – with learning progress and access.

Each participant of a booking gets their own enrollment in the version that was published when booking. If their record has no account of its own, the person who placed the order starts the training for them.

Inviting customers

Invite customers to this course without an order, for example for mandatory instruction of your own staff. Optionally with a deadline by which they should finish.

Access is activated immediately; those invited receive an email with the link to “My trainings”. If someone is already invited, only the new deadline applies.

Before the deadline, Kursimple sends a reminder email one week and one day beforehand.

Access

Booked trainings are activated after payment. Here you activate or block access by hand.

Activating sends an email with the link to the training. Blocking ends access (e.g. after a cancellation); progress and answers remain stored as proof.

If the course has an access period, access ends automatically after that many days from activation.

My trainings

My trainings

Your online trainings: open ones at the top, completed ones below. This also includes trainings you booked for someone without an account of their own.

A booked training appears as soon as your provider has activated access – usually right after payment. You then receive an email.

Your training

Your training

What it is about, how the course is structured and how far along you are. “Start course now” gets you going, “Continue” takes you to where you stopped.

Your progress is saved at every step – you can pause at any time and continue on another device.

Once you have passed the exam and completed the course, you receive your certificate by email. Here and under “My trainings” you can download it again at any time; the QR code on it lets you check whether it is genuine.

Step by step

Step by step

Read the step, answer the questions and save your answers. “Next” works once all questions are answered and mandatory videos have been watched to the end.

Depending on your answer, you may continue at a different place. Steps you have already reached can be opened again at any time via the chapters on the left.

The exam

The exam

The conditions are on the right: how many points you need to pass, how many attempts you have and whether a timer is running. “Start exam” begins an attempt.

During an attempt you can save progress and continue later – with a time limit, however, the clock keeps running and the attempt is submitted at the end with what was saved. There is no feedback on individual questions during the exam; you see the result after submitting.

If the exam contains free-text answers, your provider grades them by hand; until then it says “being graded”. If all attempts are used up, your provider can release a resit – you then receive an email.

Grade free-text answers

Grade free-text answers

Exam answers that cannot be graded automatically, oldest first. Award points (at most as many as the question is worth) and, if you like, a comment.

If the question has keywords, a suggestion appears below the answer. You open the model answer via “Model answer”.

With the last grade of an attempt its result is settled: passed, or – if no attempts are left – not passed.

Resits

Resits

Participants who did not pass the exam, and the resits released so far with their status.

If the period of a resit ends without a pass, the exam counts as not passed again – then you can release it again.

Release a resit

Choose the period (in your local time), the number of attempts (1 to 10) and, if you like, a section the participant has to repeat first. They receive an email.

With “Repeat first” the participant starts at this section and then returns to the exam. Without a selection they go straight to the exam.

Results of all e-learning courses

Results of all e-learning courses

Per course: how many are participating, how many are invited, started, completed or failed, the pass rate and the average completion time. Clicking the course shows the individual enrollments.

Pass rate: passed among the exams that have been decided. Completion time: average from “started” to “completed”. With the filter you count only enrollments in one state.

Results of the course

Results of the course

Key figures and every enrollment with progress, error rate in the exercises, number of exam attempts and best result. Clicking the name shows all answers.

The error rate counts only the questions in the course, not those of the exam. The best result is the decided exam attempt with the highest percentage.

Export to Excel

“Enrollments” outputs one row per enrollment, “Answers” one row per answer given – from the exam and from the course. What the filter currently shows is exported.

Excel opens the file with a double click, with umlauts and separate columns. Times are in your local time.

Where learners are

At which step the started enrollments currently are. If they pile up at one point, learners often get stuck or drop out there.

Only started enrollments are counted; completed and failed ones are missing here. Anyone learning in an older version is listed with its number.

An enrollment in detail

An enrollment in detail

Every exam attempt with all answers, points and times, below that the answers in the course. This makes it traceable how a result came about.

For free-text answers graded by hand, the comment appears with the name of the person who graded.

If the exam is passed and the course completed, the certificate with its number is shown at the top for download. It is created automatically and sent to the participant by email.

Statistics and paths

Statistics and paths

The flow diagram of the published version: on the arrows, how often a transition was taken, in the boxes, how many reached the step. You choose older versions at the top.

This shows which branches are taken and where learners drop out.

Statistics per question

Per question: how often it was answered, right and wrong, the average points and how often each answer option was chosen. Every attempt counts.

Questions from a question pool that were drawn in exams appear at the end. If a wrong option is chosen conspicuously often, it is worth a look at the question or the learning content.