Courses Overview

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Video walkthrough

Courses are Exec’s self-paced training builder. Assemble a course out of content blocks (text, video, slides, quizzes, files, Knowledge Hub articles, and AI roleplays), publish it, and get it in front of your team through a self-serve catalog or a direct assignment with a deadline. Learners work through it page by page at their own pace, and finishing a course can automatically award a certification.

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What a Learner Sees First

The Courses dashboard is the learner’s home for training. It has two halves: the courses they are already enrolled in, and a catalog of courses they can enroll in themselves. The catalog grows as you build, so it becomes a library your team can pull from on demand. Opening a course from the catalog shows what it covers, how long it takes, and a full outline of the sections ahead. Enrolling is one click, and it drops the learner straight into the first page. From there the course runs in a full-screen player. Learners read, watch, and practice their way through each page, hit a quiz or roleplay when the course wants proof they got it, and cannot move past a required block until they pass it. Progress saves as they go. See the full learner experience →

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How a Course Is Structured

Every course follows the same hierarchy:

• A Course contains ordered Sections
• Each Section contains Pages
• Each Page is a document made of Blocks, the actual content units

Sections give your course its shape, pages break each section into digestible steps, and blocks are what learners read, watch, and interact with.

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Three Ways to Build a Course

Course building lives under Manage, which workspace admins see in the Courses navigation. Create course offers three starting points. All three land you in the same editor afterward, so the choice is only about how you get your first draft.

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What Goes on a Page

Every page starts as a rich-text document. Alongside your writing, embed any of these blocks to turn a page from something to read into something to do:

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From Draft to Published

A course always has a draft version and, once released, a published version. You build and refine in the draft, publish when it is ready, and learners only ever see the published version. You manage every course from one place, where its status (Draft, Published, or Changed) is always visible at a glance. Each publish mints a new version, and every version is kept in the version history. Enrollments are pinned to a version, so learners who are partway through never see a course change underneath them, while learners who have not started yet pick up your latest content automatically. See Publish and Versioning for the full rules.

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Get the Course to Your Team

Once a course is published, there are two ways in, and you can use both on the same course:

• Self-enrollment. Turn on Allow self-enrollment and the course appears in the catalog for learners to enroll themselves. Add group restrictions to limit it to a specific role, region, or team.
• Direct assignment. Enroll named people or whole groups yourself, optionally with a due date (a soft deadline, after which the learner shows as past due) and a close date (a hard cutoff, after which they can no longer complete it).

Enroll participants →

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Track Who Is Actually Finishing

Every course has a dashboard with completion rates, average time to complete, and an at-risk table for learners who have stalled or gone past due. Nudge them with a reminder email, extend a deadline, or re-enroll anyone who did not complete. The section breakdown shows where learners get stuck, and you can export the full cohort for reporting elsewhere. Track progress and analytics →

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Deadlines, Nudges, and Re-enrollment

When you assign a course, you can set a due date and a hard close date. Exec can send reminder nudges to learners who have not finished yet, and you can re-enroll anyone who did not complete in time to give them a fresh attempt. See Nudges and Re-enrollment.

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Courses vs Programs

A course is a single, self-paced training unit that someone takes on their own time or by a due date you set. Programs are scheduled cohorts where a group moves through a sequence of activities together on fixed dates. They are separate features: use a course for evergreen, individual training, and a program for cohort-based training with a shared timeline.

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Getting Help

Need a hand building your first course? Contact us at [email protected], or ask the AskExec agent in the app.