The training editor

The editor is where a draft becomes a training. It runs in four steps, shown as numbered tabs at the top: Basic Info, Content, Preview and Publish. This page covers the frame around your content: the steps, the header, saving, the warnings you may meet, the Publish step's settings and the readiness check. The blocks themselves are covered in Content blocks reference and Building evaluations. For a first walk-through, start with the Author quickstart.

01The four steps hold different things

You can move between steps two ways: the buttons at the bottom of the page, or the step tabs at the top. A tab for a later step stays unavailable until the steps before it meet the conditions above. Steps you have passed show a check mark, and going back is always open.

The bottom buttons are named after where they lead: Content, Preview and Review & Publish going forward, Back to Basic Info, Back to Content and Back to Preview going back. On step 1 the back button reads Cancel and leaves the editor. On a narrow screen the forward button reads Next.

On the Content step, a wide screen also shows a Contents list beside the blocks. Select an entry to scroll to that block.

02The header shows what you are editing and who is with you

The header reads Editing above the training's title, with these additions when they apply:

03Your draft saves itself, and two buttons save on demand

Autosave. While you have unsaved changes on steps 1 to 3, WeLearn saves the draft at most once every 10 seconds. On the Publish step it saves about a second and a half after you stop changing a setting, then checks readiness again. The header switches from Unsaved to Saved when the save lands. A draft shared for live editing saves through the shared session instead, as described in Co-authoring and reviewing drafts.

Save and Discard & exit are the two icon buttons beside the forward button at the bottom of steps 1 to 3 (a disk and a cross). Hover over them to see their names.

The Publish step has no Save button. Its footer offers Save as Draft, which saves and leaves the editor, and Publish Training.

04Warnings tell you when something outside your control changed

The last four apply to collaborative drafts only. They are explained in Co-authoring and reviewing drafts.

05The Publish step sets how the training plays

The step opens with a summary card: the title and description, the topic, difficulty and language badges, the duration, the number of sections, and the passing score when the training contains an evaluation. Check it before you publish. Then comes the Settings card.

Settings apply to the whole training

The difficulty is what the Level filter in the Catalog filters on.

Evaluation Playback applies to every evaluation at once

The Evaluation Playback band appears as soon as the training contains at least one exercise from the Questions group, with a count such as 3 evaluations. Its three settings govern every evaluation in the training together; there is no per-quiz setting.

Attempts is how many runs each learner gets. A learner with an attempt left can start again with Retry Training, which resets every evaluation in the training. A learner who has used every attempt has to ask the organisation's Administrators. The hint under the setting changes with your choices and says when learners see the correct answers:

Feedback timing. Immediate shows results right after each question. At the end records each answer with Answer recorded and shows the results only once the learner finishes the training. It has no effect on a peer review, which a person grades anyway.

Passing score is the minimum score for a learner to pass. With No threshold, finishing the training is passing.

When a quiz uses a question bank, the band adds a note that attempts and the passing score apply to the questions drawn, not to the whole bank. When the training holds a peer review, the band also shows the Reviewers setting, covered in Setting up peer review.

The Compliance card is for mandatory trainings

Managers and Administrators also see a Compliance card, where a training is made mandatory and given a certification period. It is covered in Authoring a mandatory training.

06The readiness check lists everything that blocks publishing

The Publish readiness panel asks WeLearn whether the saved draft can be published. It runs when you open the Publish step, and again after each change you make on that step (in a draft edited live with others, only when you select Refresh). Refresh runs it on demand, for example after a co-author's edit.

The panel and the footer show the verdict

If the check itself fails, the page shows Could not check publish readiness. Please try again.

Each line jumps to the problem

Each line names the problem and, below it, where it is: Section 3, or Section 3 › Question 2 › Proposition 1 inside a quiz. Select the line to go there:

• a problem inside a block opens the Content step and scrolls to that block;
• At least one content element is required opens the Content step;
• a problem with the title, description, language or topics opens Basic Info.

After a check, the blocks that have problems also carry an amber outline on the Content step, until the next check.

Every checklist message, and how to fix it

Several messages share a wording, such as Title must not be blank. The location under the line tells you which title. "Thematic" on this list means topic.

The Cloze lines are easier to understand with the editor's own warnings, described in Building evaluations.

07Publishing and leaving

Publish Training saves the draft, publishes it and opens the published training; a new draft that uses live editing lands on the Catalog instead. A revision becomes the next version. If reviewers' notes are still open, WeLearn asks first, under Before you publish: Review them first, or Publish with N open notes. Publishing turns the notes into read-only history.

Save as Draft saves and leaves: to My Trainings › Authored for a new draft, to the published training's page for a revision. What happens after publishing, including revisions and archiving, is in Publishing, revisions and archiving.

08Related pages

• Content blocks reference: adding, moving, copying and deleting blocks.
• Building evaluations: each exercise type, scoring and answer reveals.
• Co-authoring and reviewing drafts: invitations and live editing.
• Glossary: the words used on these screens.