Managing Training Material Prerequisites

We run many ILTs and they typically have 3 training elements, a waiver (essentially a test they always get right), a survey and a final test. 
 

The instructor’s control what the users can see by starting out with all training elements hidden. Then they unhide the elements as they get to that point in the class. 

Once everyone is done, they hide all of the elements again. All of this takes only a moment.

I’d handle this with a separate course; you can use groups and automatic enrollments to enroll users who have completed your ILT course into an e-learning course containing the relevant materials.

The way i plan to work around this is to have a ‘’test’’ in your training material that user have to pass to acess the next material. The test is juste one ‘’text entry’’ question that work as a security question. So the teacher will need to give the learners the ‘’code’’ and when they pass that training material the next one will be available to them. 

Tell me if you think that is a good solution?

This will only if your students won’t share the "code” - we work with partners and customers external to our organization that would absolutely share with other members on their teams.

yeah thats true.. i guess you would have to change the ‘’code’’ after every session then!

We do what @dwilburn does. We have several training materials hidden...in our certification program, where the ILT serves as a simulated proctored exam environment, we hide an acknowledgment, a certification test, and a survey. When we get to the spot that students need to fill out the acknowledgment, the instructor unhides it. When the exam starts, the instructor unhides the test. And several days after the exam, we unhide the survey. 

Our learners are aware that they have a finite amount of time to access the materials. All our communications say something like, “You will have access to the course materials and can download your certificate for one week following completion.” They don’t know it’s because we hide everything again to prepare for the next students who will be going through the course/cert program.  

Just to add to this idea.  You can put the courses into a learning plan and set up a course prerequisite so they have to complete the ILT course before they can access the e-learning course with the materials.  This would mean only one enrollment into a Learning Plan.

Hi,

that looks good, but how exactly do you do the settings for “when they pass that training material the next one will be available to them”? 

Thanks!

Following this as it vexes me as well. One thing I have tried and subsequently hated was duplicating materials and only making them available during sessions. It was a PITA to manage but worked.  

I would really like to place materials in sessions or events in addition to at the course level.

I would but the ‘’test’’ as a presrequisite of the training material in the course, training material settings or juste change de navigation settings to sequential !