Netex learningCentral | Administrator Manual v4.4 [En]

Administrator guide
Version 4.4

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Index
1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................6
1.1 What is learningCentral?............................................................................................................................................ 6
1.2 Main elements............................................................................................................................................................ 6
1.3 How does learningCentral work? ............................................................................................................................... 9
2. Start using learningCentral ..............................................................................................................12
2.1 Signing in and logging out the platform ................................................................................................................... 12
2.2 Platform configuration ............................................................................................................................................. 12
2.2.1 Changing the settings............................................................................................................................................................12
2.2.2 Changing the user interface ..................................................................................................................................................13
2.2.3 Rooms ...................................................................................................................................................................................14
2.2.4 Virtual classrooms.................................................................................................................................................................15
2.2.5 Categories .............................................................................................................................................................................16
2.2.6 Extended fields......................................................................................................................................................................17
2.2.7 Notifications..........................................................................................................................................................................18
3. Management of people ...................................................................................................................19
3.1 Users......................................................................................................................................................................... 19
3.1.1 Importing and exporting users..............................................................................................................................................19
3.1.2 Creating and editing a user ...................................................................................................................................................20
3.1.3 Activating a user....................................................................................................................................................................21
3.1.4 Changing the password.........................................................................................................................................................22
3.1.5 Deactivating or deleting a user .............................................................................................................................................22
3.2 Groups ...................................................................................................................................................................... 24
3.2.1 Creating groups.....................................................................................................................................................................24
3.2.2 Editing a group ......................................................................................................................................................................24
3.2.3 Adding or excluding users of a group....................................................................................................................................25
3.2.4 Creating subgroups ...............................................................................................................................................................25
3.2.5 Deleting a group or subgroup ...............................................................................................................................................26
4. Activities...........................................................................................................................................27
4.1 Creating an activity................................................................................................................................................... 27
4.2 Massive import of SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activities.................................................................................................. 27
4.3 Attaching documentation......................................................................................................................................... 28
4.4 Editing the details of an activity ............................................................................................................................... 28
4.4.1 Associating categories to an activity .....................................................................................................................................29
4.4.2 Edit advanced data in a SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activity .........................................................................................................30
4.5 Unpublishing an activity ........................................................................................................................................... 30
4.6 Deleting an activity................................................................................................................................................... 31
5. Courses.............................................................................................................................................32

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5.1 Creating a course...................................................................................................................................................... 32
5.1.1 Date options..........................................................................................................................................................................32
5.1.2 Enrolment policy ...................................................................................................................................................................33
5.1.3 Session Organisation.............................................................................................................................................................33
5.1.4 Issue Certificate.....................................................................................................................................................................34
5.1.5 Forum....................................................................................................................................................................................34
5.1.6 Messages...............................................................................................................................................................................35
5.1.7 Categories .............................................................................................................................................................................36
5.2 Editing the details of a course .................................................................................................................................. 36
5.3 Management of activities in a course ...................................................................................................................... 36
5.3.1 Adding activities....................................................................................................................................................................36
5.3.2 Configuring activities.............................................................................................................................................................37
5.3.3 Organising activities ..............................................................................................................................................................37
5.3.4 Establishing a prerequisite....................................................................................................................................................38
5.3.5 Excluding an activity..............................................................................................................................................................39
5.4 Associating surveys to activities in a course............................................................................................................. 39
5.5 Management of students of a course ...................................................................................................................... 40
5.5.1 Enrolling students in a course ...............................................................................................................................................41
5.5.2 Import students to a course..................................................................................................................................................41
5.5.3 Export students from a course..............................................................................................................................................42
5.5.4 Excluding students from a course .........................................................................................................................................42
5.5.5 Consulting the progress of the students in a course.............................................................................................................42
5.6 Management of the tutors of a course .................................................................................................................... 43
5.6.1 Adding a tutor to a course.....................................................................................................................................................43
5.6.2 Excluding a tutor from a course ............................................................................................................................................44
5.7 Publishing a course................................................................................................................................................... 44
5.8 Management of enrolment requests of a course..................................................................................................... 45
5.9 Cloning a course ....................................................................................................................................................... 45
5.10 Finishing a course ................................................................................................................................................... 46
5.11 Deleting a course.................................................................................................................................................... 47
6. Plans.................................................................................................................................................48
6.1 Creating a plan.......................................................................................................................................................... 48
6.2 Editing the details of a plan...................................................................................................................................... 48
6.3 Management of the courses of a plan...................................................................................................................... 49
6.3.1 Adding courses to a plan.......................................................................................................................................................49
6.4 Management of students inside a plan.................................................................................................................... 50
6.4.1 Enrol students in a plan.........................................................................................................................................................50
6.4.2 Importing students to a plan.................................................................................................................................................51
6.4.3 Exporting students from a plan.............................................................................................................................................52
6.4.4 Deleting students from a plan...............................................................................................................................................53

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6.4.5 Consulting the progress of the students in a plan.................................................................................................................53
6.5 Management of enrolment requests of a plan ........................................................................................................ 54
6.6 Cloning a plan........................................................................................................................................................... 55
6.7 Finishing a plan......................................................................................................................................................... 56
6.8 Deleting a plan.......................................................................................................................................................... 56
7. Sessions............................................................................................................................................58
7.1 Creating a session..................................................................................................................................................... 58
7.2 Scheduling a session................................................................................................................................................. 58
7.3 Editing a session ....................................................................................................................................................... 60
7.4 Reserving a room for a Classroom session ............................................................................................................... 60
7.5 Reserving a virtual classroom for a web conference................................................................................................ 61
7.6 Assigning a trainer for a session ............................................................................................................................... 62
7.6.1 Excluding a trainer from a session.........................................................................................................................................62
7.7 Enrol students in a session ....................................................................................................................................... 63
7.7.1 Excluding students from a session ........................................................................................................................................64
7.8 Finishing a session .................................................................................................................................................... 64
7.9 Evaluation reset........................................................................................................................................................ 65
7.10 Checking deliveries................................................................................................................................................. 66
7.11 Evaluating a session................................................................................................................................................ 66
7.12 Consult the progress of students in a session ........................................................................................................ 67
7.13 Deleting a session................................................................................................................................................... 68
8. Communication tools.......................................................................................................................70
8.1 Surveys ..................................................................................................................................................................... 70
8.1.1 Creating a survey...................................................................................................................................................................70
8.1.2 Seeing the results of a survey ...............................................................................................................................................70
8.1.3 Deleting a survey...................................................................................................................................................................71
8.2 Polls .......................................................................................................................................................................... 71
8.2.1 Creating a poll .......................................................................................................................................................................71
8.2.2 Publishing or unpublishing a poll ..........................................................................................................................................72
8.2.3 Seeing the results of a poll....................................................................................................................................................73
8.2.4 Deleting a poll .......................................................................................................................................................................73
8.3 Suggestions............................................................................................................................................................... 74
8.4 Announcements ....................................................................................................................................................... 75
8.4.1 Create an announcement......................................................................................................................................................75
8.4.2 Publishing or unpublishing an announcement......................................................................................................................75
8.4.3 Deleting an announcement...................................................................................................................................................76
8.5 Public Library............................................................................................................................................................ 76
8.5.1 Adding a document to the Public library...............................................................................................................................77
8.5.2 Publishing or unpublishing a document................................................................................................................................77

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8.5.3 Deleting a document.............................................................................................................................................................77
8.6 Notifications ............................................................................................................................................................. 78
8.6.1 Management of your notifications........................................................................................................................................78
8.6.2 Sending notifications.............................................................................................................................................................79
9. Reports.............................................................................................................................................81
9.1 User reports.............................................................................................................................................................. 81
9.1.1 Student record ......................................................................................................................................................................81
9.1.2 Group Record........................................................................................................................................................................81
9.2 Gradebook Reports .................................................................................................................................................. 82
9.2.1 Plan Gradebook.....................................................................................................................................................................82
9.2.2 Course Gradebook ................................................................................................................................................................83
9.2.3 Session Gradebook................................................................................................................................................................83
9.3 Enrolment Reports ................................................................................................................................................... 83
9.3.1 Plan enrolment......................................................................................................................................................................84
9.3.2. Course Enrolment ................................................................................................................................................................84
9.3.3 Session Enrolment.................................................................................................................................................................84
9.4 Other reports............................................................................................................................................................ 85
10. Glossary..........................................................................................................................................87
A. Appendix..........................................................................................................................................89
A.1 Data import .............................................................................................................................................................. 89
A.1.1 Importing users.....................................................................................................................................................................89
A.1.2 Importing users to a group ...................................................................................................................................................90
A.1.3 Importing students to a course.............................................................................................................................................90
A.1.4 Importing students to a plan ................................................................................................................................................90
A.2 SCORM advanced settings ....................................................................................................................................... 91
A.3 Text editors .............................................................................................................................................................. 93

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1. Introduction
1.1 What is learningCentral?
learningCentral is a corporative management and training platform.
The main characteristic of learningCentral is that it allows the corporation to administrate all the training in a
comprehensive manner: creating courses and training itineraries, assigning them to students, seeing the
results, generating reports…
learningCentral is more than an e-learning tool, since not only online training is organised from the platform
but also classroom and virtual training.
In addition, it facilitates the constant tracking of the evolution of students in an efficient and simple way. It
also allows generating tracking reports from the courses and activities and to quantify the level of the
training success.
Students can quickly access their courses and the catalogue of available courses. Trainers can teach and
assess training in the platform itself.
learningCentral is fully compatible with the market e-learning standards, what makes it possible to easily
import external activities and courses or to create your own.
In short, it is a platform focused on unifying the training of the corporation and facilitating its management.
1.2 Main elements
This section explains how to navigate through the platform and which are the basic elements of the different
menus.
Principal menus
This is the Dashboard page:

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On the central part of this page, you will have direct access to the courses and plans which are about to end
(within a week) and to the pending enrolment requests. Besides, you will see the interactive tables of the
platform statistics in relation to the activities, sessions, courses and plans.
You can quickly run several actions from the header:
 You have access to your profile by clicking on your name.
 Select the envelope to gain access to your notifications.
 To notify an incidence, select “Support”.
 You have access to the administrator guide.
 Click on “Exit” to leave the platform.
 Use the dropdown menu to jump to other role interface.
Use the left side menu to navigate through the platform. The section you jump in is marked in blue.
See the options the different sections of this menu offer:
 “Dashboard” gives you access to the homepage, where
you will see the statistics of the platform, the list of the
training which is about to finish and the list of students
pending enrolment requests.
 You can register users in the platform from “People”,
consult their profiles and classify them into groups which
represent the organisational structure of the company.
 The educational content is organised into the menus of
“Training”.
 The menus which allow you to send information and to
interact with the users are located into “Communication”.
 Different parameters which improve the usage of the
platform are managed from “Configuration”.
Furthermore, you can manage the spaces where training
is provided and allow students to evaluate the quality of
the training.
Page elements
There are basically two types of pages on the platform: listing and detail pages.
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Certain commands can be executed on the elements of the list in the “Actions” column. We can perform
other actions by clicking on the top buttons, or perform massive actions with the buttons located on the
bottom of the list.
Detail pages show the characteristics of an element of the platform, for example, of a course. Notice that in
the following image, besides the buttons, there are a series of tabs in these pages. These tabs subdivide the
actions you can perform within this course in relation to other elements of the platform (activities, students,
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Breadcrumb
The breadcrumb is right below the header and it guides you when navigating through the platform. You can
go back to a previous section by clicking on it.
Searchers
A simple or an advanced search is available in some sections of the application. To use the simple search,
enter the text you want to search in the box and click on “Search”. To delete the search, click on the cross.
The “Advanced search” allows the discrimination by fields. For example, you can search only for activities in
Published status. To do so, complete the “Status” field of the searcher and click on “Show Results”. You can
add search elements to this searcher by using the “Extended fields” (see section 2.2.6).
Furthermore, you can choose how to order the list of results within the advanced search. Use the dropdown
“Order by” menu, select the field by which you want to organise the results and their order (ascending or
descending).
1.3 How does learningCentral work?
Your main task as an administrator is to manage all the content of the platform, from the customising of the
interface to the creation of activities, including the registration of students.
First of all, following the logic order of use of the platform, you customise the interface and the access page
of the student (see section 2.2.2).
After this, you have to create the spaces where the training is going to be provided. It is not imperative to
configure these elements right at the beginning, but this will help you to follow the order we recommend. In
this platform, these spaces are called rooms, for classroom training (see section 2.2.3), and virtual
classrooms, for web conferences (see section 2.2.4). You can also create categories and extended fields,

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which allow filtering the information of the different elements of the platform. For example, you can create
the category “Social Networks” to classify the activities and to locate them quickly by launching a search by
category.
The following step is to register the users (see section 3.1.1) and to organise them in groups which represent
the organisational structure of the company (see section 3.2). One or more roles are assigned to each user,
what determines the functions this user can perform in the platform.
Once the platform has been configured and the participants have been registered, you can start with the
training. In learningCentral, the content is structured in plans and courses, which are composed of activities.
A course is a training itinerary composed of activities. In turn, plans consist of courses and they serve to
compose a larger training process. For example, you can create a plan for the marketing department called
“The use of social networks applied to marketing”. This plan is composed of different courses: “Twitter”,
“Facebook”, etc.
Each course includes one or several activities, which are the minimum training units within the platform. For
example, the course “Twitter” encompasses the activities “Meet the interface” (an e-learning activity),
“Writing for Twitter” (a web conference given by an expert) and a “Final exam”. These activities have credits
for the student to accumulate and they will reflect his or her progress in the course.
You have to create a session so that students can perform these activities. A session is the scheduling of an
activity for a particular date and for a student or a specific group of students. For example, the activity of the
web conference “Writing for Twitter” will have a Session in Virtual Classroom 1, on the 15 October at 12:00
for the students of the group “Marketing Madrid” and on the 16 October at 10:00 for the “Marketing
interns” group. When the student successfully completes a session, he or she obtains the credits associated
to the corresponding activity.
You can create eight different types of activity in learningCentral: Classroom, SCORM/AICC/Tin Can, Web
conference, Link, File, SCORM Assessment, Exercise and Video.
 SCORM/AICC/Tin Can, File, Video, Link and SCORM Assessment activities are performed inside the
platform and they are automatically corrected. These activities do not need a trainer.
 Web conferences and Exercise activities are also performed online. They need trainers for imparting
and/or assessing them.
 Classroom activities are performed in a physical space with a trainer, but their scheduling and
tracking are registered in the platform.
Once created, you can use the activities to build courses, which will be used afterwards to compose training
plans. Sessions are scheduled once the activities are organised within courses.
You have to, at least, create a course with the activities the students have to perform and schedule the
sessions in order to assess them. Training plans will be optional for building a more sustainable itinerary or
for dividing the training process in competences, which are represented in different courses.
learningCentral allows you to keep an exhaustive registration of everything that happens on the platform
and to generate reports of student and group records, of tracking of sessions, etc.
In addition, you have communication and feedback tools which keep you in touch with the rest of the users
of the platform:
 You can attach files in the public library for the trainers as well as for the students (see section 8.5).

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 Announcements allow you to keep your students updated about the platform or about important
news that you want to communicate them (see section 8.4).
 Students can send you suggestions: to notify an error in an activity, to ask about a course they want
to perform, to suggest improvements, etc. (see section 8.3).
 You can associate surveys to activities, to check the satisfaction degree of the students with the
training (see section 8.1).
 You can also perform general polls in the platform, about the training or about other issues of the
company.
Finally, the platform will send notifications to your internal mailbox (and also to your e-mail address if you
have configured it to do so) each time an item is created or modified. Thereby, you will not have to be alert
of how many students enrol in an auto-enrolment course or when a session ends. You can manage the
notifications you want to receive in the platform mailbox and in the e-mail associated to your user account
(see section 2.2.7).
In the same way, you can use the notifications to send a message to a certain user or to a group of users (see
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2. Start using learningCentral
2.1 Signing in and logging out the platform
To sign in the platform:
1. Enter your username and password and click on “Sign in”.
2. The box “Keep me signed in” allows the memorisation of your access data. This way, you will not
have to enter it each time you sign in, unless you do it from a different computer or browser.
3. If you forget your password, you can retrieve it by clicking on the link “Can’t access your account?”.
You will have to enter your e-mail address and you will receive an e-mail with the instructions to
configure a new password.
Remember
Do not use the option to remember your password in a computer which is often used by other users to avoid
improper access with your codes.
To log out the platform, click on .
2.2 Platform configuration
2.2.1 Changing the settings
learningCentral allows you to customise the platform with the logos and colours of your company. In
addition, you can choose if you want the notifications sent to your user e-mail (besides the platform internal
mailbox).
In this section you can also modify the time zone set by default in the platform. This time zone will be the
reference that the platform has when establishing any time, for example, when creating a session, as long as
it is not indicated otherwise in that moment. Each user can modify the time zone in which he or she wants to
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Imagine we configure the time by default in GMT +1h (Madrid, Paris). In Lisbon, the time zone can be set on
the profile by the user in order to have the times shown in the Portuguese time zone.
1. Go to “Settings”.
2. Click on “Edit Settings”.
3. Modify the data and upload the images you want to substitute.
4. Save the changes.
5. If you want to go back to the original image of the platform, click on “Reset to Default”.
2.2.2 Changing the user interface
learningCentral allows modifying the homepage of the student and trainer interface. Thereby, we can create
a homepage where we can highlight the activities, courses, news from the company, etc. that we want to
show the users.
You can create different content depending on the user language on the platform.
1. Go to “Frontpage”.
2. Click on the name of the language in which you want to create the frontpage.
3. Click on “Edit”.
4. Use the content editor to insert the new frontpage. You can even edit it in other tool and introduce
the HTML code directly by clicking on .
5. Save the changes.
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The editor has three interactive fields which give the student the sensation of having a customised tool only
for him or her (consult appendix A.3).
Remember
If the content is not enabled in a language, users who have the platform configured in that language will see
the predefined frontpage (which has direct access to the Public Library and to the Announcements).
If you want to go back to the frontpage set by default anytime, go to “Editing block” and click on “Disable”.
2.2.3 Rooms
The rooms are the spaces destined to provide classroom training. You have to register the available rooms in
the platform in order to have the possibility of assigning them to each classroom session (see section 7.4).
To create a room:
1. Go to “Rooms”.
2. Click on “Create Room”.
3. Complete the data and click on “Create”.
To deactivate a room (it remains registered in the platform but it cannot be used) or to delete it, you can
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2. Display the “Actions” column and select one of them.
Or,
2. Select a room.
3. Click on “Delete” or “Deactivate Room”.
You can also see and manage the reservations of the room from this page.
2. Select a room.
3. Select the “Reservation” tab. You can see the sessions which have reserved the room from this tab
and, if you want so, you can delete the reservation by clicking on “Delete” within “Actions”.
2.2.4 Virtual classrooms
Virtual classrooms are the online spaces where Web conference sessions take place (see section 7.5). These
rooms are created in the platform by default. If you need to add more rooms, you have to contact your
learningCentral supplier.
As an administrator you can deactivate the room so that nobody can reserve it. The virtual classroom is not
deleted and you can activate it later.
1. Go to “Virtual Classrooms”.

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2. Click on “Deactivate” on the line of the room that you want to make inactive. Click on “Activate” so
that an inactive room may be used again.
You can perform the same process from the details page of a room:
1. Go to “Virtual Classrooms” and click on the name of a room.
2. Click on the “Activate” / “Deactivate” button.
You can consult the reservations of a virtual classroom from this page. You just have to go to the
“Reservations” tab.
2.2.5 Categories
As the platform is filled with activities, it gets more difficult to find the one we want to edit, to add a course,
etc. The categories allow you to classify the elements of the platform according to your discretion in order to
locate them easily.
1. Go to “Categories”.
2. Select “Create Category”.
3. Complete the data and click on “Create”.
To delete a category:
1. Go to “Categories”.
2. Click on “Delete” on the line of the category you want to delete.

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Or,
1. Go to “Categories” and select one of them.
2. Click on “Delete”.
2.2.6 Extended fields
Other component focused on the customisation of the platform is the extended fields.
For example, you can create the field Seniority in the company and associate it with User. See how to do it:
1. Go to “Extended fields”.
2. Click on “Create extended field”.
3. Complete the fields.
 In “Type” you have to mark if you want the field to be completed with a text, a dropdown
menu, a number or to check.
 Mark the field “Compulsory” if you want this field to be necessarily completed.
 Mark the field “Searchable” if you want this field to appear in the advanced searcher (see
section 1.2) as a parameter to delimit the search.
 In “Entities” choose the items of the platform that are going to be used in this field.
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To delete an extended field:
1. Go to “Extended fields”.
2. Click on “Delete” on the line of the field you want to delete.
To edit a field already created:
1. Go to “Extended fields” and select one of them.
2. Click on “Edit details”.
3. Modify the fields and select “Save changes”.
2.2.7 Notifications
Notifications are the reminders or messages of the application you receive. You will receive each notification
in the notifications mailbox of the platform and/or in your e-mail address.
You can set the notifications that you want to receive in your notifications mailbox or in your e-mail address.
To do so:
1. Go to “Notification settings”, on the “Configuration” section.
2. Click on “Edit Settings”.
3. Check on the right of each notification the option “Visible at inbox” or “Send by email” depending
on how you want to receive the notification.

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3. Management of people
3.1 Users
3.1.1 Importing and exporting users
You have to register the users so they can access the platform. The best way to do so is to import the list of
users in an Excel document. We attach a model in appendix A.1.1 so you can know the fields this document
has to have.
To import a user:
1. Go to “Users”.
2. Click on “Import users”.
3. In “Operation”, select “Insert”.
4. Click on “Browse…” and select the Excel document to import it.
5. Mark the option “Custom welcome message” if you want to customise the welcome to the platform
message the users will receive. In the message you can include customised fields, such as the
username or the password (see appendix A.3). If you do not edit this option, users will receive the
preferred welcome message to the platform, which includes the username and the password.
6. Select “Import users”.
In the same way, you can export the complete list of users to an Excel document:
2. Click on “Export users”.
3. Open or save the document to see it.

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3.1.2 Creating and editing a user
You have seen that the best way to register a user in learningCentral is to import a list (see previous
section). But it may be the case that you want to manually add a user. You can also do so in this platform:
2. Click on “Create User”.
3. Complete the fields and select “Create”. If you have marked “Yes” where it is asked if you want to
inform the user about the creation of the profile, a notification will be sent to him or her.
Once the user has been created, you can go to the profile to modify the data.
1. Go to “Users” and select one of them.
3. Modify the data.
4. Select “Save changes”.
It is also possible to update simultaneously the data of several users through an Excel document.
To do so:
2. Click on “Import users”.
3. In “Operation”, select “Update”.
4. Click on “Browse...” and select the Excel document with the updated data you want to import. If it is
performed correctly, you will receive a notification indicating so. Otherwise, you will receive a
notification informing you about the errors found.
5. The “Custom welcome message” will deactivate in this case as the users will not be new platform
users.
6. Select “Import users”.

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3.1.3 Activating a user
It is necessary to activate a user so that he or she can have access to the platform. You do not need to
complete this step if you marked the users to be registered in active way when creating them.
To activate a user you can proceed in two ways:
2. Open the “Select Actions” menu and click on “Activate”, or mark the users you want to activate and
click on “Activate”.
Or,
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The user will receive a notification when he or she is activated.
3.1.4 Changing the password
To change your password or other user’s:
1. Go to “Users” and select one of them. If you want to go to your profile you can also click on your
username on the header.
2. Click on “Change password”.
3. Complete the fields and click on “Save”.
3.1.5 Deactivating or deleting a user
If you want to keep a user registered in the platform, but you do not want this user to use it, you can
deactivate his or her profile. For example, a trainer who has finished doing his or her training does not need
to access but may have to give a course later.
To deactivate a user:
2. Display the “Select actions” menu and click on “Inactive”, or mark the users you want to make
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Or,
2. Click on “Deactivate”.
If you want to delete a user from the platform, follow these steps:
2. Display the menu “Select actions” and click on “Delete”, or mark the users you want to delete and
click on “Delete”.
Or,
Remember
If you delete a user, you will delete all his or her data and you will not be able to retrieve it. The user has to
be inactive to be deleted from the platform.

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3.2 Groups
The function of the groups is to facilitate the association of students in groups which represent the structure
of the company. This way, you can speed up the process by organising the training in groups, instead of
doing it person by person.
3.2.1 Creating groups
1. Go to “Groups”.
2. Click on “Create group”.
3. Complete the fields and click on “Create”.
Notice that the platform allows you to assign roles to the entire group. You have to take into account that
when you assign a role to a group (or subgroup), all the users who are part of that group will inherit the
same role as an effective role.
For example, a user with student role who is part of a group that has a trainer role will have two roles:
student (the own role of the user) and trainer (an effective role acquired because of being part of a group
that has that role).
3.2.2 Editing a group
1. Go to “Groups” and select one of them.
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3.2.3 Adding or excluding users of a group
2. Select the “Users” tab. You will see the list of users who are part of the group.
3. Click on “Add user” to select the users manually. You can also choose “Import users” to add them
through an Excel document (see appendix A.1.2).
4. If you have clicked on “Add user”, mark the users you want to add and click on “Add users to the
group”.
To exclude a user:
2. Select the “Users” tab. You will see the list of users who are already part of the group.
3. Click on “Exclude from the group” next to the user you want to exclude.
3.2.4 Creating subgroups
The subgroups allow you to subdivide groups in smaller groups, to be able to faithfully represent the
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2. Select the “Subgroups” tab.
3. Click on “Create subgroup”.
The operational dynamics of subgroups is the same as the main groups. All the actions wanted to be
performed in a subgroup follow the same steps that those for the groups. The only difference is that it is
necessary to first locate the subgroup where we want to perform the action.
To see how to edit a subgroup, follow the steps of section 3.2.2. To see how to add or exclude users from a
subgroup, consult section 3.2.3.
3.2.5 Deleting a group or subgroup
1. Go to “Groups” and select one of them, or navigate to the subgroup you want to delete.
Remember
You cannot delete a group or a subgroup which contains users. To do so, you have to delete first the users
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4. Activities
4.1 Creating an activity
Activities are the smallest units of training in learningCentral. From the activities you create, the courses (see
section 5.1) and sessions students have to pass (se section 7.1) will be created.
You will see the activities divided into self-paced activities and instructor-led activities. Each activity has an
associated icon which identifies it and a description.
1. Go to “Activities”.
2. Click on “Create activity”.
3. Depending on the content of the activity or the format you want to use, click on the button of
creation associated.
If you select the option “Assessable”, you have to set the score parameters (maximum, minimum and pass
score).
In SCORM/AICC/Tin Can and SCORM Assessment activities, you have to upload a file of this type containing
the activity or the assessment.
File and Exercise activities require the uploading of a file and/or the necessary description for the resolution
of the activity.
4.2 Massive import of SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activities
learningCentral takes into account that the most often used activities in this type of environment are the
SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activities. The platform is compatible with the main market standards of this type of
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2. Click on “Massive SCORM/AICC/Tin Can import”.
3. Select the file and click on “Import”.
4.3 Attaching documentation
The platform allows the attaching of documentation which complements the activity or which is necessary
for its resolution, in case you need it.
1. Go to “Activities” and select one of them.
2. Click on “Associate document”.
3. Choose the file you want to add and mark the users who can see it (trainers, students or both).
4. Click on “Associate”.
4.4 Editing the details of an activity
Once the activity has been created, you can modify its data (name, credit value, score, description, etc.).
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4.4.1 Associating categories to an activity
You can classify an activity by associating one or several categories to it. Consult section 2.2.5 to see how to
create new categories.
3. Select “Add category” in the “Categories” section.
4. Mark the categories that you want and click on “Add selected”.
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3. In the “Categories” section, mark the categories you want to remove from the activity and click on
“Remove”.
4. Click on “Save”.
4.4.2 Edit advanced data in a SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activity
In the SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activities there is the possibility of configuring, from the platform, certain
parameters of package operation.
1. Go to “Activities” and select one of the SCORM Assessment or SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activities.
2. Select the “Advanced” tab.
3. Click on “Edit”.
You can completely change the functioning of an activity when changing these parameters. Look up
appendix A.2 to see the description we offer of each advanced setting of this page.
4.5 Unpublishing an activity
When unpublishing an activity, it remains registered on the platform, but it cannot be used in any course and
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Nevertheless, the courses in which this activity was previously included will not be affected. Students can
continue to perform these courses or sessions already scheduled.
2. Click on “Unpublish” and confirm the operation.
Or,
2. Open the menu “Select actions” and click on “Unpublish” (on the line of the activity which you want
to unpublish).
To start using again an unpublished activity in a course, it has to be published again. To do so, follow the
same steps, but click on “Publish” instead of “Unpublish”.
4.6 Deleting an activity
If you delete an activity, it will be permanently deleted from the platform.
2. Click on “Delete” and confirm the operation.
Or,
2. Open the menu “Select actions” and click on “Delete” (on the line of the activity which you want to
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5. Courses
5.1 Creating a course
Courses are training itineraries composed of a series of activities for the student to acquire knowledge.
These courses may be part of a larger planning displayed in plans.
For example, we could say that point of sale commercials are the potential audience of a plan which is
composed of the courses Commercial skills and Salesperson Products and tools of point of sales commercial.
1. Go to “Courses”.
2. Click on “Create Course”.
3. Complete the form. Remember that the fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory.
4. Click on “Create”.
Remember
Courses will have the image associated by default but, if you wish, you may change it for a more
representative one. The image will be visible for all the participants of the course on their platform.
5.1.1 Date options
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 You can select the “Time zone” that corresponds with the dates of start and end of the course. The
time zone you have established on your user profile will be selected from the combo box by default.
For example, if you are an administrator in Madrid (GMT +1) and you are going to create a course for
an office located in India, this option allows the configuration of the time zone of the course with the
time of New Delhi (GMT +5:30). This way, you can set the start of the course for 10 a.m. in India,
without having to calculate what time it is then in Madrid.
 You can choose the start date and time or indicate that you want it to coincide with the publication
of the course.
 You can choose the end date and time of the course or indicate that the course does not end until
the administrator does it manually (consult section 5.10 to see how to end a course).
5.1.2 Enrolment policy
Enrolment policy sets the way students can access a course.
 You can choose that only administrators can enrol students. If you enrol a student in a course, the
student will receive a notification.
 Another option is the auto-enrolment course, what means that the student has the possibility of
seeing the course on the training catalogue and can automatically enrol in it. In this case, the student
will only enrol in the self-paced activities of the course.
 If you select the option “Request enrolment”, the student will see the course on the catalogue and
may request his or her enrolment. In this process the trainer of the course will receive a notification
with the enrolment request. The student will subsequently receive another notification indicating if
the request has been accepted or rejected. Furthermore, the student will receive a notification if the
enrolment policy changes and the request will remain revoked.
Besides, you will have to set the period when the enrolment can be requested (you can mark
“Inherit from course” on the end date, meaning that it coincides with the course end date).
In any case, if you modify the enrolment policy after the course has been created, the trainer or trainers of
the course will receive a notification.
5.1.3 Session Organisation
When creating a course you have to choose how the sessions will be scheduled. learningCentral offers you
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 If you choose “Manual”, you will have to schedule one by one the sessions for each activity (to see
how to schedule a session, go to section 7.2).
 If you select “Automatic for self-paced activities…”, you will only have to schedule manually the
sessions for instructor-led activities (Classroom, Web conference or Exercise activities). Self-paced
activities (SCORM/AICC/Tin Can, SCORM Assessment, Link or File activities) will be automatically
scheduled when publishing the course, taking as a reference the parameters of the course (students
for whom it is destined, dates of performance and enrolment format).
5.1.4 Issue Certificate
When creating the course, you can select the option that the student may receive a certificate at the end of
it. You have to mark “Yes” on the “Issue Certificate” dropdown menu.
Once the student finishes the course, he will be notified that there is a certificate available to be
downloaded.
5.1.5 Forum
The platform also offers the option of creating a forum when creating a course. This tool facilitates the
communication between administrator, trainers and students, and the resolution of doubts about the
course.
You just have to mark “Forum” when creating the course or when editing its details (see section 5.2).
Once the course has been created follow these steps to see the forum:
1. Go to “Courses” and select one.
2. Select the “Forum” tab. You will see its homepage and the list of topics.
The forum works the same as any other forum. You can add topics by clicking on “New topic” or delete
topics by marking them and clicking on “Delete selected”. You can also see the blocked users by clicking on
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If you click on a topic, you access the discussion of the topic. You can comment from the screen using the
text box.
There are other options which are performed from the discussion of the topics. Administrators, tutors and
trainers can edit their own posts –“Edit post”– and delete posts from other users –“Delete post”–.
In addition, it is possible to block a user if you do not want him or her to access the content of the forum for
some reason. You just have to click on “Block user” in one of his or her posts.
5.1.6 Messages
At the time of creating the course, in addition to the forum, you have the possibility to mark the option of
message, which allows participants and administrators of the course to exchange messages.
 Administrators may send messages to all the participants in the course, no matter what their profile
(tutors, trainers and students) is.
 Tutors may send messages to other tutors, trainers and students of the course.
 Trainers may only send messages to the students of the course.
 As for students, they may send messages to trainers and tutors of the course, but not to other
students.
In order to have this option in a course, you have to mark it at the time of creating it or to edit it (see next
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Once created, the course follows these steps to see and to send messages:
1. Go to “Courses” and select one of them.
2. Click on the “Messages” tab. You will see the list of messages which you sent and the ones sent by
other users. The answers to the message will appear grouped.
5.1.7 Categories
You can add one or several categories to a course to make it easier to locate it afterwards by using the
advanced search.
This process is similar to the association of categories to the activities, so we invite you to consult section
4.4.1 to see how to add or delete a category.
5.2 Editing the details of a course
Once you have created the course you can access it to modify its data.
1. Go to “Courses” and select one of them.
3. Modify the fields and click on “Save changes”.
If the course is part of a plan you may not be able to edit the session organisation or its enrolment policy.
The course takes automatically the ones set out in the plan.
5.3 Management of activities in a course
5.3.1 Adding activities
1. Go to “Courses” and click on one of them.
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3. Click on “Add Activities”.
4. Check the activities you want to add.
5. Click on “Add selected”.
5.3.2 Configuring activities
Once the activities have been added to the course, you can access them to configure the start date, the
number of credits, if it is mandatory or not, and its score parameters in case it is assessable.
2. Select the “Activities” tab and click on one of them.
3. Click on “Configure the activity in the course”.
4. Complete the fields.
5.3.3 Organising activities
If you add more than one activity to the course, you can organise them. The order you decide is the one the
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3. Use the arrows to establish the order of the activities.
Remember
The established order is used for viewing how the users see the activities of a course on the screen. The
order of performance of the activities is established at the time of setting the dates of the sessions. If
several sessions have the same date the student can choose which one to perform first, no matter the time
established on the screen.
However, if you want to establish a mandatory order of performance of the activities, you have to mark
prerequisites between them. Consult next section to see how to do it.
5.3.4 Establishing a prerequisite
Prerequisites serve to establish a mandatory order of performance of activities, so that the student cannot
perform an activity without having previously passed the ones established as prerequisites. These
prerequisites can only be set when the course is in Draft status.
For example, if a student has to perform three activities for a course (File, Exercise and SCORM Assessment)
and you want him or her to perform the File and Exercise sessions, you can mark them as prerequisites for
the assessment. This way, the student will not be able to start the SCORM Assessment session without
having passed the other two before.
3. Display the “Select Actions” menu on the line of the activity to which you want to add prerequisites
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4. Select the activities of the course you want to establish as prerequisites to be able to perform the
selected activity.
Remember
You can only establish prerequisites when the course is in Draft status. Never when it has already been
published.
5.3.5 Excluding an activity
You can exclude an activity from a course. It will not be deleted from the repository of activities and, if you
wish so, you can include it again later.
3. Open the “Select actions” menu and choose “Exclude”
Remember
In the courses already published you can only choose an activity if sessions have not been scheduled for it.
5.4 Associating surveys to activities in a course
Associating a survey to an activity allows you to know the satisfaction degree of a student regarding the
training received. To know more in depth what surveys are and how to create new ones, consult section 8.1.
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3. Go to the “Surveys” tab.
4. Click on “Associate survey”.
5. Select a survey and click on “Continue”.
To end the association of a survey to an activity:
3. Go to the “Surveys” tab and click on “Delete”.
Or,
1. Go to “Surveys” and click on one of them.
2. Select the “Activities” tab and click on one of them
3. Go to the “Associated Activities” tab.
4. Select the activity from which you want to dissociate the survey and click on “Remove survey from
the selected activities”.
To see the results of a satisfaction survey, consult section 8.1.2.
5.5 Management of students of a course
Students who you enrol in a course are the recipients of the sessions corresponding to the activities in that
course. In addition, remember that, if it is an auto-enrolment course, other students can enrol freely and
that students may also request their enrolment if you have marked that option when creating the course
(see section 5.1.2).
To manage students of a course you will always act from the “Students” tab of the details of the course in
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5.5.1 Enrolling students in a course
2. Select the “Students” tab.
3. Click on “Enrol students”.
4. Mark the students you want to add to the list and click on “Enrol those selected”.
If you want to enrol all the students of a large group (several pages), except a few of them:
4. Perform an “Advanced search” by group and click on “Show results”. Select “All” the results and
deselect those you do not want to include. You can move between pages and deselect or select the
students you wish to enrol among those in the search result, without losing the selection, and then
enrol all the selected ones, not only those in the current page. On the other hand, if you select
“Current page”, only the students in the page from which you perform the selection will be marked.
5. Click on “Enrol those selected”.
5.5.2 Import students to a course
The platform allows you to speed up the registration process of users in a course through massive import.
Therefore, instead of adding the users one by one you can upload an Excel document to enrol them. Consult
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3. Click on “Import students”.
5.5.3 Export students from a course
The platform allows the creation of an Excel document with a list of the students who are enrolled in a
course.
3. Click on “Export Students” and open or save the document.
5.5.4 Excluding students from a course
If the course from which you want to exclude a student is already published, the student will receive a
notification.
3. Mark the students you want to exclude and click on “Exclude those selected from the course”.
5.5.5 Consulting the progress of the students in a course
You may be able to consult the progress of the students in a course. To do so:
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You will see an interactive graph above the list of students which represents the percentage of students in
each of the possible statuses of the course. For example, you can click on “Not passed” and see the
percentage of students who have not started any of the sessions of the course yet.
You will see the list of students below the graph and for each one of them:
- Progress bar: this bar shows the percentage of activities passed in this course, whether they are or
not assessable and/or mandatory.
- Score: this column shows the average score that the student got on the course. This average is
calculated on the basis of the assessable sessions, whether they are assessed by a trainer
(Classroom, Exercise or Web conference), or automatically evaluated (SCORM Assessment or
SCORM/AICC/Tin Can).
- Total time: it is the total time that the student spent on the course. This will only reflect the time of
those SCORM Assessment or SCORM/AICC/Tin Can sessions which are configured to collect this
information.
- First access date and end access date: this shows the date when the student accessed one of the
sessions of the course for the first time and the last date when he did so.
5.6 Management of the tutors of a course
You can add one or several tutors to each course. Tutors have to have a trainer role, but they do not need to
be trainers in some activity of the course.
They are in charge of the control of the training process in a course. To do so, the tutor can manage
requests, issue certificates, oversee the forum, etc.
To manage the tutors of a course, you will act from the “Tutors” tab of the details of a course.
5.6.1 Adding a tutor to a course
2. Select the “Tutors” tab.
3. Click on “Add Tutor”.
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Remember
A tutor may not be able to see a course until you have published it.
5.6.2 Excluding a tutor from a course
2. Select the “Tutors” tab.
3. Mark the tutors who you want to delete from the course.
4. Click on “Exclude selected”.
5.7 Publishing a course
When you publish a course, you make it visible for students, trainers and tutors.
At the time of its creation, if you indicated that the course would have automatic sessions for the self-paced
activities, when you publish it those sessions will be automatically scheduled. Besides, if you enrol more
students to the course later, they will be added to these automatic sessions too.
You have to schedule one by one the sessions of the activities which are not self-paced (see section 7.2).
1. Go to “Courses”.
2. Open the “Select actions” menu on the line of the course which you want to publish and choose
“Publish”.
3. Confirm the operation.
4. Complete the fields and click on “Publish”.
Or,
1. Go to “Courses” and click on the one which you want to publish.
2. Mark “Publish”.
3. Confirm the operation.
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5.8 Management of enrolment requests of a course
You will receive requests if, when you created the course, you marked the options that says that students
can voluntarily request their enrolment (see section 5.1.2).
You will see the list of pending enrolment requests on the dashboard page, and you may be able to access
them directly.
You can also consult them directly from the details of the course or plan.
2. Select the “Requests” tab.
3. Mark the request which you are going to manage. Click on “Accept selected” to allow the enrolment
or “Reject selected” to refuse it.
Whether or not the request is accepted, the student and the tutor (or tutors) of the course will receive a
notification.
5.9 Cloning a course
This option allows you to create a new course from another one, using the same proprieties and activities. It
is especially useful if you wish to repeat a course in different dates or for different students.
2. Click on “Clone course”.
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The cloned course is created in “Draft” status. It inherits the list of activities, the description, the comments,
the objectives and the enrolment policy. You can edit it once it has been cloned in order to modify these
fields (see section 5.2).
5.10 Finishing a course
Courses can only be finished when they are in “Published” status.
A finished course indicates that the end date has arrived and that its sessions have been completed.
Therefore, neither students nor tutors can make any changes on it.
You have to finish the course because this action is not automatic. A course can be finished at any time, even
before the end date (take into account that you will have to finish or delete all the sessions of the course
which are in published status first).
1. Go to “Courses” and open the “Select Actions” menu on the line of the course which you want to
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Remember
You will see the list of courses and plans which are about to finish on the dashboard page (see section
1.2).
5.11 Deleting a course
If you delete a course, it will be permanently deleted from the platform and, with it, all the sessions which
have been created from that course. Make sure that you will not need any information related to this course
later.
1. Go to “Courses” and open the “Select actions” menu on the line of the course that is going to be
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6. Plans
6.1 Creating a plan
A plan gathers together a series of courses which have something in common, like the topic or the
participants. The aim of a plan is to create a training itinerary for a group of students.
To create a plan:
1. Go to “Plans”.
2. Click on “Create Plan”.
The first things you have to set are the dates in which the plan is active and the time zone taken as a
reference to set the hours. To see the options you have to set these dates, consult section 5.1.2.
Enrolment policies are set when you create the plan. All the courses included in the plan will follow the
enrolment policy set. To see what enrolment policies are and how they work, consult section 5.1.2.
In the same way, the session organisation is set when the plan is created and will be the same for all the
courses of the plan. To see what session organisation is, consult section 5.1.3.
Furthermore, to locate and manage plans as efficiently as possible, you can add categories. To see how they
work, consult section 4.4.1.
Remember
Plans will have this image associated by default but, if you wish so, you may be able to change it for a
more representative one. The image will be visible for all the participants of the course on their platform.
6.2 Editing the details of a plan
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1. Go to “Plans” and click on one of them.
3. Modify the fields and click on “Save changes”.
6.3 Management of the courses of a plan
6.3.1 Adding courses to a plan
A plan must have, at least, a mandatory course.
When adding courses to a plan you have two options: you can create a new course or you can add an
already existing course.
Take into account that when you add an existing course, what you are really doing is creating a copy of it
inside the plan. This means that you can freely modify the course which you have just created without
modifying the original one.
To create a new course in the plan:
2. Select the “Courses” tab.
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2. Select the “Courses” tab.
3. Click on “Add existing course”.
4. Click on “Import” on the line of the course which you want to add.
5. Give a name to the course which is created in the plan and click on “Confirm”.
The details of a course which belongs to a plan are edited as any other independent course (consult section
5.2), with the addition that you can choose a course to inherit the end date of the plan to which it belongs.
Do not forget that when creating or importing a course, it is shown in Draft status. You have to publish it to
let users access it or to schedule sessions.
Remember
To exclude a course from a plan you have to delete it from the platform. See how to do it in section 5.11.
6.4 Management of students inside a plan
Students who you enrol in the plan are the participants of the courses and sessions of the plan which are
created. In addition, remember that any student can enrol in the plan if you have chosen the “Auto-
enrolment” or “Request enrolment” modality.
6.4.1 Enrol students in a plan
3. Click on “Enrol Students”.
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6.4.2 Importing students to a plan
To expedite the enrolment of students, learningCentral allows you to perform this process: you can enrol a
list of students by importing an Excel document. To see the format of this file, consult appendix A.1.4.
3. Click on “Import students”.
4. Click on “Browse…” and select the Excel document to import it.
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6.4.3 Exporting students from a plan
The platform allows you to generate an Excel document with the list of students who are enrolled in a plan.
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6.4.4 Deleting students from a plan
3. Mark the students you want to exclude and click on “Exclude those selected from the plan”.
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You will be able to consult the progress of the students in a plan. To do so:
1. Go to “Plans” and click on the name of the plan which you want to consult.
You will see an interactive graph above the list of students which represents the percentage of students in
each of the possible statuses of the plan. For example, you can click on “Not passed” to see the percentage
of students who have not started any of the courses of the plan yet.
You will see the list of students below the graph and for each of them:
- Progress bar: this bar shows the percentage of courses passed in this plan, whether they are or not
mandatory in the plan.
- Score: this column shows the average score that the student got on the course. This average is
calculated on the basis of the scores obtained by the student in each course of the plan. As for the
score of a course, it is calculated from the score obtained in the assessable sessions.
- Total time: it is the total time that the student spent on SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activities which are
part of the courses of the plan (provided that these sessions are configured to collect this
information).
- First access date and end access date: this shows the date when the student accessed one of the
sessions of any of the courses of the plan for the first time and the last date when he or she did so.
6.5 Management of enrolment requests of a plan
You will receive enrolment requests if you marked the option where students can voluntarily request their
enrolment when you created the plan (see section 5.1.2). You will receive a notification each time that a
student requests his or her enrolment in a plan or in a course.
From the dashboard page you will have access to the pending enrolment requests of plans and courses. Click
on the name of the plan to see and to manage enrolment requests.
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2. Select the “Requests” tab.
3. Mark the request you are going to manage. Click on “Accept selected” to allow enrolment, or
“Reject selected” to refuse it.
Whether the request is accepted or not the student will receive a notification.
6.6 Cloning a plan
This option allows you to create a new plan from another one, using the same courses and activities. It is
especially useful if you wish to repeat a course in different dates or for different students.
2. Click on “Clone plan”.
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The cloned plan is created in “Draft” status. It inherits the list of courses, the activities, the description, the
observations and the objectives. You can edit it once it has been cloned in order to modify these fields (see
section 6.2).
6.7 Finishing a plan
A finished plan indicates that the end date has arrived and that its sessions are already completed.
Therefore, it will not be possible to create new sessions in the courses of the plan nor add new courses.
You have to finish the plan because this action is not automatic. Plans can only be finished when they are in
“Published” status. You have to finish all the courses of that plan which are in process to be able to finish the
plan.
1. Go to “Plans” and display the “Select Actions” menu on the line of the plan which you want to finish.
Or,
Remember
You will see the list of courses and plans which are about to finish in the dashboard page (see section 1.2).
6.8 Deleting a plan
If you delete a plan, it will be permanently deleted from the platform and, with it, all its content. Make sure
that you will not need any information related to this plan later, with its courses or with its sessions.

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1. Go to “Plans” and display the “Select Actions” menu on the line of the plan which you are about to
delete.
Or,

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7. Sessions
7.1 Creating a session
To create a session, you have to have created first the activity (see section 4.1), then the course (see section
5.1) and, finally, you have to have added the activity to the course (see section 5.3.1). If you have followed
these steps, you will be able to create a session:
2. Select the “Activities” tab and click on the name of one of them.
3. Go to the “Sessions” tab.
4. Click on “Create Session”.
5. Complete the fields and click on “Create”. Take into account that the start date and the end date
cannot surpass the performance period indicated. This period is the one that was set for the activity
in the course.
As you have seen in section 5.1.2, if you select the sessions of a course to be automatic for self-paced
activities, sessions will be created automatically when adding this type of activities.
7.2 Scheduling a session
Sessions are created in Draft status by default. To be able to schedule a session and to let students perform
its corresponding activity, you have to publish the course (see section 5.7). For Web conference, Classroom
and Exercise activities you have to assign a trainer (see section 7.6).
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 The notification to the students enrolled in the session, with a link to the details of the activity. In
the case of Classroom, Web conference or Exercise activities the assigned trainers will also be
notified.
You can schedule a session in two ways:
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on one of them.
2. Click on “Schedule”.
Or,
2. Select the “Activities” tab and click on the name of one of them.
3. Go to the “Sessions” tab.
4. Open the “Select Actions” menu and choose “Schedule”, or click on the name of a session and click
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Remember that the scheduling of a sessions is performed automatically for self-paced activities if you
marked this option when you created the course. In this case, the participants on the session are all the
members of the course and they will be sent a notification of their registration in the session.
7.3 Editing a session
You can edit a session in Draft or Scheduled status. If the session is in Draft status, you can modify all its
fields. If it is scheduled, you can only change the name and the observations.
Or,
3. Go to the “Sessions” tab and click on one of them.
7.4 Reserving a room for a Classroom session
You have to assign a room to perform a Classroom session (to see how to manage rooms, consult section
2.2.3).
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of a Classroom session.

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2. Select the “Rooms” tab.
3. Click on “Add room reservation”.
4. Modify the search criteria (room type, day and time) to see the available rooms. Click on “Show
matches”.
5. Click on “Select”, on the line of the room you want to reserve.
Remember
If the session goes on for several days, you will have to make a reservation per day.
7.5 Reserving a virtual classroom for a web conference
To perform a Web conference session you need to assign it a virtual room (to see how to manage these
rooms, consult section 2.2.4).
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of a Web conference session.
2. Select the “Virtual Classroom” tab.
3. Click on “Select room”.
4. Choose a room from the list by checking it and click on “Select room”.

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You can modify a room already assigned if the session is in Draft or in Scheduled status. You just have to
repeat the steps and select a different room.
7.6 Assigning a trainer for a session
The role of a trainer is to provide training and to assess students. You will have to assign a trainer for the
activities for which it is required (see section 7.2).
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of a Web conference, Classroom or Exercise session.
2. Select the “Trainers” tab.
3. Click on “Add trainer”. If you wish to choose the trainer from the list of tutors of the course, click on
“Add tutor as a trainer”.
4. Check the trainer you want to add and click on “Enrol those selected”.
When you assign a trainer as tutor of a course, you can configure the platform so that a notification is sent
to the tutor’s inbox or also to his or her email (consult section 2.2.7).
7.6.1 Excluding a trainer from a session
Whether the session is in Draft or Scheduled status, you can exclude trainers from it.
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of a Web conference, Classroom or Exercise session.
2. Select the “Trainers” tab.
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When you exclude a trainer from a session he or she will receive a notification.
7.7 Enrol students in a session
You can enrol students in a session in Draft or Scheduled status. To enrol students in a session they have to
be previously enrolled in the course (see section 5.5.1).
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of one of them.
4. Check the students you want to enrol and click on “Enrol those selected”.
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As it is possible to schedule sessions long in advance of the date when they will have to be performed, you
can configure the platform so that a notification is sent one day before it begins and when it starts (consult
section 2.2.7).
7.7.1 Excluding students from a session
If you made a mistake when enrolling a student or you do not consider necessary for an enrolled student to
perform a session, you can exclude him or her. That only can be done when the session is in Draft or
Scheduled status.
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of one of them.
3. Check the students you want to exclude from the session and click on “Exclude”.
The student will receive a notification to be informed.
7.8 Finishing a session
Self-paced sessions (SCORM/AICC/Tin Can, SCORM Assessment, File, Link and Video) are automatically
finished by end date. Classroom activities (Web conference, Exercise and Classroom) are finished by the
trainer of the session or by the tutor of the course which they belong to.
When a session finishes, both trainers (if there are any) and students receive a notification.
It will be possible to finish a session before its end date, so students who did not perform it will not be able
to do it. To do so, the session has to be in Scheduled status.

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1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of a session in Scheduled status.
Once the session has been finished, only you as administrator can edit the evaluation (see section 7.11). If
you modify the results, both trainers and students will be notified.
7.9 Evaluation reset
learningCentral tracks the activity performed by the users in the platform. You can see the progress of each
student for self-paced activities (SCORM/AICC/Tin Can, SCORM Assessment, File, Link or Video):
 If the student has not started the session, the status is Not attempted.
 If the student has already started the session but has not completed it yet, the status is In progress.
 If the student has finished the session, but has not reached the minimum score, the status is Not
passed.
 If the student has successfully finished the session, the status is Passed.
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1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of a self-paced session.
3. Check the students you want to reset the evaluation for and click on “Reset Evaluations of selected
students”.
When you exclude the evaluation data of a student, the status of the session changes again to Not
attempted. The student will receive a notification and will see the status of the activity as not attempted on
the portal.
7.10 Checking deliveries
You may be able to check all the deliveries of the student in an Exercise session. This function will be
normally performed by the trainer enrolled in that session, but you, as administrator, can do it too.
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of a self-paced session.
3. Display the dropdown menu and select the “Check file” option.
You will see, on one side, the uploaded deliveries of the student and, on the other side, the corrections of
the trainer. If you click on the name of a file you will be able to open it or to download it in your computer.
7.11 Evaluating a session
In the usual platform functioning, self-paced activities are automatically evaluated according to the
parameters which have been set at the time of its creation. In sessions with a trainer, the trainer himself is in
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However, as administrator, you can modify the evaluation of the sessions which have been evaluated by a
trainer. To do so, the activity has to be in Scheduled or Finished status.
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of one with trainer.
3. Click on “Edit evaluations”.
4. Modify the data that you want and click on “Save changes”.
Each time you modify an evaluation, both students and trainers associated to that session will receive a
notification.
7.12 Consult the progress of students in a session
You may be able to consult the progress of students in a plan, in a course and in a session. To do so in a
session:
1. Go to “Sessions” and click on the name of the session you want to consult.

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You will see an interactive graph above the list of students which represents the status of students in the
session. For example, you can click on “Not attempted” and see the percentage of students who has not
started the activity yet.
You will see the list of student below the graph. You will see the following information for each student:
- Total time: is the total time that the student spent on the session. It will only reflect the time of
those SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activities which are configured to collect this information.
- Attendance: it indicates if the student has attended or not the session (in the case of Classroom or
Web conference sessions). For the rest of the activities it indicates if the student has accessed or not
the content (File, Exercise, SCORM/AICC/Tin Can, Link or Video sessions).
- First access date and last access date: the date of the first and last access of the student to the
session.
All the sessions will have the previous data, and in some cases there will be the following data as well:
- Score: in the case of assessable sessions. Whether they are assessed by a trainer (Classroom,
Exercise and Web conference), or they have automatic assessment (SCORM Assessment and
SCORM/AICC/Tin Can activity).
- Times accessed: times that the student has accessed the SCORM/AICC/Tin Can content (only if the
content is configured to collect this information).
7.13 Deleting a session
If you delete a session, it will be permanently deleted from the platform. For this reason, make sure that you
will not need the data of that session later on.
There are two cases where you cannot delete a session:
 If the course to which the session belongs to is finished.
 If it is a self-paced session of automatic creation (see section 5.1.2).
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8. Communication tools
8.1 Surveys
Surveys are questionnaires related to an activity that students will be able to complete once the session has
been finished within the given time limit.
8.1.1 Creating a survey
A survey has a SCORM/AICC/Tin Can package format. To add a new survey to the platform:
1. Go to “Surveys”.
2. Click on “Create survey”.
3. Select the file which contains the survey and click on “Upload SCORM/AICC/Tin Can Package”.
To see how to associate a survey to an activity, consult section 5.4.
8.1.2 Seeing the results of a survey
To see the results of a survey you have to access the activity inside a course to which it is associated. The
platform generates an Excel file with the results.
3. Go to the “Surveys” tab.

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4. Click on “See results of the survey”.
5. Save or open the file to see it.
8.1.3 Deleting a survey
You can delete a survey from the platform any time. All the results of the surveys will disappear from the
different activities to which the survey is associated.
To delete a survey:
1. Go to “Surveys”.
2. Click on “Delete” on the line of the survey you want to delete.
Or,
1. Go to “Surveys” and click on one of them.
8.2 Polls
Polls serve to consult students about different topics, related or not to the training.
8.2.1 Creating a poll
1. Go to “Polls”.
2. Click on “Create poll”.

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The poll is created in Unpublished status. To make it visible to the students, you have to publish it (see next
section).
8.2.2 Publishing or unpublishing a poll
To publish a poll:
2. Click on “Publish” on the actions menu.
3. Select the publishing date and click on “Confirm”.
Or,
1. Go to “Polls” and click on one of them.
2. Select “Publish”.
3. Select the publishing date and click on “Confirm”.
Students can only view a poll on their interface. If you have published several polls, students will only see the
last one published. The active poll is marked as Visible on the “Visibility” column.
If you want a poll not to visible any longer, you have to unpublish it:
2. Click on “Unpublish” on the actions menu.
Or,
1. Go to “Polls” and click on one of them.
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8.2.3 Seeing the results of a poll
You can see the results of a poll by accessing “Polls” and clicking on the name of the poll you want to see.
You will see the number of students who have participated. Next to each answer, the percentage of votes
received is shown.
8.2.4 Deleting a poll
2. Check the poll you want to delete and click on “Delete”.

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