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title: "Course Templates"
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updated: 2024-10-02T21:30:46Z
published: 2024-10-02T21:30:46Z
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# Course Templates

Creating courses with numerous settings can be a complex task. To simplify the process, we offer two efficient methods to replicate an existing Course, allowing you to reuse its comprehensive settings, Activities, and fields. You can either duplicate a specific course directly or designate a course as a template for future use. Both methods ensure a seamless transfer of all course components to your new course.

## Best Practices for Using Templates

When employing templates, consider the following guidelines to enhance clarity and efficiency:

• Name your templates descriptively to reflect the incorporated settings and intended use. • For Organizations consistently creating courses with identical settings, invest time in establishing a comprehensive template. This approach can simplify creating a new course as it only requires naming and populating the new course with specific activities. • If your courses fall into distinct categories sharing common elements like images, Publishing Groups, or activities, create separate templates for each category to maintain Organization and distinction.

## Copy a Course

Sometimes, you may need to create a unique course that shares similarities with an existing one, yet you don’t want to use the existing course as a template. In such instances, copying the course is a practical solution.

To copy a course and tailor it to your needs:

1. Find and **open the course** you intend to replicate.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select **Save As**, located adjacent to the Save button.
3. The Save As dialog will display the original course name with “(Copy)” appended. This is where you can **assign a new name** to the course.
4. Click **Save** to proceed with the copy.
5. **Adjust the course settings **and content as needed.
6. **Save** your changes to finalize the new course.

## Creating a Course Template

To establish a course template, choose an existing course or create a new one with the desired settings:

1. Access the **course editing** mode.
2. In the Basic Information section, tick the **Use as template** checkbox.
3. **Save** your changes to commit the new course.

Once a course is marked as a template, it still functions as a course to be used for training and is also included in the template list for new course creation. Additionally, you can locate templates using the Is Template filter on the Find Courses page.

## Utilizing a Course Template

After setting a course as a template, it becomes readily available for crafting new courses.

Follow these steps to utilize a template effectively:

1. On the Site Administration page, click **Create Course **within the Courses tile to access the creation page.
2. Click **Open Templates** in the top right corner.
3. Input any required details and click **Search**.
4. **Choose the appropriate template** from the search results.
5. Click **OK** to proceed.
6. Make any necessary modifications.
7. Complete your new course by clicking **Save**.

Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.

Activities are configured in the instructions editor and represented in the lab instructions by a replacement token. Activities fall into two broad categories: Questions and Automated.

- Questions are multiple choice or short answer questions.
- Automated Activities interact with the lab environment (Virtual Machine/Container/Cloud Platform).

Organizations are the containers in which all objects in Skillable Studio reside. Each organization has two child orgs, Development and Production. Development is used for content creation and testing. Production is used only for content that is ready for consumption. Organizations also provide one of the security boundaries within the Skillable Studio platform.

Publishing groups are applied to courses to create different catalogs of content which you can make available exclusively to specific customers by publishing to organizations. A publishing group must be added to make the course available to schedule. Organizations can have one or multiple publishing groups to operate.

An organization is assigned to each entity in the TMS, such as, users, classes, subscriptions, and courses. The organization is a basis to determine access given based on roles within the organization and management over the organization.