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title: "Preparing For Course Not Scheduled To Teach"
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# Preparing For Course Not Scheduled to Teach

This article is intended to help instructors prepare for courses that have not been scheduled for upcoming Classes.

## Best Practices

Instructors have the ability to launch labs at any time outside of class times. This allows instructors to access content at their own pace and on their own schedule even if classes have not been scheduled. Unlike instructors, students only have access to labs during their scheduled class and during their post-class access period.

## Preparing for Courses Not Scheduled to Teach

Are you interested in preparing for a Course that you are not yet scheduled to teach? As a trainer you have access to numerous courses and their Activities including labs and SCORM modules. You can preview the activities to become familiar with their content.

To access courses:

1. Select **Admin** to open the **Admin** menu and in the **Courses** group, select **Find Courses**.
2. On the **Find Courses** search page, enter part of the name of a course and select **Search** to view the results.
3. Select the name of the course you want. This takes you to a page with the course’s details.
4. All activities will be listed on that page under the **Activities** section. Select the name of the activity you want to open.
5. Video, document, link, and assessment activities will open. SCORM and lab activities will open to their Details page. On the **Details** page, select **Launch** or **Start** to start the activity in a new window.

**Please note:** Instructors will only have access to courses that have been made available to the Organization that their account belongs to.

A class is a scheduled instructor-led event with a start and end time/date. Typically, these include lectures and hands on activities such as labs.

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).

SCORM is e-Learning content that organizations can create and upload to the TMS to then be added to courses for students to access as course activities.

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.