Create and Maintain Training Items

How to Create a Training Item

A training item can be created at the division or company level. Creating a training item is an important first step in assigning training to learners, or keeping training records. Training items can represent on-line training or off-line training.

The minimum permission needed to perform this task is Division Admin or Division Author.

Step

Action

1

Select Curriculum > Training Items > (Organization level, if shown) or Author > Training Items from the LMS module menu.

2

If you have access to multiple divisions or companies, select the division or company where you want to create the training item.

3

Select .

4

Enter the training item Title, Item Code, and select the training Item Type from the drop down box.

Important: The name or title of the training item should be easily recognizable. Follow the naming conventions for training items in the division where you are creating the training item.

5

If the Item Type is a DOC, PRC, CBT, HTML-WBT or SCORM, then use this table to enter the location of the content (URL).

If the content is a...

Then...

Word, PowerPoint, Excel or HTML document, image or PDF file

Click Choose File and browse to the actual file* that is being used for training.

Network-resident CBT course

Click Choose File and browse to the application's executable file*.

HTML-WBT course

Enter the URL of the course's home screen into the URL: field. It should be in the http:// format.

Note: HTML-WBT course and Frontline communication must be tested before assigning to learners.

SCORM

Click Choose File and browse to the SCORM package file (.zip). The packaged file size is limited to 16 MB. See step 8 for additional instructions.

Important:The file referenced by the URL must be on a commonly mapped network drive, or a network share. You must also make sure that all your learners have read access to this file. You may also upload the file to Frontline server by checking the box provided below Browse URL. If the file is in a document management system, the URL can be manually entered using the computer's copy/paste function.

6

If you are at company level and creating a training item for a division, select the Division from the drop down list.

7

Enter the optional fields.

8

Select .

Result:The new training item is added to the selected company and division. For SCORM content, Frontline will unzip the package file in the directory structure set up for the company/division, read the manifest file (SCORM 1.2 XML Schema Definition file) and construct the URL to launch the content for the course. If the manifest file contains mastery score parameter, system will append “PassingScore” parameter and value to the URL. If Frontline does not find the manifest file in the uploaded package, it will reject the package with a message “Upload SCORM package failed, cannot find SCORM 1.2 manifest file.”

9

If you entered a URL, select Preview button to confirm that the training content will launch properly.