Users can enroll and then complete courses at their leisure, with access to start and stop the lesson and jump back in when they're ready.
Start a course
To start a course, the user must enroll in the course. They will then select the 'Start the course' button on the course's landing page.
Study Room
The course's chapters and lessons are all found within the study room environment. Enrollees can navigate to each chapter and the lessons within from this study room. Their progress through the course is tracked in this room, and they can revisit or rewatch lessons from this environment. The study room is accessible to enrollees at any time from the course's landing page.
Complete a lesson
From the study room, enrollees will watch the video lesson(s) or read the text content lessons, and mark them as complete when ready. The lessons are complete when the user has watched the entire video or read the entire article and selected the 'Complete' button.
Video Lessons
For video lessons, enrollees must watch the entirety of the video to complete the lesson, and complete the entirety of the chapters to complete the course.
Depending on the settings for the video lesson, users may be able to move the video progress bar back and forward, or they are blocked from fast forwarding. But all enrollees can adjust the play speed, display captions and display the video duration time.
Text Content Lessons
For written lessons, enrollees are trusted to read the entirety of the article to complete the lesson, but must complete the entirety of the chapters to complete the course.
Progressing to the next lesson
Once an enrollee has completed a lesson, the system will automatically progress to the next lesson in the chapter or the next chapter in the series.
Users can also click and select lessons in other chapters to watch and complete, or revisit a past chapter or lesson at their leisure.
Track progress
Learners can track their progress from a progress bar on the course page and in their study room.
Complete a course
Once they've completed all the lessons (watched all the videos, read all the content) and completed all the chapters, they will have completed the course! The course will now display as completed, and if contribution badging and points are assigned, they will log those on their profile!
I want to get started!
Courses are available as an add-on module, so reach out to the Gradual team if you'd like to learn more.