Courses Overview Page
The courses overview page in your dashboard provides you a quick snapshot of your community courses' metrics and statistics and allows you to see activity in courses on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
The Courses Overview Metrics:
Total views of all courses: Total number of times the course landing/detail pages were viewed
One person viewing multiple courses counts multiple times
Total viewers of all courses: Total number of unique users who viewed any course landing/detail page
One person viewing multiple courses counts once
Total enrollees: Total number of unique users who enrolled in at least one course
Total enrollments: Total number of course enrollments across all courses
One person enrolling in multiple courses counts multiple times
Total completions: Total number of course completions
One person completing multiple courses counts multiple times
The Course Statistics Graphs:
Viewers: Total number of users who viewed any course landing/detail page
Enrollments: Total number of course enrollments across all courses
Learners: Total number of unique users who visited any of the course study pages
Completions: Total number of course completions
The Top Enrolled Courses list shows the most popular courses by enrollment.
The Top Completed Courses list shows the top courses by completed metrics.
Courses List
The courses tab lists out all courses created in the community dashboard, no matter if they are published or still in draft form. You can sort and filter this page to help you find the courses you need, and search by course name, instructor, publish status, or access level.
You can create courses and course categories from this page as well.
Courses Page Customization
Customize the courses' landing page with banners, featured courses, and create course categories. Work on this page makes changes to the main page that users land on when they select the 'Courses' menu item.
Courses Landing Page Banners
The banners on this page will appear at the top of the page and be the very first thing users see when they are exploring Courses.
Default Banner
A default banner is created for you to use that includes customizable text and a sticker. The sticker can be a PNG file, 800x600px, and up to 5MB. The subtitle can be changed and can be up to 50 characters.
If you'd like to hide this banner, you can do so by toggling the visibility off.
Custom Banners
You can create custom images or video banners for this page as well. This page supports up to 20 banners, and if multiple banners are visible, the platform will carousel and change every 10 seconds. Customize the order in which they appear so the right banners display first.
You can link to any URL (internal to the community or external) from these custom banners.
Pro Tip: These banners follow the same specs and details as the home page banners that you add and customize in the community customization tab.
Image Banner
To load an image banner, the file must be a JPG, 3600x500px, and no more than 5 MB in size.
Video Banner
To load a video banner, you must have a direct video file URL ending with .mp4 and .m3u8, and ensure the file size is under 20 MB. We recommend a wide aspect ratio for the video, preferably 36:5. Section backgrounds resize automatically based on content and the visitor's browser window size; to minimize cropping, we recommend using videos with a horizontal or landscape aspect ratio.
We recommend using Vimeo, Wistia, or your website to generate the direct file link. YouTube does not support this type of direct video file URL.
To generate the video URL, the video must be hosted on your video platform or website, and you can find the video URL by looking for options like "Video file links," "Direct file links," or "Asset URL" within the video settings. The 'share' URL is not the type of URL to add here.
Featured Courses
If there are certain courses you'd like featured, you can select them to appear before the list of all courses on the landing page. You can feature up to 20 courses, and customize the order in which they display from this page.
To feature a course, select the '+Add Feature Course' button, and select the course from the list. This list will only show published courses as those are the only courses available to feature on the landing page.
To reorder the featured courses, drag and drop the courses from the list to the desired order.
In the community, the featured courses appear after any courses the user is currently enrolled in.
Course Categories
You can add course categories from this page as well. Learn more about categories here.
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.