Making Courses Sellable Products

You can make Courses sellable products for LearnCenter eCommerce. Once you indicate which Courses are products, they are added to the product catalog list.

When a User purchases a Course using eCommerce, the Date Started and Last Viewed Date are set to the date and time of purchase on the Course Started Dynamic Object. Purchased Courses are listed on a User's My Task Widget with a completion percentage of 0% until the User starts the Course. The Start Date initially displays the date of purchase until the User starts the Course.

Important: Adding eCommerce products requires that you set a currency under eCommerce settings. You do not have to keep eCommerce enabled after you've selected a currency, but you do need to enable it to select a currency.

On the ControlPanel:

1. Click   on the eCommerce menu to expand it.
2. Click Products.
3. Click Add Product.
4. Select Course from the Select the product type drop-down list.
5. Click Select Course to Add.

If the Source Control feature is Active for your LearnCenter, only current and published Classes appear in the Select Courses window. See Learning Object Manager for information about the Source Control feature.

6. Search for and select the Course you want to add as a product. The Filters section provides several options for filtering the list of Courses.

• The Course Titles Beginning With filter permits Alphabetic or Numeric filtering of Course titles based on the selected letter or number.
• Clicking Show All displays a list of all Courses.
• The Combination Filters allow the filtering of Course titles based on their creation tool, LearnCenter location, text strings, associated Skills, and associated Categories.

The Courses Created filter contains three choices. Click the one that applies:

• With the AICC Importer - This option displays all Course content imported from an AICC format. This includes content purchased for your LearnCenter that was imported using the AICC importer and content added using the CourseMaker® Studio software that was imported using the AICC importer.
• With the SCORM Importer - This option only displays the SCOs that are available.
• Within the LearnCenter - This option shows all Courses added in the LearnCenter using the WYSIWYG Course editor

The Courses Location filter contains three choices. Select the check boxes of all the filter choices you want to include:

• The first check box has two options in its drop-down list: Are included in this LearnCenter displays Courses that are included in the current LearnCenter; Are NOT included in this LearnCenter displays Courses that are not included in the current LearnCenter.
• The second check box has two options in its drop-down list: Were written by you displays Courses that were authored or imported by the current User; Were NOT written by you displays Courses that were authored or imported by someone other than the current User.
• The third check box has one option: Individual SCOs.
• Top-Level Only - displays root level Courses when a Class has a multiple level structure.
• All SCORM Classes - displays just Classes.
• Individual SCOs - displays just individual SCOs.

The Course Titles filter contains two options for filtering with text strings:

• Containing - This option filters Courses based on the specified text string of letters and numbers occurring anywhere within the Course titles. For example, entering the criteria “exc” would return a Course titled “Microsoft Excel 2000.”
• Beginning with - This option filters Courses based on the specified text string of letters and numbers occurring only at the beginning of the Course titles. For example, entering the criteria “word” would return a Course titled “WordPerfect 9.”

The Courses in this Skill/Category filter contains two options:

• Skills - This option filters Courses that have been associated with a particular Skill. Use the drop-down list to select a Skill previously added in the LearnCenter.
• Categories - This option filters Courses that have been associated with a particular Category. Use the drop-down list to select a Category previously added in the LearnCenter.

7. Specify the number of Display records per page. Use the drop-down list to choose 10, 25, 50,100 or 250 records.
8. Click Search to display the Courses that meet your search requirements. Click Reset to return all filters to their default values.
9. Scroll down to see the results in the Course List section.
10. Click the option button located next to the Class you want to add as a product.
11. Click Return Selected. The selected Class title displays in the Select the product section and the Create Product page expands to include the Product details and pricing section.

The Custom Fields section displays with the custom fields you added . Any value you add to the custom fields display in the eCommerce Order Message if you selected this option in Custom Field Settings. See Custom Field Settings and Field Settings for additional information.

12. (Optional) Type the Product SKU.

13. Select one of the following from Is this product taxable. (This field only displays if you indicated that products are taxable on the eCommerce Settings page.)

• Yes - enables sales tax to be applied to this product. Only buyers in the specified tax-collection state are taxed.

• No - indicates that no sales tax applies to this product. (Default)

14. Click one of the following for Make the product available for sale immediately:

• Yes - makes the product available for sale now. (Default)
• No - does not make the product available for sale, but you can edit this setting when you are ready to make it available to Users.

15. Click Add Price to display additional pricing fields.

1. Type the access Duration (number of days).
2. Type the Price for the product.
3. Click the Active check box to have that price display with the product.
   
   or
   
   Clear the check box to deactivate the price for that product. (Default)

If you want to add an additional price point for the product, click Add Price and repeat the previous steps.

16. Click Save. You are returned to the Products page and the newly added product is now included in the Product catalog list section.

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