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Converting Course Manager Documents to the Media Course Type

Before you can make imported Content Manager documents available as Courses, you must first convert them to the Media Course type. On the ControlPanel:

Click on the Content menu to expand it.
Click Content Manager. The Content Manager opens.

Click next to the Document you want to convert. The following window opens so that you can customize your Course settings prior to converting it.

Initially, the information in the Title and Description fields are based on what you entered in the Name and Description fields when you initially imported the document to the Content Manager. You can edit these here if you want to.
Select a Course Location to indicate whether you want to import the Course to the Warehouse or insert it in the Showroom. Inserting the Course into the Showroom makes it available for use immediately. Refer to Importing versus Inserting WBT Content if you need additional information about the Warehouse vs. the Showroom.
Indicate whether you want to Copy Standard Fields by selecting either Yes or No. (These are the fields you may have updated in the Properties section when you imported the document; Author, Series Name, Series Number, etc). Selecting Yes automatically copies the information to the matching fields on the Course Properties page. Selecting Yes saves you time and effort, because you do not have to manually type this information again on the Course Properties page.
Indicate whether you want LearnCenter to Open to Course Properties as soon as the document completes the conversion by selecting Yes or No. Selecting Yes opens to open the Course Properties page saves you time and the extra steps of navigating to the Course Properties page via the Control Panel.
When you are finished, click Save. If you selected Yes for Open to Course Properties, the Course Properties page opens immediately.

You can then set the properties for things like Electronic Signature Information, Feedback Forms, Course Player Height and Widths, etc.

Best Practice: For the LearnCenter Course Player Height in Pixels (Widget) field, it is recommended that you use 700 for documents that have a Landscape layout, and 900 for documents that have a portrait layout.

If you selected Yes for Copy Standard Fields, the information you entered in the Properties section of the Add Content page (when you imported the document to the Content Manager) has been carried over to the Standard fields available in the Course Properties page.

Refer to Viewing and Editing Course Properties if you need additional information about completing the fields in the Course Properties page.

Workflows like ESignatures and Pre and Post Assessments work natively only within the LearnCenter Course Player.

Click Save. Your document is converted to the Media Course type.
Click Return to Content Manager to return to the Content Manager.

Once converted, when you search for Courses, they appear in the search results Type column as "MEDIA". These new MEDIA Courses are available for selection wherever you can add a Course, but they only work within the LearnCenter Course Player accessible via Widgets or SSO Deep Linking.

You can now:

Place Document Courses on LearnCenter Design LearnCenter Pages.
Insert Document Courses in Widgets.
Map Document Courses to Learning Plans, Skills, Assignments, etc. (Note that they will only work when launched from Widgets using the LearnCenter Course Player).