Cyatl Courses Overview
This section will provide you with a quick overview of all of the features and settings built into Cyatl Courses. By clicking for more detail, you’ll learn how to create courses, assign lessons & topics, build quizzes with a variety of question types, grade assignments and more. We’ll also explain Cyatl Courses‘ settings, which will help you customize Cyatl Courses to meet your specific course design needs.
Your Dashboard Tools are your interface to creating, editing and managing your courses. Clicking on an access button with lead you to the appropriate area of Cytal LMS. For more details on each of these sections, click the “Access” buttons below.
Your Dashboard Tools
Manage Your Courses
Courses
This section covers everything needed to build & set up a course with Cyatl Courses.
We cover the following topics:
- All Course Settings
Settings applied to all courses on your site
- Shared Course Steps
Reuse lessons, topics & quizzes across multiple courses
- Building Courses
Add, edit, remove & organize course steps
- Course Display & Content Settings
Add materials, assign certificates & more
- Configuring Course Access
Offer free courses or for a fee, require login, set prerequisites & more
- Course Progression Options
Provide feedback as users navigate through your course
- The Course Page
Course title, image, and a description of the course
Lessons
Begin building your course by adding lessons. In this section you’ll learn about:
- All Lesson Settings
Settings applied to all of the lessons on your website
- Configuring Lesson Access
Sample lessons, how to drip feed content & schedule lesson availability
- Display & Content Settings
Add course materials, configure video settings, control assignment uploads & lesson timers
- Lesson Page Content
Add text & images, insert videos, embed interactive content, etc.
Topics
Topics represent optional content that can be added to lessons. This section will cover:
- All Topic Settings
These are settings applied to all lessons on your website
- Display & Content Settings
Add course materials, configure video settings, control assignment uploads & lesson timers
- Create Topic Content
Add text & images, insert videos, embed interactive content, etc.
Quizzes & Essays
Quizzes are designed to test a user’s comprehension of the learning material presented in your courses. This section covers everything you need to know to set up & customize a Cyatl Courses quiz.
- All Quiz Settings
Settings applied to all of the quizzes on your site
- Quiz Builder
Add, edit, remove & manage a quiz, and all its questions
- Questions & Types of Questions
How to set up quiz questions & all the available question types you can choose from
- Essays
Essays can be added to a quiz and can include uploads or written text
- Quiz Access & Progress
Set access restrictions & control how a user moves through a quiz
- Quiz Display & Content Settings
Customize how a quiz appears to your users by choosing from several options
- Display Results
Customize how the quiz results are displayed & select how you would like to provide answer feedback
- Custom Quiz Fields
Collect additional information from users who take a quiz by creating custom fields
- Quiz Leaderboard
An optional way to promote competition by displaying user results in a leaderboard
- Quiz Email Notifications
Choose how users and/or admins are notified when a quiz is completed
Certificates
- Create Certificates How to design & add text to a certificate
- Certificate Shortcodes Options for displaying dynamic content on a certificate
Assignments
Assignments are files that can be uploaded to a lesson or topic by your users, and optionally graded by the instructor. This section includes the following:
- All Assignment Settings
These settings are applied to all assignments throughout your entire site
- Enable Assignment Uploads
Learn all the available options you can choose from when setting up assignments
- Manage Assignments
View, search, filter, approve, delete, comment, assign points & get notified for all assignments
Groups
- User Groups Create and sell user groups (memberships)
- Group Administration Grade assignments & essays, export data, email users, and more