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Description of Catalog tab

The Catalog tab allows you to view, edit, search, and sort course information for a specific course. The Catalog tab has a table with course details, a search feature, a 'Participant Selection' table with lists of people, and additional optional buttons at the bottom of the tab.

1. 'Course Detail' table

The 'Course Detail' table contains the following fields:

  • Course: The title of the course is in this column.

TIP: Click the magnifying glass icon to edit details of a particular course.

  • Level: The course level shows the level of difficulty of the course. Your course administrator sets the levels (i.e. 'Introduction', 'Basic', 'Medium', 'Advanced', '101', etc).
  • Family: Each training course belongs to a specific family (i.e. 'Software', 'Technical', 'Administrative'). Your course administrator sets the family options.

TIP: Click the file folder with magnifying glass icon to filter on that particular family of courses.

  • Delivery method: The method is the type of training (i.e. usually 'Classroom').
  • Duration in minutes: The time period in minutes for each course and/or each session.
  • Code: The internal code assigned to this course.
  • Average cost: This field shows the cost of each training course. NOTE: This field may not be visible.
  • Approval path: Some courses may require approval by various managers prior to being assigned to a person.
  • Available: This field will inform you who is eligible to attend the course.
  • For example, if you organization has employee grades like A, B, C, D and if you are an employee grade B2, you'll be able to eligible to attend courses for all A grades (listed A*) and for grades B1 and B2, but not for grades B3, C or D.

  • Assign to others: Click on this field to choose people to attend this course.
  • Description: This is where you will see the details about the course topic.

2. Search function

A. Search for a course:

To search for a particular course, enter the course name (or part of the name) into the Search for box and click Search. LittleLMS will then give you a list of courses with the name you entered.

For example, if you're looking for all courses about Microsoft Excel, simply type in the word 'Excel' into the Search for box. Then, click Search.

B. Filter your list of courses:

This option allows you to filter the courses you're searching for. To use the filter option, select one of the fields that appear in the and filter by list. Then, type in a term to search for in the next text box.

For example, if you are looking for all software courses, simply choose 'Family' from the and filter by list and type the word 'Software' into the next box. Then click Search.

C. Reset Option:

Click Reset to clear Search and and filter by settings and take your list back to its original state.

3. If you have people responsibilities in your organization (supervisor, HR, dean), you may be allowed to assign a course to anyone reporting to you by clicking Select next to 'Assign to other'; in that case, the next table on this tab is the 'Select People' table. This table contains the following fields:

  • Select: Click here t add this person to the selected session.
  • ID: This is an internal number assigned to the participant by the company, organisation or university.
  • First Name: First name of the participant.
  • Last Name: Last name of the participant.

TIP: Click the envelope icon to send an email to the participant; a new window will appear in your usual email program and the "To:" field will be prefilled with that persons' email address.

  • Company: The name of the company or organization of the participant.
  • City: The city where the company or organization is located.
  • Level: This is the number and or letter (or both) assigned to you if your organization has a system employee grades or levels such as: A, B, C, D
  • Manager: The name of the participant's manager.

TIP: Click the envelope icon to send an email to the participant; a new window will appear in your usual email program and the "To:" field will be prefilled with that persons' email address.

  • Role: The participant's role on your site (i.e. users, manager, coordinator, HR manager)

TIP: Click on the title of any column to sort results for that column.

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Article ID: 7
Category: Descriptions of tabs
Date added: 2011-04-20 20:43:47
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