Testing and optimizing your course for publishing

This article contains instructions and details about  SkillSync Create LI (Integrated Specific)

When pages complete as they should, courses complete as they should--issuing certificates, updating transcripts, and leaving learners with a sense of accomplishment and closure. It is worth everyone's time to fully test pages and courses before publishing to the LMS, and again before going live with enrollment. This article covers the testing process before publishing only.

Testing is a great time to reach out to our support team with any questions or unexpected behaviors. We are always happy to help!

 

Set Everyone Up for Success

You can test your SkillSync Create courses for completion using preview mode, and being aware of the various settings and toggles that impact page completion and navigation.

Parameter	Description	Location
Follow Sequentially	Setting this to 'on' will prevent the learner from clicking on pages in the page menu in order to skip pages in the course.	Course Settings
Need to Reach the end of slide for completion	Setting this to 'on' will hold the completion of a slide until the time has run its course	Slide settings, when time is enabled
Navigation buttons	Setting this to 'on' will enable users to advance to the next slide when they are ready. Will override the End of Slide for Completion setting, turn it to 'off' if necessary.	Slide settings--Player Toolbar
Optional for course completion	Setting this to 'on' will render the page unnecessary for course completion	Slide settings
Optional for branch completion	Setting this to 'on' will render the page unnecessary to complete the branching activity	Branch page type--Branch graph

Leveraging menus in preview mode

In this example, we have turned on the course menu in the player to proof the page completions in preview mode. Here we can see that a page has not completed as expected:

When we go back to the slide settings for the page, we can easily pick out the conflicting settings:

Testing published content on various browsers and platforms

While the strategies above are useful for testing the internal functioning of your content, to test the full end user experience in various browsers and devices, we recommend publishing the lesson package, and enrolling test users in the LMS. 

Do not test the Create Editor, Preview, or Reviewer modes on mobile devices or non-chromium browsers; those results will not reflect the end user experience.