Note: This guide is for organizations already using OpenSesame content in their learning platform. If your organization is new to OpenSesame, review our delivery options and available integrations.

So you’ve downloaded OpenSesame course files and manually uploaded them to a learning platform, then the platform released an OpenSesame integration. What happens now?

First, please check in with your learning platform contacts and confirm that your account with them is eligible for the integration. (Some platforms have requirements for accessing such features.)

Next, ask them if there will be a migration for accounts that have manually uploaded OpenSesame content. If so, this guide does not apply.

If your account is eligible for the integration and the platform does not have a migration plan, there are a few options moving forward:

1. Start fresh
2. Use the integration for new content
3. Continue to download and upload

Option one: Start fresh

To start fresh, set up the integration and deactivate all the existing, uploaded OpenSesame courses in your learning platform. Next, send the same courses to your platform via the integration and use those versions instead.

Sending courses ensures that metadata updates and course retirements automatically apply to your learning platform, a key feature of newer OpenSesame integrations. The deactivation prevents duplicating the courses available to learners.

To ensure learners don't lose their progress, announce a date by which they should complete any in-progress courses, then deactivate the uploaded courses after that date.

Reporting for both uploaded and sent courses is available in your OpenSesame Activity Report.

Option two: Use the integration for new content

If you don't want to refresh your library, you can add the integration then use it to send only new courses.

Note: If you send the same courses that were uploaded, two versions of each course will appear in your learning platform.

For sent courses, their metadata automatically updates and they automatically deactivate if retired. Uploaded courses do not receive metadata updates and must be manually deactivated if retired.

Any learners in progress on uploaded courses can continue those courses. If learners take both uploaded and sent courses, however, they may use more than one seat license. This is because different elearning delivery methods can identify learners and track their progress differently. (Please contact us to learn if this can happen with your integration.)

Reporting for both uploaded and sent courses is available in your OpenSesame Activity Report.

Option three: Continue to download and upload

If it’s not the right time to implement an integration, you can continue to upload content into your learning platform as usual, for as long as you want. And if you later decide to use an integration, we’re here to support you.

If you have more integration questions, please reach out to your OpenSesame Customer Success Manager, or contact OpenSesame Support at support@opensesame.com.