Add courses to your platform

It’s time to deliver your curated courses to your learning platform. As mentioned in Phase Three, the type of platform determines the steps:

• For a stand-alone platform, see How to download courses from a List.
• For an integrated platform, see How to send courses from a List.

After delivery, there may be additional steps before the courses will be available to learners. Each platform has its own process, so for more information, see your platform’s documentation.

Tell your learners

Use a communication strategy to promote your training program and encourage participation.

Adapt the following suggestions to your organization’s size, communication norms, and setting—whether in-person, remote, or a combination.

• Outline your approach. For a new initiative, successful organizations often:
  
  • Announce it ahead of time.
  • Share a reminder before launch.
  • Send an update and learner instructions upon launch.
  • Set a regular cadence for follow-up or ongoing communications.
• Use a toolkit. Customize our Launch and Engage toolkit (31.8 MB zip file download) or create your own, and use it to inform and energize your audience.
  
  • Edit the unbranded templates for emails, posters, and table tents, and choose the images that’ll resonate with your learners.
  • A PDF reader, such as Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader, may be needed to view the PDF files.

Some organizations prefer to “soft launch” to a small audience and get their feedback before a full launch. And if you add OpenSesame content to an existing program, an early announcement or reminder may be unnecessary.

Track progress

After your training program launches and learners begin taking courses, use the reporting tools in OpenSesame to view activity and measure it against your organization’s metrics for success.

• The OpenSesame Plus Insights Dashboard is available to OpenSesame Plus subscribers.
• The OpenSesame Activity Report is available to all accounts.

Phase five checklist

❏  Add courses to your platform.
❏  Outline a communication strategy.
❏  Inform your learners.
❏  Check activity and metrics.

Next up

When you’re ready to continue, see Phase six: Improve for how to help your training program thrive.

If you have questions, use the search bar to find answers in our Knowledge Base or contact our Support team at support@opensesame.com.