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Courses

TL;DR; A course is a self-contained learning experience that lives inside a department. You create one, fill it with sections and activities, enroll people, set it to Published, and learners can take it. This page covers creating and editing courses; the rest of the LMS section covers the pieces inside.

Where courses live

Every course belongs to exactly one department, which belongs to exactly one company. When you're inside a department's home page, you'll see a list of its courses. Use that list as the starting point for anything course-related.

Department's course list

Creating a course

Creating courses requires administrator access. If you need a new course set up, contact your Lupo administrator. Once a course exists, Instructors can build and manage all of its content — sections, activities, and enrollments — from the course's five tabs.

The fields involved when a course is created are:

  • Title — the name learners will see.
  • Description — a short paragraph describing what the course covers and who it's for.
  • Cover image — optional but recommended. A course without a cover image looks unfinished in the course list.
  • Language — the primary language of the course content.
  • Estimated duration — how long a learner should plan to spend.
  • Tags — optional keywords to help people find the course.

You don't have to fill all of these in right away. Title is the only required field; everything else can be edited later.

Title and description: make them useful

A good course title tells a learner what they'll be able to do after completing it, not what's inside. "How to Onboard a New Customer" beats "Customer Onboarding Training." "Handling PII Correctly" beats "Privacy Module 2."

The description is the first thing someone reads before deciding whether to take the course. Cover:

  • Who it's for — "New account managers in their first 30 days."
  • What they'll learn — "How to run a kickoff call, assign a success plan, and escalate risks."
  • How long it takes — "About 45 minutes."

Don't try to sell the course. Just describe it.

Editing a course

After you create the course, clicking it opens the Course Details page. From here you can:

  • Edit the metadata (title, description, cover image).
  • Add sections — ordered chapters inside the course.
  • Manage enrollments — add Students, Observers, and Instructors.
  • Configure settings — visibility and policies.
  • Change the status (Draft → Published → Archived).
  • View reports — once learners start progressing, the reports page shows who finished what.

Course details page with the sections, people, and settings tabs visible

Course metadata and the course page

Every course has a public-facing "course page" that shows its metadata: title, description, cover image, the list of sections and activities, and (if the learner is enrolled) their progress. That's the page a learner actually looks at when they're deciding whether to start or continue a course. Put effort into the metadata because it shows up there.

Naming and organizing courses

A few conventions that scale:

  • Use consistent titles across a series. If you have a new-hire curriculum, start every course with a common prefix: "New Hire: Week 1," "New Hire: Week 2," etc.
  • Keep each course focused. If a course starts to feel like it's covering two different topics, split it into two courses.
  • Archive instead of delete. When a course goes out of date, archive it. Don't delete. You want the historical record of who took it.

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