Have you ever created a great piece of training content and wanted to reuse it in multiple places? It makes perfect sense to create a single source of truth for an updated process and then include it in both a standalone training and a larger, multi-part course! However, you may have noticed that completing the content in one spot doesn't automatically mark it complete in the other. Let's clarify how the platform handles these completion records.
Reusing Lectures Across Multiple Courses
You have created a lecture and included it in two different locations:
As a component inside of Course A (this course consists of multiple lectures).
As a component inside of Course B (which might be the standalone training).
You would expect that if a user completes this one lecture in either Course A or Course B, it should automatically be marked complete in both places.
The observed behavior is that completing the lecture in one course does not automatically grant completion credit for that same lecture in the other course.
Completion is Course-Based
The platform is designed to track completion at the Course level, not the lecture level, for this specific cross-course scenario.
Think of it like this: If you take "English 101" and then later take "English 201", any individual lectures you attended in the first course would still need to be completed in the second course if they are part of the learning path. The course itself represents the entire learning context and required effort.
Therefore, for a user to receive credit for a component within a course, they must complete it within the scope of that course's enrollment.
How to Achieve Cross-Credit Completion
If your goal is to have a single completion event grant credit across multiple training assignments, the recommended method is to work at the Course level by utilizing Learning Paths.
Create Your Content as a Course: If you want a piece of content to grant credit when completed on its own and when completed as part of a larger Learning path, make sure that piece of content is structured as a Course.
Utilize a Learning Path: If a user completes a Course as a standalone assignment, and that same Course is an element within a Learning Path, the user will automatically receive credit for the Course completion within the Learning Path.
By structuring your content with Courses and Learning Paths, you can ensure that completing a training unit once gives the user appropriate credit across all related assignments.