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Creating a new playlist

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To create a new playlist, open the playlists section of the admin menu and click New Playlist.

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Name: The name of the playlist that the learner will see. mceclip0.png
Hero image: An image. This isn't actually surfaced anywhere. So probably don't bother with it 🤷‍♂️
Tile image: The image that's displayed when playlists are grouped together on the dashboard. You can learn about this in the Grouping playlists on the dashboard article. Recommended image size is 400 px (width) x 600 px (height) mceclip1.png

User Permissions:

  • Read Only: Ticking the ‘Read Only’ checkbox will prevent learners from adding anything other than recommended learning experiences to the playlist.
  • Allow Duplicates: Ticking this will allow learners to add the same playlist to their dashboard multiple times. 

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When Allow Duplicates is ticked, the Add Playlist menu includes "on Dashboard" beneath any playlist a learner has already added.
Visibility: a ‘Secret’ playlist cannot be seen in the learner’s Add Playlist menu. It can only be assigned by an admin.  CreatingAPlaylist_Visibility.png
Unenrollment Behavior: This option shows only if is enabled for your organisation and playlist overrides are allowed. It sets what happens to learner enrolments when a learner is removed from a group that has this playlist assigned. Choose Org Default to use the default of your organisation (shown in brackets as Preserve Enrollments or Remove Enrollments), Preserve Enrollments to keep the enrolments, or Remove Enrollments to remove them.

Type:

  • Non-linear: Defers to the access rules of the individual learning experience for learner access, which generally means that the learner can access any learning experience in the playlist in any order desired.
  • Linear: The order of learning experiences is important because the learner must meet the completion criteria for the first learning experience before being allowed to access the next, and so on.
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Dashboard Ordering: Set a display order for the playlist on the learner’s dashboard. This orders playlists from lowest to highest, and those with the same number will be ordered alphabetically.


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Tags: Tags are used to add recommended learning experiences to a playlist. See the recommendations guide to learn more. 

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Assigning learning experiences to a playlist

Click the name of your playlist, or the Edit (pencil) icon   next to it, and then click Assign Learning Experiences.

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Tick the learning experiences you want to assign and then click Submit. For a Linear playlist, you can also click Recalculate User Progress under the list of learning experiences. For every learner enrolled on that playlist, the platform walks the ordered list of learning experiences and finds the first one the learner hasn't completed yet. Everything up to and including that point is unlocked; everything after it is locked again. If the learner has finished every learning experience, they all stay unlocked. The practical effect is to bring the sequencing back in line with the learner's real completion record. Playlists of the Non-linear type do not show this button.

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