How do I add an external course?
External courses let you record and manage training completed outside the RedSeed LMS. For example, this might include health and safety, compliance, or other role-specific courses delivered by a third-party provider.
The RedSeed LMS can log and store all the necessary details — including expiry dates, certificates, and documentation — on each user’s profile.
FEATURE AVAILABILITY:
- This feature is only available to ‘Administrator’ user accounts within the RedSeed LMS.
- Not all RedSeed LMS customers have access to this feature. To learn more, please contact your RedSeed Account Manager or reach out to us at support@redseed.me.
Adding an external course
From the RedSeed LMS navigation menu select ‘Courses’ from the ‘Manage’ dropdown.
To add a new external course click the ‘Add new course’ button at the top right and select ‘Add new external course’ from the dropdown.
Fill out all the required fields starting with Course name: This will be the course name trainees see and what you‘ll see on the dashboard and within reports etc - so make it logical and easy to find!
- Status: By default, this will be ‘Active’ — meaning it may be visible to trainees. You can set it to ‘Inactive‘ if you dont want your team enrolled in it just yet. The third option you‘ll see here is ‘Locked’. and this status is used when you require users who have a current enrolment to be able to finish the course, but not have any new enrolments created.
- Locations: Course locations allows you to determine what locations within your business the course is available too. Simply tick and untick the locations where you want, or don't want, this course available.
- Description: Here you can add a short description of the course. Keep it simple — just a sentence or two!
- Categories: You can tag a course with a category, or multiple categories. You may need to make, or add, the category first if it doesn't already exist - if so just click the ‘[+] Manage categories’ button.
- Thumbnail: To associate an image with your course, click the ‘camera/upload image’ button and select your image. Course images on the RedSeed LMS have an aspect ratio of 1280px x 500px.
- Allow users to be enrolled multiple times in this course: Once the course has been completed this allows users to be re-enrolled in the course.
- And lastly, click ‘Save settings' button.
