Edit published courses with course builder – Showpad Help Center

Once you've published a course, you have the flexibility to edit some aspects of the course but not all. To maintain reporting and data integrity, certain settings for tests or PitchIQs will be off limits once the course is published. The functionality to edit courses can be beneficial, particularly in the Learn modules, to adjust and add information after gathering feedback from managers and users. Below you will gain a better understanding of what can be edited after a course is published, module by module. Be sure to save your work anytime you make a change to your published course!

Notes:
- Users will be notified when a new course is created but not when a course is edited.
- The completion status for users who already completed the course doesn't change, and the newly added lesson is marked as completed.

Key features

Edit course elements
Add to courses
Maintain course integrity

You need this to succeed

Admin access or promoted member permissions related to course content
Published course(s)

See how it's done

To edit a course after it's been published, navigate to the Coach Library tab under the main Library and select the course you wish to edit. In the detail panel, click Edit Course.

In most cases, if you attempt to edit an aspect of a course that is unable to be changed after publication, the option is greyed out. A message might also appear when you hover over a section to let you know a feature cannot be changed. For example, when you can't add new modules to a course once a course is published.

Course Information

In Course Setup, you have the flexibility to edit the following aspects after the course has been published:

Course Title
Description
Course Image
Course Owner
Prerequisite
Allow discussions between users assigned to the course

You cannot edit a SCORM course.

For the course structure, you have the ability to add or delete lessons and sections. You cannot delete an existing Test, Survey, or PitchIQ module once a course is published. You also cannot add either of these modules once the course is published.

Lessons

For lesson modules, you can edit the following once a course is published:

Edit the permission toggles for Learn content
Edit lesson content
Edit and add new lessons and sections
Edit a lesson’s time to completion

Test

When a test is published, you can still do the following:

Change the question text
Edit the text of answer choices
Change the answer explanation
Add another answer choice
Add or remove a question image
Reorder the answer options

You cannot edit the following aspects of a published test:

Upload a new CSV
Add new questions
Change which answer is correct

In the test settings, once a course with a test is published, you can still update or add the following:

Time to completion
Passing score
Require passing score to pass course
Require passing score if prerequisite
Test attempt limit
Set test limit and number of attempts
Set test time limit
Randomize question order
Lock test until user complete all previous modules
Award certification and cert details
Retake only incorrect responses

You cannot change the short answer panel. This maintains the integrity of reporting, especially in the case that some learners have already completed a test.

On the courses library, you can choose to Archive courses if they are not currently part of an Active Path. Archiving removes the published status, but keeps the course in your archives. Deleting a course from the archives completely removes it from your Showpad instance. Archived and deleted courses no longer appear in reporting.