The status of Courses, Steps, and Certifications can be changed to accommodate your lesson plans, whether to have content live and playable or offline while retaining data records. To understand what's best for your courseware, let's review how those statuses affect each one!
Drafting
Drafting
When creating a Course, choosing the default option of "Do not publish at this time" when saving it will generate the Course on the admin side alone. Admins can review and revise its content; learners must be aware of its existence while in this status.
Steps are also in their default "drafting" status simply by saving it. So long as they are not added to a published Course, they will only be seen by admins.
Once created and saved, Certifications are technically in "drafting" mode so long as learners, groups, and triggers have not been assigned.
Published
Published
The moment a Course is published, assigned groups can view and access it. Contained Steps can be played for the full LemonadeLXP experience!
Steps are considered "published" when a Course they're in is published.
Certifications are considered "published" as soon as they are assigned to a learner, group, or trigger.
Retired
Retired
When a Course, Step, or Certification is retired, several things occur:
Learners who previously played its content:
Can still see their play history;
Can no longer play the retired content;
Learners who never played its content;
Won't see it in their library and therefore won't have access to it.
If a Course within a Certification is retired, or a Step within a Course, the rest of its contents are otherwise still published. At the same time, the item won't be playable within its respective container; the container and its other contents will stay published and playable.
Reenabled
Reenabled
If a retired Course, Step, or Certification is reenabled and then published:
All learners who previously played them will retain their original grades and have the opportunity to play them again,
All learners assigned to them can access and play them through their library.
What if you want learners to play the same content but have them start "from scratch?" (No previous playthrough records, appears "brand new" in their libraries.)" In this case, create a duplicate - keep the original in its retired state and publish the new one as a separate item!
Removed
Removed
Removing a Course, Step, or Certification means completely erasing them from the system. This means learners will no longer see any play history associated with them, and admins will no longer have access to their content or any data acquired through them.
They are forever purged from the system - this is irreversible!