When learners aren't sure which Course to play, or they want to focus on a particular theme, they can choose to look for learning content by a specific Category.
Categories are a way to group and identify Courses. Use them to sort your content and make it easy for learners to find exactly what they're looking for!
Naming your Category
Ask yourself:
"What do my Courses have in common?"
Let's say you have the following Courses available:
"Hedge Maintenance"
"Growing Flowers"
"Finding the Right Gardening Tools"
"Gardening 101"
Notice how they all have a common theme? That's your Category:
Gardening
By using Categories, learners looking for Gardening-related material would find all the Courses linked to it. Neat!
Deciding on a Category's Courses
Just like when you name your Category, find the Category that fits the Course theme best.
You created a new Course on Lawn Care?
relevant category = Gardening
irrelevant category = Plumbing; Cooking
But what if a Course can be in two Categories?
Since Categories are the result of breaking topics down to their bare basics, a Course will rarely be applicable to more than one.
If that somehow happened to you:
revisit Category names to confirm they were broken down (e.g. "Lawn Maintenance" is part of Gardening - this is a Course idea!)
revisit Course names to confirm they make sense