Skilljar’s training platform has an easily defined structure, starting at your organization all the way down to the content in your lessons. Every step flows continuously into the next and makes navigating and consuming your training content a seamless experience. In this article, we’ll present a high-level overview of what makes up the hierarchical structure of a Skilljar training platform, such as how your courses and domains work together.
The hierarchical structure of a Skilljar training site is built on these core elements:
In this example, Skilljar is the organization. Our training domain hosts our catalog pages, and these include our courses, which consist of our lessons and training content.
The image below is an example of how each function fits into the overall Skilljar training site structure, from the organization down.
Here is what each element involves and how it works within the structure. Again, we’ll be using Skilljar’s training site as an example.
Organization
This is the top-level parent company that is providing the training. The organization manages its training via the Skilljar dashboard and is responsible for its content. When getting started, you’ll manage your organization settings, such as creating a training domain, customizing your platform, managing students, and more within your Skilljar dashboard.
Further resources:
- Skilljar Academy Course: Onboarding Course 1: Setting up - Learn more about how to set up and manage your organization within your Skilljar dashboard.
- Configure Organization Settings.
Training Domain
This is the main web page that hosts the organization’s training experience. For example, https://academy.skilljar.com is where you can find the Skilljar Academy training platform, which includes the below elements, such as our catalog pages and their courses. Skilljar supports single or multiple domains so you can cater your training to different audiences, such as customers, partners, and internal employees.
Further resources:
- Skilljar Academy - Onboarding Course 3: Publishing - Learn how to create and manage domains within your training platform.
- Getting Started With Your Training Portal.
- Creating a Custom Domain & Configuring SSL For Your Skilljar Training Site.
Catalog Pages
Catalog pages are libraries of training courses, learning paths, and even other catalog pages that live within your organization’s domain. Think of it as a file/folder system that allows you to organize your content and tailor it to specific audiences, courses, and paths.
Further resources:
- Skilljar Academy Course: Catalog Pages - Learn more about how to create catalog pages within your Skilljar training platform.
- Creating a Catalog Page.
Courses
Courses are used to deliver the training to learners and will likely make up the bulk of the content within your catalog pages. Courses are made up of sections and lessons, which is where your students will consume their training curriculum.
Further resources:
- Skilljar Academy - Onboarding Course 2: Content - Learn how to create and manage courses and lessons within your training platform.
- Create a Course.
- Understanding Your Published Courses
Lessons & Content
This is where your learning curriculum lives. Lessons are the learning types and building blocks of your courses and can be set up in a sequential fashion or free form depending on your education strategy. Lesson content can consist of a number of different assets, such as audio, pdf, videos, embed links, quizzes, live training events, virtual labs, SCORM, and any other content type you can find within your Skilljar dashboard.
Further resources:
- Skilljar Academy - Onboarding Course 2: Content - Learn how to create and manage courses and lessons within your training platform.
- Getting Started With Lessons.
- Embed Content in a Lesson.