Connecting your Audience with your Course

Course Creation and Integration

Once you've published your course, you'll need to take a few extra steps to make it available for your learners. You'll need to:

• Create your course
• Add learners
• Select and implement integration

Creating your Course

The first step is to create your course in the admin tool. To do that, select Admin in the upper right corner beside your name.

From there, you'll need to create the course

1. Click create new course
2. Fill in the course name and display name
3. Click continue to step 2

Once you've named your course and moved on to the next step, select a curriculum to add to your course. This is where you locate the course you just published and connect it to the course your learners will see. 

Once you locate your curriculum:

1. Click on it to add it to your course
2. Click continue to step 3
3. Once the Add curricula to course popup appears, click continue

Adding Learners

Once you've created your course and tied a curriculum to it, you'll need to add learners.

1. Click select users for course
2. Select the users you'd like to add to your course
3. Click add to course
4. Click complete course

Adding NEW Learners

If the learners you want to add to a course are not already in the system:

1. Go to the Users tab
2. Click create new user
   
   
3. Fill in the user's credentials
4. Make sure the box "Send welcome email with a link to setup a username and password" is checked
5. Click continue to step 2
   
   
6. Set the user's roles (learner must be one of the roles checked)
7. Click continue to step 3
   
   
   
8. Select the course you want the learner to complete
9. Click add to course
10. Click complete user
    
    
    

Integration

Each type of integration Amplifire Supports has slightly different requirements. The types include:

• Direct login
• SCORM
• LTI
• SAML SSO
• Custom SSO

 Direct Login

Amplifire has implemented Direct login to help our Clients easily integrate Amplifire Learning and can either self-register or login directly into Amplifire.

Self-registration lets learners register for a course rather than be assigned to a course. This allows a registration URL to be provided, and any user with the access link will be prompted to create a username and password to access the course.

If Amplifire is going be used as a stand-alone learning platform, learners will need to log in directly. Email addresses for learners must be supplied in advance and welcome emails will be sent to the learners, prompting them to create a username and password for Amplifire. Upon login, users will be able to access the assigned courseware.

As a Learner begins and progresses through the learning assignment, their progress is available through Amplifire’s comprehensive reporting engine. The Client will have the opportunity to review learner progress directly within the Amplifire Reporting platform.

For more information on direct login, click here for a downloadable resource.

SCORM

Amplifire has implemented SCORM to help our Clients easily integrate Amplifire Learning and Content within their Learning Management System (LMS). SCORM is intended to be a 'plug-and-play' solution, allowing our clients to import a SCORM package easily and quickly into their LMS and providing a link for users to begin their learning experience.

As a Learner begins and progresses through the learning assignment, their progress is communicated back to the LMS system. The Client will have the opportunity to review learner progress directly within the LMS system or through the Amplifire Reporting platform.

LTI

Amplifire has integrated LTI to help our Clients easily learn on Amplifire’s content within their LMS. LTI is a technology specification developed by the IMS Global Learning Consortium providing a seamless and straightforward way to launch learning to all learner groups.

As you begin to work through the LTI integration, our teams can help you build the encryption keys, provide Amplifire’s URL, and provide Amplifire’s internal course identifiers that will be used to configure the integration.

Amplifire provides the following information in the application for ease of use and efficient integration setup. The Client can provide and/or manage this information for successful course launch and learner progress pass back to a Client’s LMS.

Through Amplifire and the Clients LTI integration, there are two ways the Client can access Amplifire’s content. These two ways of linking to Amplifire’s content are:

• Shallow Linking:  A Learner launches into Amplifire’s Learner Dashboard to launch a course.
• Deep Linking:  A learner launches seamlessly and directly into a course for learning.

Amplifire supports LTI versions 1.1 and 1.3.

SAML SSO

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) allows for user information to be passed securely between identity providers and service providers and creates a seamless launch experience for the learner. This option allows a user to use the credentials provided by the client and launch directly into Amplifire.  No additional username/password configurations are required.

Amplifire application is designed for ease of use and efficient integration setup. The Client can provide and/or manage this information for successful course launch and learner progress pass back to a Clients LMS.

Through Amplifire and the Clients SAML integration, there are two ways the Client can access Amplifire’s content. These two ways of linking to Amplifire’s content are:

• Shallow Linking:  A Learner launches into Amplifire’s Learner Dashboard to view all learning assignments related to a course.
• Deep Linking:  A learner launches seamlessly and directly into a learning assignment.

Amplifire supports SAML version 2.0

CUSTOM SSO

Custom SSO is a variation of SAML SSO and will follow those guidelines and make adjusts where necessary.