How to update Combined Knowledge courses?

Changes to Combined knowledge courses will be automatically synced to Curricula, including but now limited to, newly added or deleted courses, newly added or deleted sessions, and video content updates.

The following table lists the programme fields, their values, and whether these values can be customized in Curricula.

Field name	Value	Can be customised?
Name	Microsoft Training	Yes
Description	This is out-of-the-box Combined Knowledge M365 training courses	Yes
Programme admins	Empty	Yes
Staff scope	All staff can be assigned to the courses	Yes
Learner scope	All learners can be enrolled	Yes

 

The following table lists the course fields, their values, whether these values can be customized, and whether the updates made in Combined Knowledge will be synced to Curricula.

Field name	Value	Can be customised?	Will changes be synced?
Course image	The Combined Knowledge course image.	Yes	No
Course code	The Combined Knowledge type ID.	No	Yes
Course name	The Combined Knowledge type title.	Yes	No
Programme	Microsoft Training	For initial synced courses, the value cannot be customised. For duplicated courses, the value can be customised.	No
Course manager	Tenant owner	Yes	No
Co-course managers	Empty	Yes	No
Topics	Empty	Yes	No
End time	No end time	Yes	No
Course size	Empty	Yes	No
Description	The description of the course	Yes	No
Aims and objectives	Empty	Yes	No
Additional information	Empty	Yes	No
Notification settings	Empty	Yes	No

 

The following table lists the learning object fields, field values, whether these values can be customized, and whether the updates made in Combined Knowledge will be synced to Curricula.

Field name	Value	Can be customised?	Will changes be synced?
Content group name	The Combined Knowledge module name	No	Yes
Learning object name	The Combined knowledge lesson name	No	Yes
Instruction to learners	Empty	Yes	No
Estimated time	The Combined Knowledge lesson duration	No	Yes
Points	5	Yes	No
Notifications	Empty	Yes	No

How to duplicate Combined Knowledge courses?

As a course admin, you can duplicate Combined Knowledge courses to use their content and make updates.

You can duplicate a Combined Knowledge course into a self-paced course. Settings that were not allowed to be modified in the third-party course can be modified after being duplicated into a self-paced course. Note that duplicating into a self-paced course will break content and metadata inheritance, so changes made to the original course will not affect the duplicate.

Alternatively, you can duplicate a Combined Knowledge course into a third-party course. In this case, updates made to the content groups and learning objects in the Combined Knowledge course will be automatically synced to the duplicate. Note that course-level settings will not be synced.

*Note: Duplicating Combined Knowledge courses is available only when the course is Active and Released.

Let’s see how to duplicate a Combined Knowledge course.

1.   In Curricula, click Admin on the left navigation pane, and then click Course configuration.

2.   In the Third-party courses tab, select the Combined Knowledge course and then click Duplicate.

3.   In the Duplicate course panel, complete the following information:

•    Select Self-paced course if you want to duplicate this course into a self-paced course; select Third-party course if you want to duplicate this course into a third-party course.

•    The Course code cannot be changed.

•    A - Copy suffix is added to the Course name. You can change the course name.

•    Set an End time or select No end time.

4.   Click Save and edit now to open the Edit self-paced course or Edit third-party course panel where you can further update the course information.

5.   When completing updating the course information, click Save and release. The course is now available to learners.