LXP
LXP stands for Learning Experience Platform. An LXP hosts learning content and tracks learners' engagement with said content. Our LXP has gone by a couple of other names in the past: Stream, Stream LXP, and Curatr.
Dashboard
The dashboard is the home page of your LXP, it's the screen that all learners will see when they login to your LXP:
Resource
Every piece of content that’s uploaded to the LXP is a resource. They can take a number of forms but the most common ones are links to websites, pieces of e-learning content, documents, and videos. In this image you can see the resources section of the admin menu:
A resource cannot be viewed or completed by learners until it has been added to a learning experience. A resource can be added to as many different learning experiences as you like. If a resource is assigned to more than one learning experience, any changes made to it will be reflected everywhere it is used.
Learning experience (LX)
When you go to the LXP dashboard you'll see a series of Netflix-style tiles. Each of these tiles is a learning experience:
Note: Your dashboard may look different to this depending on how you've customised it. Click here to read more about customising your dashboard.
Above the title of each learning experience you'll see the type of learning experience it is. For example, in the image above you'll see that above the title Register for Academy Wednesday, it says Attend a Webinar. This is one of the learning experience types. Each type of learning experience behaves differently.
The key differences are:
- Whether or not the LX uses a resource
- What type of resource it can use
- How it marks an LX as 'complete'
For example, when you create a "Read an Article" learning experience you are prompted to select a resource and can then decide whether it should be marked as complete when it's viewed by learners, or whether they have to view it for a certain amount of time. Other LXs, such as "Read a Book" don't have a resource attached to them but direct a learner to undertake an activity and allows them to mark it as complete once they have.
Learning experiences can be assigned or recommended to a learner. Each individual LX has settings for assigning points and enabling social discussion. LXs can be accessed on their own, but can also be grouped together in playlists. There is also an "Undertake an Online Course" learning experience which allows you to group multiple resources together in a structured course.
Click here to read more about learning experiences.
Course
As mentioned above, the “Undertake an Online Course“ learning experience type is slightly different to the others. It contains a few different templates for building a structured course made up of multiple resources. In this image you can see four different levels within a course:
There are many options for ordering the levels and deciding what criteria should dictate when a learner can access the next level.
In this image you can see a variety of different objects within a level:
Each object is linked to a resource and they behave in a similar way to an LX. Each object has individual settings for commenting, social prompts, completion etc.
You may have heard these courses referred to as "masterclasses" or "OLXes". These terms both refer to the Undertake an Online Course learning experience type. Click here to read more about it.
Streams
On your dashboard you’ll see that learning experiences are grouped together in horizontal rectangular bars with titles like “Recently Viewed”. These are called streams. Some streams such as “Recently Viewed”, “Mandatory”, and “My Plan” are built into the LXP and contain LXs based on the learner’s activity. Other streams display LXs that have been assigned to certain playlists.
Playlists
Playlists group learning experiences and allow learners to either take them in a sequential order or to access them in whatever order suits them. Playlists can be assigned to learners and to groups of learners, and learners can also decide to add playlists to their dashboards themselves.