In Absorb Create, you can can customize multiple options when creating a Course through the Course Settings menu. This menu is only available when creating or editing a Course. In this article we will explain how to access the Course Settings menu in Create, and outline each of the available options.

Accessing the Course Settings Menu

When opening a Course in Editor Mode in Absorb Create, you will see a Gear icon in the top left of the page between the Course Pages menu button and the Undo button. Click on the Gear button to open the Course Settings menu.

This menu has 4 options:

• Grid
• Interactions visibility
• Course Translation
• Course Settings

We will go through each option in the sections below.

Grid

The Grid settings allow Creators to easily align and organize items on a slide.  When these settings are enabled, they will be visible only to that Creator Admin on Create Courses in Editor Mode, for the duration of that Create session. They are not visible to Learners.

The grid sub-menu has 3 parameters. The table below outlines the function of each parameter:

Interactions Visibility

This Admin setting is linked with Quizzes.  When a Create Course contains one or several Quizzes, Admins may add a page after the final Quiz with elements that provide different information depending on the completion status of the Learner, i.e., some elements can be set to appear only to Learners who successfully completed all of the Quizzes, while other elements would only appear to Learners who have failed the Course, and other items would appear to all Users. You can read more about Quiz Completion Pages in the article here.

To set up Interactions Visibility for certain elements in a Course, you can open it in the Course Editor and follow these steps:

1. Select an element to add to the slide from the Admin Top Menu at the top of the page.
   
2. Click on the element to select it. Once selected, the Edit Text button, Options button and Sizing Handles will be visible. We've used a Shape element in this example.
   
3. Click on the Behaviour tab in the right-hand Interaction menu.
   
   
4. Open the States and Variables section.
   
5. Click on the Variable field and either leave it blank or select one of the four available variables: User Name, Course Name, Course Status, or Course Grade. Leaving this field blank will default to the element currently selected on the slide, while selecting a variable will cause it to appear on the Learner's side depending on each Learner's enrollment details.
6. Click on the Interaction visibility behaviour field and either leave it blank or select one of the three available options: only visible when completed, only visible when in progress, only visible when failed. Leaving this field blank will make the element visible regardless of the Learner's completion status.

Normally, you would need to use the Playback/Preview mode to check the visibility of each element, but this would require completing the Course several times to check each status. Instead, you can use the Interactions visibility tool in the Course Settings to see which elements are visible for a specific completion status while in the Editor Mode.

You can check how elements on a slide will appear to Learners by completing the following steps:

1. Click the Gear icon in the top left of the Course Editor.
   
2. Select Interactions Visibility.
   
3. Select one of the four available options:
   • Show all: shows all elements regardless of the Learner's completion status.
   • Show 'Completed': only shows the elements with the "only visible when completed" interaction setting.
   • Show 'In progress': only shows the elements with the "only visible when in progress" interaction setting.
   • Show 'Failed': only shows the elements with the "only visible when failed" interaction setting.

This tool is for Create Admin use only, and will reset to Show all after exiting the Course Editor.

Course Translation

This feature does not affect the current Create Course. Instead, it creates a duplicate to distinguish between different versions of the same Course in different languages.

This feature generates a XLIFF file of the current Create Course that can be exported and translated into different languages. A duplicate of your Course will also be created. You can upload the translated XLIFF file to this duplicated Create Course once the translation is complete.

From the Create Course Editor, you can select the Course Translations option and follow these steps to create a copy of your Course:

1. In the Course Translations modal, select the Target Language.
2. Enter a name for your file in the Duplicate Course Name field. Note that this field is required. When a Target Language is selected, this field is automatically populated with the current Course Name and the Target Language in brackets.
3. Click Export. An XLIFF file will be generated for you to download. You can then send this file for translation within your organization or to a third party. A duplicate of your Course will also be created, preset in the selected Target Language, meaning that all the default buttons (such as Next and Continue) will be shown in the Target Language. The Course content will be blocked in this duplicate until you upload the translated XLIFF file into it. 

Once you have received the translated file, follow these steps to upload it to the duplicate Course:

1. In Create, open the duplicate Course. You will immediately see the Awaiting Import of XLIFF File modal.
2. Click Import XLIFF File.
   

You can read more about Course Translations in the article here.

Course Settings

This will open the Course Settings window where you can change parameters relating to the Course itself.  The options are as follows:

Note: For Create Admins, the Absorb Create Admin interface is only available in English and in French. For Learners, the Languages listed below are available within a Create Course, according the Language selected in the Course Settings.

Player Languages provided:

• Arabic
• Bahasa Melayu
• Chinese Simplified
• Chinese Traditional
• Czech
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Mongolian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Somali
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese