Managing Courses

Managing your courses in Nimbu involves maintaining a balance between the stable, published versions used by active classes and the flexibility to iterate on your curriculum. The platform provides tools to refine existing data, replicate high-value blueprints for different delivery models, and retire outdated training programs without compromising student records.

By mastering these management controls, you ensure your Course Registry remains clean, and reflective of your current training offerings.

What's Covered in This Article

This article details the tools available for managing courses after they have been created and published.

• Editing Existing Courses: What can and cannot be changed on a published course.
• Duplicating Courses: Creating a new course template from an existing one.
• Deactivating Courses: Retiring courses that are no longer in active delivery.
• Impact on Existing Classes: How each management action affects classes and students already enrolled.

Editing Existing Courses

Some course-level details can be updated after publishing, while structural elements are locked to protect the integrity of active enrolments.

Editable after publishing:

• Course name, description, and thumbnail.
• Online Registration settings, including password protection and catalog visibility.
• Pricing configuration.
• Pre-Course Material and Pre-Training Review selections.

Locked after publishing:

• Regulatory status (Accredited or Non-Accredited) and national identifiers.
• The Self-Served delivery model setting, once enabled or once classes exist.
• Unit structure: units cannot be added to or removed from a published course in a way that affects existing classes. Any structural changes only apply to new classes created after the update.

Duplicating Courses

If you need to create a similar course,  for example, a version of an existing program with different units or a separate pricing model, you can duplicate an existing course to use it as a starting point.

Duplicating a course creates a new draft copy of the course template, including its unit mappings and settings. The duplicate is independent of the original and can be edited freely before publishing.

• The Action: In the main Course Registry, locate the overlapping squares icon (Duplicate) on the far right of the course row.
• The Result: Nimbu creates an exact copy of the course, including all mapped units and section structures.
• Use Case: This is ideal when you want to offer the same qualification as both a "Self-Served" and a "Trainer-Led" model without rebuilding the curriculum from scratch.

Deactivating Courses

When a course is no longer being actively delivered, you can deactivate it to remove it from active use without permanently deleting it. Deactivated courses are moved to an inactive state in your registry.

What deactivating does:

• The course is removed from the Course Catalog if it was publicly listed.
• No new classes can be created from a deactivated course.
• Online Registration is effectively disabled — new students cannot register for the course.

What deactivating does not do:

• It does not delete the course or its historical data.
• It does not affect existing classes or enrolled students. Active classes continue to run normally.

Deactivated courses can be reactivated at any time if the program needs to be delivered again.

Impact on Existing Classes

Understanding how course-level changes flow through to classes is important before making any updates.

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