The titles and assessments installed on the server are used to create activities. Related activities are then organized into knowledge paths, which constitute curricula. Once knowledge paths are created, users and/or user groups can be assigned to them, and then users can access the training content through their browsers.
These are many of the key concepts involved in presenting content in Knowledge Pathways.
Titles, Content Objects, and Subjects: Each title is made up of content objects. In creating a knowledge path, you can choose to present end users with the entire title or a particular content object only. For example, you create a title called Working with Access. The group for which you are creating a knowledge path needs training on the reports feature only. In this case, you could create a knowledge path using the Understanding Reports content object, without including the rest of the outline. The content object selected for a knowledge path is presented as the subject in the Knowledge Center. The end user views the included subject content only and is unaware as to whether the knowledge path is using an entire title or only part of it.
Assessments: An assessment is a series of questions. Assessments can come before (pre-assessments) and/or after a subject (post-assessments). The assessment interface in the Knowledge Center provides the user with questions one at time and tabulates the user's score. You can use assessments to control the way in which users move through the training material by allowing a user to place out of the subject, or by requiring a specific score to advance to the next item in the knowledge path.
Activities: Subjects and assessments are grouped into activities. Typically, each activity consists of a subject and a pre- and/or a post-assessment. However, it is possible to create an activity consisting of a subject only or of assessments only. In creating activities, you decide whether to use an entire title or a particular content object for the subject. In addition, once the subject is selected, you need to determine which assessments are presented with the subject, as well as when and how they are presented.
There is a wide variety of options for presenting material. In creating activities, you may decide whether to require a particular subject or assessment, require a specific score on an assessment, place restrictions on the navigation of a subject, alter the various types of feedback users receive after answering questions, as well as determine prerequisites for the training.
Knowledge Paths: A knowledge path is a series of activities. By organizing activities together in a logical fashion, you can use knowledge paths to develop a curriculum path for users. You can then assign users and user groups to knowledge paths.
Knowledge Paths are visible to users in the Knowledge Center. On the Knowledge Paths page, users can see the knowledge paths to which they are assigned. After selecting a knowledge path, users can view the subjects and assessments that make up the path, including all knowledge path items that are not available immediately due to prerequisites.
The Knowledge Paths page includes an Enroll or Withdraw from Knowledge Paths link that enables users to self-enroll in optional knowledge paths, as well as withdraw from them.