Course Advanced Settings
Plan requirement: Advanced Settings, prerequisites, duplicating and deleting courses are available on every plan. Course points feed the leaderboard and badges, which are included on Pro + LMS and Enterprise. Compare plans.
Each course has its own settings menu for how the course is graded, displayed and accessed, which courses learners must finish first, and tools to duplicate or delete the course. Watch the tutorial videos in our YouTube Video Library.
Open the course settings menu
Open the course from Courses.
In the top right, click the gear icon next to Edit Course.
The menu has four options: Advanced Settings, Manage prerequisites, Duplicate this course and Delete course.
Advanced Settings
In the gear menu, select Advanced Settings. Change the settings you need, then click Save — or Cancel to close without saving.
Grading method
Completion — learners pass by completing all required activities.
Average of grades — learners pass based on their average score across graded activities.
Pass grade
The minimum percentage a learner needs to pass the course. For example, a pass grade of 100 means every required component must be completed successfully. Choose a pass grade that suits your industry and how critical the content is — safety-critical training often needs 100%.
Let confident learners skip ahead to the final assessment: leave the course sections unlocked so learners can use the left-hand menu to jump to any page, including the final quiz. Then set Grading method to Average of grades and choose a pass grade, so passing depends on their score rather than on completing every page. There is no setting to make a single mid-course quiz optional.
Points
The points a learner earns for completing the course, if you use points, the leaderboard or badges. Leave it empty or 0 if you don't.
Show total learners
When on, learners can see how many users are enrolled in the course. When off, the number is hidden. This suits community or cohort-based courses, where seeing others take part encourages engagement. It applies to Coursebox courses only, not Arlo events.
Disable Content Protection
When off (the default), Coursebox's content protection is active: learners can't download course content and copying is limited. When on, learners can download and copy content freely. Keep it off unless the content is meant for free distribution.
Enable Restart Button
When on, learners can restart the course, which resets their progress to 0.
Duration
How long the course takes to complete, in hours and minutes. The default is 1 hour. It sets learner expectations and is used in reporting.
Enrollment length
How many days learners stay enrolled after their enrolment date — useful for time-limited or compliance courses. Leave it empty or 0 and learners are never unenrolled automatically.
Code (Arlo)
If you use the Arlo integration, enter the Arlo course template code. It must match the template code in Arlo exactly so the two stay in sync.
References
Courses created with AI can include references, shown as numbered citations such as [1] in the text, with a reference list at the end of the page. The References section sets which references learners see:
Show web references: a number beside each fact that came from the web, with its link at the end of the page, so learners can check it. On by default.
Show references to your documents: your file's name and page beside content that came from your uploaded documents. Off by default.
You always see every reference while editing, so the [1] markers in the editor are expected. Changing these settings only changes what learners see. It doesn't rewrite any course content.
Set prerequisites
Some courses should only open once learners have finished another one — for example, Course 1 before Course 2.
In the gear menu, select Manage prerequisites.
Type a course name in the Type to search courses… field, select it, and click Add.
Learners must complete every course listed before they can start this one.
Duplicate a course
In the gear menu, select Duplicate this course. A full copy of the course appears in your Drafts. Use it to:
build a shorter or condensed version of a course
tailor the same content for a different audience or language level
try out changes without affecting the original course
Delete a course
In the gear menu, select Delete course, then confirm. You can cancel at the confirmation step if you change your mind.
Deleted courses move to the Deleted courses tab on the Courses page. To get one back, open that tab and click Restore course on the course card.
