Overview

There are several touchpoints on the Coursera platform where you, as the administrator, can create and manage your program's curriculum:

• Immediately after purchasing your Team Plan – enter an onboarding flow to create your first learning curriculum
• Creating additional programs (optional) – enter a similar flow to set the curriculum
• Curriculum settings of existing program – view and make changes to the current curriculum

Our Personalized Recommendations feature is available when creating new curriculums, with manual selection as an alternative option. You can see more details in the following sections:

Creating a Program Curriculum - with Personalized Recommendations

Creating a Program Curriculum - Manual Selection

Editing an existing Program Curriculum

Creating a Program Curriculum - with Personalized Recommendations

This feature is designed to enable you to curate program curriculums in a smarter, more data-driven way to improve learner relevancy and engagement. 

It leverages Coursera’s extensive enterprise data and algorithms to surface courses that match the needs of your team (by function and skillset).

1. Choose the curation option 

The first program created upon plan purchase will adopt the program name from your organization name, which you can edit later in program settings. For additional programs that are created, you begin by naming the program.

Next, you choose whether you want to leverage Coursera’s personalized course recommendations, or manually select courses to add to the curriculum.  

2. Inform the content engine

If you choose the recommendation option, you are asked to provide some information about your team and specific areas of interest: business functions and skills that you think would be most relevant/valuable for your learners.

The skills selection step is optional – not making a selection will generate content recommendations and create a collection based on your selected business function(s) only.

3. Select courses to include in the curriculum

You will be presented with a view of the content that the Coursera content engine has recommended for your team. 

You will need to then select the content by clicking “SELECT ALL” or the check mark on each course/specialization to include them in the curriculum.

From here, you have the option to:

• Skip recommendation – skip the curation and manually select content from Coursera’s catalog
• Continue – create program curriculum with the recommended content

4. Set learner content accessibility

Once you have selected your desired content, you can review and confirm the selection. You can limit your learners to access only the selected courses, or enable them to search and enroll in content from the full Coursera for Business catalog.

5. Invite learners to program

You then have the option of inviting learners to the program by inputting the names and emails. You may also invite learners to your program at a later time. Article: How do I invite learners?

Your learning program is now ready for use! This is the end of the curation flow, and you will be taken to the admin dashboard where you can:

• Update existing programs
• Invite additional learners
• Create new programs for different learners
• Monitor learner progress

Creating a Program Curriculum - Manual Selection

If you choose to manually select content for the program, you will be taken to the catalog page where you can discover and select courses by keyword search, topic areas, popular courses, and more.

1. Select courses to include in the curriculum

You can use the search bar on top-right of the page to find content by keywords. From the results page, you can browse and select the courses to include in the curriculum. You can click “Back to previous” on top-left of the page to return to the main catalog page.

You can also select a topic area, where you can further refine the search by various filters (skills, job title, level, language, content type, content creator). 

You will need to then select the content by clicking the check mark on each course/specialization to include them in the curriculum. 

2. Set learner content accessibility

Once you have selected your desired content, you can review and confirm the selection. You can limit your learners to access only the selected courses, or enable them to search and enroll in content from the full Coursera for Business catalog.

3. Invite learners to join program

You then have the option of inviting learners to the program by inputting the names and emails. You may also invite learners to your program at a later time. Article: How do I invite learners?

Editing an existing Program Curriculum

You can always edit a program’s curriculum after it’s been created, by visiting the program’s Curriculum menu:

Removing domains from your program

If you set up the program to allow learners full catalog access, you will see any courses that you had specifically included listed as a collection, followed by all course domains that are available in the Coursera catalog. You can de-select any number of the domains to remove content under them from the catalog.

Note: De-selecting these domains will not remove any content from your previously created collections (e.g. if you had included a data science course in the curriculum, then remove the data science domain, the course would remain as part of the curriculum).

Remove individual courses

You can check the box next to each course and click the trash bin icon on top of the page to remove them from the curriculum.

Note: While people will no longer see the items under their available courses on the program home page, anyone whom has already selected or enrolled in the courses will still be able to finish it.

Add content to an existing curriculum

You can click the + Courses button, which will bring you to the catalog selection page where you can manually discover and select more courses to add.