Edit courses and lessons

Learn how to edit training courses and lessons via the web app to keep your training up to date.

What happens when I edit a published course?

When you edit a published course, your changes are saved as a new draft version that only you can see. This gives you time to review and refine changes without disrupting your team's training. Users continue to access the current published version until you republish. After you republish, the updated version of the course becomes available to your team. If your edits include adding a new lesson, the progress of users who have already completed the course is updated to reflect the total course progress in Course Completion by Users.

The Course Completion by Users page showing the Groups/Sites, Course, Date Completed, Required Lessons Completed, Time Spent, Average Score, and Progress columns.

If you need to preserve existing progress records, consider duplicating the course and assigning the new version to your team instead of editing the published one.

What you'll need

If the course you're editing has translations, remember to make the same changes in all course translations.

Edit a course

Select Training in the sidebar or select it in More.
If you're on the "Learn" page, click Content at the top of the page and select Courses.
You can choose how you want to view your courses by selecting between or on the upper-right of the page.
Select the course.
If the course is published, click Edit on the upper-right of the page.
Edit the course accordingly.

If you have SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) packages from existing learning management systems, you can also import them as lesson slides to your courses.

Edit a lesson

Log in to the web app.
Select Training in the sidebar or select it in More.
If you're on the "Learn" page, click Content at the top of the page and select Courses.
Create a new course or click View or Edit on an existing one.
If you're editing an existing course and it's published, click Edit on the upper-right of the page.
Create a new lesson or click an existing one to configure it accordingly. If you need some help to get started, you can create a lesson or lesson slide using AI.
Configure each lesson you create accordingly. For text fields, you can highlight your text and edit its text format, alignment, and style. You can also improve texts using AI Edit with these options:
- Rewrite: Transform text into more engaging content.
- Adjust tone: Adjust the tone of the text and make it Natural, Friendly, Excited, Persuasive, and Intellectual to suit your audience better.
- Reduce: Trim down lengthy passages to keep your content concise and impactful.
- Extend: Expand on ideas without rewriting entire paragraphs.
Changes are saved automatically.

The type of a lesson can’t be changed once it’s created. If you want to change the type, delete the lesson and recreate it.

If your course is currently a draft, remember to publish it to make your changes available to your team.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can import expertly designed courses from our Course Library and edit them as your own. We also have industry-approved courses that have been built in collaboration with industry experts at SafetyCulture to meet your various operational needs.

It may be that your course still needs to be published. If the course is still a "Draft", select Publish or Republish at the top of the page and then click Publish now or Republish now on the upper-right or Schedule now if you've set the course to publish later.