Learner Guide
Walk through the Layer5 Academy as a learner: find content, enroll, work through a learning path, pass its assessments, and earn a badge or certificate.
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Create a Learning Path
Set up your Academy content repository, structure and describe a learning path, preview it, and publish it. The repository, front matter, and publishing steps also apply to challenges and certifications.
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Build a Challenge
A step-by-step guide to building a hands-on challenge in the Academy, and to monitoring how learners get on with it.
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Create Academy Content
Register a learning path, challenge, or certification in the Instructor Console, write it in your Git repository, and publish it to your organization’s Academy.
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Build a Certification
A step-by-step guide to building a professional certification in the Academy.
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Instructor Console
Every view, metric, and action in the Academy Instructor Console: who can open it, how each number is calculated, and what instructors can manage.
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Add Assessments
Add quizzes, tests, and exams to Academy content. Covers the file format, question types, scoring, attempt and time limits, and how a passing result completes a course, learning path, challenge, or certification.
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Use the Content Template Creator
Register Academy content with the Content Template Creator, copy the front matter and identifiers it generates into your repository, and control who can enroll through the content’s invitation.
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Academy
What the Layer5 Academy is, how its three content types relate, how content moves from an author’s repository to a learner’s certificate, and which roles can do what.
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Extend the Academy
Go beyond plain Markdown in your Academy content with inline HTML and CSS, organization-specific Hugo shortcodes, embedded Kanvas designs, and branded award emails.