This article describes courses in QA. courses are available to individual users and enterprise team members.
This document contains the following sections:
What Are Courses
courses are objective-driven learning experiences that combine the theory, technical knowledge, and hands-on practice to master skills using industry-leading technologies and major cloud platforms. Our courses can contain:
- Lessons
- Quizzes and exams
- Hands-on labs
- Lab challenges
- Playground labs
- Practice certifications exams
An exam follows each course to ensure that learners are acquiring key concepts and skills. When you complete a course, you can download a certificate of completion.
QA has built and maintains a broad and deep library of courses for you to choose from. Enterprise users can also create custom courses using Content Engine.
Course Progress
Once you start a course, it appears on your dashboard and shows your progress through the course.
If you had previously completed any of the course lessons outside of the course, the progress reflects those lessons as already complete. However, until you start the course, the progress always shows 0% progress.
Tip: If you're having trouble getting a course to acknowledge a video lesson as complete, try letting the loading indicator complete before leaving the screen. See Video Player Controls article for more information.
How to Find Courses
Note: If you're a member of an enterprise account, you may have courses assigned to you by your administrator or team manager as part of a Training Plan.
You can find courses in the training library. courses feature a purple icon, as you see in the following graphic:
If you choose many of the categories in the library's left navigation, you have an option to filter the content to include only courses. Click the courses icon near the top of the screen to apply the filter.
If you use the search tool in the training library, you can also filter the search results for courses. Choose course from the Content type drop-down that appears near the top of the screen in the search results.
Click the course to see the detail view:
On this screen you can see details like the difficulty level and average duration to help you decide whether this is the course you want to start. If you scroll down on this screen, you can see a list of the steps.
You can click the Start Course button to check out the content. If you are sure this is the course you want to complete, click the Enroll button. A window appears where you can choose your weekly commitment and due date. If you enroll in the course, the platform will remind you to work on the content and tell you whether you're on pace to complete the content by the due date.
How to Complete a Course
The traditional way to complete a course is to complete each item in turn until you reach the end of the path. However, you might already have expertise on the subject of the course. Or the content of a lesson in the course might have been updated after you completed the lesson but before you finished the whole course.
To avoid requiring you to finish courses on a subject you already know or retake a slightly modified lesson, the system lets you confirm your competency by finishing the final assessments.
In this case, "assessments" refers to exams and lab challenges. A course can contain any number of assessments, but you only need to pass those at the end of the course to complete the course.
When the last n items in a course are assessments, and the n-1 item in the course is not an assessment, then the n-1 item is the last of the optional items in the course. Successfully completing everything after that last non-assessment item is required to complete the course.
In other words, if you start from the bottom of the list and work your way up until you get to the first thing that isn't an assessment, that's the last item that's optional. Everything after that you have to complete successfully for the system to consider the course complete.
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