Design statuses (Work In Progress, To Validate, Validated, Broadcasted) enable a structured workflow for your instructional teams during course creation.
What this means for you:
Optimized course organization: Design statuses help track each stage in the course development process, ensuring clearer, more structured project management.
Enhanced collaboration: Teams can quickly identify content ready for review, under revision, or still in development, improving coordination among instructional designers.
Precise progress tracking: Course development progress is tracked accurately, allowing focus on priority tasks.
These design statuses are intended to facilitate team collaboration and track project development progress without affecting course publication.
👉 A course can be published even if its status is "Work In Progress."
👉 Selecting the "Validated" status does not automatically trigger publication.
💡 Understanding Design Statuses
In Progress: Use this status when a module is still being developed and needs further adjustments.
👉 You’re a course creator adding new modules or activities.
Pending Approval: Use this status when a module or activity requires review from other team members or stakeholders.
👉 You’re collaborating with other authors and waiting for their feedback.
Approved: Use this status when all modules and activities have been reviewed and approved by all team members, ready for publication.
👉 All course authors have approved the module, and it’s ready for learners. You can change the status at any time (the "Validated" status is not final or irreversible).
These 3 statuses are related to content design - they allow authors to collaborate and track the design status of their modules.
💡 They have no functional impact and are provided for informational purposes only.
To be published / Published: this is a single status - the wording changes depending on whether the project’s publications have been distributed.
👉 The "To be published / Published" status determines whether the module is included in the content of the publications linked to the project.
🔎 How to Set a Status
In the Studio, simply select the design status for each module or activity.
Related Topics :
Keywords: author statuses, approved, in progress, pending approval, instructional designer
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