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Publish a Course

You can publish a course to Easygenerator cloud or your hosting, embed in your website, and upload to your LMS.

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Written by María Isabel Zuleta Zapata
Updated over 2 weeks ago

You can publish your Easygenerator course in several ways, depending on where you want learners to access it. This guide shows you how to share a private link, embed the course on your website, publish to an LMS, use integrations, host it yourself, or export a PDF copy.

Each option helps you deliver training in the format that fits your needs. You can also update published courses easily and control who has access.

To publish a course in Easygenerator, navigate to the Publish tab and choose one of the publishing options.

It is also possible to get a private link or embed code by clicking Share at the top of the course editor.

Note: Before sharing a private link with your learners, you can send the course for review to collect feedback and enhance your learning content - Available for Team plan and higher.

Share a private link

By default, a course exists on the Easygenerator server, and you are suggested to share a private link to access it. If your learners copy this link into their web browser, they will see the course and they can start working on it. That's the easiest way to publish and share courses.

Generate a QR code

After generating the Private link, you can get the QR code for your course by downloading it or copy-pasting it to your clipboard. Learners will simply have to scan the QR code with their phone to get redirected to the private link, where the course is hosted.

Inside a website

You can personalize the course URL by embedding the course on your own website and sharing the link to your site rather than the direct course link.
Take a peek here to learn how to embed Easygenerator courses into SharePoint.

To your LMS

Download your course as a SCORM/xAPI package and publish it to your LMS. Easygenerator provides two versions of SCORM: SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 (4th edition) and xAPI. You can include to the SCORM/xAPI package:

  • Images uploaded to a course and all fonts chosen under the Design tab.

  • Video and audio files uploaded to a course.

A learner can save their current progress when the course is launched from the LMS by clicking Save my current progress at the top right corner of the course. Next time a learner can easily continue the course from the saved position.

Integrations

Easygenerator now offers direct integration to the LXP platform, EdCast, and Degreed, as well as with HowNow, LearnUpon, and BlendLXP.

EdCast integration allows any Enterprise client with an EdCast account to directly push their courses created in Easygenerator to the platform.

Degreed integration allows any Enterprise client with a Degreed LXP account to directly push their Easygenerator courses to the platform.

The course will be automatically published with a direct link and create a smart card on the LXP side.

To your hosting

Publish to your web server or cloud storage by downloading a course as the HTML package. You need to have a real or virtual server to use this option.

You can track results through XAPI in your own LRS or in the Easygenerator result tracking.

You can include to the HTML package:

  • Images uploaded to a course and all fonts chosen under the Design tab

  • Video and audio files uploaded to a course

Export to PDF

You can download the content of your course in PDF format (1) or generate a link to a PDF version that will be hosted online (2). If you are exporting to PDF for the first time, you will need to click the Generate PDF button to get the option to download the course as a PDF or to generate a link.

PDFs are generated in A4 size and portrait mode (72 DPI).

All course content (except video and audio) will be visible in the PDF. The document will be displayed as a small block with the document title and URL for downloading it. On question pages, the correct answer options will not be identified as correct ones:

Note: When the One page layout is selected under the Configure tab -> Design, the course overview page is not available in the PDF.

How to update your Easygenerator course after publishing

If you make any changes to your course after it is published, it is very important to remember to update it.

Note: It's not recommended to make changes to a published course that is being completed by learners. The progress may be lost or reported incorrectly.

For courses published via a private link, you will see a banner with the Update course button. Click this to make changes to your course, go live, and be visible to your learners.

For courses that are published via SCORM to an LMS, you need to download a new SCORM file after making changes within Easygenerator. Then you would upload this SCORM file into your LMS.

Enable Access Only for Specific People (Whitelist)

On the Publish step, you can create a whitelist of learners who will have access to the course. If the whitelist is enabled, only learners who have been added to this list (by email address) will be able to access the course.


FAQs

What publishing options does Easygenerator support for sharing a course?

You can publish a course using a private link, QR code, website embed, SCORM, xAPI, LXP integrations, HTML hosting, or PDF export. Each option lets you choose the format that fits your learners and platform.

If I want to use an LMS, which export formats are available?

You can export your course as SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, or xAPI. These formats allow you to track results inside your LMS.

Can I embed an Easygenerator course on my own website?

Yes, you can embed your course using the embed code provided in the Share menu. This lets learners access the course directly from your website.

How do I update a course after it is already published?

Click Update course if it was published with a private link. For LMS publishing, export a new SCORM or xAPI file and upload it to your LMS again.

What is the difference between publishing via a private link and SCORM?

A private link hosts the course on Easygenerator and is fast to share. SCORM packages are uploaded to an LMS and support progress tracking inside that system.

How do I use Easygenerator integrations with platforms like Cornerstone?

You can publish your course directly to Cornerstone using Easygenerator’s LXP and LMS integrations. This sends the course link or SCORM file directly to the platform without downloading it manually.

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