template: bright-course-table

The bright-course-list template is a standard Bright course lister. It can be used to represent a flexible list of courses on the page, in a standard format.

Some of the things you can do with the course table is:

• control which courses are represented
• control the appearance and criteria of a certificate link.
• control whether the table is interactively searchable and sortable.
• you can also enable or disable self-registration.

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[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist"/]

There are two filtering models, by explicit field value [like the value of a category or Bright custom field], or by a custom JavaScript function

Filtering by a Course Metadata Field

You can add custom metadata for a course with the Embedded Bright Administrative Console.

In this example, our courses have a Bright custom field called category, and we would like to show those courses with a value of 'test':

[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist" filter_field="category" filter_namespace="custom" filter_value="test"/]

'custom' is the namespace to use for custom fields created via the Embedded Bright Administrative Console. For now, a single namespace level is allowed. For multiple level variables [like custom.my_document.another_value], use a filter function.

Filtering by a Javascript Function

MyBrightExtensions = {
  filter_courses: function(courses) {
    return [courses[2]];
  },
}

Then:

[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist" self_register="true" launch_button_text="Launch" certificate_link="/certificate" filter_namespace="MyBrightExtensions" filter_function="filter_courses"/]

By default, the bright-course-table will sort by the course title. There are two ways to modify this

Sort criteria by context field.

Example, sort by score:

[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist" sort_field="score"/]

Example, sort by SCORM metadata description:

[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist" sort_namespace="metadata" sort_field="description"/]

Example, sort in custom function

Some javascript somewhere:

MyBrightExtensions = {
  sortCourses: function(courses) {
  // sort the courses here by whatever method your prefer.
    return courses;
  }
}

Now:

[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist" sort_namespace="MyBrightExtensions" sort_function="sortCourses"/]

Reversing the sort order

Use [bright template="bright-course-table" .... reverse="true"/]

to reverse the sorted order.

This template defaults to requiring pre-registration. Just set self-registration=true to allow user's to self register:

[bright type="courselist" template="bright-course-table" self_register="true"/]

By default:

• the certificate link is enabled. Use 'no_certificate="true"' to disabled it
• the certificate link is '/certificate' ; use the certificate_link attribute to override this.

• the certificate criteria is the SCORM variable 'success' is set to passed. This can be changed [see below].

  [bright type="courselist" template="bright-course-table" certificate_link="/certificate"/]

For more on the default Bright certificate template, see here. Usually, you will create a page called 'Certificate' and add the
certificate shortcode to that page like:

[bright type="course" template="certificate"/]

Note if you set certificate criteria, you'll want the same certificate criteria in that shortcode.

[bright type="courselist" template="bright-course-table" no_certificate="true"/]

[bright type="courselist" template="bright-course-table" certificate_link="/my-certificate"/]

You have fine-grained control over by what criteria a certificate can be offered, and what message to show the user if they've failed to meet their criteria:

[bright type="courselist" template="bright-course-table" certificate_link="/certificate" criteria_field="score" criteria_value="80" criteria_operator=">" criteria_comment="You must pass with at least a score of 80 to access your certificate"]    

In the above, we use the following attributes:

• criteria_field - describes the field in the user's registration to use as the certificate criteria. Defaults to 'success'.
• criteria_value - the value to compare with the {{criteria_field} above. Defaults to 'passed'.
• criteria_operator - the operator to use in comparison. The default is '=='.
• criteria_comment - If the user fails the criteria, they can mouse over the 'N/A' that is displayed in lieu of the certificate link to receive this message. Defaults to 'You must pass and/or complete the course to receive your certificate.'

Use the launch_button_text embedder attribute:

[bright type="courselist" template="bright-course-table" launch_button_text="Launch Quiz"]

[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist" not_started_message="begin now"/]

Disabling datatables on your course table is a snap, just add:

[bright template="bright-course-table" type="courselist" self_register="true" launch_button_text="Launch" certificate_link="/certificate" no_datatables="true"/]