Choose the right content type

Choose the content structure based on what the learner must do and what the organization must track afterwards.

This page helps administrators decide whether to create a single content item, upload a PDF or video, add a document link, use H5P, use the content creation tool or a SCORM package, build a learning path, add quizzes, use a workspace, create guided training, or model a competency with renewal or equivalent training.

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Start with the required result: one completion, a passed quiz, module progress, attendance, trainer approval, a renewed competency, or proof that another training already covers the same requirement.

In this section

• Quick selection table – choose the closest LMS structure for the training activity.
• Use the content creation tool or a SCORM package – publish packaged e-learning made in the LMS or another authoring tool.
• Use a PDF or link – publish a PDF or document link that learners must read or review.
• Use a video – publish recordings, demonstrations, or short video-based training.
• Use H5P – create interactive browser-based activities inside the LMS.
• Use a learning path for a larger program – build a course from several modules.
• Use a learning path as a lightweight content creation structure – combine small LMS-built modules into one training flow.
• Add a quiz to content – check understanding before or after content.
• Use a workspace – create structured training with a local directory and an AI tool.
• Use guided training or a checklist – manage one-on-one, practical, or step-by-step training.
• Use events – manage instructor-led training, enrollment, attendance, and waiting lists.
• Use Base + Renewal training – manage a competency that starts with full training and later renewals.
• Use equivalent contents – let several trainings satisfy the same requirement.

Quick selection table

Activity	Choose	Use it when
Authors need slides, activities, videos, and course navigation in one package	The content creation tool or a SCORM package	Use the content creation tool or another authoring tool, then publish the result as SCORM.
Learners must read a PDF or SharePoint document	Single content with a PDF or link	The main requirement is opening and completing one document-based training item.
Learners must work through a document	Workspace	Turn the document into structured training with pages and activities so learners cannot just jump to the end and confirm reading.
Learners must watch a recording	Single content with a video	The training is a webinar recording, demonstration, or other video.
Learners need interaction inside the browser	H5P	The training should include questions, drag-and-drop tasks, interactive video, branching, presentations, or similar activities.
One PDF, SharePoint link, or video is enough	Single content	Using the PDF, link, or video directly is simpler than building and maintaining a SCORM package.
A course has several modules	Learning path	Learners should complete several pieces of content as one larger program.
The LMS itself is used to build a small course	Learning path with small modules	You want to combine short LMS-created items instead of building one external package.
A program mixes self-study modules and live sessions	Learning path with event modules	Keep the program structure in the learning path and use events where enrollment or attendance matters.
The learner must prove understanding	Quiz connected to content	Passing or answering questions should affect completion or provide reportable answers.
Authors want to create structured training with an AI tool	Workspace	The training is authored and previewed locally, then published to the LMS as versioned workspace files.
Training is personal, practical, or approval-based	Guided training checklist	The process needs trainers, comments, item approvals, trainee signoff, or manager signoff.
Training happens at a time or place	Event	The LMS must manage enrollment, waiting lists, attendance, trainers, location, cost, or event messages.
A competency expires and has a shorter renewal	Base + Renewal training	Learners first complete full training, then repeat shorter renewal training until the base must be retaken.
Different trainings grant the same requirement	Equivalent contents	Several trainings, languages, formats, levels, or providers should count as alternatives.

Use the content creation tool or a SCORM package

Choose the content creation tool or a

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when the training should be a packaged e-learning course with its own slides, activities, videos, navigation, and completion rules.

A SCORM package can be created with the content creation tool or with another authoring tool, such as iSpring or Captivate. The content creation tool lets authors create training from slides, activities, videos, and other course parts, then publish the result as a SCORM package.

SCORM is a good fit for:

• externally authored e-learning with its own screens, navigation, questions, and completion rules;
• training built with the content creation tool when a richer package is needed;
• complex interactive courses that are easier to maintain in a specialized authoring tool;
• content that already exists as a SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 package;
• external production workflows where source files stay in the authoring tool, but the published package is uploaded to the LMS.

In many LMS course catalogs, SCORM is used for formal e-learning such as compliance, safety, information security, system training, product or process training, and role-based training. The same catalogs usually also include many PDFs, links, videos, events, and learning paths, so SCORM should not be the default only because the topic is important.

Building a SCORM package takes more effort than uploading a PDF or video directly. It is worth using when the training needs a packaged course structure. If the learner only needs to read one PDF or watch one recording, use single content with a direct file upload instead.

SCORM packages are also maintained as packages. If one video inside the package needs to change later, the author usually updates the course in the content creation tool and publishes a new package. That is different from LMS-native single content, where an administrator can replace the PDF or video directly in Content and Materials.

Use H5P instead when the interactive activity should be authored directly in the LMS as reusable interactive content. Use a learning path instead when the course can be built from separate LMS content items and each module should have its own reporting or easy replacement.

SCORM packages used as content are managed from Content and Materials. Keep package versions compatible when replacing active SCORM content, especially when learners may have incomplete sessions.

Use a PDF or link

Choose a single

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item with a PDF or a link when the learner mainly needs to read, review, or confirm one item. Links are often used for documents stored in SharePoint.

This is a good fit for:

• policy, safety, quality, or process documents;
• document-based training where completion must be tracked;
• simple training that does not need several modules;
• supporting a controlled document process where the learner must complete the current version.

In course catalogs, direct PDFs and links are commonly used for policies, manuals, process instructions, product or sales material, system instructions, and documents that are maintained outside the LMS, for example in SharePoint.

PDF and link-based content can be combined with completion expiration, certificates, assignment rules, and post-quizzes. For PDF content, the LMS can also use a completion threshold so the learner must view enough of the PDF before completion is counted.

Set up PDFs and links from Content and Materials. Set completion and quiz behavior from Additional options.

Use a workspace instead when the document should become structured training with activities. That is a better fit when learners should work through the content instead of only opening a PDF and confirming completion.

Use a video

Choose video content when the main learning material is a recording or demonstration, such as a webinar recording, product demonstration, site instruction, or short explanation.

Video can be uploaded as a file or added as a supported video link. Use it when:

• the learner should watch one recording as a standalone training;
• the recording should have its own completion status, certificate, expiration, or reporting;
• the video should be reused as a module inside a larger learning path;
• the organization wants to track whether enough of the video was viewed.

Common examples are webinar recordings, tool demonstrations, short system tutorials, onboarding or product videos, and short safety or environment information videos.

Use a learning path instead when several recordings and other materials should form one larger program. Use a post-quiz when watching the video is not enough and the learner must answer questions to pass.

Set up videos from Content and Materials.

Use H5P

Choose H5P when the author wants interactive content that runs in the browser and is created or maintained in the LMS.

H5P is a good fit for:

• simple checks, such as multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blanks, flashcards, or drag-and-drop tasks;
• richer activities, such as interactive video, course presentations, branching scenarios, image hotspots, timelines, or interactive books;
• practice tasks where the learner should do something, not only read or watch;
• reusable interactive content that can be used as the main training content or inside a quiz.

H5P is especially useful for exercise-based modules, such as calculations, language practice, scenario questions, image-based tasks, and quick checks inside a larger program.

Use H5P as the main learning content when the H5P activity itself is the training. Use an H5P question inside a quiz when the activity is one part of a larger assessment.

Create and maintain H5P activities in H5P. Add an existing H5P activity to a content item from Content and Materials.

Use a learning path for a larger program

Choose a

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when one course or program contains several modules.

This is a good fit for:

• education-company or academy-style programs;
• language learning with lessons, practice activities, checks, and progress steps;
• onboarding programs that contain several normal LMS content items;
• compliance programs that combine documents, videos, H5P, SCORM, events, and quizzes;
• larger courses where module-level and program-level reporting are both useful.

A learning path can contain different module types. Real course catalogs often mix PDFs, links, videos, H5P, SCORM packages, normal content items, and events inside the same program.

A learning path can require paced progress so learners complete modules in a defined order. It can also be updated later with new modules. If existing learners must complete the new modules, use the learning path option to expire partial completions.

Build modules from Learning path.

Use a learning path as a lightweight content creation structure

Choose a learning path with small modules when the LMS itself should act as the content creation structure.

This is useful when:

• the course is made from short PDFs, videos, H5P activities, links, or simple content pages;
• each small module should be easy to replace, report, or reuse;
• the author does not need a SCORM package or a separate package-authoring process;
• the training should be built from LMS records instead of one large package.

This pattern also works for programs made from many short lessons, readings, recordings, exercises, and checks. Each part stays visible as its own LMS item instead of being hidden inside one package.

For example, a small course can be built from a short introduction video, a PDF procedure, an H5P practice activity, and a final post-quiz. The learning path gives the course structure, while each module stays manageable on its own.

Use a single SCORM package instead when the whole course must behave as one authored package with its own internal navigation and tracking. Remember that changing one part of that package later is a package update, not just a direct LMS material replacement.

Add a quiz to content

Add a quiz when the LMS should collect answers, check understanding, or require a passing result.

Use a quiz when:

• the learner must answer questions before starting the content;
• the learner must answer questions after completing the content;
• passing the post-quiz should be required for a valid completion;
• answers should be reported later for compliance, quality follow-up, or improvement analysis;
• feedback survey answers should be collected after training.

Quizzes are useful when a course catalog has content that is otherwise passive, such as PDFs, links, or videos, but the organization still needs proof that learners understood the material.

A post-quiz can be optional, mandatory without a required passing result, or mandatory with failed quiz meaning failed completion.

Create quizzes in Quizzes. Connect pre-quizzes and post-quizzes from Additional options.

Use a workspace

Use a workspace when administrators or authors want to create structured training with a local directory and an AI tool.

Workspaces are useful for:

• turning PDFs, office documents, existing LMS content, public information, or a blank starting point into training;
• turning a PDF into pages and activities so learners must work through the material;
• using a preferred AI tool, such as Codex, Claude, or a company-approved AI tool, to write the training;
• creating a structured training with chapters, pages, content, activities, and a final quiz.

A workspace is a good next step for document-heavy training that would otherwise be a PDF or link in the catalog, but where the learner should work through the material and answer activities before completion.

Use guided training or a checklist

Choose guided training when the training is personal, practical, or step-by-step and cannot be represented well as only one online content completion.

Guided training is a good fit for:

• onboarding, role changes, location changes, or return-to-work processes;
• one-on-one instruction with a trainer;
• practical tasks that must be observed or approved;
• training where several people add comments or approvals;
• processes that need trainee signoff and final manager approval;
• a clear order of tasks when a new employee cannot complete everything at once.

A course catalog can contain onboarding courses, but guided training is better when the onboarding process needs trainer work, comments, approvals, or final manager review instead of only content completions.

Checklist items can be text tasks or course-completion tasks. This means a checklist can guide the process while still requiring the learner to complete specific LMS content items.

Set up guided training from Guided Training.

Use events

Choose events when training is instructor-led, scheduled, attendance-based, or managed through enrollment.

Events are a good fit for:

• classroom, online, or blended training;
• on-site safety training;
• training with limited places, waiting lists, trainers, locations, or meeting links;
• training where attendance must be marked as completed, incomplete, failed, or absent;
• training that has participant cost, internal event cost, enrollment approval, or cancellation rules;
• event-like training where exact dates are not known yet, but enrollments or waiting-list interest should already be managed.

Events can be standalone training or modules inside a larger learning path. Keep the event structure for the live or practical part so enrollment, waiting lists, attendance, and costs can still be managed.

Use a normal content item instead when the learner can complete everything independently at any time.

Set up event content from Events.

Use Base + Renewal training

Choose Base + Renewal training when a competency starts with full training and later requires shorter renewals.

This is a good fit when:

• the learner must first complete the full base training;
• the completion expires after a defined period;
• renewals are shorter than the original training;
• after a maximum period, the learner must complete the base training again;
• managers or administrators need to know who has a valid, expiring, or expired competency.

Base + Renewal training is not the learning material itself. It connects the base content and renewal content so the LMS can calculate whether the learner currently satisfies the requirement. The contents are usually events, but other content types can also be used.

Set it up from Base + Renewal training.

Use equivalent contents

Choose Equivalent contents when different trainings should satisfy the same requirement.

This is useful when:

• two or more trainings grant the same competency;
• different language versions, formats, levels, providers, or historical versions should count as alternatives;
• learners may complete the requirement in different ways;
• the organization wants one requirement to show as complete when any accepted alternative is valid.

Equivalent contents do not automatically make the included training items available to learners. Assign the included content separately when learners should be able to open those alternatives in the portal.

Set it up from Equivalent contents.