Frequently Asked Questions

Coursepath is a hosted online training platform that is well suited for Microlearning—short, digestible, bite-sized type of trainings.

A product of Viadesk, a Dutch-German Software-as-a-Service company that has been in business for over 16 years, helping organizations and employees collaborate and share knowledge online. Viadesk made use of this experience to develop Coursepath, an e-learning platform suitable for any organization.

Your top three reasons:

1. Coursepath is Practical and Easy to use

The straightforward authoring tool with its clean and user-friendly interface empowers trainers and managers to create training courses quickly and easily. With Coursepath you do not have to rely on IT or hire a course developer consultant.

You can easily convert a PowerPoint presentation or a PDF document into a course, and further enrich your courses by uploading various kinds of documents and interactive media.

2. Coursepath is Intuitive and Interactive

With Coursepath’s intuitive and modern design, users will need very little help in getting up to speed. Social and collaborative features that encourage participants to ask questions and respond, as well as interact with the trainer and co-participants are embedded seamlessly throughout each course. Crucial factors in helping participants engage better which makes learning fun and much more rewarding.

Everything on the platform can be done by non-technical staff: Do-It-Yourself is the concept.

3. Coursepath is Flexible

Manage the academy from anywhere, let your trainers create courses anytime and let your participants access on-demand at their own pace and own time.

Coursepath’s transparent licensing structure allows you to add as many courses as you want in the academy. No need to worry about additional costs per course and deactivating and reactivating courses. Just choose the plan that suits your organisation and let everyone get on board!

Coursepath offers three price plans: Basic, Professional and Enterprise.

All plans are based on a 12-month contract and are billed annually. The plans include unlimited users and helpdesk support. Coursepath pricing is based per online academy.

All our price plans have contracts valid for a year. Upgrading to a higher plan in the middle of your current contract is possible. To learn more, please contact sales at info@coursepath.com or at +31 (0)20 305 76 60.

A user in Coursepath is everyone (trainer, employee, parter, external service providers, etc.) who gets access to an academy.

If the user contingent is exploited, user accounts that are no longer needed can be deactivated to allow new users. Upgrading to more users is also possible anytime.

A course in Coursepath is a complete training unit consisting of modules and individual learning steps. In our Coursepath Demo Academy you can find example courses.

Because Coursepath is highly intuitive in design and each course is very easy to customize, you can also use this as an environment for workshops, coaching, assessments, tutorials and online manuals.

Upgrading from Basic to Professional will not only allow you up to a maximum of 400 users in the academy, you will also enjoy the following additional features:

1. Course programs – This allows you to create a series of courses with predefined sequencing.
2. Academy pages – You can further enhance your academy’s branding by adding custom pages.
3. E-commerce – Be able to offer paid courses via PayPal.
4. Course download – You can download the course and offer this as a hand out to participants.
5. Custom Domain Name – Be able to brand your academy with your own custom domain name.
6. Single Sign-On and API – The configuration of SSO authentication and access to API key.
7. Technical Support on the above.

The Enterprise Plan will let you invite a custom number of users to your academy. The Enterprise Plan includes the Voucher System, which allows you to give access to courses or the academy via vouchers, for example if the participants’ email addresses are unknown. In addition, we are happy to discuss your individual adaptions and wishes.

A signed contract is needed to start a Coursepath paid subscription. Please get in touch with sales at info@coursepath.com or at +31 (0)20 305 76 60. Online subscription with a variety of payment options will soon be available.

At the moment we provide invoicing with a 15-day term. Payment will have to be coursed through bank wire transfer. Online payment options including credit card will soon be available.

A subscription contract is valid for 1 year and will be automatically renewed for another term of 1 year unless a notice of cancellation has been handed over to us.

For subscription cancellation, we require a 40-day written notice before the end of the current contract term. Please send your request for cancellation to info@coursepath.com.

For reference and inspiration, we have created a Coursepath Demo Academy. In here you will find sample courses and our online guide.

Coursepath Demo Academy: https://demo.coursepath.com.

Simply click on the course you wish to follow and register with your name and password.

You can create courses from scratch or upload existing training materials in PowerPoint or PDF, which will be automatically converted into a course. You can further enrich your courses by uploading documents (PPT, PDF, Word) for online preview and attachment, as well as interactive media (JPG, GIF, PNG, MP3 and external hosted videos). The options to duplicate, import data from other courses, revise and update existing trainings are also available in Coursepath.

Convert your PowerPoint or PDF into a course by starting our 30-day trial now.

Coursepath offers an advanced multiple-choice question with options for multiple-correct, as well as yes or no (true or false), short answer, essay and Hotspot questions. When answers are entered, the quiz allows you to automatically provide feedback, as well as give a general feedback evaluation. Furthermore, you can assign scoring to each question and are able to incorporate this in the participant’s completion matrix.

Trainers (only on assigned courses or if assigned the trainer role on academy level) in Coursepath have access to:

• Participants’ individual performance and progress in a course.
• Summarized statistics and performance of user groups in a course.
• Activity audit trail and notifications per course

Managers and auditors have reviewing access to everything including:

• Overview report of participants and courses in the academy including test results (data downloadable).

First of all, the language can be set individually. Coursepath is available in 21 languages, including Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and many more.

Participants can also choose to extend their profile with a picture or description and set e-mail notifications to their own preferred time interval.

Coursepath delivers a clear-cut role-based access security. This guarantees your organisation a clearly defined role policy in the online academy and a security framework that is adapted as best practice by many organisations.

To learn more about our user roles and permissions, please see our blog entry here: Roles and Permissions in Coursepath.

This feature allows you to offer paid courses directly from Coursepath and will let your customers pay the course via PayPal or Mollie (with several payment methods) before proceeding. All payment transactions are securely performed in PayPal or Mollie and Coursepath only registers the summary of the transaction for audit purposes. Once the payment has gone through, your customers are automatically directed to the course.

The E-commerce feature is only available under Professional and Business plans.

In Coursepath, you can integrate video directly into online training. No dependence on third party services: you can choose to embed video and other material via iframes from YouTube or other services OR to integrate directly in Coursepath. Integrated videos are stored safely in Coursepath’s secured hosting (see below).

Using your own domain name is possible in Coursepath. Please get in touch with sales for further information at info@coursepath.com or at +31 (0)20 305 76 60.

The custom domain is only available under Professional and Business plans.

Coursepath supports publication using Tin Can / xAPI and SCORM by simply uploading the package (zip file) into Coursepath and then deploying it. The course results will also be stored in Coursepath.

Requires subscription to SCORM Cloud (not included).

No, you only need a web browser, and the Internet of course. Coursepath works with Chrome, Internet Explorer 9+, Safari and Firefox.

Coursepath features a responsive design, which enables participants to follow training from their smartphone and tablet, wherever they are and whenever the time is right. Give Coursepath a try on your smartphone or tablet now!

Coursepath is hosted in the European Union via our hosting partner Cyso with data centers in the Netherlands. Cyso is ISO 27001 certified. A team of specialized security companies inspect our services regularly, making sure your data are protected at all times. You find further information in our overview: Supreme data protection and security with Coursepath.

You can always send us an e-mail at info@coursepath.com or call us at +31 (0)20 305 76 60. We would be glad to hear from you!