How To Add Curriculum to Your Student Portal

The Key Steps

How to Create Categories

  1. Click on the Student Portal icon
  2. Click on Categories under the Curriculum section
  3. Click on the yellow Add New Category button
  4. Give the category a Name
  5. Select a Parent Category, if applicable
  6. Click on the Add New Category button at the bottom of the page.

How to Add Curriculum

  1. Click on the Active Vault icon
  2. Click on Items under the Curriculum section
  3. Click on the yellow Add New button 
  4. Give your post a Title
  5. Click Add Image to upload a featured image
  6. Use the Content box to build out the content of your post
  7. Check the box for the Category 
  8. Click on the yellow Publish button

Here is a Video Walking Through These Steps:

👇 For more detailed steps, refer to the article below:

How to Create Categories

You can provide online curriculum for your members through the student portal. Curriculum can include lessons or workouts students can access on their own time.

To start building out your online curriculum, you will first want to create Categories to sort your content. Posts that are not labeled with a category will not appear on your student portal. 

Click on the Active Vault icon and then select Categories under the Curriculum section to get started.

The Categories page will show all of your current categories. 

To create a new category, click on the  Add New Category button.

When creating a new category, you will first need to give it a Name. The name you provide will generate the Slug, so you do not need to enter anything in the slug field. 

If you want to create a hierarchy of categories, you can select a  Parent Category for your new category. 

You can leave the Description field blank. With the current Active Vault interface, the Category Description will not show in the portal.

Once you are done setting up your category, click on the  Add New Category button.

On the Curriculum page of your student portal, members will see a list of the categories. They can click on the name of one of the categories to see all of the posts in that category.

NOTE: The category will not show up as an option in the curriculum section until a post has been added for that category.

How to Add Curriculum

Now that you have categories for your Curriculum sections, you can start making posts. 

To access your Curriculum Items page, click on the  Active Vault icon and then select Items under the Curriculum section.

On the items page, you can see all of your current posts. To create a new post, click on the  Add New button.

When creating your curriculum post, first you will give it a  Title. 

Underneath the title, you will see the permalink for this page. You can copy and send this link to members so they can access this curriculum.

Next, you can add a  featured image to show up next to your post. 

To upload your featured image, click on the  Add Image button. The recommended size and format is 800x600 JPG.

The  Content box is where you will build out your post. You can use the Add Media button to add photos or videos to your post. You can also use the text editors at the top of the box to format your post.

In the Videos tab, you are able to embed videos into your post. These videos can come from any video streaming service, you'll just need to get the embed code. To get an embed code for Youtube and Vimeo videos, click on the Share button for the video and select embed to get the link you need. You'll paste your embed code in the Primary Video field. 

In the Video Caption field, you can enter a brief caption to appear beneath your video. 

If you want to embed more than one video, click on the Add Video button at the bottom of the page.

In the Download tab, you can upload files that you want your students to be able to download. These could be guides that follow along with your curriculum. 

Click on the Add File button to add your download. 

You will need to give it a Name, then click on the white Add File button to upload the file you want to use for your download. 

If you have more than one downloadable file for this curriculum, click on the  Add File button to add another download.

Before publishing your new curriculum post, you'll want to make sure you assign it a category. 

In the Categories box on the right-hand side of the screen, check the bow next to the category you want this post to go in.
Once your curriculum post is ready to go live, click on the Publish button.