Learning Center Roadmap

This page covers the Learning Center as a whole for the people who operate it: what a learner can do today, the sequence in which the remaining parts are to be put into service, the questions that must be settled before enrollment opens, and the test for calling the Learning Center complete.

What a learner can do today

• Browse the catalog at /learn: fifteen programs, with filters, search, and programs and modules views. See Browsing the Course Catalog.
• Read a program detail page for each of the fifteen programs, with terms, the weekly schedule, requirements, and outcomes. See Program Detail Pages.
• Join the waitlist at /learn/enroll. Signups are recorded for admissions follow-up, duplicate signups are removed, and the page's success message is the confirmation; no confirmation email is sent. See Enrollment and Waitlist.
• Read the published curriculum: the fifteen catalog programs and the six Leashed pathways, with their terms, safety gates, and capstones. See Leashed Diploma Pathways.

Public pages carry the site header and footer; the classroom, instructor, and admin surfaces run full-screen.

The sequence ahead

Put the remaining parts into service in this order, because each step depends on the one before it

1. Classroom records first. The records the classroom teaches from and writes to: courses, learning days, attempts, Professor messages, and the support queue. With these in place, the classroom described in The Classroom can open: Professor teaches, checks are recorded, and days are tracked.
2. The instructor view of live sessions. The sessions surface in Instructor Tools needs a working route for its data. This is small work that gives instructors sight of who is learning and where each day stands.
3. Enrollment records. Cohorts, enrollments, pacing schedules, and learner records. Cohorts are the step between a waitlist and a school: without a cohort there is nothing to enroll into.
4. Assessment and credential records. Rubrics, submissions, the skills registry, and credentials: the issuance machinery behind Certifications and Credentials.
5. Compliance and audit records. The permanent audit record and funder reporting that accreditors ask for; see Admin LMS Console.
6. Continuing education. Courses, tracking, and renewal cycles for graduates; see Continuing Education. Build this before the first credentials age, not after.

Questions to settle before enrollment opens

• The two Animal Care Assistant programs. The catalog program (170 hours, 9 weeks) and the pathway program (988 hours, 35 weeks) share the code ACA. Settle on one definition, or rename one, before any learner enrolls in either.
• Curriculum review. Companion content carries a notice that generated companion content needs curriculum review before classroom use. That review must be completed by a person before learners are taught from the material, and the review must be recorded on the course.
• The safety-gate sign-off. The curriculum requires instructor sign-off before live-animal work; the precise act by which an instructor records that sign-off must be settled before live-animal blocks are scheduled. See Assessments and Rubric.
• Learning information. A written statement of what learning data is collected, who sees it, how long it is kept, and what happens to it when a learner leaves must be in place before the classroom opens. See Learner Account and Sign-In.
• Tuition and payment. No program price and no tuition payment step is published. The commercial terms for the academy: tuition, payment plans, and refunds: are business decisions that enrollment, the learner record, and accounting all depend on, and they must be made before cohorts are offered.
• One identity, in practice. Classroom identity is keyed to a session record; the handoff between a customer account and a learner record must be built and tested, not assumed.

The test for complete

The Learning Center is complete when a learner can do all of the following in order: browse the catalog; enroll in a cohort rather than a waitlist; sign in with a customer account; open the classroom; learn with Professor through learning days; submit work; raise a hand and reach a person; follow a learning record; complete a practicum; defend a capstone; and receive a credential that an employer can verify: with each step recorded. Today the first step and the waitlist are in place. The sequence above is the distance between that position and complete.