Classroom and Webinars Sessions in the Same Course

Introduction

As of January 26, 2021, classroom courses and webinars have been merged into a single entity in your platform, called ILT (Instructor-Led Training). This enhanced and comprehensive functionality introduced major changes in your platform, mainly aimed at making the definition and the management of classroom and webinar courses more flexible.

This article lists the changes introduced by this feature enhancement and lists the APIs that have been updated, deprecated and developed for the new management.

Learn more on the migration of webinar courses as ILT courses in the dedicated article of the Knowledge Base and in the article collecting the most frequently asked questions. 

Classroom and Webinars Sessions in the Same Course

With the old management of classroom courses and webinars, it is not possible to mix webinars and classroom sessions in a single course. You can either define a classroom course or a webinar. If you need to turn a classroom course into a webinar, you have to perform multiple steps: create a brand new course, duplicate all of the sessions from the original course to the new course and finally enrol users in the new sessions.

Thanks to the new management of classroom courses and webinars, you can define whether an event in a session (called a session date in the old management of classroom courses and webinars) is either a webinar or a classroom event. Thanks to this flexibility, you can combine both types of events in a single course session and switch the event type on the go when needed (as an example, turn a classroom event into a webinar) without re-creating the session from scratch, and without re-enrolling all of your learners.