Curriculum managers design your organization's learning content and keep it running. Building courses, preparing materials, designing tests, and packaging everything into paths for delivery: the Curriculum screens in Manabu2 bring all of that work together in one place. This page is your table of contents for getting started.
- Understand what each of the eight management screens is for
- Tell whether you need a step-by-step how-to or a design guide
- Start from what you want to do and find the right guide
- Picture the full cycle, from design through ongoing improvement
What is a curriculum manager?
A curriculum manager is the role that designs and runs your organization's learning content. Curriculum managers build courses, sections, lessons, quizzes, tests, learning paths and certificates, and in doing so decide the quality of the learning experience your employees actually get.
The decisions curriculum managers make have a direct impact on learning outcomes, and on how well AI is put to use, across the whole organization.
How-to guides by screen
Curriculum managers work with eight screens. Here's what each one covers, along with the matching how-to guide. You don't need to read them in order; open whichever one fits what you want to build right now.
The entry point, with an overview of your organization's curriculum. It links to Course Management and Learning Path Management.
Create, edit and publish courses. The AI suggestions panel proposes additional courses based on your organization's information and your existing courses. You can also set up a large number of courses at once with a CSV bulk import.
Generate text materials and slide decks (in Reveal.js format) with AI. You can also give the AI a reference file (PDF, DOCX, TXT or MD) to build from. AI suggestions for quiz questions live in each lesson's quiz editor.
Build learning routes that bundle courses together. You can deliver a path to whole departments, assign it to individual members, or publish it to the catalog as a public path.
Path management that starts from your org structure. Decide which paths each department receives, working from the department's point of view.
Create and edit path tests (final exams attached to a learning path) and manage their questions. Learners only see tests that are attached to a learning path.
Create and manage certificates that are issued automatically when a learner passes all the required tests of the learning paths the certificate covers. Issuing is automatic only, and only certificates marked as published are issued.
See the ratings learners have given lessons, sorted by how often a lesson was rated hard to follow. The reasons and comments help you spot which lessons need fixing.
Design thinking (knowledge base)
When you want to understand why things are built a certain way, rather than which buttons to press, see these guides.
Your day-to-day cycle
Content isn't finished once it's built. Use the flow below as a guide, and you'll go full circle from design to improvement.
Design new courses
Define the courses you need, starting from your organization's vision and skills strategy. Use AI suggestions to cast a wide net for ideas.
Create the content
Lay out sections and lessons, prepare slides and materials, and add quizzes.
Design tests
Place path tests at key milestones in a path and set the passing criteria.
Build and deliver paths
Combine courses into paths by role and by level, then deliver them to departments.
Improve as you go
Use feedback from learners and HR to revisit difficulty, ordering and quizzes.
Working with other roles
You only find out whether a curriculum works once you hear from the people using it.
The people who actually use your content. Hearing where things are too hard or awkward to use is the single most important input for improving your curriculum.
HR watches progress across the organization, spots courses where many people drop out or that nobody uses, and passes that feedback on to curriculum managers.
When skill maturity or the AI adoption index is low, agree with leadership on what the curriculum should do about it.
Consultants bring in best practices from other clients, so use their suggestions to improve your content.
Where to look when…
| What you want to do | Where to look |
|---|---|
| You're not sure in what order to build a course's content | Course design basics and How to divide sections and lessons. |
| Your quizzes aren't doing their job | Designing quizzes and tests. |
| You want to know what to check in AI-generated content | Review checklist for AI-generated content. |
| You want to move existing training into the LMS | Bringing existing training into the LMS. |
| More learners are dropping out | Common mistakes and how to fix them. |
