Courses Category

All the courses on the website can be divided into categories. Both admins and instructors can create Course Categories.

Add a new category from the admin panel

To add a new course category, follow Dashboard > MS LMS Settings > Courses Category. There are already lots of categories coming with the demo content that you can use for your courses such as Art, Music, and Photography with a variety of subcategories. Or you can also create a new one.

Enter the name of the new category. You can also upload an image for it, select the icon and color, and provide the description.

• Name - enter the name of the category

• Slug - enter the category's slug. The slug is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens.

• Parent Course Category - Assign a parent term to create a hierarchy. The term Jazz, for example, would be the parent of Bebop and Big Band.

• Description - give the description to the group

• Course Page Style* - you can change the single Course Page Style for this category. The none option applies the selected course page style for all courses globally in MasterStudy LMS Settings > Course > Course Page Style.

• Category Image - indicate the image for the category that can be displayed in the Course Categories widgets.

• Category Icon - indicate the icon for the category that can be displayed in the Course Categories widgets.

• Category Color - indicate the color for the category that can be displayed in the Course Categories widgets.

*Here you can see the available single Course Page Styles:

Style 1

Default

The Default course style presents a balanced and user-friendly layout, designed to streamline navigation and deliver course content with clarity and accessibility

Screenshot of the Default Course Page Style

Style 2

Style 3

Style 4

Style 5

Style 6

Style 7

Style 8

Style 9

Style 10

If the Course Page style has been set in the course settings using Course Builder, MasterStudy LMS ignores the Course Page style that has been set in the Course Category.

Click the Add New Course category button to save the changes and add a new category:

Also, you can create a new category directly from the course editing page.

Add a new category from the instructor account

Besides this, instructors are also allowed to add new categories for the courses. To enable this feature website admin need to go to LMS Settings > Course and enable the option Allow instructors to create new categories.

After this, instructors will be able to add categories via Course Builder. Reveal the dropdown menu of the Category and choose the option Add new category.