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Key concepts

A few words run through all of Zinye Learn. Learn these and the rest is easy.

A course is a single subject you teach — “Workplace Safety”, “How to Use Our Product”. It’s the main thing learners enrol in.

Inside a course, content is organised into chapters, and each chapter holds lessons. A lesson is one step of learning — a video, some text, a quiz, or an assignment. Chapters and lessons let you break a big subject into bite-sized pieces in a sensible order.

A program groups several courses into a guided sequence — useful when one topic builds on another (for example a full onboarding path made of five courses). You can require learners to take the courses in order.

A batch is a cohort of learners going through together — like a class with a start date. Batches let you track a group’s progress, run live classes, and manage evaluations, rather than treating everyone as a lone self-learner.

These are how you assess learning. A quiz is auto-marked questions; an assignment is work a learner submits for a person to review. Both can be required before a course counts as complete.

A certificate is proof a learner finished — issued automatically when they complete a course (or pass its assessments). Great for compliance training and customer education alike.

A student (learner) takes courses. An instructor (or moderator) creates and manages them. The same person can be both — learning some courses and teaching others.