Choose a material type

Enlytning supports courses, policies, and surveys. The type you choose controls the available units and the learner experience.

Courses

Courses are for teaching and assessment. They combine informational content with questions to test understanding.

Use a course for teaching

Choose a course when you need to explain content or assess understanding:

• Employee training and onboarding
• Skill development programs
• Compliance training with assessments
• Product or process education

Review course units

Course units combine teaching content with scored and qualitative questions:

Calculate course scores

Courses track scores based on question performance:

• Scored question types contribute to the overall score.
• You can set a passing threshold when assigning.
• Learners can review their answers after completion (unless hidden).

Fill in the blanks units use the configured answers for automatic scoring. Open answers are qualitative and appear separately in Insights.

Configure course assignments

When assigning courses, you can configure:

• Passing score: Minimum percentage to pass, or disabled for completion-only
• Max attempts: Limit retries before each deadline
• Hide answer feedback: Prevent learners from seeing correct answers
• Leaderboard: Show peer rankings based on scores

Policies

Policies are for document acknowledgement and compliance. They present content that users must read and formally accept.

Use a policy for acknowledgement

Choose a policy when you need learners to read and formally accept content:

• Company policies and procedures
• Regulatory compliance documents
• Terms and conditions
• Safety guidelines requiring acknowledgement

Review policy units

Policy units present information and collect formal acknowledgements:

Use policy signatures

Policies support two signature types:

• Signature: Learners draw or type their own signature to acknowledge the policy.
• Executive Signature: Displays your signature or one that an Admin or Owner has shared with you. Admins and Owners create signatures and manage access in Settings.

Configure policy assignments

Policies have no score. Learners either acknowledge the policy or do not.

Assignment options include:

• A single or recurring deadline
• One attempt per deadline period
• No passing score

Surveys

Surveys collect feedback and opinions rather than testing knowledge.

Use a survey to collect responses

Choose a survey when you need feedback rather than a scored assessment:

• Employee satisfaction surveys
• Training feedback forms
• Pulse checks and polls
• Event or onboarding feedback

Review survey units

Survey units collect opinions and preference data:

Protect respondent identity

Enable anonymous responses to protect respondent identity:

• You see aggregate results
• Reports do not connect individual responses to users
• Respondents can answer sensitive questions without identification

Configure survey assignments

When assigning surveys:

• Anonymous responses: Anonymise all submissions
• Deadline: Use a single deadline; surveys do not support recurring deadlines

Rating units support number scales of 1 to 5, 1 to 7, or 0 to 10, and emoji scales of 1 to 3 or 1 to 5.

Compare material types

Use this table to compare behaviour across the three types.

Change a material type

You cannot change a material’s type after creation. Create a new material and copy the content when you need another type.