Feature Overview and Requirements

Once you have built out HTML content, CSS files and images in your LMS, choose can which content should display to users at or under various organization levels within your Business Structure. This flexibility empowers one company to serve multiple franchise brands, or tailor content to the differing needs of training partners or clients, all within the same portal.

By default, all organizations are set to inherit settings from their parent organization in your LMS hierarchy. Therefore, when you change the branding and web page content of an organizational unit, those changes are automatically applied to its child organizations.

Step by Step Procedure and Field Description

Design Custom Content for an Organizational Level

1. Set up the custom branding options you wish to associate with a position group:
   • Custom Left Navigation: For those with access to the My Learning Center/Administration menu, go to Site Management > Edit HTML Content, then copy the file custom_left_nav to a new name and make the desired menu link changes.
   • Custom Stylesheet: To change fonts, colors, and other site formatting, go to Site Management > Edit Stylesheets, then copy the file stylesheet to a new name and make the desired style changes. 
   • Custom Header/Certificate Logos: To use a different logo for the position group, go to Site Management > Edit Images and upload the images. 
   • Custom What’s New/Classic Home Page Content: To create specific content for organization members, go to Site Management > Edit HTML Content, then copy the file Home_page to a new name and make the desired content changes.
2. Click Submit on any page in which you made changes. 

Note, it is not necessary to brand everything. Modify only those elements which are important to the organization.

Find and Edit the Organization

1. From the Administration menu, select Organization > Search Organizations.
2. Conduct a search, and click the View/Edit link for the desired organization.
3. On the Branding tab, use the drop-down menus to select appropriate files for the content you wish to brand differently for that organization.
   • Language: English is the default; selecting another language will set the display language for that organization level and all subordinate organizations to the selected language.
   • What’s New Content: Select the HTML Content File to display on the organization’s “Classic Home” and “What’s New” pages.
   • My Learning Content: Select the HTML Content File to display in the organization’s My Learning Page HTML block.
   • Left Navigation Content: Select the HTML Content File to display in the “Quick Links” menu on the Classic user interface.
   • Login Page Content: Select the HTML Content File that displays next to LMS Login widget.
   • Registration Page Content: Select the HTML Content File that displays at top of the user Self Registration page.
   • Stylesheet: Select a different stylesheet file to control the overall look and feel of this organization’s view of the LMS.
   • Header Logo: Select the file name of image you want to make the Header Logo for the organization.
   • Certificate Logo: Select the file name of image you want displayed on the Certificate of Completion for the organization.
4. Click Submit to save the changes.

What happens with multiple levels of branding?

Since it is also possible to brand the LMS at a position group level, there must be an order of precedence when defining which branding experience should be presented to a user when they log in. LMS branding follows this order of precedence:

Position Group Branding overrides >
Organization Branding overrides >
Portal language-specific default Branding

This means that if you use both Position group branding and Organization branding, any designated branding for a specific position group will display instead of the organization branding. If the LMS finds no branding for an element at the Position Group level, it will default to the Organization’s  branding for that element and in the absence of that, the LMS default branding.