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Explore

A learner is still shopping / deciding whether the course format is relevant to them, and this early goal will likely get swapped for another goal in this list, or perhaps another course enrollment is a better fit.

We could choose to highlight N number of course videos or learning units to learner who select this goal instead of showing the full course outline to start.

Course authors would need the ability to override automatically selected videos as the best “exploration mode” of the course, but you could imagine learners getting a quick sense of the course through 3-5 videos an a learning sequence or two.

Learners would ideally see clear visual progress toward their exploration goal, with completion of this goal meaning learners completed all the ‘exploration content’. Once completed learners could be prompted to set the next goal, perhaps goals like “watch all course videos” or “learn something specific.” next.

Learning Something Specific

Here, a learner can be presented with the opportunity to search for specific content and the course outline can be oriented around that specific learning need, and other platform courses can be shared if they are better / similar fits to that specific learning needs.

As noted here, the focus is on helping learners quickly search and find learning content of value to them, with the ability to quickly review all content in a course pertaining to a given query.

Learners could select a new topic to learn about specifically, possibly using suggested tags instead of relying on open searches. This personalization relies on search and ideally content tagging for topics in a course.

Complete the Course

Our default historical assumption for course goal, here a learner may see a brief overview of the course’s structure; the course has 12 weeks, 15 homework’s, and 3 exams. They might optionally seek to learn more about the course’s grading policy, or just dive into content but this could be presented as a follow-up choice.

You could imagine improved performance visuals to support or motivate this goal but this is already our default experience assumption today.

Earn a Certificate

The orientation of this would be around time to complete, defining a plan / pace of completion, and calling out the number of assignments and minimum grading threshold needed for earning a certificate. If this path requires an upgrade that would be explained and linked as well.

Complete a Program

While less common, this would be an option for courses conceptually linked to a platform program, and a slightly broader timeline is considered / messaged after this goal selection, and learner’s are told where they can go to see their program progress. Otherwise this is similar to earning a certificate / completing the course.

Not Sure Yet

This is similar to exploration but encourages diving into the content or scrolling to review the course outline. Messaging that they can always change their goal if their needs change should be called out here as well.