To access your company’s learning, hover over the Author icon in Bridge’s primary navigation, where you’ll see a list of content types. 

Navigate to Courses, where you can access Bridge’s native course authoring tool. 

Courses are sorted into active and archived tabs. Archived courses can be reinstated at any time.

Select the Active tab, where you’ll see a list of published and drafted courses created by you and others with Author permissions within your company’s Bridge account.

Click the three dots [...] on the right side of a course title to view more options, allowing you to copy the course link, send a message to enrolled learners, transfer ownership to another user with author permissions, archive, or delete the course.

You can also click the pencil icon to edit an existing course or replace a SCORM file. To add a new SCORM course, click Upload Course in the top right. Other supported formats include JSON, PPT, and ZIP.

To find a specific piece of content, use the free text search bar. You can also sort content alphabetically, view the most recent items, and use filters to narrow your results. 

Click New Course in the top right corner to launch Bridge’s authoring tool.

Add a course title in the top left corner. As you edit a course, your changes will be automatically saved.

In the sidebar to the left of the course editor, you’ll see an outline of your course and a list of thumbnails, allowing you to navigate to specific slides quickly. Click Add Content to place an additional screen in your course. 

You can also use the three dots [...] to access additional settings, duplicate a slide, delete it, and move it up and down to change the order in which it appears.

Click the dropdown arrow beside Add Content in the sidebar, then click Add Cover Slide. Since this slide serves as an introduction to learners, you can’t change the order in which it appears.

Click the gear icon to view additional settings. From here, you can:

• Switch between light and dark mode
• Change the background and primary navigation colors
• Upload a background image
• Check your primary logo
• Delete the cover slide

In the main course editor, you can add a custom course title and description.

Click Add Content to add a new screen. You can add your own title, insert copy, and access the toolbar to:

• Format text
• Add links
• Structure copy using headings
• Add bulleted and numbered lists
• Insert code blocks
• Attach media and documents
• Activate the comment section

Enabling commenting on a slide adds a comment box at the bottom of the screen.

To embed a video or a URL, paste the link into the editor and hit enter, and the link will appear in the slide. Alternatively, click the attachment icon in the toolbar to paste a URL or add a file from your device. 

You may also see different options depending on your Bridge package and active integrations, including Bridge Advanced Media, Vimeo, YouTube, and Dropbox. These integrations allow you to access content directly from third-party sources and add it to your course.

Navigate to the Add Content button on the left-hand side of the screen, and click the dropdown arrow to select Add Question.

This will generate a new slide, and you’ll be presented with the following options to add a traditional assessment to your course:

• Multiple choice
• Multiple answer
• Sorting
• Short answer

Add your own questions and answers, and use the checkbox to select the correct answer. Click the dropdown at the top of the screen to change the quiz type. Click the X to delete any answers.

By default, the answers will be randomized to make it more challenging for learners. Check Preserve answer order to set the sequence of questions to run in a fixed order.

You can also add an image to the question slide.

Click Customize Learner feedback to type what learners will see when they answer a question correctly (like “Correct!”) or incorrectly (like “Try again!”). You can also tick Show the same feedback for correct and incorrect answer to use the same feedback for correct and incorrect answers.

Bridge also includes the following types of smart quizzes that populate a random set of questions for each user:

• Vocabulary: When you want learners to know the definitions of several terms.
• Steps in a process: When you want learners to know the specific steps or the order of something.
• Factoid: When there’s a factual statement that learners should recognize as true.

At the top right side of the course editor screen, you can access the following tools:

• Publish Course: When you publish a course, you’ll see a green banner at the top of the screen.
• More Actions:
  • Preview: See how your current screen will look to learners, preview courses as you build them, and check that your content is optimized for mobile devices.
  • Bridge Retain: Toggle this feature on to help the learner retain the knowledge they’ve gained from the course by sending a series of follow-up questions to test their knowledge.
  • Duplicate: Make a copy of a slide.
• Close: Click the X icon to exit the course editor and return to the settings screen.

Click the X to return to the course overview, where you can define custom settings and add a title and description—this can be identical to your cover slide.

Click More Settings to expand the menu. Here, you’ll find options to:

• Add categories and tags to help learners find your course more easily
• Set a due date and course expiration
• Allow learners to manually self-enroll in the course
• Maintain root account branding when shared with subaccounts
• Define the required score and attempts for quizzes

You’ll also find the following tabs:

Summary

In this tab, you’ll see a summary of required learners and quiz statistics for any questions you’ve added.

Learners

You can add learners to the course individually or in bulk via a CSV file. 

Groups

You can also enroll learners in bulk by utilizing groups and setting the relevance.

Attachments

View and add attachments to your course.

Affiliated Accounts

Select which subaccounts to share content with, along with relevant categories and tags.

Associated Content

Search for and add associated course content for learners to enroll in.