Training Courses: The Learning System in the Backbuild Workspace

The Backbuild training course system is a learning platform built into the workspace. You build a course from chapters, lessons, and steps, add quizzes and exams, enroll or assign learners, track who has completed what, issue certificates that anyone can verify, and, when you want to, publish a course to the marketplace and sell it. It sits next to the media you make in Backbuild Studio, so a screen walkthrough you record and the course that teaches it live in the same place.

Two Jobs: Internal Training and Sellable Courses

The training course system covers two distinct jobs. The first is internal learning and development: onboarding new hires, running compliance training, and keeping a team current on your product, all tracked and attributable to a named learner. The second is publishing: a course you build can be published to the marketplace as free, one time, or a subscription, so an instructional designer or a subject-matter expert can turn expertise into a product. The same authoring surface serves both, and a course moves between private and published by changing its visibility rather than being rebuilt.

Building a Course

A course is a tree. The course holds chapters, chapters hold lessons, and lessons hold steps, so you can shape anything from a short single-lesson module to a multi-part curriculum. Authoring a course, its structure, and its content is a permissioned action, so only members with the authoring permission can create or change a course, while everyone else sees only what they are entitled to learn.

• Courses, chapters, lessons, and steps: a nested structure you assemble and reorder into the curriculum you want to teach.
• Publish, unpublish, and archive: a course has a lifecycle, so you can draft it privately, publish it when it is ready, and retire it later without deleting the record.
• Reusable training types: start from a system or organization template and clone it, rather than building every course from an empty page.

Quizzes, Exams, and Grading

Learning you cannot measure is hard to trust, so the training course system includes graded assessment. A learner submits an attempt on a quiz or a timed exam, and the system records and scores it. Answer keys are stripped from what a learner receives, so the correct answers are never delivered alongside the questions. An administrator can override a grade or add feedback on an attempt when a human judgment is needed.

• Graded attempts: a learner submits an attempt and it is scored against the course's answer key.
• Answer-key protection: the keys are stripped before a learner ever sees the questions.
• Administrator grading: override a score or attach feedback where a person needs to grade the work.

Enrollment, Assignment, and Required Training

Learners reach a course two ways. They can enroll themselves from the entitled catalog, which lists the courses they are allowed to take, or an administrator can assign them in bulk. Training that everyone in a role must complete can be marked required, so compliance and mandatory onboarding are tracked rather than hoped for. A learner hub shows each person the courses they are enrolled in and where they are in each one.

• Self-enrollment: a learner enrolls from the catalog of courses they are entitled to take.
• Bulk assignment: an administrator assigns a set of learners to a course in one action.
• Required training: mark a course mandatory so it appears as required work and its completion is tracked.

Progress, Completions, and Transcripts

As a learner works, progress is recorded step by step, so the record of what they have finished is always current. An administrator sees an organization-wide completion rollup, the answer to who has finished the required training and who has not. Each learner can export their own transcript, and erasure of a learner's records is supported for privacy obligations under regimes such as GDPR and FERPA.

• Step-level progress: completion is recorded as the learner advances, not only at the end.
• Completion rollup: an administrator view summarizes completion across the organization.
• Transcripts and erasure: a learner exports their transcript, and their records can be erased when required.

Certificates You Can Verify

When a learner completes a course, the system can issue a certificate. A certificate carries a serial, and anyone can verify it by that serial, so a certificate is checkable rather than a decorative image. An administrator can revoke a certificate when it should no longer stand. That verifiability is what makes a certificate useful outside the organization that issued it.

• Issue on completion: a certificate is created when the course is finished.
• Verify by serial: any authenticated user can confirm a certificate is genuine by its serial number.
• Revoke: an administrator can withdraw a certificate that should no longer be valid.

Publishing to the Marketplace

A course you build does not have to stay inside your organization. You can set a course's visibility to marketplace, package only, or unlisted, and choose a pricing model of free, one time, or subscription. That turns the same course you would use for internal training into something you can list and sell, reaching learners outside your own team through the marketplace.

Pairing Courses With Studio Training Videos

The training course system pairs naturally with Backbuild Studio training videos. Studio records a narrated walkthrough that drives your real product interface step by step, with the narration word-synced to each on-screen action, and the course wraps that video in structure, assessment, and tracking. The result is a complete path from a recorded demonstration of your software to a tracked, certified course about it, without leaving the workspace.

Governance: Roles, Audit, and Isolation

Every training action is governed. Authoring, learning, administering, and assigning are separate permissions, so a course author, a learner, and an administrator each see and do only what their role allows. Every write is scoped to the organization and recorded, and the underlying stored procedures enforce entitlement, row-level security, audit, and answer-key stripping rather than trusting the calling code. Identity, roles, and the audit trail are the same ones that govern the rest of the Backbuild platform.

Where It Lives and What to Read Next

The training course system is reached from the Training area of the workspace, with a learner hub, an administration view, a course runner, and a course builder. To make the media that a course teaches, read Making a Training Video and Audiobooks and Visual Storybooks. To let an AI agent or the public REST API author and drive productions and courses, read AI Agents, the API, and Governance.