Library and catalog

The authoring tool has two places where courses live:

• Your library — the courses your team has built or imported. This is where the actual editing happens.
• The course catalog — a set of ready-made courses we maintain at E-SEC. You can import any of them into your library, then optionally customize them.

You'll see less if you're not an author

This article describes what users with the Author role see. If you sign in as an admin without it, the library and catalog still appear, but most action buttons — Create, Edit, Copy, Delete, Import — won't show up. An account admin can add the Author role to your user to bring them back.

Your library

The library page is called Courses overview in the app and lists every course your team has.

From here you can:

• Create a course — start a new, empty course with the Create course button.
• Search — filter the list once it gets long.
• Edit (pen icon) — open a course in the course editor.
• Copy (clone icon) — duplicate a course; the copy is fully independent, with its own assets and translations.
• Delete (trash icon) — remove a course. This can't be undone.

Each card shows the course title, the languages it's been translated to, and when it was last updated.

Legacy courses

Some older courses carry a Legacy badge. They use an older format and need a one-time migration before they can be edited. Opening a legacy course offers the migration as a single click; the migration itself runs in the background.

Operations in progress

Copying, deleting, and migrating all run in the background, so you can keep working while they finish. While one is in flight, the affected card shows a spinner with a status like "Preparing copy…", "Deleting…", or "Migration in progress". See Tasks for more on background work.

The course catalog

The Course catalog page lists the courses E-SEC ships ready to use, grouped into categories. Browse by category, or search by title.

Each tile has two actions:

• Preview — open the course in the preview player to see what it covers before importing.
• Import course — copy it into your library so you can start using or customizing it.

After import, you're sent straight to your library, where the imported course is yours to edit, copy, or delete like any other.

Catalog updates

The catalog always shows the most recent version of each course. When you import, that version is copied into your library and locked there — later catalog updates don't change your imported copy.

To get a newer version, import again. You'll get a separate course alongside the existing one rather than an overwrite, so anything you've customized on the older one stays put.

See also

• Tasks — background operations like copy, delete, and migrate.
• Introduction — opening and orienting in the course editor.