Banners are a great way to feature content on the LMS. Admins on Learn can feature courses, paths, events, forums, and post on banners that are displayed to learners on their home page and their training page.

In this step-by-step guide, we'll detail how admins can create and manage the banners made for learners.

Creating a banner

Admins can follow these simple steps to create a banner:

• Click on the profile and open Settings. 
• Click on "Banners" from the left pane of the page. 
• Click on the "Add Banner" button at the top right.
  A popup will open which will allow you to select the content you want to feature and define where you want to place the banner on the learners' dashboard.

• Click on the "Select Content Type" dropdown and select the type of content you want to feature.
  You can select amongst courses, paths, events, forums, or posts in forums.
• Once you've selected the content type, click on the "Select Content" dropdown.
  The dropdown will allow you to search for all the content that you've selected as the content type. 

For example, if you select the content type as "courses", you will be able to see
and search amongst the list of courses.

• Select the specific course or path or event or forum or post that you want to feature as a banner.

Only published and public content will be available for selection.
- Content that is in the draft state or archived can not be featured on a banner.
- Content that has limited accessibility can not be featured on a banner.

If content added to a banner has been deleted, archived, or unpublished, 
then the respective banner for it will be deactivated as well.

• Click on the "Page to feature on" dropdown to define the pages where you want to include the banner.
  You can choose to show the banner on the learner's homepage, the training page, or both.

• Once you select the content, you'll see that the banner image will load based on the image already added to the trainings or forums. You'll see an option to replace the image on the top right of the preview image. When you click on it and select an image, you will then see the selected image being used as the banner image.
  You can also reposition the image by clicking on "reposition the image" and dragging it to make it perfectly framed for the banner.
  
  
• Once the banner preview and configurations are to your satisfaction, click on "Publish".
  The banner will be published immediately and will be visible to all learners on the defined pages.

On the Banners page of the settings, you'll see two tabs: 

1. Homepage
2. Training Page

Depending on where the banner was configured to be added, you'll see the banner listed in the respective tabs. 

Upto 10 banners can be created per page.

Managing a banner

Once a banner has been created, here's what all an admin can do:

• By default, a banner is added to the end of the list on a page. However, an admin can change the sequence of the banners by hovering on the banner and dragging it by the handle visible on the right of the listed banner. 
  Banners listed on the top will appear first to learners.
  
  
• Each listed banner will have the following metrics against it:
  
  • Views - this is defined as the unique number of users who have seen that banner.
  • Impressions - this is defined as the unique number of users who have clicked on that banner.
  • CTR(Click Through Rate)%  - this is defined as the percentage of clicks that have happened per view for that banner.
• If you click on the 3 dot menu against a banner, you'll be able to:
  
  • Delete the banner, or
  • Edit the banner
    
    
• If you click to delete the banner, it will be removed from the list and learners will cease to see it on their dashboards.
  
  
• If you click to edit it, you'll see the same popup as seen when creating a banner and you can edit the banner entirely. Any changes you make will immediately apply once you click to save them

Note: 
- You can't edit the page where it has been added.
- Deleting a banner

Here's how learners see banners on the homepage and the training page: