Catalyst vs. LMS Guide

Catalyst will help you design and develop your course and along the way create an approximate 40% time savings. Catalyst helps to create this time savings by using a template within each learning activity that is aligned to the quality review standards and easily exporting your content from Catalyst to the LMS with the click of a button. After pushing to the LMS, you will have templatized pages based on best practices built for you throughout the course, but there are a few items to finalize in the LMS.  This document will help to differentiate between what should be completed in Catalyst vs. the LMS.

Tasks to Complete in Catalyst	Tasks to Complete in the LMS
Create directive text for each page to help tee up content and introduce or summarize the modules	Syllabus
Add citations for any sources	Course Welcome Video
Write instructions and prompts for discussions	Discussion and assignment Rubrics
Write instructions for assignments	Add any images or videos
Create the page layout and include relevant links to articles or websites for learning activities and discussions and assignments.	Embed YouTube videos instead of the pushed YouTube link
Create the alignment between module objectives and course objectives (this will automatically populate in the Module/Week Overview page)	Create discussion and assignment settings
Create the alignment between module objectives and learning activities (this will automatically populate in the Module/Week Overview page)	Add rubrics
	Create any quizzes, exams or surveys*
	Finalize formatting of text, as necessary

* In Catalyst you can create an assignment and select “quiz” (or exam) as the type of assignment. This will create a placeholder of a quiz in the LMS, but you cannot build questions in Catalyst.

Want to know more about Catalyst? Check out these articles:

• Catalyst FAQ
• Catalyst Course Map Guide
• Catalyst Login Guide
• Catalyst Learn More Login Guide
• Catalyst Objective Alignment Guide
• How do I use Catalyst Reports?