Create Professional Development Courses and Sessions

Create Professional Development Courses and Sessions

Professional development courses must be created then sessions must be associated to them before they can be accessible and used.

Create Professional Development Offerings/Courses

First you need to create the District Offered Professional Development in Teacher Vitae

  1. Login to Teacher Vitae

  2. Hover over More

  3. Click Admin

  1. Hover over Manage PD+

  2. Click Manage Course Catalog

  1. Click Add Course

  1. A creation Wizard will open complete the tabs:

    1. General Info:

      1. Title

Add the name of the course

    1. Credit Type

Select the appropriate Credit Type from the dropdown

      1. Credits

If the course is credit bearing select the number of credits

      1. Meets Certification Requirements

If the course meets Certification Requirements check the box. NOTE: Checking this box will automatically add the course to the My Certificate Page

      1. Delivery Type

Select the appropriate Delivery Type from the dropdown

      1. Audience Type

Select the appropriate Audience Type from the dropdown

      1. Education Levels

Select the appropriate Education Levels from the dropdown

      1. Subjects

Select the appropriate Subject from the dropdown

      1. Tags 

Add tags if applicable

      1. Active 

Check Active

      1. Is Mandatory

Check Is Mandatory if applicable

    1. Provider

      1. Provider

Enter the Provider’s name

      1. Provider Registration URL

Enter the URL for the registration page

    1. Provider Course URL

If the content is delivered via computer enter the course URL

      1. Provider Content URL

If the provider offers additional content enter content URL

      1. Instructor

Enter the instructors name

      1. Min Enrollments

Choose the minimum number of attendees 

      1. Max Enrollments

Choose the maximum number of attendees 

      1. Cost

Enter the cost

      1. Hours

Enter the hours

    1. Summery

      1. Complete the Summary in the provided field with a maximum of 512 characters

    1. Description

      1. Complete the Description in the provided field 

    1. Course Image

      1. Add an image (optional)

      2. See image below on how to use the tools for uploading and altering an image

  1. Click Save Changes

The image can now be found in the District Offerings page of teacher Vitae’s Professional Development section.

  1. Click Home

  2. Click My Professional Development

  3. Click District Offerings

  4. Search for your newly created PD

NOTE: Creating a course doesn’t make it available. A course must have a session before a course is accessible. Our next step is create course sessions.

Create Course Sessions

NOTE: To create course sessions there must first be a course created. If you have not already created a course go back to the beginning of this document and start there.


To create a session starting from the home page:

  1. Hover over More

  2. Click Admin

  1. Hover over Manage PD+

  2. Click Manage Course Catalog

  1. Find the course you would like to add a session to

  2. Click Sessions

  1. Click Add Session

  1. Complete the Tabs

    1. General Info

      1. Active

Check this box to make the session active/accessible

    1. Start Date

Enter the start date of the session

      1. End Date

Enter the end date of the session

      1. Registration Deadline

Enter the deadline to register for the session

      1. Min Enrollments

Enter the minimum number of enrollment (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course)

      1. Max Enrollments

Enter the maximum number of enrollment (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course)

      1. Cost

Enter the cost of the course (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course)

      1. Hours

Enter the total hours of the session (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course) 

      1. Instructor

Enter the instructor of the course (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course)

      1. Provider Registration URL

Enter the URL used to register for the course (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course)

      1. Provider Course URL

Enter the URL used to get to the course (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course)

      1. Provider Content URL

Enter the URL for additional content for the course. If applicable (This can be edited but it will be prefilled from the creation of the course)

    1. Notes

      1. Add any necessary notes about the session

  1. Click Save Changes

  1. Follow the 5-9 to add additional sessions

NOTE: Multiple sessions can be created for a single course.



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