Automatically related courses

When we try to sell courses, we often look at how products are sold in a webshop. A frequently used element is a product ribbon that shows items that other customers have purchased and that relate to the product being viewed.

We have previously had a function where you had to choose which courses should be related to each other. In this way, related courses could be displayed on a course page. However, this process can be very time consuming.

Therefore, we have made it possible to automate the process with a single click.

We have collected data from several schools on which courses the same students have taken. In this way, we have built a database that shows how relevant courses are in relation to each other.

Courses are given a score based on how many students have taken the same courses. In this way we can automatically display the courses that are most relevant in relation to the course the user is viewing.

Of course, when the function is activated, only courses offered by the individual school will be displayed. Therefore, there are no courses that cannot be taken at the school.

By activating the function, it is also possible to choose whether courses without current classes should be displayed.

The feature can only be activated at schools that have submitted data on which courses students have taken at the school. Once the data is collected, it becomes part of the database and the school gains access to the feature.

Below you can see a step-by-step guide on how to use the feature.

The function is activated via the layout module. Therefore, go to the layout of the courses in which you want to activate the function.

The feature is activated via the layout module, therefore go to the layout of the courses on which you want to activate the function.

The function is available in the following two blocks:

On the block, you can check Use course recommendations.

After that, you can set how many courses to display.

The other settings, such as Hide courses without classes, will remain in effect.

In the same way as in the previous block, the feature is activated by checking Use course recommendations.

Here you can also set how many courses to display and whether to display the list as a grid or a list.

If not all courses have images, the list view may be preferable.

Below you can see the same courses shown in grid view and list view, respectively.